Linguistics

By comparing linguistic varieties that are quite similar overall, linguists can often determine where and how grammatical systems differ, and how t...

This book brings together many of Peter Culicover's most significant observations on the nature of syntax and its place within the architecture of ...

Claiming to know is more than making a report about one's epistemic position: one also offers one's assurance to others. What is an assurance? In t...

Few conversational topics can be as significant as our troubles in life, whether everyday and commonplace, or more exceptional and disturbing. In g...

This book presents a comprehensive, contrastive account of the phonological structures and characteristics of Swedish. After an introduction on the...

This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at four ind...

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

Some things in the world--intentional items such as words, thoughts, portraits, and passport photos--are about things, whereas other things in the ...

This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently sp...

This volume examines the conflicting factors that shape the content and form of grammatical rules in language usage. Speakers and addressees need t...

Five women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow and began a performance of a "Punk Prayer." Young people fried eggs on the eternal...

This book aims to assess the nature of morphological complexity, and the properties that distinguish it from the complexity manifested in other com...

It is the linguistic job of singular terms to pick out the objects that we think or talk about. But what about singular terms that seem to fail to ...

Anthony Everett defends the commonsense view that there are no such things as fictional people, places, and things. More precisely he develops and ...

This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses partic...

This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old Saxon up to the point at which Middle Low German is replaced by H...

Philosophy of language has a rich and varied history stretching back to the Ancient Greeks. Twelve specially written essays explore this richness, ...

This book, the second volume in A Linguistic History of English, describes the development of Old English from Proto-Germanic. Like Volume I, it is...

This book is all about ellipsis in natural language - the phenomena in which words and phrases go missing in the linguistic signal, but are nonethe...

This is the seventh volume of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names to be published, a work which offers comprehensive documentation of named individ...

Tim Button explores the relationship between words and world; between semantics and scepticism. A certain kind of philosopher--the external realis...

This textbook provides a detailed introduction to the study of Latin from the perspective of contemporary linguistics. It adopts some basic tenets ...

Quantification has been at the heart of research in the syntax and semantics of natural language since Aristotle. The last few decades have seen an...