Books written by Nikolas Gisborne

  • Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language
    Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language

    In Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language, Nikolas Gisborne offers an account of verb meaning from the perspective of a model that treats language structure as part of the wider cognitive network.

  • The Typology of Asian Englishes
    The Typology of Asian Englishes

    This third factor is the focus of the five papers in this volume: they investigate the structure of Asian varieties of English by exploring the relationship between the typological profile of substrate languages in the specific linguistic ...

  • Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics
    Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics

    Information structure and grammaticalization. In Elena Seoane & María José López-Couso (eds.), Theoretical and empirical issues in grammaticalization, 207–229. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Lightfoot, David W. 1979.

  • Defaults in Morphological Theory
    Defaults in Morphological Theory

    ... morphological class corresponded to the syntax of basic predication (John angry [A], John eat [V], John in [P] car) ... autonomy. It does not conform to (1), because lexemes from any part of speech can belong to classes A, B, C, or D ...

  • Constructional Approaches to English Grammar
    Constructional Approaches to English Grammar

    This collection of articles brings together new research from both established and emerging international experts in the study of English grammar, all of whom have engaged with the notion of 'construction' in their work.