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The Expression of Time
Time is the most fundamental category of human cognition and action, and all human languages have developed many devices to express it. These include verbal categories, such as …
Complementizer Semantics in European Languages
Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have …
Im/Politeness Implicatures
This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and …
Semiotics at the Circus
Semiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods. This book confronts a …
Multimodality in Chinese Interaction
This book meets the demands of scholars of Chinese linguistics as well as researchers on multimodality from a cross-linguistic and comparative perspective. It sheds new light on …
Nigerian English
Although the past few decades have witnessed growing interest in varieties of English around the world, no study of the Nigerian variety intended for the international market has …
Language Contact and Documentation / Contacto lingüístico y documentación
The volume is relevant to the current regional and international discussion on endangered languages, language contact, documentation and areal typology. It is the outcome of a …
A Grammar Qaqet
This grammar is a first detailed description of Qaqet, a non-Austronesian language spoken in the mountainous interior of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Qaqet belongs …
Cognitive Contact Linguistics
This volume serves to illustrate the promising insights to be gained when cross-fertilizing Cognitive Linguistics and contact linguistics, which each hold crucial ingredients to an …
The Pragmatic Turn in Law
In legal interpretation, where does meaning come from? Law is made from language, yet law, unlike other language-related disciplines, has not so far experienced its "pragmatic …
Analogy in Word-formation
This book fills a gap in lexical morphology, especially with reference to analogy in English word-formation. Many studies have focused their interest on the role played by analogy …
English Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish
English Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish fills a gaping hole in the market for books on English phonetics and pronunciation because it not only combines theoretical issues and …