The human sense of smell can accomplish astonishing feats, yet there remains a prevailing
belief that olfactory language is deficient. Numerous studies with English speakers support …

Research on how categories of object concepts are implemented in the human brain has
focused primarily on the sorts of semantic structures that are found in English and a few …

According to the popular Grounded Cognition Model (GCM), the sensory and motor features
of concepts, including word meanings, are stored directly within neural systems for …

This book explores grammatical gender in the Romance languages and dialects and its
evolution from Latin. Michele Loporcaro investigates the significant diversity found in the …

Some languages have both gender and classifiers, contrary to what was once believed
possible. We use these interesting languages as a unique window onto nominal …

Linguistic gender is a complex and amazing category that has puzzled and still puzzles
theoretical linguists, typologists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, didacticians, as well as …

The goal of this chapter is to provide some background information on evidentiality and
clause-typing that will allow us to better understand the synchronic and diachronic analysis …

This dissertation deals with the structure of the Noun Phrase (henceforth: NP) in a sample of
55 indigenous languages of South America. This chapter gives a concise introduction to the …

Inflectional affixes expressing the same grammatical category (eg, subject agreement) tend
to appear in the same morphological position in the word. We hypothesize that this cross …

Languages of diverse structures and different families tend to share common patterns if they
are spoken in geographic proximity. This convergence is often explained by horizontal …