Five years in the making, this handbook represents an ambitious international project and is a significant, timely contribution in a field ripe for development. Editors Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach,
Linguists and philosophers of language explore various linguistic and philosophical aspects of quotations, contributing to the current debate on the nature and function of quotation as a device of met
This book discusses issues of complex sentences and discourse in sign and spoken languages, focusing on modality-specific and modality-independent aspects of such complex structures. The chapters addr