How does sign language compare with gesture, on the one hand, and spoken language on
the other? Sign was once viewed as nothing more than a system of pictorial gestures without …

Iconicity, a resemblance between properties of linguistic form (both in spoken and signed
languages) and meaning, has traditionally been considered to be a marginal, irrelevant …

The power of human language and thought arises from systematic compositionality—the
algebraic ability to understand and produce novel combinations from known components …

Abstract Language exhibits striking systematic structure. Words are composed of
combinations of reusable sounds, and those words in turn are combined to form complex …

В книге рассматриваются сдвиги фокуса внимания, лежащие в основе построения
языковых значений. Показано, что распределение фокуса в языке в целом следует …

Grammaticalization refers to the change whereby lexical terms and constructions serve
grammatical functions in certain linguistic contexts and, once grammaticalized, continue to …

This book offers a new approach to the analysis of the multiple meanings of English modals,
conjunctions, conditionals, and perception verbs. Although such ambiguities cannot easily …

This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the
need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and …

Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader is a comprehensive collection of the best work that has
been published in this exciting and growing area of anthropology, and is organized to …

" Comparison of the grammars of human languages reveals systematic patterns of variation.
Typology and universals research uncovers those patterns to formulate universal constraints …