Within cognitive and functional approaches to language structure and grammaticality, analogy and contrast represent two fundamental human cognitive capacities,

Experts from psycholinguistics and English historical linguistics address core factors in language change.

In four parts, this title deals with: grammaticalization; metaphor in contrast; cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts; and the semantics/pragmatics boundary

This book fills a gap in lexical morphology, especially with reference to analogy in English word-formation. Many studies have focused their interest on the rol