This paper draws on data from a quantitative study of upper secondary students' general
mathematical self‐efficacy, anxiety towards mathematics, and their relationship to …

What are the properties of mind that make language the way it is, and languages the way
they are? To answer those questions, it is necessary to look at the causal processes by …

This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as' interactive grammar',
based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the …

This discussion note reviews responses of the linguistics profession to the grave issues of
language endangerment identified a quarter of a century ago in the journal Language by …

This study explores the connection between language and social cognition by empirically
testing different typological analyses of various demonstrative systems. Linguistic typology …

Abstract Language and social cognition come together in communication, but their relation
has been intensely contested. Here, I argue that these two distinctively human abilities are …

Abstract Language and Theory of Mind come together in communication, but their
relationship has been intensely contested. I hypothesize that pragmatic markers connect …

Linguistics, and typology in particular, can have a bright future. We justify this optimism by
discussing comparability from two angles. First, we take the opportunity presented by this …

This paper argues that a definition of evidentiality as a linguistic notion should be based on
the pragmatic properties of evidential forms and their distribution in spoken discourse. The …

Human societies show a deep concern with how people know things and how relationships
to knowledge are constructed and portrayed in talk. The term evidentiality refers to particular …