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Speaking of Writing Romani: Language attitudes, text editing, and variability

Melanie Schippling

As a traditionally oral language spoken in areas with a literacy-based culture, Romani provides a unique case for the study of orality and literacy. In a mixed-methods approach, this work investigates attitudes of Romani speakers towards the modalities, their communicative functions and use, and… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 56] 2026. xix, 432 pp.

Advances in Iranian Linguistics II

Edited by Simin Karimi, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui

This volume offers insight into different aspects of an interesting but fairly understudied language family, opens a path to new inquiries, and provides valuable contribution to linguistics, in general, and to Iranian linguistics, in particular. The articles in this volume offer novel analyses of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 361] 2023. vi, 315 pp.

Konkani

Ramesh Vaman Dhongde

Konkani is a modern Indo-Aryan language and a state language of the Indian state Goa. Until recently, it was considered a dialect of Marathi, but it is now considered an independent language. Konkani has several varieties, including the Manglore variety spoken in the south of Goa, the Gawdi variety… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 21] 2022. xxix, 355 pp.

Advances in Iranian Linguistics

Edited by Richard K. Larson, Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian

This volume brings together selected papers from the first North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics, which was organized by the linguistics department at Stony Brook University. Papers were selected to illustrate the range of frameworks, diverse areas of research and how the boundaries of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 351] 2020. vi, 309 pp.

Bengali

Hanne-Ruth Thompson

Bangla (Bengali), an Eastern Indo-Aryan Language, is the national language of Bangladesh with 150 million speakers and the state language of Paschim Banga (West Bengal) in India with 90 million speakers. There are sizeable communities of Bengalis scattered all over the world. Altogether, the number… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 18] 2012. xxviii, 384 pp.

Clitics in Greek: A minimalist account of proclisis and enclisis

Marios Mavrogiorgos

This monograph investigates the morpho-syntactic and other properties of clitic pronouns in Greek and offers a grammar of proclisis and enclisis in light of Chomsky’s (1995, 2001a, 2005) Minimalist Program. It explores the nature of clitics as syntactic topicalizers which are probed by structurally… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 160] 2010. x, 294 pp.

Sinhala

Dileep Chandralal

Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and the mother tongue of over 70% of the population. Outside Sri Lanka it is used among immigrant populations in the U.K., North America, Australia and some European and Middle Eastern countries. As for the genetic relation, it belongs to the… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 15] 2010. xv, 296 pp.

Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian

Jasmine Dum-Tragut

This grammar of Modern Eastern Armenian gives a precise and explicit description of the Eastern Armenian language of the Republic of Armenia. It covers not only the normative tradition but, more importantly, also describes the colloquial language as it is used in Armenia today. With regard to… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 14] 2009. xv, 742 pp.

Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages: Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European Linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007

Edited by Vit Bubenik, John Hewson and Sarah Rose

The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 305] 2009. xx, 262 pp.

Marathi

Ramesh Vaman Dhongde and Kashi Wali

Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language, is the official language of Maharashtra, including Mumbai. Father Thomas Stephens, the first English traveler to Goa, a pioneer linguist, wrote Christa Puran in Marathi (1616) and Arte da Lingoa Canarim in Portuguese, printed in (1640). The latter is a grammar of… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 13] 2009. xviii, 340 pp.

Modality, Aspect and Negation in Persian

Azita H. Taleghani

This monograph presents a morpho-syntactic investigation on modality, aspect, and negation by concentrating on Persian, and is designed to contribute to theoretical linguistics and the study of Iranian languages. The analysis is based on the Minimalist program. This research challenges the idea… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 128] 2008. ix, 183 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.

Advances in Greek Generative Syntax: In honor of Dimitra Theophanopoulou-Kontou

Edited by Melita Stavrou and Arhonto Terzi

This collection of original research focuses on various lesser studied aspects of Greek syntax. The articles combine a sound empirical coverage within current developments of generative theory and cover a wide spectrum of areas. The syntax of sentential structure is dealt with by two articles, one… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 76] 2005. viii, 366 pp.

The Acquisition of the DP in Modern Greek

Theodoros Marinis

This book offers new data on the acquisition of functional categories in early child speech. Based on longitudinal corpora of five children acquiring Modern Greek as their first language, it describes the development of single DPs consisting of definite and indefinite articles, complex DPs that… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 31] 2003. xiv, 261 pp.

On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases: The expression of semantic roles in Ancient Greek

Silvia Luraghi

Prepositions and cases constitute a fruitful field of research for semantics. The historical development of their meaning can shed light on the relations among the semantic roles of participants and on the organization of conceptual space. Ancient Greek allows an in-depth study of such development.… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 67] 2003. xii, 366 pp.

Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish

Edited by Arın Bayraktaroğlu and Maria Sifianou

This volume includes 14 papers investigating politeness phenomena in Greece and Turkey, the cultural cross-roads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It reflects current research and provides observations of and findings in patterns of linguistic politeness in a geographical area other than the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 88] 2001. xiv, 435 pp.

Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase. with a Foreword by Frans Plank (Universität Konstanz)

Edited by Viktor Elšík and Yaron Matras

This is the first typologically-oriented collection on Romani that is devoted to a particular thematic domain — that of noun phrase grammar. The approach taken is unique in that it places this typologically hybrid language in the centre of a general linguistic, universal discussion of the relevant… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 211] 2000. x, 245 pp.

Middle Voice in Modern Greek: Meaning and function of an inflectional category

Linda Joyce Manney

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the inflectional middle category in Modern Greek. Against the theoretical backdrop of cognitive linguistics, it is argued that a wide range of seemingly disparate middle structures in Modern Greek comprise a complex semantic network, and that this network… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 48] 2000. xiii, 276 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.

Themes in Greek Linguistics: Volume II

Edited by Brian D. Joseph, Geoffrey C. Horrocks and Irene Philippaki-Warburton

This volume brings together 11 original papers on a variety of themes in Greek linguistics, covering phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, both synchronically and diachronically.Collectively, these papers report on recent advances in the study of Greek grammar within the framework of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 159] 1998. x, 335 pp.

Adverb Placement: A case study in antisymmetric syntax

Artemis Alexiadou

This monograph investigates a number of central issues in the Syntax of Adverbs with special reference to Greek in the light of Kayne's (1994) Antisymmetry Hypothesis. It examines the conditions on the placement of the various adverb types, their licensing requirements, and their relation to… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 18] 1997. x, 256 pp.

Narrative Performances: A study of Modern Greek storytelling

Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Conversational narratives provide valuable resources for the discursive construction and invoking of personal and sociocultural identities. As such, their sociolinguistic and cultural analysis constitute a high priority in the agenda of discourse studies. This book contributes to the growing line… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 46] 1997. xvii, 282 pp.

The Typology and Dialectology of Romani

Edited by Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov

Contributions to this collection focus on the unity and diversity of the language of the Roma (Gypsies), the only Indic language spoken exclusively in Europe. Properties discussed include the distinct inflectional and derivational patterns applied to Asian and European lexical layers, the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 156] 1997. xxxii, 223 pp.

Romani in Contact: The history, structure and sociology of a language

Edited by Yaron Matras

A language of Indic origin heavily infuenced by European idioms for many centuries now, Romani provides an interesting experimental field for students of language contact, linguistic minorities, standardization, and typology. Approaching the language via its ever-surfacing character as a language… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 126] 1995. xvii, 208 pp.

Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993

Edited by Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Katerina Nicolaidis and Maria Sifianou

This volume brings together 65 papers which were presented at this Conference, the aim of which was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between scholars with expertise in various aspects of the Greek language. For this reason the volume contains the majority of the contributions. It should… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 117] 1994. xviii, 535 pp.

Pragmatics and Classical Sanskrit: A pilot study in linguistic politeness

Lieve Van de Walle

This book explores the possibilities and limitations of pragmatic research in classical Sanskrit concentrating on linguistic politeness. The four case studies it comprises are in essence empirical, and try to accurately describe a fairly limited number of interactions between an also limited number… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 28] 1993. xii, 454 pp.

Aspect and Meaning in Slavic and Indic

Ranjit Chatterjee

Three features set this book apart from other recent publications on aspect. First, it looks closely at the language family, Slavic, that has been the main source of assumptions and data about aspect. Second, it looks upon the object of linguistic study, natural language, from an angle shared by… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 51] 1989. xxiii, 137 pp.

Italic and Romance: Linguistic studies in honor of Ernst Pulgram

Edited by Herbert J. Izzo

The papers in this volume deal with the languages of ancient Italy and the Romance dialects that grew from them. The arrangement of papers in the volume is topical, starting with ancient Italy and moving upward in time and outward in space through general Romance to Italian, French and Provençal,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 18] 1980. xxi, 338 pp.

Dissertation on the Sanskrit Language

Paulinus A.S. Bartholomaeo

Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo’s Dissertatio historico-critica in linguam Samscrdamicam (1790) serves as an introduction to his Sidharubam, the first Sanskrit grammar published in Europe. The Dissertatio is also important for another reason: it is concerned with speculations about the nature and origin… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 12] 1977. xx, 222 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