Based upon the author's doctoral dissertation in linguistics, this text takes as its starting point the antisymmetry theory first proposed by Richard Kayne in his 1994 work on X-bar theory. The aim of the book is to discuss the consequences of the theory in the specific domain o…
The book offers a usage-based account of how humans comprehend complex linguistic structures. The author proposes a theory of constructional access, which treats syntactic patterns as complex and abstract signs. In this view, syntactic processing is subject to the very same dyna…
Between 1955 and 1956 the Government of India passed four Hindu Law Acts to reform and codify Hindu family law. Scholars have understood these acts as a response to growing concern about women's rights but, in a powerful re-reading of their history, this book traces the origins …