Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. His research interests focus on processes of social cognition, social learning, and communication/language in human children and great apes. Books include First Verbs (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Primate Cognition (Oxford University Press, 1997, with J. Call), The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (Harvard University Press, 1999), Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (Harvard University Press, 2003), Origins of Human Communication (MIT Press, 2008), Why We Cooperate (MIT Press, 2009), and A Natural History of Human Thinking (Harvard University Press, 2014).

• Introduction to the Classic Edition, M. TomaselloIntroduction: A Cognitive-Functional Perspective on Language Structure, M. Tomasello Conceptualization, Symbolization, and Grammar, R.W. Langacker The Functional Approach to Grammar, T. Givón The Structure of Events and the Structure of Language, W. Croft Language and the Flow of Thought, W. Chafe The Semantics of English Causative Constructions in a Universal-Typological Perspective, A. Wierzbicka Emergent Grammar, P.J. Hopper Syntactic Constructions as Prototype Categories, J.R. Taylor Patterns of Experience in Patterns of Language, A.E. Goldberg The Acquisition of WH-Questions and the Mechanisms of Language Acquisition, R.D. Van Valin, Jr. Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration, G. Fauconnier

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