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Aspectual Grammar and Past Time Reference

By Laura A. Michaelis

This study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual...

Published January 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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Negative Contexts

Collocation, Polarity and Multiple Negation

By Ton van der Wouden

This research emphasizes semantic, syntactic and pragmatic considerations illustrating a wide array of linguistic approaches. Written from within the theoretical framework of Generalized Quantifiers, the...

Published January 2nd 1997 by Routledge.

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Beyond Superstructuralism

By Richard Harland

Moving on from his previous book, Superstructuralism, Richard Harland argues that the focus on single words in the structuralist theory of language is its key...

Published July 8th 1993 by Routledge.

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Naming and Reference

The Link of Word to Object

By R.J. Nelson

The question of how language relates to the world is one of the most important problems of philosophy. What the word `God' refers to and...

Published September 24th 1992 by Routledge.

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The Meaning of Focus Particles

A Comparative Perspective

By Ekkehard König

Focus particles (words such as even, only, also) play an important role in English, in various syntactic and semantic domains, but their characteristics pose numerous...

Published November 28th 1991 by Routledge.

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Language and Philosophical Problems

By Sören Stenlund

Language and Philosophical Problems investigates problems about mind, meaning and mathematics rooted in preconceptions of language. It deals in particular with problems which are connected...

Published December 20th 1990 by Routledge.

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Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein

How to Play Games with Words

By Professor Roy Harris, Roy Harris

Saussure as a linguist and Wittgenstein as a philosopher of language are arguably the two most important figures in the development of twentieth-century linguistic thought....

Published October 25th 1990 by Routledge.

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