In legal interpretation, where does meaning come from? Law is made from language, yet law, unlike other language-related disciplines, has not so far experienced its "pragmatic turn" towards inference
Over the past decades, the field of sign language linguistics has expanded considerably. Recent research on sign languages includes a wide range of subdomains such as reference grammars, theoretical l
This edited volume brings together work on the evidential systems ofTibetan languages. This includes diachronic research, synchronicdescription of systems in individual Tibetan varieties and papersadd
The author examines spatial semantics and spatial cognition from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, discussing the relationship between language, spatial relations, mental images, an
Drawn from papers given at a conference of the same name, held in Bremen, Germany, in March 2012, the 18 articles in this volume focus on asymmetrical and unstable contact situations involving imperia
This series will trace at the example of work the historical connections between regions and critically engage with the idea of the North Atlantic World as normal and the rest as exceptional. The aim
