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      A Neural Network Model of Lexical Organisation

      Professor Michael Fortescue

      A study of the mental lexicon - the way in which the form and meaning of words is stored by speakers of specific languages. It provides a principled means of…

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      A Neural Network Model of Lexical Organisation

      Professor Michael Fortescue

      A study of the mental lexicon - the way in which the form and meaning of words is stored by speakers of specific languages. It provides a principled means of…

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      The Acquisition of Language

      Michael Fortescue

      These curious tales all have something to do with language: Does one really have to queue to be assigned a language at birth? How could one go about communicating with…

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      Circulating

      Michael Fortescue

      This collection of short short tales presents some of the stranger consequences of the coronavirus pandemic on individuals in the UK. Ranging from the pathetic to the hilarious, some are…

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      Polysemy, Diachrony, and the Circle of Cognition

      Michael Fortescue

      This book contains an innovative approach to the semantics and diachronic source of cognitive verbs across a representative array of the world’s languages.

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      Perspectives and metamorphoses

      Michael Fortescue

      The miniatures in the first part of this book all involve perspective. The perspective in all of them is in one way or another unusual: sometimes frame by frame, sometimes…

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      Necker Cubes and Lost Marbles

      Michael Fortescue

      Each of the prose poems that constitute the first part of this volume juxtaposes at least two widely different images and ways of reading them. The result - an either/or…

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      Christina’s Book

      Michael Fortescue

      James, an IT consultant engaged in upgrading the computer system of the Brain Imaging Institute at Cambridge, discovers something strange in the institute's server - a number of encrypted titles…

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      The Way In

      Michael Fortescue

      The planet is becoming increasingly uninhabitable thanks to escalating climate change, dwindling resources, and the anarchy resulting from the breakup of the World Federation. Humanity faces a dilemma: which way…

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      Semantix

      Michael Fortescue

      This unconventional introduction to the linguistic discipline of semantics - and pragmatics - takes the form of a series of zany dialogues, each illustrating a particular topic. They do this…

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      Inside Outside Upside Downside

      Michael Fortescue

      A grumpy old hypochondriac is led into a world of dream and memory by certain pieces he finds separated out from the puzzle he is putting together. They are the…

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      The Language of Dragonflies

      Michael Fortescue

      This tightly constructed novel is set in the fictitious village of Slatefield, where dinosaur bones were first found in England. The arrival of a writer of popular books at the…

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      The Greendale Voice

      Michael Fortescue

      The walled - and very private - village of Greendale is not all that it appears to be from the outside. Superficially it embodies all that is quaint and desirable…

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      The Abingdon Chronicles

      Michael Fortescue

      Annie is about to start her last year at boarding school in Abingdon when Uncle George, whom she barely remembers, shows up out of the blue. He is drunk and…

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      The Lexicographers

      Michael Fortescue

      Words are escaping from the flagship project of the prestigious House of Words. Something must be done fast to get them back before a rival company is brought in to…

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      Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary

      Michael Fortescue

      This volume is the first comprehensive comparative dictionary to cover the whole of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan (‘Paleosiberian’) family. This dictionary is aimed at scholars andstudents of linguistic typology and historical linguistics…

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      Strange Bedfellows

      Michael Fortescue

      This volume is about the surprises lurking behind the genealogies of English words, often obscured by sound changes and borrowings from other languages. Though surprising - and often amusing -…

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      Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim

      Michael Fortescue

      Covers the contiguous languages - and cultures - across the northern Pacific rim from Van-couver Island in Canada to Hokkaido in northern Japan, and the adjacent Arctic coasts of Alaska…

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      Language Relations Across The Bering Strait: Reappraising the Archaeological and Linguistic Evidence

      Professor Michael Fortescue

      In building up a scenario for the arrival on the shores of Alaska of speakers of languages related to Eskimo-Aleut with genetic roots deep within Sineria, this book touches upon…

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      Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America

      Edward Vajda,Michael Fortescue

      This volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only two languages families of North America, Eskaleut and Na-Dene, that are widely acknowledged as having…

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      The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis

      This book offers a crosslinguistic survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. It looks at a range of…

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