This volume has its origins in a theme session entitled: “Lexical and Grammatical Classification: Same or Different?” from the Fifth International Cognitive

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, br

In functional grammar, the lexicon plays a central role. Lexical items form the basic building blocks around which the structure of a clause is built. This book

Language structure and use are largely shaped by cognitive processes such as categorizing, framing, inferencing, associative (metonymic), and analogical (metaph

Unlike other textbooks, it helps students to understand grammar rather than see it as a set of facts and rules.