The Grammar of Space

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Posted by notbanned at May 16, 2017

A language that can be spoken, hummed, or whistled? A language with no unique words for colour or numbers? Linguistics professor Daniel Everett claims that the unique language of the Piraha people of the Amazon is exactly that. More than 30 years ago, he travelled as a missionary into the Amazon rainforest to teach the tribe, but they ended up teaching him. Their way of life and unique form of communication have profoundly changed Everett, and inspired a theory that could undermine the most powerful theory (or theorist) of linguistics.

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Marquesan: A Grammar of Space eBooks & eLearning

Posted by insetes at Oct. 10, 2018

Marquesan: A Grammar of Space By Gabriele H. Cablitz
2006 | 682 Pages | ISBN: 3110189496 | PDF | 4 MB

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The Politics of the Superficial: Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display eBooks & eLearning

Posted by roxul at March 19, 2023

Brett Ommen, "The Politics of the Superficial: Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display "
English | ISBN: 0817319182 | 2016 | 176 pages | PDF | 2 MB

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Space in Tense: The interaction of tense, aspect, evidentiality and speech acts in Korean eBooks & eLearning

Posted by insetes at Oct. 8, 2018

Space in Tense: The interaction of tense, aspect, evidentiality and speech acts in Korean By Kyung-Sook Chung
2012 | 310 Pages | ISBN: 9027255725 | PDF | 2 MB

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The Semiotics of the Post-soviet Built Environment: An Analysis of the Multiple Interpretations of Monuments and Memoria eBooks & eLearning

Posted by arundhati at July 1, 2022

Federico Bellentani, "The Semiotics of the Post-soviet Built Environment: An Analysis of the Multiple Interpretations of Monuments and Memoria"
English | ISBN: 3110614456 | 2021 | 200 pages | PDF | 2 MB

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Field Rhetoric: Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion eBooks & eLearning

Posted by roxul at Jan. 18, 2023

Candice Rai, "Field Rhetoric: Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion "
English | ISBN: 0817319956 | 2018 | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB

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Keys to the History of English: Diachronic Linguistic Change, Morpho-syntax and Lexicography. Selected Papers from the 2 eBooks & eLearning

Posted by roxul at April 27, 2024

Thijs Porck, "Keys to the History of English: Diachronic Linguistic Change, Morpho-syntax and Lexicography. Selected Papers from the 2"
English | ISBN: 9027214719 | 2024 | 243 pages | PDF | 23 MB

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