In Speaking, Willem" Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik,
accomplishes the formidable task of covering the entire process of speech production, from
constraints on conversational appropriateness to articulation and self-monitoring of speech …

This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically
revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the
more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the …

We hypothesize that there is a general bias, based on both innatepredispositions and
experience, in animals and humans, to give greater weight to negative entities (eg, events,
objects, personal traits). This is manifested in 4 ways:(a) negative potency (negative entities …

" If you are not already a Steven Pinker addict, this book will make you one."--Jared
Diamond In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker explores profound mysteries of language by
picking a deceptively simple phenomenon--regular and irregular verbs--and examining it …

This book is Prof. Givón's long-awaited critical examination of the fundamental theoretical
and methodological underpinnings of the functionalist approach to grammar. It challenges
functionalists to take their own medicine and establish non-circular empirical definitions of …

Graphics have been used since ancient times to portray things that are inherently
spatiovisual, like maps and building plans. More recently, graphics have been used to
portray things that are metaphorically spatiovisual, like graphs and organizational charts …

This work presents the first sustained examination of Dependency Syntax. In clear and
stimulating analyses Mel'cuk promotes syntactic description in terms of dependency rather
than in terms of more familiar phrase-structure. The notions of dependency relations and …

The aim of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework of metonymy as a cognitive
process. 1 Unlike metaphor, metonymy has always been described in conceptual, rather
than purely linguistic, terms. In analyzing metonymic relationships, traditional rhetoric …

The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional;
grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for
constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression …

It is widely acknowledged that characteristics of the general information-processing system
in which sentence formulation occurs may provide constraints on syntax in language use.
The author proposes one possible source of such constraints. Evidence is reviewed …