The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for
students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der …

The key argument of this book, originally published in 1984, is that when human beings
communicate with each other by means of a natural language they typically do not do so in …

On the basis of these facts we might want to assign the same semantic role, say,'agent', to
John Smith and God, but a different role, say,'location', to England (cf. Fillmore's 1971 …

This book is concerned with the mapping of thematic roles, such as agent and patient, onto
syntactic cases, such as nominative or ergative, or onto structural relations. It shows that …

Исследование вопроса о происхождении человеческого языка, или глоттогенеза,
похоже на детектив: слишком много версий и улики-доказательства приходится …

Case, a system which marks the relationships between words in a sentence, is fundamental
to every language. Looking at how different theories of syntax have accounted for the …

Page 1 OXFORD STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE SYNTAX Checking Theory and Grammatical
Functions in Universal Grammar Hiroyuki Ura Page 2 Checking Theory and Grammatical …

In central cases of switch-reference, a marker on the verb of one clause is used to indicate
whether its subject has the same or different reference from the subject of an adjacent …

The terms S (intransitive), A, P (transitive), as well as T and R (ditransitive) have been used
since the 1970s to allow linguists to characterize the differences between major alignment …

This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the
Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of …