All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable
than life itself. Just what is so valued varies. In previous times, wars were fought for causes …

Number is the most underestimated of the grammatical categories. It is deceptively simple
yet the number system which philosophers, logicians and many linguists take as the norm …

On the basis of a cross-linguistic study of over 250 languages, this book brings to light
several fascinating characteristics of pronouns. It argues that these words do not form a …

The composition of young children's vocabularies in 7 contrasting linguistic communities
was investigated. Mothers of 269 twenty‐month‐olds in Argentina, Belgium, France, Israel …

This book provides an overview of the phonology of Italian. It covers the different levels of
analysis from individual sounds up to the phrasal level. It focuses on the most widely …

Publié en 1995, Banal nationalism est devenu une référence importante pour les travaux
anglophones sur l'idée de nation. Il a notamment contribué à déplacer le débat scientifique …

Causatives and Causation is the first comprehensive study of causative constructions found
in the world's languages. This important new research, based on a data base of more than …

A sentence completion task, first introduced by Bock and Miller (1991) with English
speakers, is employed here with Italian to explore the issue of interactivity of different levels …

In his book Morphology By Itself (1994) 1 Mark Aronoff convincingly shows that
morphological paradigms can have autonomous properties which are expressible neither in …

Relational Grammar had its beginnings in the early 1970s. In this theory of the structure of
language grammatical relations are taken to beundefined primitives'. The set of relations …