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        Endangered Languages

        Endangered Languages

        Endangered Languages

        by Evangelia Adamou

        ISBN: 9780262548700

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 6, 2024

        Forthcoming from the MIT Press
        Imaginary Languages

        Imaginary Languages

        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

        Pidginization as Curatorial Method

        Pidginization as Curatorial Method

        Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating

        by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

        Edited by Steven Henry Madoff

        ISBN: 9781915609083

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 15, 2023

        A new vision for activist curatorial practice.
        Structure

        Structure

        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.
        Consequences of Language

        Consequences of Language

        Consequences of Language

        From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity

        by N. J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell

        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

        Syntax in the Treetops

        Syntax in the Treetops

        by Shigeru Miyagawa

        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

        The Secrets of Words

        The Secrets of Words

        by Noam Chomsky and Andrea Moro

        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

        Quotations as Pictures

        Quotations as Pictures

        by Josef Stern

        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

        Merge

        Merge

        Binarity in (Multidominant) Syntax

        by Barbara Citko and Martina Gračanin-Yuksek

        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

        A Theory of Indexical Shift

        A Theory of Indexical Shift

        Meaning, Grammar, and Crosslinguistic Variation

        by Amy Rose Deal

        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.
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