This book is the result of an innovative linguistic study of the Syriac translation of Ben Sira. It contains both a trad......more

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Ass......more

Understanding Phonology, Fifth Edition, provides a clear, accessible and broad introduction to phonology. Introducing ba......more

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A Conversational Analysis of Acholi elucidates various interaction strategies for the Nilotic language Acholi. Based on ......more

In A Conceptual History of Chinese -Isms, Ivo Spira explores the linguistic and rhetorical development of Chinese -isms,......more

A basic property of human language is that it unfolds in time; the left and right margin of discourse units do not behav......more

The Body in Language: Comparative studies of Linguistic Embodiment provides new insights into the theory of linguistic e......more

The most up-to-date and comprehensive description of the Spanish language’s phonetic and phonological system Though ther......more

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The papers collected in this volume study the function and meaning of narrative texts from a variety of perspectives. Th......more

The basic claims of traditional truth-conditional semantics are that the semantic interpretation of a sentence is connec......more

The Verb in Archaic Biblical Poetry: A Discursive, Typological, and Historical Investigation of the Tense System offers ......more

Sonority has a long and contentious history. It has often been invoked by linguists as an explanatory principle underlyi......more

This volume presents two kinds of studies on English modality. On the one hand, there are strongly empirical, corpus-bas......more

Formal Slavic Linguistics stands for explicit descriptions of Slavic languages considering all linguistic levels and int......more

Parameters of linguistic variation were originally conceived, within the chomskyan Principles and Parameters Theory, as ......more

This book examines some of the ways in which linguists can express what native speakers know about the sound system of t......more

In Experiential Verbs in Homeric Greek: .A Constructional Approach Silvia Luraghi offers a comprehensive account of cons......more

This book presents a study of the connections between vagueness and gradability, and their different manifestations in a......more

Faroese Phonetics and Phonology fills the need for a precise and thorough analysis of the Faroese language. It provides ......more

In this volume, Geurts takes discourse representation theory (DRT), and turns it into a unified account of anaphora and ......more

Click Consonants is an indispensable volume for those who want to understand the linguistics of clicks. Contributions in......more

Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers offers a comprehensive account of the most promising new directions in t......more

First published in 1987. Most introductory textbooks in phonetics are designed to turn the people who use them into phon......more

The contributors to this volume, an international group of leading specialists, guide us through different aspects of th......more

The study of questions and answers is challenging for various fields of theoretical linguistics, logic, analytical philo......more

Signs in Use is an accessible introduction to the study of semiotics. All organisms, from bees to computer networks, cre......more

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Becoming proficient in phonetics takes practice, practice, and more practice. The Applied Phonetics Workbook provides ju......more

How languages describe spatial motion events has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years in cognitive linguistics a......more

Generative phonology aims to formalise two distinct aspects of phonological processes: the functional and the representa......more

To paraphrase, of the making of syntactic categories there is no end. For any theory of syntax, questions arise about it......more

Free indirect discourse presents us with the inner world of protagonists of a story. We seem to see the world through th......more

This is the new edition of Discourse Analysis: An Introduction, an accessible and widely-used introduction to the analys......more

In this handbook, renowned scholars from a range of backgrounds provide a state of the art review of key developmental f......more

This volume demonstrates the synergies that can result from interdisciplinary collaboration. Responding to the growing i......more

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From Data to Evidence in English Language Research draws on diverse digital data sources alongside more traditional ling......more

Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning offers empirical and theoretical studies of expressions whos......more

Syntactic doubling is the phenomenon in which a constituent, i.e., a morphosyntactic feature, morpheme, word or phrase, ......more

Semantic studies of the Biblical Hebrew verb שׁלם have been influenced by those of its most invoked nominal form שָׁלוֹם......more

A central question in the study of language concerns the mechanisms by which the participants in an event described by a......more

What was Martin Luther’s teaching regarding death, and to what extent did his own fears of and experiences with death ma......more

Detailed summary of multimodal analysis of user-generated multimedia content literature Proposed frameworks for several ......more

A group of authors containing both leading authorities and young researchers addresses a number of issues of contrastive......more

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This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages. It reflects the fact that d......more

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This volume attempts to keep track of the most recent developments in corpus-based, corpus-driven and corpus-informed st......more

The concept of meaning, since Frege initiated the linguistic turn in 1884, has been the subject of numerous theories, hy......more

This book presents a detailed formal machinery for the conversion of the Semantic Analyses (SAs) of sentences into surfa......more

In The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification, Ana María Mora-Márquez presents an exhaustive study of the three 13th......more

In Semantic Spaces of Persian Light Verbs, Neiloufar Family exposes the semantic organization of light verb construction......more

The goal of this volume is to present a collection of papers illustrating state-of-the-art research on prosody and affec......more

Intercultural pragmatics addresses one of the major issues of human communication in the globalized world: how do people......more

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A text usually provides more information than a random sequence of clauses: It combines sentence-level information to la......more

This book considers the phenomenon of sluicing. Sluicing is the term applied to sentences in which the ellipsis of a seq......more

Phonetic Symbol Guide is a comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia of phonetic alphabet symbols, providing a comple......more

In The Dynamics of Meaning, Gennaro Chierchia tackles central issues in dynamic semantics and extends the general framew......more

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The overall aim of this book is to advance a Gricean theoretical framework of conventional implicature within which Chin......more

This much needed book draws together some of the seminal essays from one of the most important contemporary linguists, a......more

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This book considers how language users express and understand literal and metaphorical spatial meaning not only in langu......more

This introduction is designed to give an overview of conversation analysis. It begins by locating conversation analysis ......more

This core textbook provides an engaging and accessible introduction to the field of pragmatics: the study of the relatio......more

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

This book explores relationships and maps out intersections between discussions on causation in three scientific discipl......more

1. BACKGROUND This volume is one of three which emerged from the Conference on Knowledge and Language, held from May 21-......more

When I entered her shop, my friend turned to me and said: Arà, che si dice? (’Hey there, how you doing?’). This was not ......more