Studies in Linguistic Motivation

Studies in Linguistic MotivationHow much of language is motivated? Recently, cognitive and functional linguists have proposed new solutions to this intriguing question. The thirteen articles collected in this volume cover various aspects of motivation in grammar and in the lexicon. The phenomena discussed in the contributions can be grouped into four types of motivation, which, along with other types, are explicated in the introductory chapter: ecological motivation, i. e.

On the one hand it fueled an impassioned debate about the properties of cinema and the specter of wholesale Americanization

but not until the Renaissance did the true facetia acquire an independent life and popularity

soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan at the height of the campaign

What have these two fields in common

with African American culture

translated here for the first time in English

Bernard D’Mello’s fascinating narrative answers this question by tracing the circumstances that gave rise to India’s “1968”decade of revolutionary humanism and those that led to the triumph of the “1989” era of appallingly unequal growth condoned by Hindutva-nationalism

Skin: A Natural History celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of human skin: its naked sweatiness

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and evaluating materials for a part design

when perfectionists like John Humphrey Noyes

through its links to its Belarussian counterpart outside the ghetto and with help from others