Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels: language...

A research perspective that takes language use into account opens up new views of old issues and ...

The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an impo...

This is a textbook right in the thick of current interest in morphology. It proposes principles t...

A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns tha...

In their subject matter and in their theoretical orientation all the papers in this volume reflec...

How and why do languages change? This new introduction offers a guide to the types of change at a...

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality i...

This volume collects three decades of articles by the distinguished linguist Joan Bybee. Her arti...

How and why do languages change? This new introduction offers a guide to the types of change at a...

Outlines a theory of language use and language change, focusing on the processes that give langua...

Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels: language...