AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD.Anatole V. Lyovin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii + 491. $35.00 paper.

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-135
Author(s):  
Donald F. Reindl
Keyword(s):  
Reference Book ◽  
Language Typology ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Oxford University Press

This book is designed as a textbook to introduce students to language typology and language phenomena. Although not intended to be an introduction to linguistics or a reference book, the wealth of information it contains will provide interesting and rewarding reading for language professionals and students alike.

Spread over a continuum

English Today ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-57
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Reference Book ◽  
British English ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Indian Journal ◽  
Oxford University Press

Below are some excerpts from Indian and British English: A Handbook of Usage and Pronunciation, by Paroo Nihalani, R. K. Tongue, and Priya Hosali (Oxford University Press, India, 1979, 3rd impression 1987, pp. 260, ISBN 0 19 561864 5, Rupees 50, £3.95). Of this work, the Indian Journal of Linguistics says: ‘It is invaluable as a handy reference book and should take its place on the reference-shelf of all Indians’, while The Hindu (Madras), calls it ‘an invaluable guide to those interested in the English language’. We endorse these comments.

scholarly journals Presupposition, assertion, and definite descriptions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Elbourne
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Definite Description ◽  
Definite Descriptions ◽  
Reference Book ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Existential Quantification ◽  
Oxford University Press

AbstractIn recent work on the semantics of definite descriptions, some theorists (Elbourne in Definite descriptions, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013; Schoubye in Noûs 47(3):496–533, 2013) have advocated broadly Fregean accounts, whereby a definite description ‘the F’ introduces a presupposition to the effect that there is exactly one F and refers to it if there is, while other theorists (Abbott, in: Gundel, Hedberg (eds) Reference: Interdisciplinary perspectives, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 61–72, 2008; Hawthorne and Manley in The reference book, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012) have advocated accounts whereby ‘the F’ introduces a presupposition to the effect that there is exactly one F but otherwise has the semantics of ‘an F’, introducing existential quantification. It is argued that the latter theories, since they have definite descriptions encode assertoric content to the effect that there is an F, have difficulty accounting for the felicity of ‘The F is G’ when it is already presupposed that there is an F.

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