Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

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This volume brings together the eight papers presented by a panel on Arabic linguistics organized on the occasion of the 14th Italian Meeting of Af...

Adjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs. The present volume brings together studies in the sy...

This book explores the internalism/externalism debate inherent in ontology and semantics from the point of view of phenomenology. The debate centre...

The boundary between semantics and pragmatics has been important since the early twentieth century, but in the last twenty-five years it has become...

This book is a compilation of articles on different aspects of Spanish grammar in the areas of current theoretical syntax and semantics. The issue ...

A short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present. Everyone''s a cynic, yet few...

The twenty-first century has seen a surge in cross-linguistic research on forms of address from increasingly diverse and complementary perspectives...

This volume is the most comprehensive reference work to date on Lexical Functional Grammar. The authors provide detailed and extensive coverage of ...

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The present volume is centered on the notional domain of additivity. Many linguistic phenomena are based on additivity (i.e. are incremental) and a...

Wylie Breckenridge offers a fresh understanding of the character of visual experience by deploying the methods of semantics. He develops a theory o...