Antonymy is the technical name used to describe ’opposites’, pairs of words such as rich/poor, love/hate and male/female......more
Linguists have realized for some time that predicates of the "know" and "wonder" classes behave differently in semantic ......more
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Typological Linguistics, a discipline that goes back to Wilhelm von Humboldt, compares the structures of languages that ......more
Die typologische Sprachforschung, die auf Wilhelm von Humboldt zur ckgeht, vergleicht die Strukturen genealogisch nicht ......more
First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the ’Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics’ series, and focuses on ph......more
The volume contains a broad spectrum of papers dealing with current issues in first and second language acquisition. The......more
In the past two decades, the study of prepositions has grown steadily. The papers collected in this volume bring togethe......more
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>>This book discusses the phonetic make-up of the teenage speech in the Home Counties in order to verify the status of a......more
Signs in Use is an accessible introduction to the study of semiotics. All organisms, from bees to computer networks, cre......more
Causative change-of-state verbs like ’to open’, ’to fill’, and ’to wake’ are central to both recent theories of grammati......more
The past twenty years have witnessed extensive collaborative research between computer scientists, logicians, linguists,......more
This volume collects leading-edge work on the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, including contributions from......more
This volume collects leading-edge work on the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, including contributions from......more
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This book is an attempt to trace the origin, history, dissemination, and meaning of the well-known proverbial expression......more
There is an important family of semantic notions that are applied to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thou......more
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Clearly written and comprehensive in scope, this is an essential guide to syntax in the Hungarian language. It describes......more
1. OUTLINE German has the three main perfect constructions which are illustrated in (1. 1). 1 In each of these construct......more
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First Published in 2002. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this is an in-depth investigation ......more
The sounds of language can be divided into consonants, vowels, and tones--the use of pitch to convey meaning. Seventy pe......more
This theoretical study of linguistic structure in literature focuses on verse and narrative from a linguistic perspectiv......more
The sounds of language can be divided into consonants, vowels, and tones--the use of pitch to convey meaning. Seventy pe......more
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The volume brings together contributions from scholars active in the field of pronunciation teaching and those more conc......more
This collection of recent papers in Laboratory Phonology approaches phonological theory from several different empirical......more
This collection of recent papers in Laboratory Phonology approaches phonological theory from several different empirical......more
Linguistic mismatch phenomena involve semiotic functions that attach to forms in defiance of grammatical design features......more
The importance of discourse markers (words like "so," "however," and "well") lies in the theoretical questions they rais......more
A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology series, published since......more
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"Everyone complains about what is lost in translations. This is the first account I have seen of the potentially positiv......more
This book provides an accessible introduction to the structure, history and sociolinguistics of Russian. It particularly......more
This monograph contains two detailed case studies dealing with the phonetics and phonology of affricates and laryngeals.......more
No detailed description available for "Syntactic Structures"....more
Daniel Jones (1881-1967) played a significant role in the emergence of phonetics as a fully developed academic disciplin......more
Daniel Jones (1881-1967) played a significant role in the emergence of phonetics as a fully developed academic disciplin......more
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Cet ouvrage vise d crire la fa on dont le caract re ontologiquement graduable ou non graduable des propri t s se r percu......more
This volume examines several aspects of the syntax of imperative clauses in English and in a variety of other Germanic l......more
This book brings together papers on various aspects of prosodic development from a generative linguistic perspective. It......more
Applied Phonetics is the only comprehensive, systematic, and classroom tested approach to understanding phonetics and ph......more
The Extent of the Literal develops a strikingly new approach to metaphor and polysemy in their relation to the conceptua......more
This volume examines several aspects of the syntax of imperative clauses in English and in a variety of other Germanic l......more
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Becoming proficient in phonetics takes practice, practice, and more practice. The Applied Phonetics Workbook provides ju......more
Becoming proficient in phonetics takes practice, practice, and more practice. The Applied Phonetics Workbook provides ju......more
In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general le......more
The book includes a selection of articles by Morris Halle dealing with issues in the theory and practice of phonetics an......more
This book provides an overview of the role of the syllable in Optimality Theory (OT) and ways in which problems that rel......more
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Referencing new developments in cognitive and functional linguistics, phonetics, and connectionist modeling, this book i......more
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A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conceptual history of the changing meanings and metaphors of "action" and "reaction" W......more
This book presents a new analysis of the word-order alternation of English transitive phrasal verbs (aka Particle Moveme......more
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This is the first comprehensive linguistic study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed......more
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Almost all languages have some grammatical means for categorizing nouns. This book provides a comprehensive and original......more
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This book is concerned with the meaning and use of two kinds of declarative sentences: 1) It’s raining? 2) It’s raining.......more
This volume offers the first book-length treatment of second and foreign language learners acquisition of pragmatics. I......more
In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assert......more
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such a......more
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such a......more
This collected volume presents radically new directions which are emerging in cognitive lexical semantics research. A nu......more
This edited volume investigates the role of phonetics and phonology in psycholinguistics. Speaking and understanding spo......more
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Optimality Theory and Language Change: -discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail; -treats the h......more
Optimality Theory and Language Change: -discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail; -treats the h......more
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Semantics in Business Systems begins with a description of what semantics are and how they affect business systems. It e......more
Phonetic Data Analysis examines the procedures involved in describing the sounds of a language and illustrates the basic......more
Phonetic Data Analysis examines the procedures involved in describing the sounds of a language and illustrates the basic......more
This book explores how some word meanings are paradigmatically related to each other, for example, as opposites or synon......more
This book constitutes the ?rst volume of the ?rst journal in the new LNCS Jo- nalSubline, theJournalonDataSemantics. Pub......more
Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory covers the major issues in the generative analysis of vowel harmony and vowel ha......more