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The New Arabic Lexicon and its Words: Root-based and templatic morphosyntax

Abdelkader Fassi Fehri

Root syntax, with roots as primitive lexical units, is an influential theme in building the lexicon in linguistic theory, typically in Distributed Morphology, and the generative model of minimal computation. Implementing important fragments of the Arabic lexicon, the book presents a comprehensive… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 21] 2026. xi, 285 pp.

Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology

Edited by Peter Herbeck and Natascha Pomino

Zero elements are used by several theories in morphology and syntax as analytical tool, but the question of whether phonologically empty elements should be structurally present or not has been a controversial issue from the very beginning. In addition to analyses that work with zero, there are also… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 291] 2026. ix, 379 pp.

The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon: Evidence from Japanese verb morphology

Brent de Chene

All linguists recognize that competence in a natural language involves knowledge of a lexicon or dictionary; most assume that it also involves knowledge of a grammatical system. Just where the boundary between the lexicon and the grammar lies, however, is a question on which there is little… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 368] 2025. xvii, 267 pp.

The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries

Edited by Tanja Ackermann and Christian Zimmer

Word classes of a language are usually not homogeneous groups of lexemes that share the same morphological and syntactic properties completely. Rather, lexemes are usually grouped together that have some basic commonalities but may differ in detail, e.g., regarding their inflectional behaviour. In… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 238] 2025. v, 252 pp. | open access

Morphology by Serial Optimization

Edited by Gereon Müller

Harmonic Serialism is a derivational version of Optimality Theory that has widely been pursued for phonology and syntax but so far much less for morphology. The harmonic serialist approach to inflectional morphology underlying the contributions to the present volume is virtually unique in that it… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 289] 2025. v, 348 pp.

Competition in Word-Formation

Edited by Alexandra Bagasheva, Akiko Nagano and Vincent Renner

This volume focuses on a number of interrelated issues in the theorizing and interpretation of morphological rivalry, including the differences between a semasiological and an onomasiological approach to competition phenomena in word-formation, the scope of such phenomena (micro-level rivalry… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 284] 2024. vi, 352 pp.

The Fine-grained Structure of the Lexical Area: Gender, appreciatives and nominal suffixes in Spanish

Antonio Fábregas

This is the first book that presents a complete description and analysis of the Spanish suffixes that alter the grammatical behaviour of nouns and adjectives without changing their grammatical category, supporting a fine-grained decomposition of the syntactic area where these word classes are… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 39] 2024. xiii, 394 pp.

Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis

Andrew Goatly

This book investigates the interaction between new English lexis and metaphor/metonymy – figures meticulously defined and contrasted in terms of similarity/contiguity. It advances three main hypotheses: (i) derived lexis is more likely to be figurative in meaning and usage than the bases from which… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 78] 2024. xvii, 348 pp.

Differential Object Marking in Romance: Towards microvariation

Edited by Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Alexandru Mardale

Differential marking as applied to direct objects has long been discussed as one of the characterizing traits of many Romance languages. There is, however, wide consensus that a detailed investigation into the nature of this phenomenon raises numerous challenges both at the empirical and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 280] 2023. viii, 350 pp.

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.

Serbian Clitics

Jasmina Milićević

Clitics, those “funny little words” like English contracted future tense and pluperfect tense/conditional mood markers (’ll and ’d) or French pronominal objects (le ‘him’, la ‘her’, lui ‘to him/her’, etc.), have long been a source of fascination for linguists. Lacking an inherent stress that… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 229] 2023. xxiii, 166 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.

Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology

Edited by Matthias Eitelmann and Dagmar Haumann

Taking extra-vagans literally (Lat. ‘wandering outside, out of bounds’), this volume comprises nine case studies on extravagant morphology ranging from pattern-extending derivational processes via theory-challenging compounding processes to interface-straddling morphosyntactic phenomena. As a… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 223] 2022. v, 258 pp.

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.

The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Insights from Murrinhpatha

William Forshaw

Many theories of language acquisition struggle to account for the morphological complexity and diversity of the world’s languages. This book examines the acquisition of complex morphology of Murrinhpatha, a polysynthetic language of Northern Australia. It considers semi-naturalistic data from five… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 30] 2021. xvi, 171 pp.

The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Veronika Mattes, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler

This book offers the first systematic study of the early phases in the acquisition of derivational morphology from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. It presents ten empirical longitudinal studies in genealogically and typologically diverse languages (Indo-European, Finno-Ugric,… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 66] 2021. ix, 307 pp.

All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces

Edited by Sedigheh Moradi, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller and Andrija Petrovic

This book provides a view of where the field of morphology has been and where it is today within a particular theoretical framework, gathering up new and representative work in morphology by both eminent and emerging scholars, and touching on a very wide range of topics, approaches, and theoretical… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 353] 2021. vii, 439 pp.

The Life Cycle of Adpositions

T. Givón

Adpositions are used, universally, to mark the roles of nominal participants in the verbal clause, most commonly indirect object roles. Practically all languages seem to have such markers, which begin their diachronic life as lexical words -- in this case either serial verbs or positional nouns. In… read more

[Not in series, 236] 2021. xii, 205 pp.

Polylogues on The Mental Lexicon: An exploration of fundamental issues and directions

Edited by Gary Libben †, Gonia Jarema and Victor Kuperman

From its beginnings, the study of the mental lexicon has been at the crossroads of research and scholarship. This volume presents a polylogue--a textual conversation of many voices. It is designed to capture the excitement within the field and generate a deeper understanding of key issues and… read more

[Not in series, 238] 2021. viii, 229 pp.

The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking

Edited by Alexandru Mardale and Silvina Montrul

Differential Object marking (DOM), a linguistic phenomenon in which a direct object is morphologically marked for semantic and pragmatic reasons, has attracted the attention of several subfields of linguistics in the past few years. DOM has evolved diachronically in many languages, whereas it has… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 26] 2020. vi, 369 pp.

Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage

Edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk

The volume focuses on body part terms as the vehicle of embodied cognition and conceptualization. It explores the relationship between universal embodiment, language-specific cultural models and linguistic usage practices. The chapters of the volume add to the previous research in a novel way. The… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 12] 2020. vii, 311 pp.

Morphological Complexity within and across Boundaries: In honour of Aslı Göksel

Edited by Aslı Gürer, Dilek Uygun-Gökmen and Balkız Öztürk

This volume brings together a collection of original articles investigating state-of-the-art themes in morphology. The papers in the volume provide an in-depth analysis for spoken and sign languages within morphological word domain, morphosyntax and morphophonology. Bringing data from a variety of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 215] 2020. vi, 421 pp.

Morphologically Derived Adjectives in Spanish

Antonio Fábregas

This is the first book that presents a complete empirical description and theoretical analysis of all major classes of derived adjectives in Spanish, both deverbal and denominal. The reader will find here both a detailed empirical description of the syntactic, morphological and semantic properties… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 30] 2020. xi, 377 pp.

Syntactic and Semantic Variation in Copular Sentences: Insights from Classical Hebrew

Daniel J. Wilson

This book presents a novel account of syntactic and semantic variation in copular and existential sentences in Classical Hebrew. Like many languages, the system of Classical Hebrew copular sentences is quite complex, containing zero, pronominal, and verbal forms as well as eventive and inchoative… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 261] 2020. xvi, 159 pp.

Typical and Impaired Processing in Morphosyntax

Edited by Vincent Torrens

The present volume presents research on language processing and language disorders. Topics range across typical language processing, child developmental language disorders, adult neurodegenerative disorders and neurological bases of typical or impaired brains. The chapters cover a number of… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 64] 2020. vi, 305 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.

Encoding Motion Events in Mandarin Chinese: A cognitive functional study

Jingxia Lin

This book is a corpus-based description and discussion of how Modern Mandarin Chinese encodes motion events, with a focus on how the distribution of verbal motion morphemes is closely associated with the meanings they lexicalize. The book is not only the first work that proposes a finer-grained… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 11] 2019. xvii, 209 pp.

Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces

Edited by Silvio Cruschina, Adam Ledgeway and Eva-Maria Remberger

Recent years have seen a growing interest in linguistic phenomena whose formal manifestation and underlying licensing conditions represent the convergence of two or more areas of the grammar, an area of investigation particularly invigorated in recent generative research by developments such as… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 251] 2019. vi, 369 pp.

Lexicalization patterns in color naming: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Ida Raffaelli, Daniela Katunar and Barbara Kerovec

The volume presents sixteen chapters focused on lexicalization patterns used in color naming in a variety of languages. Although previous studies have dealt with categorization and perceptual salience of color terms, few studies have been consistently conducted in order to investigate phonological,… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 78] 2019. vi, 429 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.

Nominalization in Languages of the Americas

Edited by Roberto Zariquiey, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck

Recent scholarship has confirmed earlier observations that nominalization plays a crucial role in the formation of complex constructions in the world’s languages. Grammatical nominalizations are one of the most salient and widespread features of languages of the Americas, yet they have not been… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 124] 2019. vii, 662 pp.

Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia

Edited by Lars Johanson, Lidia Federica Mazzitelli and Irina Nevskaya

This volume is a collection of articles dealing with the linguistic category of possession and its expression in languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia (Uralic, Turkic, Indo-European and Caucasian), with a few excursions into other parts of the world. Some papers engage in… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 206] 2019. vi, 405 pp.

Category Change from a Constructional Perspective

Edited by Kristel Van Goethem, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé and Gudrun Vanderbauwhede

Category change, broadly defined as the shift from one word class to another, is often studied as part of other changes, such as grammaticalization or lexicalization, but not in its own right. This volume offers a survey of different types of category change and their properties, e.g. abrupt versus… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 20] 2018. vii, 314 pp.

Egophoricity

Edited by Simeon Floyd, Elisabeth Norcliffe and Lila San Roque

Egophoricity refers to the grammaticalised encoding of personal knowledge or involvement of a conscious self in a represented event or situation. Most typically, a marker that is egophoric is found with first person subjects in declarative sentences and with second person subjects in interrogative… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 118] 2018. vii, 505 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.

Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar

Edited by Evie Coussé, Peter Andersson and Joel Olofsson

Grammaticalization research has increasingly highlighted the notion of constructions in the last decade. In the wake of this heightened interest, efforts have been made in grammaticalization research to more precisely articulate the largely pretheoretical notion of construction in the theoretical… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 21] 2018. vi, 315 pp.

Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers

Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Na'ama Pat-El and Stephen Mark Carey

Interest in non-canonically case-marked subjects has been unceasing since the groundbreaking work of Andrews and Masica in the late 70’s who were the first to document the existence of syntactic subjects in another morphological case than the nominative. Their research was focused on Icelandic and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 200] 2018. vi, 280 pp.

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.

Studies in Historical Ibero-Romance Morpho-Syntax

Edited by Miriam Bouzouita, Ioanna Sitaridou and Enrique Pato

This volume features fourteen papers by leading specialists on various aspects of historical morpho-syntax in the Ibero-Romance languages. In these papers, fine-grained analyses are developed to capture the richness of undiscussed or —often— previously unknown data. Comparative across the… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 16] 2018. vi, 340 pp.

Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman

Edited by Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge

Dedicated to John B. Whitman, this collection of seventeen articles provides a forum for cutting-edge theoretical research on a wide range of linguistic phenomena in a wide variety of Asian languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Austronesian, Indo-Aryan, and Thai. Ranging from syntax and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 250] 2018. xx, 390 pp.

Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance

Edited by Martin Hummel and Salvador Valera

Within the current discussion on grammatical interfaces, the word-classes of adjective and adverb are of particular interest because they appear to be separated or joined in manifold ways at the level of word-class or syntax, with morphology playing a prominent role, especially in Romance. The… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 242] 2017. vi, 374 pp. | open access

Bilingualism: A framework for understanding the mental lexicon

Edited by Maya Libben, Mira Goral and Gary Libben †

In the world today, bilingualism is more common than monolingualism. Thus, the default mental lexicon may in fact be the bilingual lexicon. More than ever, social and technological innovation have created a situation in which lexical knowledge may change dramatically throughout an individual’s… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 6] 2017. xvii, 252 pp.

Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches

Edited by Valentina Vapnarsky and Edy Veneziano

This book presents a collection of chapters on the nature, flexibility and acquisition of lexical categories. These long-debated issues are looked at anew by exploring the hypothesis of lexical polycategoriality –according to which lexical forms are not fully, or univocally, specified for lexical… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 182] 2017. xiii, 479 pp.

Nominal Compound Acquisition

Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, F. Nihan Ketrez and Marianne Kilani-Schoch

This book offers a systematic study of the emergence and early development of compound nouns in first language acquisition from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. The language sample is both genealogically and typologically diversified, ranging from languages rich in compounds, such as… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 61] 2017. viii, 310 pp.

Syllable Weight in African Languages

Edited by Paul Newman

Syllable weight is a crucially important concept in the fields of phonology and morphology. It impacts analyses and explanation whether theoretical, typological, or descriptive. African linguistics was critical in the original development of the concept and, as this book demonstrates, the concept… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 338] 2017. x, 219 pp.

Atypical predicate-argument relations

Edited by Thierry Ruchot and Pascale Van Praet

This book deals with atypical predicate-argument relations. Although the relations between predicates, especially verbal, and their arguments have been long studied, most studies are concerned with typical telic verbs in the past tense, indicative mood, active voice, with all arguments expressed.… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 33] 2016. x, 289 pp.

Finiteness and Nominalization

Edited by Claudine Chamoreau and Zarina Estrada-Fernández

This volume addresses the relation between finiteness and nominalization, which is far more complex than the simple opposition finite-nonfinite. The contributions analyze finiteness cross-linguistically from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, focusing on a number of topics that has not… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 113] 2016. vii, 380 pp.

Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas

Edited by María Irene Moyna and Susana Rivera-Mills

In the growing field of address research, Spanish emerges as one of the most complex Indo European languages. Firstly, it presents second person variation in its nominal, pronominal, and verbal systems. Moreover, several Spanish varieties have more than two address variants, which compete and mix… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 10] 2016. x, 352 pp.

Morphological Metatheory

Edited by Daniel Siddiqi and Heidi Harley

The field of morphology is particularly heterogeneous. Investigators differ on key points at every level of theory. These divisions are not minor issues about technical implementation, but rather are foundational issues that mold the underlying anatomy of any theory. The field has developed very… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 229] 2016. xiii, 547 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.

Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications

Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż

The leitmotif, but not exclusive theme, of the present volume is Ronald Langacker’s (1987) thesis that “lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a continuum of symbolic units serving to structure conceptual content for expressive purposes”. The concept of the lexicogrammar continuum contrasts… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 54] 2016. vii, 284 pp.

The Acquisition of Italian: Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition

Adriana Belletti and Maria Teresa Guasti

A major contribution to the study of language acquisition and language development inspired by theoretical linguistics has been made by research on the acquisition of Italian syntax. This book offers an updated overview of results from theory-driven experimental and corpus-based research on the… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 57] 2015. xiv, 326 pp.

Elements of Structural Syntax

Lucien Tesnière

This volume appears now finally in English, sixty years after the death of its author, Lucien Tesnière. It has been translated from the French original into German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian, and now at long last into English as well. The volume contains a comprehensive approach to the syntax… read more

[Not in series, 185] 2015. lxxxii, 698 pp. | open access

New Directions in Grammaticalization Research

Edited by Andrew D.M. Smith, Graeme Trousdale and Richard Waltereit

The articles in this volume examine a number of critical issues in grammaticalization studies, including the relationship between grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, subjectification and intersubjectification, and grammaticalization and language contact. The contributions consider data from… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 166] 2015. xv, 302 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

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 221] 2015. v, 232 pp. | open access

The Acquisition of Inflection in Q’anjob’al Maya

Pedro Mateo Pedro

Most studies on the acquisition of verbal inflection have examined languages with a single verb suffix. This book offers a study on the acquisition of verb inflections in Q’anjob’al Maya. Q’anjob’al has separate inflections for aspect, subject and object agreement, and status suffixes. The subject… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 14] 2015. xiii, 144 pp.

Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic

Edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau

The second volume in the VARGReB series deals with voice in the wider sense, encompassing both alternations that preserve semantic valency, with passives as the most typical instance, and valency-changing devices such as the causative. Regarding the former, special attention is given to… read more

[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 2] 2015. vii, 402 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.

Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages: Set (6 Volumes)

This is a series of 6 books dealing with case phenomena in different languages, both Indo- and non-Indo-European, instigated by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, and resulting from work by a team of specialists at the University of Leuven. It is the first time such a large-scale investigation into case has… read more

[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, S] 2014. ca. 2510 pp.

Cross-linguistic Investigations of Nominalization Patterns

Edited by Ileana Paul

The chapters in this volume address current topics in the morphology, syntax, and semantics of nominalizations, drawing on a range of typologically and geographically diverse languages. Nominalizations represent a long-standing puzzle to linguists: How is a noun, such as destruction, related to the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 210] 2014. xiii, 217 pp.

The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm

Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli

This volume brings together articles by some major figures in various linguistics domains — phonology, morphology and syntax — aiming at explaining the form of linguistic items by exploring the structures that underlie them.The book is divided in 5 parts: vowels, syllables, templates,… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 12] 2014. vii, 377 pp.

Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic

Edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau

This is the first of three volumes dealing with clausal architecture, grammatical relations, case-marking and the syntax–semantics interface in Baltic. It focuses on the grammatical relations of subject and object and the viability of these notions in languages like Lithuanian and Latvian, which… read more

[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 1] 2014. vii, 370 pp.

Grammaticalization – Theory and Data

Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Ekkehard König

Since the 1980s theories and studies of grammaticalization have provided a major source of inspiration for the description and explanation of language change, giving rise to many publications and conferences. This collection presents original, empirical studies that explore various facets of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 162] 2014. viii, 293 pp.

Morphology and Meaning: Selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012

Edited by Franz Rainer, Francesco Gardani, Hans Christian Luschützky and Wolfgang U. Dressler

The problem of form and meaning in morphology has produced an impressive amount of scholarly work over the last hundred years. Nevertheless, many issues continue to be in need of clarification. The present volume assembles 18 selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 327] 2014. viii, 350 pp.

Mots nous en català / New words in Catalan: Una panoràmica geolectal / A diatopic view

Edited by Teresa Cabré, Ona Domènech Bagaria and Rosa Estopà

This is an innovative and distinctive comparative monograph about new word creation in the different varieties of Catalan. In eight chapters, it provides a panoramic analysis of the neologisms documented by the NEOXOC network. Each chapter is dedicated to the qualitative and quantitative analysis,… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 7] 2014. xiv, 276 pp

Paradigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond

Edited by Martine Robbeets and Walter Bisang

This book is concerned with comparing morphological paradigms between languages in order to establish areal and genealogical relationships. The languages in focus are the Transeurasian languages: Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages. World-eminent experts in diachronic… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 161] 2014. xix, 345 pp.

Word Classes: Nature, typology and representations

Edited by Raffaele Simone and Francesca Masini

The universal and typological status of the notion of word class — closely related to part-of-speech systems, morphology, syntax and the lexicon-syntax interface — continues to be of major linguistic theoretical interest. The papers included in this volume offer a fresh look at the variety of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 332] 2014. vii, 293 pp.

Word Formation in South American Languages

Edited by Swintha Danielsen, Katja Hannss and Fernando Zúñiga

This volume focuses on word formation processes in smaller and so far underrepresented indigenous languages of South America. The data for the analyses have been mainly collected in the field by the authors. The several language families described here, among them Arawakan, Takanan, and Guaycuruan,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 163] 2014. v, 228 pp.

Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession

Edited by Kersti Börjars, David Denison and Alan K. Scott

The analysis of constructions denoting possession (particularly, but not exclusively, in English) has long presented a challenge to morpho-syntactic theory and has been a topic of debate for some time. The papers presented here afford thought-provoking insights into the morphosyntactic nature of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 199] 2013. xii, 341 pp.

Nominal Classification: A history of its study from the classical period to the present

Marcin Kilarski

This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics. Based on an analysis of over 200 genetically and typologically diverse languages, the author shows that these seemingly arbitrary and redundant categories play in… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 121] 2013. xiv, 405 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.

Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency. Selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 13–16 May 2010

Edited by Ferenc Kiefer †, Mária Ladányi and Péter Siptár

The present volume contains selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting held in Budapest, 13–16 May 2010, organized under the auspices of the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The selection of papers presented here addresses problems of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 322] 2012. xx, 268 pp.

Inflection and Word Formation in Romance Languages

Edited by Sascha Gaglia and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin

Morphology, and in particular word formation, has always played an important role in Romance linguistics since it was introduced in Diez’s comparative Romance grammar. Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in inflectional morphology, and current research shows a strong interest in… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 186] 2012. vii, 400 pp.

The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages

Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith and Anne Zribi-Hertz

This is a new contribution to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Reiteration is meant to denote any situation where the same form occurs (at least) twice within the boundaries of some linguistic domain. By including two case studies bearing on Hebrew and… read more

[Creole Language Library, 43] 2012. vii, 287 pp.

The Arabic Verb: Form and meaning in the vowel-lengthening patterns

Warwick Danks

The Arabic verbal system is, for most grammarians, the keystone of the language. Notable for the regularity of its patterns, it presents the linguist with an unparalleled opportunity to explore the Saussurean notion of the indivisible sign: form and meaning. Whilst Arabic forms are well-documented,… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 63] 2011. xviii, 281 pp.

Case-Marking in Contact: The development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol

Felicity Meakins

Until recently, mixed languages were considered an oddity of contact linguistics, with debates about whether or not they actually existed stifling much descriptive work or discussion of their origins. These debates have shifted from questioning their existence to a focus on their formation, and… read more

[Creole Language Library, 39] 2011. xxi, 311 pp.

Complex Predicates: The syntax-morphology interface

Leila Lomashvili

Complex predicates present different levels of complexity at the syntactic and morphological levels crosslinguistically. The focus of this book is a subset of these constructions (causative and applicative) in three polysynthetic languages of the South Caucasian language family, in which the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 174] 2011. xi, 190 pp.

Connecting Grammaticalisation

Jens Nørgård-Sørensen, Lars Heltoft and Lene Schøsler

This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. What unites morphology, topology (word… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 65] 2011. xiii, 347 pp. | open access

Loanwords in Japanese

Mark Irwin

Loanwords in Japanese is the first monograph in a Western language to offer a systematic and coherent overview of the vast number of words borrowed into Japanese since the mid-16th century. Its publication is timely given the fact that the loanword stratum’s recent exponential growth has given rise… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 125] 2011. xix, 276 pp.

Morphology and its Interfaces

Edited by Alexandra Galani, Glyn Hicks and George Tsoulas

One of the most striking trends across linguistic research in recent years has been the examination of the interfaces between the various subcomponents of the language faculty. Yet, approaches to these interfaces across different theoretical frameworks differ substantially. This volume pulls… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 178] 2011. ix, 353 pp.

Spanish Word Formation and Lexical Creation

Edited by José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Susana Rodríguez Rosique

This volume contributes a wider approach to word formation processes and sheds light on some unsolved issues. While the formal relationships established between the different constituents of a complex word have been analyzed in great depth, the semantic links have received little dedication. In… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 1] 2011. xvi, 485 pp.

Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding

Edited by Sergio Scalise and Irene Vogel

The study of compounds is currently at the center of attention in many areas of both theoretical and applied linguistics. This volume brings together contributions by experts involved in a wide range of such areas, based on a large number of diverse languages – spoken and signed. The fact that… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 311] 2010. viii, 382 pp.

Ergativity in Amazonia

Edited by Spike Gildea and Francesc Queixalós

This volume presents a typological/theoretical introduction plus eight papers about ergative alignment in 16 Amazonian languages. All are written by linguists with years of fieldwork and comparative experience in the region, all describe details of the synchronic systems, and several also provide… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 89] 2010. v, 319 pp.

Grammaticalization: Current views and issues

Edited by Katerina Stathi, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König

This volume contains a selection of papers on grammaticalization from a broad perspective. Some of the papers focus on basic concepts in grammaticalization research such as the concept of 'grammar' as the endpoint of grammaticalization processes, erosion, (uni)directionality, the relation between… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 119] 2010. vii, 379 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 Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus: Minimalist inquiries in the Quechua periphery

Liliana Sánchez

This book presents an innovative analysis that relates informational structure, syntax and morphology in Quechua. It provides a minimalist account of the relationship between focus, topic, evidentiality and other left-peripheral features and sentence-internal constituents marked with suffixes that… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 169] 2010. xiii, 242 pp.

Variation and Change in Morphology: Selected papers from the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2008

Edited by Franz Rainer, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky and Hans Christian Luschützky

The papers in this volume derive from the 13th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna 2008). They all address the main topic of the meeting, viz. variation and change in morphology. Inflectional and derivational morphology are represented on equal terms. The focus is on cases of language-internal… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 310] 2010. vii, 249 pp.

The Acquisition of French: The development of inflectional morphology and syntax in L1 acquisition, bilingualism, and L2 acquisition

Philippe Prévost

This book presents a thorough description of morphosyntactic knowledge developed by learners of French in four different learning situations — first language (L1) acquisition, second (L2) language acquisition, bilingualism, and acquisition by children with Specific Language Impairment — within the… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 51] 2009. xx, 458 pp.

Grammar as Processor: A Distributed Morphology account of spontaneous speech errors

Roland Pfau

Spontaneous speech errors provide valuable evidence not only for the processes that mediate between a communicative intention and the articulation of an utterance but also for the types of grammatical entities that are manipulated during production. This study proposes an analysis of speech errors… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 137] 2009. xiii, 372 pp.

More Support for More-Support: The role of processing constraints on the choice between synthetic and analytic comparative forms

Britta Mondorf

This book provides the most comprehensive account so far of novel and hitherto unexplained factors operative in the choice between synthetic (prouder) and analytic (more proud ) comparatives. It argues that the underlying motivation in using the analytic variant is to mitigate processing demands –… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 4] 2009. xi, 222 pp.

The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case

Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal and Shobhana L. Chelliah

The aim of this volume is to bring non-syntactic factors in the development of case into the eye of the research field, by illustrating the integral role of pragmatics, semantics, and discourse structure in the historical development of morphologically marked case systems. The articles represent… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 108] 2009. xx, 432 pp.

Syntax within the Word: Economy, allomorphy, and argument selection in Distributed Morphology

Daniel Siddiqi

Syntax within the Word provides a multifaceted look into the syntactic framework of Distributed Morphology (DM) within the Minimalist program. For those unfamiliar with the theory, this monograph provides an overview of DM and argues its strengths. For those more familiar with DM, this monograph… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 138] 2009. xii, 138 pp.

Variations on Polysynthesis: The Eskaleut languages

Edited by Marc-Antoine Mahieu and Nicole Tersis

This work is comprised of a set of papers focussing on the extreme polysynthetic nature of the Eskaleut languages which are spoken over the vast area stretching from Far Eastern Siberia, on through the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and Canada, as far as Greenland. The aim of the book is to situate the… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 86] 2009. ix, 312 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 & Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change & Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English (3 vols. set)

Edited by Marina Dossena, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti

These three volumes contain selections of revised papers, originally presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Bergamo 2006). The volumes focus, respectively, on syntax and morphology, lexis and semantics, and geo-historical variation. The papers,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295-297] 2008. ca. 760 pp.

First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax: Perspectives across languages and learners

Edited by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, María Pilar Larrañaga and John Clibbens

The papers comprising this volume focus on a broad range of acquisition phenomena (subject dislocation, structural case, word order, determiners, pronouns, quantifiers and logical words) from different languages and language combinations. These include languages with large numbers of speakers… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 45] 2008. vi, 302 pp.

Interaction of Morphology and Syntax: Case studies in Afroasiatic

Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay

The present volume deals with hitherto unexplored issues on the interaction of morphology and syntax. These selected and invited papers mainly concern Cushitic and Chadic languages, the least-described members of the Afroasiatic family. Three papers in the volume explore one or more typological… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 75] 2008. v, 234 pp.

La raison morphologique: Hommage à la mémoire de Danielle Corbin

Bernard Fradin

Ce recueil se compose de treize articles centrés sur la morphologie ou le lexique. Ses auteurs ont tous entretenu des relations de travail avec Danielle Corbin et la plupart sont des linguistes reconnus en morphologie. Au-delà de la diversité des approches, l’originalité de l’ouvrage tient au fait… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 27] 2008. xiii, 242 pp.

Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch

Edited by Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli

This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] 2008. x, 364 pp.

Morphology at the Interfaces: Reduplication and Noun Incorporation in Uto-Aztecan

Jason D. Haugen

This monograph addresses morphology and its interfaces with phonology and syntax by examining comparative data from the Uto-Aztecan language family, and analyses involving reduplication as well as noun incorporation and related derivational morphology are provided within the framework of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 117] 2008. xv, 257 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.

Rethinking Grammaticalization. New perspectives & Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization

Edited by María José López-Couso and Elena Seoane

These two volumes offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held in Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. From the rich programme of the conference (over 120 papers), the twelve contributions included in this volume were carefully… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 76-77] 2008. 742 pp.

Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization

Edited by Elena Seoane and María José López-Couso

This volume and its companion oneRethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held at the University of Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. The overall aim of the book is to enrich our… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 77] 2008. x, 367 pp.

The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Ineta Savickienė and Wolfgang U. Dressler

This cross-linguistic volume innovates research of the acquisition of diminutives in the inflecting-fusional languages Lithuanian, Russian, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch, the agglutinating languages Turkish, Hungarian and Finnish and in the introflecting Hebrew. These… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 43] 2007. vi, 352 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.

Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts

Edited by Judith Munat

The coining of novel lexical items and the creative manipulation of existing words and expressions is heavily dependent on contextual factors, including the semantic, stylistic, textual and social environments in which they occur. The twelve specialists contributing to this collection aim to… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 58] 2007. xvi, 294 pp.

Case, Valency and Transitivity

Edited by Leonid Kulikov, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart

The three concepts of case, valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 77] 2006. xx, 503 pp.

Deixis and Alignment: Inverse systems in indigenous languages of the Americas

Fernando Zúñiga

This book proposes a notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered). This third stance put forward here takes both grammar and pragmatic functions into… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 70] 2006. xii, 309 pp.

Hindi

Yamuna Kachru

This book presents the structure of Hindi keeping in view the sociolinguistic context of language use. It includes descriptions of sounds, devices of word formation, rules of phrase and sentence construction and conventions of language use in spoken and written texts incorporating the insights… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 12] 2006. xxi, 309 pp.

Suppletion in Verb Paradigms: Bits and pieces of the puzzle

Ljuba N. Veselinova

This book examines stem change in verb paradigms, as in English go 'go.PRESENT' vs. went 'go.PAST', a phenomenon referred to as suppletion in current linguistic theory. The work is based on a broad sample of 193 languages, and examines this long neglected phenomenon from a typological perspective.… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 67] 2006. xviii, 236 pp.

Clitic and Affix Combinations: Theoretical perspectives

Edited by Lorie Heggie and Francisco Ordóñez

In this volume, the relationship between clitics and affixes and their combinatorial properties has led to a serious discussion of the interface between syntax, morphology, semantics, and phonology that draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., HPSG , Optimality Theory, Minimalism).… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 74] 2005. viii, 390 pp.

Fossilized Second Language Grammars: The acquisition of grammatical gender

Florencia Franceschina

This monograph is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the mechanisms and causes of successful and unsuccessful adult second language acquisition.Couched within a generative framework, the study explores how a learner’s first language and the age at which they acquire their second… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 38] 2005. xxiv, 288 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.

Morphology and its demarcations: Selected papers from the 11th Morphology meeting, Vienna, February 2004

Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Franz Rainer

The papers in this volume derive from the International Morphology Meeting (Vienna 2004) and were selected because they address the main topic of the conference: external and internal demarcations of morphology. The external demarcation between syntax and morphology is dealt with in the papers by… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 264] 2005. xiv, 317 pp.

The Acquisition of Spanish: Morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual L1 acquisition and adult L2 acquisition

Silvina Montrul

This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is organized around key grammatical themes that form the empirical base of research in generative… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 37] 2004. xvi, 413 pp.

The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity

Östen Dahl

This book studies linguistic complexity and the processes by which it arises and is maintained, focusing not so much on what one can say in a language as how it is said. Complexity is not seen as synonymous with “difficulty” but as an objective property of a system – a measure of the amount of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 71] 2004. x, 333 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.

Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and quantitative perspectives

David Eddington

Unlike most monographs on Spanish phonology and morphology that approach these topics from a structuralist or generativist framework, this volume is written from a less traditional point of view. More specifically, it emphasizes quantitative evidence from sources such as usage-based studies,… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 53] 2004. xvi, 198 pp.

Asymmetry in Grammar: 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

Volume I, Syntax and Semantics of Asymmetry in Grammar brings to fore the centrality of asymmetry in DP, VP and CP. A finer grained articulation of the DP is proposed, and further functional projections for restrictive relatives, as well as a refined analyses of case identification and presumptive… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 57-58] 2003. vi, 405 pp. & vi, 309 pp.

Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 2: Morphology, phonology, acquisition

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

Asymmetry in Grammar: Morphology, Phonology and Acquisition presents evidence that asymmetry, as a property of linguistic relations, is salient in grammar. The papers in morphology bring further evidence for the centrality of asymmetry in word-structure. It is shown that asymmetry is part of the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 58] 2003. vi, 309 pp.

Dependent-Head Synthesis in Nivkh: A contribution to a typology of polysynthesis

Johanna Mattissen

Dependent-Head Synthesis in Nivkh has been awarded a prize of the Offermann-Hergarten Donation at the University of Cologne in 2004. The endowments are granted for outstanding innovative and comprehensibly documented research.This book offers an innovative approach to three interlaced topics: A… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 57] 2003. x, 350 pp.

Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-Based, Morphology

Edited by Joseph Shimron

This book puts together contributions of linguists and psycholinguists whose main interest here is the representation of Semitic words in the mental lexicon of Semitic language speakers. The central topic of the book confronts two views about the morphology of Semitic words. The point of the… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 28] 2003. vi, 394 pp.

Clitics between Syntax and Lexicon

Birgit Gerlach

As a typical interface phenomenon, clitics have become increasingly important in linguistic theory during the last decade. The present book contributes to the recent discussion and first provides a comprehensive overview of clitic sequencing, clitic placement and clitic doubling in the major… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 51] 2002. xii, 282 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.

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.

Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000

Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Maria D. Voeikova

This volume focuses on two main topics: comparative morphology (i.e. cross-linguistic analysis, including typology, dialectology and diachrony) and psycholinguistics (i.e. on-line processing, off-line experiments, child language). Since the psycholinguistic papers of this volume consistently refer… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 218] 2002. vii, 317 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.

The Development of Past Tense Morphology in L2 Spanish

M. Rafael Salaberry

This book presents an extended analysis of the development of L2 Spanish past tense morphology among L1 English-speaking learners. The study addresses three major questions: (1) what is the developmental pattern of acquisition of past tense verbal morphology among tutored learners? (2) what are the… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 22] 2000. xii, 210 pp.

Grammaticalization: Studies in Latin and Romance morphosyntax

Jurgen Klausenburger

In this monograph, various aspects of the morphosyntactic evolution of the Romance languages are shown to interact in a theory of grammaticalization. The study argues for the incorporation and subordination of inflectional morphology within a grammaticalization continuum, constituting but a portion… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 193] 2000. xiii, 183 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.

Morphological Analysis in Comparison

Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer, Markus A. Pöchtrager and John R. Rennison

This volume consists of selected and revised papers from the Seventh International Morphology Meeting, held in 1996 in Vienna. It presents advances in morphological theorizing, such as the foundations of sign-based morphology, the morphology-syntax interface, the boundaries between compounding and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 201] 2000. x, 261 pp.

Research in Afroasiatic Grammar: Papers from the Third conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis, 1996

Edited by Jacqueline Lecarme, Jean Lowenstamm and Ur Shlonsky

This volume presents a selection of papers from the 3rd Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1996. The languages discussed include (varieties of) Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, Chaha, Wolof, and Old Egyptian. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 202] 2000. vi, 386 pp.

Sound Mutations: The morphophonology of Chaha

Degif Petros Banksira

This monograph, which evolved from the first linguistic dissertation to be written on Chaha (an Ethiopian Semitic language), is also the first book to deal exclusively with the phonology and morphology of the language. It is an exhaustive description and analysis, by a native speaker, of the sound… read more

[Not in series, 93] 2000. xxxii, 332 pp.

Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax

Edited by Lunella Mereu

The volume collects a selection of papers presented at a European Colloquium held at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in October 1997. It focuses on phenomena at the boundary between morphology and syntax, and provides analyses for data from the fields of both inflectional and derivational… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 180] 1999. viii, 312 pp.

Exploring the Role of Morphology in the Evolution of Spanish

Joel Rini

After a brief survey of the perception of morphological change in the standard works of the Hispanic tradition in the 20th century, the author first attempts to refine concepts such as analogy, leveling, blending, contamination, etc. as they have been applied to Spanish. He then revisits difficult… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 179] 1999. xvi, 187 pp.

Issues in Morphosyntax

Peter Ackema

Of particular interest to morphologists and syntacticians Issues in Morphosyntax aims to contribute to the discussion on the question whether there exists a separate morphological module in the grammar, distinct from the other modules, with special focus on the connection of morphology with syntax.… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 26] 1999. viii, 310 pp.

Morphology-Driven Syntax: A theory of V to I raising and pro-drop

Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher

This book argues that syntactic parameters are set in a principled fashion on the basis of overt functional morphology. The main focus of the book is on the different positions of the finite verb in the Germanic SVO languages. In addition, other syntactic phenomena (null subjects, transitive… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 15] 1999. viii, 296 pp.

The Roots of Old Chinese

Laurent Sagart

The phonology, morphology and lexicon of late Zhou Chinese are examined in this volume. It is argued that a proper understanding of Old Chinese morphology is essential in correctly reconstructing the phonology. Based on evidence from word-families, modern dialects and related words in neighboring… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 184] 1999. xi, 255 pp.

Studies on the Phonological Word

Edited by Tracy Alan Hall and Ursula Kleinhenz

The present volume consists of nine articles dealing with the role of the constituent ‘phonological word’ (or ‘prosodic word’) in various typologically diverse languages. These languages and their respective families subsume Indo-European (Dutch, German, English, European Portuguese), Bantu… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 174] 1999. vi, 297 pp.

The Dative: Volume 2: Theoretical and contrastive studies

Edited by Willy Van Langendonck and William Van Belle

This book is the second part of a two-volume reader on the ‘Dative’. In the first part, which appeared in 1996, eleven papers were presented providing a syntactic and semantic description of the category ‘Dative’ in eleven languages. The aim of this second part is to discuss several aspects of the… read more

[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 3] 1998. xvi, 296 pp.

A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan (Apabhraṃśa)

Vit Bubenik

This monograph aims to close the gap in our knowledge of the nature and pace of grammatical change during the formative period of today’s Indo-Aryan languages. During the 6th-12th c. the gradual erosion of the synthetic morphology of Old Indo-Aryan resulted ultimately in the remodelling of its… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 165] 1998. xxiv, 265 pp.

The Limits of Grammaticalization

Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paul J. Hopper

The earliest use of the term “grammaticalization” was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in “he keeps bees”) become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in “he keeps looking at me”). Changes of this kind, which involve semantic fading and a… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 37] 1998. vi, 307 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.

Morphology and its Interfaces in Second Language Knowledge

Edited by Maria-Luise Beck

This volume treats the connection between syntax and morphology with a focus on L2 acquisition. This interface has been a matter of considerable interest in theoretical circles ever since Chomsky (1994) and others argued that morphological parameters form the primary locus of cross-linguistic… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 19] 1998. x, 387 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.

The “Broken” Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic: Allomorphy and analogy in non-concatenative morphology

Robert R. Ratcliffe

The formal aspects of non-concatenative morphology have received considerable attention in recent years, but the diachronic dimensions of such systems have been little explored. The current work applies a modern methodological and theoretical framework to a classic problem in Arabic and Semitic… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 168] 1998. xii, 261 pp.

The Categories of Grammar: French lui and le

Alan Huffman

This book offers an analysis of the French clitic object pronouns lui and le in the radically functional Columbia school framework, contrasting this framework with sentence-based treatments of case selection. It suggests that features of the sentence such as subject and object relations, normally… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 30] 1997. xiv, 379 pp.

Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia

Edited by Mark Harvey and Nicholas Reid

This volume aims to extend both the range of analyses and the database on nominal classification systems. Previous analyses of nominal classification systems have focussed on two areas: the semantics of the classification system and the role of the system in discourse. In many nominal… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 37] 1997. x, 296 pp.

Reconnecting Language: Morphology and Syntax in Functional Perspectives

Edited by Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Kristin Davidse and Dirk Noël

Although the contributors to this book do not belong to one particular ‘school’ of linguistic theory, they all share an interest in the external functions of language in society and in the relationship between these functions and internal linguistic phenomena. In this sense they all take a… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 154] 1997. xiii, 339 pp.

The Dative: Volume 1: Descriptive studies

Edited by William Van Belle and Willy Van Langendonck

Since antiquity, scholars have been fascinated by the phenomena of case. The explanation for this fascination is, as Hjelmslev already pointed out over fifty years ago, the fact that he who can unravel the meaning of case-relations, has the key to language structure as a whole.For over three years,… read more

[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 2] 1996. xviii, 455 pp.

Grammaticalization of the Complex Sentence: A case study in Chadic

Zygmunt Frajzyngier

The general objective of the study is systematic examination of the processes involved in the formation and evolution of complex sentence constructions in a group of genetically related languages. The Chadic language group, at about 140 languages, constitutes the largest and most diversified branch… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 32] 1996. xviii, 501 pp.

Korean

Suk-Jin Chang

Spoken by nearly 70 million people not only within the Korean Peninsula but also in five continents, Korean is one of a dozen major languages of the world. Yet outside Korea it is not as much studied as it should be, nor has it acquired commensurate international recognition. With its difficult… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 4] 1996. xviii, 252 pp.

Trubetzkoy's Orphan: Proceedings of the Montréal Roundtable on “Morphonology: contemporary responses” (Montréal, October 1994)

Edited by Rajendra Singh

In putting ‘morphonology’ up for adoption as a chapitre particulier in 1929, Trubetzkoy started a debate regarding the boundary between phonology and morphology that has not ended yet. Essentially a record of a roundtable devoted to that boundary (Montréal, October 1994), Trubetzkoy’s Orphan is a… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 144] 1996. xiv, 363 pp.

Clitics: A comprehensive bibliography 1892–1991

Joel A. Nevis, Brian D. Joseph, Dieter Wanner and Arnold M. Zwicky

This bibliography provides an alphabetical listing of over 1500 articles, books, and dissertations that treat in some way the topic of clitics and related matters, e.g. affixes, words, word order, movement, sandhi, etc. The beginning point for the bibliographic entries is 1892, taking Jacob… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 22] 1994. xxxviii, 274 pp.

Combinatorial Morphology

John T. Stonham

This book presents a detailed examination of the most important arguments for a process-based theory of morphology and offers a highly-constrained alternative to the powerful mechanisms proposed in processual theories of morphology.Data is presented from dozens of different languages from numerous… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 120] 1994. xii, 206 pp.

The Grammar of Space

Soteria Svorou

A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language. The discussion of the similarities and differences among languages in the encoding… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 25] 1994. xiv, 290 pp.

Universal Grammar in Child Second Language Acquisition: Null subjects and morphological uniformity

Usha Lakshmanan

This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG). Specifically, the book focuses on null-subjects in the developing grammars of children acquiring English as a second language. The book provides evidence from the longitudinal… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 10] 1994. x, 162 pp.

Complex Verb Formation

D. Gary Miller

This investigation of complex verb formation seeks to identify and clarify the way(s) in which a base verb becomes 'complex'. The author carefully considers both the syntactic and the morphological side of this question, and in doing so brings a wealth of data from very diverse languages to bear on… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 95] 1993. xx, 381 pp.

Diachronic Studies in Lexicology, Affixation, Phonology: Edita and Inedita 1979–1988. Volume II

Yakov Malkiel

The ten articles collected in this volume are an impressive indication of the range and depth of Malkiel's knowledge of diachronic processes in the Romance languages. In the author's experience, etymological studies of lexis frequently lead one into the areas of phonology and morphology, and the… read more

[Not in series, EAI 2] 1992. vi, 312 pp.

A History of Indo-European Verb Morphology

Kenneth Shields

This book explores the origin and evolution of important grammatical categories of the Indo-European verb, including the markers of person, tense, number, aspect, and mood. Its central thesis is that many of these markers can be traced to original deictic particles which were incorporated into… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 88] 1992. viii, 160 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.

Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues

Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine

The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 19:1] 1991. xii, 360 pp.

Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers

Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine

[Typological Studies in Language, 19:2] 1991. xii, 558 pp.

Approaches to Grammaticalization: 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine

[Typological Studies in Language, 19:S] 1990. xii, 360 pp. + xii, 560 pp.

Morphology: Word structure in generative grammar

John T. Jensen

A self-contained and lively text prepared in response to a perceived need for an up-to-date introduction to the field of morphology within the framework of generative grammar. The material is presented in the framework of the lexicalist hypothesis of Chomsky (1970), but also taking in the more… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 70] 1990. x, 210 pp.

Austronesian Root Theory: An essay on the limits of morphology

Robert Blust

Since the pioneering analyses of Renward Brandstetter (1860–1942) a quasi-morphological element called the ‘root’ has been recognized in Austronesian linguistics. This monograph confronts many of the methodological and substantive issues raised but never fully resolved by Brandstetter. In an effort… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 19] 1988. xi, 190 pp.

Bibliography of Morphology, 1960–1985

Compiled by Robert Beard and Bogdan Szymanek

Rather than an attempt at an exhaustive bibliography of morphology, this is a collection of major and selected minor works of theoretical interest in the broadest sense. The area of morphology represented here exhaustively is contemporary (generative) theoretical morphology, interpreted broadly… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 18] 1988. xiv, 193 pp.

Normale und gestörte Kindersprache

Harald Clahsen

Clahsen geht es in seinem neuen Buch um eine prazise empirische Theorie des kindlichen Spracherwerbs. Er argumentiert fur einige zentrale Bestandteile einer solchen Theorie, die groîenteils im Kontext linguistischer Theoriebildung stehen. Fur diesen Zweck werden vergleichende… read more

[Not in series, 33] 1988. ix, 340 pp.

Leitmotifs in Natural Morphology

Wolfgang U. Dressler, Willi Mayerthaler, Oswald Panagl and Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel

Natural Morphology is the term the four authors of this monograph agreed on to cover the leitmotifs of their common and individual approaches in questions of theoretical morphology. The introduction summarizes the basic concepts and strategies of Natural Morphology, to be followed by Mayerthaler… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 10] 1987. ix, 168 pp.

Morphology: A Study of the Relation between Meaning and Form

Joan L. Bybee

This is a textbook right in the thick of current interest in morphology. It proposes principles to predict properties previously considered arbitrary and brings together the psychological and the diachronic to explain the recurrent properties of morphological systems in terms of the processes that… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 9] 1985. xii, 235 pp.

Proto-Romance Morphology: Comparative Romance Grammar, vol. III

Robert A. Hall, Jr.

This volume deals with the reconstructed morphology of Proto-Romance. It is the third in a series by this author. The first volume (1974, Elsevier) deals with the external history of the Romance languages: the conditions under which they developed, were used, and (in some instances) went out of use. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 30] 1984. xii, 304 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.

Productivité morphologique et emprunt

Wiecher Zwanenburg

Le choix de décrire la dérivation déverbale savante du français moderne découle de la considération de quelques problèmes posés par le système dérivationnel du français aussi bien que par la théorie de la morphologie. Dans le chapitre introducteur, l’auteur s'étendre sur les problèmes particuliers… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 10] 1983. x, 199 pp.

Theoretical Morphology of the French Verb

James Foley

The analysis of French verbs presented in this monograph is neither a synchronic nor a diachronic description, but rather a theoretical achronic analysis whose goal is the explanation of the historical phonetic development of the French verb in terms of changes in the underlying abstract… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 1] 1979. iv, 292 pp.

The Development of Morphophonemic Theory

James Kilbury

The aim of this book is to provide a concise historical survey of linguistic investigation relating to the notion of morphophonemics. The study is essentially historical and thus does not offer its own theory of morphophonemics. Since attention is focused on the development of morphophonemic… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 10] 1976. viii, 155 pp.