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Language Is Gesture

by G. David McNeill

ISBN: 9780262552912

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 5, 2025

Forthcoming from the MIT Press

When Arguments Merge

by Elise Newman

ISBN: 9780262549103

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 15, 2024

A novel theory of argument structure based on the order in which verbs and their arguments combine across a variety of languages and language families.

Principles of Argument Structure

A Merge-Based Approach

by Chris Collins

ISBN: 9780262548274

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 17, 2024

A new theory of argument structure, based on the syntactic operation Merge and presented through an in-depth analysis of properties of the English passive construction.

Endangered Languages

by Evangelia Adamou

ISBN: 9780262548700

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 6, 2024

A concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times.

Disclosing the World

On the Phenomenology of Language

by Andrew Inkpin

ISBN: 9780262551991

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 21, 2024

A phenomenological conception of language, drawing on Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Wittgenstein, with implications for both the philosophy of language and current cognitive science.

Imaginary Languages

Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions

by Marina Yaguello

Translated by Erik Butler

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

by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

ISBN: 9781915609083

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: August 15, 2023

A new vision for activist curatorial practice.

Structure

Concepts, Consequences, Interactions

by Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka

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.