Language

This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents...

This authoritative survey offers a concise description of Middle English, the language of Chaucer, during...

This accessible overview covers all the basic linguistic elements of Old English, including nouns, adjectives,...

In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the...

Word order is not a subject anyone reading Latin can afford to ignore: apart from...

This volume collects the recent published articles of Guglielmo Cinque of the University of Venice,...

Studies of language acquisition often assume that children will simply begin to learn language, without...

Broca's region has been in the news ever since scientists realized that particular cognitive functions...

J. T. Ismael's monograph is an ambitious contribution to metaphysics and the philosophy of language...

Noam Chomsky's current theory, published in 1995, is known as The Minimalist Program and has...

Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of...

A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole...

Japanese Language, Gender and Ideology is a collection of previously unpublished articles by established as...

In this work, Ken Safir develops a comprehensive theory on the role of anaphora in...

The study of syntactic complexity and the identification of the elementary structural units involved have...

This book offers a defense of the tensed theory of time, a critique of the...

In this short but meaty book, Peter Unger questions the objective answers that have been...

This volume presents the first results of a long-term research project, funded by the Italian...

Syntactically speaking, it has long been known that noun phrases are parallel to clauses in...

Recently there has been a growing interest among discourse analysts in incorporating prosody into the...

Important aspects of the history of language in the United States remain shrouded in myth...

Few people know that nearly 100 native languages once spoken in what is now California...

This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the...

This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial...

This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek,...

We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets,...

Apocalyptic expectations of Armageddon and a New Age have been a fixture of the American...

Reflections on Language brings together a collection of seventy-eight articles that examine language from many...

Focusing on the relation between functional categories and lexical and phrasal categories in Arabic dialects,...

This exceptional anthology of British and American prose provides a chronological survey of over ninety...

Competitive Communication offers the first full-length treatment of the classical art of rhetoric with applications...

Is language somehow innate in the structure of the human brain, or is it completely...

Putting aside questions of truth and falsehood, the old "talk is cheap" maxim carries as...

A fundamental concept in all syntactic theories is that of a syntactic relation between syntactic...

This book examines how people understand utterances that are intended figuratively. Traditionally, figurative language such...

This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist...

Linguists usually discuss language or dialects in terms of groups of speakers. Believing that patterns...

Between early childhood and adulthood, language acquisition is succeeded by a bloom of repertoire for...

The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians...

Japan and the United States are in closer contact politically and economically than ever before,...

This book investigates in detail the grammar of polysynthetic languages--those with very complex verbal morphology....

This book develops the dual themes that languages can differ widely in their vocabularies, and...

The wellerism - so called in English because it is a form of expression typical...

The author of the best-selling You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen, has collected twelve papers...

The only textbook of its kind, An Introduction to the Languages of the World is...