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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: The Rise and Fall of Languages
Written By: R. M. W. Dixon
URL: http://www.cup.org/
Description:

This book puts forward a new way of looking at the emergence and development of human language since its beginnings over 100,000 years ago in terms of a state of equilibrium which was periodically

Publication Year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

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