In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on
which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from …

Talk of linguistic universals has given cognitive scientists the impression that languages are
all built to a common pattern. In fact, there are vanishingly few universals of language in the …

Although recent research on the neural substrates of word classes has generated some
valuable findings, significant progress has been hindered by insufficient attention to …

We propose an event‐based account of the cognitive and linguistic representation of time
and temporal relations. Human beings differ from nonhuman animals in entertaining and …

In this discussion note, I argue that we need to distinguish carefully between descriptive
categories, that is, categories of particular languages, and comparative concepts, which are …

Semantics is the study of meaning in language. This clear and comprehensive textbook
provides an introduction to the subject for undergraduate students. It not only equips …

Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and
language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist …

The range of mirative meanings across the world's languages subsumes sudden discovery,
surprise, and unprepared mind of the speaker (and also the audience or the main character …

The next century will see more than half of the world's 6,000 languages become extinct, and
most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the …

Everett (2005) has claimed that the grammar of Pirana is exceptional in
displaying'inexplicable gaps', that these gaps follow from a cultural principle restricting …