We expect punctuation to do two things at once, and it confuses us. We expect it to mark the rhythms of speech, like rests in musical notation, and we expect it to clarify the meaning, the semantics ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Modern Philology sets the standard for literary ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...