This book shows that it is possible to extend research on child language to children's semantic competence, adopting the same theoretical framework that has proven useful to the study of children's syntactic competence.

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contrasts the Davidsonian strategy of sentence semantics, which treats verbs as sets of ordered sequences of participants then extends the sequences to embrace the swell event; with the neo-Davidsonian, which considers verbs as sets of events and associates participants with these events through rel

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book examines turn-taking in English and Japanese conversations and political news interviews to investigate the relationship between language and interaction.

The first serious typological survey of the lenition process in modern phonological literature.

This book investigates the nature of the relationship between phonology and syntax and proposes a theory of Minimal Indirect Reference that solves many classic problems relating to the topic.

The main topic of this work is the interaction between syntactic structure and meanin within the noun phrase, with data drwn primarily from English and Italian.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.