An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.

This book explores the cognitive constraints and principles of variation in structures of linguistic meaning across languages. It unifies cognitive-semantic rep

The sociolinguistic turn of the 1960's has been remarkably successful: variability of language is no longer an issue open to debate. But studies of variation ha

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered a

What explains variation in human language? How are linguistic and social factors related? How do we examine possible semantic differences between variants? Thes