Evidence of children's sensitivity to statistical features of their input in language acquisition is
often used to argue against learning mechanisms driven by innate knowledge. At the same …

This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding,
integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades …

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 …

Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar
(LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Provides …

The phenomenon of grammaticalization-the historical process whereby new grammatical
material is created-has attracted a great deal of attention within linguistics. This is an attempt …

An argument that agreement and agreementless languages are unified under an expanded
view of grammatical features including both phi-features and certain discourse …

The paper investigates a number of asymmetries in the behavior of subjects in Germanic,
Celtic/Arabic, Romance, and Greek. The languages under investigation divide into two main …

Under what conditions are expressions of a language the same; when are they different?
Indices and Identity focuses on this question in the context of the theory of anaphora and on …

The pragmatic force of a sentence and the pragmatic roles of discourse participants have
traditionally been considered to be peripheral to the syntactic component of Grammar …

An analysis of French and Romance clitic pronominal constructions in simple clauses is
proposed, reconciling the two dominant approaches on this topic. This analysis treats them …