Introduction to the Classic Edition, M. Tomasello

Introduction: Some Surprises for Psychologists, M. Tomasello

Concept Structuring Systems in Language, L. Talmy

Discourse and Grammar, J.W. Du Bois

Human Cognition and the Elaboration of Events: Some Universal Conceptual Categories, S. Kemmer

Social Interaction and Grammar, C.E. Ford, B.A. Fox, S.A. Thompson

Cognitive Processes in Grammaticalization, J. Bybee

Pronouns and Point of View: Cognitive Principles of Coreference, K. van Hoek

On Explaining Language Universals, B. Comrie

The Geometry of Grammatical Meaning: Semantic Maps and Cross-Linguistic Comparison, M. Haspelmath

Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case ofLet Alone, C.J. Fillmore, P. Kay, M.C. O'Connor

About the Author

Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. His research interests focus on processes of social cognition, social learning, and communication/language in human children and great apes. Books include First Verbs (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Primate Cognition (Oxford University Press, 1997, with J. Call), The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (Harvard University Press, 1999), Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (Harvard University Press, 2003), Origins of Human Communication (MIT Press, 2008), Why We Cooperate (MIT Press, 2009), and A Natural History of Human Thinking (Harvard University Press, 2014).

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