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 …

Human behavioral ecology may be defined as the study of the evolutionary ecology of
human behavior. Its central problem is to discover the ways in which the behavior of modem …

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major
and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth …

This paper examines the concept of expatriates, arguing that sloppy use of the term in the
past has led to problems of inconsistent research, incompatible findings and a lack of clarity …

The reader of this book may perhaps not be a word-lover, lexicomaniac, or" into" lexicophilia-
a characteristic propensity of some language users, recently discussed in the quarterly …

The possessive morpheme in English occurs in a variety of constructions-prenominal
possessives (the man's hat, the plane's arrival), postnominal possessives (a friend of mine) …

Cognitive models of polysemy reveal that vagueness, polysemy, and homonymy represent a
cline of diminishing schematicity and increasing instances of salience. Polysemy is an …

This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical
indeterminacy. It looks at gradience in English word classes, phrases, clauses and …

In this book, the authors examine manifestations of transmedia storytelling in different
historical periods and countries, spanning the UK, the US and Argentina. It takes us into the …

Rosch introduced the" prototype" as a theory of categorization (61). People construct any
category around a quintessential example or typical member; other members pertain to the …