This book investigates the relation between language and logic. Gennaro Chierchia looks at
the way syntactic and inferential processes interact in determining polarity sensitive and free …

This book offers a systematic account of syntactic categories-the building blocks of
sentences and the units of grammatical analysis-and explains their place in different …

Current estimates are that around 3,000 of the 6,000 languages now spoken may become
extinct during the next century. Some 4,000 of these existing languages have never been …

Some small-scale but intensive studies that I have made recently of lexical patterning
in'quality'daily and Sunday newspapers support the view that journalistic prose draws very …

This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the
need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and …

This book grows in a certain fashion from my 1978 University of Mas sachusetts dissertation,
A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English, though a much broader perspective is taken here of …

In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to
shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning …

The emergence of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA) and the new
journal Cognitive Linguistics reflects the growing desire by many linguists to study language …

This book provides a readable and clearly articulated introduction to an important area in the
broader field of Cognitive Linguistics. Taking as its starting point the categorization of colour …