What roles do syntax and semantics have in the grammar of a language? What are the
consequences of these roles for syntactic structure, and why does it matter? We sketch the …

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

Meaning and the Lexicon brings together 35 years of pathbreaking work on language by
Ray Jackendoff. It traces the development of his Parallel Architecture, in which phonology …

This article delineates and analyzes the syntactic and semantic parameters of variation
exhibited by English FILLER-GAP CONSTRUCTIONS. It demonstrates that a detailed, fully …

English Lexicogenesis investigates the processes by which novel words are coined in
English, and how they are variously discarded or adopted, and frequently then adapted …

Construction Grammar (CxG) is a paradigm from cognitive linguistics emphasising the
connection between syntax and semantics. Rather than rules that operate on lexical items, it …

The paper reviews the semantics and pragmatics of correlatives across various ontological
domains (temporal, modal, individual and degree domains), focusing mostly on Indo …

This book combines ideas about the architecture of grammar and language acquisition,
processing, and change to explain why languages show regular patterns when there is so …

Drawing on vast amounts of new data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts, and the
internet, this is a brilliant and original analysis of colloquial English, revealing unusual and …

Phrasal idioms have been used as evidence in syntactic theorizing for decades. A common
assumption, occasionally made explicit (eg, Larson 2017), is that non-literal phrasal idioms …