Language

This book is the first dedicated to linguistic parsing - the processing of natural language...

The truth of an utterance depends on various factors. Usually these factors are assumed to...

Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in a particular subject area....

The Liar paradox raises foundational questions about logic, language, and truth (and semantic notions in...

This is a comprehensive account of the phonetic and phonological properties of Norwegian. The author...

A Historical Greek Reader provides an introduction to the history of the ancient Greek language...

This volume of new work by prominent phonologists goes to the heart of current debates...

This book examines the evidence for the development of adnominal genitives (the knight's sword, the...

This is a new and revised edition of the title first published by OUP in...

Language expert and psychologist, Laurent Danon-Boileau, has spent a lifetime trying to release silent children's...

In this mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing - and the most readable...

This book explores the nature of finiteness, one of most commonly used notions in descriptive...

This book describes the historical emergence and spread of the to-infinitive in English. It shows...

The Law of Non-Contradiction-that no contradiction can be true-has been a seemingly unassailable dogma since...

The book provides a comprehensive description and in-depth analysis of the major word order changes...

From paddy wagon to rush hour, New York City has given us a number of...

The linker introduces ("links") a variety of expressions into the verb phrase, including locatives, the...

Language and Society is a broad introduction to the interaction of language and society, intended...

What is intentionality? Intentionality is a distinguishing characteristic of states of mind (such as beliefs,...

This AQA AS/A Level English Language Revision Workbook offers students a practical approach to preparing...

This Progress with Oxford Comprehension Age 6-7 workbook will help your child to progress with...

This Progress with Oxford Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Age 6-7 workbook will help your child...

This Progress with Oxford Handwriting Age 6-7 workbook will help your child to progress with...

Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the...

In this handbook, renowned scholars from a range of backgrounds provide a state of the...

This book explores the syntactic structures of Mainland Scandinavian, a term that covers the Northern...

This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive cross-linguistic overview of an understudied typological...

Linguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Europe. In chapters that...

The Phonology of English offers a new approach to English phonology. It focuses on the...

A Concise German Grammar aims to equip undergraduates with a comprehensive yet compact account of...

How and why are languages constantly changing? Historical lingustics seeks to find out by going...

A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary is an authoritative resource for learners and scholars alike. Each entry...

Based on the seminal work in Hebrew lexicography, Gesenius' Thesaurus, this lexicon offers the reader...

This is the first dedicated grammar of Classical Greek for students for almost a century....

Arabic is one of the world's largest languages, spoken natively by nearly 300 million people....

The capacity to speak is not only the ability to pronounce words, but the socially-recognized...

In Tongues of Fire, Nancy Farriss investigates the role of language and translation in the...

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language...

This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in...

Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC) was the greatest polymath of the Roman republic. During his...

This book explains how the grammarians of the Graeco-Romance world perceived the nature and structure...

When you light a match it is the striking of it which causes the lighting;...

This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of phonological weight to date, bringing together traditional...

This volume provides a detailed account of the syntax of expressive language, that is, utterances...