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Imaginary Languages
Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
ISBN: 9780262547154
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.
Pidginization as Curatorial Method
Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
ISBN: 9781915609083
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: August 15, 2023
A new vision for activist curatorial practice.
Structure
Concepts, Consequences, Interactions
ISBN: 9780262544542
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 13, 2022
Natural phenomena, including human language, are not just series of events but are organized quasi-periodically; sentences have structure, and that structure matters.
Consequences of Language
From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity
ISBN: 9780262544863
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
What is it about humans that makes language possible, and what is it about language that makes us human?
Syntax in the Treetops
ISBN: 9780262543491
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 3, 2022
A proposal that syntax extends to the domain of discourse in making core syntax link to the conversational context.
The Secrets of Words
ISBN: 9780262046718
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 3, 2022
Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries.
Quotations as Pictures
ISBN: 9780262543132
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 15, 2022
The proposal of a semantics for quotations using explanatory notions drawn from philosophical theories of pictures.
Merge
Binarity in (Multidominant) Syntax
ISBN: 9780262539869
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 2, 2021
An argument that Merge is binary but its binarity refers to syntactic positions rather than objects.
A Theory of Indexical Shift
Meaning, Grammar, and Crosslinguistic Variation
ISBN: 9780262539210
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 13, 2020
A comprehensive overview of the semantics and syntax of indexical shift that develops a constrained typology of the phenomenon across languages.
Imaginary Languages
Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
ISBN: 9780262547154
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.
Pidginization as Curatorial Method
Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
ISBN: 9781915609083
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: August 15, 2023
A new vision for activist curatorial practice.
Structure
Concepts, Consequences, Interactions
ISBN: 9780262544542
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 13, 2022
Natural phenomena, including human language, are not just series of events but are organized quasi-periodically; sentences have structure, and that structure matters.
Consequences of Language
From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity
ISBN: 9780262544863
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
What is it about humans that makes language possible, and what is it about language that makes us human?
Syntax in the Treetops
ISBN: 9780262543491
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 3, 2022
A proposal that syntax extends to the domain of discourse in making core syntax link to the conversational context.
The Secrets of Words
ISBN: 9780262046718
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 3, 2022
Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries.
Quotations as Pictures
ISBN: 9780262543132
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 15, 2022
The proposal of a semantics for quotations using explanatory notions drawn from philosophical theories of pictures.
Merge
Binarity in (Multidominant) Syntax
ISBN: 9780262539869
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 2, 2021
An argument that Merge is binary but its binarity refers to syntactic positions rather than objects.
A Theory of Indexical Shift
Meaning, Grammar, and Crosslinguistic Variation
ISBN: 9780262539210
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 13, 2020
A comprehensive overview of the semantics and syntax of indexical shift that develops a constrained typology of the phenomenon across languages.