• 'This book collects the best work of one of the world's most original linguistic thinkers… This is a book of real, enduring value.' -Folia Linguistica
• 'This collection of articles from Pieter Seuren, my first linguistics teacher, will introduce to a wider public one of linguistic's most original minds, a scholar who has never feared to tread his own path and whose students have benefitted not only from his insight but also from his example. The articles in this collection, ranging from formal semantics to Creole studies, raise essential questions at the heart of linguistic theory and practice.' -Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

This book collects the best work of one of the world's most original linguistic thinkers. In an extensive introduction Pieter Seuren describes the evolution of his theoretical position. He argues throughout the book that grammar and semantics should be studied as branches of cognitive science, developing and applying an elegant and explanatory theory of semantic syntax. The four parts, dealing with general theory, syntax, semantics, and the linguistics of creoles, include the author's most frequently cited papers plus several published in English for the first time. This is a book of real, enduring value.