Russell Richie

List of John Benjamins publications in which Russell Richie is involved.

Articles

Richie, Russell 2021 Chapter 6. Functionalism in the lexicon: Where is it, and how did it get there? Polylogues on The Mental Lexicon: An exploration of fundamental issues and directions, Libben, Gary †, Gonia Jarema and Victor Kuperman (eds.), pp. 143–186 | Chapter

Richie, Russell 2016 Functionalism in the lexicon: Where is it, and how did it get there? New Questions for the Next Decade, Jarema, Gonia, Gary Libben † and Victor Kuperman (eds.), pp. 429–466 | Article

Why do languages have the words they have, and not some other set of words? While certainly there is some arbitrariness in the lexicon (English ‘frog’ vs. Spanish ‘rana’), there is just as surely some systematicity or functionality in it as well. What exactly might the nature of this… read more