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

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 …

Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and
language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist …

This is the first full study of how people refer to entities in natural discourse. It contributes to
the understanding of both linguistic diversity and the cognitive underpinnings of language …

A proposal that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a
“person space” at the heart of every pronominal expression. This book offers a significant …

The goal of this book is to explore the diachronic development of subject-verb agreement,
focusing on the reanalysis of pronominal clitics as inflectional formatives. It is shown that …

The status of subject clitics in French has been heavily debated (Kayne 1975, Rizzi 1986,
Roberge 1990, Auger 1994b, Miller & Sag 1997, De Cat 2007b, and many others) …

Agreement is among the most widely-researched issues in theoretical linguistics. In this
introduction, we critically review some of the key issues, focussing on typological …

Agreement is approached from the analytical decisions required for constructing a
typological database. The Surrey Database of Agreement provides detailed, highly …

This monograph is a revision of my doctoral dissertation, which was completed at the
University of Arizona in 2004. Many people supported this work in various ways throughout …