Bücher der Reihe The Expression of Cognitive Categories (ECC)

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.

Examines the form and function of negative sentences in a variety of languages. This book offers surveys of the acquisition of negation by children, its processing by adults, its historical development, and its interaction with other operators and predicates within natural language sentences.

The book reports on the present state of the theoretical presentation, empirical investigation, psycholinguistic aspects and acquisition of information structure, and computation. It also provides descriptions of the information structural encoding strategies of individual languages of different types.

Deals with the expression of possession at various levels of grammar, morphological, phrasal, and syntactic, and from a typologically diverse range of languages. This work aims to reveal something of the range of constructions employed cross-linguistically in the expression of possession.

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).

Time is the most fundamental category of human cognition and action, and all human languages have developed many devices to express it. This book consists of what are essentially tutorials on the various notions of time, their encoding in different languages, on the formal semantics, the computer modelling and the acquisition of temporality.

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.

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.

Gender is a fascinating category, which has grown steadily in importance across the humanities and social sciences. The book centres on the core of the category within language. Each of the seven contributions 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. The authors pay attention to a broad range of languages, including English, Chukchi, Konso and Mohawk.