Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
This cluster of papers encompasses a wide range of topics in theoretical linguistics, including syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language evolution, universal grammar, construction grammar, scalar implicature, morphology, and language typology. The papers explore fundamental principles and structures underlying human language and aim to advance our understanding of linguistic universals and diversity.
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Most cited
- Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar
- Transitivity in Grammar and Discourse
- A theory of focus interpretation
- Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case of Let Alone
- Rules and Representations.
- From usage to grammar: The mind's response to repetition
Most recent
- Noun-Adjective Agreement in Najdi Arabic: A Constraint-Based Account
- Pre-second insert expansion (sequence)
- Classifying Multilingual Stemmers by Pareto Strata: Error Regimes in Pairwise Lexical Conflation
- The Syntax Problem: Formal Derivation, Structural Deprivation, and the Epistemology of Tetraframe
- “I Do Wander Everywhere” : The Rise and Fall of English Do-support
- Testing the Untestable: Auditing Two Recent Decipherment Claims for the Rongorongo Script and the Phaistos Disc