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The volume presents an up-to-date collection of methodologically sensitive contributions providing mainly enthusiastic, at times also critical support for the c

There is an increasing awareness in linguistics that linguistic patterns can be explained with recourse to general cognitive processes. The contributions collec

The main function of language is to convey meaning. The question of why language is structured the way it is, Heine here argues, has therefore to be answered fi

This is the first volume of a two-volume work that introduces a new and fundamentally different conception of language structure and linguistic investigation. T

In recent years, linguists have increasingly turned to the cognitive sciences to broaden their investigation into the roots and development of language. With th