SubjectsLinguistics / Germanic linguistics
Book series
Studies in Germanic Linguistics
Edited by Michael T. Putnam, Laura Catharine Smith, David Natvig and Hanna Fischer
ISSN 2452-2120
Journals
ISSN 0172-8865 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9730
ISSN 0108-8416 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9715
Grammar through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Javier Pérez-Guerra, Yolanda Fernández-Pena and Ana Elina Martínez-Insua
This book brings together cutting-edge research on grammatical variation and change in English, showcasing the state of the art in contemporary corpus linguistics. The studies apply corpus-based and variationist methods to a wide range of grammatical categories (nominal, adjectival, verbal,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 128] 2026. vi, 281 pp. + index
A Linguistic Comparison of Chinese and English: Structural, functional, and typological perspectives
Chao Li
The book examines similarities and differences between Chinese and English from structural, functional, and typological perspectives. The linguistic comparison undertaken covers various aspects of the two languages, including, for example, typological features, the phonological system, the writing… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 239] 2026. xv, 399 pp.
Pardon my French?: Dutch–French language contact in the Netherlands (1500–1900)
Gijsbert Rutten, Andreas Krogull, Brenda Assendelft and Jill Puttaert
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Dutch–French contact situation in the Early and Late Modern period, when the Dutch language and culture supposedly underwent frenchification in various spheres of life. Bringing together empirical approaches based on a wide range of datasets,… read more
Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries
Edited by Christopher Joby and Nicoline van der Sijs
Whilst the Dutch language cannot be considered a world language in the manner of English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French, the fact that speakers of Dutch have sailed to the four corners of the earth means that it cannot be overlooked in language-contact studies. This volume brings together scholars… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 55] 2025. vi, 584 pp.
English across Borders: A reflexive approach to anglophone migrants’ repertoires
Axel Bohmann
This book presents an account of English in the communicative repertoires of anglophone West-Africans living in Southwestern Germany. Adopting an ethnographically grounded perspective, it analyzes how participants perceive and utilize English as well as other linguistic resources at their disposal… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G72] 2025. xi, 244 pp.
Germanic Interrelations: Studies in memory of Hans Frede Nielsen
Edited by Stephen Laker, Carla Falluomini, Steffen Krogh, Robert Nedoma and Michael Schulte
This volume celebrates Hans Frede Nielsen’s contribution to the field of Germanic studies and his work as founding editor of the journal and book series North-Western European Language Evolution. Twenty peer-reviewed articles explore a broad range of topics involving North and West Germanic… read more
Old Germanic Languages and Latin/Early Romance in Contact
Edited by Carla Falluomini
Special issue of NOWELE 78:1 (2025) v, 120 pp.
Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel
Edited by B. Richard Page and Michael T. Putnam
This volume pays homage to the legacy of William D. Keel and the significant impact of his research on German in contact settings from myriad perspectives and traditions. It includes structural and sociolinguistic studies focusing on varieties of German spoken throughout the world, including… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 10] 2025. vi, 275 pp.
The Development of Aspirated Fricatives in Gothic: A contact-linguistic perspective
Seiichi Suzuki
This book presents three major hypotheses concerning the development of fricatives in Gothic. First, Gothic introduced aspiration or a phonological feature [spread glottis] to the fricative system. Second, this acquisition of aspirated fricatives should be explained as a contact-induced change.… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 9] 2024. xix, 155 pp.
Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell
Edited by Jennifer Hendriks and B. Richard Page
This volume celebrates Robert B. Howell's wide-ranging contribution as a scholar, mentor, collaborator, and colleague in the field of Germanic linguistics. In addition to investigating present-day or past varieties of Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Flemish, German, and Pennsylvania Dutch, each of the… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 8] 2024. vi, 327 pp.
Keys to the History of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography. Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL
Edited by Thijs Porck, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon
This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The contributions deal with various aspects of English language across time and geographical space, shedding light on both long-term… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 363] 2024. vii, 235 pp.
The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: A corpus-based study of grammatical change
Xinyue Yao
This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and British English. Drawing on neo-Gricean pragmatics, it proposes a novel and principled analysis of the verb forms’ context-independent meanings… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 114] 2024. xvii, 235 pp.
Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types. Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL
Edited by Luisella Caon, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck
This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The chapters deal with aspects of language use throughout the history of English, including efforts to prescribe and regulate… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 364] 2024. viii, 253 pp.
Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages
Edited by Evie Coussé, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt and Julia Prentice
This volume presents eight studies of linguistic phenomena in Nordic languages (notably Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) from a construction grammar perspective. The contributions both deepen and widen the focus of construction grammar applied to Nordic languages by dealing with a variety of topics,… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 37] 2023. v, 278 pp.
The Ditransitive Alternation in Present-Day German: A corpus-based analysis
Hilde De Vaere
The ditransitive (or “dative”) alternation is a much-studied phenomenon in contemporary linguistics. This monograph is the first to address the alternation in present-day written German from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. As well as providing a corpus-based analysis of extensively… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 6] 2023. xviii, 333 pp.
Ditransitives in Germanic Languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects
Edited by Eva Zehentner, Melanie Röthlisberger and Timothy Colleman
This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past and present. Specifically, the volume includes contributions on a wide variety of Germanic languages, including English, Dutch, and German, but also Danish, Swedish,… read more
English Complex Words: Exercises in construction and translation
Piotr Twardzisz
English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages. It offers today’s broadest available coverage of English prefixation, suffixation and compounding. Comprising a treasury of real language… read more[Not in series, 242] 2023. xi, 392 pp.
New Englishes, New Methods
Edited by Guyanne Wilson and Michael Westphal
There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions in this volume critically explore the gamut of familiar and unfamiliar methods applied in data collection and analysis in order to… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G68] 2023. viii, 276 pp.
Saipanese English: Local and global sociolinguistic trends
Dominique B. Hess
In this volume, the emergence of English in Saipan is examined in the complex context of its colonial past. The focus lies on the influence of the American era on the linguistic outcomes in Saipan. Sociolinguistic interviews with indigenous Chamorros and Saipan Carolinians were analyzed using… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G69] 2023. xx, 249 pp.
The Sociophonetics of Dublin English: Phonetic realisation and sociopragmatic variation
Marion Schulte
The Sociophonetics of Dublin English shows how social inequalities and language are connected by the stances speakers take in interaction. It is based on an instrumental phonetic analysis of recorded interviews and broadcasting data and a detailed qualitative account of the same data as well as the… read more
Theme in English and German: A corpus-based contrastive analysis of clause openings in original and translated texts
Jonas Freiwald
This book represents a detailed discussion and corpus analysis of Theme in English and German originals and translations. The empirical results are based on thousands of clauses from four different registers, cover a variety of linguistic aspects including multiple Themes, marked Themes,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 112] 2023. xiii, 297 pp.
Collocations as a Language Resource: A functional and cognitive study in English phraseology
Sonja Poulsen
Are collocations problems or solutions to problems? If you take the perspective of the foreign learner, as in traditional phraseology, they are certainly challenging, and they have therefore been categorized as arbitrary, or even defective, deviations from an assumed norm of full compositionality.… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 71] 2022. xvi, 348 pp.
Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda: A multifactorial analysis of linguistic features
Christopher D. Sapp
This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda , perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age. This study compares the anonymous Eddic poems to dated skaldic poems with respect to five phenomena that develop diachronically in early… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 5] 2022. xii, 246 pp.
Discourse Structuring Markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions for how to do so. The empirical domain is the development of Discourse Structuring… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 33] 2022. xviii, 274 pp.
Earlier North American Englishes
Edited by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers
Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twenty-first century. To throw light on the linguistics of North American Englishes and their socio-historical contexts, this volume brings together research from various traditions,… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G66] 2022. viii, 261 pp.
English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact. Papers from the XXth ICEHL
Edited by Bettelou Los, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux
This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. It showcases a wide variety of historical linguistic approaches, including ‘big data’ analyses of large corpora,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 359] 2022. vi, 185 pp.
English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning. Papers from the XXth ICEHL
Edited by Bettelou Los, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale
This volume contains a set of articles based on papers selected from those delivered at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018). It focuses on cutting-edge research in the history of English, while reflecting the diversity that exists in the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 358] 2022. viii, 349 pp.
English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current issues
Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Evelien Keizer
Despite a significant increase in interest over the last two decades in the English Noun Phrase, there are still many open questions and unexplored issues. The papers collected in this volume contribute to this ongoing research by addressing a range of topics concerning the internal structure, use… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 221] 2022. vii, 433 pp.
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.
From West to North Frisia: A Journey along the North Sea Coast. Frisian studies in honour of Jarich Hoekstra
Edited by Alastair Walker, Eric Hoekstra, Goffe Jensma, Wendy Vanselow, Willem Visser and Christoph Winter
This volume contains 25 articles covering a wide array of subjects, reflecting the breadth of scholarship of one of today’s leading experts in the field of Frisian Studies. The articles, written mostly in English and German, encompass a temporal range from Old Frisian to Modern Frisian and a… read more
Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications
Edited by Alba E. Ruz, Cristina Fernández-Alcaina and Cristina Lara-Clares
The focus of Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications is on the relevance of paradigms for linguistic description. Paradigmatic organization has traditionally been considered an inherent feature of inflectional morphology, but research in the last decades clearly shows the existence of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 225] 2022. vii, 382 pp.
Pejorative Suffixes and Combining Forms in English
José A. Sánchez Fajardo
The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the concept of linguistic pejoration, and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms, such as -ie, -o, -ard, -holic, -rrhea, -itis, -porn, -ish, in the formation of English pejoratives. The examination of the inner structure of the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 222] 2022. xvi, 229 pp.
Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English: Records of communities and people
Olga Timofeeva
This is the first extensive study of Old English to utilise the insights and methodologies of sociolinguistics. Building on previous philological and historical work, it takes into account the sociology and social dialectology of Old English and offers a description of its speech communities… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 13] 2022. xv, 204 pp.
Early history of the North Sea Germanic languages
Edited by Stephen Laker and Hans Frede Nielsen †
Special issue of NOWELE 74:1 (2021) v, 151 pp.
Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey N. Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan
The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference grammars. But GSWE is unique in that it gives equal attention to describing… read more[Not in series, 232] 2021. xxxv, 1220 pp.
Historical Germanic morphosyntax
Edited by Stephen Laker and John Ole Askedal
Special issue of NOWELE 74:2 (2021) v, 155 pp.
The Sociopragmatics of Stance: Community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trials
Peter J. Grund
Anchored in historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, this book weaves together a powerful narrative of the significance of stance marking in the history of English. Focusing on the community of practice that developed during the witch trials in Salem… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 329] 2021. ix, 246 pp.
The Swedish FrameNet++: Harmonization, integration, method development and practical language technology applications
Edited by Dana Dannélls, Lars Borin and Karin Friberg Heppin
Large computational lexicons are central NLP resources. Swedish FrameNet++ aims to be a versatile full-scale lexical resource for NLP containing many kinds of linguistic information. Although focused on Swedish, this ongoing effort, which includes building a new Swedish framenet and recycling… read more
Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English
Edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola
This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be it from Old English to the present, or a shorter time span in the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 96] 2020. xii, 305 pp.
The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English
Edited by Matti Peikola and Birte Bös
This volume explores the complex relations of texts and their contextualising elements, drawing particularly on the notions of paratext, metadiscourse and framing. It aims at developing a more comprehensive historical understanding of these phenomena, covering a wide time span, from Old English to… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 317] 2020. vii, 313 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.
Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft verbs in English and German
Ryan Dux
While verb classes are a mainstay of linguistic research, the field lacks consensus on precisely what constitutes a verb class. This book presents a novel approach to verb classes, employing a bottom-up, corpus-based methodology and combining key insights from Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar,… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 28] 2020. x, 320 pp.
Late Modern English: Novel encounters
Edited by Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg
The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, spelling and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 214] 2020. vii, 359 pp.
Norwegian Verb Particles
Leiv Inge Aa
This book aims to explain the syntax and semantics of Norwegian verb particles. While particles have been claimed to be distributed optionally to the left (as LPrt) or right (as RPrt) of an associated DP in the linguistic literature, the dialectologically oriented literature has shown for a long… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 4] 2020. ix, 184 pp.
Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents
Edited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs
English local documents – leases, wills, accounts, letters and the like – provide a unique resource for historical sociolinguistics. Abundant from the early fifteenth century, they represent the language and concerns of people from a wide range of social, institutional and geographical backgrounds.… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 11] 2020. ix, 310 pp.
Runic Inscriptions and the Early History of the Germanic Languages
Edited by Robert Nedoma and Hans Frede Nielsen †
Special issue of NOWELE 73:1 (2020) v, 192 pp.
Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö
Edited by Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson
This volume provides a diachronic and synchronic overview of linguistic variability and change in involved, speech-related and spoken texts in English. While previous works on the topic have focused on more limited time periods, this book covers data from the 16th century up to the present day. The… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 97] 2020. xiii, 348 pp.
Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads
Edited by Renata Szczepaniak and Johanna Flick
This volume focuses on the grammaticalization of the definite article in German. It contains eight empirically-based papers which examine individual stages of the grammaticalization path from its beginnings as a demonstrative to the definite article and beyond. Focusing on cognitive, pragmatic,… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 23] 2020. vi, 253 pp.
Agreement in Language Contact: Gender development in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Florian Dolberg
Gender in English changed dramatically from the elaborate system found in Old English to the very simple he/she/it-alternation in use from (late) Middle English onwards. While either system is well described and understood, the change from one to the other is anything but: more than 120 years of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 208] 2019. xxi, 351 pp.
The Carthaginian North: Semitic influence on early Germanic: A linguistic and cultural study
Robert Mailhammer and Theo Vennemann
This book presents a new and innovative theory on the origin of the Germanic languages. This theory presents solutions to four pivotal problems in the history of Germanic with critical implications for cultural history: the origin of the Germanic writing system (the Runic alphabet), the genesis of… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 32] 2019. xiii, 268 pp.
A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian
Gertjan Postma
Pomeranian is the West Germanic language spoken by European emigrants who went from Farther Pomerania (present-day Poland) to Brazil in the period 1857–1887. This language is no longer spoken in cohesive societies in Europe, but the language has survived and is in remarkably good shape on this… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 248] 2019. xxxi, 312 pp.
A Dependency Grammar of English: An introduction and beyond
Timothy Osborne
Dependency grammar (DG) is an approach to the syntax of natural languages with a long and venerable tradition, yet awareness of its potential to serve as a basis for principled analyses of natural language syntax is minimal due to the predominance of phrase structure grammar (PSG). This book… read more[Not in series, 224] 2019. ix, 447 pp.
Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax
Edited by Claudia Claridge and Birte Bös
Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 346] 2019. vi, 312 pp.
Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world
Edited by Raymond Hickey
The current volume presents a number of chapters which look at informal vernacular letters, written mostly by emigrants to the former colonies of Britain, who settled at these locations in the past few centuries, with a focus on letters from the nineteenth century. Such documents often show… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 10] 2019. x, 289 pp.
Language Planning as Nation Building: Ideology, policy and implementation in the Netherlands, 1750–1850
Gijsbert Rutten
The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst these international events, the case of Dutch in the Netherlands offers… read more
Learning the Language of Dentistry: Disciplinary corpora in the teaching of English for Specific Academic Purposes
Peter Crosthwaite and Lisa Cheung
This book explores the affordances of disciplinary corpora for the teaching and learning of the language of dentistry, within the field of English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP). We extract disciplinary register features and vocabulary from three key genres of the dentistry discipline… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 93] 2019. xiv, 222 pp.
Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English
Sofia Rüdiger
Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English presents fundamental research on the use of English by South Korean speakers. Despite the extraordinary and vibrant status of the English language in South Korean society (demonstrated, for example, by the notion of English Fever), research on the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G62] 2019. xvii, 228 pp.
Morphological Variation: Theoretical and empirical perspectives
Edited by Antje Dammel and Oliver Schallert
Morphological variation is a rather young, yet fascinating topic to study in its own right because it offers challenging evidence both for the autonomy of morphology (morphomic processes) as well as for its tight interconnection with other grammatical domains, notably phonology and syntax. Covering… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 207] 2019. v, 345 pp.
Norms and Conventions in the History of English
Edited by Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge
This volume explores changing norms and conventions in the English language, as displayed in a broad range of historical data from more than five centuries. The contributions discuss the interplay of sociocultural conditions, specific discourse traditions and structural aspects of language, paying… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 347] 2019. v, 215 pp.
The Northumbrian Old English glosses
Edited by Elly van Gelderen
Special issue of NOWELE 72:2 (2019) v, 154 pp.
Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English
Edited by Sandra Jansen and Lucia Siebers
The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the existing literature by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective of aspects of change in English from around 1700 until the present… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 21] 2019. vii, 263 pp.
Semantic Plurality: English collective nouns and other ways of denoting pluralities of entities
Laure Gardelle
This monograph proposes a comparative approach to all the ways of denoting ‘more than one’ entity, from collective and aggregate nouns (with the first-ever typology), to count plurals, partly substantivised adjectives and conjoined NPs. This semantic feature approach to plurality, which cuts across… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 349] 2019. x, 215 pp.
Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015)
Edited by Paul Simpson
This commemorative volume comprises ten essays which celebrate the work of Walter (Bill) Nash. Bill Nash was an extraordinary scholar – a classicist, parodist, critic, musician, linguist, poet, polyglot, humourist and novelist. He was as adroit in his reading of the Old Norse sagas as he was in his… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 34] 2019. ix, 205 pp.
Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco
This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900. It pays particular attention to English History writing in late Modern English as compiled in the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), a newly released sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus of… read more[Not in series, 225] 2019. vii, 278 pp.
Advances in Gothic Philology and Linguistics
Edited by Alexandra Holsting and Hans Frede Nielsen †
Special issue of NOWELE 71:2 (2018) v, 145 pp.
A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages
R.D. Fulk
Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German, along… read more
Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
The last three decades have seen the emergence of Construction Grammar as a major research paradigm in linguistics. At the same time, very few researchers have taken a constructionist perspective on language contact phenomena. This volume brings together, for the first time, a broad range of… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 24] 2018. vi, 316 pp.
Explorations in English Historical Syntax
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert and Charlotte Maekelberghe
The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 198] 2018. viii, 312 pp.
Germanic Genitives
Edited by Tanja Ackermann, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer
The papers in this volume focus on the dynamics of one specific cell in morphological paradigms – the genitive. The high amount of diachronic and synchronic variation in all Germanic languages makes the genitive a particularly interesting phenomenon since it allows us, for example, to examine… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 193] 2018. vi, 327 pp.
Norwegian Discourse Ellipsis: Clausal architecture and licensing conditions
Mari Nygård
This book develops a grammar model which accounts for discourse ellipses in spoken Norwegian. This is a previously unexplored area, which has also been sparsely investigated internationally. The model takes an exoskeletal view, where lexical items are inserted late and where syntactic structure is… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 2] 2018. xii, 245 pp.
The Noun Phrase in English: Past and present
Edited by Alex Ho-Cheong Leung and Wim van der Wurff
Building on a substantial earlier literature, the chapters in this volume further advance knowledge and understanding of properties of the noun phrase in English. The empirical material for the papers includes both historical and present-day data, with the two often shedding light on each other in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 246] 2018. v, 229 pp.
Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus… read more
Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic
Elżbieta Adamczyk
The book is a comprehensive corpus study of analogical developments in the nominal morphology of four Northern West Germanic languages: Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon and Old Low Franconian. It examines the patterns of reorganisation of the nominal paradigms, focusing on the analogical… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 31] 2018. xxvii, 572 pp.
Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes
Edited by Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte
At a time when the paradigm gap (Sridhar & Sridhar 1986) between the EFL and ESL research areas is attracting much scholarly attention, the contributions in the current volume explore this gap from the perspective of linguistic innovations across the two different types of non-native Englishes. In… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 98] 2018. vi, 223 pp.
Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English
Edited by Peter Petré, Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D'hoedt
The chapters collected in this volume examine how the sociohistorical and cultural context may influence structural features of lexis and text types. Each paper pays particular attention to social ‘labels’ and attitudes (conservative, religious, ideological, endearing, or other), thereby focusing… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 343] 2018. viii, 258 pp.
Untersuchungen zu den Gründungsdokumenten der färöischen Rechtschreibung: Ein Beitrag zur nordischen Schriftgeschichte
Christer Lindqvist
Die färöische Gegenwartsorthographie ging nicht wie die moderne Rechtschreibung vieler Sprachen aus einer jahrhundertelangen Schrifttradition hervor, sondern wurde im Wesentlichen im 19. Jh. neu erschaffen. Ihre Gründungsdokumente bestehen aus vier färöischen Zaubersprüchen, die in einer bis Mitte… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 29] 2018. xx, 312 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
The Dawn of Dutch: Language contact in the Western Low Countries before 1200
Michiel de Vaan
The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even… read more
Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse
Edited by Minna Palander-Collin, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen
The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For example, audience engagement is by no means an invention of the digital age. This collection highlights major topics that range from newspaper genres like… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 6] 2017. vii, 301 pp.
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE
Alexandra D'Arcy
Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 187] 2017. xx, 235 pp.
Integration, Identity and Language Maintenance in Young Immigrants: Russian Germans or German Russians
Edited by Ludmila Isurin and Claudia Maria Riehl
The volume presents a selection of contributions related to integration, adaptation, language attitudes and language change among young Russian-speaking immigrants in Germany. At the turn of the century, Germany, which defined itself as a mono-ethnic and mono-racial society, has become a country… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 44] 2017. vii, 285 pp.
Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian
Edited by Höskuldur Thráinsson, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen and Zakaris Svabo Hansen
This book presents the latest research on the syntax of the “Insular Scandinavian” languages (Faroese and Icelandic), with contributions from thirteen experts, and a significant introductory chapter by the four editors. The topics covered include some that have figured extensively in recent… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 1] 2017. v, 343 pp.
'The Conditioned and the Unconditioned': Late Modern English texts on philosophy. incl. CD-rom: A Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Gonzalo Camiña, Inés Lareo and Begoña Crespo
This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT), together with a number of pilot studies that demonstrate how the corpus can be used to investigate English philosophy writing in the eighteenth and… read more[Not in series, 198] 2016. xi, 182 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)
Bare Argument Ellipsis and Focus
Andreas Konietzko
This monograph explores the syntax and information structure of bare argument ellipsis. The study concentrates on stripping, which is identified as a subtype of bare argument ellipsis typically associated with focus sensitive particles or negation. This monograph presents a unified account of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 233] 2016. xi, 182 pp.
Contrastive Pragmatics and Translation: Evaluation, epistemic modality and communicative styles in English and German
Svenja Kranich
This book provides the first comprehensive account of English-German pragmatic contrasts in written discourse and their effects on English-German translations. The novel and multi-dimensional corpus-based studies of business communication and popular science writing presented in this book combine… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 261] 2016. xiv, 204 pp.
Element Order in Old English and Old High German Translations
Anna Cichosz, Jerzy Gaszewski and Piotr Pęzik
This book is the first comprehensive corpus study of element order in Old English and Old High German, which brings to light numerous differences between these two closely related languages. The study’s innovative approach relies on translated texts, which allows the authors to tackle the problem… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 28] 2016. xvii, 424 pp.
Emotive Interjections in British English: A corpus-based study on variation in acquisition, function and usage
Ulrike Stange-Hundsdörfer
Emotive Interjections in British English: A corpus-based study on variation in acquisition, function and usage constitutes the first in-depth corpus-based study on the use of emotive interjections in Present Day British English. In a novel approach, it systematically distinguishes between child and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 75] 2016. xxi, 221 pp.
English in the Netherlands: Functions, forms and attitudes
Alison Edwards
This volume provides the first comprehensive investigation of the Netherlands in the World Englishes paradigm. It explores the history of English contact, the present spread of English and attitudes towards English in the Netherlands. It describes the development and analysis of the Corpus of Dutch… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G56] 2016. xv, 271 pp.
Grammarians, Skalds and Rune Carvers I
Edited by Robert Nedoma and Michael Schulte
Special issue of NOWELE 69:1 (2016) v, 112 pp.
Grammarians, Skalds and Rune Carvers II
Edited by Michael Schulte and Robert Nedoma
Special issue of NOWELE 69:2 (2016) v, 123 pp.
The Idiom Principle and L1 Influence: A contrastive learner-corpus study of delexical verb + noun collocations
Ying Wang
This book examines delexical verb + noun collocations such as make a decision, give rise to and take care of in Swedish and Chinese learner English. Using a methodological framework that combines learner corpus research with a contrastive perspective, the study is one of the very few in the field… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 77] 2016. xii, 249 pp.
A Middle English Syntax: Parts of speech
Tauno F. Mustanoja
For a good orientation into the history of English grammar, several books are indispensable. One of those is Mustanoja’s A Middle English Syntax. However, for a long time this work was not readily available; the present edition changes that. This is a fac simile reprint from the 1960 publication… read more[Not in series, 207] 2016. ix, 702 pp.
New Approaches to English Linguistics: Building bridges
Edited by Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja and Sarah Chevalier
This book aims at providing a cross-section of current developments in English linguistics, by tracing recent approaches to corpus linguistics and statistical methodology, by introducing new inter- and multidisciplinary refinements to empirical methodology, and by documenting the on-going emphasis… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 177] 2016. vi, 326 pp.
Quantifying Expressions in the History of German: Syntactic reanalysis and morphological change
Dorian Roehrs and Christopher D. Sapp
This study describes the 1200-year history of German quantifying expressions like nîoman anderro > niemand anderer ‘nobody else’, analyzing the morpho-syntactic developments within the generative framework. The quantifiers examined arose from various lexical sources/categories (nouns, adjectives,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 230] 2016. xvii, 299 pp.
Requests in American and British English: A contrastive multi-method analysis
Ilka Flöck
This volume encompasses a thorough examination of the use of request strategies on two contrastive dimensions. On the cross-cultural dimension, it compares the use of British and American English request strategies in naturally occurring informal conversations. The conversational data are retrieved… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 265] 2016. xvi, 264 pp.
Semantic Structure in English
Jim Feist
Syntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a structure in the meaning that is expressed in the syntax and phonology. Some writers use the phrase “semantic structure”, but are referring to conceptual… read more
Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US
Edited by Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo, Catherine M. Mazak and M. Carmen Parafita Couto
This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United States. In thirteen chapters, it brings together the work of leading scholars representing diverse disciplinary perspectives within linguistics,… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 11] 2016. viii, 326 pp.
World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations
Edited by Elena Seoane and Cristina Suárez-Gómez
This book provides a collection of articles that reflect the current state of affairs in the blossoming field of World Englishes by bringing together several innovative synchronic and diachronic approaches. It contributes to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the criteria that make a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G57] 2016. viii, 285 pp.
Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse
Edited by Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl
This volume explores the dynamics of genre conventions in historical English news discourse. The contributions cover a wide spectrum of news writing and publication formats: from corantos to modern tabloids, from prototypical hard news stories and crime reports to more specialised genres such as… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 5] 2015. xiv, 254 pp.
Early Germanic Languages in Contact
Edited by John Ole Askedal and Hans Frede Nielsen †
This volume contains revised and, in some cases, extended versions of twelve of the fourteen lectures read at the conference on “Early Germanic Languages in Contact” held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense on 22-23 August 2013 – with a paper and a review article added at the end on… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 27] 2015. x, 304 pp.
Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change
Edited by Janne Bondi Johannessen † and Joseph C. Salmons
This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The… read more
Grammatical Change in English World-Wide
Edited by Peter Collins
The contributions to this volume apply and extend the techniques of corpus linguistics and diachronic linguistics to the challenge of describing and explaining grammatical change in varieties of English world-wide. The book is divided into two parts, with ten chapters on ‘Inner Circle’ varieties… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 67] 2015. vi, 488 pp.
Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Edited by Paula Prescod
This collection is a pioneer study of linguistic phenomena in St Vincent and the Grenadines, written by scholars who are both respected in their field of research and connected to the linguistic realities in the geographic area under investigation. This book covers the subfields of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G51] 2015. xv, 191 pp.
The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English
Tobias Bernaisch
This book offers the first in-depth corpus-based description of written Sri Lankan English. In comparison to British and Indian English, lexical and lexicogrammatical features of Sri Lankan English are analysed in a complex corpus environment comprising data from the respective components of the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G54] 2015. xiv, 248 pp.
Norn im keltischen Kontext
Christer Lindqvist
Auch die Britischen Inseln waren von der wikingerzeitlichen Expansion ab dem 8. Jh. betroffen. Nördlich und westlich des dänischen Danelag in England entstanden norwegische Siedlungen auf den Shetland- und Orkneyinseln, in Nordschottland, auf den Hebriden, an der schottischen und nordenglischen… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 26] 2015. xxii, 261 pp.
Pragmatic Markers in Irish English
Edited by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan
Pragmatic Markers in Irish English offers 18 studies from the perspective of variational pragmatics by established and younger scholars with an interest in the English of Ireland. Taking a broad definition of pragmatic markers (PMs) as items operating outside the structural limits of the clause… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 258] 2015. vi, 443 pp.
Researching Northern English
Edited by Raymond Hickey
Northern English has become the focus of intensive research in the past decade or so, following on a series of dedicated conferences. The present book brings together leading-edge contributions on various aspects of language use, variation and change in the North of England. The volume covers the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G55] 2015. x, 483 pp.
The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes
Robert B. Dewell
The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken in this area of German grammar. Using an extensive collection of naturally occurring data, the author proposes an image-schematic interpretation for each of the productive prefixes be-, ver-, er-, ent-, zer-, um-,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 49] 2015. xiii, 284 pp.
A Sociophonetic Approach to Scottish Standard English
Ole Schützler
Applying a sociophonetic research paradigm, this volume presents an investigation of variation and change in the Scottish Standard English accent. Based on original audio recordings made in Edinburgh, it provides detailed acoustic and auditory analyses of selected accent features. In contrast to… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G53] 2015. xx, 179 pp.
South Pacific Englishes: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan English and Cook Islands English
Carolin Biewer
Second-language varieties of English in the South Pacific have received scant attention, until now. This monograph offers the first book-length analysis of the sociolinguistics and morphosyntax of three representatives of South Pacific L2 English in comparison – two of which have never been… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G52] 2015. xvi, 351 pp.
Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language
Edited by Kristine Bentzen, Henrik Rosenkvist and Janne Bondi Johannessen †
Övdalian is spoken in central Sweden by about 2000 speakers. Traditionally categorized as a dialect of Swedish, it has not received much international attention. However, Övdalian is typologically closer to Faroese or Icelandic than it is to Swedish, and since it has been spoken in relative… read more
Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English
Edited by Marina Dossena
The volume presents an innovative approach to studies in Late Modern English by giving attention to variation and change in varieties of English on both sides of the Atlantic. As new corpora become available, scholarly interests broaden their horizons to encompass varieties, the history of which… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 4] 2015. vii, 221 pp.
Adjectives in Germanic and Romance
Edited by Petra Sleeman, Freek Van de Velde and Harry Perridon
Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate syntactic and morphological category, the syntax, morphology, and interpretation of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 212] 2014. vii, 286 pp.
Bavarian Syntax: Contributions to the theory of syntax
Edited by Günther Grewendorf and Helmut Weiß
Dialect syntax has proven to be an invaluable data source for theoretical syntax, and theoretical syntax has provided useful analytical tools for uncovering fascinating grammatical properties of dialects. In the 1980s, the assumption that there must be more than one structural position in the left… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 220] 2014. vi, 339 pp.
Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English
Edited by Simone E. Pfenninger, Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier
The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change, (socio)linguistic research on variation, and contact linguistics. Drawing on a range of recently-developed methodological innovations, such… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 159] 2014. vi, 326 pp.
The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond
Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch
This two-part volume provides a collection of 27 linguistic studies and contributions that shed light on the evolution of different Englishes world-wide (varieties, learner Englishes, dialects, creoles) from a broad spectrum of different perspectives, including both synchronic and diachronic… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G49] 2014. xviii, 513 pp.
A History of the English Language: Revised edition
Elly van Gelderen
The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most suggestions brought up by users and reviewers have been incorporated, for instance, a… read more[Not in series, 183] 2014. xx, 338 pp.
Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Kristin Bech and Kristine Gunn Eide
The contributions of this volume offer new perspectives on the relation between syntax and information structure in the history of Germanic and Romance languages, focusing on English, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. In… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 213] 2014. vii, 421 pp.
Intersubjectivity and Intersubjectification in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical and descriptive advances
Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde
Recent years saw a growing interest in the study of subjectivity, as the linguistic expression of speaker involvement. Intersubjectivity, defined by Traugott as "the linguistic expression of a speaker/writer's attention to the hearer/reader", on the other hand, has so far received little explicit… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 65] 2014. vi, 161 pp.
Korean English: A corpus-driven study of a new English
Glenn Hadikin
The English language is changing every day and it is us – the individual speakers and writers – that drive those changes in small ways by choosing to use certain strings of words over others. This book discusses and describes some of the choices made by speakers from South Korea by examining the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 62] 2014. xiv, 192 pp.
Letters as Loot: A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch
Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal
The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of letters focussing on a unique collection of Dutch private letters from… read more
Old Northumbrian Verbal Morphosyntax and the (Northern) Subject Rule
Marcelle Cole
This volume provides both a quantitative statistical and qualitative analysis of Late Northumbrian verbal morphosyntax as recorded in the Old English interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels. It focuses in particular on the attestation of the subject type and adjacency constraints that… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 25] 2014. xvii, 286 pp.
Qualitative-Quantitative Analyses of Dutch and Afrikaans Grammar and Lexicon
Robert S. Kirsner
Sharing certain assumptions but differing in theory and practice, both Columbia School linguistics (CS) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) have increasingly supported their analyses with quantitative evidence. Citation of individual sentences, in isolation or in context, has been supplemented with counts… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 67] 2014. xi, 239 pp.
Symmetry Breaking in Syntax and the Lexicon
Leah S. Bauke
This book is a research monograph that explores the implications of the strongest minimalist thesis from an antisymmetric perspective. Three empirical domains are investigated: nominal root compounds in German and English, nominal gerunds in English and their German counterparts, and small clauses… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 216] 2014. xi, 304 pp.
Unity and Diversity in West Germanic, III
Edited by Hans Frede Nielsen † and Patrick V. Stiles
Special issue of NOWELE 67:1 (2014) v, 129 pp.
The Acquisition of the German Case System by Foreign Language Learners
Kristof Baten
This is the first book on the acquisition of the German case system by foreign language learners. It explores how learners in their interlanguage progress from the total absence to the presence of a case system. This development is characterized by an evolvement from marking the argument’s position… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 2] 2013. xvii, 304 pp.
Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories
Edited by Gabriele Diewald, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer
This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories, even though they… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 138] 2013. vi, 318 pp.
The Discursive Construction of the Scots Language: Education, politics and everyday life
Johann Wolfgang Unger
This monograph is about how the Scots language is discursively constructed, both from ‘above’ (through texts such as educational policies, debates in parliament and official websites) and from ‘below’ (in focus group discussions among Scottish people). It uses the interdisciplinary… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 51] 2013. xvi, 178 pp.
Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech
Sandra Götz
This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and nonnative speech.… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 53] 2013. xxiii, 238 pp.
German Colour Terms: A study in their historical evolution from earliest times to the present
William Jervis Jones
This monograph provides, for the first time, a comprehensive historical analysis of German colour words from early beginnings to the present, based on data obtained from over one thousand texts.Part 1 reviews previous work in colour linguistics. Part 2 describes and documents the formation of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 119] 2013. xiv, 663 pp.
In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque
Edited by Terje Lohndal
This volume in honor of Jan Terje Faarlund covers the areas in which he has contributed to linguistic theorizing, ranging from in-depth studies of Norwegian and Scandinavian grammar both synchronically and diachronically, to work on the Indian language Chiapas Zoque. The book is organized… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 202] 2013. vi, 361 pp.
Investigation of the Origin of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language: New edition of the 1993 English translation by Niels Ege
Rasmus Rask (1787–1832)
This edition constitutes a reprint of Niels Ege’s English translation of Rasmus Rask’s prize essay of 1818, which appeared as volume XXVI in the Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague in 1993. The prize essay was published in Danish in 1818. In contrast to other works by Rask, notably his… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 18] 2013. *lv , xii, 289 pp.
On Language Diversity and Relationship from Bibliander to Adelung
George J. Metcalf
From the Renaissance onwards, European scholars began to collect and study the various languages of the Old and the New Worlds. The recognition of language diversity encouraged them to explain how differences between languages emerged, why languages kept changing, and in what language families they… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 120] 2013. viii, 181 pp.
The Regularity of the 'Irregular' Verbs and Nouns in English
Elena Even-Simkin and Yishai Tobin
This volume presents an in-depth study of the so-called irregular Past Tense (sing/sang) and Noun Plural (foot/feet) forms with Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in English demonstrating that they possess both a fixed phonological and semantic regularity. The innovative sign-oriented analysis and… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 66] 2013. xvii, 273 pp.
Syntactic Variation and Verb Second: A German dialect in Northern Italy
Federica Cognola
This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Mòcheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy. Basing her study on detailed new data collected during extensive fieldwork, and focusing on finite verb movement; on multiple access to the left periphery;… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 201] 2013. xii, 325 pp.
Unity and Diversity in West Germanic, I
Edited by Hans Frede Nielsen † and Patrick V. Stiles
Special issue of NOWELE 66:1 (2013) v, 128 pp.
Unity and Diversity in West Germanic, II
Edited by Hans Frede Nielsen † and Patrick V. Stiles
Special issue of NOWELE 66:2 (2013) v, 126 pp.
Affectivity in Interaction: Sound objects in English
Elisabeth Reber
How do participants display affectivity in social interaction? Based on recordings of authentic everyday conversations and radio phone-ins, this study offers a fine-grained analysis of how recipients of affect-laden informings deploy sound objects, i.e. interjections (oh, ooh and ah) and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 215] 2012. ix, 281 pp.
The Anglicization of European Lexis
Edited by Cristiano Furiassi, Virginia Pulcini and Félix Rodríguez González
This volume explores the lexical influence of English on European languages, a topical theme with linguistic and cultural implications. It provides an extensive introductory background to a cross-national view of English-induced lexical borrowing, posing crucial analytical questions such as what… read more[Not in series, 174] 2012. ix, 356 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)
A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative: With special reference to Japanese imperatives
Hidemitsu Takahashi
This volume offers the first comprehensive description of English imperatives made from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. It proposes a new way of explaining the meaning and function of the imperative independently of illocutionary act classifications, which allows for quantifying the strength of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 35] 2012. xvii, 242 pp.
Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art
Edited by Peter Ackema, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest for syntactic theory… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 191] 2012. xvi, 418 pp.
Discourse Markers in Early Modern English
Ursula Lutzky
This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three corpora (A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 227] 2012. ix, 293 pp.
Dutch for Reading Knowledge
Christine van Baalen, Frans R.E. Blom and Inez Hollander
This first Dutch for Reading Knowledge book on the market promotes a high level of reading and translation competency by drawing from Dutch grammar, vocabulary and reading strategies, and providing many translation “shortcuts” and tips when tackling complex texts in Dutch. Aimed at students,… read more[Not in series, 175] 2012. xv, 247 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008. Volume II: Words, texts and genres
Edited by Hans Sauer and Gaby Waxenberger
The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al. 2010). Nine concentrate on the development of the English vocabulary and six on historical text linguistics, including the development of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 324] 2012. xviii, 271 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010
Edited by Irén Hegedűs and Alexandra Fodor
The volume brings together seventeen peer-reviewed, revised papers originally presented at the 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), held in August 2010 at the University of Pécs, Hungary. This selection aims to show how theoretical and empirical approaches can… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 325] 2012. viii, 386 pp.
English in Southeast Asia: Features, policy and language in use
Edited by Ee-Ling Low and Azirah Hashim
This volume provides a first systematic, comprehensive account of English in Southeast Asia (SEA) based on current research by leading scholars in the field. The volume first provides a systematic account of the linguistic features across all sub-varieties found within each country. It also has a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G42] 2012. xiv, 394 pp.
The Evaluability Hypothesis: The syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of polarity item licensing
Johan Brandtler
Although the field of polarity is well researched, this monograph offers a new take on polarity sensitivity that both challenges and incorporates previous theories. Based primarily on Swedish data, it presents new solutions to long-standing problems, such as the non-complementary distribution of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 183] 2012. xiii, 199 pp.
Exploring Newspaper Language: Using the web to create and investigate a large corpus of modern Norwegian
Edited by Gisle Andersen
This book describes new methodological and technological approaches to corpus building and presents recent research based on the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus. This is a large monitor corpus of contemporary Norwegian language, compiled through daily harvesting of web newspapers. The book gives an… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 49] 2012. vi, 356 pp.
Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics
Edited by Ulrich Busse and Axel Hübler
The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to, i.e. historical metapragmatics. More particularly, the collected papers apply a meta-communicative approach to historical texts by focusing on lexis that either directly or… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 220] 2012. vii, 292 pp.
Language Contact and Development around the North Sea
Edited by Merja Stenroos, Martti Mäkinen and Inge Særheim
This volume brings together eleven studies on the history of language and writing in the North Sea area, with focus on contacts and interchanges through time. Its range spans from the investigation of pre-Germanic place-names to present-day Shetland; the materials studied include glosses, legal and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 321] 2012. xvi, 235 pp.
Language Maintenance and Language Death: The decline of Texas Alsatian
Karen A. Roesch
This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved with… read more[Culture and Language Use, 6] 2012. xv, 253 pp.
Make Peace and Take Victory: Support verb constructions in Old English in comparison with Old Irish
Patricia Ronan
This corpus-based study examines the use of support verb constructions in Old English and Old Irish. It determines in how far these constructions can be seen as a means to offer semantic specification of existing verbal expressions. The study further investigates whether support verb constructions… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 24] 2012. xiv, 251 pp.
Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes
Edited by Marianne Hundt and Ulrike Gut
This volume presents a collection of in-depth cross-varietal studies on a broad spectrum of grammatical features in English varieties spoken all over the world. The contributions explore the structural unity and diversity of New Englishes and thus investigate central aspects of dialect evolution… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G43] 2012. xiv, 294 pp.
Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A multi-dimensional approach
Edited by Manfred Markus, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson
This book brings together a variety of approaches to English corpus linguistics and shows how corpus methodologies can contribute to the linking of diachronic and synchronic studies. The articles in this volume investigate historical changes in the English language as well as specific aspects of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 50] 2012. viii, 287 pp.
On the Grammar of Optative Constructions
Patrick G. Grosz
This monograph is one of the first theoretical studies of optatives. Optative constructions express desire without an overt lexical item that means ‘desire’. The author specifically investigates optatives with the syntax of embedded clauses that contain prototypical particles such as ‘only’. He… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 193] 2012. xi, 346 pp.
Roots of Afrikaans: Selected writings of Hans den Besten
Edited by Ton van der Wouden
Hans den Besten (1948-2010) made numerous contributions to Afrikaans linguistics over a period of nearly three decades. His writings helped shift the perspective on the roots of Afrikaans beyond Dutch to the structure and vocabulary of Khoekhoe, to Portuguese Creole, and to Malay varieties. This… read more[Creole Language Library, 44] 2012. vii, 458 pp.
Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew
Ron Kuzar
Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew offers an innovative perspective on sentential syntax, in which sentence patterns are introduced as constructions within the general framework of Construction Grammar. Drawing on naturally occurring data collected from the Internet, the study challenges the… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 12] 2012. xvii, 254 pp.
Swiss German Intonation Patterns
Adrian Leemann
Switzerland is renowned for having a diverse linguistic and dialectal landscape in a comparatively small and confined space. Possibly, this is one of the reasons why Swiss German dialects have been investigated thoroughly on various linguistic levels. Nevertheless, natural speech intonation has,… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 10] 2012. xv, 331 pp.
Adjective Complementation: An empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses
Ilka Mindt
This is the first empirical study to focus on adjectives complemented by that-clauses. The in-depth analysis of more than 50,000 cases taken from the British National Corpus gives comprehensive insights into hitherto neglected relations of lexis and grammar. The result of this corpus-driven study… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 42] 2011. vii, 238 pp.
Intonational Phrasing in Romance and Germanic: Cross-linguistic and bilingual studies
Edited by Christoph Gabriel and Conxita Lleó
Languages differ regarding both the ways they group words into phrases and the surface cues they use to indicate relevant phrasing patterns. Modeling intonation in as many languages as possible has become a central goal of theoretical and empirical linguistics. However, intonational research has… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 10] 2011. viii, 237 pp.
NOWELE Volume 62/63 (October 2011): Language and literacy in early Scandinavia and beyond
Edited by Michael Schulte and Robert Nedoma
Special issue of NOWELE 62/63 (2011) 441 pp.
The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and change
Edited by Petra Sleeman and Harry Perridon
One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likely that each 'average European' language developed a definite article all by itself, without any influence from neighbouring languages. It… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 171] 2011. vii, 283 pp.
The Pragmatics of Requests and Apologies: Developmental patterns of Mexican students
Elizabeth Flores-Salgado
The purpose of this research is to analyse the pragmatic development of language groups at different proficiency levels and to investigate the relationship between interlanguage pragmatics and grammatical competence. For this study, 36 native Spanish speaking EFL learners at different proficiency… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 212] 2011. xi, 263 pp.
Studies on German-Language Islands
Edited by Michael T. Putnam
The contributions in this volume present cutting-edge theoretical and structural analyses of issues surrounding German-language islands, or Sprachinseln, throughout the world. The individual topics of study in this volume focus on various aspects of these German-language islands such as (but not… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 123] 2011. xii, 477 pp.
The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German
Christopher D. Sapp
This research monograph is an empirical and theoretical study of clause-final verbal complexes in the history of German. The book presents corpus studies of Middle High German and Early New High German and surveys of contemporary varieties of German. These investigations of the verbal complex… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 173] 2011. ix, 225 pp.
Appositive Relative Clauses in English: Discourse functions and competing structures
Rudy Loock
This book sheds new light on Appositive Relative Clauses (ARCs), a structure that is generally studied from a merely syntactic point of view, in opposition to Determinative (or Restrictive) Relative Clauses (DRCs). In this volume, ARCs are examined from a discourse/pragmatic point of view,… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 22] 2010. xiii, 232 pp.
Corpus and Sociolinguistics: Investigating age and gender in female talk
Bróna Murphy
Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 38] 2010. xviii, 231 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008.. Volume I: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions
Edited by Ursula Lenker, Judith Huber and Robert Mailhammer
The fourteen studies selected for this volume – all of them peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics 2008 (23–30 August) at the University of Munich – investigate syntactic variation and change in the history of English from… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 314] 2010. vii, 281 pp.
English Prepositions Explained: Revised edition
Seth Lindstromberg
This completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998, covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time – with the focus being on short prepositions such as at, by, in, and on. Its target… read more[Not in series, 157] 2010. xiii, 273 pp.
Expressing Opinions in French and Australian English Discourse: A semantic and interactional analysis
Kerry Mullan
Based on the analysis of conversations between French and Australian English speakers discussing various topics, including their experiences as non-native speakers in France or Australia, this book combines subjective personal testimonies with an objective linguistic analysis of the expression of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 200] 2010. xvii, 282 pp.
Extraction Asymmetries: Experimental evidence from German
Tanja Kiziak
This monograph addresses divergent views in the linguistic literature on whether German displays the that-trace effect and other subject/object asymmetries commonly found for long extractions in English and other languages. Using newly developed rating methodologies, the author exposes consistent… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 163] 2010. xvi, 273 pp.
Focus Particles in German: Syntax, prosody, and information structure
Stefan Sudhoff
This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and links their syntactic, semantic, and information structural properties to their prosodic characteristics. The study also shows that focus particles present… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 151] 2010. xiii, 335 pp.
Grimm Language: Grammar, Gender and Genuineness in the Fairy Tales
Orrin W. Robinson
Grimm Language addresses a number of issues in the Grimms’ fairy tales from a (Germanic) linguist’s point of view. In sections dealing with the Grimms’ use of regional dialect material, various grammatical constructions, and specific nouns and adjectives in their Children’s and Household Tales, the… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 10] 2010. xi, 190 pp.
Heterogeneity in Word-Formation Patterns: A corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English
Susanne Mühleisen
Postulated word-formation rules often exclude formations that can nevertheless be found in actual usage. This book presents an in-depth investigation of a highly heterogeneous word-formation pattern in English: the formation of nouns by suffixation with -ee. Rather than relying on a single semantic… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 118] 2010. xiii, 245 pp.
The Interactional Organization of Academic Talk: Office hour consultations
Holger Limberg
This book provides interesting and critical insights into a common university practice, the academic office hour. Office hours are a discursive site for a variety of different issues, ranging from administrative matters to course-related and study-related concerns. The study offers both an… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 198] 2010. xiv, 397 pp.
An Introduction to the Grammar of English: Revised edition
Elly van Gelderen
It has been eight years since An Introduction to the Grammar of English was first published. The second edition is completely revised and greatly expanded, especially where texts, example sentences, exercises, and cartoons are concerned. It continues to provide a very lively and clearly written… read more[Not in series, 153] 2010. xxi, 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.
Modality and Subordinators
Jackie Nordström
This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It argues that general subordinators (or complementizers) denote propositional modality (otherwise expressed by moods such as the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 116] 2010. xvii, 341 pp.
NOWELE Volume 58/59 (June 2010): The Gothic Language
Edited by Hans Frede Nielsen † and Flemming Talbo Stubkjær
Special issue of NOWELE 58/59 (2010) 459 pp.
Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions
Edited by John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts and Tomonori Matsushita
For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co.The general aim of the Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals is investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages, such as… read more[The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals, 2] 2010. vii, 225 pp.
Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English
Edited by Päivi Pahta, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin
This volume presents a ground-breaking overview of the interconnections between socio-cultural reality and language practices, by looking at the different ways in which social roles are performed, maintained, adopted and assigned through linguistic means. The introductory chapter discusses and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 195] 2010. viii, 241 pp.
Studies in West Frisian Grammar
Selected papers by Germen J. de Haan
In this volume, Germen de Haan gives a multi-faceted view of the syntax, sociolinguistics, and phonology of West-Frisian. The author discusses distinct aspects of the syntax of verbs in Frisian: finiteness and Verb Second, embedded root phenomena, the verbal complex, verbal complementation, and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 161] 2010. x, 384 pp.
The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis
Lobke Aelbrecht
This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch. The author makes two main claims: The head selecting the ellipsis site is checked against the head licensing ellipsis in order for ellipsis to occur,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 149] 2010. xii, 230 pp.
Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence
Edited by Raymond Hickey
This volume is concerned with assessing fictional and non-fictional written texts as linguistic evidence for earlier forms of varieties of English. These range from Scotland to New Zealand, from Canada to South Africa, covering all the major forms of the English language around the world. Central… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G41] 2010. x, 378 pp.
Verbs of Implicit Negation and their Complements in the History of English
Yoko Iyeiri
For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The principal focus of this book concerns various shifts of complements which verbs of implicit negation (e.g. forbid, forbear, avoid, prohibit, and prevent) have experienced in the history of English.… read more[Not in series, 155] 2010. xv, 223 pp.
The Acquisition of Word Order: Micro-cues, information structure, and economy
Marit Westergaard
Within a new model of language acquisition, this book discusses verb second (V2) word order in situations where there is variation in the input. While traditional generative accounts consider V2 to be a parameter, this study shows that, in many languages, this word order is dependent on fine… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 145] 2009. xii, 245 pp.
Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 21st and 22nd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Stuttgart. The contributions provide insightful discussions of several topics of current interest for… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 141] 2009. xv, 395 pp.
Contemporary Indian English: Variation and change
Andreas Sedlatschek
Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change offers the first comprehensive description of Indian English and its emerging regional standard in a corpus-linguistic framework. Drawing on a wealth of authentic spoken and written data from India (including the Kolhapur Corpus and the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G38] 2009. xix, 363 pp.
Demonstratives and Definite Articles as Nominal Auxiliaries
Dorian Roehrs
Written in the cartographic tradition, this monograph is concerned with the inner structure and derivation of noun phrases. It proposes that demonstratives and definite articles are similar to auxiliaries in the clause. Referencing mostly Germanic languages, the book argues that determiners are… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 140] 2009. xii, 196 pp.
Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker
In Early Modern Britain, new publication channels were developed and new textual genres established themselves. News discourse became increasingly more important and reached wider audiences, with pamphlets as the first real mass media. Newspapers appeared, first on a weekly and then on a daily… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 187] 2009. vii, 227 pp.
Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals
Edited by John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts, Tomonori Matsushita and Hiroshi Hasegawa
For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals has as its general aim the investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages,… read more[The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals, 1] 2009. v, 213 pp.
Interactive Dialogue Sequences in Middle English Drama
Gabriella Mazzon
This book looks at mediaeval English drama using the theoretical frameworks of historical sociopragmatics and dialogue analysis. It focuses on the collection of cycle plays known as the N.Town Plays, preserved in a manuscript from the fifteenth century. The book examines various linguistic markers… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 185] 2009. ix, 228 pp.
An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary
Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.
This is the first text book to offer a comprehensive approach to Old Frisian. Part One begins with a succinct survey of the history of the Frisians during the Middle Ages, their society and literary culture. Next follow chapters on the phonology, morphology, word formation and syntax of Old Frisian. read more[Not in series, 147] 2009. xii, 237 pp.
The Language of Outsourced Call Centers: A corpus-based study of cross-cultural interaction
Eric Friginal
The Language of Outsourced Call Centers is the first book to explore a large-scale corpus representing the typical kinds of interactions and communicative tasks in outsourced call centers located in the Philippines and serving American customers. The specific goals of this book are to conduct a… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 34] 2009. xxii, 319 pp.
The Typology of Asian Englishes
Edited by Lisa Lim and Nikolas Gisborne
Special issue of English World-Wide 30:2 (2009) 124 pp.
The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800)
Edited by Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin
The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research. The volume contains nine studies and an introductory essay which discuss linguistic and social variation and change over four centuries. Each study… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 183] 2009. vii, 312 pp.
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 Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen
Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the ‘life cycle’ of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range from electronic corpora to the internet. In the spirit of the 1968 Weinreich, Labov and Herzog classic, the fifteen contributions divide… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 2] 2008. viii, 339 pp.
English Adjective Comparison: A historical perspective
Victorina González-Díaz
The present work contributes to a better understanding of the English system of degree by means of a study of a number of aspects in the evolution of adjective comparison that have so far either been considered controversial or not been accounted for at all. As will be shown, the diachronic aspects… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 299] 2008. xix, 252 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English
Edited by Marina Dossena, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti
The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, lexis and semantics, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on geo-historical… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 297] 2008. xiii, 197 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change
Edited by Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena
The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, and dialectology, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on semantics, pragmatics… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 296] 2008. xiii, 264 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology
Edited by Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena and Richard Dury
The papers selected for this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). At that important event, alongside studies of phonology, lexis, semantics and dialectology (presented in two companion volumes in this series), many… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295] 2008. xiv, 259 pp.
Germanic Future Constructions: A usage-based approach to language change
Martin Hilpert
This study offers a Construction Grammar approach to the historical development and modern usage of future constructions in English, German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish. On the basis of corpus data, constructions such as English be going to or German werden are analyzed as symbolic units that convey… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 7] 2008. ix, 205 pp.
Grammar and Interaction: Pivots in German conversation
Emma Betz
This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of the structure and communicative use of syntactic pivot constructions in German. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis, this work shows that pivots emerge in interaction in response to local communicative needs.Exclusively found in… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 21] 2008. xiii, 208 pp.
History of German Negation
Agnes Jäger
This book represents the first comprehensive overview over the history of negation in German. It addresses both the development of the negation particles as well as the diachrony of indefinites in the scope of negation and the phenomenon of Negative Concord. Being based on a corpus study of several… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 118] 2008. ix, 350 pp.
NOWELE Volume 54/55 (October 2008): Early and Pre-Historic Language Development in North-Western Europe
Special issue of NOWELE 54/55 (2008) 352 pp.
The Perfect Time Span: On the present perfect in German, Swedish and English
Björn Rothstein
This book is the first book-length study on the Swedish present perfect. It provides an in-depth exploration of the present perfect in English, German and Swedish. It is claimed that only a discourse-based ExtendedNow-approach fully accounts for the present perfect. The main claim is that the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 125] 2008. xi, 171 pp.
Politeness in Mexico and the United States: A contrastive study of the realization and perception of refusals
J. César Félix-Brasdefer
This book explores the issue of politeness phenomena and socially appropriate behavior in two societies, Mexico and the United States, in three different contexts: refusing invitations, requests, and suggestions. In addition to a state-of-the-art review of the speech act of refusals in numerous… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 171] 2008. xiv, 195 pp.
Productivity: Evidence from Case and Argument Structure in Icelandic
Jóhanna Barðdal
Productivity of argument structure constructions is a new emerging field within cognitive-functional linguistics. The term productivity as used in linguistic research contains at least three subconcepts: ‘extensibility’, ‘regularity’, and ‘generality’. The focus in this study of case and argument… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 8] 2008. xiii, 209 pp.
The Semantics of Generics in Dutch and Related Languages
Albert Oosterhof
This monograph is a comprehensive study of the various ways in which genericity can be expressed in Dutch, dialects of Dutch, and languages related to Dutch. On the basis of empirical (corpus- and questionnaire-based) data, a wide range of topics are discussed which have been addressed in the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 122] 2008. xviii, 286 pp.
Speech Acts in the History of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did they negotiate them in case of uncertainty? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this volume in innovative case studies… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 176] 2008. viii, 318 pp.
St Helenian English: Origins, evolution and variation
Daniel Schreier
This volume provides the first-ever sociolinguistic analysis of English on the island of St Helena, the oldest variety of English in the Southern Hemisphere. It is based on a concise synchronic profile of the variety (describing its segmental phonology and morphosyntax) and an evaluation of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G37] 2008. xv, 312 pp.
Verbal Prepositions and Argument Structure: Path, place and possession in Norwegian
Mai Ellin Tungseth
This book investigates different types of verb-PP combinations and examines the types of meanings which arise when the argument structure of the PP fuses with the verbal argument structure. Focussing mainly on data from Norwegian, the book investigates three different empirical domains of PP-VP… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 121] 2008. ix, 187 pp.
Adverb Licensing and Clause Structure in English
Dagmar Haumann
This monograph provides an in-depth investigation of the structural integration and the licensing of adverbs in relation to clause structure, with special emphasis on the structural implementation of the relation between the position and interpretation of adverbs. The book substantiates the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 105] 2007. ix, 435 pp.
Beiträge zur Morphologie: Germanisch, Baltisch, Ostseefinnisch
Herausgegeben von Hans Fix
Der vorliegende Band, der auf ein interdisziplinäres Symposion Morphologische Probleme in den Sprachen der Ostseeanrainer im September 2005 am Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald zurückgeht, enthält Beiträge von Norbert Endres (Greifswald), Frank Heidermanns (Köln), Arend Quak (Amsterdam),… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 23] 2007. viii, 484 pp.
Beyond Coherence: The syntax of opacity in German
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
The overarching theme of this volume is one of the central concerns of syntactic theory: How local is syntax, and what are the measures of syntactic locality? It is argued here that movement and anaphoric relations are governed by a unified concept of locality: the phase. On an empirical level,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 114] 2007. viii, 206 pp.
Cognitive English Grammar
Günter Radden and René Dirven †
Cognitive English Grammar is designed to be used as a textbook in courses of English and general linguistics. It introduces the reader to cognitive linguistic theory and shows that Cognitive Grammar helps us to gain a better understanding of the grammar of English. The notions of motivation and… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 2] 2007. xiv, 374 pp.
Conceptual Structure in Lexical Items: The lexicalisation of communication concepts in English, German and Dutch
Kristel Proost
This volume deals with the occurrence of lexical gaps in the domain of linguistic action verbs. Though these constitute a considerable proportion of the verb inventory of many languages, not all concepts of verbal communication may be expressed by lexical items in any particular one of them.… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 168] 2007. xii, 304 pp.
Connectives as Discourse Landmarks
Edited by Agnès Celle and Ruth Huart
This set of eleven articles, by linguists from four different European countries and a variety of theoretical backgrounds, takes a new look at the discourse functions of a number of English connectives, from simple coordinators (and, but) to phrases of varying complexity (after all, the fact is… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 161] 2007. viii, 212 pp.
Connectives in the History of English
Edited by Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin
Clausal connection is one of the key building blocks of language and thus a field where a wide range of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and cognitive phenomena meet. The availability of large databases as well as considerable advances in corpus-linguistic methods have strengthened the interest in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 283] 2007. viii, 318 pp.
Irregularities in Modern English: Second edition revised by Erik Hansen
Hans Frede Nielsen † and Erik W. Hansen
This book, which appeared first in a Danish version in 1980 and subsequently in an English translation in 1986, reverses the history of the English language: it takes present-day English ‘irregularities’ in grammar and spelling as its point of departure, providing historical explanations only to… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 2] 2007. xii, 382 pp.
Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form: Scrambling in the Germanic languages
Gema Chocano
‘Scrambling’, the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic ‘Object Shift’. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 109] 2007. x, 333 pp.
Natural Language Processing for Online Applications: Text retrieval, extraction and categorization. Second revised edition
Peter Jackson and Isabelle Moulinier
This text covers the technologies of document retrieval, information extraction, and text categorization in a way which highlights commonalities in terms of both general principles and practical concerns. It assumes some mathematical background on the part of the reader, but the chapters typically… read more[Natural Language Processing, 5] 2007. x, 231 pp.
The Nonverbal Shift in Early Modern English Conversation
Axel Hübler
This is the first historical investigation on the nonverbal component of conversation. In the courtly society of 16th and 17th century England, it is argued that a drift appeared toward an increased use of prosodic means of expression at the expense of gestural means. Direct evidence is provided by… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 154] 2007. x, 281 pp.
Norse-derived Vocabulary in late Old English Texts: Wulfstan's works, a case story
Sara M. Pons-Sanz
This book focuses on the Norse-derived vocabulary in the works of Archbishop Wulfstan II of York (d. 1023). A considerable advantage derives from studying Wulfstan's compositions because, unlike most Old English texts, they are closely dateable and, to a certain extent, localizable. Thus, they… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 22] 2007. xviii, 318 pp.
Scrambling and the Survive Principle
Michael T. Putnam
Languages with free word orders pose daunting challenges to linguistic theory because they raise questions about the nature of grammatical strings. Ross, who coined the term Scrambling to refer to the relatively ‘free’ word orders found in Germanic languages (among others) notes that “… the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 115] 2007. x, 216 pp.
Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar: In honour of Lachlan Mackenzie
Edited by Mike Hannay and Gerard J. Steen
This collection presents a number of studies in the lexico-grammar of English which focus on the one hand on close reading of language in context and on the other hand on current functional theoretical concerns. The various contributions represent distinct functionalist models of language,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 83] 2007. vi, 393 pp.
Studies on Old High German Syntax: Left sentence periphery, verb placement and verb-second
Katrin Axel-Tober
This monograph is the first book-length study on Old High German syntax from a generative perspective in twenty years. It provides an in-depth exploration of the Old High German pre-verb-second grammar by answering the following questions: To what extent did generalized verb movement exist in Old… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 112] 2007. xii, 364 pp.
Talking about Motion: A crosslinguistic investigation of lexicalization patterns
Luna Filipović
This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English, with contrasting examples from Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Albanian. Talmy’s typology (1985) provides the backdrop for the analysis and the focus is on intratypological differences that… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 91] 2007. x, 182 pp.
Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues: Trials, Depositions, and Drama Comedy
Terry Walker
This book is a corpus-based study examining thou and you in three speech-related genres from 1560–1760, a crucial period in the history of second person singular pronouns, spanning the time from when you became dominant to when thou became all but obsolete. The study embraces the fields of corpus… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 158] 2007. xx, 339 pp.
Voicing in Dutch: (De)voicing – phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics
Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer and Erik Jan van der Torre
This volume focuses on the phonology, phonetics and psycholinguistics of voicing-related phenomena in Dutch. Dutch phonology has played a touchstone role in the past few decades where competing phonological theories regarding laryngeal representation have been concerned. Debates have focused on the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 286] 2007. x, 186 pp.
Advice Online: Advice-giving in an American Internet health column
Miriam A. Locher
Advice Online presents a comprehensive study of advice-giving in one particular American Internet advice column, referred to as ‘Lucy Answers’. The discursive practice investigated is part of a professional and educational health program managed by an American university. The study provides… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 149] 2006. xvi, 277 pp.
Agency and Impersonality: Their Linguistic and Cultural Manifestations
Mutsumi Yamamoto
In this monograph the author probes the fundamental nature of the concept of agency and its importance to human language and cognition. Whereas previous studies focused on grammatical manifestations this original work addresses such issues as the strong relationship between agency and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 78] 2006. x, 152 pp.
Codeswitching on the Web: English and Jamaican Creole in e-mail communication
Lars Hinrichs
Based on a corpus of private email from Jamaican university students, this study explores the discourse functions of Jamaican Creole in computer-mediated communication. From this participant-centered perspective, it contributes to the longstanding theoretical debates in creole studies about the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 147] 2006. x, 302 pp.
Collaborating towards Coherence: Lexical cohesion in English discourse
Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
This book approaches cohesion and coherence from a perspective of interaction and collaboration. After a detailed account of various models of cohesion and coherence, the book suggests that it is fruitful to regard cohesion as contributing to coherence, as a strategy used by communicators to help… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 146] 2006. ix, 192 pp.
Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax: From Afrikaans to Zurich German
Edited by Jutta M. Hartmann and László Molnárfi
This selection of papers presented at the 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop brings together contributions that address issues in syntactic predication and studies in the nominal system, as well as papers on data from the history of English and German. Showing a strong comparative… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 97] 2006. vi, 332 pp.
Creative Compounding in English: The Semantics of Metaphorical and Metonymical Noun-Noun Combinations
Réka Benczes
Metaphorical and metonymical compounds – novel and lexicalised ones alike – are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an expression such as land fishing in order to speak about metal detecting, the referent will be immediately understood even if the hearer had not… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 19] 2006. xvi, 206 pp.
Deriving Coordinate Symmetries: A phase-based approach integrating Select, Merge, Copy and Match
John R. te Velde
This monograph proposes a minimalist, phase-based approach to the derivation of coordinate structures, utilizing the operations Copy and Match to account for both the symmetries and asymmetries of coordination. Data are drawn primarily from English, German and Dutch. The basic assumptions are that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 89] 2006. x, 385 pp.
English with a Latin Beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish–English Interphonology
Edited by Barbara O. Baptista and Michael Alan Watkins
Although it has long been recognized that second language pronunciation is strongly influenced by the native language, second language phonology has only become a recognized area of study during the last thirty years. While English has been the most frequent target language involved, the learners'… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 31] 2006. vi, 214 pp.
Goals for Academic Writing: ESL students and their instructors
Edited by Alister Cumming
This book documents the results of a multi-year project that investigated the goals for writing improvement among 45 students and their instructors in intensive courses of English as a Second Language (ESL) then, a year later, in academic programs at two Canadian universities. The researchers… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 15] 2006. xii, 204 pp.
A History of the English Language
Elly van Gelderen
THIS INFORMATION REFERS TO AN OLD EDITION. This exceptionally clear text focuses on internal changes in the English language. It outlines the history of English from pre-Old English times to the present. Not only does it present the traditional morphological descriptions of the various stages of… read more[Not in series, 135] 2006. xviii, 334 pp.
Idiomatic Creativity: A cognitive-linguistic model of idiom-representation and idiom-variation in English
Andreas Langlotz
This book revisits the theoretical and psycholinguistic controversies centred around the intriguing nature of idioms and proposes a more systematic cognitive-linguistic model of their grammatical status and use. Whenever speakers vary idioms in actual discourse, they open a linguistic window into… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 17] 2006. xi, 325 pp.
Interfaces with English Aspect: Diachronic and empirical studies
Debra Ziegeler
The field of verbal aspect has been a focus for the derivation of a multiplicity of theoretical approaches ranging over decades of linguistic research. From the point of view of recent studies, though, there has been relatively little emphasis on the nature of the interaction of aspect with other… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 82] 2006. xvi, 325 pp.
Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at ‘Heartland’ English
Edited by Thomas E. Murray and Beth Lee Simon
This volume explores the linguistic complexities and critical issues of the Midland dialect area of the USA, and contains a unique data-based set of investigations of the Midlands dialect. The authors demonstrate that the large central part of the United States known colloquially as the Heartland,… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G36] 2006. xii, 320 pp.
Linear Unit Grammar: Integrating speech and writing
John McH. Sinclair and Anna Mauranen
People have a natural propensity to understand language text as a succession of smallish chunks, whether they are reading, writing, speaking or listening. Linguists have found that this propensity can shed light on the nature and structure of language, and there are many studies which attempt to… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 25] 2006. xxii, 185 pp.
Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English
Annelie Ädel
The pervasive phenomenon of metadiscourse – commentary on the ongoing discourse – is beginning to take its rightful place among the major topics of discourse studies. This book makes simultaneous contributions to the theory of metadiscourse, corpus-based methods of studying such phenomena, and our… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 24] 2006. x, 243 pp.
Request Sequences: The intersection of grammar, interaction and social context
Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm
This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of instances of requests in everyday German conversation. Using the framework of CA, the study systematically analyzes the grammatical and syntactical structure of the request-turn and its response and of the conversational exchanges before and… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 19] 2006. x, 125 pp.
Structural Propensities: Translating nominal word groups from English into German
Monika Doherty
This book focuses on the translation of English academic texts into German, closely analysing the structural and discourse properties of original sentences and their possible translations. It consists of six chapters, with more than a hundred carefully discussed examples, and presents the author’s… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 65] 2006. xxii, 196 pp.
Three-Participant Constructions in English: A functional-cognitive approach to caused relations
An Laffut
This study aims to give a systematic and comprehensive description of the constructions involved in three important types of alternation: the locative alternation, which is by far the most researched of the three, the image impression alternation and the material/product alternation. The author… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 79] 2006. ix, 268 pp.
University Language: A corpus-based study of spoken and written registers
Douglas Biber
University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations and requirements. While many previous studies have investigated academic writing, we know comparatively little about academic speech; and no linguistic… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 23] 2006. viii, 261 pp.
Vocative Constructions in the Language of Shakespeare
Beatrix Busse
This study investigates the functions, meanings, and varieties of forms of address in Shakespeare’s dramatic work. New categories of Shakespearean vocatives are developed and the grammar of vocatives is investigated in, above, and below the clause, following morpho-syntactic, semantic,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 150] 2006. xviii, 525 pp.
Written Reliquaries: The resonance of orality in medieval English texts
Leslie K. Arnovick
Written Reliquaries: The resonance of orality in medieval English texts establishes the linguistic component of orality and oral tradition. The relics it examines are traces of spoken performance, artifacts of linguistic and cultural processes. Seven case studies animate verbal acts of making… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 153] 2006. xii, 292 pp.
Beyond Rhetorical Questions: Assertive questions in everyday interaction
Irene Koshik
This book uses Conversation Analysis methodology to analyze rhetorical and other questions that are designed to convey assertions, rather than seek new information. It shows how these question sequences unfold interactionally in naturally-occurring talk in a variety of settings, e.g., friends… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 16] 2005. x, 183 pp.
Clausal Architecture and Subject Positions: Impersonal constructions in the Germanic languages
Sabine Mohr
This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 88] 2005. viii, 207 pp.
Collocations in a Learner Corpus
Nadja Nesselhauf
Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first time comprehensively investigated. On the basis of a learner corpus, idiosyncratic collocation use by learners is uncovered, the building… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 14] 2005. xii, 331 pp.
Compliments and Compliment Responses: Grammatical structure and sequential organization
Andrea Golato
This book analyzes compliments and compliment responses in naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in German. Using Conversation Analytic methodology, it views complimenting and responding to compliments as social actions which are co-produced and negotiated among interactants. This study is the… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 15] 2005. xi, 248 pp.
Copular Clauses: Specification, predication and equation
Line Mikkelsen
This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 85] 2005. viii, 210 pp.
Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English Discourse
Simone Müller
While discourse markers have been examined in some detail, little is known about their usage by non-native speakers. This book provides valuable insights into the functions of four discourse markers (so, well, you know and like) in native and non-native English discourse, adding to both discourse… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 138] 2005. xviii, 290 pp.
The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in English
Heidi Quinn
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Modern English pronoun case. The author examines case trends in a wide range of syntactic constructions and concludes that case variation is confined to strong pronoun contexts. Data from a survey of 90 speakers provide new insights into the distributional… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 82] 2005. xii, 409 pp.
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)
English General Nouns: A corpus theoretical approach
Michaela Mahlberg
This book proposes an innovative approach to general nouns. General nouns are defined as high-frequency nouns that are characterised by their textual functions. Although the concept is motivated by Halliday & Hasan (1976), the corpus theoretical approach adopted in the present study is… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 20] 2005. x, 206 pp.
Expertise and Explicitation in the Translation Process
Birgitta Englund Dimitrova
This book addresses the complexities of the translation process. Informed by theoretical and methodological advances in translation studies, research on writing and the expertise paradigm, it explores translation as a text reproduction task. With triangulation of data from Russian-Swedish… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 64] 2005. xx, 295 pp.
Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning
Laura Gavioli
This book investigates the effects of corpus work on the process of foreign language learning in ESP settings. It suggests that observing learners at work with corpus data can stimulate discussion and re-thinking of the pedagogical implications of both the theoretical and empirical aspects of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 21] 2005. xi, 176 pp.
From Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154–1776
Hans Frede Nielsen †
From Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154–1776 is the second volume of a set of three offering a comprehensive survey of what by the author is seen as the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and America. read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 21] 2005. xx, 300 pp.
The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories
Edited by Marcel den Dikken and Christina Tortora
This volume brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the syntax of function words and functional categories in the Germanic languages. The works offered in this volume derive specifically from comparative studies of Germanic; at the same time they all bear directly on… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 78] 2005. vii, 292 pp.
Infinitival Syntax: Infinitivus Pro Participio as a repair strategy
Tanja Schmid
This monograph offers a new analysis of West Germanic ‘Infinitivus Pro Participio’ (IPP) constructions, within the framework of Optimality Theory. IPP constructions have long been problematic for syntactic theory, because a bare infinitive is preferred over the expected past participle. The book… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 79] 2005. xiv, 251 pp.
Language and Meaning: The structural creation of reality
Christopher Beedham
This book illustrates the structuralist idea that language creates the reality we perceive. The data presented in this volume focus on the problematic issues of the passive construction and irregular (strong) verbs, with examples taken primarily from English with separate subsections on German and… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 55] 2005. xiv, 225 pp.
Meaning Predictability in Word Formation: Novel, context-free naming units
Pavol Štekauer
This book aims to contribute to a growing interest amongst psycholinguists and morphologists in the mechanisms of meaning predictability. It presents a brand-new model of the meaning-prediction of novel, context-free naming units, relating the wordformation and wordinterpretation processes. Unlike… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 54] 2005. xxii, 288 pp.
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
NOWELE Volume 46/47 (June 2005): Papers on Scandinavian and Germanic Language and Culture
Special issue of NOWELE 46/47 (2005) 273 pp.
Nominal Phrases from a Scandinavian Perspective
Marit Julien
This monograph presents a new model of the internal syntax of nominal phrases. The model is mainly based on Scandinavian, since with the wide range of variation that Scandinavian displays in the nominal domain, despite the close genetic relationship between the different varieties, Scandinavian is… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 87] 2005. xv, 348 pp.
Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy: A corpus-driven approach to English progressive forms, functions, contexts and didactics
Ute Römer-Barron
This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in 'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from the largest… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 18] 2005. xiv + 328 pp.
Quantifier Scope in German
Jürgen Pafel
This book presents a comprehensive account of quantifier scope in German. The author investigates scope behavior of ordinary quantifiers and negative, adverbial, interrogative, relative and particle quantifiers. The areas which are dealt with include: relative scope in simple sentences, absolute… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 84] 2005. xvi, 312 pp.
Talk and Practical Epistemology: The social life of knowledge in a Caribbean community
Jack Sidnell
Drawing on the methods of conversation analysis and ethnography, this book sets out to examine the epistemological practices of Indo-Guyanese villagers as these are revealed in their talk and daily conduct. Based on over eighty-five hours of conversation recorded during twelve months of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 142] 2005. xvi, 255 pp.
Written Communication across Cultures: A sociocognitive perspective on business genres
Yunxia Zhu
Winner of ABC's award for Distinguished Publication for 2006This book explores effective written communication across cultures both theoretically and practically. Specifically it conceptualizes cross-cultural genre study and compares English and Chinese business writing collected from Australia,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 141] 2005. xviii, 216 pp.
(Mis)Representing Islam: The racism and rhetoric of British broadsheet newspapers
John Richardson
(Mis)Representing Islam explores and illustrates how élite broadsheet newspapers are implicated in the production and reproduction of anti-Muslim racism. The book approaches journalistic discourse as the inseparable combination of ‘social practices’, ‘discursive practices’ and the ‘texts’… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 9] 2004. xxiii, 260 pp.
The Acquisition of Swedish Grammar
Edited by Gunlög Josefsson, Christer Platzack and Gisela Håkansson
This book provides a number of studies of different aspects of Swedish child language. Some of the thematic chapters present original, unpublished data: on the acquisition of tense, on the range and frequency of different word order patterns in early child Swedish, related to the input, meaning the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 33] 2004. vi, 313 pp.
Building Coherence and Cohesion: Task-oriented dialogue in English and Spanish
Maite Taboada
This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other’s contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 129] 2004. xvii, 264 pp.
Categorization in the History of English
Edited by Christian Kay and Jeremy J. Smith
The papers in this volume are linked by a common concern, which is at the centre of current linguistic enquiry: how do we classify and categorize linguistic data, and how does this process add to our understanding of linguistic change? The scene is set by Aitchison’s paper on the development of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 261] 2004. viii, 268 pp.
Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation
Edited by Gene H. Lerner
This collection assembles early, yet previously unpublished research into the practices that organize conversational interaction by many of the central figures in the development and advancement of Conversation Analysis as a discipline. Using the methods of sequential analysis as first developed by… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 125] 2004. x, 300 pp.
Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English
Edited by Hans Lindquist and Christian Mair
Grammaticalization is an important concept in general and typological linguistics and a prominent type of explanation in historical linguistics. For historical corpus linguists, grammaticalization theory provides a frame of orientation in their effort to analyze and systematize a fast-accumulating… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 13] 2004. xiv, 264 pp.
Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora
Edited by Karin Aijmer and Anna-Brita Stenström
This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area of text and discourse characterized by the alliance between text linguistics and areas such as corpus linguistics, genre analysis, literary… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 120] 2004. viii, 273 pp.
The Discourse of Court Interpreting: Discourse practices of the law, the witness and the interpreter
Sandra Hale
This book explores the intricacies of court interpreting through a thorough analysis of the authentic discourse of the English-speaking participants, the Spanish-speaking witnesses and the interpreters. Written by a practitioner, educator and researcher, the book presents the reader with real… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 52] 2004. xviii, 267 pp.
Functional Constraints in Grammar: On the unergative–unaccusative distinction
Susumu Kuno and Ken-ichi Takami
This book examines in detail the acceptability status of sentences in the following five English constructions, and elucidates the syntactic, semantic, and functional requirements that the constructions must satisfy in order to be appropriately used: There-Construction, (One’s) Way Construction,… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 1] 2004. ix, 242 pp.
Getting Things Done at Work: The discourse of power in workplace interaction
Bernadette Vine
The linguistic study of workplace language is a new and exciting area of research. This book explores the expression of power in a New Zealand workplace through examination of 52 everyday interactions between four women and their colleagues. The main focus of this research is the expression of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 124] 2004. x, 278 pp.
Grammaticalization as Economy
Elly van Gelderen
This book provides much detail on the changes involving the grammaticalization of personal and relative pronouns, topicalized nominals, complementizers, adverbs, prepositions, modals, perception verbs, and aspectual markers. It accounts for these changes in terms of two structural economy… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 71] 2004. xv, 318 pp.
Language Standardization and Language Change: The dynamics of Cape Dutch
Ana Deumert
Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or ‘Cape Dutch’ as it was then called) are… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 19] 2004. xx, 361 pp.
Memory-Based Parsing
Sandra Kübler
Memory-Based Learning (MBL), one of the most influential machine learning paradigms, has been applied with great success to a variety of NLP tasks. This monograph describes the application of MBL to robust parsing. Robust parsing using MBL can provide added functionality for key NLP applications,… read more[Natural Language Processing, 7] 2004. viii, 294 pp.
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume II: Lexis and Transmission
Edited by Christian Kay, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon
This is the second of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The first is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (1): Syntax and Morphology. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 252] 2004. xii, 271 pp.
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology Volume II: Lexis and Transmission
Edited by Christian Kay
Together these two volumes provide an overview of many of the issues that are currently engaging practitioners in the field of English historical linguistics. In the first volume, the primary concern is with the historical grammar of English. Some papers take a broad overview of the subject,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 251-252] 2004. 559 pp.
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology
Edited by Christian Kay, Simon Horobin and Jeremy J. Smith
This is the first of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The second is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (2): Lexis and Transmission. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 251] 2004. x, 262 pp.
Phrasal Constructions and Resultativeness in English: A sign-oriented analysis
Marina Gorlach
Eat up the apple or Eat the apple up? Is there any difference in the messages each of these alternative forms sends? If there isn’t, why bother to keep both? On the other hand, is there any semantic similarity between eat the apple up and break the glass to pieces? This study takes a fresh look at… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 52] 2004. ix, 150 pp.
Pragmatic Markers in Oral Narrative: The case of English and Catalan
Montserrat González
This book presents the multifunctional nature of pragmatic discourse markers in English and Catalan oral narratives from the point of view of text linguistics and contrastive analysis. It is argued that English and Catalan markers are distributed and operate differently at four different levels in… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 122] 2004. xvi, 409 pp.
Recontextualizing Context: Grammaticality meets appropriateness
Anita Fetzer
In the humanities and social sciences, context is one of those terms which is frequently used and frequently referred to, but hardly made explicit.This book proposes a model for describing the multifaceted connectedness between language and language use, and between cognitive context, linguistic… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 121] 2004. x, 272 pp.
Singapore English: A grammatical description
Edited by Lisa Lim
Singapore English: A grammatical description provides a vivid account of current, contemporary Singapore English, complementing older seminal accounts of this variety. Drawing primarily on the Grammar of Spoken Singapore English Corpus, which comprises naturally-occurring conversational speech, the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G33] 2004. xiv, 172 pp.
Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus
Laura Callahan
Spanish/English codeswitching in published work represents a claim to the right to participate in the marketplace on a bilingual and not just monolingual basis. This book offers a syntactic and sociolinguistic analysis of the codeswitching in a corpus of thirty texts: novels and short stories… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 27] 2004. viii, 181 pp.
Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese: Text and Cognition
Yi’an Wu
As a subject of universal appeal, spatial demonstratives have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplines. What marks the present study as distinct is that it is an English-Chinese comparative study set in a cognitive-linguistic framework and that the methodology features a parallel… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 126] 2004. xviii, 234 pp.
Urban Bahamian Creole: System and variation
Stephanie Hackert
This volume, a detailed empirical study of the creole English spoken in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, contributes to our understanding of both urban creoles and tense-aspect marking in creoles. The first part traces the development of a creole in the Bahamas via socio-demographic data and outlines… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G32] 2004. xiv, 254 pp.
Verb Clusters: A study of Hungarian, German and Dutch
Edited by Katalin É. Kiss and Henk van Riemsdijk
Many languages have constructions in which verbs cluster. But few languages have verb clusters as rich and complex as Continental West Germanic and Hungarian. Furthermore the precise ordering properties and the variation in the cluster patterns are remarkably similar in Hungarian and Germanic. This… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 69] 2004. vi, 514 pp.
Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics: Learning how to do things with words in a study abroad context
Anne Barron
Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics provides readers with a much-needed insight into the development of pragmatic competence, an area of research long neglected in interlanguage pragmatics. The longitudinal investigation which provides the basic material for this book consists of a corpus of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 108] 2003. xviii, 403 pp.
Bilingual Sentence Processing: Relative clause attachment in English and Spanish
Eva M. Fernández
The cross-linguistic differences documented in studies of relative clause attachment offer an invaluable opportunity to examine a particular aspect of bilingual sentence processing: Do bilinguals process their two languages as if they were monolingual speakers of each? This volume provides a review… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 29] 2003. xx, 294 pp.
Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean
Edited by Michael Aceto and Jeffrey P. Williams
Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean is the first collection to focus, via primary linguistic fieldwork, on the underrepresented and neglected area of the Anglophone Eastern Caribbean. The following islands are included: The Virgin Islands (USA & British), Anguilla, Barbuda, Dominica, St.… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G30] 2003. xx, 322 pp.
Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to modern
Edited by Risto Hiltunen and Janne Skaffari
Covering nearly one thousand years, this volume explores medieval and modern English texts from fresh perspectives. Within the relatively new field of historical discourse linguistics, the synchronic analysis of large textual units and consideration of text-external features in relation to… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 119] 2003. viii, 243 pp.
Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization
Rick A.M. Iedema
This book considers the discourses that come into play in organizational change. The book outlines the tensions that arise for people having to enact change, and analyzes the ways in which they position themselves in changing organizational environments. The book takes a social semiotic perspective… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 5] 2003. xiv, 234 pp.
English Language Learning and Technology: Lectures on applied linguistics in the age of information and communication technology
Carol A. Chapelle
This book explores implications for applied linguistics of recent developments in technologies used in second language teaching and assessment, language analysis, and language use. Focusing primarily on English language learning, the book identifies significant areas of interplay between technology… read more
English Words Abroad
Manfred Görlach †
English Words Abroad summarizes the methods developed for the innovative multilingual Dictionary of European Anglicisms (Görlach 2001, OUP) which combines data on English loanwords in sixteen European languages (four each for Germanic, Slavic, Romance and others). This summary allows us to quantify… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 7] 2003. xii, 188 pp.
Epistemic Stance in English Conversation: A description of its interactional functions, with a focus on I think
Elise Kärkkäinen
This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 115] 2003. xii, 213 pp.
Filipino English and Taglish: Language switching from multiple perspectives
Roger M. Thompson
English competes with Tagalog and Taglish, a mixture of English and Tagalog, for the affections of Filipinos. To understand the competing ideologies that underlie this switching between languages, this book looks at the language situation from multiple perspectives. Part A reviews the social and… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G31] 2003. xiv, 288 pp.
Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present
Edited by Ana Deumert and Wim Vandenbussche
This volume presents a comparative, socio-historical study of the Germanic standard languages (Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Low German, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish as well as the Caribbean and Pacific Creole languages). Each of the 16… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 18] 2003. vi, 480 pp.
Grammatical Metaphor: Views from systemic functional linguistics
Edited by Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Miriam Taverniers and Louise J. Ravelli
Since the 1980s, metaphor has received much attention in linguistics in general. Within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) the area of 'grammatical metaphor' has become increasingly more important. This volume aims to raise and debate problematic issues in the study of lexico-grammatical… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 236] 2003. vi, 453 pp.
Intercultural Conversation
Winnie Cheng
This innovative study of naturally-occurring English conversations between Hong Kong Chinese and their native English friends and colleagues makes a worthwhile contribution to the research literature on intercultural conversation. Through analyzing dyadic intercultural conversations, the study… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 118] 2003. xii, 279 pp.
Language, Social Structure, and Culture: A genre analysis of cooking classes in Japan and America
Patricia Mayes
Comparing Japanese and American interaction, Language, Social Structure, and Culture argues that language use is instrumental in the construction of social structure and culture. In order to ground the work in empirical evidence, verbal interaction in similar situations – Japanese and American… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 109] 2003. xiv, 228 pp.
Skandinavisch-schottische Sprachbeziehungen im Mittelalter: Der altnordische lehneinfluss
Susanne Kries
Die Untersuchung stellt den ersten Versuch einer detaillierten Analyse der skandinavischen Lehnwörter im älteren Schottisch und im Mittelschottischen dar. Einzelne Kapitel widmen sich den unterschiedlichen semantischen Feldern, wobei sprachliche wie außersprachliche Bedingungen für die Entlehnung… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 20] 2003. xii, 500 pp.
Tok Pisin Texts: From the beginning to the present
Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton and Suzanne Romaine
Tok Pisin is one of the most important languages of Melanesia and is used in a wide range of public and private functions in Papua New Guinea. The language has featured prominently in Pidgin and Creole linguistics and has featured in a number of debates in theoretical linguistics. With their… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T9] 2003. x, 284 pp.
Verb Constructions in German and Dutch
Edited by Pieter A.M. Seuren and Gerard Kempen
German and Dutch verb constructions show a rich array of syntactic phenomena that have so far been underexposed in the literature, despite the fact that they have proved to be a source of substantial problems in theoretical grammar. The cross-linguistic study of verb constructions and … read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 242] 2003. vi, 314 pp.
Creole Discourse: Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles
Susanne Mühleisen
Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image. How has this prestige been formed? And is it as static as the diglossic situation in many anglo-creolophone societies seems to suggest? This volume examines socio-historical and epistemological factors in the prestige… read more[Creole Language Library, 24] 2002. xiv, 331 pp.
Defining Language: A local grammar of definition sentences
Geoff Barnbrook
Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself. Beyond this inherent significance as a crucial element of language study, definitions also provide a rich potential source of the information needed for Natural… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 11] 2002. xvi, 281 pp.
Doric: The dialect of North-East Scotland
J. Derrick McClure
The dialect of North-East Scotland, one of the most distinctive and best preserved in the country, survives as both a proudly maintained mark of local identity and the vehicle for a remarkable regional literature. The present study, after placing the dialect in its historical, geographical and… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T8] 2002. vi, 219 pp.
English Discourse Particles: Evidence from a corpus
Karin Aijmer
There are few aspects of language which are more problematic than its discourse particles. The present study of discourse particles draws upon data from the London-Lund Corpus to show how the methods and tools of corpora can sharpen their description. The first part of the book provides a picture… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 10] 2002. xvi, 298 pp.
English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000. Volume 1
Edited by Teresa Fanego, Javier Pérez-Guerra and María José López-Couso
This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present twelve papers were carefully selected to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 223] 2002. ix, 297 pp.
Exploring Natural Language: Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English
Gerald Nelson, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts
ICE-GB is a 1 million-word corpus of contemporary British English. It is fully parsed, and contains over 83,000 syntactic trees. Together with the dedicated retrieval software, ICECUP, ICE-GB is an unprecedented resource for the study of English syntax.Exploring Natural Language is a comprehensive… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G29] 2002. xviii, 344 pp.
The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English: A pragmatic approach
Susan Fitzmaurice
This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 95] 2002. viii, 263 pp.
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)
From OV to VO in Early Middle English
Carola Trips
This monograph answers the question of why English changed from an OV to a VO language on the assumption that this change is due to intensive language contact with Scandinavian. It shows for the first time that the English language was much more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than assumed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 60] 2002. xiv, 359 pp.
An Introduction to the Grammar of English: Syntactic arguments and socio-historical background
Elly van Gelderen
This Introduction provides a lively and clearly written textbook. It introduces basic concepts of grammar in a format which inspires the reader to use linguistic arguments. The style of the book is engaging and examples from poetry, jokes, and puns illustrate grammatical concepts.The focus is on… read more[Not in series, 111] 2002. xxiv, 200 pp.
Invisible Work: Bilingualism, language choice and childrearing in intermarried families
Toshie Okita
There is growing recognition that context is important for bilingual language development, but understanding of that context remains underdeveloped. This innovative study, spanning the fields of bilingualism, ethnicity and family studies, shows how language use in intermarried families is deeply… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 12] 2002. x, 275 pp.
Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology
Edited by Werner Abraham and Jan-Wouter Zwart
This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 45] 2002. xviii, 336 pp.
Language in South Africa: The role of language in national transformation, reconstruction and development
Victor Webb
Language in South Africa (LiSA) debates the role of language and language planning in the reconstruction, development and transformation of post-apartheid democratic South Africa. The 1996 constitution of South Africa is founded on the political philosophy of pluralism and is directed at promoting… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 14] 2002. xxviii, 357 pp.
Lexical Template Morphology: Change of state and the verbal prefixes in German
B. Roger Maylor
While there have been many attempts in the literature to account for the semantics and syntax of individual German(ic)prefixes, this is the first time that the prefixes have been analysed in a unified way and a framework established that is capable of relating the prefixes to each other and to… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 58] 2002. x, 273 pp.
Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus: Morpho-syntactic variability of second person pronouns
Ulrich Busse
This study investigates the morpho-syntactic variability of the second person pronouns in the Shakespeare Corpus, seeking to elucidate the factors that underlie their choice. The major part of the work is devoted to analyzing the variation between you and thou, but it also includes chapters that… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 106] 2002. xiv, 344 pp.
Middle Voice: A comparative study in the syntax-semantics interface of German
Markus Steinbach
This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages. It integrates the interpretation of non-argument reflexives into a modified version of recent… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 50] 2002. xii, 337 pp.
Natural Language Processing for Online Applications: Text retrieval, extraction and categorization
Peter Jackson and Isabelle Moulinier
This text covers the emerging technologies of document retrieval, information extraction, and text categorization in a way which highlights commonalities in terms of both general principles and practical issues. It seeks to satisfy a need on the part of technology practitioners in the Internet… read more[Natural Language Processing, 5 (1st)] 2002. x, 226 pp.
Particle Verbs in English: Syntax, information structure and intonation
Nicole Dehé
This book offers a new account of the transitive particle verb construction in English. The main emphasis is on the alternation between the two word orders possible in English (continuous: hand in the manuscript vs. discontinuous: hand the manuscript in). The central aim is to show that the choice… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 59] 2002. xii, 302 pp.
Point of View and Grammar: Structural patterns of subjectivity in American English conversation
Joanne Scheibman
This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject, tense, and verb type are those… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 11] 2002. xiv, 187 pp.
Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000: Volume 1. English Historical Syntax and Morphology; Volume 2. Sounds, Words, Texts and Change. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso, Javier Pérez-Guerra, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane
These volumes offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela.From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the twelve papers in Volume 1 were carefully selected… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 223-224] 2002. x, 306 pp. & x, 310 pp.
Sounds, Words, Texts and Change: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000. Volume 2
Edited by Teresa Fanego, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane
This volume and its companion one (English Historical Syntax and Morphology, CILT 223) offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 224] 2002. ix, 301 pp.
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)
Speaking Back: The free speech versus hate speech debate
Katharine Gelber
This book proposes an original policy framework for addressing hate speech. Gelber argues that a policy designed to provide support to affected groups and communities to enable them to speak back when hate speech occurs, is a more useful way of addressing the harms of hate speech than punitive… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 1] 2002. xiv, 177 pp.
Standardization: Studies from the Germanic languages
Edited by Andrew R. Linn and Nicola McLelland
This volume presents fourteen case studies of standardization processes in eleven different Germanic languages. Together, the contributions confront problematic issues in standardization which will be of interest to sociolinguists, as well as to historical linguists from all language disciplines.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 235] 2002. xii, 258 pp.
Still More Englishes
Manfred Görlach †
This monograph comprises eight papers, most of which originated as presentations given at international conferences or guest lectures. These papers deal with the problematic nature of English as a global language, and discuss what makes texts authentic and reliable for linguistic analysis, Scots in… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G28] 2002. xiv, 240 pp.
Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax: Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000)
Edited by Jan-Wouter Zwart and Werner Abraham
This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages.Divided in four main sections, the book focuses on issues of subordination and complementation (with… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 53] 2002. xiv, 404 pp.
Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation
Edited by Randi Reppen, Susan Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber
Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation illustrates the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation. Two major kinds of research questions are considered: variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature, and variation across dialects or… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 9] 2002. xii, 275 pp.
Communicative Organization in Natural Language: The semantic-communicative structure of sentences
Igor Mel’čuk
The book defines the concept of Semantic-Communicative Structure [= Sem-CommS]-a formal object that is imposed on the starting Semantic Structure [= SemS] of a sentence (under text synthesis) in order to turn the selected meaning into a linguistic message. The Sem-CommS is a system of eight… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 57] 2001. xii, 393 pp.
English World-Wide 1980–1999: Index to volumes 1–20
Compiled by Manfred Görlach †
This index to 20 volumes of English World-Wide provides an overview of the journal by presenting the complete tables of contents of those volumes, and – more importantly – easy access to the contents of the journal by carefully compiled indices of Names and Subjects. read more[English World-Wide, 21:IND] 2001. viii, 94 pp.
English in Australia
Edited by David Blair and Peter Collins
This unique collection fills a ten-year gap in studies on the nature of Australian English, and it is the first to deal exclusively with varieties of English on the Australian continent. The book contains chapters on the phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon of the dialect, and chapters on… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G26] 2001. vi, 366 pp.
Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization: A cognitive-pragmatic perspective
Jan Nuyts
The relationship between language and conceptualization remains one of the major puzzles in language research. This monograph addresses this issue by means of an in depth corpus based and experimental investigation of the major types of expressions of epistemic modality in Dutch, German and English. read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 5] 2001. xx, 428 pp.
Ethnicity and Language Change: English in (London)Derry, Northern Ireland
Kevin McCafferty
Part sociolinguistic, part ethnographic, this book takes up the neglected question of how ethnic division interacts with variation and change in Northern Irish English. It identifies an idealised folk model of harmoniouscommunities, in spite of the social divide and open conflict that have long… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 7] 2001. xx, 244 pp.
Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: Narrative Retelling
Ilana Mushin
This book explores the discourse pragmatics of reportive evidentiality in Macedonian, Japanese and English through an empirical study of evidential strategies in narrative retelling. The patterns of evidential use (and non-use) found in these languages are attributed to contextual, cultural and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 87] 2001. xviii, 240 pp.
Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation: A relevance-theoretic approach to the language of adolescents
Gisle Andersen
This book combines theoretical work in linguistic pragmatics and sociolinguistics with empirical work based on a corpus of London adolescent conversation. It makes a general contribution to the study of pragmatic markers, as it proposes an analytical model that involves notions such as… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 84] 2001. ix, 352 pp.
Präteritumschwund und Diskursgrammatik: Präteritumschwund in gesamteuropäischen Bezügen: areale Ausbreitung, heterogene Entstehung, Parsing sowie diskursgrammatische Grundlagen und Zusammenhänge
Werner Abraham und C. Jac Conradie
This work demonstrates that what is commonly called preterite decay in Upper German (PS; cf. German Präteritumschwund) is in fact a phenomenon common to a great number of European languages, all of which are in areal con-tact. However, the conclusion that this is a phenomenon arising under areal… read more[Not in series, 103] 2001. xiv, 148 pp.
Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and practice
Edited by Mohsen Ghadessy, Alex Henry and Robert L. Roseberry
Recent developments in this field of small corpus studies, largely brought about by the personal computer, have yielded remarkable insights into the nature and use of real language. This book presents work by a number of leading researchers in the field and covers a series of topics directly… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 5] 2001. xxiv, 419 pp.
Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English
Edited by Sonja L. Lanehart
This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally. It explores the relationship between AAE and other varieties of English (namely Southern… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G27] 2001. xviii, 371 pp.
When Listeners Talk: Response tokens and listener stance
Rod Gardner
Listeners are usually considered recipients in conversational interaction, whose main activity is to take in messages from other speakers. In this view, the listening activity is separate from speaking. Another view is that listeners and speakers are equal co-participants in conversations who… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 92] 2001. xxi, 289 pp.
Whose German?: The ach/ich alternation and related phenomena in ‘standard’ and ‘colloquial’
Orrin W. Robinson
The author addresses a number of issues in German and general phonology, using a specific problem in German phonology (the ach/ich alternation) as a springboard. These issues include especially the naturalness, or lack thereof, of the prescriptive standard in German, and the importance of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 208] 2001. xi, 169 pp.
The Theme–Topic Interface: Evidence from English
María de los Ángeles Gómez González
The Theme-Topic Interface (TTI) gives a useful catalogue of approaches to the concept Theme in the analysis of Natural Language. The book is written with both theoretical and descriptive goals and aims to synthesize andrevise current approaches to pragmatic functions. In addition, TTI explains that… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 71] 2001. xxiv, 434 pp.
Conversational Narrative: Storytelling in everyday talk
Neal R. Norrick
This book investigates the forms and functions of storytelling in everyday conversation. It develops a rhetoric of everyday storytelling through an integrated approach to both the internal structure and the contextual integration of narrative passages. It aims at a more complete picture of oral… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 203] 2000. xiv, 233 pp.
Diachronic Pragmatics: Seven case studies in English illocutionary development
Leslie K. Arnovick
The purpose of Diachronic Pragmatics is to exemplify historical pragmatics in its twofold sense of constituting both a subject matter and a methodology. This book demonstrates how diachronic pragmatics, with its complementary diachronic function-to-form mapping and diachronic form-to-function… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 68] 2000. xii, 191 pp.
English Media Texts – Past and Present: Language and textual structure
Edited by Friedrich Ungerer
This book is among the first to combine a historical view of media texts with a critical look at their textual diversity today. The thirteen chapters cover corpora of early news-papers and pamphlets, present-day news stories and commentaries, TV talk shows and commercials as well as internet… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 80] 2000. xiv, 286 pp.
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.
Events and Predication: A new approach to syntactic processing in English and Spanish
Montserrat Sanz
Studies on the syntactic consequences of event type in languages have shown that Aktionsart plays a role in Universal Grammar. This book contributes to the exploration of the syntax/semantics interface by presenting a thorough comparison of event and predicate types in English and Spanish. The… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 207] 2000. xiv, 219 pp.
Greek and Indo-European Etymology in Action: Proto-Indo-European *aǵ-
Raimo Anttila
This study resurrects the genre of Wortstudien contributions or lexilogus treatments, the core of historical lexical semantics. Such studies used to be quite popular, and interest in lexical matters is again rising. The word family around the Indo-European root *aǵ- ‘drive’ is placed against its… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 200] 2000. xii, 314 pp.
Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse
Esam N. Khalil
Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse explores the discourse notion of grounding (viz. the foreground-background structure), and examines it in the various structures that occur in short news texts. A text-level approach to grounding and the differentiation between several core concepts… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 82] 2000. x, 274 pp.
A History of English Reflexive Pronouns: Person, Self, and Interpretability
Elly van Gelderen
This book brings together a number of seemingly distinct phenomena in the history of English: the introduction of special reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself), the loss of verbal agreement and pro-drop, and the disappearance of morphological Case. It provides vast numbers of examples from Old and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 39] 2000. xiv, 277 pp.
Ideology, Politics and Language Policies: Focus on English
Edited by Thomas Ricento
This volume critically examines the effects of the spread of English from colonialism to the ‘New World Order’. The research explores the complex and often contradictory roles English has played in national development. Historical analyses and case studies by leading researchers in language policy… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 6] 2000. x, 197 pp.
Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998
Edited by Julie Coleman and Christian Kay
The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic change and lexical innovation, interpreted within a sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. Many of the papers draw on the remarkable… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 194] 2000. xiv, 249 pp.
Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay: A contrastive study of requests and apologies
Rosina Márquez Reiter
The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 83] 2000. xviii, 225 pp.
Metarepresentation: A relevance-theory approach
Eun-Ju Noh
Eun-Ju Noh’s book provides a close look at linguistic metarepresentation showing how beliefs, utterances, and propositions are represented and how they are inferred. The author explains how metarepresentation works in various types of uses: quotations, negation, echo questions, and conditionals in… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 69] 2000. xii, 242 pp.
Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Johan van der Auwera and Patrick Dendale
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 14] 2000. vi, 264 pp.
New Zealand English
Edited by Allan Bell and Koenraad Kuiper
New Zealand English is currently one of the most researched varieties of English world-wide. This book presents an up-to-date account of all the major aspects of New Zealand English by leading scholars as well as younger specialists in each of the major fields of enquiry. The book is authoritative… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G25] 2000. 368 pp.
Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English
Edited by Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein
There is a continual growth of interest among linguists of all-theoretical denominations in grammaticalization, a concept central to many linguistic (change) theories. However, the discussion of grammaticalization processes has often suffered from a shortage of concrete empirical studies from one… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 53] 2000. x, 391 pp.
Pattern Grammar: A corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English
Susan Hunston and Gill Francis
This book describes an approach to lexis and grammar based on the concept of phraseology and of language patterning arising from work on large corpora. The notion of 'pattern' as a systematic way of dealing with the interface between lexis and grammar was used in Collins Cobuild English Dictionary… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 4] 2000. xiv, 288 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)
Students Writing in the University: Cultural and epistemological issues
Edited by Carys Jones, Joan Turner and Brian Street
This volume aims to raise awareness of the underlying complexities concerning student writing in the universities. The authors address a series of theoretical as well as practical questions regarding the literacies required of students in Higher Education, from the perspective of both students… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 8] 2000. xxiv, 232 pp.
Syntactic Aspects of Topic and Comment
André Meinunger
The book focuses on the syntactic behavior of argument noun phrases depending on their discourse status. The main language of consideration is German, but it is shown that the observations can be carried over to other languages. The claim is that discourse-new arguments remain inside the VP where… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 38] 2000. xii, 245 pp.
Word Order Change in Icelandic: From OV to VO
Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patterns. In this volume, the author both examines the various VP-word order patterns from a descriptive and statistical point of view and provides… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 35] 2000. xiv, 385 pp.
Writing in Nonstandard English
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta
This book investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use from standard to nonstandard. In our view, these notions can only be established through mutual definition, and they cannot exist without the opposite pole. What is considered standard English changes according to… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 67] 2000. viii, 403 pp.
The Clause in English: In honour of Rodney Huddleston
Edited by Peter Collins and David Lee
The focus in this volume is on grammatical aspects of the clause in English, presenting a fine balance between theoretically- and descriptively-oriented approaches. Some authors investigate the status and properties of ‘minor’ or ‘fringe’ constructions, including ‘deictic-presentationals’;… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 45] 1999. xxii, 327 pp.
Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English
Edited by Laurel J. Brinton and Minoji Akimoto
The focus of this carefully selected volume concerns the existence, frequency, and form of composite/complex predicates (the “take a look” construction) in earlier periods of the English language, an area of scholarship which has been virtually neglected. The various contributions seek to… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 47] 1999. xiv, 283 pp.
A French-English Grammar: A contrastive grammar on translational principles
Morris Salkoff
In this contrastive French-English grammar, the comparisons between French structures and their English equivalents are formulated as rules which associate a French schema (of a particular grammatical structure) with its translation into an equivalent English schema. The grammar contains all the… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 22] 1999. xvi, 342 pp.
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)
Historical Dialogue Analysis
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Gerd Fritz and Franz Lebsanft
Historical dialogue analysis is a new branch of historical pragmatics. The papers of this interdisciplinary volume contribute to charting the developing field by presenting a survey of recent research from the different traditions of English, German and Romance language studies. Both the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 66] 1999. viii, 478 pp.
Images of Language: Six essays on German attitudes to European languages from 1500 to 1800
William Jervis Jones
This volume consists of six essays on interrelated themes, focusing on key aspects of language reflection during the period 1500-1800, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century. German speakers are seen attempting to discover and define the nature of adjacent languages, whilst also… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 89] 1999. x, 299 pp.
Translating the Elusive: Marked word order and subjectivity in English-German translation
Monika S. Schmid
This work presents an in-depth analysis of text- and speaker-based meaning of non-canonical word order in English and ways to preserve this in English-German translation. Among the sentence structures under discussion are subject-verb inversion, Left Dislocation, Topicalization as well as wh-cleft… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 36] 1999. xii, 174 pp.
Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect
Peter L. Patrick
A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G17] 1999. xx, 329 pp.
Verbal Complement Clauses: A minimalist study of direct perception constructions
Claudia Felser
This monograph examines the syntax of bare infinitival and participial complements of perception verbs in English and other European languages, and investigates the general conditions under which verbal complement clauses are licensed. The introductory chapter is followed by an overview of the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 25] 1999. xiv, 278 pp.
The Acquisition of Dutch
Edited by Steven Gillis and Annick De Houwer
In the present-day context of cross-linguistic perspectives on language acquisition, The Acquisition of Dutch offers a much needed overview of the wealth of Dutch child language research that was hitherto lacking. Its comprehensive coverage in terms of topics, its many new theoretical contributions… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 52] 1998. xvi, 444 pp.
Adverbs of Degree in Dutch and Related Languages
Henny Klein
Adverbs of degree form an intriguing part of the lexicon: numerous, multiform and everchanging. They also show a great variety in distribution. In this study, the characteristics of adverbs of degree are investigated from a semantic point of view. The main focus is on Dutch, but previous studies… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 21] 1998. x, 232 pp.
An Annotated Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English
Manfred Görlach †
In the 19th century, education became accessible to much wider circles of society in a great number and variety of schools and the teaching of grammar came to be obligatory from 1870/72 with the advent of general education. Whereas these general trends of the 19th century are well-known to scholars… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 26] 1998. ix, 395 pp.
Comparative Studies in Word Order Variation: Adverbs, pronouns, and clause structure in Romance and Germanic
Christopher Laenzlinger
The present book is a typological study in crucial portions of the grammars of French/Romance and German/Germanic. It starts by asking: What do adverbs, pronouns and full noun phrases have in common? This question is tackled, on the one hand, from an empirical perspective by the description of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 20] 1998. x, 371 pp.
The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154
Hans Frede Nielsen †
In conjunction with two other volumes, which are scheduled to appear later, The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154 aims at giving a comprehensive survey of what by the author is seen as the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 19] 1998. xiv, 234 pp.
English Prepositions Explained
Seth Lindstromberg
English Prepositions Explained has been written both for non-native and native speakers of English and is intended for: teachers of English; translators; materials writers; advanced students of English; frequent users of English generally.English Prepositions Explained furnishes information about… read more[Not in series, 88] 1998. xii, 309 pp.
Even More Englishes: Studies 1996–1997. With a foreword by John Spencer
Manfred Görlach †
Even More Englishes comprises Manfred Görlachs more recent papers devoted to general problems of the world language and to individual varieties. The collection starts with principal questions as to what can rightly be regarded as English, looks at specific features of emigrant Englishes and the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G22] 1998. x, 260 pp.
Hedging in Scientific Research Articles
Ken Hyland
This book provides a comprehensive study of hedging in academic research papers, relating a systematic analysis of forms to a pragmatic explanation for their use. Based on a detailed examination of journal articles and interviews with research scientists, the study shows that the extensive use of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 54] 1998. x, 308 pp.
Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 2: Germanic linguistics. Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995
Edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen
The Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which is the major forum for the presentation of work in progress in the field of diachronic linguistics, took place at the University of Manchester in August 1995. The quality and breadth of the abstracts submitted for the general… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 162] 1998. x, 365 pp.
Indian English: Texts and Interpretation
Raja Ram Mehrotra
Indian English, or rather, the forms of English used in India, have long been a topic of interest for laymen and scholars. For generations, the ‘exotic’ nature of the transplanted language was commented on, often ridiculed as a matter of unintentional comic. It was only from the 1960s onwards that… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T7] 1998. x, 148 pp.
Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English
Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward
This work provides a comprehensive discourse-functional account of three classes of noncanonical constituent placement in English – preposing, postposing, and argument reversal – and shows how their interaction is accounted for in a principled and predictive way. In doing so, it details the variety… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 40] 1998. xiv, 314 pp.
Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity: Causative constructions in English
Maarten Lemmens
Fusing insights from cognitive grammar, systemic-functional grammar and Government & Binding, the present work elaborates and refines Davidse’s view that the English grammar of lexical causatives is governed by the transitive and ergative paradigms, two distinct models of causation (Davidse 1991,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 166] 1998. xii, 268 pp.
Linguistic Choice across Genres: Variation in spoken and written English
Edited by Antonia Sánchez-Macarro and Ronald Carter
This book, based on revised papers originally delivered at the VII International Systemic Functional Workshop in Valencia in 1995, explores some of the choices open to speakers and writers for the expression of meaning in different socio-cultural contexts. Many of the papers draw their inspiration… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 158] 1998. viii, 347 pp.
Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax: Word formation in Swedish
Gunlög Josefsson
In Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax the author combines a detailed description of the morphological structure of words in Swedish with a daring new approach to theoretical morphology, based on the Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995) (as developed for syntactic structure). The X-bar theoretic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 19] 1998. ix, 199 pp.
New Zealand English Grammar – Fact or Fiction?: A corpus-based study in morphosyntactic variation
Marianne Hundt
New Zealand English (NZE) is one of the younger post-colonial varieties of English. It is therefore not surprising that previous research focused on lexical and phonological aspects of NZE and practically neglected grammatical peculiarities. New Zealand English Grammar — Fact or Fiction? presents a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G23] 1998. xvi, 212 pp.
An Onomasiological Theory of English Word-Formation
Pavol Štekauer
Pavol Štekauer presents an original approach to the intricate problems of English word-formation. The emphasis is on the process of coining new naming units (words). This is described by an onomasiological model, which takes as its point of departure the naming needs of a speech community, and… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 46] 1998. x, 192 pp.
Phonetics and Phonology of Tense and Lax Obstruents in German
Michael Jessen
Knowing that the so-called voiced and voiceless stops in languages like English and German do not always literally differ in voicing, several linguists among them Roman Jakobson have proposed that dichotomies such as fortis/lenis or tense/lax might be more suitable to capture the invariant… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 44] 1998. xx, 394 pp.
Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach. Volume 1: General studies, British Isles, North America
Edited by Edgar W. Schneider
The two volumes of Englishes around the World present high-quality original research papers written in honour of Manfred Görlach, founder and editor of the journal English World-Wide and the book series Varieties of English Around the World. The papers thematically focus on the field that Manfred… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G18] 1997. vi, 329 pp.
Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach. Volume 2: Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Australasia
Edited by Edgar W. Schneider
The two volumes of Englishes around the World present high-quality original research papers written in honour of Manfred Görlach, founder and editor of the journal English World-Wide and the book series Varieties of English Around the World. The papers thematically focus on the field that Manfred… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G19] 1997. viii, 358 pp.
Focus on Ireland
Edited by Jeffrey L. Kallen
Irish English is both the oldest overseas variety of English and, thanks to its co-existence with Irish Gaelic, one of the longest-documented examples of a contact-influenced language variety. The dual aspects of substratal influence and dialectal conservatism, together with the spread of this… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G21] 1997. xviii, 260 pp.
Friesische Studien III: Beiträge des Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie vom 11.–12. April 1996
Herausgegeben von Volkert F. Faltings, Alastair Walker und Ommo Wilts
Der vorliegende Band Friesische Studien III enthält die Referate von sechs Sprachwissenschaftlern aus den Niederlanden und Deutschland anläßlich des dritten Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie, das vom 11.–12. April 1996 in Alkersum auf Föhr stattfand. Die Beiträge befassen sich mit den… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 18] 1997. viii, 205 pp.
Inversion in Modern English: Form and function
Heidrun Dorgeloh
The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences. It treats inversion as a speaker-based decision for reordering within a fairly rigid word order system and identifies the meaning of the construction… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 6] 1997. x, 236 pp.
The Locative Alternation in German: Its structure and acquisition
Ursula Brinkmann
This monograph deals with the locative alternation in German, a change in the argument structure of verbs like spray and load. Like most argument structure changes, the alternation is both productive and constrained: new forms may be derived, but not from all candidate verbs. This raises a… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 15] 1997. x, 289 pp.
NOWELE Volume 31/32 (November 1997): Germanic Studies
Edited by Kurt Gustav Goblirsch, Martha Berryman Mayou and Marvin Taylor
Special issue of NOWELE 31/32 (1997) x, 528 pp.
Standards and Variation in Urban Speech: Examples from Lowland Scots
Ronald K.S. Macaulay
Standards and Variation in Urban Speech is an examination and exploration of the aims and methods of sociolinguistic investigation, based on studies of Scottish urban speech. It criticially examines the implications of the notions vernacular, standard language, Received Pronunciation, social… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G20] 1997. x, 201
Territory of Information
Akio Kamio
Most higher animals are said to be territorial, as a huge amount of work in ethology has made it clear. Human beings are no exceptions. They tend to occupy a certain space around them where they claim their own presence and exclude others quite naturally. If territory is so prevalent among higher… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 48] 1997. xiv, 227 pp.
Anglicisms, Neologisms and Dynamic French
Michael D. Picone
This comprehensive study of Anglicisms in the context of accelerated neological activity in Contemporary Metropolitan French not only provides detailed documentation and description of a fascinating topic, but opens up new vistas on issues of general linguistic interest: the effects of technology… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 18] 1996. xii, 462 pp.
A Concise Grammar of the Old Frisian Dialect of the First Riustring Manuscript
Dirk Boutkan
The language of the First Riustring Manuscript, dating from ca. 1300 AD, represents the most archaic stage of Old Frisian. The mainly legal texts are famous for their historical value. However, a grammatical treatise of this important codex is still lacking. This book is meant to meet this need. It… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 16] 1996. iv, 203 pp.
Content, Expression and Structure: Studies in Danish functional grammar
Edited by Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft and Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen
This collection of papers offers an alternative to mainstream functional linguistics on two points. Especially in American linguistics, function and structure are often viewed almost as polar opposites; in addition, structure is often understood as being only a matter of linguistic form — or… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 29] 1996. xvi, 510 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 1994: Papers from the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (8 ICEHL, Edinburgh, 19–23 September 1994)
Edited by Derek Britton
This volume offers a selection of 19 papers from those read at the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics in Edinburgh. Many of the writers are established authorities in the field, but there are also significant contributions from a younger generation of scholars. The… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 135] 1996. viii, 403 pp.
Focus on South Africa
Edited by Vivian de Klerk
This volume brings together a range of studies on various aspects of English and its use in Southern Africa. Experts in their field have written chapters on topics including the history and development of English in South Africa, the characteristics of particular pan-ethnic varieties of English… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G15] 1996. 328 pp.
Focus on the USA
Edited by Edgar W. Schneider
This volume presents fifteen original research papers by renowned specialists in their respective fields. A variety of research traditions are included, such as dialect geography and sociolinguistics, but also smaller sub-fields such as the study of slang and perceptual dialectology. Varieties… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G16] 1996. vi, 368 pp.
Germanic Linguistics: Syntactic and diachronic
Edited by Rosina L. Lippi-Green and Joseph C. Salmons
This volume contains ten revised and expanded papers selected from the dozens presented at the last Michigan-Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, five contributions each from syntax (by Werner Abraham, Sarah Fagan, Isabella Barbier, John te Velde, and Ruth Lanouette) and historical linguistics… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 137] 1996. viii, 192 pp.
NOWELE Volume 28/29 (August 1996): A Frisian and Germanic Miscellany
Edited by Adeline Petersen and Hans Frede Nielsen †
Special issue of NOWELE 28/29 (1996) xlii, 597 pp.
Nordfriesische Grabhügelnamen mit anthroponymem Erstglied: Zur form und flexion älterer nordfriesischer rufnamen
Volkert F. Faltings
Die vorliegende Monographie behandelt die nordfriesischen Grabhügelnamen und die darin enthaltenen Anthroponyme. Die sprachgeschichtliche Analyse des Namenmaterials stützt sich dabei auf ein vielschichtiges Quellenmaterial, wobei ein spezielles Augenmerk den morphologischen Merkmalen gilt.… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 14] 1996. vi, 186 pp.
Old English Legal Language: The lexical field of theft
Jürg R. Schwyter
This corpus-based study examines the lexical field of theft in the Anglo-Saxon law-codes and documents containing reports of lawsuits (charters, writs, and some chapters of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle). The individual Old English lexemes are analysed not only in terms of their meaning, collocation… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 15] 1996. iv, 197 pp.
The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages: Proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloqium, Odense University, November 1994
Edited by Hans Frede Nielsen † and Lene Schøsler
The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages is the proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloquium held at Odense University, November 1994 read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 17] 1996. xi, 318 pp.
Drei Studien zum Germanischen in alter und neuer Zeit
Herausgegeben von John Ole Askedal, Harald Bjorvand und Ottar Grønvik
Der vorliegende Band ist ein Ergebnis der Arbeit im Bereich der vergleichen den germanischen Sprachwissenschaft am Germanistischen Institut der Universität Oslo. Im Beitrag von Harald Bjorvand wird gezeigt, daß die Zahl der maskulinen Verbalnomina mit i-Stamm bildung aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 13] 1995. vi, 146 pp.
Friesische Studien II: Beiträge des Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie vom 7.–8. April 1994
Herausgegeben von Volkert F. Faltings, Alastair Walker und Ommo Wilts
Der vorliegende Band Friesische Studien II enthält die Referate von Wissenschaftlern unterschiedlicher Fachrichtungen aus Dänemark, Deutschland, Großbritannien und den Niederlanden anläßlich des zweiten Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie, das vom 7.–8. April 1994 in Alkersum auf der… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 12] 1995. vi, 221 pp.
Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker
Until very recently, pragmatics has been restricted to the analysis of contemporary spoken language while historical linguistics has studied historical texts and language change in a decontextualized way. This has now radically changed and scholars from around the world are trying to build a new… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 35] 1995. xv, 623 pp.
More Englishes: New studies in varieties of English 1988–1994
Manfred Görlach †
This collection of eight papers is a continuation of Manfred Görlach’s previous collection “Englishes” with the author’s most influential writings in the field of varieties of Englishread more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G13] 1995. 276 pp.
On Extraction and Extraposition in German
Edited by Uli Lutz and Jürgen Pafel
Extraction has traditionally been one of the main topics in generative grammar, and it retains this status in current variants of the theory. German provides a good testing ground for traditional as well as current theories of extraction. The nine contributions to this volume document the recent… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 11] 1995. xii, 315 pp.
Scots and its Literature
J. Derrick McClure
Among the topics treated in this collection are the status of Scots as a national language; the orthography of Scots; the actual and potential degree of standardisation of Scots; the debt of the vocabulary of Scots to Gaelic; the use of Scots in fictional dialogue; and the development of Scots as a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G14] 1995. vi, 218 pp.
Zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache: New edition
Wilhelm Scherer (1841–1886)
Wilhelm Scherer (1841-1886) has gained wide recognition for his extraordinary accomplishments in linguistics as well as in literary studies.His first and most important contribution to the development of linguistic science was his monumental work of 508 pages Zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache,… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 16] 1995. lxii, 492 pp.
Bilingual First Language Acquisition: French and German grammatical development
Edited by Jürgen M. Meisel
The contributions in this volume are based on an analysis of data from bilingual children acquiring French and German simultaneously. The longitudinal studies started at approximately age one year and six months and continued till age six. The papers focus on the development of specific… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 7] 1994. vi, 282 pp.
Consonant Strength in Upper German Dialects
Kurt Gustav Goblirsch
The present study examines the problem of fortis and lenis in approximately 150 dialects of southern Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, Alsace, and the German-speaking minorities in Italy, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The Upper German dialects are of particular… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 10] 1994. vi, 127 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 1992: Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22–26 September 1992
Edited by Francisco Fernández, Miguel Fuster Márquez and Juan Jose Calvo
This volume brings together a selection of 28 out of the 76 papers read at ICHEL-7 in Valencia. The book opens with a general section, in which Richard Hogg examines the relationship between linguistics and philology, Enrique Bernárdez analyzes syntactic change from the point of view of catastrophe… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 113] 1994. viii, 388 pp.
Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Analysis: A contrastive study of sign systems in English and Hebrew
Yishai Tobin
This volume provides a new kind of contrastive analysis of two unrelated languages English and Hebrew based on the semiotic concepts of invariance, markedness and distinctive feature theory. It concentrates on linguistic forms and constructions which are remarkably different in each language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 111] 1994. xxii, 406 pp.
Language Ideology and Language Change in Early Modern German: A sociolinguistic study of the consonantal system of Nuremberg
Rosina L. Lippi-Green
This quantitative study, based on a computerized corpus of texts written by five men in early 16th-century Nuremberg, employs multivariate GLM statistical procedures to analyze the way linguistic, social and stylistic factors work individually and in interaction to influence variation observed in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 119] 1994. xiv, 150 pp.
The Unaccented Vowels of Proto-Norse
Martin Syrett
The Unaccented Vowels of Proto-Norse attempts to analyse the unaccented vowel system attested in the proto-Norse period, as partially attested in the older runic inscriptions in the elder futhark. Each chapter in turn assesses the evidence for unaccented syllables of a particular category, whether… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 11] 1994. 323 pp.
A New Bibliography of Writings on Varieties of English, 1984–1992/93
Beat Glauser, Edgar W. Schneider and Manfred Görlach †
The continuing expansion of research in dialectology, sociolinguistics and English as a world language has made the field increasingly difficult to survey. This bibliography is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the relevant publications of the past few years. Like its predecessor, it… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G12] 1993. 208 pp.
English Grammar: A function-based introduction. Volume I
T. Givón
The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and… read more[Not in series, ENGRAM 1] 1993. xxii, 318 pp.
English Grammar: A function-based introduction. Volume II
T. Givón
The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and… read more[Not in series, ENGRAM 2] 1993. xv, 363 pp.
English Grammar: A function-based introduction. 2 Volumes (set)
T. Givón
The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional: Grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and… read more[Not in series, ENGRAM S] 1993. xxii, 318 pp. & xvi, 363 pp.
English Speech Rhythm: Form and function in everyday verbal interaction
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 25] 1993. x, 346 pp.
Focus on Canada
Edited by Sandra Clarke
Although varieties of North American English have come in for a good deal of linguistic scrutiny in recent years, the vast majority of published works have dealt with American rather than Canadian English. This volume constitutes a welcome addition to our linguistic knowledge of English-speaking… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G11] 1993. xii, 302 pp.
NOWELE Volume 21/22 (April 1993): Twenty-Eight Papers Presented to Hans Bekker-Nielsen on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, 28 april 1993
Special issue of NOWELE 21/22 (1993) xiii, 453 pp.
Predication in Caribbean English Creoles
Donald Winford
This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively. The book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of CEC… read more[Creole Language Library, 10] 1993. viii, 419 pp.
Prepositions in Old and Middle English: A study of prepositional syntax and the semantics of At, In and On in some Old and Middle English texts
Tom Lundskær-Nielsen
The present book covers various aspects of prepositional syntax between c. 900-1400, including case relations and the range of prepositional complements; it also examines word order, both within the PP and at clause level, and it explores changes in clausal word order. Furthermore, it provides a… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 9] 1993. x, 206 pp.
The Rise of Functional Categories
Elly van Gelderen
In recent years, word order has come to be seen, within a Government Binding/Minimalist framework, as determined by functional as well as lexical categories. Within this framework, functional categories are often seen as present in every language without evidence being available in that language.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 9] 1993. x, 224 pp.
Russian-English Dictionary of Verbal Collocations
Morton Benson and Evelyn Benson
All languages are characterized by the regular cooccurrence of certain words; for example, we say in English, tall building but high mountain. These recurrent combinations or collocations are peculiar to each individual language and cannot be predicted by a learner of that language. There are… read more[Not in series, 65] 1993. xviii, 269 pp.
Syntactic Change in Germanic: Aspects of language change in Germanic with particular reference to Middle Dutch
Kate Burridge
This study examines certain features of Dutch syntax between approximately 1300 and 1650. Of central importance are the overall developments in the word order patterning and the various changes they entail elsewhere in the grammar, such as in the negative construction. After an introductory chapter… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 89] 1993. xii, 287 pp.
Trinidad and Tobago
Lise Winer
This volume describes the English and English Creole of Trinidad and Tobago. Sources from the early 19th through late 20th centuries are gathered from a wide range of materials: novels, editorials, advertisements, cartoons, proverbs, newspaper articles, plays, lyrics of traditional songs and… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T6] 1993. xii, 368 pp.
Varieties of Questions in English Conversation
Elizabeth G. Weber
This book examines relations which hold between morphosyntactic form and communicative function in discourse by examining form-function correlations of noninterrogative questions in ordinary English conversation. So-called nontypical declarative and nonclausal questions are identified functionally.… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 3] 1993. x, 252 pp.
A Bibliographical Guide to Old Frisian Studies
Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.
This bibliography aims serve the demands and wishes of students of Old Frisian for its own sake as well as for those who want to use Old Frisian for comparative purposes. Although it concentrates on language and literature, titles have also been included which deal with more or less peripheral… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 6] 1992. xvi, 197 pp.
English Text: System and structure
J.R. Martin
This book is a comprehensive introduction to text forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use. It has been designed to complement functional grammars of English, building on the generation of discourse analysis… read more[Not in series, 59] 1992. xiv, 620 pp.
Friesische Studien I: Beiträge des Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie vom 10.–11. Oktober 1991
Herausgegeben von Volkert F. Faltings, Alastair Walker und Ommo Wilts
Der vorliegende Band Friesische Studien I enthält die Referate von sechs Sprachwissenschaftlern und -wissenschaftlerinnen aus den Niederlanden und Deutschland anläßlich des Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie, das vom 10.-11. Oktober 1991 in Alkersum auf der nordfriesischen Insel Föhr… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 8] 1992. viii, 203 pp.
From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction: On Left-Dislocation in English
Ronald Geluykens
This study deals with interactional processes in conversational discourse, and the way they may get 'syntacticized' into grammatical constructions. It investigates the link between discourse function and syntactic form, and the ways in which grammatical form is a reflection on communicative… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 1] 1992. xii, 182 pp.
Grammatical Number in English Nouns: An empirical and theoretical account
Mark A. Wickens
Apart from the coverage given to it in the grammars, number in English nouns has received relatively little attention, especially in the area of theoretical considerations. Guided by the principles of psychomechanics, Hirtle (1982a) put forth a fairly elaborate theory of number in English nouns.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 76] 1992. xvi, 321 pp.
The Languages of Joyce: Selected Papers from the 11th International James Joyce Symposium Venice 1988
Edited by Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli, Carla Marengo and Christine van Boheemen
The papers collected in this volume capture some of the excitement of the 11th International James Joyce Symposium, held in Venice and Trieste, June 1988. ‘The contents of this book are by no means as restrictive as the title might suggest. The contributors explore not only Joyce’s ‘languages’ and… read more[Not in series, 54] 1992. xx, 277 pp.
One Parent – One Language: An interactional approach
Susanne Döpke
This volume examines the relationship between young children's degrees of bilingualism and features of the verbal input which these children receive from their parents. In particular, it seeks to explore the following question: to what extent are families who follow the 'one parent-one language'… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 3] 1992. xviii, 231 pp.
Phonological Investigations
Edited by Jacek Fisiak and Stanislaw Puppel
The papers in this volume deal with subjects ranging from sound change and general phonological issues to analyses of specific problems in Polish and English, while some papers are of a crosslinguistic/contrastive nature. No single phonological paradigm has been followed, and this diversity of… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 38] 1992. x, 507 pp.
Recent Developments in Germanic Linguistics
Edited by Rosina L. Lippi-Green
These are selected papers from the Second Annual Michigan/Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable held in April of 1991 at Ann Arbor. Topics include the evolution of the gender system, the delineation of the relative clause in historical texts, and language as a political tool in the new Europe.read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 93] 1992. xii, 163 pp.
The Syntax of Norwegian Passive Constructions
Tor A. Åfarli
This book provides an analysis of the passive phenomenon in general and of Norwegian passive constructions in particular. Related topics such as English passive constructions and Norwegian ergative constructions are also examined. The analysis is carried out within a Government and Binding… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 7] 1992. xii, 177 pp.
Zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Altniederländischen
Herausgegeben von Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. und Arend Quak
Unter den Übersichten über die ältesten germanischen Sprachen vermißt man oft das Altniederländische. Es wird ihm höchstens ein sehr bescheidener Platz unter der Bezeichnung 'Altnieder fränkisch' eingeräumt. Als Folge der namentlich deutschen historischen Sprachforschung des 19. Jahrhunderts… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 7] 1992. iv, 123 pp.
A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700–1800 (DENG)
Bertil Sundby, Anne Kari Bjørge and Kari E. Haugland
Eighteenth-century English grammarians plead eloquently for purity, precision and perspicuity, but their method of teaching largely amounts to citing examples of impurity, imprecision and lack of clarity from contemporary writings. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed systematic… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 63] 1991. x, 486 pp.
The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations: Dictionary and workbook (set)
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young
[Not in series, BBI S] 1991. x, 58 pp.; xl, 386 pp. + key
Child Language and Developmental Dysphasia: Linguistic studies of the acquisition of German
Harald Clahsen
The subject of this two part work is the acquisition of language structure in which the development of syntax and morphology is examined by investigations on children without language problems and on children with developmental dysphasia. The author uses a comparative acquisition study to provide… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 2] 1991. x, 350 pp.
Discourse Particles: Descriptive and theoretical investigations on the logical, syntactic and pragmatic properties of discourse particles in German
Edited by Werner Abraham
This book is about particles in the narrower sense of the word as opposed to the broader meaning covering all uninflected words of a language. In the narrower meaning of the linguistic term particles can be distinguished between logical, or scalar particles and modal, or pragmatic particles. The… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 12] 1991. viii, 338 pp.
The Emergence of Black English: Text and commentary
Edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila
Debate over the evolution of Black English Vernacular (BEV) has permeated Afro-American studies, creole linguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics for a quarter of a century with little sign of a satisfactory resolution, primarily because evidence that bears directly on the earlier stages of… read more[Creole Language Library, 8] 1991. x, 352 pp.
English Traditional Grammars: An international perspective
Edited by Gerhard Leitner
Until recently grammars of English have received surprisingly little scholarly attention, while a lot of research is done on dictionaries. It appears, however, that learners of English shy away from modern grammars and prefer to consult dictionaries or traditional reference grammars instead. This… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 62] 1991. x, 392 pp.
Englishes: Studies in varieties of English 1984–1988
Manfred Görlach †
Problems of how to describe and explain the forms and functions of English outside Britain and the United States (and of varieties within the two countries) have become central for English linguistics over the past twenty years. The present collection combines 8 of Gorlach's major articles in the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G9] 1991. 211 pp.
An Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain
Andreas Fischer and Daniel Ammann
The results of the dialect surveys of Great Britain have been published in the form of hundreds of single and collected maps, but so far there has been no actual handbook to the charted material. The Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain, containing a full introduction, an alphabetical word-list… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G10] 1991. iv, 150 pp.
STAEFCRAEFT: Studies in Germanic Linguistics. Selected papers from the 1st and 2nd Symposium on Germanic Linguistics, University of Chicago, 4 April 1985, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3–4 Oct. 1986
Edited by Elmer H. Antonsen and Hans Henrich Hock
The first Symposium on Germanic Linguistics was organized at the University of Chicago by Jan Terje Faarlund. The notable success of this undertaking led Elmer H. Antonsen, Hans Henrich Hock, and James W. Marchand to arrange the Second Symposium on Germanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 79] 1991. viii, 217 pp.
Using the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A workbook with exercises
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young
This volume has been replaced by a new (online) edition. Please click here for more information.USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people to the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed, demonstrates how… read more[Not in series, BBI 2 (2nd)] 1991. x, 58 pp. incl. key
Yiddish: Turning to Life
Joshua A. Fishman †
Worldwide interest in Yiddish has often concentrated on its secular forms of expression: its literature, its theater, its journalism and its political-party associations. This all-encompassing study, covers these phenomena as well as investigating the demographic and political mushrooming of… read more[Not in series, 49] 1991. xii, 522 pp.
The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604–1755
De Witt T. Starnes and Gertrude E. Noyes
This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 57] 1991. cxii, xxii, 299 pp.
The Grimm Brothers and the Germanic Past
Edited by Elmer H. Antonsen, James W. Marchand and Ladislav Zgusta
The pioneering work of Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm in the areas of Germanic comparative and historical linguistics, lexicography, philology, and medieval studies places them squarely among the most important figures in the history of the language sciences. The contributions to this volume present… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 54] 1990. x, 162 pp.
Language as Behaviour, Language as Code: A study of academic English
Lynne Young
This work arose from the desire to teach foreign students in North America a particular variety of language used in their disciplines (speech situations), whereupon the inadequacy or non-existence of previous study became apparent. Given this raison d'être, the work first illustrates one approach… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 8] 1990. ix, 304 pp.
Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Edited by Sylvia M. Adamson, Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright
This volume is a collection of articles based on papers presented at the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics at Cambridge in 1987. It draws together important state-of-the-art' studies in the syntax, phonology, morphology and semantics of Old, Middle and Modern English by… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 65] 1990. xxviii, 583 pp.
Scrambling and Barriers
Edited by Günther Grewendorf and Wolfgang Sternefeld
The articles in this volume deal with various phenomena which have been covered traditionally by the term scrambling. The analyses presented here refer to the most recent developments in generative grammar (the so-called Barriers-framework developed in Chomsky 1986). Some of the topics discussed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 5] 1990. vi, 442 pp.
Syntactic Phrase Structure Phenomena in Noun Phrases and Sentences
Edited by Christa Bhatt, Elisabeth Löbel and Claudia Maria Schmidt
The main topic of this volume is the phrase structural analysis of noun phrases and sentences. This analysis is based on recent ideas within the Government and Binding framework and makes crucial use of such modules as Theta assignment, Binding Theory, Case assignment, as well as different… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 6] 1989. ix, 187 pp.
Language and Experience in 17th-Century British Philosophy
Lia Formigari
The focus of this volume is the crisis of the traditional view of the relationship between words and things and the emergence of linguistic arbitrarism in 17th-century British philosophy. Different groups of sources are explored: philological and antiquarian writings, pedagogical treatises, debates… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 48] 1988. viii, 178 pp.
Old and Middle English Language Studies: A classified bibliography 1923–1985
Compiled by Matsuji Tajima
Since the publication of Kennedy's monumental Bibliography of Writings on the English Language, no bibliography has systematically surveyed the Old and Middle English scholarship accumulated over the past 60 years. Tajima's work aims to meet the need for an updated bibliography of Old and Middle… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 13] 1988. xxxii, 391 pp.
Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy
Richard L. Morris
Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy examines the past 100 years of runic scholarship to show that previous investigations on the origin of the runes have been hampered by a series of ad hoc postulates, the greatest being that the runes cannot have come into existence before the birth of Christ. If… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 4] 1988. xii, 177 pp.
Det Gamle Shetlandske Sprog: George Low's ordliste fra 1774
Laurits Rendboe
Da den unge skotske teolog George Low blev sendt til Shetland i 1774 for at indsamle stof til en beskrivelse af disse øer, lykkedes det ham bl.a. at optegne en lille liste med hverdagsudtryk fra den gamle nordiske dialekt, der nedstammede direkte fra de oprindelige beboeres norrøne sprog, der var… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 3] 1987. xiv, 129 pp.
An Introduction to the Comparative Phonetics of English and French in North America
Marc Picard
This textbook is designed to fill two basic needs. One is for a clear and straightforward presentation of the rudiments of articulatory phonetics which is geared specifically to the requirements of the (future) language teacher, and not exclusively to the student of linguistics, and in which the… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 7] 1987. xi, 90 pp.
A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama
Vivian Salmon and Edwina Burness
In recent years the language of Shakespearean drama has been described in a number of publications intended mainly for the undergraduate student or general reader, but the studies in academic journals to which they refer are not always easily accessible even though they are of great interest to the… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 35] 1987. xx, 523 pp.
The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A guide to word combinations
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson
This unique dictionary gives essential collocations of English in an easily accessible form. It shows which word combinations exist in English and which grammatical constructions are possible. Whenever possible, the collocations are listed under the noun, so that in order to find out, for instance,… read more[Not in series, BBI 1 (1st)] 1986. xxxvi, 286 pp.
Focus on the Caribbean
Edited by Manfred Görlach † and John Holm †
This collection represents an important contribution not only to creole linguistics but also to Caribbean studies and English dialectology. It contains eleven essays on the special development and present-day functions of English and Creole in the Caribbean, ranging from Central America to Guyana.… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G8] 1986. viii, 209 pp.
Germanic Dialects: Linguistic and Philological Investigations
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi and Thomas Krömmelbein
This volume seeks to present ‘Germanic philology’ with its main linguistic, literary and cultural subdivisions as a whole, and to call into question the customary pedagogical division of the discipline. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 38] 1986. ix, 693 pp.
Lexicographic Description of English
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson
Designed to help lexicographers compile better dictionaries of English, this book provides information about the language that is not available in any other single source. It is the first serious attempt to describe in detail the lexical and grammatical differences between American and British… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 14] 1986. xiii, 288 pp.
The Southwest of England
Martyn F. Wakelin
The volume consists of a substantial introduction, providing a geographical and historical outline of the area, an account of the origin of the area, an account of the origin of present-day southwestern speech varieties and a synopsis of their main features. This is followed by texts of three main… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T5] 1986. xii, 231 pp.
Surface Syntax of English: A formal model within the meaning-text framework
Igor Mel’čuk and Nikolaj V. Pertsov
This book is the first attempt to describe the syntax of Contemporary English exclusively in terms of dependencies (most American works on the subject being in terms of phrase structure, or constituency). The three main features of it are: (1) a fully formal presentation, (2) a reasonably complete… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 13] 1986. xv, 526 pp.
'Dialect' and 'Accent' in Industrial West Yorkshire
K.M. Petyt
This volume is concerned with one of the few thorough-going Labovian studies carried out in Britain. Based on a survey of over hundred randomly selected informants from the towns of Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield, it deals first with the methodology employed, and then sketches some aspects of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G6] 1985. viii, 401 pp.
Alfred den Store, Danmarks geografi: En undersøgelse af fire afsnit i Den gamle engelske Orosius
Ove Jørgensen
I denne bog foretager forfatteren en undersøgelse af de fire afsnit i kong Alfreds The Old English Orosius, hvori gammelt dansk område beskrives.Efter en forskningsoversigt imødegås de forestillinger, som flere tidligere forskere har dannet sig om, at kong Alfred – navnlig i Skandinavien – har… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 1] 1985. x, 166 pp.
Chicano English: An ethnic contact dialect
Joyce Penfield and Jacob L. Ornstein-Galicia
Chicano English can rightly be said to be, in its different varieties, the most widespread ethnic dialect of U.S. English, spoken by large sections of the population in the American Southwest. It represents a type of speech referred to by E. Haugen as a ‘bilingual’ dialect, having developed out of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G7] 1985. vii, 112 pp.
A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon
Compiled by Roy Albert and David L. Shaul
A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon is a lexical research tool for persons interested in the Hopi language. An effort has been made to include the most frequent forms of basic roots. The work is designed to serve as wide-ranging an audience as possible: Hopi speakers as well as those not fluent in… read more[Not in series, 19] 1985. vii, 204 pp.
Focus on Scotland
Edited by Manfred Görlach †
This collection comprises 15 essays ranging from the social history of and attitudes towards Scots to the representation of Scottishness in literary language and to modern sociolinguistic work. The uniqueness of the historical and present-day linguistic situation in Scotland makes the volume of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G5] 1985. iv, 241 pp.
Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985
Edited by Roger Eaton, Olga Fischer, Willem F. Koopman and Frederike van der Leek
These papers are a selection from papers presented at the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Amsterdam, 1985). Most studies deal with some aspect of an earlier stage of English, though present day varieties of English are also under investigation. Many of the papers… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 41] 1985. xvii, 341 pp.
A Bibliography of Writings on Varieties of English, 1965–1983
Compiled by Wolfgang Viereck, Edgar W. Schneider and Manfred Görlach †
After the growth of English and American dialectology since the 1930’s and the expansion of sociolinguistics since the 1960’s, the study of ‘world English’ has emerged in recent years to join these other disciplines. This bibliography is intended to reflect what has been achieved in this area and… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G3] 1984. iv, 319 pp.
Das Germanische und die Rekonstruktion der Indogermanischen Grundsprache: Akten des Freiburger Kolloquiums der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Freiburg, 26–27 Februar 1981.. Proceedings of the Colloquium of the Indogermanische Gesellschhaft, Freiburg, 26–27 February 1981
Herausgegeben von Jürgen Untermann und Bela Brogyanyi
Es war kein Zufall, daß das achte Fachkolloquium der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft (1981) in Freiburg im Breisgau stattfand, – es war, wie dieser Band, dem Kollegen, Freund und Lehrer Oswald Szemerényi gewidmet, der das letzte Jahr seiner Amtszeit als Hochschullehrer angetreten hatte. Eher… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 22] 1984. xvii, 237 pp.
Focus on: England and Wales
Edited by Wolfgang Viereck
This volume is a wide-ranging study in dialectology. General surveys appear along with in-depth studies of particular problems. Some papers describe the present situation in terms of dynamic synchrony, others deal with the past and making use of present-day dialectal data to help solve certain… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G4] 1984. iv, 304 pp. (includes 40 maps).
A Guide to Germanic Reference Grammars
John C. McKay
This guide provides brief descriptions and evaluations of the best reference grammars and comprehensive works on the syntax of contemporary Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, and Yiddish. read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 15] 1984. xviii, 239 pp.
Sociolinguistics in the Low Countries
Edited by Kas Deprez
This volume contains the papers read at the Second Sociolinguistics Conference of the Association Belge de Linguistique Appliquee (Belgian Association of Applied Linguistics) that was held at the University of Antwerp on the in May, 1980. The papers are grouped around two topics: 'Language and… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 5] 1984. viii, 359 pp.
Central American English
Edited by John Holm †
This volume is about the Anglophone creoles to be found on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and its offshore islands (Providencia, San Andrés and the Caymans) . The study of these Anglophone varieties is comparatively recent and based on… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T2] 1983. vi, 184 pp.
Glasgow
Caroline Macafee
The Glasgow ‘toonheid vernacular’ is certainly the most vital and widespread – if least prestigious – form of present-day Scots. No comprehensive description has existed so far, Macauley’s sociolinguistic research having barely scratched the surface. Caroline Macafee’s long introduction to the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T3] 1983. iv, 167 pp.
Introduction to English Derivational Morphology
Theodore M. Lightner
This book aims to give an indication of the extent of derivational morphology in English; of how much immanent, internal structure must be presumed for words -- even apparently simplex ones. This is done by showing that three (morpho-)phonological processes which tend to hide surface sound-meaning… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 6] 1983. xxxviii, 533 pp.
On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermania: Papers from the 3rd Groningen Grammar Talks (3e Groninger Grammatikgespräche), Groningen, January 1981
Edited by Werner Abraham
It has often been noted that Dutch (and Frisian) reflects a particular stage of development between German and English. Phonologically, syntactically and morphologically, Dutch and German are closely related languages. Yet, there remain sufficient morphosyntactic differences in terms of language… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 3] 1983. vi, 242 pp.
Singapore and Malaysia
John Platt, Heidi Weber and Mian Lian Ho
Over the years, the Englishes of Singapore and Malaysia have developed into varieties in their own right, ranging from the sub-varieties spoken by people with high levels of English-medium education and of higher socio-economic status. This text volume illustrates this from a range of examples of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T4] 1983. iv, 138 pp.
Cameroon
Loreto Todd
This volume on the Cameroonian English contains two main sections. The first section is devoted to the history of language contact in Cameroon (contact with Islam and contact with Europeans); the development of English in Cameroon; the teaching of English in Cameroon in various stages of its… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T1] 1982. 180 pp., 1 map.
Issues in English Creoles: Papers from the 1975 Hawaii Conference
Edited by Richard R. Day
The purpose of this volume is to make more accessible, for the use of researchers and students in the field of pidgins and creoles, presentations of the third International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Honolulu, 1975, dealing with English-based creoles. Aside from their documentary value,… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G2] 1980. xi, 185 pp.
Studien zur Modernen Deutschen Lexikographie: Auswahl aus den Lexikographischen Arbeiten. Erweitert um drei Beiträge von Helene Malige-Klappenbach
Ruth Klappenbach (1911–1977)
The book sketches the history and technical apparatus of dictionary writing, in detail Ruth Klappenbach’s Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. Berlin: Akademieverlag 1956, a loner at its time and setting the pattern for the many other German dictionaries to come. The book’s main chapters… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 1] 1980. xxiii, 313 pp.
Anatomy of the Verb: The Gothic Verb as a Model for a Unified Theory of Aspect, Actional Types, and Verbal Velocity. (Part I: Theory; Part II: Application)
Albert L. Lloyd
The continuing debate over the existence or non-existence of formal verbal aspect in Gothic triggered the author to write this monograph whose aim is to provide a completely new foundation for a theory of aspect and related features. Gothic, with its limited corpus, representing a translation of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 4] 1979. x, 351 pp.
The Standard in South African English and its Social History
Len W. Lanham and C.A. MacDonald
This study of the South African variety of English is an exercise in the sociology of language conducted mainly within the conceptual framework and methodology created by William Labov. It accepts that social process and social structure are reflected in patterns of covariation involving linguistic… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G1] 1979. 96 pp.
Zur 'Heliand' metrik: Das Verhältnis von Rhythmus und Satzgewicht im Altsächsischen
Ingeborg Hinderschiedt
Die Heliandmetrik ist eine Metrik im Altsachsischen. In dieser Studie wird versucht eine Analyse, Beschreibung und Auswertung nach der formalen Kriterien zu beschreiben. Wichtig ist vor allem das Verhältnis von Rhythmus und Satzgewicht. read more[German Language and Literature Monographs, 8] 1979. vi, 143 pp.
The Theory of English Lexicography 1530–1791
Tetsuro Hayashi
This book serves as a welcome addition to the better known English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755, by Starnes & Noyes (new edition published by Benjamins 1991). Whereas Starnes & Noyes describe the history of English lexicography as an evolutionary progress-by-accumulation process,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 18] 1978. xii, 168 pp.
Germanic and its Dialects: A grammar of Proto-Germanic. Volume III: Bibliography and Indices
Compiled by Thomas Markey, R.L. Kyes and Paul T. Roberge
Germanists have long lamented the lack of comprehensive bibliographies of past and present literature, particularly in the areas of Frisian, Old English, Old High German, and, most notably, Old Saxon. The compilers of this bibliography deem it crucial to fill this lacuna before embarking on two… read more[Not in series, 7] 1977. 525 pp.
Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic Languages, shewing the original identity of their grammatical structure: New edition
Franz Bopp (1791–1867)
The publication in 1816 of Bopp’s Über das Conjugationssystem can be considered the beginning of a systematic comparison of Indo-European languages, and thus as having led too the development of the study of language as a science, distinct from philology. The Analytical Comparison (1820) represents… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 3] 1974. xxxviii, 68 pp. 2nd corrected edition, 1989