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Masayoshi, Shibatani, and Thompson Sandra A, eds. Grammatical constructions: Their form and meaning. Clarendon Press, 1996.

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1951-, Mohanan Tara, Wee Lionel 1963-, and Center for the Study of Language and Information (U.S.), eds. Grammatical semantics: Evidence for structure in meaning. CSLI, 1999.

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Wanner, Leo, ed. Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning–Text Theory. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.84.

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International Committee of Slavists. International Commission on Aspectology, ред. Glagolʹnyĭ vid: Grammaticheskoe znachenie i kontekst = Verbal aspect : grammatical meaning and context. Verlag Otto Sagner, 2015.

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Smith, Viktor. The literal meaning of lexical items: Some theoretical considerations on the semantics of complex and transferred nominals with special reference to Danish and Russian. Institut for Fransk, Italiensk og Russisk, Handelshøjskolen i København, 2000.

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Vālmīki. Mūla-Rāmāyaṇa: Mūlarāmāyaṇam = The original Rāmāyaṇa as narrated by Nārada Muni to Vālmīki : English and Hindi translation, Sanskrit prose order, word-for-word meaning and grammatical analysis. Jiva Institute, 2015.

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1774-1853, Budd H. (Henry), and Budd H. (Henry) 1774-1853, eds. The XXXIX Articles of our established church--1571: The original Latin, collated with early editions : also a new literal translation and English exposition, the only one for three centuries, from the Reformation to the present time, giving the "plain meaning" and "full meaning" of each article, and explaining the words which convey such meaning in their "literal and grammatical sense". Edward Lumley, 1986.

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Jackson, Howard. Grammar and meaning: A semantic approach to English grammar. Longman, 1990.

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(Editor), Masayoshi Shibatani, and Sandra A. Thompson (Editor), eds. Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning. Oxford University Press, USA, 1996.

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(Editor), Masayoshi Shibatani, and Sandra A. Thompson (Editor), eds. Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning. Oxford University Press, USA, 1999.

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Korean grammatical constructions: Their form and meaning. Saffron Books, 2003.

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Semantic Structure of Spanish: Meaning and Grammatical Form. Benjamins Publishing Company, John, 1992.

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van Hout, Angeliek. Lexical and Grammatical Aspect. Edited by Jeffrey L. Lidz, William Snyder, and Joe Pater. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199601264.013.25.

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The topic of this chapter is the acquisition of lexical and grammatical aspect. Given wide cross-linguistic variation in aspect expression, the learnability issues center around form-meaning associations: how do learners determine the meaning of a certain aspectual form? Focusing on the literature on telicity and on the perfective-imperfective distinction, two main results stand out. Predicate telicity is easier than compositional telicity. The completion entailment of perfective is acquired at different ages across different languages, somewhere between 2.6 and 5. One novel direction of resea

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The semantic structure of Spanish: Meaning and grammatical form. J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.

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Oliva, Miguel Á. Aijón. Form and Meaning: Studies of Grammatical Variation and Communicative Choice in Spanish. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2024.

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Bybee, Joan L. Morphology: A Study of the Relation Between Meaning and Form. Benjamins Publishing Company, John, 1985.

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Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., R. M. W. Dixon, and Nathan M. White, eds. Phonological Word and Grammatical Word. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865681.001.0001.

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‘Word’ is a cornerstone for the understanding of every language. It is a pronounceable phonological unit. It will also have a meaning, and a grammatical characterization-a morphological structure and a syntactic function. And it will be an entry in a dictionary and an orthographic item. ‘Word’ has ‘psychological reality’ for speakers, enabling them to talk about the meaning of a word, its appropriateness for use in a certain social context, and so on. This volume investigates ‘word’ in its phonological and grammatical guises, and how this concept can be applied to languages of distinct typolog

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Recanati, François. From Meaning to Content. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198739548.003.0004.

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According to a widespread picture due to Kaplan, there are two levels of semantic value: character and content. Character is determined by the grammar, and it determines content with respect to context. In this chapter Recanati criticizes that picture on several grounds. He shows that we need more than two levels, and rejects the determination thesis: that linguistic meaning as determined by grammar determines content. Grammatical meaning does not determine assertoric content, he argues, but merely constrains it—speaker’s meaning necessarily comes into play. On the alternative picture he offer

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Beavers, John, and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. The Roots of Verbal Meaning. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855781.001.0001.

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This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the meanings of verbs. It adopts the now common view that verb meanings consist at least partly of an event structure, made up of an event template describing the verb’s broad temporal and causal contours that occurs across lots of verbs and groups them into semantic and grammatical classes, plus an idiosyncratic root describing specific, real world states and actions that distinguish verbs with the same template. While much work has focused on templates, less work has addressed the truth conditional contributio

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Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia, and Jenny Doetjes, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198795858.001.0001.

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This volume offers an overview of current research on grammatical number in language. The chapters Part i of the handbook present foundational notions in the study of grammatical number covering the semantic analyses of plurality, the mass–count distinction, the relationship between number and quantity expressions and the mental representation of number and individuation. The core instance of grammatical number is marking for number distinctions in nominal expressions as in English the book/the books and the chapters in Part ii, Number in the nominal domain, explore morphological, semantic, an

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(Editor), Tara Mohanan, and Lionel Wee (Editor), eds. Grammatical Semantics: Evidence for Structure in Meaning (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes). Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1999.

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(Editor), Tara Mohanan, and Lionel Wee (Editor), eds. Grammatical Semantics: Evidence for Structure in Meaning (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes). Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1999.

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Frajzyngier, Zygmunt, and Marielle Butters. The Emergence of Functions in Language. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844297.001.0001.

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Why do grammatical systems of various languages express different meanings? Given that languages spoken in the same geographical area by people sharing similar social structure, occupations, and religious beliefs differ in the kinds of meaning expressed by the grammatical system, the answer to this question cannot invoke differences in geography, occupation, social and political structure, or religion. The present book aims to answer the main question through language internal analysis. This book offers a methodology to discover meaning in a way that is not based on inferences about reality. T

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Wanner, Leo. Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning-Text Theory: In Honour of Igor Mel'cuk (Studies in Language Companion Series). John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2007.

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Horn, Laurence. Information Structure and the Landscape of (Non-)at-issue Meaning. Edited by Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.013.009.

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This article examines cases that illustrate the relation of information structure to truth-conditional semantics, grammatical form, and assertoric force. Before discussing the interaction between information structure and (non-)at-issue meaning, it considers the nature of information and what constitutes information. It then looks at two aspects of the common ground, common ground (CG) content and CG management, as well as the criteria of category membership. The article also explores the varying degrees of at-issueness, the role of rhetorical opposition andbutclauses, as well as the variable

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Moore, John, and Farrell Ackerman. Proto-Properties and Grammatical Encoding: A Correspondence Theory of Argument Selection. Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 2001.

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Moore, John, and Farrell Ackerman. Proto-Properties and Grammatical Encoding: A Correspondence Theory of Argument Selection. Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1999.

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Zimmermann, Malte. Predicate Focus. Edited by Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.013.26.

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This chapter discusses a grammatically defined sub-class of focus: that on verbal predicates and on functional elements in the extended verbal projection. The phenomena falling under the label ofpredicate focusare introduced, and it is shown that predicate focus is interpretable on a par with argument or term focus on DPs and PPs. A unified structured-meaning approach that treats focus as the psychological predicate of the clause allows for singling out DP-terms and transitive verbs as categories in need of explicit marking when focused. A cross-linguistic overview of the grammatical strategie

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Batmanian, Natalie, and Karin Stromswold. Getting to the Root of the Matter. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190464783.003.0008.

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Spontaneous speech data from three monolingual Turkish-speaking children between the ages 2;1 and 2;8 revealed that children produce bare lexical stems in ungrammatical contexts before they use grammatical morphemes productively. Given that root words are very rare in Turkish, the fact that Turkish children produce them indicates that they are able to decompose multimorphemic words into root + grammatical affixes. We also tested the hypothesis that when the correspondence between morphological form and grammatical meaning is one-to-one, morphemes are likely to be acquired earlier than when the

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The meaning of the Letter of Aristeas: In light of biblical interpretation and grammatical tradition, and with reference to its historical context. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015.

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Dixon, R. M. W. English Prepositions. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868682.001.0001.

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This book provides an account of 50 most common prepositions in English. It shows the semantic range for each preposition through a scheme of linked senses that are related to the grammatical frameworks in which they are used. For each preposition there is an account of its genetic origin and shifts of form and meaning over the centuries. The book provides an instructive way to appreciate the meanings of prepositions by studying instances where two prepositions may be used in the same frame with meanings that show some similarity but also a significant difference, such as the factory is shut u

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Bosworth, Joseph. A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language: Containing the Accentuation - The Grammatical Inflections - The Irregular Words Referred to Their Themes - ... The Meaning of the Anglo-Saxon in English and. Franklin Classics Trade Press, 2018.

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Horn, Laurence R. Nice Words for Nasty Things. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198758655.003.0010.

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This chapter surveys the linguistic landscape of taboo avoidance and its role in word loss and meaning change. Freud invoked Carl Abel’s “universal phenomenon” of Gegensinn in support of his edict that there is no no in the unconscious. Languages typically do tolerate words that bear opposed or semantically unrelated senses. Only when homonyms share the same grammatical category and context of occurrence does one of them disappear. But in the case of taboo words, “Avoid Homonymy” extends to block word senses or uses even when no confusion would plausibly occur. In this linguistic correlate of

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Zbikowski, Lawrence M. Music and Words. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190653637.003.0006.

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This chapter focuses on the different ways language and music construct meaning as revealed through the medium of song. The chapter focuses on the German Lied of the early nineteenth century, and it offers analyses of three settings of Goethe’s lyric poem “Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh.” The first is an 1814 setting by Carl Friedrich Zelter; the second was written around 1816 by Carl Loewe; the third was completed sometime before 1824 by Franz Schubert. These analyses show how each setting changes the interpretation of Goethe’s poem, demonstrating how the different grammatical resources offered b

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Keiser, Jessica. Varieties of Intentionalism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791492.003.0008.

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In Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language, Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone offer a multifaceted critique of the Gricean picture of language use, proposing in its place a novel framework for understanding the role of convention in linguistic communication. They criticize Lewis’s and Grice’s commitment to what they call ‘prospective intentionalism,’ according to which utterance meaning is determined by the conversational effects intended by the speaker. Instead, they make a case for what they call ‘direct intentionalism’, according to which utterance meaning

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Broccias, Cristiano. Cognitive Grammar. Edited by Thomas Hoffmann and Graeme Trousdale. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195396683.013.0011.

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This chapter offers an overview of Ronald Langacker's Cognitive Grammar (CG), with special reference to the relation between CG and constructionist approaches. It explains that although CG was developed prior to constructionist approaches, it shares many assumptions with them. CG views language as being grounded in embodied human experience and language-independent cognitive processes, and it assumes grammar to be inherently meaningful, and that language consists of form-meaning pairings or assemblies of symbolic structures. The chapter also addresses the relation between lexemes and construct

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Bosworth, Joseph. Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language: Containing the Accentuation - the Grammatical Inflections - the Irregular Words Referred to Their Themes - the Parallel Terms, from the Other Gothic Languages - the Meaning of the Anglo-Saxon in English And. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.

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Botterweck, G. Johannes, Holger Gzella, Helmer Ringgren, and Heinz-Josef Fabry, eds. Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/bci-0040.

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Volume XVI concludes the monumental, critically acclaimed Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament with an Aramaic dictionary. This volume incorporates nearly the complete lexicon of Biblical Aramaic as well as a major portion of the theologically, culturally, and historically relevant terms in other ancient Aramaic writings. Each article provides information on the term’s meaning and usage, is fully annotated, and contains a bibliography with cross-references to the entire TDOT series. Further enhancing this volume are an introductory overview of the history of Aramaic and a comparative gr

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Bosworth, Joseph. Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language: Containing the Accentuation - the Grammatical Inflections - the Irregular Words Referred to Their Themes - the Parallel Terms, from the Other Gothic Languages - the Meaning of the Anglo-Saxon in English and Latin. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.

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Trousdale, Graeme. Using Principles of Construction Grammar in the History of English Classroom. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190611040.003.0010.

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This chapter addresses teaching the History of English from a construction grammar perspective, one in which language is viewed as comprised of form-meaning pairings on a gradient between lexical and grammatical constructions and language change is viewed as a series of micro-steps that involve closely related changes in syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse functions. It considers the creation of new constructions, changes to existing constructions, and the relationship between individual words and the constructions in which they frequently appear. The chapter pr

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Narrog, Heiko. The Expression of Non-Epistemic Modal Categories. Edited by Jan Nuyts and Johan Van Der Auwera. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199591435.013.5.

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This chapter gives an overview of the cross-linguistic expression of non-epistemic modality. Following the issue of morphological expression, including covert (implicit) expression, deviations from one-meaning–one-form, and biases in the expression of non-epistemic possibility and necessity are presented. Then morphosyntactic aspects of the expression of non-epistemic modality are discussed, especially non-canonical case marking associated with the use of non-epistemic modal expressions, and the question of order between modal expressions and expressions of other grammatical categories. The ch

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B. Nuckolls, Janis, and Tod D. Swanson. Amazonian Quichua Language and Life. Published by Lexington Books, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666984095.

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In Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Janis B. Nuckolls and Tod D. Swanson discuss two varieties of Quichua, an indigenous Ecuadorian language. Drawing on their linguistic and anthropological knowledge, extensive fieldwork, and personal relationships with generations of speakers from Pastaza and Napo communities, the authors open a door into worlds of intimate meaning that knowledge of Quichua makes accessible. Nuckolls and Swanson link grammatical lessons with examples of naturally occurring discourse, traditional

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Portner, Paul. Mood. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199547524.001.0001.

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The category of mood is widely used in the description of languages and the formal analysis of their grammatical properties. It typically refers to features of a sentence’s form (or a class of sentences which share such features), either individual morphemes or grammatical patterns, which reflect how the sentence contributes to the modal meaning of a larger phrase or which indicates the type of fundamental pragmatic function it has in conversation. The first subtype, verbal mood, includes the categories of indicative and subjunctive subordinate clauses; the second sentence mood, encompasses de

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Stein, Gabriele. John Palsgrave’s description of French word-formation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807377.003.0007.

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The comprehensive nature of John Palsgrave’s endeavour to analyse and describe the French language in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse (1530) also encompasses the formation of words. Whereas Chapter 6 focused on his pioneering achievement as a grammarian and lexicographer, this chapter describes his most impressive work as a sixteenth-century lexicologist analysing the word-structures of a vernacular. The coining of words is embedded in a word class-based grammatical framework. For each word class, e.g. nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, etc., he discusses the formative processes (deriv

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Jones, Chris. Fossil Poems and the New Philology. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824527.003.0005.

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This chapter argues that a second phase of poetic Anglo-Saxonism began to overtake the first as the science of the New Philology began to make itself felt from the 1830s onwards. This rendered obsolete the first model of Anglo-Saxon as the living root of English literary tradition. Instead poets began to tap the etymological meaning of modern English words of Anglo-Saxon origin, as well to resurrect extinct words and grammatical forms from Anglo-Saxon. New readings of Walt Whitman and William Morris are made on the basis of unpublished manuscript evidence and William Barnes is identified as th

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Kemmerer, David. Concepts in the Brain. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190682620.001.0001.

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For most native English speakers, the meanings of words like “blue,” “cup,” “stumble,” and “carve” seem quite natural. Research in semantic typology has shown, however, that they are far from universal. Although the roughly 6,500 languages around the world have many similarities in the sorts of concepts they encode, they also vary greatly in how they partition particular conceptual domains, how they map those domains onto syntactic categories, which distinctions they force speakers to habitually track, and how deeply they weave certain notions into the fabric of their grammar. Although these i

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Truswell, Robert, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199685318.001.0001.

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This volume offers an introduction to current research in event structure, the study of the role of events in grammar. This area of study breaks down into several interrelated questions: How do we perceive events? How do events as objects of perception relate to linguistic event descriptions? What structural distinctions can we make among events, and how are these distinctions reflected grammatically? How do events relate to their participants? To what extent does syntax constrain the grammar of event descriptions? The handbook reflects the growth of this field, from three foundational hypothe

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Ward, H. Clifton. Clement and Scriptural Exegesis. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192863362.001.0001.

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Abstract How might one describe early Christian exegesis? This question has given rise to a significant reassessment of patristic exegetical practice in recent decades, and the present book makes a new contribution to this reappraisal of patristic exegesis against the background of ancient Greco-Roman education. In tracing the practices of literary analysis and rhetorical memory in the ancient sources, this book argues that there were two modes of archival thinking at the heart of the ancient exegetical enterprise: the grammatical archive, a repository of the textual practices learned from the

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Aarts, Bas, Jill Bowie, and Gergana Popova, eds. The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198755104.001.0001.

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This handbook provides an authoritative, critical survey of current research and knowledge in the grammar of the English language. Following an introduction from the editors, the volume’s expert contributors explore a range of core topics in English grammar, beginning with issues in grammar writing and methodology. Chapters in part II then examine the various theoretical approaches to grammar, such as cognitive, constructional, and generative approaches, followed by the chapters in part III, which comprehensively cover the different subdomains of grammar, including compounds, phrase structure,

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Zbikowski, Lawrence M. Foundations of Musical Grammar. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190653637.001.0001.

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This volume makes a unique contribution to music theory by building on recent research in cognitive science and theoretical perspectives adopted from cognitive linguistics to present an account of the foundations of musical grammar. Musical grammar is conceived of as a species of construction grammar, in which grammatical elements are form-function pairs. In the case of music, basic constructions are sonic analogs for dynamic processes that are central to human cultures. This volume focuses on three such processes: those related to emotions, to gestures, and to dance. The first chapter introdu

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