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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 1, 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.
Total Expansion of the Letter

Total Expansion of the Letter

Total Expansion of the Letter

Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé

by Trevor Stark

ISBN: 9780262043717

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 26, 2020

How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stéphane Mallarmé.
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