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Contrastive linguistics

Here are entered works which compare or contrast two or more languages with the aim of finding principles which can be applied to practical problems in language teaching and translation. Works which compare languages or groups of languages for the specific purpose of determining their common origin, or discuss the method of their comparison, as represented by 19th century comparative philology and its subsequent developments, are entered under the heading Comparative linguistics.

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• Linguistics

• Phonology as Human Behavior: Theoretical Implications and Clinical Applications (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Y. Tobin (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The English Language: From Sound to Sense (c2010), by Gerald Patrick Delahunty and James J. Garvey (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• University of California Publications in Linguistics (partial serial archives)
• The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (1982), by Per Linell (PDF with commentary in Sweden)
• Introduzione Agli Elementi di Glottologia (in Italian; Bologna: N. Zanichelli, 1922), by Alfredo Trombetti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Language and War: Letter to a Friend Concerning Stalin's Article on Linguistics (Yonkers, NY: The author, c1950), by Earl Browder (page images at HathiTrust)

• Developments in Linguistics and Semiotics, Language Teaching and Learning, Communication Across Cultures (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1986; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1987), ed. by Simon P. X. Battestini (PDF at Georgetown)
• Contemporary Perceptions of Language: Interdisciplinary Dimensions (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1982; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1982), ed. by Heidi Byrnes (PDF at Georgetown)
• Semantics: Theory and Application (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1976; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1976), ed. by Cléa Rameh, contrib. by Winfred P. Lehmann, Jorge Hankamer, Ray Jackendoff, Geoffrey N. Leech, Barbara Hall Partee, Oswald Werner, Martin D. Topper, Chuck Rieger, Gilbert Harman, Alfonso Caramazza, Ellen Grober, Frances M. Aid, Milton Mariano Azevedo, Christopher Candlin, and Ragnhild Söderbergh (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fifteenth Annual (First International) Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1964), ed. by C. I. J. M. Stuart (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fourteenth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Robert J. Di Pietro (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report Of The Thirteenth Annual Round Table Meeting On Linguistics And Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Elisabeth Delorme Woodworth and Robert J. Di Pietro (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Twelfth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Michael Zarechnak (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Eleventh Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1960), ed. by Bernard Choseed and Allene Guss Grognet (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Seventh Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1956), ed. by Paul L. Garvin (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Sixth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1955), ed. by Ruth Hirsch (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fifth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1954), ed. by Hugo J. Mueller (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report on The Second Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1951), ed. by John DeFrancis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Third Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1952), ed. by Salvatore J. Castiglione (PDF at Georgetown)

• The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology (originally published 1996; this edition Berlin: Language Science Press, c2016), by Carson T. Schütze (PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org)

• Annual Review of Linguistics (partial serial archives)
• Linguistics (partial serial archives)
• Linguistica (Slovenian journal) (partial serial archives)
• Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics (2016-) (full serial archives)
• The Linguistics Journal (issues from 2006-2013 freely readable online) (partial serial archives)

• Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory of Language, by Rens Bod (PDF at Stanford)

• Essentials of Linguistics (2018), by Catherine Anderson (multiple formas with commentary at PressBooks)

• Anaphora and Quantification in Situation Semantics, by Jean Mark Gawron and Stanley Peters (PDF at Stanford)

• Time, Tense, and the Verb: A Study in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, With Particular Attention to Spanish (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968), by William Emerson Bull (page images at HathiTrust)

• Creole Studies: Phylogenetic Approaches (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2017), ed. by Peter Bakker, Finn Birchsenius, Carsten Levisen, and Eeva Sippola (PDF and Epub at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Speech Understanding Research (final technical report; Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1976), ed. by Donald E. Walker (PDF at dtic.mil)

• The Talking Heads Experiment: Origins of Words and Meanings (Computational models of language evolution #1; Berlin: Language Science Press, 2015), by Luc Steels
  • PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org; 92 MB
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020 (presented by META-NET; c2013), ed. by Georg Rehm and Hans Uszkoreit (PDF files with commentary at SpringerLink)
• Computational Linguistics: Models, Resources, Applications (c2004), by Igor A. Bolshakov and Alexander Gelbukh (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at gelbukh.com)
• Prolog and Natural Language Analysis (digital edition, 2002), by Fernando C. N. Pereira and Stuart M. Shieber (PDF with commentary at mtome.com)
• Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory of Language, by Rens Bod (PDF at Stanford)

• Agreement Beyond Phi (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph #75; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Shigeru Miyagawa (PDF at dropbox.com)

• Outline of Linguistic Analysis (Baltimore: Linguistic Society of America, 1942), by Bernard Bloch and George L. Trager (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Haupttypen des Sprachbaus (in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1910), by Franz Nikolaus Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Introduction to the Study of Language (London: G. Bell and Sons; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1914), by Leonard Bloomfield (page images at Google; US access only)
• Linguistic Individuals, by Almerindo E. Ojeda (PDF at Stanford)

• The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology (originally published 1996; this edition Berlin: Language Science Press, c2016), by Carson T. Schütze (PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org)

• Letters as Loot: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2014), by Gijsbert Johan Rutten and M. J. van der Wal (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• In the Labyrinths of Language: A Mathematician's Journey (Philadelphia: ISI Press, c1981), by V. V. Nalimov, ed. by Robert Garland Colodny (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Modern Theories of Language: The Empirical Challenge (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by Mortéza Mahmoudian (page images at HathiTrust)

• Faces of Science (Philadelphia: ISI Press, c1981), by V. V. Nalimov, ed. by Robert Garland Colodny, illust. by Mikhail Zlatkovsky (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and Emotion in Intersubjectivity, Consciousness and Language (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2012), ed. by Ad Foolen, Ulrike Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine, and Jordan Zlatev (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Phonology as Human Behavior: Theoretical Implications and Clinical Applications (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Y. Tobin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Éléments de Phonétique Générale (in French; Paris: H. Welter, 1910), by Léonce Roudet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017), by Angela D. Friederici, contrib. by Noam Chomsky (PDF files at MIT Press)
• Macrostructures: An Interdisciplinary Study of Global Structures in Discourse, Interaction, and Cognition (Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1980), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1961), by Albert Upton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language Upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism (second edition revised; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1927), by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, contrib. by Bronislaw Malinowski and F. G. Crookshank (page images at HathiTrust)

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