Linguistics

This textbook approaches second language acquisition from the perspective of generative linguistics. Roumyana Slabakova reviews and discusses parad...

This volume features cutting-edge research from leading authorities on the nature and structure of the verbal domain and the complexity of the Verb...

Context and Communication offers an introduction to a central theme in the study of language: the various ways in which what we say (or ask, or thi...

This groundbreaking work is the first full book-length publication to critically engage in the emerging field of research on the queer aspects of t...

Jody Azzouni argues that we involuntarily experience certain physical items, certain products of human actions, and certain human actions themselve...

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In addition to thin concepts like the good, the bad and the ugly, our evaluative thought and talk appeals to thick concepts like the lewd and the r...

This book provides thorough descriptive and theory-neutral coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena of Chichewa, a Malawian Bantu langu...

An English translation of the late tenth century Arabic lexicographer Ibn Khalawayh’s list of names of lions. This unique collection engages an anc...

This volume presents a data-rich description of English inflection and word-formation. Based on large corpora including the Corpus of Contemporary ...

Kirk Ludwig develops a novel reductive account of plural discourse about collective action and shared intention. Part I develops the event analysis...

Towards Non-Being presents an account of the semantics of intentional language--verbs such as 'believes', 'fears', 'seeks', 'imagines'. Graham Prie...

This book offers a semantic and metasemantic inquiry into the representation of meaning in linguistic interaction. Kasia Jaszczolt's view represent...

In what tense should we refer to the dead? The question has long been asked, from Cicero to Julian Barnes. Answering it is partly a matter of gramm...

Small Dictionaries and Curiosity tells a story which has not been told before, that of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial lang...

This book sets out to answer a question that many linguists have been hesitant to ask: are some languages better than others? Can we say, for insta...

This book examines the tone and accent of Oklahoma Cherokee, in which six possible pitch patterns can occur on a syllable: low, high, low-high, hig...

The Lexicon provides an introduction to the study of words, their main properties, and how we use them to create meaning. It offers a detailed desc...

This book presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness, context-sensitivity, gradability, and scale structure in natural language. H...

This book is a cross-linguistic study of the syntax of yes-no questions and their answers, drawing on data from a wide range of languages with part...

This volume features cutting-edge research from leading authorities on the nature and structure of the verbal domain and the complexity of the Verb...

Argument and imagination are often interdependent. The Aesthetics of Argument is concerned with how this relationship may bear on argument's concer...

Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state of the language. Lyn...

Combining ethnographic, semiotic, and performative approaches, this book examines texts and accompanying acts of writing of national commemoration....

This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by data from real conv...

Many people (both philosophers and not) find it very natural to think that deceiving someone in a way that avoids lying--by merely misleading--is m...

The problem of the unity of the proposition is almost as old as philosophy itself, and was one of the central themes of early analytical philosophy...

This is a work in Kantian conceptual geography. It explores issues in analytic epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics in particular ...

This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse. While a sentence obeys specific gramma...

Multiple (or extended) exponence is the occurrence of multiple realizations of a single morphosemantic feature, bundle of features, or derivational...

Understanding and addressing linguistic disadvantage must be a central facet of the social justice agenda of our time. This book explores the ways ...

In this brilliant transatlantic survival guide, Erin Moore examines the key differences between the British and the Americans through their languag...

This book presents a new cross-linguistic analysis of gender and its effects on morphosyntax. It addresses questions including the syntactic locati...