Corpora are widely used in linguistics, but not always wisely. This book attempts to frame
corpus linguistics systematically as a variant of the observational method. The first part …

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 …

抄録< jats: p> In this new work, Bernd Heine claims that the structure of grammatical
categories is predictable to a large extent once we know the range of possible cognitive …

This paper introduces an extension of distinctive-collocate analysis that takes into account
grammatical structure and is specifically geared to investigating pairs of semantically similar …

This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar
and meaning interrelate. The author starts from the notion that a speaker codes a meaning …

The central issue of Newmeyer's new book is at the very core of language typological
research: how are similarities and differences among languages to be described and how …

The possessive morpheme in English occurs in a variety of constructions-prenominal
possessives (the man's hat, the plane's arrival), postnominal possessives (a friend of mine) …

The concept of 'animacy'can be regarded as some kind of assumed cognitive scale
extending from human through animal to inanimate. In addition to the life concept itself …

Karen van Hoek presents a cogent analysis of the classic problem of constraints on
pronominal anaphora within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. Van Hoek proceeds from …

English has an interesting variety of noun phrases, which differ greatly in structure.
Examples are'binominal'(two-noun) phrases ('a beast of a party'); possessive constructions …