The semantic map model is relatively new in linguistic research, but it has been intensively
used during the past three decades for studying both cross‐linguistic and language‐specific …

This paper argues for the need to recognize a new order of syntactic phenomena, and for a
theory of syntax capable of addressing it. Dialogic syntax encompasses the linguistic …

This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted,
theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations. The theory has descriptive …

Pragmatics deals with meaning in context that is the meaning conveyed often indirectly
beyond what is literally communicated. Ever since Hymes (1972, Sociolinguistics: Selected …

5 IMPLICATURE Page 1 1.5 IMPLICATURE Laurence Horn A year after unveiling implicature
in his William James lectures at Harvard, Paul Grice (1968) published one of the lectures, a …

This book is a cross-linguistic exploration of semantic and functional change in modal
markers. Its approach is broadly functional typological but makes frequent reference to work …

Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is
that'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel …

In the broadest sense, pragmatics is the study of linguistic communication in context: the
choices users of language make and the process of meaning-making in social interaction …

Discourse markers are a crucial component of natural language, which is why a description
and account of their diachronic evolution must be part of our linguistic models. However …

University of Antwerp e view behind this series defines pragmatics briefly as the cognitive,
social, and cultural science of language and communication. is first volume introduces some …