These lectures provide one of the first comprehensive introductions to semantic typology, the study of crosslinguistic variation in how languages represent real

In his ten Beijing lectures, Leonard Talmy represents the range of his work in cognitive semantics. This approach concerns the linguistic representation of conc

In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic di

These lively lectures introduce the theory, practice and application of a versatile, rigorous and non Anglocentic approach to cross-linguistic semantics. Topics

Melissa Bowerman’s lectures present a lucid detailed account of her research on how children build up a semantics for domains such as space in their first lan