Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Felicitous uses of contextually sensitive expressions generally have unique semantic values in context.

Felicitous uses of contextually sensitive expressions generally have unique semantic values in context.

This volume presents the latest research in linguistic modules and interfaces in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG).

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence acceptability in relation to theories of grammatical knowledge.

In the final of four volumes, William J.

This volume is the first to explore the formal linguistic expressions of emotions at different levels of linguistic complexity.

This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses.

This volume explores the progress of cross-linguistic research into the structure of complex nominals since the publication of Chomsky's 'Remarks on Nominalization' in 1970.

On his famous walk to Vincennes to visit the imprisoned Diderot, Rousseau had what he called an "e;illumination"e;-the realization that man was naturally good but becomes corrupted by the influence of society-a fundamental change in Rousseau's perspective that would animate all of his subsequent works.

This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objectionsthat have been raised against it.

This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objectionsthat have been raised against it.

Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics combines the insight of linguistic and philosophical semantics with the study of fictional language.

Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics combines the insight of linguistic and philosophical semantics with the study of fictional language.

Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a natural point of entry to what for most readers will be a new subject.

Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a natural point of entry to what for most readers will be a new subject.

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

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

Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through conversation.

Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through conversation.

This book steers a middle course between two opposing conceptions that currently dominate the field of semantics, the logical and cognitive approaches.

This book steers a middle course between two opposing conceptions that currently dominate the field of semantics, the logical and cognitive approaches.

This volume brings together new research on fiction from the fields of philosophy and linguistics.

This book develops a theory of enriched meanings for natural language interpretation that uses the concept of monads and related ideas from category theory, a branch of mathematics that has been influential in theoretical computer science and elsewhere.

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

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

This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages.

Mark Richard presents an original picture of meaning according to which a word's meaning is analogous to the biological lineages we call species.

Mark Richard presents an original picture of meaning according to which a word's meaning is analogous to the biological lineages we call species.

Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century.

A long tradition, going back to Aristotle, conceives of logic in terms of necessity and possibility: a deductive argument is correct if it is not possible for the conclusion to be false when the premises are true.

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

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

In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience.

In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience.

Thomas Hobbes claimed to have founded the discipline of civil philosophy (political science).

Thomas Hobbes claimed to have founded the discipline of civil philosophy (political science).

In this book William G.

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

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

This book offers a concise but comprehensive entry-level guide to the study of meaning in context.

This book offers a concise but comprehensive entry-level guide to the study of meaning in context.

This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into genders or classes.

It is a fundamental feature of language that words refer to things.

It is a fundamental feature of language that words refer to things.

This volume explores the multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change from a wide range of empirical perspectives.

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 explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the degree of formality that a speaker feels is required in interacting with another person.

This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of phonological weight to date, bringing together traditional notions of categorical, rime-based weight and new developments in statistical prosodic phonology.

This book considers the null-subject phenomenon, whereby some languages lack an overtly realized referential subject in specific contexts.

This volume provides a detailed account of the syntax of expressive language, that is, utterances that express, rather than describe, the emotions and attitudes of the speaker.