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        The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall

        The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall

        Language, Memory, and Indigenous California

        by Andrew Garrett

        ISBN: 9780262547093

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 12, 2023

        A critical examination of the complex legacies of early Californian anthropology and linguistics for twenty-first-century communities.
        On Linearization

        On Linearization

        Toward a Restrictive Theory

        by Guglielmo Cinque

        ISBN: 9780262544955

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 7, 2023

        The first attempt at a restrictive theory of the linear order of sentences and phrases of the world's languages, by one of the founders of cartographic syntax.
        Historical Linguistics

        Historical Linguistics

        An Introduction

        by Lyle Campbell

        ISBN: 9780262542180

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 30, 2021

        The new edition of a comprehensive, accessible, and hands-on text in historical linguistics, revised and expanded, with new material and a new layout.
        101 Problems and Solutions in Historical Linguistics

        101 Problems and Solutions in Historical Linguistics

        A Workbook

        by Robert Andrew Blust

        ISBN: 9780262535472

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 25, 2018

        A hands-on approach to historical linguistics, working through 101 problems in five different categories.
        A Brief History of the Verb To Be

        A Brief History of the Verb To Be

        by Andrea Moro

        Translated by Bonnie McClellan-Broussard

        ISBN: 9780262037129

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 12, 2018

        A journey through linguistic time and space, from Aristotle through the twentieth century's “era of syntax,” in search of a dangerous verb and its significance.
        Concepts, Syntax, and Their Interface

        Concepts, Syntax, and Their Interface

        The Theta System

        by Tanya Reinhart

        Edited by Martin Everaert, Marijana Marelj and Eric Reuland

        ISBN: 9780262528658

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 18, 2016

        A systematic exposition of Reinhart's Theta System, with extensive annotations and essays that capture subsequent developments.
        Historical Linguistics

        Historical Linguistics

        An Introduction

        by Lyle Campbell

        ISBN: 9780262518499

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 22, 2013

        The new edition of a comprehensive, accessible, and hands-on text in historical linguistics, revised and expanded to reflect recent developments in the field.
        Zellig Harris

        Zellig Harris

        From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism

        by Robert F Barsky

        ISBN: 9780262015264

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 4, 2011

        The intersecting worlds of Zellig Harris, Noam Chomsky's intellectual and political mentor.
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