Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

This book presents new work on how Merge and formal features, two basic factors in the Minimalist Program, should determine the syntactic computation of natural language.

This book presents a state-of-the-art account of what we know and would like to know about language, mind, and brain.

This book addresses the fundamental issues in the phase-based approach to the mental computation of language that have arisen from the recent developments in the Minimalist Program.

How does human language work?

This book is the first systematic account of the syntax and semantics of names.

This book addresses fundamental issues in linguistic theory, including the relation between formal and cognitive approaches, the autonomy of syntax, the content of universal grammar, and the value of generative and functional approaches to grammar.

This is a systematic presentation of the parametric approach to child language.

This book presents new work on the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of compound words.

Even though more than half the world's population is bilingual, the study of bilinguals has lagged behind that of monolinguals.

This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of auxiliary verb constructions, as in 'he could have been going to drink it' and 'she does eat cheese'.

This pioneering book lays new foundations for the study of reference and truth.

This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language.

This introduction to the role of information structure in grammar discusses a wide range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure interface.

Geert Booij's popular textbook examines how words are formed, compounded, and inflected in different languages.

This book provides explanations for the emergence of contact languages, especially pidgins and creoles.

This book explores the nature of finiteness, one of most commonly used notions in descriptive and theoretical linguistics but possibly one of the least understood.

In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with syntax.

This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the nature of the human language faculty.

This new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a 'mixed' language.

This book represents the state of the art in the study of gradience in grammar - the degree to which utterances are acceptable or grammatical, and the relationship between acceptability and grammaticality.

Constructions of Intersubjectivity shows that the meaning of grammatical constructions often has more to do with the human cognitive capacity for taking other peoples' points of view than with describing the world.

This book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind.

The notions of 'function', 'feature' and 'functional feature' are associated with relatively new developments and insights in several areas of cognition.

This book considers how expressions involving number are used by speakers and understood by hearers.

This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of human language and cognition.

This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of human language and cognition.

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

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

This book examines the question of whether languages can differ in grammatical complexity and, if so, how relative complexity differences might be measured.

This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English.

This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English.

The ability to communicate quickly and flexibly through both spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race.

The ability to communicate quickly and flexibly through both spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race.

This book addresses different linguistic and philosophical aspects of referring to the self in a wide range of languages from different language families, including Amharic, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Newari (Sino-Tibetan), Polish, Tariana (Arawak), and Thai.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the role of recursion in language in two distinct but interconnected ways.

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other.

This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based.

This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based.

This textbook approaches second language acquisition from the perspective of generative linguistics.

This book explores the life and experiences of one of the world's most renowned and well-respected experts in bilingualism.

This book is the first volume specifically devoted to the phonetics and phonology of geminate consonants, a feature of many of the world's languages including Arabic, Bengali, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Malayalam, Persian, Saami, Swiss German, and Turkish.

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

This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics.

This book proposes a new two-step approach to the evolution of language, whereby syntax first evolved as an auto-organizational process for the human conceptual apparatus (as a Language of Thought), and this Language of Thought was then externalized for communication, owing to social selection pressures.

This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse.

This volume explores several recurring topics in Romance phonetics and phonology, with a special focus on the segment, syllable, word, and phrase levels of analysis.

This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability.

This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within its major subfields, as well as outlining current debates and suggesting productive lines of future research.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within its major subfields, as well as outlining current debates and suggesting productive lines of future research.