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At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Anna Rogos-Hebda and Heli Tissari

This volume explores the synergy between historical and cognitive linguistics, demonstrating how the two can jointly shed light on patterns of language change. Focusing on figurative language, particularly metaphor and metonymy, it features a range of case studies that zoom in on the emergence and… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 21] 2026. vii, 288 pp.

The Development of the Chinese Cleft Construction: A diachronic constructional approach

Fangqiong Zhan

This book explores the development of the Chinese cleft construction through the lens of Diachronic Construction Grammar. Focusing on shi as an invariant copula, it examines the VP de cleft, the V de O cleft, and the bare shi cleft, showing how each signals contrastive and specificational meaning.… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 41] 2026. xviii, 207 pp.

Pardon my French?: Dutch–French language contact in the Netherlands (1500–1900)

Gijsbert Rutten, Andreas Krogull, Brenda Assendelft and Jill Puttaert

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Dutch–French contact situation in the Early and Late Modern period, when the Dutch language and culture supposedly underwent frenchification in various spheres of life. Bringing together empirical approaches based on a wide range of datasets,… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 15] 2026. ix, 312 pp. | open access

Diachrony of Tone

Edited by Sandra Auderset, Rikker Dockum and Ryan Gehrmann

Special issue of Diachronica 42:3/4 (2025) v, 259 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

Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries

Edited by Christopher Joby and Nicoline van der Sijs

Whilst the Dutch language cannot be considered a world language in the manner of English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French, the fact that speakers of Dutch have sailed to the four corners of the earth means that it cannot be overlooked in language-contact studies. This volume brings together scholars… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 55] 2025. vi, 584 pp.

From and Towards Demonstratives: Grammaticalization processes and beyond

Edited by Veronica Orqueda and Berta González Saavedra

Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 15:2 (2025) v, 190 pp.

Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022

Edited by Holly Kennard, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden

This book offers a peer-reviewed selection of the best and most original contributions to the twenty-fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. They faithfully reflect the spirit of the Conference in that they all display a shared passion for the diachronic study of language but also… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 369] 2025. vi, 310 pp.

Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives

Edited by Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga

Language isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates, including a… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 135] 2025. vii, 339 pp.

Old Germanic Languages and Latin/Early Romance in Contact

Edited by Carla Falluomini

Special issue of NOWELE 78:1 (2025) v, 120 pp.

Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel

Edited by B. Richard Page and Michael T. Putnam

This volume pays homage to the legacy of William D. Keel and the significant impact of his research on German in contact settings from myriad perspectives and traditions. It includes structural and sociolinguistic studies focusing on varieties of German spoken throughout the world, including… read more

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 10] 2025. vi, 275 pp.

Demystifying New Methods in Historical Linguistics

Edited by Erich Round

Special issue of Diachronica 41:3 (2024) v, 137 pp.

The Development of Aspirated Fricatives in Gothic: A contact-linguistic perspective

Seiichi Suzuki

This book presents three major hypotheses concerning the development of fricatives in Gothic. First, Gothic introduced aspiration or a phonological feature [spread glottis] to the fricative system. Second, this acquisition of aspirated fricatives should be explained as a contact-induced change.… read more

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 9] 2024. xix, 155 pp.

Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019

Edited by Bethwyn Evans, Maria Kristina Gallego and Luisa Miceli

This volume comprises a selection of papers that were presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24), which took place at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra from 1-5 July, 2019. The volume’s aim is to reflect the breadth of research presented at… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 367] 2024. vi, 368 pp.

Keys to the History of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography. Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL

Edited by Thijs Porck, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon

This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The contributions deal with various aspects of English language across time and geographical space, shedding light on both long-term… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 363] 2024. vii, 235 pp.

Thematic issue: Historical Linguistics of Sign Languages

Special issue of Diachronica 41:2 (2024) v, 158 pp.

Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types. Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL

Edited by Luisella Caon, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck

This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The chapters deal with aspects of language use throughout the history of English, including efforts to prescribe and regulate… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 364] 2024. viii, 253 pp.

Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History

Elisabeth M. de Boer

This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tōkyō Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the Kyōto-type dialects have… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 365] 2024. viii, 130 pp. | open access

Different Slants on Grammaticalization

Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Vittorio Tantucci

This volume on grammaticalization focuses on new theoretical and methodological challenges underpinning language change. It provides new approaches and insights deepening our understanding of the cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural mechanisms that trigger the formation and the change of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 232] 2023. vi, 284 pp.

Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda: A multifactorial analysis of linguistic features

Christopher D. Sapp

This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda , perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age. This study compares the anonymous Eddic poems to dated skaldic poems with respect to five phenomena that develop diachronically in early… read more

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 5] 2022. xii, 246 pp.

Development of Tense and Aspect Systems

Edited by Jadranka Gvozdanović

Linguistic construal of time lies at the center of language and language use; it is also one of the cognitive foundations of culture. The focus of the papers in this volume is on historical developments of genetically different aspect and tense systems across continents, with contributions on the… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 123] 2022. v, 202 pp.

English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact. Papers from the XXth ICEHL

Edited by Bettelou Los, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux

This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. It showcases a wide variety of historical linguistic approaches, including ‘big data’ analyses of large corpora,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 359] 2022. vi, 185 pp.

English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning. Papers from the XXth ICEHL

Edited by Bettelou Los, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale

This volume contains a set of articles based on papers selected from those delivered at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018). It focuses on cutting-edge research in the history of English, while reflecting the diversity that exists in the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 358] 2022. viii, 349 pp.

Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and intersentential phenomena

Edited by Nicholas Catasso, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani

This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information structure and discourse – with a special focus on Germanic and Romance – and their role in language change. The contributions, set within the generative framework, discuss… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 275] 2022. viii, 255 pp.

Diachronic Dimensions of Alignment Typology

Edited by Eystein Dahl

Special issue of Diachronica 38:3 (2021) v, 199 pp.

Early history of the North Sea Germanic languages

Edited by Stephen Laker and Hans Frede Nielsen †

Special issue of NOWELE 74:1 (2021) v, 151 pp.

Historical Germanic morphosyntax

Edited by Stephen Laker and John Ole Askedal

Special issue of NOWELE 74:2 (2021) v, 155 pp.

Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union

Edited by Diana Forker and Lenore A. Grenoble

The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact. This is the first book that bundles… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 50] 2021. vi, 386 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.

Pre-Historical Language Contact in Peruvian Amazonia: A dynamic approach to Shawi (Kawapanan)

Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia

South America was populated relatively recently, probably around 15,000 years ago. Yet, instead of finding a relatively small number of language families, we find some 118 genealogical units. So far, the historical processes that underlie the current picture are not yet fully understood. This book… read more

[Contact Language Library, 58] 2021. xvii, 211 pp.

Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics: Isolation and contact

Edited by Whitney Chappell and Bridget Drinka

This interdisciplinary volume explores the unique role of the sociohistorical factors of isolation and contact in motivating change in the varieties of Spanish worldwide. Recognizing the inherent intersectionality of social and historical factors, the book’s eight chapters investigate phenomena… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 12] 2021. v, 235 pp.

“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña

“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts aims at exploring scientific writing in late Modern English. This volume is the fourth of its kind devoted to the analysis of the relations between language and different scientific disciplines from 1700 to 1900. Here,… read more

[Not in series, 237] 2021. xv, 310 pp.

Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating

Edited by David Gil and Antoinette Schapper

Many Austronesian languages exhibit isolating word structure. This volume offers a series of investigations into these languages, which are found in an "isolating crescent" extending from Mainland Southeast Asia through the Indonesian archipelago and into western New Guinea. Some of the languages… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 129] 2020. ix, 510 pp.

Changes in Meaning and Function: Studies in historical linguistics with a focus on Spanish

Edited by Jorge Fernández Jaén and Herminia Provencio Garrigós

Diachronic linguistics has been experiencing a strong revival during the last few decades, since an increasing number of researchers have assumed that evolutionary and historical factors must be considered to properly understand how natural languages work. This book offers new data and insights on… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 25] 2020. xii, 332 pp.

Development of tense and aspect systems

Edited by Jadranka Gvozdanović

Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 10:2 (2020) v, 193 pp.

Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics

Edited by Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti

Over the last few decades, the widespread diffusion of digital technology has increased availability of primary textual sources, radically changing the everyday life of scholars in the humanities, who are now able to access, query and process a wealth of empirical evidence in ways not possible… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 113] 2020. v, 154 pp.

Historical Linguistics: A cognitive grammar introduction

Margaret E. Winters

This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics. Secondly, unlike many such textbooks, this one is based in the… read more

[Not in series, 227] 2020. xvii, 241 pp.

Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017

Edited by Bridget Drinka

The collected articles in this volume address an array of cutting-edge issues in the field of historical linguistics, including new theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies for studying language through a diachronic lens. The articles focus on the following themes: I. Case & Argument… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 350] 2020. xi, 495 pp.

Late Modern English: Novel encounters

Edited by Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg

The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, spelling and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 214] 2020. vii, 359 pp.

Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar

Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Elena Smirnova

This volume brings together ten contributions by leading experts who present their current usage-based research in Diachronic Construction Grammar. All papers contribute to the discussion of how to conceptualize constructional networks best and how to model changes in the constructicon, as for… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 27] 2020. vi, 355 pp.

Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond

Edited by Robert Crellin and Thomas Jügel

This volume provides a detailed investigation of perfects from all the branches of the Indo-European language family, in some cases representing the first ever comprehensive description. Thorough philological examinations result in empirically well-founded analyses illustrated with over 940… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 352] 2020. xiv, 686 pp.

Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents

Edited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs

English local documents – leases, wills, accounts, letters and the like – provide a unique resource for historical sociolinguistics. Abundant from the early fifteenth century, they represent the language and concerns of people from a wide range of social, institutional and geographical backgrounds.… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 11] 2020. ix, 310 pp.

Runic Inscriptions and the Early History of the Germanic Languages

Edited by Robert Nedoma and Hans Frede Nielsen †

Special issue of NOWELE 73:1 (2020) v, 192 pp.

Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads

Edited by Renata Szczepaniak and Johanna Flick

This volume focuses on the grammaticalization of the definite article in German. It contains eight empirically-based papers which examine individual stages of the grammaticalization path from its beginnings as a demonstrative to the definite article and beyond. Focusing on cognitive, pragmatic,… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 23] 2020. vi, 253 pp.

Agreement in Language Contact: Gender development in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Florian Dolberg

Gender in English changed dramatically from the elaborate system found in Old English to the very simple he/she/it-alternation in use from (late) Middle English onwards. While either system is well described and understood, the change from one to the other is anything but: more than 120 years of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 208] 2019. xxi, 351 pp.

The Carthaginian North: Semitic influence on early Germanic: A linguistic and cultural study

Robert Mailhammer and Theo Vennemann

This book presents a new and innovative theory on the origin of the Germanic languages. This theory presents solutions to four pivotal problems in the history of Germanic with critical implications for cultural history: the origin of the Germanic writing system (the Runic alphabet), the genesis of… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 32] 2019. xiii, 268 pp.

The Determinants of Diachronic Stability

Edited by Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn

While much of the literature has focused on explaining diachronic variation and change, the fact that sometimes change does not seem to happen has received much less attention. The current volume unites ten contributions that look for the determinants of diachronic stability, mainly in the areas of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 254] 2019. vi, 294 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.

Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015

Edited by Michela Cennamo and Claudia Fabrizio

The collection of articles presented in this volume addresses a number of general theoretical, methodological and empirical issues in the field of Historical Linguistics, in different levels of analysis and on different themes: (i) phonology, (ii) morphology, (iii) morphosyntax, (iv) syntax, (v)… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 348] 2019. viii, 639 pp.

Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world

Edited by Raymond Hickey

The current volume presents a number of chapters which look at informal vernacular letters, written mostly by emigrants to the former colonies of Britain, who settled at these locations in the past few centuries, with a focus on letters from the nineteenth century. Such documents often show… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 10] 2019. x, 289 pp.

Language Planning as Nation Building: Ideology, policy and implementation in the Netherlands, 1750–1850

Gijsbert Rutten

The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst these international events, the case of Dutch in the Netherlands offers… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 9] 2019. x, 312 pp. | open access

Norms and Conventions in the History of English

Edited by Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge

This volume explores changing norms and conventions in the English language, as displayed in a broad range of historical data from more than five centuries. The contributions discuss the interplay of sociocultural conditions, specific discourse traditions and structural aspects of language, paying… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 347] 2019. v, 215 pp.

The Northumbrian Old English glosses

Edited by Elly van Gelderen

Special issue of NOWELE 72:2 (2019) v, 154 pp.

Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change: Studies in honor of Henning Andersen

Edited by Lars Heltoft, Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler

This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 345] 2019. ix, 419 pp.

Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes: Sex and sophistry in the Old Testament - A new English translation

T. Givón

This book is a new English translation of the two shortest, most controversial and perhaps most vibrant books in the Hebrew Old Testament – Song of Songs (Song of Solomon) and Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). The two books slipped into the Jewish – and eventually Christian – Canon by a series of… read more

[Not in series, 222] 2019. ix, 159 pp.

Understanding language genealogy: Alternatives to the tree model

Edited by Siva Kalyan, Alexandre François and Harald Hammarström

Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 9:1 (2019) v, 176 pp.

Advances in Gothic Philology and Linguistics

Edited by Alexandra Holsting and Hans Frede Nielsen †

Special issue of NOWELE 71:2 (2018) v, 145 pp.

Arabic in Contact

Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco

The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations, it explores both contact-induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. read more

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 6] 2018. vi, 372 pp. | open access

A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages

R.D. Fulk

Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German, along… read more

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 3] 2018. xv, 420 pp. | open access

Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change

Edited by Richard J. Whitt

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 85] 2018. viii, 337 pp.

Diachronic Treebanks

Edited by Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti

Special issue of Diachronica 35:3 (2018) v, 153 pp.

The Diachrony of Classification Systems

Edited by William B. McGregor and Søren Wichmann

Classification is a popular topic in typological, descriptive and theoretical linguistics. This volume is the first to deal specifically with the diachrony of linguistic systems of classification. It comprises original papers that examine the ways in which linguistic classification systems arise,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 342] 2018. xi, 362 pp.

The Evolution of Argument Coding Patterns in South American Languages

Edited by Antoine Guillaume and Spike Gildea

Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 8:1 (2018) v, 167 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.

New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change

Edited by Sylvie Hancil, Tine Breban and José Vicente Lozano

The chapters in this volume present a state of the art of grammaticalization research in the 2010s. They are concerned with the application of new models, such as constructionalization, the ongoing debate about the status and modelling of the development of discourse markers, and reveal a renewed… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 202] 2018. vi, 433 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.

Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English

Edited by Peter Petré, Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D'hoedt

The chapters collected in this volume examine how the sociohistorical and cultural context may influence structural features of lexis and text types. Each paper pays particular attention to social ‘labels’ and attitudes (conservative, religious, ideological, endearing, or other), thereby focusing… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 343] 2018. viii, 258 pp.

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.

Untersuchungen zu den Gründungsdokumenten der färöischen Rechtschreibung: Ein Beitrag zur nordischen Schriftgeschichte

Christer Lindqvist

Die färöische Gegenwartsorthographie ging nicht wie die moderne Rechtschreibung vieler Sprachen aus einer jahrhundertelangen Schrifttradition hervor, sondern wurde im Wesentlichen im 19. Jh. neu erschaffen. Ihre Gründungsdokumente bestehen aus vier färöischen Zaubersprüchen, die in einer bis Mitte… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 29] 2018. xx, 312 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

The Dawn of Dutch: Language contact in the Western Low Countries before 1200

Michiel de Vaan

The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 30] 2017. xviii, 613 pp. | open access

Development of Tense/Aspect in Semitic in the Context of Afro-Asiatic Languages

Vit Bubenik

The author applies the comparative method for the reconstruction of earlier aspectual systems in the Afro-Asiatic phylum of languages. Moving ‘upstream’ from the documented systems of Semitic, Berber and Old Cushitic the state of affairs during the common stage of Proto-Semito-Berbero-Cushitic is… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 337] 2017. xx, 228 pp.

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE

Alexandra D'Arcy

Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 187] 2017. xx, 235 pp.

Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics

Edited by Tanja Säily, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer

This volume explores potential paths in historical sociolinguistics, with a particular focus on the inter-related areas of methodological innovations, hitherto un- or under-explored textual resources, and theoretical advancements and challenges. The individual chapters cover Dutch, Finnish and… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 7] 2017. vii, 331 pp.

Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond

Edited by Karen Dakin, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein

Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. This volume presents and analyzes fresh empirical data… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 185] 2017. xv, 433 pp.

Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler

Edited by Cecelia Cutler, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer

Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas brings together the original research of nineteen leading scholars on language contact and pidgin/creole genesis. In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the role of historical, cultural and demographic factors in… read more

[Creole Language Library, 53] 2017. vii, 369 pp.

Language Dispersal Beyond Farming

Edited by Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev

Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world’s major language families owe their dispersal to the adoption of… read more

[Not in series, 215] 2017. xiii, 324 pp. | open access

Language and Slavery: A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles

Jacques Arends

This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little… read more

[Creole Language Library, 52] 2017. xxix, 463 pp. | open access

The Rise and Development of Evidential and Epistemic Markers

Edited by Silvio Cruschina and Eva-Maria Remberger

Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 7:1/2 (2017) vi, 274 pp.

Space in Diachrony

Edited by Silvia Luraghi, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi

Space is a fundamental dimension of human life and is pervasive in human experience. Research on space has highlighted the possible asymmetrical nature of spatial relations. Differences in the encoding of goals and sources of motion are a case in point, and cross-linguistic coding tendencies show… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 188] 2017. xvii, 373 pp.

Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade

Edited by Bettelou Los and Pieter de Haan

The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change. As is now becoming increasingly clear, word order variation rarely attracts social values in the way that phonological variants do. Instead, speakers tend to attach discourse or information-structural functions to any word… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 243] 2017. ix, 376 pp.

'The Conditioned and the Unconditioned': Late Modern English texts on philosophy. incl. CD-rom: A Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)

Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Gonzalo Camiña, Inés Lareo and Begoña Crespo

This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT), together with a number of pilot studies that demonstrate how the corpus can be used to investigate English philosophy writing in the eighteenth and… read more

[Not in series, 198] 2016. xi, 182 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)

Constructing Languages: Norms, myths and emotions

Edited by Francesc Feliu and Josep M. Nadal

As language historians we believe that the subject of our study is neither natural languages nor idiolects which speakers have always been able to develop individually (loosely what Chomsky calls L-i), but rather the social constructions of reference shared by all speakers (basically what Chomsky… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 13] 2016. vii, 416 pp.

Element Order in Old English and Old High German Translations

Anna Cichosz, Jerzy Gaszewski and Piotr Pęzik

This book is the first comprehensive corpus study of element order in Old English and Old High German, which brings to light numerous differences between these two closely related languages. The study’s innovative approach relies on translated texts, which allows the authors to tackle the problem… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 28] 2016. xvii, 424 pp.

Exaptation and Language Change

Edited by Muriel Norde and Freek Van de Velde

This volume is the first collection of papers that is exclusively dedicated to the concept of exaptation, a notion from evolutionary biology that was famously introduced into linguistics by Roger Lass in 1990. The past quarter-century has seen a heated debate on the properties of linguistic… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 336] 2016. viii, 411 pp.

Grammarians, Skalds and Rune Carvers I

Edited by Robert Nedoma and Michael Schulte

Special issue of NOWELE 69:1 (2016) v, 112 pp.

Grammarians, Skalds and Rune Carvers II

Edited by Michael Schulte and Robert Nedoma

Special issue of NOWELE 69:2 (2016) v, 123 pp.

Grammatica, Gramadach and Gramadeg: Vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales

Edited by Deborah Hayden and Paul Russell

Grammatica, Gramadach, and Gramadeg : Vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales is concerned with the history of linguistic ideas and literary theory in the vernacular languages of medieval Ireland and Wales. While much good work, especially by Vivian Law, has been done on… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 125] 2016. xvi, 226 pp.

Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective

Edited by Eystein Dahl and Krzysztof Stroński

This volume presents a state-of-the-art survey of synchronic and diachronic dimensions of Ergativity in the Indo-Aryan language family. It contains an introduction drawing on the most important recent typological and theoretical contributions to this field, plus seven papers about the origin,… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 112] 2016. v, 267 pp.

Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country

Edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Diane Hafner

This volume offers a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic, anthropological, archaeological and historical work focused on Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, in Australia’s northeast. The volume also honours Bruce Rigsby, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Queensland,… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 18] 2016. x, 492 pp.

Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun

Edited by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Dagostino

This unique collection of articles in honor of Marianne Mithun represents the very latest in research on language contact and language change in the Indigenous languages of the Americas. The book aims to provide new theoretical and empirical insights into how and why languages change, especially… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 173] 2016. viii, 416 pp.

Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson

Edited by Anita Auer, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova

Linguistics and Literary History systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies. It brings together stylistics, literary theory and diachronic linguistics in order to explore their interaction at various methodological, descriptive… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 25] 2016. vi, 216 pp.

A Middle English Syntax: Parts of speech

Tauno F. Mustanoja

For a good orientation into the history of English grammar, several books are indispensable. One of those is Mustanoja’s A Middle English Syntax. However, for a long time this work was not readily available; the present edition changes that. This is a fac simile reprint from the 1960 publication… read more

[Not in series, 207] 2016. ix, 702 pp.

Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change: Motion Verbs from Latin to Romance

Natalya I. Stolova

This monograph offers the first in-depth lexical and semantic analysis of motion verbs in their development from Latin to nine Romance languages — Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Sardinian, and Raeto-Romance — demonstrating that the patterns of innovation and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 331] 2015. viii, 261 pp.

Diachronic Construction Grammar

Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer and Spike Gildea

Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 18] 2015. xi, 263 pp.

The Diachrony of Grammar

T. Givón

The case-studies assembled in these two volumes span a lifetime of research into the diachrony of grammar. That is, into the rise and fall of syntactic constructions and their attendant grammatical morphology. While focused squarely on the data, the studies are nonetheless cast in an explicit… read more

[Not in series, 192] 2015. 928 pp. (Hb in 2 vols.)

The Diachrony of Infinitival Patterns: Their origin, development and loss

Edited by Ulrike Demske and Łukasz Jędrzejowski

Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 5:1 (2015) v, 174 pp.

Early Germanic Languages in Contact

Edited by John Ole Askedal and Hans Frede Nielsen †

This volume contains revised and, in some cases, extended versions of twelve of the fourteen lectures read at the conference on “Early Germanic Languages in Contact” held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense on 22-23 August 2013 – with a paper and a review article added at the end on… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 27] 2015. x, 304 pp.

Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013

Edited by Dag T.T. Haug

The International Conference on Historical Linguistics is the main conference for specialists in language change, and the 2013 conference in Oslo drew more than 300 participants, with 182 papers presented in the general session. The 16 papers selected for inclusion in this volume from the general… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 334] 2015. ix, 327 pp.

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.

On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change

Edited by Hendrik De Smet, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde

In much writing on language change, there is a tacit assumption that change operates on a single source construction to produce an innovative target construction. This volume challenges this assumption, by showing that many changes involve interactions between multiple source constructions. In… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 79] 2015. v, 227 pp.

Perspectives on Historical Syntax

Edited by Carlotta Viti

This volume discusses topics of historical syntax from different theoretical perspectives, ranging from Indo-European studies to generative grammar, functionalism, and typology. It examines mechanisms of syntactic change such as reanalysis, analogy, grammaticalization, independent drift, and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 169] 2015. vi, 346 pp.

Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development

Edited by Leonid Kulikov and Nikolaos Lavidas

Although for some scholars the very possibility of syntactic reconstruction remains dubious, numerous studies have appeared reconstructing a variety of basic elements of Proto-Indo-European syntax based on evidence available particularly from ancient and/or archaic Indo-European languages. The… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 75] 2015. v, 158 pp.

Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English

Edited by Marina Dossena

The volume presents an innovative approach to studies in Late Modern English by giving attention to variation and change in varieties of English on both sides of the Atlantic. As new corpora become available, scholarly interests broaden their horizons to encompass varieties, the history of which… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 4] 2015. vii, 221 pp.

Beyond ‘Khoisan’: Historical relations in the Kalahari Basin

Edited by Tom Güldemann and Anne-Maria Fehn

Greenberg’s (1954) concept of a ‘Khoisan’ language family, while heartily embraced by non-specialists, has been harshly criticized by linguists working on these languages. Evidence for Greenberg's hypothesis has proved to be seriously insufficient and little progress has been made in the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 330] 2014. xii, 331 pp.

Colour Studies: A broad spectrum

Edited by Wendy Anderson, Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough and Christian Kay

This volume presents some of the latest research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines. Many are represented here, including anthropology, archaeology, the fine arts, linguistics, onomastics, philosophy, psychology and vision science. The chapters have been… read more

[Not in series, 191] 2014. xiv, 417 pp.

Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English

Edited by Simone E. Pfenninger, Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier

The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change, (socio)linguistic research on variation, and contact linguistics. Drawing on a range of recently-developed methodological innovations, such… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 159] 2014. vi, 326 pp.

The Diachrony of Negation

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti

Despite intensive research, negation remains elusive. Its expression across languages, its underlying cognitive mechanisms, its development across time, and related phenomena, such as negative polarity and negative concord, leave many unresolved issues of both a definitional and a substantive… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 160] 2014. v, 258 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.

Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages

Edited by Kristin Bech and Kristine Gunn Eide

The contributions of this volume offer new perspectives on the relation between syntax and information structure in the history of Germanic and Romance languages, focusing on English, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. In… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 213] 2014. vii, 421 pp.

Language Contact, Inherited Similarity and Social Difference: The story of linguistic interaction in the Maya lowlands

Danny Law

This book offers a study of long-term, intensive language contact between more than a dozen Mayan languages spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Southern Mexico and Belize. It details the massive restructuring of syntactic and semantic organization, the calquing of grammatical patterns, and the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 328] 2014. xi, 206 pp.

Letters as Loot: A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch

Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal

The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of letters focussing on a unique collection of Dutch private letters from… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 2] 2014. xiii, 426 pp. | open access

Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective

Edited by Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche

Historical sociolinguistics has successfully challenged the traditional focus on standardization in linguistic historiography. Extensive research on newly uncovered textual resources has shown the widespread variation in the written language of the past that was previously hidden or neglected. The… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 3] 2014. viii, 334 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.

Unity and Diversity in West Germanic, III

Edited by Hans Frede Nielsen † and Patrick V. Stiles

Special issue of NOWELE 67:1 (2014) v, 129 pp.

Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change

Edited by Evie Coussé and Ferdinand von Mengden

Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has always been recognized in this framework, but has never received central attention. It is the main aim of this book to fill this gap. Once we recognize that usage… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 69] 2014. v, 275 pp.

Communities of Practice in the History of English

Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk and Andreas H. Jucker

Languages change and they keep changing as a result of communicative interactions and practices in the context of communities of language users. The articles in this volume showcase a range of such communities and their practices as loci of language change in the history of English. The notion of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 235] 2013. vii, 291 pp.

Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories

Edited by Gabriele Diewald, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer

This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories, even though they… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 138] 2013. vi, 318 pp.

Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs

Edited by Folke Josephson and Ingmar Söhrman

This volume applies a diachronic perspective to the verb and mainly deals with typological change affecting tense, aspect, mood and modality in a variety of Indo-European languages (Latin, Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Hittite, and Semitic) and the non-Indo-European Turkic,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 134] 2013. viii, 443 pp.

Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey

Edited by Tim Thornes, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop and Joana Jansen

Contributions from both well-known practitioners and new voices in the areas of language typology, historical linguistics, and function-based approaches to language description define this volume, as does its foci in two major geographical areas — southeast Asia and northwestern North America. All… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 103] 2013. xviii, 294 pp.

Historical Linguistics 2011: Selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011

Edited by Ritsuko Kikusawa and Lawrence A. Reid

This volume of selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Osaka, Japan, July 2011) presents a set of stimulating and ground-breaking studies on a wide range of languages and language families. As the scope of studies that can be characterized as ‘Historical… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 326] 2013. ix, 337 pp.

Investigation of the Origin of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language: New edition of the 1993 English translation by Niels Ege

Rasmus Rask (1787–1832)

This edition constitutes a reprint of Niels Ege’s English translation of Rasmus Rask’s prize essay of 1818, which appeared as volume XXVI in the Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague in 1993. The prize essay was published in Danish in 1818. In contrast to other works by Rask, notably his… read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 18] 2013. *lv , xii, 289 pp.

Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols

Edited by Balthasar Bickel, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake

What is the range of diversity in linguistic types, what are the geographical distributions for the attested types, and what explanations, based on shared history or universals, can account for these distributions? This collection of articles by prominent scholars in typology seeks to address these… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 104] 2013. viii, 512 pp.

The Macregol Gospels or The Rushworth Gospels: Edition of the Latin text with the Old English interlinear gloss transcribed from Oxford Bodleian Library, MS Auctarium D. 2. 19

Edited by Kenichi Tamoto

This work is composed of two parts. The first or introductory part, contains a palaeographical discussion about Bodleian Library, MS Auctarium D.2.19, that is to say, the MacRegol Gospels or the Rushworth Gospels, edited by Kenichi Tamoto, and which forms the second and main part of this book. The… read more

[Not in series, 180] 2013. cxxxix, 339 pp.

New Perspectives on the Origins of Language

Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen

The question of how language emerged is one of the most fascinating and difficult problems in science. In recent years, a strong resurgence of interest in the emergence of language from an evolutionary perspective has been helped by the convergence of approaches, methods, and ideas from several… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 144] 2013. xvi, 582 pp.

On Language Diversity and Relationship from Bibliander to Adelung

George J. Metcalf

From the Renaissance onwards, European scholars began to collect and study the various languages of the Old and the New Worlds. The recognition of language diversity encouraged them to explain how differences between languages emerged, why languages kept changing, and in what language families they… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 120] 2013. viii, 181 pp.

Shared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages

Edited by Martine Robbeets and Hubert Cuyckens

This book offers fresh perspectives on “shared grammaticalization”, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammaticalization process in common. While contact-induced grammaticalization has generated great interest in recent years, far less attention has been paid… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 132] 2013. xv, 360 pp.

Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface

Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli

The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and linguistic variation. What has traditionally been treated as a dichotomy is now seen rather in terms of a dynamic interface. The contributions… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 133] 2013. xi, 450 pp.

Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents

Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Gijsbert Rutten

The study of ego-documents figures as a prominent theme in cutting-edge research in the Humanities. Focusing on private letters, diaries and autobiography, this volume covers a wide range of different languages and historical periods, from the sixteenth century to World War I. The volume stands out… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 1] 2013. vii, 279 pp.

Astronomy ‘playne and simple’: The writing of science between 1700 and 1900. Including CD-Rom: A Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA)

Edited by Isabel Moskowich and Begoña Crespo

This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA), together with a number of pilot studies using these texts showing how the corpus can be used to investigate English Astronomy writing between 1700… read more

[Not in series, 173] 2012. xi, 240 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change

Edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler

Much theorizing in language change research is made without taking into account dialect data. Yet, dialects seem to be superior data to build a theory of linguistic change on, since dialects are relatively free of standardization and therefore more tolerant of variant competition in grammar. In… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 128] 2012. vi, 297 pp.

Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections

Edited by Kristin Davidse, Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems and Tanja Mortelmans

This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification. It addresses topical issues relating to the motivations, sources, defining features,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 130] 2012. viii, 342 pp.

Historical Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, 10-14 August 2009

Edited by Ans M.C. van Kemenade and Nynke de Haas

The International Conference on Historical Linguistics has always been a forum that reflects the general state of the art in the field, and the 2009 edition, held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, fully allows the conclusion that the field has been thriving over the years. The studies presented in this… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 320] 2012. xxi, 404 pp.

Language Contact and Development around the North Sea

Edited by Merja Stenroos, Martti Mäkinen and Inge Særheim

This volume brings together eleven studies on the history of language and writing in the North Sea area, with focus on contacts and interchanges through time. Its range spans from the investigation of pre-Germanic place-names to present-day Shetland; the materials studied include glosses, legal and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 321] 2012. xvi, 235 pp.

Make Peace and Take Victory: Support verb constructions in Old English in comparison with Old Irish

Patricia Ronan

This corpus-based study examines the use of support verb constructions in Old English and Old Irish. It determines in how far these constructions can be seen as a means to offer semantic specification of existing verbal expressions. The study further investigates whether support verb constructions… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 24] 2012. xiv, 251 pp.

Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh

Edited by Søren Wichmann and Anthony P. Grant

Quantitative methods in linguistics, which the protean American structuralist linguist Morris Swadesh introduced in the 1950s, have become increasingly popular and have opened the world of languages to interdisciplinary approaches. The papers collected here are the work not only of descriptive and… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 46] 2012. x, 182 pp.

Relative Clauses in Time and Space: A case study in the methods of diachronic typology

Rachel Hendery

This book presents a comprehensive survey of historically attested relative clause constructions from a diachronic typological perspective. Systematic integration of historical data and a typological approach demonstrates how typology and historical linguistics can each benefit from attention to… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 101] 2012. xii, 281 pp.

Roots of Afrikaans: Selected writings of Hans den Besten

Edited by Ton van der Wouden

Hans den Besten (1948-2010) made numerous contributions to Afrikaans linguistics over a period of nearly three decades. His writings helped shift the perspective on the roots of Afrikaans beyond Dutch to the structure and vocabulary of Khoekhoe, to Portuguese Creole, and to Malay varieties. This… read more

[Creole Language Library, 44] 2012. vii, 458 pp.

The Transmission of Anglo-Norman: Language history and language acquisition

Richard P. Ingham

This investigation contributes to issues in the study of second language transmission by considering the well-documented historical case of Anglo-Norman. Within a few generations of the establishment of this variety, its phonology diverged sharply from that of continental French, yet core syntactic… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 9] 2012. xii, 179 pp.

Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An introduction. Second edition

Robert S.P. Beekes

This book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through Armenian and Albanian) and a… read more

[Not in series, 172] 2011. xxiv, 415 pp.

Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics

Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Makoto Minegishi and Wolfgang Viereck

Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony. They recognize that synchrony can be motivated regionally (diatopic variation), sociolinguistically (diastratic variation), or stylistically (diaphasic variation). But,… read more

[Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 3] 2011. vi, 293 pp.

Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas: With special reference to Africa

Edited by Osamu Hieda, Christa König and Hiroshi Nakagawa

Is Africa a linguistic area (Heine & Leyew 2008)? The present volume consists of sixteen papers highlighting the linguistic geography of Africa, covering, in particular, southern Africa with its Khoisan languages. A wide range of phenomena are discussed to give an overview of the pattern of social,… read more

[Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2] 2011. vi, 321 pp.

Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages

Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their… read more

[Not in series, 161] 2011. xviii, 421 pp.

Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations

Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden

The studies in Language Change in Contact Languages showcase the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understanding of phenomena such as relexification, transfer, reanalysis, grammaticalization, prosodic variation and the development of prosodic systems. Four of… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 36] 2011. v, 241 pp.

The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality

Edited by Michael A. Arbib and Derek Bickerton

Somewhere and somehow, in the 5 to 7 million years since the last common ancestors of humans and the great apes, our ancestors “got” language. The authors of this volume all agree that there was no single mutation or cultural innovation that took our ancestors directly from a limited system of a… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 24] 2010. xi, 181 pp.

English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008.. Volume I: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions

Edited by Ursula Lenker, Judith Huber and Robert Mailhammer

The fourteen studies selected for this volume – all of them peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics 2008 (23–30 August) at the University of Munich – investigate syntactic variation and change in the history of English from… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 314] 2010. vii, 281 pp.

Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research

Edited by An Van linden, Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Kristin Davidse

This collective volume focuses on the crucial role of formal evidence in recognizing and explaining instances of grammaticalization. It addresses the hitherto neglected issue of system-internal factors steering grammaticalization and also revisits formal recognition criteria such as Lehmann and… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 94] 2010. viii, 344 pp.

Grimm Language: Grammar, Gender and Genuineness in the Fairy Tales

Orrin W. Robinson

Grimm Language addresses a number of issues in the Grimms’ fairy tales from a (Germanic) linguist’s point of view. In sections dealing with the Grimms’ use of regional dialect material, various grammatical constructions, and specific nouns and adjectives in their Children’s and Household Tales, the… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 10] 2010. xi, 190 pp.

Becoming Eloquent: Advances in the emergence of language, human cognition, and modern cultures

Edited by Francesco d'Errico and Jean-Marie Hombert

Few topics of scientific enquiry have attracted more attention in the last decade than the origin and evolution of language. Few have offered an equivalent intellectual challenge for interdisciplinary collaborations between linguistics, cognitive science, prehistoric archaeology,… read more

[Not in series, 152] 2009. vi, 289 pp.

Contemporary Indian English: Variation and change

Andreas Sedlatschek

Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change offers the first comprehensive description of Indian English and its emerging regional standard in a corpus-linguistic framework. Drawing on a wealth of authentic spoken and written data from India (including the Kolhapur Corpus and the… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G38] 2009. xix, 363 pp.

Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals

Edited by John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts, Tomonori Matsushita and Hiroshi Hasegawa

For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals has as its general aim the investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages,… read more

[The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals, 1] 2009. v, 213 pp.

Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends

Edited by Rachel Selbach, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg

Is creolization an abrupt or a gradual process? In this volume leading scholars provide both comparative and case studies that outline their working definitions and their views on the particular or average time depth, or key processes necessary for contact language formation, providing a… read more

[Creole Language Library, 34] 2009. x, 392 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.

Grammatical Variation across Space and Time: The French interrogative system

Martin Elsig

Interrogative clauses in French show abundant variation, especially with regard to the position of the subject vis-à-vis the finite verb, the placement of the wh-word, and the use of question markers such as est-ce que and ti/tu. This book presents a comprehensive study of the evolution and use of… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 3] 2009. xvi, 282 pp.

Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007

Edited by Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis and Etleva Vocaj

For more than three decades, the International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) has been characterized by diversity, both in terms of the theoretical frameworks used by its researchers and the wide variety of languages that are analyzed. ICHL 18, which took place at the Université du… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 308] 2009. x, 311 pp.

An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary

Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.

This is the first text book to offer a comprehensive approach to Old Frisian. Part One begins with a succinct survey of the history of the Frisians during the Middle Ages, their society and literary culture. Next follow chapters on the phonology, morphology, word formation and syntax of Old Frisian. read more

[Not in series, 147] 2009. xii, 237 pp.

Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and cognitive perspectives

Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. González Álvarez

This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive analysis. The articles range across a broad gamut of languages, with most attention going to the languages of Europe. They show how advances in theory and computer technology are together impacting the… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 60] 2008. xxi, 333 pp.

English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English

Edited by Marina Dossena, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti

The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, lexis and semantics, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on geo-historical… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 297] 2008. xiii, 197 pp.

English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change

Edited by Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena

The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, and dialectology, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on semantics, pragmatics… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 296] 2008. xiii, 264 pp.

English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology

Edited by Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena and Richard Dury

The papers selected for this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). At that important event, alongside studies of phonology, lexis, semantics and dialectology (presented in two companion volumes in this series), many… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295] 2008. xiv, 259 pp.

From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics

Edited by Pieter Muysken

From linguistic areas to areal linguistics explores language description and typology in terms of areal background, presenting case studies in areal linguistics. Some concern well-established linguistic areas such as the Balkan, other regions such as East Nusantara (Indonesia) and the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 90] 2008. vii, 293 pp.

In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology. In honor of Harold Crane Fleming

Edited by John D. Bengtson

Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of… read more

[Not in series, 145] 2008. xxiv, 476 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.

Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change

Edited by Matti Miestamo, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson

Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume – a thematic selection of papers from the conference Approaches to Complexity in Language, held in Helsinki, August 2005 – is the first collection of articles devoted to the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 94] 2008. xiv, 356 pp.

Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages

Edited by K. David Harrison, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer

This volume represents part of an unprecedented and still growing effort to advance, coordinate and disseminate the scientific documentation of endangered languages. As the pace of language extinction increases, linguists and native communities are accelerating their efforts to speak, remember,… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 78] 2008. vi, 375 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.

Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction

Edited by Gisella Ferraresi and Maria Goldbach

This is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in the field of syntactic reconstruction. It treats a range of topics which are representative of current debates in historical syntax. The novelty and merit of the present book is, the editors believe, that, in contrast to most previous work on… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 302] 2008. xvii, 219 pp.

Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects

Edited by Bjarke Frellesvig and John Whitman

Proto-Japanese is the reconstructed language stage from which all later varieties of Japanese, including Ryukyuan, descend. It has been studied both as an end in itself (as the genetic code of the Japanese language) and as part of endeavors to clarify the genetic affiliation of Japanese. Based on… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 294] 2008. vii, 229 pp.

Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives

Edited by María José López-Couso and Elena Seoane

This volume and its companion one Theoretical and empirical issues in grammaticalization 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… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 76] 2008. x, 355 pp.

Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates

Edited by Susanne Maria Michaelis

This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual historical circumstances under which the pidgin and creole languages arose. The contributions deal with different areas of language… read more

[Creole Language Library, 33] 2008. xvii, 425 pp.

Connectives in the History of English

Edited by Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin

Clausal connection is one of the key building blocks of language and thus a field where a wide range of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and cognitive phenomena meet. The availability of large databases as well as considerable advances in corpus-linguistic methods have strengthened the interest in… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 283] 2007. viii, 318 pp.

Deconstructing Creole

Edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim

Deconstructing Creole is a collection of studies aimed at critically assessing the idea of creole languages as a homogeneous structural type with shared and peculiar patterns of genesis. Following up on the critical discussion of notions of ‘creole exceptionalism’ as historical and ideological… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 73] 2007. xii, 292 pp.

Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective

Edited by Paolo Ramat and Elisa Roma

This volume is a collection of 12 papers which originated from a research project on ‘Europe and the Mediterranean from a linguistic point of view: history and prospects’. The papers deal with specific morphosyntactic aspects of language structure and evolution. The comparative perspective is… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 88] 2007. xxvi, 364 pp.

Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005

Edited by Joseph C. Salmons and Shannon Dubenion-Smith

This volume contains 22 revised papers originally presented at the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held August 2005 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The papers cover a broad range of languages, including well-studied languages of Europe but also Aramaic, Zoque and Uto-Aztecan,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 284] 2007. viii, 413 pp.

Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages

Edited by Magnus Huber and Viveka Velupillai

This collection of selected conference papers from three SPCL meetings brings together a cross-fertilization of approaches to the study of contact languages. The articles are grouped into three coherent sections dealing with, respectively, phonetics and phonology, including Optimality Theory;… read more

[Creole Language Library, 32] 2007. xii, 370 pp.

Middle English Medical Texts

Compiled by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Martti Mäkinen

Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT) is an electronic corpus including 86 texts and 495,322 words from three traditions of medical writing (surgical treatises, specialized texts, and remedy books) from 1375 to 1500, and an appendix of recipes from c. 1330. MEMT provides a new research resource for… read more

[Not in series, 131] 2005. CD-ROM

Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method

Edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch

This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages ‘different’ in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can subgrouping be… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 249] 2004. xii, 377 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Claire Lefebvre

The content of this book is concerned with various issues at stake in Creole studies that are also of interest for general linguistics. These include the general issue of Creole genesis and of the accelerated linguistic change that characterizes the emergence of these languages as compared to… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 70] 2004. xvi, 358 pp.

Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics: In honor of William R. Schmalstieg

Edited by Philip Baldi and Pietro U. Dini

This collection of twenty-nine research papers is dedicated to the eminent Balticist, Slavicist and Indo-Europeanist, William R. Schmalstieg in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains contributions by specialists of mainly Baltic and Indo-European linguistics which are reflective… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 254] 2004. xlvi, 302 pp.

Creole Formation as Language Contact: The case of the Suriname Creoles

Bettina Migge

The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20 years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the processes and mechanisms that… read more

[Creole Language Library, 25] 2003. xii, 151 pp.

Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13–17 August 2001

Edited by Barry J. Blake and Kate Burridge

This is a selection of papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held in Melbourne 13-17 August 2001, hosted by the Linguistics Program at La Trobe University. The papers range from the general theoretical to the study of particular languages and embrace most areas of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 237] 2003. ix, 442 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.

Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An introduction

Robert S.P. Beekes

The book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, the first to appear in English. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through… read more

[Not in series, 72] 1995. xxii, 376 pp.

Alfred den Store, Danmarks geografi: En undersøgelse af fire afsnit i Den gamle engelske Orosius

Ove Jørgensen

I denne bog foretager forfatteren en undersøgelse af de fire afsnit i kong Alfreds The Old English Orosius, hvori gammelt dansk område beskrives.Efter en forskningsoversigt imødegås de forestillinger, som flere tidligere forskere har dannet sig om, at kong Alfred – navnlig i Skandinavien – har… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 1] 1985. x, 166 pp.

Handbook of Australian Languages: Volume 3

Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake

This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. The contributions to this volume are salvage studies, giving all the… read more

[Not in series, HAL 3] 1983. xxiv, 531 pp. + 5 maps

Handbook of Australian Languages: Volume 2

Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake

[Not in series, HAL 2] 1981. xxiv, 427pp. + 6 maps

Handbook of Australian Languages: 3 Volumes (set)

Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake

[Not in series, HAL S] 1979. V.1: 1979, xiv, 392pp. + 4 maps; V.2: 1981, xxiv, 427pp. + 6 maps; V.3: 1983, xxiv, 531 pp. + 5 maps

Handbook of Australian Languages: Volume 1

Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake

This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. In the introduction the editors discuss some of the recurrent features of… read more

[Not in series, HAL 1] 1979. xviii, 390 pp. 4 maps