Modern semantics grows out of generative grammar and logic. The present book, aimed primarily at undergraduates, is an introduction to semantics as it has developed within these traditions. It introduces the...

The principal aim of this book is to introduce to the reader the foundations of generative syntax, its first four chapters describe the basic syntactic facts (word classes, phrases, sentences) in a way which...

This volume explores the notion of language as a human skill, but also other relevant aspects of languages: how it works, how it can be broken down, how it changes… Which features distinguish human...