Linguistics

First published in 1952, professor’s Strawson’s highly influential Introduction to Logical Theory provides a detailed examination of the relationsh...

Paul Ricoeur’s contribution to the theory of interpretation, or hermeneutics, is considerable: he ranks among the masters of this discipline alongs...

Particularism is a justly popular ‘cutting-edge’ topic in contemporary ethics across the world. Many moral philosophers do not, in fact, support pa...

Plass argues that Adorno’s essays on literature are of prime importance for an understanding of his aesthetics because they challenge the conceptua...

This book explores the interface between speech perception and production through a longitudinal acoustic analysis of the speech of postlingually d...

Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most prominent philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. His thinking about language, mi...

The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multi...

This volume brings together various strands of research focusing on aspects of the syntax of agreement, and the role that agreement plays in lingui...

This book studies the linguistic representation of events by examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics-- telicity and durativity...

Wittgenstein is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last hundred years and scepticism is one of the central problems that modern philosophy fa...

Routledge Revivals presents a reissue of Noam Chomksy’s MA thesis, written in 1951, and first published in 1979. Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew i...

Beginning with the anthropological linguistic tradition associated primarily with the names of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and their students and conc...

The author explores the role of journalism in Egypt in effecting and promoting the development of modern Arabic literature from its inception in th...

The Pragmatics Reader is the indispensable set of readings for all students studying Pragmatics at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate levels. ...

This publication presents the first documentation of Nzadi, a Bantu language spoken by fishermen along the Kasai River in the Democratic Republic o...

This descriptive grammar provides a uniquely comprehensive description of Maori, the East Polynesian language of the indigenous people of New Zeala...

Kashmir boasts a language which challenges every field of linguistics. Kashmiri is spoken by approximately 3,000,000 people. Its syntax, similar to...

Evenki is one of nine Tungusic languages spoken in Siberia and Northern China. This book gives the first ever complete description of all this lan...

Philosophy and the Vision of Language explores the history and enduring significance of the twentieth-century turn to language as a specific object...

Beyond the Mother Tongue examines distinct forms of multilingualism, such as writing in one socially unsanctioned “mother tongue” about another lan...

First published in 1952, professor Strawson’s highly influential Introduction to Logical Theory provides a detailed examination of the relationship...

This volume is about 'dislocation' – the removal of phrases from their canonical positions in a sentence to its left or right edge. Dislocation enc...