This tightly constructed novel is set in the fictitious village of Slatefield, where dinosaur bon...

This unconventional introduction to the linguistic discipline of semantics - and pragmatics - tak...

This collection of short short tales presents some of the stranger consequences of the coronaviru...

Words are escaping from the flagship project of the prestigious House of Words. Something must be...

A grumpy old hypochondriac is led into a world of dream and memory by certain pieces he finds sep...

This is an engaging study of the mental lexicon: the way in which the form and meaning of words i...

In building up a scenario for the arrival on the shores of Alaska of speakers of languages relate...

These curious tales all have something to do with language: Does one really have to queue to be a...

Each of the prose poems that constitute the first part of this volume juxtaposes at least two wid...

James, an IT consultant engaged in upgrading the computer system of the Brain Imaging Institute a...

This volume is the first comprehensive comparative dictionary to cover the whole of the Chukotko-...

The walled - and very private - village of Greendale is not all that it appears to be from the ou...

Annie is about to start her last year at boarding school in Abingdon when Uncle George, whom she ...

The planet is becoming increasingly uninhabitable thanks to escalating climate change, dwindling ...

Thisvolume is about the surprises lurking behind the genealogies of English words, often obscured...

The miniatures in the first part of this book all involve perspective. The perspective in all of ...

This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic l...

This volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only ...

This book contains an innovative approach to the semantics and diachronic source of cognitive ver...