This cross-disciplinary volume provides an overview of how complexity theory and the tools of statistical mechanics can be applied to linguistic problems to hel
This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A numb
This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time an
Some structural features of languages predict others, some remain unchanged in daughter languages, others have an areal consistency; in establishing typological
Space and time, their infiniteness and/or their limit(ation)s, their coding, conceptualization and the relationship between the two, have been intriguing people