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A Grammar of Yélî Dnye : The Papuan Language of Rossel Island
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Levinson, Stephen C.

This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken offshore from Papua New Guinea, remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, it provides unique evidence for the kind of languages spoken in this part of the world before the Austronesian expansion. The grammar provides detailed information on phoneme invento…

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9783110733853
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587 hlm
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Presumptive meanings :the theory of generalized conversational implicature
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Levinson, Stephen C.

This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades. When we speak, we mean more than we say. In this book Stephen C. Levinson explains some general processes that underlie presumptions in communication. This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpret…

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9780262278256
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1 online resource (xxiii, 480 pages).
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