Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels:
languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; …

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 …

This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge. John
Taylor challenges the conventional notion that a language can be understood in terms of the …

The most frequent statistics in corpus linguistics are frequencies of occurrence and
frequencies of co-occurrence of two or more linguistic variables. However, such frequencies …

The Interactional Instinct explores the evolution of language from the theoretical view that
language could have emerged without a biologically instantiated Universal Grammar. In the …

I remember making a point to myself as an eight-year-old coming to live in the US for a year:
whenever you need some time to think in the midst of conversation, don't say'e--m, as they …

In most languages, sentences can be classified on the basis of morphological or syntactic
features into a small number of sentence types. According to a survey of 40 typological …

This study uses data from a shoe-repair shop, supplemented by data from medical and
mundane contexts, to analyze three progressively minimal grammatical formats used to …

Discourse studies indicate a tendency for verbs of cognition to co-occur with 1st person
subjects. This article looks more closely into the patterning of verbs of cognition with different …

Väitöskirjani käsittelee yksikön ensimmäisen persoonan subjektin ilmaisemista pu hutussa
kielessä. Subjektin ilmaisemisella tarkoitan valintaa ilmisubjektin ja ilmi subjektittomuuden …