This book explores the usage-based claim that high usage frequency leads to the entrenchment of complex words in the minds of language users. To probe the correlation between corpus-extracted usage da
The purpose of the essays collected in this volume is to advance the discussion about "life knowledge" (Lebenswissen) and to point the way toward new horizons for current and future thinking and actio
This professional book presents the history, controversy, and negotiations that have resulted in worldwide agreement on a set of principles that will underlie the cataloguing practices for the digital
Spanning more than two decades of thinking about generative approaches to Universal Grammar, the two interviews with Noam Chomsky in this book permit a rare and illuminating insight into his views on
This book presents the oldest commentary on Aristotle written in Arabic, a compendium ofDe Generatione et Corruptione. Its author was the Imamite theologian Ibn M?s? al-Nawbakht? (fl. ca. 900), of who
Thetwo volumes deal with cross-linguistic variation in valency classes in terms of argument coding and argument alternations. The first systematic typological attempt to uncover the universal and the
Volume 85 of Studies in the History of the English Language VI presents thirteen distinct historical linguistic reconstructions that demonstrate a range of methodological approaches over a wide variet
Kyrychenko begins by analyzing, comparing, and contrasting the treatment of the Roman soldiers in general and Roman centurions in particular in the Greco-Roman and Jewish sources, including both liter
