Language

Locality and Logophoricity investigates what the distribution of pronominal expressions in various languages can tell...

The field of morphology has gained expanded importance in contemporary linguistics with the realization that...

By taking a distinctively institutional approach, Catharine Abell provides a unified solution to a wide...

How do certain ideas and practices become socially valued in particular times and places? Why...

Knowledge and Lotteries is organized around an epistemological puzzle: in many cases, we seem consistently...

Echt is a brand new course for 11-14 German written specifically to give students the...

Adapting Wittgenstein's concept of the human species as 'a ceremonial animal', Wendy James writes vividly...

The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore aims to provide an accessible study of Cicero's...

By examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, Andreas Willi opens up a new perspective on...

This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages...

Crispin Wright is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers...

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Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings--including several previously unpublished--by Bob Hale...

What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be...

Linguistic pragmatism claims that what we literally say goes characteristically beyond what the linguistic properties...

In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical...

This book explores the nature of cognitive representations and processes in speech motor control, based...

This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island...

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers...

In The Struggle for a Multilingual Future, Christina Davis examines the tension between ethnic conflict...

In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights...

What do we express when we use the first-person pronoun 'I' in phrases such as...

Plain English is the art of writing clearly, concisely, and in a way that precisely...

How is it that words come to stand for the things they stand for? Is...

Articulating a thought can be astoundingly easy. We generally have no trouble expressing complex ideas...

This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and...

A primary goal of contemporary theoretical linguistics is to develop a theory of the correspondence...

The concepts of identity, existence, predication, necessity, and truth are at the centre of philosophy...

Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content. According to this...

This book tells the story of how families separated across borders write--and learn new ways...

Had you said "What a guy!" in 17th-century England, anyone would have understood you were...

This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the degree of...

This book reimagines the compositional semantics of comparative sentences using words such as more, as,...

How did Romans address their children, their parents, their slaves, and their patrons? When one...

Semantics for Reasons is a book about what we mean when we talk about reasons....

This volume is the first systematic, corpus-based examination of dative external possessors in Old and...

These essays by A.W. Moore are all concerned with the business of representing how things...

A good research paper is more than just a clear, concise, scientific expose. It is...