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Journals
ISSN 1568-1475 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9773
Sign Language & Linguistics
Edited by Roland Pfau and Pamela Perniss
ISSN 1387-9316 | E‑ISSN 1569‑996X
Software
Studies in Corpus Linguistics Software
General Editor: Elena Tognini-Bonelli
Online Resources
Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy
Edited by Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
E‑ISSN 1877‑9638
Bibliography of Pragmatics Online
Edited by Frank Brisard, Michael Meeuwis and Jef Verschueren
E‑ISSN 1877‑9646
Handbook of Pragmatics Online
Edited by Frank Brisard, Pedro Gras, Sigurd D’hondt and Mieke Vandenbroucke
E‑ISSN 1877‑9611
English Sentence Constructions
Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Tim Kassenberg, Merel Keijzer and Gregory J. Poarch
English Sentence Constructions departs from a usage-based theoretical perspective in which all language units -- which we refer to as constructions -- have both a meaning and form, and context is all-important in determining the function and form of these constructions. … read more[Not in series, 240] 2022. 261 pp.
Recurrent Gestures
Edited by Simon Harrison, Silva H. Ladewig and Jana Bressem
Special issue of Gesture 20:2 (2021) v, 177 pp.
English Resultatives: A force-recipient account
Seizi Iwata
The objective of this book is to develop a force-recipient account of English resultatives. Within this approach the post-verbal NP is a recipient of a verbal force, whether it is a subcategorized object or not, and the verbal force being exerted onto the post-verbal NP is responsible for bringing… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 26] 2020. xx, 549 pp.
Special Issue in Memory of Irit Meir
Edited by Diane Lillo-Martin, Wendy Sandler, Marie Coppola and Rose Stamp
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 23:1/2 (2020) vi, 285 pp.
Anthropology of Gesture
Edited by Heather Brookes and Olivier Le Guen
Special issue of Gesture 18:2/3 (2019) vi, 282 pp.
Impersonal human reference in Sign Languages
Edited by Gemma Barberà and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 21:2 (2018) v, 216 pp.
Sign Language Syntax from a Formal Perspective: Selected Papers from the 2012 Warsaw FEAST
Edited by Paweł Rutkowski
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 16:2 (2013) v, 166 pp.
Astronomy ‘playne and simple’: The writing of science between 1700 and 1900. Including CD-Rom: A Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA)
Edited by Isabel Moskowich and Begoña Crespo
This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA), together with a number of pilot studies using these texts showing how the corpus can be used to investigate English Astronomy writing between 1700… read more[Not in series, 173] 2012. xi, 240 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
New Methodologies in Sign Language Phonology: Papers from TISLR 10
Edited by Diane Brentari and Ronnie B. Wilbur
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 15:1 (2012) v, pp. 183
Nonmanuals in Sign Language
Edited by Annika Herrmann and Markus Steinbach
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 14:1 (2011) vi, 212 pp.
Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED)
Merja Kytö, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker
Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England examines various aspects of the witness depositions comprising An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED) on the accompanying CD-ROM.ETED combines modern corpus linguistic methodology and editorial theory, and makes available… read more[Not in series, 162] 2011. xxi, 360 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)
Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta
The corpus Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT) is the second component of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (CEEM), a three-part series of historical corpora of medical writing from 1375-1800. EMEMT contains a two-million word representative sample of the entire field of English… read more[Not in series, 160] 2010. xv, 370 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Gesture and Multimodal Development
Edited by Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti
Special issue of Gesture 10:2/3 (2010) vi, 232 pp.
The Linguistic Structure of Modern English
Laurel J. Brinton and Donna M. Brinton
This text is for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language, primary or secondary-school education, English stylistics, theoretical and applied linguistics, or speech pathology. The… read more[Not in series, 156] 2010. xx, 426 pp.
ConcGram 1.0: A phraseological search engine
Chris Greaves
ConcGram 1.0 is a corpus linguistics software package which is specifically designed to find all the co-occurrences of words in a text or corpus irrespective of variation. The software finds the co-occurrences fully automatically, in other words, the user inputs no prior search commands. These… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics Software, 1] 2009. CD-Rom
A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation: The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic)
Winnie Cheng, Chris Greaves and Martin Warren
The book is the first to apply David Brazil’s Discourse Intonation systems (prominence, tone, key and termination) to the study of a corpus of authentic, naturally-occurring spoken discourses. The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (prosodic) is made up of approximately one million words consisting… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 32] 2008. xi, 325 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
The Didactics of Audiovisual Translation
Edited by Jorge Díaz-Cintas
While complementing other volumes in the BTL series in its exploration of the state of the art of translator training, this collection of essays is solely focused on audiovisual translation, one of the most complex and dynamic areas of the translation discipline. The book offers an easily… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 77] 2008. xii, 263 pp.
Simultaneity in Signed Languages: Form and function
Edited by Myriam Vermeerbergen, Lorraine Leeson and Onno A. Crasborn
Signed language users can draw on a range of articulators when expressing linguistic messages, including the hands, torso, eye gaze, and mouth. Sometimes these articulators work in tandem to produce one lexical item while in other instances they operate to convey different types of information… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 281] 2007. viii, 360 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
C-ORAL-ROM: Integrated Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages
Edited by Emanuela Cresti and Massimo Moneglia
The C-ORAL-ROM book and DVD provide a unique set of comparable corpora of spontaneous speech for the main Romance languages, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The corpora are accompanied by comparative linguistic studies, models and standard linguistic measures of spoken language variability. read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 15] 2005. xviii, 304 pp. (incl. DVD)
Dublin English: Evolution and change
Raymond Hickey
The present book describes the English language in all its facets as spoken in present-day Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland. It covers the entire range of its history since the first arrival of English there several hundred years ago. Apart from the evolution of English in the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G35] 2005. x, 270 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Middle English Medical Texts
Compiled by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Martti Mäkinen
Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT) is an electronic corpus including 86 texts and 495,322 words from three traditions of medical writing (surgical treatises, specialized texts, and remedy books) from 1375 to 1500, and an appendix of recipes from c. 1330. MEMT provides a new research resource for… read more[Not in series, 131] 2005. CD-ROM
Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method
Edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch
This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages ‘different’ in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can subgrouping be… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 249] 2004. xii, 377 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
A Basis for Scientific and Engineering Translation: German-English-German
Michael Hann
This CD-rom and the accompanying handbook attack many of the most crucial difficulties encountered by both native and non-native English speakers when translating scientific and engineering material from German.The CD-rom is like a miniature encyclopaedia dealing with the fundamental conceptual… read more[Not in series, 123] 2004. xxxviii, 250 pp. (incl. CD-rom)
Linguistics Today – Facing a Greater Challenge
Edited by Piet van Sterkenburg
Every five years the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (CIPL) organises a world congress for linguists. And every five years the Committee faces the challenge of presenting a programme at the highest possible level. The CIPL Executive Committee decided for the Congress planned for 2003… read more[Not in series, 126] 2004. viii, 367 pp. (incl. CD Rom)
Translation Studies Bibliography
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
Translation and Interpreting (T&I) Studies comprises the young discipline dealing with transfer and mediation, containing aspects of intra- and interlingual translation, intercultural communication, adaptation, interpreting, localization, multimedia translation, language mediation, terminology and… read more[Online Resources Collection, TSB] 2004.
Bibliography and Handbook of Pragmatics Online (set)
Edited by Jef Verschueren
Linguistic Pragmatics is characterized by its continuous worldwide development into an extremely productive, innovative and intriguing research area within language studies. At www.benjamins.com/online we invite you to explore the entire range of topics that cover this interdisciplinary yet… read more[Online Resources Collection, BoPHoP S] 2003.
Bibliography of Pragmatics Online
Edited by Frank Brisard, Michael Meeuwis and Jef Verschueren
This annotated bibliography covers the broad field of linguistic pragmatics, conceived as the interdisciplinary cognitive, social, and cultural - science of natural language use.It incorporates all the bibliographical data from the renowned Comprehensive Bibliography of Pragmatics (1987), edited… read more[Online Resources Collection, BoP] 2003. Over 50.000 records
Corpus Presenter: Software for language analysis. With a manual and A Corpus of Irish English as sample data
Raymond Hickey
The current book together with the accompanying CD-ROM forms the Corpus Presenter suite which can be used to compile text corpora and to carry out retrieval tasks on any corpus or selection of text files, no matter what their source or how they are organised. The suite is designed to have a… read more[Not in series, 122] 2003. x, 292 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Handbook of Pragmatics Online
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use, using the authoritative Handbook of Pragmatics as a basis (edited by the IPrA Research Center since 1995).It provides easy access… read more[Online Resources Collection, HoP] 2003.
An Introduction to African Languages
G. Tucker Childs
This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate… read more[Not in series, 121] 2003. xx, 265 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Discourse Intonation in L2: From theory and research to practice
Dorothy M. Chun
Intonation, rhythm, and general “melody” of language are among the first aspects of speech that infants attend to and produce themselves. Yet, these same features are among the last to be mastered by adult L2 learners. Why is this, and how can L2 learners be helped? This book first presents the… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 1] 2002. xviii, 285 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
First Language Attrition, Use and Maintenance: The case of German Jews in anglophone countries
Monika S. Schmid
This book is a study of the L1 attrition of German among German Jews who emigrated to anglophone countries under the Nazi regime. It places the study of language attrition within the historical and sociocultural framework of Weimar and Nazi Germany, applying issues of identity and identification to… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 24] 2002. xiv, 259 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
A Source Book for Irish English
Raymond Hickey
The current book intends to provide a flexible and comprehensive bibliographical tool to those scholars working or interested in Irish English. A whole range of references (approx. 2,500) relating to Irish English in all its aspects are gathered together here and in the majority of cases… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 27] 2002. xii, 541 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole: The Sotavento varieties
Marlyse Baptista
This book offers an in-depth treatment of a variety of morpho-syntactic issues in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) both from a descriptive and theoretical perspective. The investigated topics include the determiner system, Tense, Mood, Aspect markers and pronominal paradigms. The study of TMA markers… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 54] 2002. xxii, 294 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course
Marjolijn H. Verspoor and Kim Sauter
English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course is designed as a 10-week course for students of English Language and Literature, Linguistics, or other language related fields. In 10 weeks the student will be proficient in English analysis at sentence, clause and phrase level and have a solid… read more[Not in series, 100] 2000. 237 pp.
The Structure of Modern English: A linguistic introduction
Laurel J. Brinton
The Structure of Modern English is an extensive introduction to all aspects of Modern English structure, including:PhonologyMorphologyLexical and sentence semanticsSyntaxPragmaticsThis text is for advanced undergraduate (and graduate) students interested in contemporary English, especially those… read more[Not in series, 94] 2000. xxii, 335 pp. (incl. workbook on CD-rom)
Ghanaian Pidgin English in its West African Context: A sociohistorical and structural analysis
Magnus Huber
This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPEs structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G24] 1999. xviii, 322 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)