Bücher der Reihe The Expression of Cognitive Categories (ECC)

Gender is a fascinating category, which has grown steadily in importance across the humanities and social sciences. This book provides an independent account of a key part of the topic, ranging from gender and sex, gender and culture, to typology, dialect variation and psycholinguistics.

Time is the most fundamental category of human cognition and action, and the human languages have developed many devices to express it. These include verbal categories, such as tense and aspect, but also adverbials, particles, and principles of discourse organisation. This book shows how time is expressed in natural languages.

A collection of nine original articles that deals with the expression of possession at various levels of grammar, morphological, phrasal, and syntactic, and from a typologically diverse range of languages (including Germanic, Oceanic, Meso-American, and Australian Aboriginal).

Covers the essentials of modality, and offers both foundational ideas and advances. This book consists of a set of tutorials on modality, covering definitions of modality, morphosyntactic form, semantics, discourse and pragmatic function, formal structure, historical development, and acquisition.