This paper surveys the evolution and present behaviour of dependent interrogative clauses
in English, focusing on the way these are joined to their governing expressions. The …

Abstract Language allows us to efficiently communicate about the things in the world around
us. Seemingly simple words like this and that are a cornerstone of our capability to refer, as …

This is why you should read this article. Although such an opening statement does not make
much sense read in isolation, journalists often write headlines like this on news websites …

Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through traditional and new approaches in the
field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary to …

In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based
theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in …

In this paper we propose six implicationally related cognitive statuses relevant for explicating
the use of referring expressions in natural language discourse. These statuses are the …

Revised and updated to reflect recent theoretical developments in the field, Semantics, 4th
Edition, presents an engaging and accessible introduction to the study of meaning in …

Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse
anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing …

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories
have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in …

This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress,
phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis …