This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as' interactive grammar',
based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the …

This book is a contribution to the growing field of historical cognitive linguistics, in particular
historical constructionalist pragmatics. Cognitive linguistics is a perspective on the study of …

To date little work has been done on pragmatics within cognitive linguistics, especially from
a historical perspective. The lectures presented in this volume give the first systematic …

This paper describes' gasps'–ingressive vocoids, ingressive nasal stops, and certain sharp
inbreaths–expressing stance in Hebrew conversation. A sharp inbreath can be part of a …

This study aims to explore the functions of the Persian xob 'well'and its evolution
mechanisms. The Discourse Grammar model was mainly employed to analyze the …

This study reports two experiments that investigate the variation between two Estonian third-
person referential devices–zero reference vs. the overt pronoun ta. First, in a speech …

One of the problems challenging formal semantic studies of evidentiality is that reportative
evidentials are not always representative of the speaker's endorsement of the truth of the …

The study of language contact in the „new" English varieties is frequently influenced by
sociolinguistic approaches and reference to substrate languages but much less often to …

Both linguistic and neuroanatomical evidence suggests that there are two modes of
processing in linguistic discourse, namely an analytic mode and a holistic mode. Competent …

1 The Rise of Discourse Markers, coauthored by Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania
Kuteva and Haiping Long, presents an original and strongly supported alternative to …