Linguistics

The Encyclopedia of Semiotics is the first comprehensive guide to the topics, theories, and thinkers of this rapidly expanding field of knowledge. ...

Focusing on the relation between functional categories and lexical and phrasal categories in Arabic dialects, Benmamoun proposes that universally f...

This is the first history of German to bridge the gap between 'handbook' level and the more specialized work available only in articles. It offers ...

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories have only partially accounted for the variety of language compre...

It is commonly stated that the loss of case marking distinctions between Old and Middle English had profound consequences for the syntax of the lan...

In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He...

The Athabaskan language family constitutes the largest group of Amerindian languages in North America, stretching from Alaska, through the Pacific ...

Late Babylonian Texts in the Ashmolean Museum

A major concern in current anthropological thinking is that the method of recording or translating into writing a society's cultural expressions--d...

This edited volume examines the implications of the phenomenon known as codeswitching, where, in given situations, different people with access to ...

This book provides a complete, comparative, nongallocentric account of nasality in all the Romance languages. It demonstrates the central role of n...

"Language ideologies" refers to the representation, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social worl...

Languages in a situation of contact, whether they are receding or being maintained by their speakers, are characterized by constant and rapid chang...

The media frenzy surrounding the 1996 resolution by the Oakland School Board brought public attention to the term "Ebonics", however the idea remai...

This work presents landmark research concerning the vital dynamics of childhood psychological development. It's origin can be traced to the late 19...

An Introduction to Old Norse

The interface between syntax and meaning, both semantic and pragmatic, has emerged as perhaps the richest and most fascinating area of current ling...

In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He...

The media frenzy surrounding the 1996 resolution by the Oakland School Board brought public attention to the term "Ebonics". However, the idea rema...

In this highly interdisciplinary work, linguist Anna Wierzbicka casts new light on the words of Jesus by taking her well-known semantic theory of "...

We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Ce...

Ura demonstrates that his theory of multiple feature-checking, an extension of Chomsky's Agr-less checking theory, gives a natural explanation for ...