Providing extensive data on a range of European languages, this book highlights the key role expressivity plays in all language.

This volume explores the formal linguistic expressions of emotions at different levels of linguistic complexity. It brings together work from different linguist

"Shedding new light on the constructive and expressive role of particles in natural language syntax and semantics, this book demonstrates that particle behaviou

This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world. The publication provides a comprehensive, multi-level description of onom

This book presents new issues in the study of the interface of emotions and language, and their use in social context. Two fundamental questions are tackled: th