Language and Linguistics

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Chomsky, Noam. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1965.

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Comrie, Bernard. Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

DeFrancis, John. Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.

Dixon, R. M. W. The Rise and Fall of Languages. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Fauconnier, Gilles, and Mark Turner. The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities. New York: Basic Books, 2002.

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Johnson, Mark. The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

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Labov, William. Sociolinguistic Patterns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972.

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Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

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Langacker, Ronald. Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. 2 vols. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987–1991.

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Mair, Victor H. "Ma Jianzhong and the Invention of Chinese Grammar." In Studies on the History of Chinese Syntax, edited by Chaofen Sun. Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series 10 (1997): 5–26.

Malmkjaer, Kirsten, ed. The Linguistics Encyclopedia. London: Routledge, 1991.

Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Methuen, 1982.

Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct. New York: Morrow, 1994.

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Steiner, George. After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975.