Linguistics

This fresh look at the philosophy of language focuses on the interface between a theory of literal meaning and pragmatics--a philosophical examinat...

In this interdisciplinary book, Livia examines a broad corpus of written texts in English and French, concentrating on those texts which problemati...

Japan and the United States are in closer contact politically and economically than ever before, yet in many ways our nations are as far from mutua...

This is a collection of previously unpublished articles focusing on the following aspects of Portuguese syntax: clause structure, clitic placement,...

Putting aside questions of truth and falsehood, the old 'talk is cheap' maxim carries as much weight as ever. Indeed, perhaps more. For one need no...

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

This groundbreaking study on the psycholinguistics of spelling presents the author's original empirical research on spelling and supplies the theor...

Do you approve of censoring the works of great writers? Some might contend that to bowdlerize a great writer's work would be to diminish its overal...

This authoritative survey offers a concise description of Middle English, the language of Chaucer, during the period from 1100 to 1500. Middle Engl...

This is the third edition of the late Sir Godfrey Driver's Schweich Lectures, first delivered in 1944. The present edition is based on extensive re...

For more than twenty years, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh has been studying the linguistic and cognitive skills of a number of laboratory-reared primates. Re...

In a book that blends anecdote with analysis, Kathleen Hall Jamieson--author of the award-winning Packaging the Presidency--offers a perceptive and...

Colonial New Englanders would have found our modern notions of free speech very strange indeed. Children today shrug off harsh words by chanting "s...

The Romance Languages document remarkable variations in subject word order in different constructions, and have various restrictions in their occur...

McCarthy develops a theory of Radical Interpertation - The project of characterizing from scratch the language and attituteds of an agent or popula...

The late 20th century saw great movement in the philosophy of language, often critical of the fathers of the subject-Gottlieb Frege and Bertrand Ru...

Rhetoric is one of the Western world's most ancient disciplines. From ancient Greece and Rome to the modern era, the art of persuasion has been use...

The main function of language is to convey meaning. Therefore, argues Bernd Heine in these pages, the question of why language is structured the wa...

The authors chart the early developmental stages in children's growing awareness and understanding of mind. More than 12,000 conversations by child...

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

This is a collection of previously unpublished essays on an unusual and little known pattern of case agreement in the noun phrase. The contributors...

In Syntactic Heads and Word Formation, Marit Julien investigates the relationship between morphology and syntax. She examines the formation of morp...

In recent years the idea that an adequate semantics of ordinary language calls for some theory of events has sparked considerable debate among ling...

The study of comparative syntax in closely related languages has yielded valuable insights into syntactic phenomena--for example in the study of th...