In Basic Linguistic Theory RMW Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of
the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and …

A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this
textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent …

Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East Asia
have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages have two or three …

The grammatical category of voice covers a wide range of phenomena, including
causatives, applicatives, passives, antipassives, middles, and others. Drawing on data from …

This is the first cross-linguistic study of imperatives, and commands of other kinds, across the
world's languages. It makes a significant and original contribution to the understanding of …

This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and
argument structure constructions in English and other languages. Representing the …

" This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they
could have led to the languages of modern humankind." Like other biological phenomena …

A serial verb construction (SVC) is a sequence of verbs which act together as a single
predicate, without any overt marker of coordination, subordination, or syntactic dependency …

According to an influential theory (Kaplan 1989), indexicals are directly referential: they pick
out their referents directly from the context of utter ance, without the mediation of a Fregean …

This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the
nature of the human language faculty. Distinctive features in phonology distinguish one …