Language

This book traces the origins and development of the Arabic grammatical marker %s/%s=i, which is...

The question of whether aesthetic judgements are simply statements about subjective preferences or whether they...

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the syntax of old Romanian written in...

This book offers reconstructions of various syntactic properties of Proto-Germanic, including verb position in main...

This book adopts a generative framework to investigate the diachronic syntax of Hungarian, one of...

This volume examines the conflicting factors that shape the content and form of grammatical rules...

This book argues that the complex, anthropocentric, and often culture-specific meanings of words have been...

This book builds on R. M. W. Dixon's most influential work on the indigenous languages...

In this book, leading scholars consider the ways in which syntactic variation can be accounted...

This volume surveys the current debate on the morphome, bringing together experts from different linguistic...

This book examines diachronic change and diversity in the morphosyntax of Romance varieties spoken in...

This book examines several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the Rigveda, and the...

This study discusses the question of whether there is a linguistic difference between classical Attic...

ComprehesiveA widely respected dictionary providing clear and complete coverage of some 35,000 English words and...

The Syntax of Ellipsis investigates a number of elliptical constructions found in Dutch dialects within...

For much of its history, children's literature has been overlooked or looked down on by...

Comparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics. The study of closely-related...

Widely used in advanced composition and writing courses, Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student discusses...

It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more...

`Translation has long needed a champion, and at last in George Steiner it has found...

Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary...

This volume articulates a new framework for language policy research that explores the connections between...

People do bad things. They misspeak, mislead, and misbehave. They lie, cheat, steal, and kill....

Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for...

Multiple (or extended) exponence is the occurrence of multiple realizations of a single morphosemantic feature,...

Towards Non-Being presents an account of the semantics of intentional language--verbs such as 'believes', 'fears',...

Language Between Description and Prescription is an empirical, quantitative and qualitative study of nineteenth-century English...

In The Language of Fraud Cases, Roger Shuy follows the now well-established format of his...

Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's...

The book suggests a new perspective on the essence of human language. This enormous achievement...

This volume takes a variety of approaches to the question 'what is a word?', with...