This book provides a fine linguistic description of names referring to human beings in different ages of life (baby, child, etc.) and questions, along the way, how language conceptualizes facets constituting our identity (age, sex, occupation, ...).

The majority of recent linguistic studies about causality contrast its linguistic expression with the best known philosophical and scientific conceptions. Here the choice is to limit oneself strictly to the linguistic (hence pre-philosophical and pre-scientific) basis of the notion of cause.