Chapter 1. Joining Immanent Reasoning, Recanati s Lekta and Free-Enrichment (Shahid Rahman).- Chapter 2. Internet Conver......more

This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framew......more

This book offers new insights into the language gains of adult learners enrolled in an English-medium instruction degree......more

This book offers a concise but comprehensive entry-level guide to the study of meaning in context. There can be a big di......more

A human-inspired, linguistically sophisticated model of language understanding for intelligent agent systems. One of the......more

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This volume addresses foundational issues of context-dependence and indexicality, which are at the center of the current......more

Conventional metaphorical expressions are widely used by native speakers in everyday language and have received extensiv......more

This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading expe......more

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This book discusses developments in the history of British house names from the earliest written evidence (Beowulf’s Heo......more

Verbs of mental states or activity constitute a subject of considerable interest to both Cognitive Linguistics and Lingu......more

This volume explores the progress of cross-linguistic research into the structure of complex nominals since the publicat......more

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Analysing political discourse in the British press during a time of crisis and austerity, this book examines how the con......more

This book presents a comprehensive picture of reflexive pronouns from both a theoretical and experimental perspective, u......more

A loanword, or wailaici, is a word with similar meaning and phonetic form to a word from a foreign language that has bee......more

Human Measurement Techniques in Speech and Language Pathology gives an overview of elicitation methods in the assessment......more

This book explores the use of discourse markers - lexical items where drawing a distinction between propositional and no......more

This book is dedicated to Anna Wierzbicka, one of the most influential and innovative linguists of her generation. Her w......more

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This book steers a middle course between two opposing conceptions that currently dominate the field of semantics, the lo......more

This book steers a middle course between two opposing conceptions that currently dominate the field of semantics, the lo......more

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Are the past participial forms that occur in passive and perfect periphrases substantially identical or should they rath......more

A text usually provides more information than a random sequence of clauses: It combines sentence-level information to la......more

Representing what someone else has said is an integral part of spoken and written communication. Speech representation o......more

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This volume sets out to provide a semantics for the "future-directed opining verbs", a novel class whose members are use......more

In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise account of reasoning from an interact......more

An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures Aphorisms-or short ph......more

This book develops a theory of enriched meanings for natural language interpretation that uses the concept of monads and......more

Embeddings have undoubtedly been one of the most influential research areas in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Encodi......more

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Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted......more

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This book is the second in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of......more

In Experiential Verbs in Homeric Greek: .A Constructional Approach Silvia Luraghi offers a comprehensive account of cons......more

A recent wave of research has explored the link between wh- syntax and prosody, breaking with the traditional generative......more

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Moves beyond the basics of phonetics and phonology and investigates their interaction Designed for the advanced student ......more

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Identifies connections and differences between phenomenology and constructive logic Treats both specific and general que......more

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From an abundance of intensifiers to frequent repetition and parallelisms, Donald Trump’s idiolect is highly distinctive......more

This book provides an integrated account of the phonetic causes of the diachronic processes of palatalization and assibi......more

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There are multiple aspects of electronically-mediated communication that influence and have strong implications for lega......more

In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and mea......more