 | Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory of Language (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes) by Rens Bod
Buy new: £17.50 / Used from: £17.49 Provides an exciting stochastic alternative to traditional theories of syntax. Inspiring stuff.
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 | Being There: Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again (Bradford Book) by Andy Clark
Buy new: £15.89 / Used from: £11.13 An excellent philosophical exploration of Situated Cognition.
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 | Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective (Oxford linguistics) by William Croft
Buy new: £27.55 / Used from: £24.18 A new take on grammar and categoriality
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 | How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics by Calvert Watkins
Buy new: £22.99 / Used from: £17.25 A consumate work of Indo-European scholarship, mostly on the oral-formulaiic poetics of IE dragonslaying stories. Pure pleasure.
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 | Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-language and Proto-culture (Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs) by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze
Buy new: £177.00 / Used from: £272.10 A bottom-up reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, containing the main arguments for the Glottalic Theory
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 | Probabilistic Linguistics (Bradford Books (Paperback)) by R Bod
Buy new: £27.50 / Used from: £28.80 A good tour around the probabilistic approach to linguistics. Good radical stuff.
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 | Time Depth in Historical Linguistics (Volumes 1 and 2)
Buy used from: £126.00 The state of the art in the interface between linguistic and archaeological investigations of prehistory
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 | An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume
Buy new: £10.69 / Used from: £1.50 Empiricism at its most radical, a must-read for anyone serious about understanding human knowledge.
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 | Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge by Paul K. Feyerabend
Buy new: £12.19 / Used from: £9.43 An intellectually invigorating exploration of how science *really* gets done, and an excellent antidote to po-faced normative theorising about how it "ought" to be done.
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 | Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Buy used from: £22.99 Probably the most original philosophical treatment of language and meaning of the 20th century.
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