Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind

All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale

The definitive guide to demonstratives, which play a key role in language acquisition and use.

Personal pronouns in Japanese form a heterogeneous category. This book investigates their historical development from a functional perspective. It shows that wh

Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but rather complementary approaches to the same fundamental problem: t