Language

All adult speakers in Western cultures have life stories argues Charlotte Linde, and the ways...

Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The...

Nelson provides a study of the ways in which white American authors constructed `race' in...

This provocative book undertakes a new and challenging reading of recent semiotic and structuralist theory,...

To most people it seems obvious that there are major mental differences between ourselves and...

The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the...

This book makes an original contribution to the understanding of perception verbs and the treatment...

This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new...

This book presents recent research on the role of space as a mechanism in language...

This is the first cross-linguistic study of imperatives, and commands of other kinds, across the...

Linguistic variation has been studied primarily in communities with the dominant social organization of our...

The Interactional Instinct explores the evolution of language from the theoretical view that language could...

This book explores the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and its interaction...

A Linguistic History of Arabic presents a reconstruction of proto-Arabic by the methods of historical-comparative...

This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and...

This book reviews interdisciplinary work on the mental processing of syntax and morphology. It focuses...

To clarify and facilitate our inquiries we need to define a disquotational truth predicate that...

In this book, leading researchers in morphology, syntax, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics address...

This book provides an overview of the phonology of Italian. It covers the different levels...

This book explores person markers, the linguistic elements that provide points of reference to speech-act...

Wars of Words is the first comprehensive survey of the politics of language in Ireland...

Portuguese emerged from vulgar Latin during the course of the third century. Influential in its...

Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology...

People have been reading on computer screens for several decades now, predating popularization of personal...

Did you know that coconut derives from the Spanish and Portuguese coco for 'grinning face'?...

This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account...

This book investigates the changes that affected vowel length during the development of Latin into...

John Hawthorne and David Manley present an original treatment of the semantic phenomenon of reference...

This book examines the historical development of discourse and pragmatic markers across the Romance languages....

This book examines personal names, including given and acquired (or nick-) names, and how they...

This book is the first major cross-linguistic study of 'flexible words', i.e. words that cannot...

In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine...

This book is all about ellipsis in natural language - the phenomena in which words...

Brevity in conversation is a window to the workings of the mind. This book brings...

This book offers both a naturalistic and critical theory of signs, minds, and meaning-in-the-world. It...

Over the past twenty years or so, the work on Japanese within generative grammar has...

The last decade has seen a rise in popularity in construction-based approaches to grammar. The...

A Sanskrit-English Dictionary is the essential reference for Sanskrit scholars. This comprehensive work includes over...

Translation has been a crucial process in world culture over the past two millennia and...

This is the first account of Old Norse for a hundred years and the first...

The Literary Culture of the Reformation examines the place of literature in the Reformation, considering...

Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading explores some of the ways in which we think...

Remembering the Sound of Words is a major new studyof four of modern literature's most...

The Oxford Slavonic Papers contain original contributions and documents relating to the languages, literatures, culture,...

The prosodic description of free verse, in France as elsewhere, has long been fraught with...