Semantics & Pragmatics

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...

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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...

This book synthesizes the author's work (1980s-2015) on the logical expressive power of natural language. It extends the tools and concepts of mode...

Over the last decade, research in semantics and pragmatics has started to increasingly incorporate new experimental methods from cognitive psycholo...

The brain is a complicated and intricately woven structure relative to other body tissues. It is the ultimate parallel processing system, but never...

This book offers a comprehensive investigative study of argument realisation in complex predicates and complex events at the syntax-semantic interf...