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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Towards a Lexicogrammar of Mekeo (An Austronesian Language of West Central Papua)
Written By: Alan A. Jones
Description:

In this volume Jones compares the four dialects of Mekeo, which vary widely in terms of mutual intelligibility, and suggests that Mekeo is a predominantly head-marking language in which 'non-verbs' function as topics or predicates. A high level of referential indeterminacy complicates discourse.

Publication Year: 1998
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
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Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
Subject Language(s): Mekeo

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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0858834723
ISBN-13: N/A
Pages: 600pp
Prices: A$62.90 [US$41.00]