Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

For too long certain scholars have been content to portray Irenaeus of Lyons as a well-meaning churchman but incompetent theologian.

For too long certain scholars have been content to portray Irenaeus of Lyons as a well-meaning churchman but incompetent theologian.

This book is an investigation of Arabic derivational morphology that focuses on the relationship between verb meaning and linguistic form.

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use.

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use.

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

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

This book aims to provide a solution to the semantic paradoxes.

This book aims to provide a solution to the semantic paradoxes.

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

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor.

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions.

This book investigates the syntax and semantics of proportional most and other majority quantifiers across languages.

Future Times, Future Tenses examines how the future is expressed by means of tense, aspect, and modality across a wide range of languages, among them French, Polish, Basque, Turkish, and West Greenlandic.

This book presents a new cross-linguistic analysis of gender and its effects on morphosyntax.

This book explores linguistic and philosophical issues presented by sentences expressing personal taste, such as Roller coasters are fun, or Licorice is tasty.

The socio-discursive landscape surrounding the migration debate is characterised by a growing sense of crisis in both personal and collective identities.

This book synthesizes and integrates 40 years of research on the semantics of questions, and its interface with pragmatics and syntax, conducted within the formal semantics tradition.

This book examines the nature of the interface between word meaning and syntax, one of the most controversial and elusive issues in contemporary linguistics.

The Lexicon provides an introduction to the study of words, their main properties, and how we use them to create meaning.

This book takes concepts developed by researchers in theoretical computer science and adapts and applies them to the study of natural language meaning.

This book considers the syntax and semantics of non-verbal predicates (i.

This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective.

This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface.

This book considers linguistic and mental representations of time.

Category mistakes are sentences such as 'Green ideas sleep furiously', 'Saturday is in bed', and 'The theory of relativity is eating breakfast'.

This book focuses on the relationship between syntax and meaning.

This book considers linguistic and mental representations of time.

Have you ever wondered how you can find out more about a word: Where did it come from?

New scientific paradigms typically consist of an expansion of the conceptual language with which we describe the world.

This book presents a novel analysis of concealed-question constructions, reports of a mental attitude in which part of a sentence looks like a nominal complement (e.

Abstract objects have been a central topic in philosophy since antiquity.

Metasemantics comprises new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic semantics, by a diverse group of established and emerging experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the theory of content.

This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood.

This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood.

Quantification has been at the heart of research in the syntax and semantics of natural language since Aristotle.

This book considers the phenomenon of sluicing.

This book is all about ellipsis in natural language - the phenomena in which words and phrases go missing in the linguistic signal, but are nonethe less interpreted by the receiver, eg in the following sentence, the second instance of read is understood whether or not it is spoken Claire read a book and Heather [read] a magazine.

This book brings together novel work on the semantics and pragmatics of certain indefinite expressions that also convey modality.

This book investigates the nature and properties of roots, the core elements of word meaning.

This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and argument structure constructions in English and other languages.

This book examines how word order variations in language can be regulated by various factors in cyclic syntax.

This book argues that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, as Gottlob Frege claimed.

In this book leading scholars from every relevant field report on all aspects of compositionality, the notion that the meaning of an expression can be derived from its parts.

In this book leading scholars from every relevant field report on all aspects of compositionality, the notion that the meaning of an expression can be derived from its parts.

Context and the Attitudes collects thirteen seminal essays by Mark Richard on semantics and propositional attitudes.

Mind, Meaning, and Reality contains fifteen philosophical papers by D.

Interpreting Motion presents an integrated perspective on how language structures constrain concepts of motion and how the world shapes the way motion is linguistically expressed.

This book is a cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive pronouns and related phenomena.

This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations.