Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items get additional functions, and grammars are created.

This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of surveys of compounding in a variety of languages from a wide range of language families.

Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy.

Testimony is an invaluable source of knowledge.

This book introduces the most important problems of reference and considers the solutions that have been proposed to explain them.

This volume explores the expression of the concepts count and mass in human language and probes the complex relation between seemingly incontrovertible aspects of meaning and their varied grammatical realizations across languages.

This volume presents new work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and the notion of state.

This book considers how language users express and understand literal and metaphorical spatial meaning not only in language but also through gesture and pointing.

This book is a cross-linguistic exploration of semantic and functional change in modal markers.

This book provides a state-of-the-art introduction to categorial grammar, a type of formal grammar which analyses expressions as functions or according to a function-argument relationship.

This book examines some knotty problems in natural language.

This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses.

This book provides a readable and clearly articulated introduction to the field of Cognitive Linguistics.

This book provides a readable and clearly articulated introduction to the field of Cognitive Linguistics.

This book gives a clear and readable overview of the philosophical work of Jurgen Habermas, the most influential German philosopher alive today, who has commented widely on subjects such as Marxism, the importance and effectiveness of communication, the reunification of Germany, and the European Union.

This book makes an original contribution to the understanding of perception verbs and the treatment of argument structure, and offers new insights on lexical causation, evidentiality, and processes of cognition.

This book considers important aspects of the syntax of sentences and their relation to the extra-sentential context.

Theories of Lexical Semantics offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of word meaning research in linguistics.

The Logic of Language opens a new perspective on logic.

This is the most comprehensive history of the Greek prepositional system ever published.

How Words Mean introduces a new approach to the role of words and other linguistic units in the construction of meaning.

This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses.

Relativism has dominated many intellectual circles, past and present, but the twentieth century saw it banished to the fringes of mainstream analytic philosophy.

James Higginbotham's work on tense, aspect, and indexicality discusses the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and presents new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure.

This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar, a new and important theory of language structure.

This book presents a cross-linguistic investigation of the behaviour of negation in gapping sentences.

Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy.

This book addresses recent developments in the study of quantifier phrases, nominalizations, and the linking definite determiner.

Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum.

The truth of an utterance depends on various factors.

Thinking and speaking about time is ridden with puzzles and paradoxes.

This book introduces the most important problems of reference and considers the solutions that have been proposed to explain them.

This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical.

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 book investigates the way grammar deals with the representation of aspectual (aktionsart) concepts, focussing on issues of the lexicon-syntax interface.

Homeric Voices is a study, from a compositional point of view, of the substantial speeches and exchanges of speech that Homer depicts in his songs.

This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics.

On the basis of a cross-linguistic study of more than 250 languages, this book brings to light several fascinating characteristics of pronouns.

This reader collects and introduces important work in linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics on the use of linguistic devices in natural languages to situate events in time: whether they are past, present, or future; whether they are real or hypothetical; when an event might have occurred, and how long it could have lasted.

In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from someone else.

Patrick Farrell shows how grammatical relations are characterized in competing theories of grammar and reveals the different theories' merits and limitations.

This book explores the semantic and pragmatic mechanisms underlying grammaticalization.

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

A collection of the best work by philosophers, cognitive scientists, and linguists on grammatical gradience and linguistic uncertainty - such as when warm becomes hot, how many grains make a heap, and when a puddle becomes a pond - introduced, explained, contextualized, and indexed.

This book undertakes a fundamental assessment of Menander of Laodicea ('Menander Rhetor'), and of the nature and functions of rhetoric in later antiquity (second to fifth centuries AD).

This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate.

This book explores how grammatical structure is related to meaning.

Semantic alignment refers to a type of language that has two means of morphosyntactically encoding the arguments of intransitive predicates, typically treating these as an agent or as a patient of a transitive predicate, or else by a means of a treatment that varies according to lexical aspect.

The pervasive use of dislocations (as in Le chocolat, c'est bon) is a key characteristic of spoken French.