Author: Batchelor, Ron Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Student Grammar of Spanish is a concise introduction to Spanish grammar, designed for English-speaking undergraduates. Assuming no prior knowledge of grammatical terminology, it explains each aspect...
Author: Levin, Beth / Rappaport Hovav, Malka Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The relationship between verbs and their arguments is a widely debated topic in linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date overview of this important area of research, exploring cur...
Author: Partee, Barbara H. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Compositionality in Formal Semantics is a collection of Barbara Partee’s papers that have been influential in the field but are not readily available and includes a new introductory essay in whi...
Author: van Eijck, Jan / Unger, Christina Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Computational semantics is the art and science of computing meaning in natural language. The meaning of a sentence is derived from the meanings of the individual words in it, and this process can be m...
Author: Malrieu, Jean-Pierre Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first comprehensive study of evaluative phenomena, from connotations to judgement of value, in language and discourse. It explores the cognitive foundations of evaluation, and emphasises i...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Spatial language - that is, the way languages structure the spatial domain - is an important area of current research, offering new insights into one of the most central areas of human cognition. In t...
Author: Verschueren, Jef Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The relationship between language and ideology has long been central to research in discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, and has also informed other fields suc...
Author: Landman, Fred Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Indefinites and the Type of Sets explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects. Provides an introduction to aspects of the semantics of noun phrases, as well ...
Author: Riemer, Nick Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Semantics is the study of meaning in language. This clear and comprehensive textbook is the most up-to-date introduction to the subject available for undergraduate students. It not only equips student...
Author: Herschensohn,Julia Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The anecdotal view of language acquisition is that children learn language with apparent ease, no instruction and in very little time, while adults find learning a new language to be cognitively chall...
Author: Robinson, W. Peter Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first text on language in communication written from a social psychological perspective that sets issues in their broader biological, sociological and cultural contexts.
Author: Trask, R. L. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Language: The Basics provides a concise introduction to the study of language. Written in an engaging and entertaining style, it encourages the reader to think about the way language works.
Author: Asher, Nicholas Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a book about the meanings of words and how they can combine to form larger meaningful units, as well as how they can fail to combine when the amalgamation of a predicate and argument would pro...
Author: Durant, Alan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Meaning in the Media addresses the issue of how we should respond to competing claims about meaning put forward in confrontations between people or organisations in highly charged circumstances such a...
Author: Ratner, Lise Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this volume, which simultaneously honors the career contributions of Jean Berko Gleason and provides an overview of a broad and increasingly important research area, a panel of highly productive la...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: We use politeness every day when interacting with other people. Yet politeness is an impressively complex linguistic process, and studying it can tell us a lot about the social and cultural values of ...
Author: Ariel,Mira Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When using language, many aspects of our messages are left implicit in what we say. While grammar is responsible for what we express explicitly, pragmatics explains how we infer additional meanings. T...
Author: Szabolcsi, Anna Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the foundational work in the...
Author: Geurts, Bart Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In recent years, quantity implicatures - a type of pragmatic inference - have been widely debated in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology, and have been subject to an enormous variety of analyses, ...
Author: Traugott, Elizabeth Closs / Dasher, Richard B. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This new and important study of semantic change examines how new meanings arise through language use, especially the various ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constr...
Author: Hinkel, Eli Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Presents results of large-scale study of university-level text produced by writers who are not native speakers of English, to determine the specific syntactic, lexical, & rhetorical features that diff...
Description: Semantic externalism is the view that the meanings of referring terms, and the contents of beliefs that are expressed by those terms, are not fully determined by factors internal to the speaker but ar...
Author: Kallestrup, Jesper Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Semantic externalism is the view that the meanings of referring terms, and the contents of beliefs that are expressed by those terms, are not fully determined by factors internal to the speaker but ar...
Author: Rothstein, Susan Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Structuring Events presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect for anyone interested in the study of verb meanings. Provides an introduction to aspectual classes and aspectual distinctions. Uti...
Author: Uriagereka,Juan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the major arenas for debate within generative grammar is the nature of paradigmatic relations among words. Intervening in key debates at the interface between syntax and semantics, this book ex...
Author: Widdowson, H. G. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Written by a leading researcher in the field, this fascinating examination of the relations between grammar, text, and discourse is designed to provoke critical discussion on key issues in discourse a...
Author: Enfield,N. J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How do we understand what others are trying to say? The answer cannot be found in language alone. Words are linked to hand gestures and other visible phenomena to create unified ëcomposite utterances...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Pragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended meaning and the kinds of inferences that hearers draw from an utterance in the context of its use. T...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Handbook of Discourse Analysis makes significant contributions to current research and serves as a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the central issues in contemporary discourse analysis....
Author: Katzner, Kenneth Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Written with the non-specialist in mind, this third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide's attractive style and layout, delightful original passages and exotic scripts will continue to fasc...
Author: Van Lambalgen, Michiel / Hamm, Fritz Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Proper Treatment of Events offers a novel approach to the semantics of tense and aspect motivated by cognitive considerations. offers a new theory of the semantics of tense aspect and nominalizati...
Author: Wade, Terence Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Provides the student of Russian with an in-depth, structured approach to the learning of vocabulary. Containing over 5000 words, it can be used for intermediate and advanced undergraduate courses, or ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Event Representation in Language and Cognition examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events. Empirical research into the cognitive processes involved when people view ev...
Author: Fox, Chris / Lappin, Shalom Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides a systematic study of three foundational issues in the semantics of natural language that have been relatively neglected in the past few decades.focuses on the formal characterizati...
Author: Murphy, M. Lynne Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The ideal introduction for students of semantics, Lexical Meaning fills the gap left by more general semantics textbooks, providing the teacher and the student with insights into word meaning beyond t...
Author: Israel, Michael Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Many languages include constructions which are sensitive to the expression of polarity: that is, negative polarity items, which cannot occur in affirmative clauses, and positive polarity items, which ...
Author: Dancygier, Barbara Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a mental construct, a linguistic one or a cultural one? What is the difference between real stories and fictional ones...
