linguistics books

This book brings together for the first time two philosophers from different traditions and different centuries....  Read More >>

Martti Nissinen's research has had a formative influence on the study of prophecy for more than two decades. The...  Read More >>

This volume contains innovative papers that target the linguistic status of the notion of topic at the interface...  Read More >>

This volume has arisen from a three-part, five-year study on language contact among multilingual sign language users,...  Read More >>

Using Taiwan as a case study, this book constructs an innovative theory of a political sociology of language. Through...  Read More >>

These thematically related papers present an integrated reconceptualization of critical issues for the understanding...  Read More >>

In ethnographic research, rapport is used to refer to social relationships between researcher and researched. It...  Read More >>

This book reviews current knowledge about multilingualism, including the individual and societal circumstances that...  Read More >>

This reference grammar provides a full grammatical description of the previously-undocumented Austronesian language...  Read More >>

The English dative alternation is a prime example of persistent syntactic variation. This book investigates its...  Read More >>

Tayap is a grammar and dictionary of a small Papuan linguistic isolate spoken in the lower Sepik region of Papua...  Read More >>

This book investigates noun phrases in a representative sample of 100 Australian languages, covering the domains...  Read More >>

This volume explores the linguistic diversity and language variation in Berlin. The analytical focus is on the emergence...  Read More >>

Insubordinate clauses present a challenge for grammatical analysis. This is owed to their unusual combination of...  Read More >>

The book is an in-depth description of Kenyan English phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, lexis and...  Read More >>

The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more than 100 languages....  Read More >>

What does it mean to be me, or you, or us? Whenever speakers choose some grammatical person to index themselves...  Read More >>

This volume presents cutting-edge research on the question of how we parse, interpret and understand language in...  Read More >>

Experiences can be unfinished, feelings unclear, goals, problems and thoughts diffuse. That's why people are constantly...  Read More >>

The Grammar of Hindko, Panjabi, and Saraiki provides a comparative description of these three language varieties....  Read More >>

This innovative linguistic and cultural-historical study examines interpersonal social relationships during the...  Read More >>

Time is mostly viewed as a measurable natural phenomenon. However, it can also be understood as an interpretable...  Read More >>

Stylistic knowledge is often unequally distributed in language communities. The same style of speaking may be differently...  Read More >>

The book undertakes a meta-lexicographical reflection on exemplary materials in pedagogical and valency dictionaries...  Read More >>

The study uses linguistic classifications of comparisons and metaphors to examine the structural, conceptual, and...  Read More >>