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Brings together seventeen articles on lexical and semantic topics by one of the most influential authors in cognitive linguistic lexicology. This book serves as an introduction to the field.
Serves as an investigation of verb-verb agreement phenomena in Swedish, including pseudocoordinations of the form John started and... Læs mere
This study is a groundbreaking application of game theory to the semiotics of culture and communication. Provocatively using the Darwinian idea of sexual selection, the author demonstrates how game theory enhances the semiotic understanding of culture and communication.
Addresses the problem of how language expresses conceptual information on event structures and how such information can be reconstructed in the... Læs mere
Includes the whole area of language phenomena called set phrases, proverbs and fixed expressions and formulaicity in everyday parlance. This handbook offers a critical... Læs mere
Looks at Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, and explores the changing habitat of languages since pre-colonial times. This... Læs mere
Why do languages allow us to say 'the same thing' in different ways? One of the answers is that in saying what we want to,... Læs mere
Relying on a functional-typological methodology, this book approaches historical Latin syntax from a non-traditional perspective, investigating diachronic phenomena primarily from their discourse function as revealed in Latin texts.
Provides a theoretical and empirical evaluation of a field that has been the focus of generative theories on language acquisition: the acquisition of finiteness and related... Læs mere
Proposes a fresh synthesis of the functions of proper names, from a semantic, pragmatic and syntactic perspective and provides a different classification of names.
Deals with the study of the relation between English phraseology - the study of formulaic language - and culture. This book focuses on particular lexemes, types of... Læs mere
Presents the grammatical description of a language spoken in Nagaland, north-east India. This book is suitable for any linguist seeking to clarify genetic relationships within... Læs mere