Personal pronouns have a special status in languages. As indexical tools they are the means by which languages and persons intimately interface with each other
Reciprocals are an increasingly hot topic in linguistic research. This reflects the intersection of several factors: the semantic and syntactic complexity of re
The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Wr
This book is the first work to address the question of what kinds of words get borrowed in a systematic and comparative perspective. It studies lexical borrowin
Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.
