Author: William B. McGregor
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: introduction, linguistics
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-03-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1847063675
ISBN-13: 9781847063670

"Linguistics" is a fresh and contemporary introductory textbook for all students of linguistics and language studies. Firmly based around taught courses and catering to student needs, it addresses all the topics that a student will need in their initial and subsequent study of language.With key terms, further reading, questions at the end of each chapter, exercises and key paragraphs in stand-out boxes, this is a firmly pedagogic text that takes difficult concepts and explains them in an easy to understand way. Examples are taken from a range of languages across the world. Global in its scope

Author: William McGregor
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Keywords: expression, categories, possession, cognitive
Number of Pages: 435
Published: 2010-12-13
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 3110184389
ISBN-13: 9783110184389

This collection of nine original articles deals with the expression of possession at various levels of grammar, morphological, phrasal, and syntactic, and from a typologically diverse range of languages (including Germanic, Oceanic, Meso-American, and Australian Aboriginal). There are two main aims. The first is to reveal something of the range of constructions employed cross-linguistically in the expression of possession, and second, to present an understanding of the possessive relation itself as a cognitive and linguistic phenomenon. A guiding principle in the selection of contributors has

Author: William B. McGregor
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: grammar, semiotic
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1997-12-04
List price: $238.00
ISBN-10: 0198236883
ISBN-13: 9780198236887

McGregor proposes and develops a new theory of grammar based on the notion of the linguistic sign. In interpreting language and its structure as a semiotic system consisting of signs, he provides a range of new analyses of well established syntactic and morphological relations, categories, and roles. This book constitutes an important and valuable contribution to linguistic theory, drawing on the author’s extensive knowledge of Australian Aboriginal languages, as well as discussing data from more familiar languages, such as English.

Authors:Jack Bohemia, William McGregor,
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Pr
Keywords: tracker, kimberly, nyibayarri
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 2000-09
List price: $35.50
ISBN-10: 0855752580
ISBN-13: 9780855752583

Author: Jon McGregor
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: things, remarkable, speaks, nobody
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-11-04
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0618344586
ISBN-13: 9780618344581

Risky in conception, hip and yet soulful, this is a prose poem of a novel -- intense, lyrical, and highly evocative -- with a mystery at its center, which keeps the reader in suspense until the final page. In a tour de force that could be described as Altmanesque, we are invited into the private lives of the residents of a quiet urban street in England over the course of a single day. In delicate, intricately observed closeup, we witness the hopes, fears, and unspoken despairs of a diverse community: the man with painfully scarred hands who tried in vain to save his wife from a burning house a

Author: P. K. McGregor
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: networks, communication
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2005-04-25
List price: $181.99
ISBN-10: 0521823617
ISBN-13: 9780521823616

Summarizing research progress and prospects in the rapidly expanding area of animal communication networks, this book differs from other works on animal communication because it covers several animal groups and types of signal. It also highlights research at the interface with other disciplines (for example, psychology and physiology) and is intended for researchers in the field, advanced students and high-level undergraduates.Book DescriptionThis book is about how and why animals communicate. It summarises research progress and prospects in the rapidly expanding topic of animal communication

Author: R. S. McGregor
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: dictionary, english, hindi, oxford
Number of Pages: 1103
Published: 1997-05-22
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 019864339X
ISBN-13: 9780198643395

The first new Hindi-English dictionary in over a century, The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary is the comprehensive reference to modern standardized language, both spoken and literary. This handy paperback dictionary is designed to meet the needs of the growing number of people now learning to speak Hindi. It provides translations for over 36,000 headwords, using illustrative material to show words in use. Students of Hindi and South Asian studies of all kinds will find extensive coverage of historical Hindi, together with the most up-to-date colloquial and literary vocabulary. In addition,