The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive
sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its …

As one of the oldest and most influential foreign language pedagogical journals, The
Modern Language Journal (MLJ) offers valuable insights into how technological advances …

An argument for, and account of linguistic universals in the morphology of comparison,
combining empirical breadth and theoretical rigor. This groundbreaking study of the …

Using data from a variety of languages such as Blackfoot, Halkomelem, and Upper Austrian
German, this book explores a range of grammatical categories and constructions, including …

All languages provide ways to talk about events and their participants; this function is
typically assumed in great part by verbs. It is precisely for this reason that, more so than …

The distinction between telic and atelic predicates has been described in terms of the
algebraic properties of their meaning since the early days of modeltheoretic semantics. This …

Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal
pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language …

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 …

Structuring Events presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect for anyone interested
in the study of verb meanings. Provides an introduction to aspectual classes and aspectual …

The goal of this work is to study certain aspects of the internal structure of
nominal/determiner phrases (DPs). The body of the book is composed of Chapters 2 to 4 …