Language

For too long certain scholars have been content to portray Irenaeus of Lyons as a...

This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics....

This book offers a semantic and metasemantic inquiry into the representation of meaning in linguistic...

This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis...

This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer...

This volume presents a crosslinguistic survey of the current theoretical debates around copular constructions from...

Individual objects have potentials: paper has the potential to burn, an acorn has the potential...

Terence Cuneo develops a novel line of argument for moral realism. The argument he defends...

This volume provides the first book-length study of the controversial topic of Verb Second and...

The ability to communicate quickly and flexibly through both spoken and written language is one...

The study of meaning in language embraces a diverse range of problems and methods. Philosophers...

This volume offers a collective critical engagement with the thought of Charles Travis, a leading...

By creating certain marks on paper, or by making certain sounds-breathing past a moving tongue-or...

This handbook brings together past and current research on all aspects of lying and deception,...

This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to the development of the German language...

The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity maps a central terrain of philosophy, and provides...

This volume provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Gothic, the earliest attested language of the...

This book aims to provide a solution to the semantic paradoxes. It argues for a...

The mind is directed upon the world. There are worldly things that we have beliefs...

Exploring Nanosyntax provides the first in-depth introduction to the framework of nanosyntax, which originated in...

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art account of research in language policy and planning (LPP). Through...

This book is a general introduction to the structures of the different medieval Romance vernaculars...

Mark Jago presents and defends a novel theory of what truth is, in terms of...

This book provides the first fully-fledged description of the morphological system of Dutch written in...

It is natural to distinguish, for any thinking creature, those events and states that are...

This book is an anthology on topics in the grammar of Chinese (Sinitic) languages. The...

This book presents the findings of a case study in bilingual acquisition and explores their...

This book addresses the question of how the properties of human vowel systems can be...

This book investigates the precise nature of nonfinite structures and explores the ways in which...

In this book, Richard Wiese provides the most complete and up-to-date description presently available of...

Contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards a subject must meet in order for a...

In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state...

Herman Cappelen investigates ways in which language (and other representational devices) can be defective, and...

This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German. Leading...

This book examines the variation found in modern spoken French, based on the research programme...

Propositions has two main goals. The first is to show that there are propositions. The...

This book investigates the morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of language, and the interactions between...

Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing...

Sanford C. Goldberg presents a novel account of the speech act of assertion. He defends...

This book is the first critical edition of White Kennett's Etymologicon Anglicanum (British Library, MS...

Traditional philosophical discussions of knowledge have focused on the epistemic status of full beliefs. Sarah...

From the Constitution to the Bible, from literary classics to political sound bites, our modern...

The great diversity of ethnicities and languages in Africa encourages a vision of Africa as...