This book provides a readable and clearly articulated introduction to an important area in the
broader field of Cognitive Linguistics. Taking as its starting point the categorization of colour …

Learning About Language is an exciting and ambitious series of introductions to
fundamental topics in language, linguistics and related areas. The books are designed for …

Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East Asia
have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages have two or three …

Thinking Arabic Translation is an indispensable book for linguists who want to develop their
Arabic-to-English translation skills. Clear explanations, discussions, examples and …

Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly
innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas …

Copulas (in English, the verb to be) are conventionally defined functionally as a means of
relating elements of clause structure, especially subject and complement, and considered to …

Parallel to the research that I did on the application of prototype theory to questions of
semantic change (which eventually resulted in my Diachronic Prototype Semantics …

This paper introduces a fairly recent corpus-based approach to lexical semantics, the
Behavioral Profile (BP) approach. After a short review of traditional corpus-based work on …

In this paper we will look into questions that concern what may be considered two of the
central meaning relations in semantics, ie polysemy or the association of multiple meanings …

This paper investigates" modal particles"(henceforth MPs) in German and their grammatical
status. It will be argued that MPs in German are partly the result of a process of …