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Birds of the West Indies is the first field guide that covers and
depicts all birds known to occur in the region, including
infrequently occurring and introduced forms. Now fully updated and
expanded, this stunningly illustrated book features detailed
accounts of more than 600 species, describing field marks, range,
status, voice and habitat. More than 100 beautiful colour plates
depict plumages of all species, and the book includes distribution
maps, a colour code for endemics, and an incisive introduction that
discusses avifaunal changes in the West Indies over the past
fifteen years.
An updated edition of the acclaimed field guide to the spectacular
birds of the West Indies Birds of the West Indies is the first
field guide that covers and depicts all birds known to occur in the
region, including infrequently occurring and introduced forms. Now
fully updated and expanded, this stunningly illustrated book
features detailed accounts of more than 600 species, describing
identification field marks, range, status, voice, and habitat.
There are more than 100 beautiful color plates that depict plumages
of all species-including those believed to have recently become
extinct-as well as distribution maps, a color code for endemic
birds, and an incisive introduction that discusses avifaunal
changes in the West Indies in the past fifteen years and the
importance of conservation. Covers more than 60 new species,
including vagrants, introductions, and taxonomic splits Updates the
status of every species Features illustrations for all new species
and improved artwork for warblers and flycatchers Color codes
endemic species confined to one or just a few islands Includes many
new and enhanced maps Provides bird weights for each species
Compact and easy to use in the field
Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics is a comprehensive new reference
work aiming to systematically describe all aspects of the study of
meaning in language. It synthesizes in one volume the latest
scholarly positions on the construction, interpretation,
clarification, obscurity, illustration, amplification,
simplification, negotiation, contradiction, contraction and
paraphrasing of meaning, and the various concepts, analyses,
methodologies and technologies that underpin their study. It
examines not only semantics but the impact of semantic study on
related fields such as morphology, syntax, and typologically
oriented studies such as grammatical semantics, where semantics has
made a considerable contribution to our understanding of verbal
categories like tense or aspect, nominal categories like case or
possession, clausal categories like causatives, comparatives, or
conditionals, and discourse phenomena like reference and anaphora.
COSE also examines lexical semantics and its relation to syntax,
pragmatics, and cognitive linguistics; and the study of how logical
semantics develops and thrives, often in interaction with
computational linguistics.
As a derivative volume from Encyclopedia of Language and
Linguistics 2nd edition, it comprises contributions from 150 of the
foremost scholars of semantics in their various specializations and
draws on 20+ years of development in the parent work in a compact
and affordable format. Principally intended for tertiary level
inquiry and research, this will be invaluable as a reference work
for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics
inquiring into the study of meaning and meaning relations within
languages. As semantics is a centrally important and inherently
cross-cutting area within linguistics it will therefore be relevant
not just for semantics specialists, but for most linguistic
audiences.
* The first encyclopedia ever published in this fascinating and
diverse field
* Combines the talents of the world s leading semantics specialists
* The latest trends in the field authoritatively reviewed and
interpreted in context of related disciplines.
* Drawn from the richest, most authoritative, comprehensive and
internationally acclaimed reference resource in the linguistics
area
* Compact and affordable single volume reference format"
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