Functionalist typologists have long argued that pressures associated with language usage
influence the distribution of grammatical properties across the world's languages …

This is a provocative contribution to the current debate about the best delimitation of
semantics and pragmatics. Is' What is said'determined by linguistic conventions, or is it an …

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 …

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 …

One of the basic tenets of cognitive linguistics is that the human capacity to process
language is closely linked with, perhaps even determined by, other fundamental cognitive …

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 …

From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is
too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The New Psychology of Language volumes …

Models of language production must account for how speakers select referential
expressions, a process that is complicated by the range of options available to speakers (eg …

This thesis investigates three topics relating to the semantics of phi features on pronouns.
Part I focuses on gender features on pronouns. Following previous studies (Cooper 1983 …

Two Finnish language comprehension experiments are presented which suggest that the
referential properties of pronouns and demonstratives cannot be reduced straightforwardly …