This book synthesizes much of the exciting recent research in the biology of language. Drawing on data from anatomy, neurophysiology, physiology, and behavioral biology, Lieberman develops a new approach to the puzzle of language, arguing that it is the result of many evolutionary compromises. Within his discussion, Lieberman skillfully addresses matters as various as the theory of neoteny (which he refutes), the mating calls of bullfrogs, ape language, dyslexia, and computer-implemented models of the brain.

The human imagination never ceases to be captivated by the quest for its own roots. Who were our ancestors? In the evolutionary clash of brains and brawn, what was it that prevailed and made us, Homo sapiens, uniquely human? Today scientists cite language as the distinctively human feature. But what is language a sign, a grunt? a sound with collective symbolic meaning? This remarkable book seeks to set the record straight with a critical refinement of the language theory, providing us for the first time with a scientific explanation of how Eve came to speak at all. Wrestling with the age-old question of why such a large gulf exists between humans and other animals, Philip Lieberman mines both the fossil record and modern neuroscientific techniques to chart the development of the anatomy and brain mechanisms necessary for human language as we know it. Eschewing any notion of a language gene or instinct, he pursues instead an evolutionary path in which environment acts on a biological capacity to reveal the interconnectedness of systems that make us most human: precise motor skills, speech, language, and complex thought. Eve Spoke challenges the dominant scientific theories of language's origins and forges a new understanding of the role of language in our evolution.

It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language: how we understand, produce, and store language. This new edition contains new chapters on how children learn to read, and how language is used in everyday settings. It also describes recent research on the impact of new techniques of brain imaging.
The text is comprehensive and written in a lively and accessible style. It covers all the main topics in this complex field, focusing on the processes involved in understanding and producing language, including reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The text covers recent connectionist models of language, describing complex ideas in a clear and approachable manner. Following a strong developmental theme, the text describes how children acquire language (sometimes more than one), and also how they learn to read. The Psychology of Language demonstrates how language is related to the brain and to other aspects of cognition.

本书对76种语言时体态的语法语素进行了深入细致的调查，通过跨语言的比较，概括了完成体、进行体及相关语法语素类型以及将来时和部分表示情态的语法语素的语法化路径，深入讨论了语法化理论中的一组假设，总结出语义演变的若干机制。本书还对时体态跨语言研究所涉及到的100个左右的“意义标签”进行了详细的定义和必要的比较。这些定义不仅保证了该研究在跨语言标注时具有较高的内部一致性，而且也为今后的时体类型学研究和语法化研究奠定了基础，对克服时体态研究领域概念混杂的局面起到了很好的澄清作用。概括而言，本书不仅是类型学中时体研究的集大成之作，也是语法化研究的经典著作。

Like Carl Darling Buck's Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), this book is an explanation of the similarities and differences between Greek and Latin morphology and lexicon through an account of their prehistory. It also aims to discuss the principal features of Indo-European linguistics. Greek and Latin are studied as a pair for cultural reasons only; as languages, they have little in common apart from their Indo-European heritage. Thus the only way to treat the historical bases for their development is to begin with Proto-Indo-European. The only way to make a reconstructed language like Proto-Indo-European intelligible and intellectually defensible is to present at least some of the basis for reconstructing its features and, in the process, to discuss reasoning and methodology of reconstruction (including a weighing of alternative reconstructions). The result is a compendious handbook of Indo-European phonology and morphology, and a vade mecum of Indo-European linguistics--the focus always remaining on Greek and Latin. The non-classical sources for historical discussion are mainly Vedic Sanskrit, Hittite, and Germanic, with occasional but crucial contributions from Old Irish, Avestan, Baltic, and Slavic.

我国第一部荷兰语语法书，为中国人量身定做。词法和句法双管齐下，例句丰富，语言地道。
《荷兰语语法》旨在为中国读者提供一部可靠、详实的荷兰语语法学习材料。本书的首要特点是内容力求详尽而全面，书中不仅对荷兰语的语音学、修辞学、句法、标点、时间表示法和书信格式等方方面面的内容作了全面的介绍，而且还尽可能详尽地网罗了各种各样的语法规则及其使用的例外情况。本书的另一大特点是系统性强，结构一目了然，便于使用。书中以语法学中的各个专题为主线进行专题论述，使用者可以很容易地在各专题下寻找有关的语述。此外，本书从中国人学习荷兰语的角度去书写，适用对象包括所有希望学习和使用荷兰语的华人，特别对正在学习荷兰语的中国各大院校学生，以及向中国学生教授荷兰语的教师们尤其有帮助。

人类的语言，只是大自然中千千万万的语言之一。那么动物又有什么样的语言呢？它们之间如何交流、如何表达自己的喜、怒、哀、乐？
海豚能发出多少种声音？
斑马为什么喜欢在杆子上蹭痒痒？
企鹅为什么要伸长了身体走路？
大猩猩“咯咯”笑是因为开心吗？
狮子为什么要绕着自己的臀部转圈圈？
长颈鹿在什么情况下会进行“脖颈搏击”？
大熊猫的叫声传达了哪些重要信息？
在本书中，动物的这些基本行为被一一讲述。作者用风趣、生动的语言，精准、有趣的插图把动物心理与其行为之间的微妙关系展现得淋漓尽致。
它是什么物种，从哪里来，它可能想要、需要或者能做些什么事情……想解开动物“秘密语言”背后的谜题吗？从观察开始吧！

本教材共分12章，讨论近代汉语语法的若干基本问题，重点考察和分析近代汉语语法的一些重要语法词和句式。第一章统领全书，介绍近代汉语语法研究的基本文献和重要成果；最后一章从一般历史句法学的角度讨论近代汉语语法研究的对象、目标、理论和方法。其余各章涉及的语法词有“代词”、“助动词”、“副词”、“介词”、“连词”和“助词”，涉及句法结构(包括句式)的有“述补结构”、“被动式”、“处置式”和“疑问句”等。本教材为近代汉语语法研究构建了比较完整的学科体系，既有整体的宏观概述，又有个案的微观分析；既有共时用法的描写，也有历时演变的探讨；既注重形式上的一般考察，也关注功能或意义上的深入探索。

基于妙音天声明论（sarasvativyākaraṇa）的藏文译本的梵语声明理论

- Collects twelve new papers that explore the syntax of Chinese in comparison with other languages.
- Opens up new avenues of research, connecting studies of Chinese with work being carried out on other languages.
Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective is a collection of sixteen original papers by leading experts in Chinese syntax. The papers focus on a broad range of topics, demonstrating how the analysis of Chinese can inform our understanding of syntactic phenomena in other languages, and how insights gained in the study of other languages can in turn shed interesting new light on patterns in Chinese. Each chapter compares a specific major phenomenon in Chinese syntax with related patterns in at least one other language from Asia, Europe, North America or Africa, resulting in a series of fresh perspectives on Chinese and what the study of Chinese can offer linguists working on other, genetically unrelated languages.
The volume is divided into three thematic sections, on the nominal domain, the predicate domain, and the C-domain. In addition to chapters on synchronic, adult syntax, the book includes chapters on Chinese diachronic syntax in a comparative perspective and the acquisition of syntax in Chinese, in comparison with that of other languages. The collection is a tribute to Professor C.-T. James Huang's lifelong work on the syntax of Chinese and his attempts to demonstrate how the comparative analysis of Chinese reveals important properties of Universal Grammar. With its broad, cross-linguistic focus and its detailed, new studies of Chinese, this book is essential reading for researchers of all language backgrounds in modern generative syntax.

Most societies in today's world are multilingual. "Language contact" occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other. This book is an introduction to the subject, covering individual and societal multilingualism, the acquisition of two or more languages from birth, second-language acquisition in adulthood, language change, linguistic typology, language processing, and the structure of language faculty. It explains the effects of multilingualism on society and language policy, as well as the consequences that long-term bilingualism within communities can have for the structure of languages. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism, the book provides a clear analysis of such phenomena as language convergence, grammatical borrowing, and mixed languages.
● An integrated approach - covers both individual and societal bilingualism
● Includes authentic, first-hand examples of child and adult bilingualism
● Includes a detailed survey by category of structural borrowing

本书本着“学以致用”原则，从学术传承、学术积累和学术创新的角度，对俄语语法的难题——所谓“给我们带来极大麻烦”的“数、数词、数量词”，进行了广泛深入和全面的描述。它既与传统的描写语法相联系，又在许多方面“推陈出新”，“自成一体”，带有明显的中国人学俄语用俄语的特色（例如，在变格方面，既指出“应该变格”，又指出“避免变格”；既指出有“变格一致”，又指出“不必一致”的混合变格现象等）；此外，本书还纠正某些俄语书中不少片面的错误说法及“例证”。本书在描写“数、数词、数量词”时不是孤立地“就事论事”，而是扩大它们的“联系”范围，增加语言材料，深入分析研究语言事实。因此，本书既有语法学的内容，又含“词汇学”的要素，既以“形态学（词法）”作为描写的出发点（如格与数的形态范畴等），又考虑到“结构学（句法）”的特点（如数词与其他词数的词的组合等）。本书实践性很强，但也有一定的理论性阐释。本书有大量关于数词、数量词的“说、读、写、译、比”（与汉语数量词比较）的实用材料，因此它适用于高校俄语专业师生教学参考使用，也对俄语翻译工作者和俄语自学者有所帮助。