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Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface

Edited by Marco Coniglio, Kalle Müller and Markus Steinbach

Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface offers a comprehensive investigation of two word classes that play a crucial role at the interfaces and have posed challenges for linguistic theory. Drawing on a broad typological range, including Germanic, Romance, Basque, and Heritage Greek,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 292] 2026. vi, 384 pp.

Grammar through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Javier Pérez-Guerra, Yolanda Fernández-Pena and Ana Elina Martínez-Insua

This book brings together cutting-edge research on grammatical variation and change in English, showcasing the state of the art in contemporary corpus linguistics. The studies apply corpus-based and variationist methods to a wide range of grammatical categories (nominal, adjectival, verbal,… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 128] 2026. vi, 281 pp. + index

Italo-Romance Morphosyntax: Theoretical and empirical issues

Edited by Francesco Maria Ciconte and Michela Cennamo

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 26:1 (2026) v, 220 pp.

A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions

Edited by Sune Gregersen and Kees Hengeveld

Habitual constructions, such as those based on English used to and Spanish soler, are linguistic expressions denoting situations that typically occur. This volume proposes a novel approach to such expressions, arguing that habituality is not a unified semantic category, but rather a family of… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 136] 2026. vii, 389 pp.

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

Abdelkader Fassi Fehri

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

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

New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang

Edited by Andrew Simpson

This book brings together some of the most prominent linguists working in the field of East and Southeast Asian syntax to create a special collection of papers which highlight new developments in the analysis of the syntax of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian languages. read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 290] 2026. viii, 489 pp.

Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology

Edited by Peter Herbeck and Natascha Pomino

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

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

Silent Instruments: Syntax, semantics, and acquisition of the instrumental role in Italian

Alice Suozzi

This book offers the first systematic investigation of the instrumental role across syntax, semantics, and language acquisition. Focusing primarily on Italian within a comparative perspective, the book addresses a long-standing puzzle: why Instruments can be syntactically omitted even when they… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 293] 2026. xiv, 217 pp.

Topicality and the Shaping of Grammar: New perspectives from lesser-studied languages

Edited by Enrique L. Palancar, Claudine Chamoreau and Anaïd Donabédian

This volume places topicality at the very heart of grammatical explanation, drawing on richly annotated discourse corpora from lesser-studied languages across the Americas and beyond. Through nine original studies, it demonstrates how aspects of discourse relevance (rather than just abstract… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 137] 2026. vii, 343 pp.

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

Brent de Chene

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

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

Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact

Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder

Over the last decade, Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. Indeed, constructional approaches, including Diasystematic Construction Grammar, not only offer a useful theoretical framework for empirical studies, but also provide a… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 40] 2025. viii, 325 pp.

Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell

Edited by María J. Arche, Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache and Hagit Borer

This volume presents a collection of state-of-the-art studies that illustrate recent advances in the understanding of human language, grammar design and linguistic categories. The title of the volume aims at highlighting the mark that the work of Tim Stowell has had on the field of Linguistics… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 288] 2025. xiii, 368 pp.

Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction

Edited by Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen and Søren Sandager Sørensen

Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction investigates the possibility of writing comprehensive grammars of languages based on analyses of interaction. The volume combines two traditions in language studies that have hitherto been separate: Interactional Linguistics,… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 37] 2025. vi, 440 pp.

The Grammar of Interaction: Epistemicity, information management and discourse in language use

Edited by Susana Rodríguez Rosique and Jordi M. Antolí Martínez

This volume deals with the relations between grammar and interaction from different perspectives, with the aim of unraveling the way in which a language — through the different forms of discourse from which it emerges — reflects certain social and community-based schemas; that is, how language… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 46] 2025. xix, 348 pp. | open access

Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units

Vassiliki Geka

This book weaves together constructions, imperatives, dialogicity, and discourse units. How can that be? This is precisely the question it sets out to answer by working at the crossroads of Construction Grammar (CxG), Corpus Linguistics (CL), and Interactional Linguistics (IL). Profiting from this… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 39] 2025. xxvi, 240 pp.

Morphology by Serial Optimization

Edited by Gereon Müller

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

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

Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective

Edited by Kiki Nikiforidou and Mirjam Fried

The volume is of direct interest to scholars, from senior academics to PhD students, interested in linguistically relevant phonetic and gestural information and in the relationship between multimodal communication and grammar. It contains important work in a relatively new, dynamic and exploratory… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 38] 2025. vi, 317 pp.

Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective

Edited by Pilar Barbosa and Cristina Flores

The volume Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective brings together theoretical and empirical contributions on missing object constructions, revealing a nuanced and multifaceted phenomenon that poses challenges to current theories of null objects. The selected papers… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 19] 2025. v, 206 pp.

The Progressive Revisited: Historical and Quantitative Studies in Germanic and Romance Languages

Edited by Alessandro Carlucci and Jerzy Nykiel

This volume consists of corpus-based analyses of progressive aspect constructions in Germanic and Romance. By adopting a variety of methodologies and theoretical frameworks, these studies provide valuable insights into the development, grammaticalization and use of various progressive structures… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 236] 2025. xi, 356 pp.

The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky

Edited by Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins

What is the extent to which various grammatical levels – from features through subjecthood through cleft layers – reuse and reemploy certain structure-building operations? In this volume, organized in terms of successively expanding domains, leading contributors report research into the complex… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 20] 2025. xv, 577 pp. | open access

Competition in Word-Formation

Edited by Alexandra Bagasheva, Akiko Nagano and Vincent Renner

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

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

Elementary Predicates and Related Categories

Ludovico Franco

This book offers a fresh perspective on how natural languages encode grammatical relations, by delving into the interplay between oblique cases, adpositions, serial verbs, and applicatives. This book reveals, through a series of case studies, the pervasive role of the 'inclusion' relator across… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 285] 2024. ix, 217 pp.

Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis

Andrew Goatly

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

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

Methods for Studying Variation in Partitives

Edited by Petra Sleeman and Anne Tamm

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 24:2 (2024) v, 207 pp.

Predication in African Languages

Edited by James Essegbey and Enoch O. Aboh

This book discusses patterns of predication and their grammatical and semantic implications in a variety of African languages. It covers several prominent topics about predication in the languages, including locative predication, expressions of tense, aspect, and mood in relation to verbal… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 235] 2024. xi, 344 pp.

Quo Vadis, Construction Grammar?

Edited by Hans C. Boas, Jaakko Leino and Benjamin Lyngfelt

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 16:2 (2024) v, 177 pp.

Recent Advances in Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology

Edited by Johanna Monti, Gloria Corpas Pastor, Ruslan Mitkov and Carlos Manuel Hidalgo-Ternero

The investigation of phraseology through corpus-based and computational approaches holds significant relevance for various professionals, including translators, interpreters, terminologists, lexicographers, language instructors, and learners. Computational Phraseology, and in particular the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 366] 2024. ix, 264 pp.

Revisiting Modality: A corpus-based study of epistemic adverbs in Galician

Vítor Míguez

This book presents the first in-depth investigation of modality in Galician linguistics, offering a theoretical discussion of modal categories and a fine-grained description of epistemic adverbs. The first half of the monograph deconstructs the most relevant approaches to modal categories and shows… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 40] 2024. xvii, 234 pp.

The Unity of Movement: Evidence from verb movement in Cantonese

Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee

Displacement (of linguistic expressions) is a ubiquitous phenomenon in natural language. In the generative tradition, displacement is modelled in terms of transformation, or more precisely, movement, which establishes dependencies among syntactic constituents in a phrase structure. This book probes… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 283] 2024. xxii, 214 pp.

Wh-island Effects in Chinese: A formal experimental study

Xu Chen

This book examines three controversial generalizations concerning wh-island effects in Chinese: argument and adjunct asymmetry, subject and object asymmetry, and D-linked and non-D-linked asymmetry. Experiments under the factorial definition of island effects reveal that: (1) both argument and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 282] 2024. xix, 173 pp.

Auxiliary Selection in Italo-Romance: A Nested-Agree approach

Irene Amato

This book proposes a new solution to the long-standing puzzle of auxiliary selection in Romance languages, in particular Italian. The following questions are addressed: why the perfect auxiliary appears in the two forms be and have within a single language, what drives this distribution, and how… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 281] 2023. xvi, 264 pp.

A Constructional Account of Verb-Forming Suffixation

Jacqueline Laws

The range of meanings expressed by derivatives formed by the attachment of the four principal verb-forming suffixes - ate, - en, - ify and - ize has been the subject of extensive analysis for over two decades. From a descriptive perspective, the research reported in this volume constitutes the most… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 36] 2023. xxiv, 393 pp.

Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages

Edited by Evie Coussé, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt and Julia Prentice

This volume presents eight studies of linguistic phenomena in Nordic languages (notably Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) from a construction grammar perspective. The contributions both deepen and widen the focus of construction grammar applied to Nordic languages by dealing with a variety of topics,… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 37] 2023. v, 278 pp.

Constructions in Spanish

Edited by Inga Hennecke and Evelyn Wiesinger

Constructions in Spanish is the first book-length English-language volume in the field of usage-based and Cognitive Construction Grammar dedicated exclusively to Spanish. The contributions investigate a wide range of constructions from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective, cutting across… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 34] 2023. vi, 409 pp.

Differential Object Marking in Romance: Towards microvariation

Edited by Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Alexandru Mardale

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

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

Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective

Edited by Alessandra Barotto and Simone Mattiola

This book aims at investigating discourse phenomena (i.e., linguistic elements and constructions that help to manage the organization, flow, and outcome of communication) from a typological and cross-linguistic perspective. Although it is a well-established idea in functional-typological approaches… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 227] 2023. vi, 439 pp.

The Ditransitive Alternation in Present-Day German: A corpus-based analysis

Hilde De Vaere

The ditransitive (or “dative”) alternation is a much-studied phenomenon in contemporary linguistics. This monograph is the first to address the alternation in present-day written German from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. As well as providing a corpus-based analysis of extensively… read more

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 6] 2023. xviii, 333 pp.

Ditransitives in Germanic Languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects

Edited by Eva Zehentner, Melanie Röthlisberger and Timothy Colleman

This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past and present. Specifically, the volume includes contributions on a wide variety of Germanic languages, including English, Dutch, and German, but also Danish, Swedish,… read more

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 7] 2023. vi, 446 pp. | open access

English Complex Words: Exercises in construction and translation

Piotr Twardzisz

English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages. It offers today’s broadest available coverage of English prefixation, suffixation and compounding. Comprising a treasury of real language… read more

[Not in series, 242] 2023. xi, 392 pp.

Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions

Edited by Laure Sarda and Ludovica Lena

This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas. It addresses (i) a variety of constructions related to ‘prototypical’ existentials (including the have-possessive… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 76] 2023. x, 352 pp.

Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches

Edited by Kristin Kopf and Thilo Weber

Recent years have seen a growing interest in grammatical variation, a core explanandum of grammatical theory. The present volume explores questions that are fundamental to this line of research: First, the question of whether variation can always and completely be explained by intra- or… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 234] 2023. vi, 352 pp. | open access

General Phraseology: Theory and Practice

Igor Mel’čuk

This book presents a 100% novel approach to phraseology: A language-universal deductive calculus of all theoretically possible phraseological expressions (= phrasemes) is proposed, implemented in 51 rigorously defined notions. Nine major classes of phrasemes are established and illustrated: lexemic… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 36] 2023. xiv, 281 pp.

Granularity in the Verbalization of Events and Objects: A cross-linguistic study

Katerina Stathi

The study departs from the observation that in expressing ideas, some languages encode more details than others. It investigates whether languages encode events and/or objects at a coarse-grained (e.g., put, glass) as opposed to a fine-grained (e.g., lay, wine glass) level systematically. The level… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 233] 2023. xviii, 536 pp.

Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution: Language and cognitive effects

Edited by Georgia Fotiadou and Ianthi Maria Tsimpli

Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution: Language and cognitive effects explores anaphora resolution from different perspectives, and investigates various aspects of the phenomenon, as contributions include research protocols that combine old and new experimental methodologies as well as… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 18] 2023. vi, 246 pp.

Issues in Diachronic Construction Morphology

Edited by Muriel Norde and Graeme Trousdale

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 15:2 (2023) v, 152 pp.

Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses: Synchronic and Diachronic Insights

Edited by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Constanze Fleczoreck

This collection presents novel insights into the micro- and macro-variation of causal clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic setting the scene and nine chapters based on data from Dutch, German, English, Icelandic, Chinese, and Japanese. Topics… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 231] 2023. vii, 353 pp.

New Englishes, New Methods

Edited by Guyanne Wilson and Michael Westphal

There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions in this volume critically explore the gamut of familiar and unfamiliar methods applied in data collection and analysis in order to… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G68] 2023. viii, 276 pp.

Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania: Functional and diachronic perspectives

Edited by Marc Allassonnière-Tang and Marcin Kilarski

Linguists have long been interested in systems of nominal classification due to their diverse functions as well as cognitive and cultural correlates. Among others, ongoing research has focused on semantic, functional and morphosyntactic properties of complex systems such as co-occurring gender and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 362] 2023. x, 251 pp.

Partitives cross-linguistically: Dimensions of variation

Edited by Silvia Luraghi and Petra Sleeman

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 23:1 (2023) v, 243 pp.

Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse

Edited by Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden

This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse’s work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars. Reflecting this wide functionalist lens, the contributions develop ideas central to Neo-Firthian theories of grammar (in particular,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 230] 2023. vii, 305 pp.

Responding to Polar Questions across Languages and Contexts

Edited by Galina B. Bolden, John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen

This book is about one of the most fundamental action sequences found across human societies and socio-cultural contexts: polar questions and their responses. Question–answer sequences are among the most basic building blocks for sequences of action in interaction and are ubiquitous among the… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 35] 2023. vii, 383 pp.

Structural Priming in the Grammatical Network

Tobias Ungerer

This book brings together research in cognitive linguistics and experimental psychology to construct a psychologically plausible account of grammar as a mental network. To explore the organisation of this network, the author examines evidence from structural priming, which occurs when speakers’… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 35] 2023. xiii, 236 pp.

Theme in English and German: A corpus-based contrastive analysis of clause openings in original and translated texts

Jonas Freiwald

This book represents a detailed discussion and corpus analysis of Theme in English and German originals and translations. The empirical results are based on thousands of clauses from four different registers, cover a variety of linguistic aspects including multiple Themes, marked Themes,… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 112] 2023. xiii, 297 pp.

Verb and Context: The impact of shared knowledge on TAME categories

Edited by Susana Rodríguez Rosique and Jordi M. Antolí Martínez

This volume approaches the interaction of evidentiality with some other related categories, such as modality and mirativity, from an innovative angle: its connection to informational configuration. The aim of this book is to analyze the impact of shared knowledge on TAME categories as well as to… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 34] 2023. xviii, 398 pp.

A⁰ – The Lexical Status of Adjectives

Edited by Phoevos Panagiotidis and Moreno Mitrović

This volume brings together seven eminently original attempts to answer a sorely neglected question: What are adjectives? Although the positioning of adjectives as well as aspects of their semantics have been investigated in depth, their actual status as a lexical category has generally been… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 17] 2022. v, 295 pp.

Analogy and Contrast in Language: Perspectives from Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Karolina Krawczak, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Marcin Grygiel

Within cognitive and functional approaches to language structure and grammaticality, analogy and contrast represent two fundamental human cognitive capacities, which, up to now, have mostly been examined separately. This volume seeks to bridge that gap and in doing so it brings together… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 73] 2022. xi, 442 pp.

Arabic Dislocation

Ali A. Alzayid

Since the early years of generative grammar (Chomsky 1977, inter alia), the phenomenology of dislocation has proved to be a fertile area of research. This, however, has not been the case for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and hence this thorough monograph intends to fill this lacuna. Three aspects… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 271] 2022. xii, 240 pp.

Cantonese GIVE and Double-Object Construction: Grammaticalization and word order change

Andy Chi-on Chin

GIVE is a versatile morpheme in many languages. While there have been extensive studies on the interplay between the syntax and semantics of GIVE in many languages, not much has been done in a similar manner on Cantonese, a member of the Yue dialect group of the Chinese language family. This… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 15] 2022. xiv, 266 pp.

Construction Grammar across Borders

Edited by Tiago Timponi Torrent, Ely Edison da Silva Matos and Natália Sathler Sigiliano

Since its foundation in the 1980's, Construction Grammar has been crossing the traditionally imposed borders. From superimposed levels of analysis to the lexicon-grammar continuum, the constructionist approach to language has been built by, quoting Charles Fillmore, "the insistence on seeing… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 122] 2022. v, 174 pp.

Discourse Particles: Syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and historical aspects

Edited by Xabier Artiagoitia, Arantzazu Elordieta and Sergio Monforte

Discourse particles have often been treated as a phenomenon restricted to Germanic languages (Abraham 2020) and they still raise questions about their nature as an independent category. This book reveals that this phenomenon exists in other languages as well, and provides evidence for their nature… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 276] 2022. vi, 258 pp.

English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current issues

Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Evelien Keizer

Despite a significant increase in interest over the last two decades in the English Noun Phrase, there are still many open questions and unexplored issues. The papers collected in this volume contribute to this ongoing research by addressing a range of topics concerning the internal structure, use… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 221] 2022. vii, 433 pp.

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

Edited by Matthias Eitelmann and Dagmar Haumann

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

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

Figurative Thought and Language in Action

Edited by Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar Szabó

The contents of the volume prove the vitality of cognitive linguistic studies of figuration when combined with new research methodologies, in tandem with other disciplines, and also when applied to an ever broader range of topics. Individual chapters are concerned not only with some fundamental… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 16] 2022. vi, 287 pp.

From Pseudo-relatives to Causative Constructions: Scandinavian languages as a case study

Mara Frascarelli and Giorgia Di Lorenzo

This volume proposes a novel structural analysis for causative constructions, offering a solution for the long-standing mono/bi-clausal dualism. Causatives are claimed to instantiate a ‘complex object’ construction, insofar as the causee is not only the subject of the lexical verb, but also a… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 278] 2022. vii, 133 pp.

Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description: Deixis, asymmetries, constructions

Edited by Laure Sarda and Benjamin Fagard

The idea of this book on "Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description" comes from the observation that, over the last 30 years, much attention has been devoted to the manner/path divide in relation to the distinction between Verb-Framed and Satellite-Framed languages. This mainstream focus has… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 72] 2022. vii, 279 pp.

Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions

Edited by Giuliana Giusti, Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro and Daniel Ross

Verbal Pseudo-Coordination (as in English ‘go and get’) has been described for a number of individual languages, but this is the first edited volume to emphasize this topic from a comparative perspective, and in connection to Multiple Agreement Constructions more generally. The chapters include… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 274] 2022. vii, 342 pp.

Variation and Grammaticalization of Verbal Constructions

Edited by Dániel Czicza and Gabriele Diewald

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 14:1 (2022) v, 223 pp.

Wh-In Situ Licensing in Questions and Sluicing

Jun Abe

This book addresses the question of how in-situ wh-phrases are licensed from a minimalist perspective in which the basic assumptions about narrow syntax need to be reduced to the bare minimum. I propose that in-situ wh-phrases are licensed by way of either minimal Search or covert internal Merge:… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 277] 2022. viii, 204 pp.

When Data Challenges Theory: Unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure

Edited by Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob

This volume offers a critical appraisal of the tension between theory and empirical evidence in research on information structure. The relevance of ‘unexpected’ data taken into account in the last decades, such as the well-known case of non-focalizing cleft sentences in Germanic and Romance, has… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 273] 2022. vi, 307 pp.

All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces

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

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

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

Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions

Edited by Katarzyna Janic and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the morpho-syntactic and semantic aspects of the antipassive construction from synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. The nineteen contributions assembled in this volume address a wide range of aspects pertinent to the antipassive… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 130] 2021. vii, 645 pp.

Conjunctive Markers of Contrast in English and French: From syntax to lexis and discourse

Maïté Dupont

Situated at the interface between corpus linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, this volume focuses on conjunctive markers expressing contrast in English and French. The frequency and placement patterns of the markers are analysed using large corpora of texts from two written registers:… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 99] 2021. xvii, 436 pp.

Constructional Approach(es) to Discourse-Level Phenomena: Theoretical challenges and empirical advances

Edited by Renata Enghels and María Sol Sansiñena

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 13:1 (2021) v, 191 pp.

Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition

Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder

The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact. This volume builds on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the volume Constructions in Contact (2018) and extends its methodology and… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 30] 2021. vii, 437 pp.

Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes: A constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning

Samantha Laporte

This book takes an integrated approach to the fields of Corpus Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and World Englishes through a thorough constructional and corpus-based examination of the patterning of the versatile high-frequency verb make in British English and New Englishes. It contributes to… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 100] 2021. xxii, 395 pp.

Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective

Edited by Fuzhen Si and Luigi Rizzi

This book illustrates recent developments in cartographic studies, seen from a comparative perspective. The different chapters explore various aspects of theoretical and descriptive syntax, bearing on such topics as selection, causativity, binding, light verb constructions, the structure of the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 267] 2021. vi, 328 pp.

East and West of The Pentacrest: Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky

Edited by Timothy Gupton and Elizabeth Gielau

This book is a collection of contemporary essays and squibs exploring the mental representation of Spanish and other languages in the Romance family. Although largely formal in orientation, they incorporate experimental and corpus data to inform questions of synchronic and diachronic importance. As… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 33] 2021. viii, 217 pp. | open access

Give Constructions across Languages

Edited by Myriam Bouveret

This cognitive contrastive study of ten languages (Chinese, Dalabon, English, French, Spanish, Romanian, Kurdish, Khmer, Polish, Tibetan) focuses on the concept of giving from six main points of view, namely argument structure, lexical semantics and event structure, role marking in the three… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 29] 2021. viii, 246 pp.

Into adpositions: New formal perspectives on the structure of the PP and its variation

Edited by Víctor Acedo-Matellán, Theresa Biberauer, Jaume Mateu and Anna Pineda

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 21:1 (2021) v, 279 pp.

Japanese Mood and Modality in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and Application

Edited by Ken-Ichi Kadooka

This book is a cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary exploration of modality within systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Drawing upon the broad SFL notion of modality that refers to the intermediate degrees between the positive and negative poles, the individual papers probe into the modality… read more

[Not in series, 234] 2021. v, 179 pp.

Lexicalising Clausal Syntax: The interaction of syntax, the lexicon and information structure in Hungarian

Tibor Laczkó

The book presents a new perspective on clausal syntax and its interactions with lexical and discourse function information by analysing Hungarian sentences. It also demonstrates ways in which grammar engineering implementations can provide insights into how complex linguistic processes interact. It… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 354] 2021. xiii, 353 pp.

Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology

Edited by Luca Alfieri, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat

Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 132] 2021. vi, 424 pp.

Lost in Change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions

Edited by Svenja Kranich and Tine Breban

While research on language change has formulated robust empirical generalisations about processes and motivations underlying the emergence and spread of linguistic elements, their decline and loss is less well understood. So far a systematic investigation into the processes and motivations of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 218] 2021. vi, 366 pp.

Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar

Edited by Martin Hilpert, Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere

This volume explores how Diachronic Construction Grammar can shed new light on changes in a central and well-researched domain of grammar, namely modality. Its main goal is to show how constructional analyses can help us address some of the long-standing questions that have informed discussions of… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 32] 2021. v, 251 pp.

Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective

Edited by Anne Mucha, Jutta M. Hartmann and Beata Trawiński

Control, typically defined as a specific referential dependency between the null-subject of a non-finite embedded clause and a co-dependent of the matrix predicate, has been subject to extensive research in the last 50 years. While there is a broad consensus that a distinction between Obligatory… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 270] 2021. v, 290 pp. | open access

The Perfect Volume: Papers on the perfect

Edited by Kristin Melum Eide and Marc Fryd

Drawing on the data and history from a wide range of languages, from Atayal to Zapotec, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field of tense and aspect research resulting in 18 contributions on the perfect and some of its close relatives (e.g. iamitives). Different approaches… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 217] 2021. vii, 485 pp.

Romance Interrogative Syntax: Formal and typological dimensions of variation

Caterina Bonan

This monograph offers an innovative understanding of the mechanisms involved in Romance ‘optional’ wh-in situ. New supporting evidence in favour of Cable’s (2010) Grammar of Q is presented, as well as novel implementations of his original theory. In particular, it is claimed that wh-in situ idioms… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 266] 2021. xiv, 252 pp.

Studies at the Grammar-Discourse Interface: Discourse markers and discourse-related grammatical phenomena

Edited by Alexander Haselow and Sylvie Hancil

This book investigates phenomena at the grammar–discourse interface with a strong focus on discourse markers, whose development and concrete uses in a given language tend to be based on a close interplay of grammatical and discourse-related forces. The topics range from the transition of linguistic… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 219] 2021. vi, 354 pp.

Syntactic Geolectal Variation: Traditional approaches, current challenges and new tools

Edited by Alba Cerrudo, Ángel J. Gallego and Francesc Roca Urgell

This volume brings together studies that combine both traditional and contemporary tools in the study of syntactic geolectal variation, with a special focus on a subset of Iberian varieties. There is an increasing body of research on syntactic micro-variation, but the interaction between… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 34] 2021. vi, 385 pp.

The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement

Johannes Mursell

In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics or foci clause-initial position. Here, the author looks at a… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 268] 2021. xii, 280 pp.

A Theory of Distributed Number

Myriam Dali and Eric Mathieu

The objective of this book is to develop a deeper understanding of the form and interpretation of number. Using insights from Generative syntax and Distributed Morphology, we develop a theory of distributed number, arguing that number can be associated with several functional heads and that these… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 269] 2021. xi, 153 pp.

Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units

Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki

The chapters in this volume focus on how we might understand the concept of ‘unit’ in human languages. It is an analytical notion that has been widely adopted by linguists of various theoretical and applied orientations but has recently been critically examined by both typologically oriented and… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 114] 2021. v, 204 pp.

Beyond Emotions in Language: Psychological verbs at the interfaces

Edited by Bożena Rozwadowska and Anna Bondaruk

This book sheds new light on the puzzle of psychological predicates in a cross-linguistic perspective by looking at them from a variety of angles at the interfaces between event structure, lexical and viewpoint aspect, syntax and information structure. The individual chapters focus on Polish and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 263] 2020. xiii, 325 pp.

Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage

Edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk

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

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

Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics: 20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais

Edited by Roberta Pires De Oliveira, Ina Emmel and Sandra Quarezemin

This book opens with Angelika Kratzer and Luigi Rizzi talking about contemporary issues, such as non-recursiveness of focus and the semantics of topics. The chapters climb down the spine from the left periphery to DP: the value of subjunctive across the history of German, expressive expressions in… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 260] 2020. ix, 216 pp.

Chapters of Dependency Grammar: A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière

Edited by András Imrényi and Nicolas Mazziotta

Was Tesnière the founding father of dependency grammar or merely a culmination point in its long history? Leaving no doubt that the latter position is correct, Chapters of Dependency Grammar tells the story of how dependency-oriented grammatical description developed from Antiquity up to the early… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 212] 2020. v, 281 pp.

Computational Phraseology

Edited by Gloria Corpas Pastor and Jean-Pierre Colson

Whether you wish to deliver on a promise, take a walk down memory lane or even on the wild side, phraseological units (also often referred to as phrasemes or multiword expressions) are present in most communicative situations and in all world’s languages. Phraseology, the study of phraseological… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 24] 2020. xi, 327 pp.

Construction Grammar across Borders

Edited by Tiago Timponi Torrent, Ely Edison da Silva Matos and Natália Sathler Sigiliano

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 12:1 (2020) v, 169 pp.

Emergent Syntax for Conversation: Clausal patterns and the organization of action

Edited by Yael Maschler, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Jan Lindström and Leelo Keevallik

This volume explores how emergent patterns of complex syntax – that is, syntactic structures beyond a simple clause – relate to the local contingencies of action formation in social interaction. It examines both the on-line emergence of clause-combining patterns as they are ‘patched together’ on… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 32] 2020. vi, 343 pp.

English Resultatives: A force-recipient account

Seizi Iwata

The objective of this book is to develop a force-recipient account of English resultatives. Within this approach the post-verbal NP is a recipient of a verbal force, whether it is a subcategorized object or not, and the verbal force being exerted onto the post-verbal NP is responsible for bringing… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 26] 2020. xx, 549 pp.

Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft verbs in English and German

Ryan Dux

While verb classes are a mainstay of linguistic research, the field lacks consensus on precisely what constitutes a verb class. This book presents a novel approach to verb classes, employing a bottom-up, corpus-based methodology and combining key insights from Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar,… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 28] 2020. x, 320 pp.

Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles

Edited by Pierre-Yves Modicom and Olivier Duplâtre

The articles collected in this volume offer new perspectives into the relevance of notions such as topic, antitopic, contrastive topic, focus, verum focus and theticity for the analysis of the syntax and semantics of modal particles, sentence-final particles and other medial, sentential and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 213] 2020. vi, 304 pp.

Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science

Edited by Friederike Moltmann

The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns that is generally taken to have semantic content. This content is generally taken to reflect a conceptual, cognitive, or ontological distinction and relates to philosophical and cognitive notions of unity, identity, and… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 16] 2020. v, 227 pp.

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

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

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

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

The NP-strategy for Expressing Reciprocity: Typology, history, syntax and semantics

Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the syntax and semantics of a single linguistic phenomenon – the NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity – in synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. It challenges the assumption common in the typological, syntactic, and semantic… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 127] 2020. xv, 291 pp.

Norwegian Verb Particles

Leiv Inge Aa

This book aims to explain the syntax and semantics of Norwegian verb particles. While particles have been claimed to be distributed optionally to the left (as LPrt) or right (as RPrt) of an associated DP in the linguistic literature, the dialectologically oriented literature has shown for a long… read more

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 4] 2020. ix, 184 pp.

Past Participle Agreement: A study on the grammaticalization of formal features

Jorge Vega Vilanova

In this book, the traditional definition of ‘grammaticalization’ is challenged in the light of current developments in grammar theory. The main innovation of this approach is the focus on the feature composition of lexical items. From this perspective, the loss of past participle agreement in… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 265] 2020. xix, 236 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXII: Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tempe, Arizona, 2018

Edited by Elly van Gelderen

This volume presents a collection of seven peer-reviewed articles on Arabic phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and applied linguistics. The authors address stress assignment, the phenomenon of 'imāla, the place of articulation of the dorsal fricative, the structure of correlatives, the CP… read more

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 9] 2020. v, 174 pp.

Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, co-text, and context

Edited by Pascal Hohaus and Rainer Schulze

Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions – Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessity and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 216] 2020. vi, 344 pp.

Right Peripheral Fragments: Right dislocation and related phenomena in Romance

Javier Fernández-Sánchez

In recent years, a number of authors (De Vries 2009, Truckenbrodt 2015, Ott and de Vries 2016, inter alia) have defended that right dislocations (RD) should be treated as bisentential structures, where the “dislocated” constituent is actually a remnant of a clausal ellipsis operation licensed under… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 258] 2020. ix, 214 pp.

Silently Structured Silent Argument

Yuta Sakamoto

Theoretical linguistics in the generative tradition has payed much attention to issues related to silence ? children know the syntax of silence despite the fact that they do not have direct access to it throughout their language acquisition process. One of the issues that have been hotly discussed… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 259] 2020. xiii, 266 pp.

Stative Inquiries: Causes, results, experiences, and locations

Alfredo García-Pardo

This monograph studies stative predicates from a neo-constructionist perspective and integrates them in a comprehensive theory of event and argument structure. It focuses on two sets of stative verbs: govern-type verbs and object experiencer psychological verbs. For govern-verbs, it shows how… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 264] 2020. xiv, 258 pp.

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

Daniel J. Wilson

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

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

Thetics and Categoricals

Edited by Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa

Thetics and Categoricals do not belong to the categories of German grammar. Thetics were introduced in logic as impersonal and broad focus constructions. They left profound and extensive traces in the logic of the late 19th century. For the class of thetic propositions, the criterion of textual… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 262] 2020. vii, 390 pp.

Variation in phonology

Edited by Péter Szigetvári

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 20:1 (2020) v, 171 pp.

A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories

Edited by Suzi Oliveira de Lima and Susan Rothstein

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 20:2 (2020) vi, 247 pp.

The ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages: An emergent unit in interaction

Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson

The ‘NP’ is one of the least controversial grammatical units that linguists work with. The NP is often assumed to be universal, and appears to be robust cross-linguistically (compared to ‘VP’ or even ‘clause’) in that it can be manipulated in argument positions in constructed examples. Furthermore,… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 128] 2020. vi, 366 pp.

Argument Selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations

Edited by Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Balthasar Bickel

Capitalizing on the by now widely accepted idea of the construction-specific and language-specific nature of grammatical relations, the editors of the volume developed a modern framework for systematically capturing all sorts of variations in grammatical relations. The central concepts of this… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 123] 2019. vi, 536 pp.

Case Studies in Fluid Construction Grammar: The verb phrase

Edited by Luc Steels and Katrien Beuls

Construction grammar enjoys great popularity among empirical linguists, typologists, psycholinguists, and language educators, because it puts meaning and function of language at the forefront of linguistic analysis. This book shows that construction grammar gives us also a powerful new way to… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 106] 2019. v, 150 pp.

Causation and Reasoning Constructions

Masaru Kanetani

Causation and reasoning are different but related types of relationships. Both causal relations and reasoning processes may be expressed with one and the same connective word in some languages: English speakers use because and Japanese speakers use kara. How then are causation and reasoning… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 25] 2019. xi, 196 pp.

Columbia School Linguistics in the 21st Century

Edited by Nancy Stern, Ricardo Otheguy, Wallis Reid and Jaseleen Sackler

This collection is the fifth volume of selected papers to emerge from Columbia School (CS) linguistics conferences. A radically functionalist approach, CS shares with Cognitive linguistics the view that grammar is composed of form-meaning correspondences. CS views language as a symbolic tool whose… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 77] 2019. vii, 311 pp.

A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian

Gertjan Postma

Pomeranian is the West Germanic language spoken by European emigrants who went from Farther Pomerania (present-day Poland) to Brazil in the period 1857–1887. This language is no longer spoken in cohesive societies in Europe, but the language has survived and is in remarkably good shape on this… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 248] 2019. xxxi, 312 pp.

A Criterial Approach to the Cartography of V2

Giuseppe Samo

This volume provides a mechanism to uncover the extremely rich split-CP of V2 languages, in both root and embedded clauses, on the basis of theoretical arguments and empirical findings. The movement of the inflected verbal head is triggered to agree with the profiled informational value of the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 257] 2019. xi, 215 pp.

A Dependency Grammar of English: An introduction and beyond

Timothy Osborne

Dependency grammar (DG) is an approach to the syntax of natural languages with a long and venerable tradition, yet awareness of its potential to serve as a basis for principled analyses of natural language syntax is minimal due to the predominance of phrase structure grammar (PSG). This book… read more

[Not in series, 224] 2019. ix, 447 pp.

Diachrony of Personal Pronouns in Japanese: A functional and cross-linguistic perspective

Osamu Ishiyama

Personal pronouns in Japanese form a heterogeneous category. This book investigates their historical development from a functional perspective. It shows that while nouns give rise to personal pronouns through semanticization of pragmatic inferences, the use of non-nominal forms such as… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 344] 2019. ix, 173 pp.

Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity

Edited by Albert Álvarez González, Zarina Estrada-Fernández and Claudine Chamoreau

This volume surveys the phenomenon of syntactic complexity in a diversity of languages and from a diversity of theoretical perspectives. The topics include clause combining strategies such as relative, complement, and adverbial clauses, serialization, clausal nominalizations, but also the switch… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 126] 2019. vi, 257 pp.

Interfaces in Grammar

Edited by Jianhua Hu and Haihua Pan

This volume is an important contribution to the theoretical and empirical study of the interactions of grammatical components in Chinese and other languages. With contributions by Edward L. Keenan, Henk van Riemsdijk, Alain Rouveret, and scholars in Chinese Linguistics, this volume investigates the… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 15] 2019. vi, 371 pp.

Morphological Variation: Theoretical and empirical perspectives

Edited by Antje Dammel and Oliver Schallert

Morphological variation is a rather young, yet fascinating topic to study in its own right because it offers challenging evidence both for the autonomy of morphology (morphomic processes) as well as for its tight interconnection with other grammatical domains, notably phonology and syntax. Covering… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 207] 2019. v, 345 pp.

Noun Phrases in Article-less Languages: Uzbek and beyond

Lola Türker

This book is a theoretically oriented, comparative study of noun phrases and their semantic and morpho-syntactic properties. This is the first study that provides a comprehensive analysis of the nominal structure in Uzbek, and compares it with corresponding structures in other article and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 253] 2019. xiv, 182 pp.

On the Role of Pragmatics in Construction Grammar

Edited by Rita Finkbeiner

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 11:2 (2019) v, 163 pp.

Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia

Edited by Lars Johanson, Lidia Federica Mazzitelli and Irina Nevskaya

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

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

Semantic Plurality: English collective nouns and other ways of denoting pluralities of entities

Laure Gardelle

This monograph proposes a comparative approach to all the ways of denoting ‘more than one’ entity, from collective and aggregate nouns (with the first-ever typology), to count plurals, partly substantivised adjectives and conjoined NPs. This semantic feature approach to plurality, which cuts across… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 349] 2019. x, 215 pp.

Typology of Pluractional Constructions in the Languages of the World

Simone Mattiola

The aim of this book is to give the first large-scale typological investigation of pluractionality in the languages of the world. Pluractionality is defined as the morphological modification of the verb to express a plurality of situations that can additionally involve a plurality of participants… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 125] 2019. xxiv, 237 pp.

A micro-perspective on Verb Second in Romance and Germanic

Edited by Christine Meklenborg Salvesen

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 19:1 (2019) v, 198 pp.

Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology

Edited by Ana M. Piquer-Píriz and Rafael Alejo-González

In recent years, Cognitive Linguistics (CL) has established itself not only as a solid theoretical approach but also as an important source from which different applications to other fields have emerged. In this volume we identify some of the current, most relevant topics in applied CL-oriented… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 99] 2018. vi, 230 pp.

Aspectuality across Languages: Event construal in speech and gesture

Edited by Alan Cienki and Olga K. Iriskhanova

The book provides a nuanced, multimodal perspective on how people express events via certain grammatical forms of verbs in speech and certain qualities of movement in manual gestures. The volume is the outcome of an international project that involved three teams: one each from France, Germany, and… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 62] 2018. xviii, 221 pp.

Asymmetries, Mismatches and Construction Grammar

Edited by Nikos Koutsoukos, Kristel Van Goethem and Hendrik De Smet

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 10:2 (2018) v, 183 pp.

Between Turn and Sequence: Turn-initial particles across languages

Edited by John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen

The last two decades have witnessed a remarkable growth of interest in what are variously termed discourse markers or discourse particles. The greatest area of growth has centered on particles that occur in sentence-initial or turn-initial position, and this interest intersects with a long-standing… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 31] 2018. vii, 487 pp.

Category Change from a Constructional Perspective

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

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

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

Changing Structures: Studies in constructions and complementation

Edited by Mark Kaunisto, Mikko Höglund and Paul Rickman

This book is a collection of eleven research articles which altogether serve as a contribution to the study of verb complementation and other constructions, an area of investigation which bridges observations on the spectrum of lexico-grammar, syntax, and semantics. In terms of methodological… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 195] 2018. vii, 236 pp.

Conceptual Semantics: A micro-modular approach

Urpo Nikanne

In this book, the micro-modular approach known as Tiernet within Conceptual Semantics is introduced. Constructions make up an important part in the approach, but in this approach constructions are considered to be exceptions, licensed links between micro-modules, one of the kinds of symbolic… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 23] 2018. xvi, 281 pp.

Egophoricity

Edited by Simeon Floyd, Elisabeth Norcliffe and Lila San Roque

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

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

Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee

Edited by K. Aaron Smith and Dawn Nordquist

The contributions to this volume honor Joan Bybee’s 2005 LSA Presidential address “Grammar is Usage and Usage is Grammar,” as a cumulative articulation of Professor Bybee's long and influential career in linguistics. The volume begins with a functional examination of child language acquisition of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 192] 2018. xxvi, 250 pp.

Germanic Genitives

Edited by Tanja Ackermann, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer

The papers in this volume focus on the dynamics of one specific cell in morphological paradigms – the genitive. The high amount of diachronic and synchronic variation in all Germanic languages makes the genitive a particularly interesting phenomenon since it allows us, for example, to examine… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 193] 2018. vi, 327 pp.

The Grammatical Realization of Polarity Contrast: Theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches

Edited by Christine Dimroth and Stefan Sudhoff

The polarity of a sentence is crucial for its meaning. It is thus hardly surprising that languages have developed devices to highlight this meaning component and to contrast statements with negative and positive polarity in discourse. Research on this issue has started from languages like German… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 249] 2018. v, 291 pp.

Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in prosody and syntax

Edited by Evangelia Adamou, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove

The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information structure categories. They present data from languages which are rarely, if ever, taken into account in the most prominent approaches in information… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 199] 2018. vi, 450 pp.

The Locus of Linguistic Variation

Edited by Constantine Lignos, Laurel MacKenzie and Meredith Tamminga

This volume explores how the patterning of surface variation can shed light on the grammatical representation of variable phenomena. The authors explore variation in several domains, addressing intra- and inter-dialectal patterns, using diverse sources of data including corpora of… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 97] 2018. x, 193 pp.

MetaNet

Edited by Miriam R.L. Petruck

The papers in this collection document the work of the first research project on metaphor that incorporates the findings of Frame Semantics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and Construction Grammar with Corpus Linguistics techniques for the analysis of linguistic expressions of metaphor in very large… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 100] 2018. vi, 198 pp.

Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology

Edited by Ruslan Mitkov, Johanna Monti, Gloria Corpas Pastor and Violeta Seretan

The correct interpretation of Multiword Units (MWUs) is crucial to many applications in Natural Language Processing but is a challenging and complex task. In recent years, the computational treatment of MWUs has received considerable attention but there is much more to be done before we can claim… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 341] 2018. ix, 259 pp.

Negation and Negative Concord: The view from Creoles

Edited by Viviane Déprez and Fabiola Henri

While universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language, generally… read more

[Contact Language Library, 55] 2018. x, 327 pp.

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

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

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

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

Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages

Edited by Simon E. Overall, Rosa Vallejos and Spike Gildea

This volume explores typological variation within nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages. Using abundant data, generally from original and extensive fieldwork on under-described languages, it presents a far more detailed picture of nonverbal predication constructions than previously published… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 122] 2018. vi, 407 pp.

Norwegian Discourse Ellipsis: Clausal architecture and licensing conditions

Mari Nygård

This book develops a grammar model which accounts for discourse ellipses in spoken Norwegian. This is a previously unexplored area, which has also been sparsely investigated internationally. The model takes an exoskeletal view, where lexical items are inserted late and where syntactic structure is… read more

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 2] 2018. xii, 245 pp.

On Understanding Grammar: Revised edition

T. Givón

In his foreword to the original edition of this classic of functionalism, typology and diachrony, Dwight Bolinger wrote: "I foresee it as one of the truly prizes statements of our current knowledge…a book about understanding done with deep understanding – of language and its place in Nature and in… read more

[Not in series, 213] 2018. xxi, 299 pp.

Questioning Theoretical Primitives in Linguistic Inquiry: Papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy

Edited by Naomi Shin and Daniel Erker

Across the world, professional linguistic inquiry is in full bloom, largely as result of pioneering thinkers who helped rapidly modernize the study of human language in the last century. As the field continues to move forward, further solidifying its position as a conduit of insight into the human… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 76] 2018. vi, 293 pp.

Recent Developments in Functional Discourse Grammar

Edited by Evelien Keizer and Hella Olbertz

This volume presents a collection of papers using the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) to analyse and explain a number of specific constructions or phenomena (external possessor contructions and binominal constructions, negation, modification, modality, polysynthesis and transparency)… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 205] 2018. ix, 283 pp.

Romance Parsed Corpora

Edited by Christina Tortora, Beatrice Santorini and Frances Blanchette

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 18:1 (2018) v, 204 pp.

Substance-based Grammar – The (Ongoing) Work of John Anderson

Edited by Roger Böhm and Harry van der Hulst

The contributions of this volume centre around the (ongoing) work of John Anderson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and Fellow of the British Academy, who, with detailed studies in phonology, morphology, semantics and syntax as well as careful discussions of historical and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 204] 2018. vii, 443 pp.

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

Edited by Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge

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

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

Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony

Edited by Sonia Cristofaro and Fernando Zúñiga

Typological hierarchies are widely perceived as one of the most important results of research on language universals and linguistic diversity. Explanations for typological hierarchies, however, are usually based on the synchronic properties of the patterns described by individual hierarchies, not… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 121] 2018. vi, 434 pp.

Variation in C: Comparative approaches to the Complementizer Phrase

Edited by Jacopo Garzonio and Silvia Rossi

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 18:2 (2018) v, 225 pp.

Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance

Edited by Martin Hummel and Salvador Valera

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

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

Argument Realisation in Complex Predicates and Complex Events: Verb-verb constructions at the syntax-semantic interface

Edited by Brian Nolan and Elke Diedrichsen

This book offers a comprehensive investigative study of argument realisation in complex predicates and complex events at the syntax-semantic interface across a wide variety of the world’s languages, ranging over languages such as German, Irish, Sicilian and Italian, Lithuanian, Estonian and other… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 180] 2017. vi, 456 pp.

Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: An integral approach

Albert Wall

Over the last three decades, Brazilian Portuguese bare nominals have turned into a hot topic in the cross-linguistic study of nominal syntax and semantics. This contribution is the first comprehensive, book-length treatment of the issue, covering both the long-standing discussion about the adequate… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 245] 2017. xv, 322 pp.

Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte

Edited by Olga Fernández-Soriano, Elena Castroviejo Miró and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez

This book approaches the concept of boundary, central in linguistic theory, and the related notion of phase from the perspective of the interaction between syntax and its interfaces. A primary notion is that phases are the appropriate domains to explain most interface linguistic phenomena and that… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 239] 2017. viii, 369 pp.

Choosing a Grammar: Learning paths and ambiguous evidence in the acquisition of syntax

Isaac Gould

This book investigates the role that ambiguous evidence can play in the acquisition of syntax. To illustrate this, the book introduces a probabilistic learning model for syntactic parameters that learns a grammar of best fit to the learner’s evidence. The model is then applied to a range of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 238] 2017. ix, 332 pp.

Constructing Families of Constructions: Analytical perspectives and theoretical challenges

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Alba Luzondo Oyón and Paula Pérez-Sobrino

Within Construction Grammar, this volume moves away from a compartmentalized view of constructions with the aim of providing a more holistic description of grammar. Thus, the book brings together analyses that look at constructional families within the “constructicon” of such languages as English,… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 58] 2017. vii, 342 pp.

Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency

Edited by Lars Hellan, Andrej L. Malchukov and Michela Cennamo

In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives. This book comprises articles investigating valency phenomena on a contrastive basis within Romance, Germanic and Slavic, and also in Basque and in the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 237] 2017. vii, 476 pp.

Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives

Edited by Maria Napoli and Miriam Ravetto

This book is the first collective volume specifically devoted to the multifaceted phenomenon of intensification, which has been traditionally regarded as related to the expression of degree, scaling a quality downwards or upwards. In spite of the large amount of studies on intensifiers, there is… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 189] 2017. vii, 394 pp.

How Grammar Links Concepts: Verb-mediated constructions, attribution, perspectivizing

Friedrich Ungerer

The proposed framework of concept linking combines insights of construction grammar with those of traditional functional descriptions to explain particularly challenging but often neglected areas of English grammar such as negation, modality, adverbials and non-finite constructions. To reach this… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 57] 2017. xiii, 325 pp.

Imperatives and Directive Strategies

Edited by Daniël Van Olmen and Simone Heinold

Imperatives and directive strategies have intrigued both formalists and functionalists. They continue to search for the answers to questions like “what are the semantics of the imperative?”, “how is it used (in the world’s languages)?” and “which factors determine the choice between imperatives and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 184] 2017. vi, 324 pp.

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

Edited by Valentina Vapnarsky and Edy Veneziano

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

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

Mots de liaison et d'intégration: Prépositions, conjonctions et connecteurs

Sous la direction de Thierry Ponchon, Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot et Annie Bertin

Les unités linguistiques ayant pour fonction (paradoxale) de signifier une relation entre d’autres unités de discours, suscitent, depuis l’Antiquité, un intérêt toujours renouvelé. Défi pour le grammairien, dont ils subvertissent les « parties du discours », ces « mots-outils », que l’on peut… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 34] 2017. ix, 246 pp.

Negation and Contact: With special focus on Singapore English

Edited by Debra Ziegeler and Zhiming Bao

The study of negation across languages has left no stone unturned with respect to a range of frequently-researched areas, such as negative raising, negative concord, and the behavior of quantifiers under negative scope. Past research has chiefly focused on the category of negation from a… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 183] 2017. vii, 208 pp.

Nominal Compound Acquisition

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

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

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

Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries

Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells

This volume presents a cross-linguistic investigation of clausal noun-modifying constructions in genetically varied languages of Eurasia. Contrary to a common premise that, in any language, adnominal clauses that share some features of relative clauses constitute a structurally distinct… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 116] 2017. vi, 381 pp.

On the Syntax of Missing Objects: A study with special reference to English, Polish, and Hungarian

Marta Ruda

Focusing on objects, this book aims at contributing to the on-going inquiry into modelling structures with missing arguments. In addition to offering detailed discussion and analyses of a unique combination of three very different systems (English, Polish, and Hungarian), a larger goal here is to… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 244] 2017. xvii, 195 pp.

Pivotal Constructions in Chinese: Diachronic, synchronic, and constructional perspectives

Rui Peng

This book presents a detailed analysis of the Chinese pivotal constructions (PVCs) and their diachronic developments from a constructionalist perspective, with the focus on the growth of the constructional hierarchies of these constructions and the changes with respect to both the form and meaning… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 8] 2017. xix, 243 pp.

Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: New perspectives

Edited by Chiara Fedriani and Andrea Sansó

This book offers new perspectives into the description of the form, meaning and function of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles in a number of different languages, along with new methods for identifying their ‘prototypical’ instances in situated language contexts, often based… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 186] 2017. ix, 492 pp.

Putting Adpositions in Place: Sortal domains and modifier PPs in Japanese

Kaori Takamine

This monograph explores the grammar of modifier PPs in Japanese, concentrating on their word order. The study argues that (i) modifier PPs are hierarchically arranged and (ii) there is an interesting fine-grained correlation between different PP types and Modal/Aspect functors which indicates that… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 240] 2017. xi, 255 pp.

Register Variation and Syntactic Theory

Edited by Diane Massam and Tim Stowell

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 17:2 (2017) v, 198 pp.

Similative and Equative Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Yvonne Treis and Martine Vanhove

While comparative constructions have been extensively studied in the past decades, the expression of equality and similarity has so far attracted little attention in the typological literature. The fifteen contributions assembled in this volume study similative and equative constructions in… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 117] 2017. vi, 437 pp.

The Story of Zero

T. Givón

The zero coding of referents or other clausal constituents is one of the most natural, communicatively and cognitively-transparent grammatical devices in human language. Together with its functional equivalent, obligatory pronominal agreement, zero is both extremely widespread cross-linguistically… read more

[Not in series, 204] 2017. xv, 414 pp.

Syntactic Variation and Change

Edited by David Håkansson, Ida Larsson and Erik Magnusson Petzell

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 17:1 (2017) iii, 148 pp.

Syntax: An Introduction to Minimalism

Elly van Gelderen

Using a concise and clear style, this book highlights insights from current syntactic theory and minimalism. Chapter 1 starts with the general idea behind generative grammar and should be read from a big picture perspective. Because the book expects no prior syntactic background, its next two… read more

[Not in series, 214] 2017. xvi, 159 pp.

Verb Phrase and Fluid Construction Grammar

Edited by Luc Steels and Katrien Beuls

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 9:2 (2017) v, 162 pp.

Verb Valency Changes: Theoretical and typological perspectives

Edited by Albert Álvarez González and Ia Navarro

This volume surveys a variety of verb valency change phenomena among diverse languages and from diverse theoretical viewpoints. It offers typological studies comparing languages in topics like applicative polysemy, complex predicate formation and locative alternation, but also works describing the… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 120] 2017. xv, 310 pp.

Aspectuality and Temporality: Descriptive and theoretical issues

Edited by Zlatka Guentchéva

This volume brings together a collection of articles exploring tense and aspect phenomena in a variety of non-related languages: Indo-European (Albanian, Bulgarian, Armenian, English, Norwegian, Hindi), Hamito-Semitic (Berber, Zenaga Berber, Arabic varieties, Neo-Aramaic), African (Wolof, Langi),… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 172] 2016. xi, 740 pp.

Atypical predicate-argument relations

Edited by Thierry Ruchot and Pascale Van Praet

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

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

Bare Argument Ellipsis and Focus

Andreas Konietzko

This monograph explores the syntax and information structure of bare argument ellipsis. The study concentrates on stripping, which is identified as a subtype of bare argument ellipsis typically associated with focus sensitive particles or negation. This monograph presents a unified account of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 233] 2016. xi, 182 pp.

Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

The papers assembled in this volume aim to contribute to our understanding of the human capacity for language: the generative procedure that relates sounds and meanings via syntax. Different hypotheses about the properties of this generative procedure are under discussion, and their connection with… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 235] 2016. xvii, 238 pp.

Child Language Variation: Sociolinguistic and formal approaches

Edited by Véronique Lacoste and Lisa Green

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 16:1 (2016) v, 150 pp.

Conceptualizations of Time

Edited by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

As time cannot be observed directly, it must be analyzed in terms of mental categories, which manifest themselves on various linguistic levels. In this interdisciplinary volume, novel approaches to time are proposed that consider temporality without time, on the one hand, and the coding of time in… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 52] 2016. xxi, 325 pp.

Constructions across Grammars

Edited by Martin Hilpert and Jan-Ola Östman

Up to now, most research in Construction Grammar has focused on single languages, most notably English. This volume aims to broaden the scope of Construction Grammar towards issues in bi- and multilingualism, second language learning, and generalizations across different languages and language… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 82] 2016. v, 206 pp.

Cyclical Change Continued

Edited by Elly van Gelderen

This book presents new data and additional questions regarding the linguistic cycle. The topics discussed are the pronoun, negative, negative existential, analytic-synthetic, distributive, determiner, degree, and future/modal cycles. The papers raise questions about the length of time that cycles… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 227] 2016. viii, 429 pp.

Finiteness Matters: On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages

Edited by Kristin Melum Eide

"Although standardly recognized by linguists of many diverse theoretical persuasions, finiteness continues to figure among [...] the most poorly understood concepts of linguistic theory”. This was eloquently stated by Ledgeway (2000, 2007) and remains true even today. The present volume thus aims… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 231] 2016. vi, 346 pp.

Finiteness and Nominalization

Edited by Claudine Chamoreau and Zarina Estrada-Fernández

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

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

Focus-related Operations at the Right Edge in Spanish: Subjects and Ellipsis

Iván Ortega-Santos

Syntactic movement is a pervasive phenomenon in natural language and, as such, has played a key role in syntactic theorizing. Nonetheless, an understanding of the mechanism that allows a constituent to appear to the right of its base-generated position has remained elusive. This groundbreaking… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 7] 2016. xii, 204 pp.

Formal Studies in Slovenian Syntax: In honor of Janez Orešnik

Edited by Franc Lanko Marušič and Rok Žaucer

Although in the early days of generative linguistics Slovenian was rarely called on in the development of theoretical models, the attention it gets has subsequently grown, so that by now it has contributed to generative linguistics a fair share of theoretically important data. With 13 chapters that… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 236] 2016. vi, 335 pp.

Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms: Syntactic properties and interpretative effects

Edited by Werner Frey, André Meinunger and Kerstin Schwabe

This book deals with sentential proforms and their relationship to their associated clauses. Sentential proforms are highly interesting from the point of view of grammatical theory, since their occurrence is determined not only by syntax, but also by prosody and semantics. The present volume… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 232] 2016. v, 278 pp.

Insubordination

Edited by Nicholas Evans and Honoré Watanabe

The phenomenon of insubordination can be defined diachronically as the recruitment of main clause structures from subordinate structures, or synchronically as the independent use of constructions exhibiting characteristics of subordinate clauses. Long marginalised as uncomfortable exceptions,… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 115] 2016. xii, 435 pp.

MetaNet

Edited by Miriam R.L. Petruck

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 8:2 (2016) v, 192 pp.

Microparameters in the Grammar of Basque

Edited by Beatriz Fernández and Jon Ortiz de Urbina

This book is an endeavor to present and analyze some standard topics in the grammar of Basque from a micro-comparative perspective. From case and agreement to word order and the left periphery, and including an incursion into determiners, the book combines fine-grained theoretical analyses with… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 13] 2016. vi, 302 pp.

Mixing Metaphor

Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.

Mixing metaphors in speech, writing, and even gesture, is traditionally viewed as a sign of inconsistency in thought and language. Despite the prominence of mixed metaphors, there have been surprisingly few attempts to comprehensively explain why people mix their metaphors so frequently and in the… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 6] 2016. xiv, 269 pp.

Modal Meaning in Construction Grammar

Edited by Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 8:1 (2016) vi, 129 pp.

Morphological Metatheory

Edited by Daniel Siddiqi and Heidi Harley

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

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

Outside the Clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents

Edited by Gunther Kaltenböck, Evelien Keizer and Arne Lohmann

This volume brings together a number of articles on the form and function of extra-clausal constituents, a group of linguistic elements which have puzzled linguists by defying analysis in terms of ordinary sentence grammar. Given their high frequency and communicative importance, these elements… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 178] 2016. vi, 450 pp.

Passive Constructions in Lithuanian: Selected works of Emma Geniušienė

Edited by Anna Kibort and Nijolė Maskaliūnienė

This unique volume comprises a monograph and a set of articles by renowned typologist Emma Geniušienė which all focus on the topic of morphologically passive constructions in Lithuanian. It is the first translation into English of the author’s original work from the 1970s. It offers a rich treasury… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 179] 2016. xx, 313 pp.

The Role of Functions in Syntax: A unified approach to language theory, description, and typology

Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay

The main aim of this book is to address a fundamental question in linguistics, namely why languages are similar and why they are different. The study proposes that languages are fundamentally similar when they encode the same meanings in their grammatical systems and that languages are different… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 111] 2016. xvi, 308 pp.

Semantic Structure in English

Jim Feist

Syntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a structure in the meaning that is expressed in the syntax and phonology. Some writers use the phrase “semantic structure”, but are referring to conceptual… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 73] 2016. xv, 452 pp. | open access

Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications

Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż

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

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

Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation

Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese, Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni

The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation. They all share the assumption that within the language faculty the variation space is hierarchically constrained and that minimal changes in the set of property values defining each language give rise to diverse outputs… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 234] 2016. vii, 376 pp.

Third Person References: Forms and functions in two spoken genres of Spanish

Jenny Dumont

This volume, a case study on the grammar of third person references in two genres of spoken Ecuadorian Spanish, examines from a discourse-analytic perspective how genre affects linguistic patterns and how researchers can look for and interpret genre effects. This marks a timely contribution to… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 71] 2016. ix, 179 pp.

The locus of linguistic variation

Edited by Constantine Lignos, Laurel MacKenzie and Meredith Tamminga

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 16:2 (2016) x, 186 pp.

À la recherche de la prédication: Autour des syntagmes prépositionnels

Sous la direction de Christiane Marque-Pucheu, Fryni Kakoyianni-Doa, Peter A. Machonis et Harald Ulland

Une thématique commune, le statut prédicatif de certains syntagmes prépositionnels dans différentes langues, fédère les dix études rassemblées dans le présent recueil qui tire son originalité du sujet lui-même. À ce jour, en effet, rares sont les études qui ont abordé la nature prédicative du… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 32] 2016. xiii, 200 pp.

The Acquisition of Inflection in Q’anjob’al Maya

Pedro Mateo Pedro

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

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

Adverbs: Functional and diachronic aspects

Edited by Karin Pittner, Daniela Elsner and Fabian Barteld

Adverbs as a word class are notoriously difficult to define. The volume deals with the delimitation of this category, its internal structure, the morphological make-up of adverbs and their positions in syntactic structures. A closer look at diachronic developments sheds light on the characteristics… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 170] 2015. v, 275 pp.

Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives

Florent Perek

The argument structure of verbs, defined as the part of grammar that deals with how participants in verbal events are expressed in clauses, is a classical topic in linguistics that has received considerable attention in the literature. This book investigates argument structure in English from a… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 17] 2015. x, 246 pp.

Beyond Aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages

Edited by Doris L. Payne and Shahar Shirtz

Certain grammatical elements help hearers know how propositions are conceptually related: Does a given proposition advance the foregrounded event line, or not? Initiate versus continue an event chain? Indicate that one proposition belongs to a different "mental space" from the previous one? Provide… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 109] 2015. vii, 321 pp.

Causation, Permission, and Transfer: Argument realisation in GET, TAKE, PUT, GIVE and LET verbs

Edited by Brian Nolan, Gudrun Rawoens and Elke Diedrichsen

This book offers a comprehensive investigative study of the argument realisation of the concepts of causative purpose, permit, let/allow and transfer in a broad cross-linguistic typologically diverse mix of languages with GIVE, GET, TAKE, PUT, and LET verbs. This volume stands as the first… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 167] 2015. vi, 499 pp.

Discourse-oriented Syntax

Edited by Josef Bayer, Roland Hinterhölzl and Andreas Trotzke

Until recently, little attention has been paid within syntax to components of discourse meaning that go beyond information structure and fall into the domain of non-at-issue meaning operating at the level of illocutionary force. To approach this domain, many of the contributions of this volume deal… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 226] 2015. v, 253 pp.

Elements of Structural Syntax

Lucien Tesnière

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

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

Head Movement in Syntax

Rosmin Mathew

Head Movement in Syntax argues that verb movement is a narrow syntactic phenomenon that can affect locality constraints. The altered locality domains are detectable from the way certain phrasal elements such as a phrase containing a Wh are forced to undergo movement. The basic idea explored in the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 224] 2015. xi, 190 pp.

Impersonals and other Agent Defocusing Constructions in French

Michel Achard

This book investigates French impersonals as a functional category. Any structure whose agent is defocused and whose predicate describes a situation stable enough to be generally available should be considered impersonal. In addition to il impersonals, the category also includes demonstrative… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 50] 2015. ix, 372 pp.

The In-Situ Approach to Sluicing

Jun Abe

It has been standardly claimed since Merchant (2001) that island violations can be repaired by simply deleting the categories that induce such violations, as witnessed by sluicing, an ellipsis construction that deletes TP with a remnant wh-phrase. This book aims to argue that such “repair by… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 222] 2015. viii, 168 pp.

Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factors

Edited by Rik De Busser and Randy J. LaPolla

Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. After a general overview, the… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 6] 2015. vi, 370 pp.

Negation in Uralic Languages

Edited by Matti Miestamo, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy

The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. As in no other major language family before, a comprehensive typological questionnaire provides the basis for the chapters documenting… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 108] 2015. ix, 667 pp.

On the Interaction of Constructions with Register and Genre

Edited by Kerstin Fischer and Kiki Nikiforidou

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 7:2 (2015) v, 243 pp.

Rethinking Syntactocentrism: Architectural issues and case studies at the syntax-pragmatics interface

Andreas Trotzke

The term ‘syntactocentrism’ has been used to criticize the claim that syntax, as regarded in generative linguistics, plays the central role in modeling the mental architecture of the human language faculty. This research monograph explores the conjecture that many of the objections to the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 225] 2015. vi, 147 pp.

Romance Linguistics 2012: Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Cedar City, Utah, 20-22 April 2012

Edited by Jason Smith and Tabea Ihsane

This volume contains a selection of nineteen peer-reviewed papers from the 42nd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, in 2012. The contributions cover a wide range of current topics in the areas of phonetics, phonology, syntax,… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 7] 2015. xii, 304 pp.

Signs and Structures: Formal Approaches to Sign Language Syntax

Edited by Paweł Rutkowski

As sign language linguistics has become an important and prodigious field of research in the last few decades, it comes as no surprise that the repertoire of methodological approaches to the study of the communication of the Deaf has also expanded considerably. While earlier work on sign languages… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 71] 2015. v, 143 pp.

Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti

Edited by Elisa Di Domenico, Cornelia Hamann and Simona Matteini

The volume contains 18 contributions from senior and junior scholars covering core issues within the theoretical investigation of the architecture and the mechanisms of the faculty of language, with particular emphasis on the computational component. They all pursue a comparative approach,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 223] 2015. xxvi, 421 pp.

Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language

Edited by Kristine Bentzen, Henrik Rosenkvist and Janne Bondi Johannessen †

Övdalian is spoken in central Sweden by about 2000 speakers. Traditionally categorized as a dialect of Swedish, it has not received much international attention. However, Övdalian is typologically closer to Faroese or Icelandic than it is to Swedish, and since it has been spoken in relative… read more

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

Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical

Edited by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Tuomas Huumo

This volume analyzes constructions with non-canonical subjects in individual languages and cross-linguistically, drawing on insights from cognitive and discourse-functional linguistics. Prototypical subjects have often been characterized in terms of their semantic, syntactic and discourse features,… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 16] 2015. viii, 324 pp.

Temporality in Interaction

Edited by Arnulf Deppermann and Susanne Günthner

Time is a constitutive element of everyday interaction: all verbal interaction is produced and interpreted in time. However, it is only recently that research in linguistics has started to take the temporality of linguistic production and reception in interaction into account by studying the… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 27] 2015. vi, 342 pp.

Time and Emergence in Grammar: Dislocation, topicalization and hanging topic in French talk-in-interaction

Simona Pekarek Doehler, Elwys De Stefani and Anne-Sylvie Horlacher

This monograph examines how language contributes to the social coordination of actions in talk-in-interaction. Focusing on a set of frequently used constructions in French (left-dislocation, right-dislocation, topicalization, and hanging topic), the study provides an empirically rich contribution… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 28] 2015. x, 275 pp.

Verb Classes and Aspect

Edited by Elisa Barrajón López, José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Susana Rodríguez Rosique

This volume offers a variety of perspectives on two of the main topics situated at the crossroads between lexical semantics and syntax, namely: (a) aspect and its correspondence with syntactic structure; and (b) the delimitation of syntactic structures from verb classes. Almost from Aristotle’s… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 9] 2015. xviii, 446 pp.

Where do nouns come from?

Edited by John B. Haviland

The noun is an apparent cross-linguistic universal; nouns are central targets of language acquisition; they are frequently prototypical exemplars of Saussurian arbitrariness. This volume considers nouns in sign languages and in the evanescent performances of homesigners (and gesturers), which… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 70] 2015. v, 140 pp.

Adjectives in Germanic and Romance

Edited by Petra Sleeman, Freek Van de Velde and Harry Perridon

Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate syntactic and morphological category, the syntax, morphology, and interpretation of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 212] 2014. vii, 286 pp.

Advances in the Syntax of DPs: Structure, agreement, and case

Edited by Anna Bondaruk, Gréte Dalmi and Alexander Grosu

The contributions in this volume are devoted to various aspects of the internal and external syntax of DPs in a wide variety of languages belonging to the Slavic, Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Semitic and Germanic language families. In particular, the papers address questions related to the internal and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 217] 2014. xvii, 320 pp.

Bavarian Syntax: Contributions to the theory of syntax

Edited by Günther Grewendorf and Helmut Weiß

Dialect syntax has proven to be an invaluable data source for theoretical syntax, and theoretical syntax has provided useful analytical tools for uncovering fascinating grammatical properties of dialects. In the 1980s, the assumption that there must be more than one structural position in the left… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 220] 2014. vi, 339 pp.

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

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

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

Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns

Edited by Kristin Davidse, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte

The studies in this volume approach English grammatical patterns in novel ways by interrogating corpora, focusing on patterns in the verb phrase (tense, aspect and modality), the noun phrase (intensification and focus marking), complementation structures and clause combining. Some studies… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 63] 2014. viii, 358 pp.

Cross-linguistic Investigations of Nominalization Patterns

Edited by Ileana Paul

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

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

Dependency Linguistics: Recent advances in linguistic theory using dependency structures

Edited by Kim Gerdes, Eva Hajičová and Leo Wanner

This volume offers the reader a unique possibility to obtain a concise introduction to dependency linguistics and to learn about the current state of the art in the field. It unites the revised and extended versions of the linguistically-oriented papers to the First International Conference on… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 215] 2014. xi, 355 pp.

Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax

Hiroki Narita

Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax puts forward a novel theory of syntax that rigidly adheres to the principle of Minimal Computation, in which a number of traditional but extraneous stipulations such as referential indices and representational labels/projections are eliminated. It… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 218] 2014. xii, 268 pp.

Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space

Christopher S. Butler and Francisco Gonzálvez-García

This book, intended primarily for researchers and advanced students, expands greatly on previous work by the authors exploring the topography of the multidimensional “functional-cognitive space” within which functional, cognitive and/or constructionist approaches to language can be located. The… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 157] 2014. xviii, 579 pp.

Frames, constructions, and computation

Edited by Lars Borin, Gerard de Melo, Karin Friberg Heppin and Tiago Timponi Torrent

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 6:1 (2014) v, 135 pp.

Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences

Edited by Rik van Gijn, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio

This volume is dedicated to exploring the crossroads where complex sentences and information management – more specifically information structure and reference tracking – come together. Complex sentences are a highly relevant but understudied domain for studying notions of IS and RT. On the one… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 105] 2014. vi, 409 pp.

Intersubjectivity and Intersubjectification in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical and descriptive advances

Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde

Recent years saw a growing interest in the study of subjectivity, as the linguistic expression of speaker involvement. Intersubjectivity, defined by Traugott as "the linguistic expression of a speaker/writer's attention to the hearer/reader", on the other hand, has so far received little explicit… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 65] 2014. vi, 161 pp.

Language Description Informed by Theory

Edited by Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin

This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 147] 2014. xii, 391 pp.

The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia)

Maïa Ponsonnet

The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia) is the first extensive study of the linguistic encoding of emotions in an Australian language, and further, in an endangered, non-European language. Based on first-hand data collected using innovative methods, the monograph describes and… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 4] 2014. xxvii, 466 pp.

Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Andreas Dufter and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta

Since the advent of syntactic cartography, left sentence peripheries have begun to take center stage in linguistic research. Following the lead of Rizzi (1997), much work on left peripheries has been focused on Italian, whereas other Romance languages have attracted somewhat less attention. This… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 214] 2014. viii, 423 pp.

The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages

Edited by Pritha Chandra and Richa Srishti

The present collection offers fresh perspectives on the lexicon-syntax interface, drawing on novel data from South Asian languages like Bangla, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, Kannada, Malayalam, Manipuri, Punjabi, and Telugu. It covers different phenomena like adjectives, nominal phrases, ditransitives,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 209] 2014. vii, 275 pp.

Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces

Edited by Peter Kosta, Steven L. Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork and Lilia Schürcks

The Minimalist Program is just that, a “program”. It is a challenge for syntacticians to reexamine the constructs of their models and ask what is minimally needed in order to accomplish the essential task of syntax – interfacing between form and meaning. This volume pushes Minimalism to its… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 11] 2014. vi, 423 pp.

Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar

Edited by Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham

The volume aims at a universal definition of modality or “illocutionary/speaker’s perspective force” that is strong enough to capture the entire range of different subtypes and varieties of modalities in different languages. The central idea is that modality is all-pervasive in language. This… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 149] 2014. vi, 511 pp.

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

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

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

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

Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs

Artemis Alexiadou

This book is a research monograph that investigates the crosslinguistic distribution of multiple determiners. In some languages, noun phrases permit or even seem to require a double or multiple realization of definite/indefinite markers in certain modification environments. The book develops tools… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 211] 2014. xi, 134 pp.

Non-Nuclear Cases

Edited by Nicole Delbecque, Karen Lahousse and Willy Van Langendonck

In contrast with the central arguments of the event structure, which have been extensively studied, much less attention has been given to non-arguments. To bridge this gap, the present volume focuses on prepositional and adverbial phrases expressing instrumental, causal, spatial, temporal roles and… read more

[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 6] 2014. xii, 328 pp.

Noun Valency

Edited by Olga Spevak

Despite a recent spate of publications, the valency of nouns is a topic that still remains in the shadow of the valency of verbs. This volume aims to contribute to the discussion of noun valency not only from a theoretical point of view, as is often the case, but also from an empirical one by… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 158] 2014. xvi, 213 pp.

Number – Constructions and Semantics: Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania

Edited by Anne Storch and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approaches from descriptive linguistics, anthropological linguistics, socio-historical studies, areal linguistics, and social anthropology. The… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 151] 2014. xv, 366 pp.

On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia

Edited by Pirkko Suihkonen and Lindsay J. Whaley

The languages of Europe and North and Central Asia provide a rich variety of data. In this volume, some articles are summaries of large areal typological research projects, and some articles focus on structures or constructions in a single language. However, it is common to all the articles that… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 164] 2014. xviii, 437 pp.

Qualitative-Quantitative Analyses of Dutch and Afrikaans Grammar and Lexicon

Robert S. Kirsner

Sharing certain assumptions but differing in theory and practice, both Columbia School linguistics (CS) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) have increasingly supported their analyses with quantitative evidence. Citation of individual sentences, in isolation or in context, has been supplemented with counts… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 67] 2014. xi, 239 pp.

Reflections on Constructions across Grammars

Edited by Martin Hilpert and Jan-Ola Östman

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 6:2 (2014) v, 201 pp.

Structuring the Argument: Multidisciplinary research on verb argument structure

Edited by Asaf Bachrach, Isabelle Roy and Linnaea Stockall

While the argument structure of verbs has long been a central issue in linguistic research of all varieties and continues to be a vexed area of research across a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches, the inter-disciplinary perspective and dialogue remain largely under explored. This… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 10] 2014. vii, 205 pp.

Symmetry Breaking in Syntax and the Lexicon

Leah S. Bauke

This book is a research monograph that explores the implications of the strongest minimalist thesis from an antisymmetric perspective. Three empirical domains are investigated: nominal root compounds in German and English, nominal gerunds in English and their German counterparts, and small clauses… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 216] 2014. xi, 304 pp.

Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Nikolas Gisborne and Willem B. Hollmann

Cognitive linguistics has an honourable tradition of paying respect to naturally occurring language data and there have been fruitful interactions between corpus data and aspects of linguistic structure and meaning. More recently, dialect data and sociolinguistic data collection methods/theoretical… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 67] 2014. v, 262 pp.

Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space

Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Francisco Gonzálvez-García

The differences among functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist models are generally taken to be not absolute, but rather a matter of emphasis and degree, with an increasing permeability between paradigms arising from cross-fertilizing influences. This book further explores this burgeoning… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 68] 2014. vi, 327 pp.

Three Factors and Beyond: Socio-syntax and language acquisition

Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 14:1 (2014) v, 178 pp.

Weak Referentiality

Edited by Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts

This volume brings together studies in the domain of weak referentiality, the phenomenon that a definite or indefinite noun phrase lacks its usual referential force. Several papers investigate syntactic or semantic properties of indefinite noun phrases, such as modality, number neutrality, narrow… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 219] 2014. xii, 390 pp.

Word Classes: Nature, typology and representations

Edited by Raffaele Simone and Francesca Masini

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

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

Word Formation in South American Languages

Edited by Swintha Danielsen, Katja Hannss and Fernando Zúñiga

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

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

Advances in Frame Semantics

Edited by Mirjam Fried and Kiki Nikiforidou

This volume presents some of the latest research in Frame Semantics, including work in computational lexicography as developed within the FrameNet project. Using varied material from English, Italian, and Japanese, the contributions collectively expand the theoretical, conceptual, and computational… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 58] 2013. v, 209 pp.

Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers

Edited by Elly van Gelderen, Jóhanna Barðdal and Michela Cennamo

The present volume is centered around five linguistic themes: argument structure and encoding strategies; argument structure and verb classes; unexpressed arguments; split intransitivity; and existential and presentational constructions. The articles also cover a variety of typologically different… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 131] 2013. viii, 578 pp.

Autour des verbes: Constructions et interprétations

Sous la direction de Kozué Ogata

Le présent recueil rassemble douze études consacrées à des problèmes de syntaxe verbale et à certains faits fondamentaux de lexique et de grammaire. Au-delà de la diversité des approches, l'originalité de l'ouvrage tient au fait que les contributions concernent plusieurs phénomènes peu ou pas… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 29] 2013. x, 252 pp.

Casebook in Functional Discourse Grammar

Edited by J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Hella Olbertz

This book provides ten case studies in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), a typologically-oriented theory of the organization of natural languages that has risen to prominence in recent years. The authors, all committed practitioners of FDG, include Kees Hengeveld, the intellectual father of the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 137] 2013. ix, 313 pp.

Challenging Clitics

Edited by Christine Meklenborg Salvesen and Hans Petter Helland

Challenging Clitics deals with multiple sides of cliticisation from different theoretical frameworks and with data from a number of different languages. Unlike many other books on clitics where clitics are considered from a mere syntactical point of view, this book also discusses the acquisition of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 206] 2013. vii, 315 pp.

The Clause Structure of Wolof: Insights into the Left Periphery

Harold Torrence

This volume investigates the clausal syntax of Wolof, an understudied Atlantic language of Senegal. The goals of the work are descriptive, analytical, and comparative, with a focus on the structure of the left periphery and left peripheral phenomena. The book includes detailed examination of the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 198] 2013. xiii, 289 pp.

Cleft Structures

Edited by Katharina Hartmann and Tonjes Veenstra

The phenomenon of clefts is beyond doubt a golden oldie. It has captivated linguists of different disciplines for decades. The fascination arises from the unique syntax of clefts in interaction with their pragmatic and semantic interpretation. Clefts structure sentences according to the information… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 208] 2013. viii, 348 pp.

Deixis and Pronouns in Romance Languages

Edited by Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Jan Lindschouw

This volume proposes a new way to address the classical question concerning the relation between language, cognition, and culture from the perspective of two basic systems: deixis and the pronominal system. It investigates the linguistic structuring of basic concepts of person, place and time in… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 136] 2013. vi, 289 pp.

The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects

Edited by Ilja A. Seržant and Leonid Kulikov

This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal mechanisms and triggers for various changes that non-canonical subjects undergo, ranging from semantic motivations to purely structural… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 140] 2013. xxv, 364 pp.

Frames and Constructions in Metaphoric Language

Karen Sullivan

Frames and constructions in metaphoric language shows how linguistic metaphor piggybacks on certain patterns of constructional meaning that have already been identified and studied in non-metaphoric language. Recognition of these shared semantic structures, and comparison of their roles in… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 14] 2013. vii, 184 pp.

The Genitive

Edited by Anne Carlier and Jean-Christophe Verstraete

This volume, the fifth in the series Case and Grammatical Relations across Languages, is devoted to genitive constructions in a range of Indo-European languages (Russian, French, Romanian, German and Swedish), as well as Finnish, Bantu languages and Northern Akhvakh (Northeast Caucasian).… read more

[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 5] 2013. vii, 356 pp.

Information Structure and Agreement

Edited by Victoria Camacho-Taboada, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González and Mariano Reyes-Tejedor

This collection consists of thirteen contributions focusing on the latest trends of information structure and agreement, couched in the most current developments of Minimalism, Cartography, and Optimality. Some chapters focus on the syntax of information structure in relation with the position… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 197] 2013. vi, 376 pp.

Linking Constructions into Functional Linguistics: The role of constructions in grammar

Edited by Brian Nolan and Elke Diedrichsen

There is a growing awareness of the significance of constructions in grammar in the world’s languages. To date there has not been a single volume that addresses the issues of constructions within a functional Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) account. The book is a collection of articles that will… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 145] 2013. xix, 335 pp.

Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession

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

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

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

New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond

Edited by Johannes Kabatek and Albert Wall

This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determination. Combining insights from different theoretical backgrounds and extending the empirical coverage of bare noun phenomena, the ten… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 141] 2013. v, 334 pp.

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

Marcin Kilarski

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

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

Non-Canonical Passives

Edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer

This volume contains a selection of papers dealing with constructions that have a passive-like interpretation but do not seem to share all the properties with canonical passives. The fifteen chapters of this volume raise important questions concerning the proper characterization of the universal… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 205] 2013. vi, 361 pp

Patterns in Contrast

Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling

Combining the fields of phraseology and contrastive analysis, this book describes how patterns, defined as recurrent word-combinations with semantic unity, behave cross-linguistically. As the contrastive approach adopted in the book relies on translations and a bidirectional corpus model, the first… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 58] 2013. xiv, 257 pp.

Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective

Edited by Gert Webelhuth, Manfred Sailer and Heike Walker

This book represents the state of the art on rightward movement in one thematically coherent volume. It documents the growing importance of the combination of empirical and theoretical work in linguistic analysis. Several contributions argue that rightward movement is a means of reducing… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 200] 2013. viii, 476 pp.

Syntactic Variation and Verb Second: A German dialect in Northern Italy

Federica Cognola

This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Mòcheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy. Basing her study on detailed new data collected during extensive fieldwork, and focusing on finite verb movement; on multiple access to the left periphery;… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 201] 2013. xii, 325 pp.

The Syntax–Prosody Interface: A cartographic perspective with evidence from Italian

Giuliano Bocci

This book presents an experimental and theoretical investigation of the interplay between information structure, word order alternations, and prosody in Italian. Left/right dislocations, focus fronting, and other reordering phenomena are analyzed, taking into account their morphosyntactic and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 204] 2013. ix, 213 pp.

Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events

Edited by Juliana Goschler and Anatol Stefanowitsch

The linguistic typology of motion event encoding is one of the central topics in Cognitive Linguistics. A vast body of typological, contrastive, and psycholinguistic research has shown the potential, but also the limitations of the original distinction between verb-framed and satellite-framed… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 41] 2013. x, 251 pp.

Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology

Edited by Pirkko Suihkonen, Bernard Comrie and Valery Solovyev

This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of grammatical relations and argument structure in the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia (LENCA). Topics covered with respect to individual languages are: split-intransitivity (Basque), causativization (Agul),… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 126] 2012. xv, 406 pp.

Clefts and their Relatives

Matthew Reeve

Cleft constructions have long presented an analytical challenge for syntactic theory. This monograph argues that clefts and related constructions cannot be analysed in a straightforwardly compositional manner. Instead, it proposes that the locality conditions on modification (for example by a… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 185] 2012. xiii, 223 pp.

A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative: With special reference to Japanese imperatives

Hidemitsu Takahashi

This volume offers the first comprehensive description of English imperatives made from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. It proposes a new way of explaining the meaning and function of the imperative independently of illocutionary act classifications, which allows for quantifying the strength of… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 35] 2012. xvii, 242 pp.

Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics

Edited by Stefania Marzo, Kris Heylen and Gert de Sutter

Contrastive Linguistics, like other linguistic disciplines, is becoming more and more data-oriented, relying increasingly on the statistical analysis of corpus data to reveal and investigate the similarities and dissimilarities between languages. The volume Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 43] 2012. v, 171 pp.

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

Edited by Ferenc Kiefer †, Mária Ladányi and Péter Siptár

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

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

The Defective Copy Theory of Movement: Evidence from wh-constructions in Cape Verdean Creole

Nélia Alexandre

Within the framework of Chomsky’s Principles and Parameters Theory and the Minimalist Program, this work presents a detailed discussion of the different types of wh-question formation and relativization strategies in Cape Verdean Creole (Santiago variety), especially focusing on wh-movement of PPs.… read more

[Creole Language Library, 41] 2012. xvi, 249 pp.

From Space to Time: A cognitive analysis of the Cora locative system and its temporal extensions

Eugene H. Casad

Eugene Casad’s posthumous monograph is an in-depth study of the TIME IS SPACE metaphor in Cora – an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the state of Nayarit, Mexico – within the framework of Ronald Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar. The author provides an introduction to Cora speakers and their history, and… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 39] 2012. xxvii, 263 pp.

Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar

Abdelkader Fassi Fehri

In light of recent generative minimalism, and comparative parametric theory of language variation, the book investigates key features and parameters of Arabic grammar. Part I addresses morpho-syntactic and semantic interfaces in temporality, aspectuality, and actionality, including the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 182] 2012. xx, 358 pp.

Latin Embedded Clauses: The left periphery

Lieven Danckaert

This monograph is one of the first studies that approaches Latin syntax from a formal perspective, combining detailed corpus-based description with formal theoretical analysis. The empirical focus is word order in embedded clauses, with special attention to clauses in which one or more constituents… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 184] 2012. xviii, 368 pp.

Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons

Edited by Lobke Aelbrecht, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye

Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons takes the study of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) into the 21st century, without neglecting the origins of the topic. It brings together work by both established and up-and-coming scholars, who present analyses for a wide range of MCP, from a variety of languages,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 190] 2012. vi, 433 pp.

The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages

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

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

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

Of Grammar, Words, and Verses: In honor of Carlos Piera

Edited by Esther Torrego

This book offers new work by some major figures in the field of linguistics, addressing old debates from the perspective of current explanatory grammatical theory. These include paradigmatic relations among words, and agreeing adjectives and their grammatical source. Covering a broad range of… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 8] 2012. xi, 272 pp.

On the Grammar of Optative Constructions

Patrick G. Grosz

This monograph is one of the first theoretical studies of optatives. Optative constructions express desire without an overt lexical item that means ‘desire’. The author specifically investigates optatives with the syntax of embedded clauses that contain prototypical particles such as ‘only’. He… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 193] 2012. xi, 346 pp.

Optimizing Adverb Positions

Eva Engels

Adverb positions vary within a single language as well as across diverse languages. Based on the study of adverbs in English, French and German, this monograph shows that the distribution of adverbs is influenced by various factors at distinct levels of linguistic representation – comprising… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 181] 2012. xiv, 347 pp.

The Passive in Japanese: A cartographic minimalist approach

Tomoko Ishizuka

This book describes and analyzes the passive voice system in Japanese within the framework of generative grammar. By unifying different types of passives conventionally distinguished within the literature, the book advances a simple minimalist account where various passive characteristics emerge… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 192] 2012. xv, 249 pp.

Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview

Edited by Bernard Comrie and Zarina Estrada-Fernández

Patterns of relative clause formation tend to vary according to the typological properties of a language. Highly polysynthetic languages tend to have fully nominalized relative clauses and no relative pronouns, while other typologically diverse languages tend to have relative clauses which are… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 102] 2012. xiii, 307 pp.

Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew

Ron Kuzar

Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew offers an innovative perspective on sentential syntax, in which sentence patterns are introduced as constructions within the general framework of Construction Grammar. Drawing on naturally occurring data collected from the Internet, the study challenges the… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 12] 2012. xvii, 254 pp.

Syntax, Semantics and Acquisition of Multiple Interrogatives: Who wants what?

Lydia Grebenyova

Multiple interrogatives, questions with multiple wh-phrases (e.g. Who bought what?), have long presented analytical challenges for linguistic theory. This monograph presents a new theoretical and experimental study of this construction. The theoretical findings concern the interaction between… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 195] 2012. xviii, 191 pp.

Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on interfaces

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

The theoretical proposals brought forward in this book as well as the results from the reported experimental studies present genuine contributions to the biolinguistic program. The papers contribute to our understanding of the properties of the computations and the representations derived by the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 194] 2012. vi, 367 pp

What is a Context?: Linguistic approaches and challenges

Edited by Rita Finkbeiner, Jörg Meibauer and Petra B. Schumacher

Context is a core notion of linguistic theory. However, while there are numerous attempts at explaining single aspects of the notion of context, these attempts are rather diverse and do not easily converge to a unified theory of context. The present multi-faceted collection of papers reconsiders… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 196] 2012. vii, 253 pp.

Adjective Complementation: An empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses

Ilka Mindt

This is the first empirical study to focus on adjectives complemented by that-clauses. The in-depth analysis of more than 50,000 cases taken from the British National Corpus gives comprehensive insights into hitherto neglected relations of lexis and grammar. The result of this corpus-driven study… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 42] 2011. vii, 238 pp.

Adverbials and the Phase Model

Petr Biskup

This monograph addresses two issues, phases and adverbials. It proposes that there is a correlation between the phase structure, the tripartite quantificational structure and the information structure of the sentence. This correlation plays an important role not only in referential and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 177] 2011. ix, 235 pp.

Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 12: Papers from the 2009 Debrecen Conference

Edited by Tibor Laczkó and Catherine O. Ringen

This volume contains eight papers, all presented at the 9th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (University of Debrecen, 2009), addressing a great variety of topics in the syntax, morphology, phonology, and semantics of Hungarian, and also offering discussion of related phenomena… read more

[Approaches to Hungarian, 12] 2011. x, 242 pp.

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

Warwick Danks

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

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

Bidirectional Optimality Theory

Edited by Anton Benz and Jason Mattausch

Bidirectional Optimality Theory (BiOT) emerged at the turn of the millennium as a fusion of Radical Pragmatics and Optimality Theoretic Semantics. It stirred a wealth of new research in the pragmatics‑semantics interface and heavily influenced e.g. the development of evolutionary and game theoretic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 180] 2011. v, 279 pp.

Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles

Edited by Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski

The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike previous studies, these… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 99] 2011. vi, 354 pp.

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

Felicity Meakins

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

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

Causatives in Minimalism

Mercedes Tubino-Blanco

This monograph studies issues of current minimalist concern, such as whether differences in the expression of argument and syntactic structure can all be attributed to the parameterization of specific functional heads. In particular, this book studies in-depth the extent to which variation in the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 179] 2011. xx, 294 pp.

Complex Predicates: The syntax-morphology interface

Leila Lomashvili

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

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

Connecting Grammaticalisation

Jens Nørgård-Sørensen, Lars Heltoft and Lene Schøsler

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

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

Constraints on Displacement: A phase-based approach

Gereon Müller

This monograph sets out to derive the effects of standard constraints on displacement like the Minimal Link Condition (MLC) and the Condition on Extraction Domain (CED) from more basic principles in a minimalist approach. Assuming that movement via phase edges is possible only in the presence of… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 7] 2011. x, 339 pp.

Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Andrej L. Malchukov and Anna Siewierska

This volume offers a much needed typological perspective on impersonal constructions, which are here viewed broadly as constructions lacking a referential subject. The contributions to this volume deal with all types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 124] 2011. ix, 641 pp.

Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence

Edited by Bob de Jonge and Yishai Tobin

This volume further elaborates the empirical tradition of Columbia School (CS) Linguistics by offering diverse empirical analyses for a wide variety of languages. These studies open a much needed debate advocating the necessity of the independent validation of linguistic hypotheses. This research… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 64] 2011. vi, 299 pp.

The Meaning of Particle / Prefix Constructions in German

Robert B. Dewell

This is really two books in one: a valuable reference resource, and a groundbreaking case study that represents a new approach to constructional semantics. It presents a detailed descriptive survey, using extensive examples collected from the Internet, of German verb constructions in which the… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 34] 2011. xiii, 336 pp.

Morphology and its Interfaces

Edited by Alexandra Galani, Glyn Hicks and George Tsoulas

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

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

Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon

Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden

Language structure and use are largely shaped by cognitive processes such as categorizing, framing, inferencing, associative (metonymic), and analogical (metaphorical) thinking, and – mediated through cognition – by bodily experience, emotion, perception, action, social/communicative interaction,… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 27] 2011. vii, 306 pp.

Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives

Edited by Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona

Research on nominalization, a process that gives rise to referring expressions, has always played a central role in linguistic investigations. Over the years there has also been growing evidence that nominalization constructions often extend to non-referential domains. They participate in… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 96] 2011. xvii, 796 pp.

The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and change

Edited by Petra Sleeman and Harry Perridon

One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likely that each 'average European' language developed a definite article all by itself, without any influence from neighbouring languages. It… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 171] 2011. vii, 283 pp.

Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu: The syntax of discourse-driven movement

Emily Manetta

This research monograph is an investigation of wh-movement and wh-expletive constructions in the Indic languages Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu. It advances a novel theory of the periphery, or the clausal positions that mediate A-bar movement. In particular, a detailed study of wh-expletives and… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 4] 2011. ix, 160 pp.

Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock

Edited by Etsuyo Yuasa, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals

This book presents papers in honor of Jerry Sadock’s rich legacy in pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar. Highlights of the pragmatics section include Larry Horn on almost, barely, and assertoric inertia; William Lycan on Sadock’s resolution of the Performadox with truth1 and truth2; and Jay Atlas on… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 176] 2011. xxv, 339 pp.

Resumptive Pronouns at the Interfaces

Edited by Alain Rouveret

This book brings together contributions which address a wide range of issues regarding resumption, gathering evidence from a great variety of languages including Welsh, Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, French, Vata, Hebrew, Jordanian and Palestinian Arabic. The topics covered include the… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 5] 2011. viii, 429 pp.

Studies on German-Language Islands

Edited by Michael T. Putnam

The contributions in this volume present cutting-edge theoretical and structural analyses of issues surrounding German-language islands, or Sprachinseln, throughout the world. The individual topics of study in this volume focus on various aspects of these German-language islands such as (but not… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 123] 2011. xii, 477 pp.

Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki

The articles in this volume examine the notion of clausal subordination based on English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Japanese conversational data. Some of the articles approach ‘subordination’ in terms of social action, taking into account what participants are doing with their talk,… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 24] 2011. viii, 244 pp.

Subordination in Native South American Languages

Edited by Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken

In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 97] 2011. viii, 315 pp.

Syntactic Effects of Conjunctivist Semantics: Unifying movement and adjunction

Tim Hunter

This book explores the syntactic and semantic properties of movement and adjunction in natural language. A precise formulation of minimalist syntax is proposed, guided by an independently motivated hypothesis about the composition of neo-Davidsonian logical forms, in which there is no atomic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 170] 2011. xi, 185 pp.

The Syntax of the Be-Possessive: Parametric variation and surface diversities

Hakyung Jung

This book is the first attempt to provide a unified account of the be-possessive syntax and its extension to the modal and the perfect constructions in Russian/North Russian within a generative framework. Apparently diverse constructions are construed as deriving from the have/be parameter, which… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 172] 2011. xiii, 269 pp.

The Typology of Asian Englishes

Edited by Lisa Lim and Nikolas Gisborne

When considering the structure of New Englishes which have evolved in – multilingual, mostly post-colonial – contexts of Asia (thus, Asian Englishes), the significant factors to be considered are: 1) the variety/ies of the English lexifier that entered the local context; 2) the nature of… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 33] 2011. vii, 120 pp.

The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German

Christopher D. Sapp

This research monograph is an empirical and theoretical study of clause-final verbal complexes in the history of German. The book presents corpus studies of Middle High German and Early New High German and surveys of contemporary varieties of German. These investigations of the verbal complex… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 173] 2011. ix, 225 pp.

Adjectives: Formal analyses in syntax and semantics

Edited by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Ora Matushansky

Adjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs. The present volume brings together studies in the syntax and semantics of adjectives. Four of the contributions investigate the syntax of adjectives in a variety of languages (English, French, Mandarin… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 153] 2010. vii, 335 pp.

Appositive Relative Clauses in English: Discourse functions and competing structures

Rudy Loock

This book sheds new light on Appositive Relative Clauses (ARCs), a structure that is generally studied from a merely syntactic point of view, in opposition to Determinative (or Restrictive) Relative Clauses (DRCs). In this volume, ARCs are examined from a discourse/pragmatic point of view,… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 22] 2010. xiii, 232 pp.

Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Maia Duguine, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga

The topic of this collection is argument structure. The fourteen chapters in this book are divided into four parts: Semantic and Syntactic Properties of Event Structure; A Cartographic View on Argument Structure; Syntactic Heads Involved in Argument Structure; and Argument Structure in Language… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 158] 2010. vi, 348 pp.

Aspect in Grammatical Variation

Edited by James A. Walker

The articles in this edited volume represent a range of approaches to studying the role of verbal aspect in grammatical variation. Issues addressed include: defining the variable context; operationalizing aspectual distinctions as factors conditioning linguistic variation; and the appropriate… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 6] 2010. vi, 150 pp.

Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies

Edited by Fernando Zúñiga and Seppo Kittilä

Benefactives are constructions used to express that a state of affairs holds to someone’s advantage. The same construction sometimes also serves as a malefactive, whose meanings are generally not a simple mirror image of the benefactive. Benefactive constructions cover a wide range of phenomena:… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 92] 2010. x, 440 pp.

Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy: Syntax and pragmatics

Edited by Isabelle Bril

This collective volume explores clause-linkage strategies in a cross-linguistic perspective with greater emphasis on subordination. Part I presents some theoretical reassessment of syntactic terminologies and distinctive criteria for subordination, as well as typological methods based on sets of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 121] 2010. viii, 632 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.

Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Information Structure

Edited by Carsten Breul and Edward Göbbel

This volume presents original comparative and contrastive research into various aspects of information structure (topic, focus, contrastivity, givenness, anaphoricity) as well as into forms and structures whose realisation depends on information-structural factors (clefts, dislocations, reflexives,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 165] 2010. xii, 306 pp.

Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose

Olga Spevak

Latin is a language with variable (so-called 'free') word order. Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose (Caesar, Cicero, and Sallust) presents the first systematic description of its constituent order from a pragmatic point of view. Apart from general characteristics of Latin constituent order,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 117] 2010. xv, 318 pp.

Continuity and Change in Grammar

Edited by Anne Breitbarth, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis

One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the causes of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ‘actuation problem’: why is it that changes occurring in a given language at a certain time cannot be reliably predicted to recur in other… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 159] 2010. viii, 359 pp.

Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar

Edited by Hans C. Boas

The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 10] 2010. vii, 244 pp.

Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding

Edited by Sergio Scalise and Irene Vogel

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

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

Edges, Heads, and Projections: Interface properties

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Virginia Hill

This collection deals with central issues in the syntax of clauses and their interfaces with the conceptual-intentional system. The book targets the syntactic properties that have an impact on the interpretation of discourse and temporal dependencies, functional fields including CP, pragmatic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 156] 2010. vii, 265 pp.

Ergativity in Amazonia

Edited by Spike Gildea and Francesc Queixalós

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

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

Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars

Edited by Michael T. Putnam

The Minimalist Program has advanced a research program that builds the design of human language from conceptual necessity. Seminal proposals by Frampton & Gutmann (1999, 2000, 2002) introduced the notion that an ideal syntactic theory should be ‘crash-proof’. Such a version of the Minimalist… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 3] 2010. xii, 301 pp.

The Expression of Information Structure: A documentation of its diversity across Africa

Edited by Ines Fiedler and Anne Schwarz

This book analyzes the different patterns found across subsaharan Africa to express information structure. Based on languages from all four African language phyla, it documents the great diversity of linguistic means used to encode information-structural phenomena and is therefore highly relevant… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 91] 2010. xii, 383 pp.

Extraction Asymmetries: Experimental evidence from German

Tanja Kiziak

This monograph addresses divergent views in the linguistic literature on whether German displays the that-trace effect and other subject/object asymmetries commonly found for long extractions in English and other languages. Using newly developed rating methodologies, the author exposes consistent… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 163] 2010. xvi, 273 pp.

Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders

Edited by Nino Amiridze, Boyd Davis and Margaret Maclagan

Fillers are items that speakers insert in spontaneous speech as a repair strategy. Types of fillers include hesitation markers and placeholders. Both are used to fill pauses that arise during planning problems or in lexical retrieval failure. However, while hesitation markers may not bear any… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 93] 2010. vii, 224 pp.

Focus Particles in German: Syntax, prosody, and information structure

Stefan Sudhoff

This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and links their syntactic, semantic, and information structural properties to their prosodic characteristics. The study also shows that focus particles present… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 151] 2010. xiii, 335 pp.

Framing: From grammar to application

Edited by Paul Sambre and Maria-Cornelia Wermuth

The aim of this issue is to provide an overview of current research into frame semantics and construction grammar, and to stimulate the dialogue between these frameworks and the notion of framing in other linguistic traditions. Using Fillmore’s frame semantics as a common source of inspiration, the… read more

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 24] 2010. v, 193 pp.

Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization

Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale

This volume, which emerged from a workshop at the New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 conference held at KU Leuven in July 2008, contains a collection of papers which investigate the relationship between synchronic gradience and the apparent gradualness of linguistic change, largely from the… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 90] 2010. ix, 306 pp.

Grammaticalization: Current views and issues

Edited by Katerina Stathi, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König

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

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 119] 2010. vii, 379 pp.

Heterogeneity in Word-Formation Patterns: A corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English

Susanne Mühleisen

Postulated word-formation rules often exclude formations that can nevertheless be found in actual usage. This book presents an in-depth investigation of a highly heterogeneous word-formation pattern in English: the formation of nouns by suffixation with -ee. Rather than relying on a single semantic… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 118] 2010. xiii, 245 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2010

General Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck

The Linguistic Variation Yearbook is exclusively devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. In this perspective, the yearbook aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It… read more

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 10] 2010. viii, 302 pp.

The Linguistics Enterprise: From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics

Edited by Martin B.H. Everaert, Tom Lentz, Hannah N.M. De Mulder, Øystein Nilsen and Arjen Zondervan

Linguistics investigates the systems underlying language, speech, and language use. Linguists seek to develop an understanding of the rules and laws that govern the structure and use of particular languages and the manner in which these interact with internal systems and processes (interpretation,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 150] 2010. ix, 379 pp.

Minimalist Interfaces: Evidence from Indonesian and Javanese

Yosuke Sato

This monograph explores the interface between syntax and its related components through in-depth investigation of a sizable portion of the grammar of Indonesian and Javanese. It can be read on two levels. Theoretically, it proposes the minimalist interface thesis that syntax-external linguistic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 155] 2010. xiii, 159 pp.

Modality and Subordinators

Jackie Nordström

This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It argues that general subordinators (or complementizers) denote propositional modality (otherwise expressed by moods such as the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 116] 2010. xvii, 341 pp.

Mood in the Languages of Europe

Edited by Björn Rothstein and Rolf Thieroff

This book is the first comprehensive survey of mood in the languages of Europe. It gives readers access to a collection of data on mood. Each article presents the mood system of a specific European language in a way that readers not familiar with this language are able to understand and to… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 120] 2010. xvi, 647 pp.

The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus: Minimalist inquiries in the Quechua periphery

Liliana Sánchez

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

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

Movement Theory of Control

Edited by Norbert Hornstein and Maria Polinsky

Natural languages offer many examples of “displacement,” i.e. constructions in which a non-local expression is critical for some grammatical end. Two central examples include phenomena such as raising and passive on the one hand, and control on the other. Though each phenomenon is an example of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 154] 2010. vii, 330 pp.

New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion

Edited by Victoria Hasko and Renee Perelmutter

This volume unifies a wide breadth of interdisciplinary studies examining the expression of motion in Slavic languages. The contributors to the volume have joined in the discussion of Slavic motion talk from diachronic, typological, comparative, cognitive, and acquisitional perspectives with a… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 115] 2010. x, 392 pp.

Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions

Edited by John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts and Tomonori Matsushita

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

[The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals, 2] 2010. vii, 225 pp.

Parts of Speech: Empirical and theoretical advances

Edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau

Parts of Speech are a central aspect of linguistic theory and analysis. Though a long-established tradition in Western linguistics and philosophy has assumed the validity of Parts of Speech in the study of language, there are still many questions left unanswered. For example, should Parts of Speech… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 25] 2010. vi, 291 pp.

Phase Theory

Ángel J. Gallego

This book provides a detailed and up to date review of the framework of phases (Chomsky 2000 and subsequent work). It explores the interaction between the narrow syntactic computation and the external systems from a minimalist perspective. As has sometimes been noted, Phase Theory is the current… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 152] 2010. xii, 365 pp.

Sentential Form and Prosodic Structure of Catalan

Ingo Feldhausen

This monograph presents an experimental and theoretical inquiry into the role of sentential form and variation in the prosodic structure of Catalan. The empirical section examines intonational phrasing across sentence forms, including SVO structures with either nominal or sentential objects and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 168] 2010. xiii, 285 pp.

Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster

Edited by Jan-Wouter Zwart and Mark de Vries

"Structure is at the rock-bottom of all explanatory sciences" (Jan Koster). Forty years ago, the hypothesis that underlying the bewildering variety of syntactic phenomena are general and unified structural patterns of unexpected beauty and simplicity gave rise to major advancements in the study of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 164] 2010. xxiii, 395 pp.

Studies in West Frisian Grammar

Selected papers by Germen J. de Haan

In this volume, Germen de Haan gives a multi-faceted view of the syntax, sociolinguistics, and phonology of West-Frisian. The author discusses distinct aspects of the syntax of verbs in Frisian: finiteness and Verb Second, embedded root phenomena, the verbal complex, verbal complementation, and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 161] 2010. x, 384 pp.

The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis

Lobke Aelbrecht

This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch. The author makes two main claims: The head selecting the ellipsis site is checked against the head licensing ellipsis in order for ellipsis to occur,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 149] 2010. xii, 230 pp.

Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing

Edited by Patrick Brandt and Marco García García

What happens when a canonically transitive form meets a canonically transitive meaning, and what happens when this doesn’t happen? How do dyadic forms relate to monadic ones, and what are the entailments of the operations that the grammar uses to relate one to the other? Collecting original expert… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 166] 2010. vii, 308 pp.

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

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

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

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

Verbs of Implicit Negation and their Complements in the History of English

Yoko Iyeiri

For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The principal focus of this book concerns various shifts of complements which verbs of implicit negation (e.g. forbid, forbear, avoid, prohibit, and prevent) have experienced in the history of English.… read more

[Not in series, 155] 2010. xv, 223 pp.

Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation

Susann Fischer

This book presents a new perspective on the interaction between word-order and grammaticalisation by investigating the changes that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have undergone in Romance (Catalan, French, Spanish) as compared to Germanic (English, Icelandic). It discusses a great deal of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 157] 2010. ix, 200 pp.

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

Philippe Prévost

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

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

The Acquisition of Word Order: Micro-cues, information structure, and economy

Marit Westergaard

Within a new model of language acquisition, this book discusses verb second (V2) word order in situations where there is variation in the input. While traditional generative accounts consider V2 to be a parameter, this study shows that, in many languages, this word order is dependent on fine… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 145] 2009. xii, 245 pp.

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 7

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more

[Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 7] 2009. iv, 356 pp.

Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 11: Papers from the 2007 New York Conference

Edited by Marcel den Dikken and Robert M. Vago

This volume brings together ten papers, all presented at the 8th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (New York City, 2007), addressing a wide range of topics in the morphology, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, and syntax of Hungarian, with discussion of related facts… read more

[Approaches to Hungarian, 11] 2009. ix, 280 pp.

Coding Participant Marking: Construction types in twelve African languages

Edited by Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

Whereas Africa as a typological area is often associated with extensive verb morphology and verb serialization, this collection of studies shows that there is tremendous typological diversity at the clausal level. Verb serialization in the Khoisan area contrasts with extensive case-marking in… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 110] 2009. xvi, 389 pp.

Complex Processes in New Languages

Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Norval Smith

In recent years, there has been a new interest in evaluating ‘complex’ structures in languages. The implications of such studies are varied, e.g., the distinction between supposedly more complex and less complex languages, how complexity relates to human knowledge of language, and the role of the… read more

[Creole Language Library, 35] 2009. vii, 409 pp.

Correlatives Cross-Linguistically

Edited by Anikó Lipták

This volume brings together recent work in generative syntax on correlative relative constructions. Greatly expanding on the Hindi-oriented scope of previous studies, it describes and analyzes correlative constructions in a range of languages, such as Basque, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Sanskrit,… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 1] 2009. vii, 375 pp.

Cyclical Change

Edited by Elly van Gelderen

Linguistic Cycles are ever present in language change and involve a phrase or word that gradually disappears and is replaced by a new linguistic item. The most well-known cycles involve negatives, where an initial single negative, such as not, is reinforced by another negative, such as no thing,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 146] 2009. viii, 329 pp.

Deconstructing Constructions

Edited by Christopher S. Butler and Javier Martín Arista

This collection of papers brings together contributions from experts in functional linguistics and in Construction Grammar approaches, with the aim of exploring the concept of construction from different angles and trying to arrive at a better understanding of what a construction is, and what roles… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 107] 2009. xx, 306 pp.

Demonstratives and Definite Articles as Nominal Auxiliaries

Dorian Roehrs

Written in the cartographic tradition, this monograph is concerned with the inner structure and derivation of noun phrases. It proposes that demonstratives and definite articles are similar to auxiliaries in the clause. Referencing mostly Germanic languages, the book argues that determiners are… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 140] 2009. xii, 196 pp.

Dependency in Linguistic Description

Edited by Alain Polguère and Igor Mel’čuk

The book covers three major topics crucial for contemporary syntactic research. Firstly, it offers a sketch of a general theory of dependency in natural language. Different types of linguistic dependencies are distinguished (semantic, syntactic, and morphological), the criteria for their… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 111] 2009. xxii, 281 pp.

The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations

Glyn Hicks

The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations resolves a conspicuous problem for Minimalist theory, the apparently representational nature of the binding conditions. Hicks adduces a broad variety of evidence against the binding conditions applying at LF and builds upon the insights of recent proposals by… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 139] 2009. xii, 309 pp.

Determiners: Universals and variation

Edited by Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul and Martina Wiltschko

This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrelated languages. It seeks to answer the core question of modern linguistic theory: Which properties of languages are universal and which are… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 147] 2009. vii, 247 pp.

Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface

Edited by Ute Römer-Barron and Rainer Schulze

This volume showcases studies that recognize and provide evidence for the inseparability of lexis and grammar. The contributors explore in what ways these two areas, often treated separately in linguistic theory and description, form an organic whole. The papers in Section I (Setting the Scene)… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 35] 2009. vi, 321 pp.

Focus and Background in Romance Languages

Edited by Andreas Dufter and Daniel Jacob

Focus–background structure has taken center stage in much current theorizing about sentence prosody, syntax, and semantics. However, both the inventory of focus expressions found cross-linguistically and the interpretive consequences associated with each of these continue to be insufficiently… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 112] 2009. vii, 362 pp.

Formulaic Language: Volume 1: Distribution and historical change, Volume 2: Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations. 2 vols. set

Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley

This two volume collection on formulaic language is among the first ones in the field. The authors of the present book represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed are similarly diverse, including languages such as Arabic, Japanese,… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 82-83] 2009. 724 pp.

Formulaic Language: Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations

Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley

This book is the second of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first in the field. The authors of the papers in this volume represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed come from a… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 83] 2009. xxiv, 361 pp.

Formulaic Language: Volume 1. Distribution and historical change

Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley

This book is the first of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first ones in the field. The book draws attention to the ritualized, repetitive side of language, which to some estimates make up over 50% of spoken and written text. While in the… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 82] 2009. xxiv, 315 pp.

The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, ontogeny, neuro-cognition, evolution

T. Givón

Complex hierarchic syntax is a hallmark of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the evolutionary apex of the uniquely - human language faculty - evolutionary yet mysteriously immune to Darwinian… read more

[Not in series, 146] 2009. xviii, 366 pp.

Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English: The syntax–pragmatics interface in second language acquisition

Marcus Callies

This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 186] 2009. xviii, 293 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2009

General Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 9] 2009. 257 pp.

The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking

Edited by John Newman

This volume reviews a range of fascinating linguistic facts about ingestive predicates in the world’s languages. The highly multifaceted nature of ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ events gives rise to interesting clausal properties of these predicates, such as the atypicality of transitive constructions involving… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 84] 2009. xii, 280 pp.

Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar

Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg and Antonio Barcelona

Figurative language has been regarded traditionally as situated outside the realm of grammar. However, with the advent of Cognitive Linguistics, metonymy and metaphor are now recognized as being not only ornamental rhetorical tropes but fundamental figures of thought that shape, to a considerable… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 25] 2009. xiii, 423 pp.

Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax

Edited by Jairo Nunes

This collection of papers discusses some of the major syntactic properties of Brazilian Portuguese from a minimalist perspective. The volume focuses on movement and empty category issues and brings new empirical material on a variety of topics (null subjects and finite control, possessive and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 142] 2009. vi, 243 pp.

Modality in Japanese: The layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of functional categories

Heiko Narrog

Hierarchical clause structure is an important feature of most theories of grammar. While it has been an indispensable part of formal syntactic theories, functional theories have more recently discovered for themselves a ‘layered structure of the clause’. A major focus of the current discussion on… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 109] 2009. xxii, 277 pp.

The Motivated Syntax of Arbitrary Signs: Cognitive constraints on Spanish clitic clustering

Erica C. García

This detailed study challenges the claim that syntax is arbitrary and autonomous, as well as the assumption that Spanish clitic clusters constitute grammaticalized units. Diverse--apparently unrelated--restrictions on clitic clustering in both simplex VP's and Accusative cum Infinitive structures… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 61] 2009. xv, 335 pp.

Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond

Edited by Norbert Cyffer, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer

This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a great diversity of negation patterns, the following… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 87] 2009. vi, 368 pp.

New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Vyvyan Evans and Stéphanie Pourcel

Nearly three decades since the publication of the seminal Metaphors We Live By, Cognitive Linguistics is now a mature theoretical and empirical enterprise, with a voluminous associated literature. It is arguably the most rapidly expanding ‘school’ in modern linguistics, and one of the most exciting… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 24] 2009. xi, 519 pp.

Representational Deficits in SLA: Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins

Edited by Neal Snape, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung and Michael Sharwood Smith

The main focus of this collection is to explore the question of “representational deficits” in second language acquisition, currently a much-debated topic. The volume is intended as a tribute to Roger Hawkins, a leading scholar in generative second language acquisition, whose research has been… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 47] 2009. xxv, 250 pp.

Second Language Acquisition of Articles: Empirical findings and theoretical implications

Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo and Roger Hawkins

The studies in this collection address a topic that has recently become the focus of considerable interest in second language acquisition (SLA) research: the acquisition of articles. Languages appear to vary in whether they have articles (English, German, Norwegian do, but Chinese, Japanese,… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 49] 2009. ix, 272 pp.

The Structure of Stative Verbs

Antonia Rothmayr

This book explores the nature of stative verbs, their eventuality structure, and the patterns of argument realization. The study shows that there is no single class of stative verbs. Rather, several distinct groups of verbs are found: Verbs that undergo a systematic stative/eventive ambiguity;… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 143] 2009. xv, 216 pp.

Symbol Grounding

Edited by Tony Belpaeme, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman

When explaining cognition one must explain how representations in the mind, or symbols, become meaningful by connecting to the external world. This process of connecting symbols with sensorimotor experiences is known as symbol grounding. The classical view of symbol grounding is that it is an… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 21] 2009. v, 167 pp.

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

Daniel Siddiqi

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

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

Time and Again: Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics. In honor of D. Terence Langendoen

Edited by William D. Lewis, Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley and Scott O. Farrar

This volume is a collection of papers that highlights some recurring themes that have surfaced in the generative tradition in linguistics over the past 40 years. The volume is more than a historical take on a theoretical tradition; rather, it is also a "compass" pointing to exciting new empirical… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 135] 2009. xiv, 265 pp.

Towards a Derivational Syntax: Survive-minimalism

Edited by Michael T. Putnam

This volume explores recent advancements in the Minimalist Program that adopt Stroik’s (1999, 2009) Survive Principle as the principle means of accounting for displacement phenomena in earlier versions of generative theory. These contributions bring to light many advantages and challenges that… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 144] 2009. x, 269 pp.

A Typology of Purpose Clauses

Karsten Schmidtke-Bode

This book presents the first comprehensive typology of purpose clause constructions in the world’s languages. Based on a stratified variety sample of 80 languages, it uncovers the unity and diversity of the morphosyntactic means by which purposive relations are coded, and discusses the status of… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 88] 2009. xii, 229 pp.

Variations on Polysynthesis: The Eskaleut languages

Edited by Marc-Antoine Mahieu and Nicole Tersis

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

[Typological Studies in Language, 86] 2009. ix, 312 pp.

Vocalize to Localize

Edited by Christian Abry, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz

Vocalize-to-Localize? Meerkats do it for specific predators… And babies point with their index finger toward targets of interest at about nine months, well before using language-specific that-demonstratives. With what-interrogatives they are universal and, as relativizers and complementizers, play… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 13] 2009. x, 311 pp.

'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen and Wiebke Ramm

The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination – or… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 98] 2008. vi, 359 pp.

Adpositions: Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives

Edited by Dennis Kurzon and Silvia Adler

This book is a collection of articles which deal with adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what is traditionally treated in studies from a European and Semitic orientation – prepositions, but it presents studies on postpositions, too.… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 74] 2008. viii, 307 pp.

Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages

Edited by Felix K. Ameka and Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu

This book explores the thesis that in the Kwa languages of West Africa, aspect and modality are more central to the grammar of the verb than tense. Where tense marking has emerged it is invariably in the expression of the future, and therefore concerned with the impending actualization or… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 100] 2008. ix, 335 pp.

Aspect in Burmese: Meaning and function

Nicoletta Romeo

The book presents an overview of the aspectual system of Burmese, and it focuses on the analysis and description of the meaning and function of some aspectual markers which are among the most commonly used in the language. The analysis highlights a few important facts. Firstly, these markers, which… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 96] 2008. xv, 289 pp.

Asymmetric Events

Edited by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

The book introduces the concept of asymmetric events, an important concept in language and cognition, which, for the first time in linguistic literature, is identified in a more systematic way and analyzed in a number of different languages, including typologically or genetically unrelated ones.… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 11] 2008. xii, 287 pp.

The Bantu–Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure

Edited by Cécile De Cat and Katherine Demuth

This landmark volume is the first work specifically designed to explore the extent to which striking surface morpho-syntactic similarities between Bantu and Romance languages actually represent similar syntactic structures. In particular, it explores the timely and much debated issues of verbal… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 131] 2008. xix, 355 pp.

Case and Grammatical Relations: Studies in honor of Bernard Comrie

Edited by Greville G. Corbett and Michael Noonan

The papers in this volume can be grouped into two broad, overlapping classes: those dealing primarily with case and those dealing primarily with grammatical relations. With regard to case, topics include descriptions of the case systems of two Caucasian languages, the problems of determining how… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 81] 2008. ix, 290 pp.

Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages

Edited by Dalina Kallulli and Liliane Tasmowski

This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 130] 2008. ix, 442 pp.

Constructional Reorganization

Edited by Jaakko Leino

The present volume consists of several novel and different applications of the Construction Grammar framework to areas such as language change, variation, and the internal organization of grammar. The book is a collection of articles which bring together the framework of Construction Grammar and… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 5] 2008. vi, 155 pp.

Contrastive Rhetoric: Reaching to intercultural rhetoric

Edited by Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout and William Rozycki

This volume explores contrastive rhetoric for audiences in both ESL contexts and international EFL contexts, exposing the newest developments in theories of culture and discourse and pushing the boundaries beyond any previously staked ground. The book presents a comprehensive set of empirical… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 169] 2008. viii, 324 pp.

Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions

Edited by Ritva Laury

The study of clause combining has been advanced lately by increasing interest in the study of actual language use in a typologically diverse set of languages. A number of received understandings have been challenged, among these the idea of clause combinations as being divisible into subordination… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 80] 2008. xiv, 253 pp.

Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics

Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem, Gabi Danon and Susan Rothstein

This volume presents a collection of specially commissioned papers devoted to analyzing the linguistics of Modern Hebrew from a number of perspectives. Various aspects of Modern Hebrew grammar are discussed including the structure of the lexicon, grammatical features and inflectional morphology, as… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 134] 2008. vii, 393 pp.

The Emergence of Order in Syntax

Jordi Fortuny

The syntactic component of the faculty of language is argued to be a rewiring of a few independently motivated components: features, the conjunction of a successive operation of union-formation (‘Merge’) and of derivational records (‘nests’), and principles of analysis. Since nests linearize… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 119] 2008. viii, 211 pp.

English Adjective Comparison: A historical perspective

Victorina González-Díaz

The present work contributes to a better understanding of the English system of degree by means of a study of a number of aspects in the evolution of adjective comparison that have so far either been considered controversial or not been accounted for at all. As will be shown, the diachronic aspects… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 299] 2008. xix, 252 pp.

Essays on Nominal Determination: From morphology to discourse management

Edited by Henrik Høeg Müller and Alex Klinge

This volume brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that nominal determination and reference assignment play in the complicated interplay between thought, language and communication. The articles can be divided roughly into five… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 99] 2008. xviii, 369 pp.

Explorations in Integrational Linguistics: Four essays on German, French, and Guaraní

Edited by Robin Sackmann

Integrational Linguistics (IL), developed by the German linguist Hans-Heinrich Lieb and others, is an approach to linguistics that integrates linguistic descriptions, construed as ‘declarative’ theories, with a detailed theory of language that covers all classical areas of linguistics, from… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 285] 2008. ix, 239 pp.

Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics: Volume 1: An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Automata, Volume 2: Applications in Linguistic Theory, Volume 3: Psycholinguistic Applications

Willem J.M. Levelt

Almost four decades have passed since Formal Grammars first appeared in 1974. At that time it was still possible to rather comprehensively review for (psycho)linguists the relevant literature on the theory of formal languages and automata, on their applications in linguistic theory and in the… read more

[Not in series, 144] 2008. viii, 585 pp.

Germanic Future Constructions: A usage-based approach to language change

Martin Hilpert

This study offers a Construction Grammar approach to the historical development and modern usage of future constructions in English, German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish. On the basis of corpus data, constructions such as English be going to or German werden are analyzed as symbolic units that convey… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 7] 2008. ix, 205 pp.

The Grammar of Repetition: Nupe grammar at the syntax–phonology interface

Jason Kandybowicz

Displacement is a fundamental property of grammar. Typically, when an occurrence moves it is pronounced in only one environment. This was previously viewed as a primitive/irreducible property of grammar. Recent work, however, suggests that it follows from principled interactions between the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 136] 2008. xiii, 168 pp.

Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers

Edited by Thórhallur Eythórsson

This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The overall theme of the volume is ‘internal factors in grammatical change.’ The papers focus on… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 113] 2008. vi, 441 pp.

History of German Negation

Agnes Jäger

This book represents the first comprehensive overview over the history of negation in German. It addresses both the development of the negation particles as well as the diachrony of indefinites in the scope of negation and the phenomenon of Negative Concord. Being based on a corpus study of several… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 118] 2008. ix, 350 pp.

Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses

Edited by Folke Josephson and Ingmar Söhrman

The focus of this volume is the interdependence of diachrony and synchrony in the investigation of syntactic structure. A diverse set of modern and ancient languages is investigated from this perspective, including Hittite, the Classical languages, Old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 103] 2008. viii, 350 pp.

An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Automata

Willem J.M. Levelt

The present text is a re-edition of Volume I of Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics, a three-volume work published in 1974. This volume is an entirely self-contained introduction to the theory of formal grammars and automata, which hasn’t lost any of its relevance. Of course, major… read more

[Not in series, 143] 2008. xi, 139 pp.

Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface

Edited by Robert D. Van Valin Jr.

Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface presents on-going research in Role and Reference Grammar in a number of critical areas of linguistic theory: verb semantics and argument structure, the nature of syntactic categories and syntactic representation, prosody and syntax,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 105] 2008. xxiv, 484 pp.

La raison morphologique: Hommage à la mémoire de Danielle Corbin

Bernard Fradin

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

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

The Layered DP: Form and meaning of French indefinites

Tabea Ihsane

This book examines argumental un-NPs and du/des-NPs in French: nominals with the indefinite article and with the so-called ‘partitive article’ respectively. The main aim is to account for the different interpretations of these indefinites and to determine how interpretation and structure are… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 124] 2008. ix, 260 pp.

The Left Periphery: The interaction of syntax, pragmatics and prosody in Czech

Anne Sturgeon

This study of the interaction of syntax, pragmatics, and prosody in left peripheral positions focuses on two left dislocation constructions in Czech, Hanging Topic Left Dislocation and Contrastive Left Dislocation. The structure of the left periphery is delineated through a thorough description and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 129] 2008. xi, 143 pp.

The Limits of Syntactic Variation

Edited by Theresa Biberauer

Against the background of the past half century’s typological and generative work on comparative syntax, this volume brings together 16 papers considering what we have learned and may still be able to learn about the nature and extent of syntactic variation. More specifically, it offers a… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 132] 2008. vii, 521 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2008

General Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 8] 2008. 284 pp.

Locative Alternation: A lexical-constructional approach

Seizi Iwata

The aim of the present volume is two-fold: to give a coherent account of the locative alternation in English, and to develop a constructional theory that overcomes a number of problems in earlier constructional accounts. The lexical-constructional account proposed here is characterized by two main… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 6] 2008. xiv, 239 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.

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

Jason D. Haugen

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

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

New-Dialect Formation in Canada: Evidence from the English modal auxiliaries

Stefan Dollinger

This book details the development of eleven modal auxiliaries in late 18th- and 19th-century Canadian English in a framework of new-dialect formation. The study assesses features of the modal auxiliaries, tracing influences to British and American input varieties, parallel developments, or Canadian… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 97] 2008. xxii, 355 pp.

The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance

Edited by Ulrich Detges and Richard Waltereit

Recent years have seen intense debates between formal (generative) and functional linguists, particularly with respect to the relation between grammar and usage. This debate is directly relevant to diachronic linguistics, where one and the same phenomenon of language change can be explained from… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 293] 2008. vi, 252 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XXI: Provo, Utah, March 2007

Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson

This volume contains a selection of reviewed and revised papers from the twenty-first Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, which was held on March 2–3, 2007, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The papers in this volume deal with a variety of topics in Arabic linguistics with a notable… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 301] 2008. x, 206 pp.

Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective

Edited by Sylviane Granger and Fanny Meunier

Long regarded as a peripheral issue, phraseology is now taking centre stage in a wide range of fields. This recent explosion of interest undoubtedly has a great deal to do with the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated the key role of phraseological expressions in… read more

[Not in series, 139] 2008. xxviii, 422 pp.

Phraseology in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

Edited by Fanny Meunier and Sylviane Granger

This book addresses the key role of phraseology in second language acquisition and instruction. It is divided into three main sections: Extracting and Describing Phraseological Units investigates the role played by native and learner corpora in the extraction and description of multiword units, two… read more

[Not in series, 138] 2008. xi, 259 pp.

Productivity: Evidence from Case and Argument Structure in Icelandic

Jóhanna Barðdal

Productivity of argument structure constructions is a new emerging field within cognitive-functional linguistics. The term productivity as used in linguistic research contains at least three subconcepts: ‘extensibility’, ‘regularity’, and ‘generality’. The focus in this study of case and argument… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 8] 2008. xiii, 209 pp.

Split Possession: An areal-linguistic study of the alienability correlation and related phenomena in the languages of Europe

Thomas Stolz, Sonja Kettler, Cornelia Stroh and Aina Urdze

This book is a functional-typological study of possession splits in European languages. It shows that genetically and structurally diverse languages such as Icelandic, Welsh, and Maltese display possessive systems which are sensitive to semantically based distinctions reminiscent of the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 101] 2008. x, 546 pp.

Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages

Edited by Edward J. Vajda

Across North Asia, complex sentence formation patterns display an unusually high prevalence of suffixed relational morphemes used to convey subordination. Suffixal subordinators occur in a variety of genetic groupings, most notably Samoyedic, Turkic, and Tungusic, but also in some of the region’s… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 300] 2008. xii, 218 pp.

The Syntactic Nature of Inner Aspect: A minimalist perspective

Jonathan E. MacDonald

This book explores the syntactic nature of inner aspect from a minimalist perspective. It begins with the new observation that there are two independent properties at play in English inner aspect: the object-to-event mapping and event structure. From a discussion of English statives and Russian, it… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 133] 2008. xv, 241 pp.

Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P

Edited by Anna Asbury, Jakub Dotlačil, Berit Gehrke and Rick Nouwen

The category P belongs to a less studied area in theoretical linguistics, which has only recently attracted considerable attention. This volume brings together pioneering work on adpositions in spatial relations from different theoretical and cross-linguistic perspectives. The common theme in these… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 120] 2008. vi, 416 pp.

The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives: External arguments in change-of-state contexts

Florian Schäfer

This book develops an approach to the causative alternation that assumes syntactic event decomposition and a configurational theta theory. It is couched within the framework of the Minimalist Program and, especially, within Distributed Morphology. Central to the work is the syntax and semantics of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 126] 2008. xi, 324 pp.

The Syntax of Jamaican Creole: A cartographic perspective

Stephanie Durrleman

This book offers an in-depth study of the overall syntax of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole, the first since Bailey (1966). The author, a Jamaican linguist, meticulously examines distributional and interpretative properties of functional morphology in Jamaican Creole (JC) from a cartographic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 127] 2008. xii, 190 pp.

Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization

Edited by Elena Seoane and María José López-Couso

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

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

Unique Focus: Languages without multiple wh-questions

Marina Stoyanova

This monograph focuses on an interesting typological property shared by four languages: the ungrammaticality of multiple wh-questions in Irish, Berber, Italian and Somali. It contains a broad discussion of data related to the grammar of wh-questions, a comparative analysis of wh-constructions in… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 123] 2008. xi, 184 pp.

Verbal Prepositions and Argument Structure: Path, place and possession in Norwegian

Mai Ellin Tungseth

This book investigates different types of verb-PP combinations and examines the types of meanings which arise when the argument structure of the PP fuses with the verbal argument structure. Focussing mainly on data from Norwegian, the book investigates three different empirical domains of PP-VP… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 121] 2008. ix, 187 pp.

Adverb Licensing and Clause Structure in English

Dagmar Haumann

This monograph provides an in-depth investigation of the structural integration and the licensing of adverbs in relation to clause structure, with special emphasis on the structural implementation of the relation between the position and interpretation of adverbs. The book substantiates the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 105] 2007. ix, 435 pp.

Applicatives: Structure and interpretation from a minimalist perspective

Youngmi Jeong

Applicatives is concerned with the syntax of constructions that contain arguments that transcend the traditional subject-object characterization, and how the syntax of such constructions yields the interpretive effects that previous research has identified. At the empirical level this volume… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 104] 2007. vii, 144 pp.

Argument Structure

Edited by Eric J. Reuland, Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Giorgos Spathas

Recent developments in the generative tradition have created new interest in matters of argument structure and argument projection, giving prominence to the discussion on the role of lexical entries. Particularly, the more traditional lexicalist view that encodes argument structure information on… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 108] 2007. xviii, 243 pp.

Beyond Coherence: The syntax of opacity in German

Vera Lee-Schoenfeld

The overarching theme of this volume is one of the central concerns of syntactic theory: How local is syntax, and what are the measures of syntactic locality? It is argued here that movement and anaphoric relations are governed by a unified concept of locality: the phase. On an empirical level,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 114] 2007. viii, 206 pp.

Cognitive English Grammar

Günter Radden and René Dirven †

Cognitive English Grammar is designed to be used as a textbook in courses of English and general linguistics. It introduces the reader to cognitive linguistic theory and shows that Cognitive Grammar helps us to gain a better understanding of the grammar of English. The notions of motivation and… read more

[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 2] 2007. xiv, 374 pp.

The Copy Theory of Movement

Edited by Norbert Corver and Jairo Nunes

This volume brings together papers which address issues regarding the copy theory of movement. According to this theory, a trace is a copy of the moved element that is deleted in the phonological component but is available for interpretation at L(ogical) F(orm). Thus far, the bulk of the research… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 107] 2007. vi, 388 pp.

Coreference, Modality, and Focus: Studies on the syntax–semantics interface

Edited by Luis Eguren and Olga Fernández-Soriano

This volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVIth Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. All the papers deal with current issues within the generative framework, mostly paying attention to phenomena pertaining to the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 111] 2007. xii, 239 pp.

Experiential Constructions in Yucatec Maya: A typologically based analysis of a functional domain in a Mayan language

Elisabeth Verhoeven

This book combines a fieldwork-based language-specific analysis with a typological investigation. It offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the form and semantics of experiencer constructions in Yucatec, the Mayan language of the Yucatecan peninsula in Mexico. Since the linguistic… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 87] 2007. xiv, 380 pp.

Expressing the Same by the Different: The subjunctive vs the indicative in French

Igor Dreer

This volume offers an alternative, sign-oriented analysis of the distribution of the French Indicative and Subjunctive. It rejects both government and functions, attributed to both moods, and shows that the distribution of the Indicative and the Subjunctive is motivated by their invariant meanings.… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 59] 2007. xxx, 272 pp.

La négation dans les langues romanes

Sous la direction de Franck Floricic

Negation has always been and still is a central topic in typological studies and theoretical research. Its centrality shows itself in the fact that it is not restricted to a given linguistic field but compasses the whole domain of linguistic studies. Very often, works on negation are brought about… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 26] 2007. xii, 229 pp

Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages: Essays in honour of K. A. Jayaseelan

Edited by Josef Bayer, Tanmoy Bhattacharya and M.T. Hany Babu

The South Asian languages, mainly Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, have become a focus of interest in the formal study of language as a natural consequence of the research program of the Principle and Parameters approach and an enforced interest in exploring the parametrical space of human language. The… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 102] 2007. x, 282 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2007

General Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 7] 2007. 268 pp.

Locality and Information Structure: A cartographic approach to Japanese

Yoshio Endo

This monograph presents a systematic exploration of Japanese syntax within the cartographic approach, paying special attention to the locality effects induced by discourse-based features such as topic and focus. Although the main focus is on Japanese syntax, implications of the analyses developed… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 116] 2007. x, 235 pp.

Motion, Transfer and Transformation: The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal

Loretta O’Connor

Typologies are critical tools for linguists, but typologies, like grammars, are known to leak. This book addresses the question of typological overlap from the perspective of a single language. In Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, a language of southern Mexico, change events are expressed with three types… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 95] 2007. xiv, 251 pp.

Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form: Scrambling in the Germanic languages

Gema Chocano

‘Scrambling’, the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic ‘Object Shift’. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 109] 2007. x, 333 pp.

Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence

Edited by Elisabeth Stark, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham

The following theoretical-empirical points on the DP are discussed: Article and its referential-anaphoric properties by Abraham (Determiners in Centering Theory); Bartra (On bare NPs in Old Spanish and Catalan); identification of all functional nominal categories by Stvan (Bare singular count… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 89] 2007. viii, 370 pp.

Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach

Edited by Marlyse Baptista and Jacqueline Guéron

This volume offers a thorough examination of the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse properties of noun phrases in a wide variety of creole (and non-creole) languages including Cape Verdean Creole, Santome, Papiamentu, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Mindanao Chabacano, Réunionnais Creole, Lesser… read more

[Creole Language Library, 31] 2007. x, 494 pp.

Parentheticals

Edited by Nicole Dehé and Yordanka Kavalova

This volume offers a unique collection of articles investigating the often neglected phenomenon of parentheticals, which are commonly seen as expressions interrupting the linear structure of a host utterance, but lacking a structural relation to it. The book provides an up-to-date introduction to… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 106] 2007. xii, 314 pp.

Perspectives on Grammar Writing

Edited by Thomas E. Payne and David J. Weber

With over half the languages of the world currently in danger of extinction within a century, the need for high quality grammatical descriptions is more urgent than ever. Potential grammar writers, however, often find themselves paralyzed by the daunting task of describing a language. The papers in… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 11] 2007. viii, 218 pp.

Prototypical Transitivity

Åshild Næss

This book presents a functional analysis of a notion which has gained considerable importance in cognitive and functional linguistics over the last couple of decades, namely 'prototypical transitivity'. It discusses what prototypical transitivity is, why it should exist, and how it should be… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 72] 2007. x, 240 pp.

Scrambling and the Survive Principle

Michael T. Putnam

Languages with free word orders pose daunting challenges to linguistic theory because they raise questions about the nature of grammatical strings. Ross, who coined the term Scrambling to refer to the relatively ‘free’ word orders found in Germanic languages (among others) notes that “… the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 115] 2007. x, 216 pp.

Studies on Old High German Syntax: Left sentence periphery, verb placement and verb-second

Katrin Axel-Tober

This monograph is the first book-length study on Old High German syntax from a generative perspective in twenty years. It provides an in-depth exploration of the Old High German pre-verb-second grammar by answering the following questions: To what extent did generalized verb movement exist in Old… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 112] 2007. xii, 364 pp.

Traditions of Controversy

Edited by Marcelo Dascal † and Han-liang Chang

Controversies may be particularly prominent in one or another culture. Yet, there is hardly any culture where they do not exist. This book assumes that the practice of controversy, along with its theorization, constitutes – in each of the cultures and disciplines where it develops – a tradition.… read more

[Controversies, 4] 2007. xvi, 310 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2006

Edited by Pierre Pica

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 6] 2006. iv, 274 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2005

Edited by Pierre Pica, Johan Rooryck and Jeroen van Craenenbroeck

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 5] 2005. iv, 308 pp.

Lexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire / Syntax, Lexis & Lexicon-Grammar: Papers in honour of Maurice Gross

Edited by Christian Leclère, Éric Laporte, Mireille Piot and Max Silberztein

Maurice Gross, who died in December 2001, was a pioneer and leading thinker in the field of modern linguistics. Long before computers could facilitate large-scale, lexically-based language study, he and his team began building an exhaustive, empirically-based inventory of the "lexicon-grammar" of… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 24] 2004. xxii, 659 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2004

Edited by Pierre Pica

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 4] 2004. iv, 302 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002

Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman

The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. Selected papers are published in the Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory volumes. This is the fourth such volume, containing a selection of the papers that have… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 256] 2004. viii, 273 pp.

Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 1: Syntax and semantics

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

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

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 57] 2003. vi, 405 pp.

Bibliography of Modern Romani Linguistics: Including a guide to Romani linguistics

Compiled by Peter Bakker and Yaron Matras

The interest in Romani, the language of the Roma or "Gypsies", has grown considerably in recent years. Romani has drawn attention from a.o. grammarians, sociolinguists, Indologists, language contact researchers, language planners, educators, typologists and historical linguists.This Indic language… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 28] 2003. xxviii, 366 pp.

Dictionary of the Prague School of Linguistics. Translated from the French, German and Czech sources

Josef Vachek

This is the first English version of a text out of print for more than 40 years, summarising the positions and key concepts of an influential stream of linguistic thought. Using quotations as entries, J. Vachek (1909-1997), a leading advocate of the Prague School, employed more than 160 sources,… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 50] 2003. ix, 213 pp.

Ellipsis and Reference Tracking in Japanese

Shigeko Nariyama

In many East Asian languages, despite the prevalent occurrence of implicit reference, reference management is largely achieved without recourse to familiar agreement features. For this reason, recovering ellipted reference has been a perplexing problem in the analysis of these languages.This book… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 66] 2003. xvi, 400 pp.

Explaining Language Structure through Systems Interaction

Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay

This book proposes a framework for describing languages through the description of relationships among lexicon, morphology, syntax, and phonology. The framework is based on the notion of formal coding means; the principle of functional transparency; the notion of functional domains; and the notion… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 55] 2003. xviii, 307 pp.

Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar: In honor of Eloise Jelinek

Edited by Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley and MaryAnn Willie

The contributions making up this volume in honor of Eloise Jelinek are written from a formalist perspective that deals with stereotypically functionalist questions about language. Jelinek's pioneering work in formalist syntax has shown that autonomous syntax need not exist in a vacuum. Her work has… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 62] 2003. xii, 375 pp.

From NP to DP: Volume 1: The syntax and semantics of noun phrases

Edited by Martine Coene and Yves D’hulst

This is the first of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp. The papers address issues in the syntax and semantics of the noun phrase, in particular the so-called DP-hypothesis which… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 55] 2003. vi, 359 pp.

From NP to DP: Volume 2: The expression of possession in noun phrases

Edited by Martine Coene and Yves D’hulst

This is the second of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the special workshop of the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp. Reflecting the stage of current research with respect to the expression of possession in the noun… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 56] 2003. ix, 291 pp.

Identity in Narrative: A study of immigrant discourse

Anna De Fina

This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction. The data for the book are Mexican immigrants' personal experience narratives and… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 3] 2003. xiv, 252 pp.

The Interfaces: Deriving and interpreting omitted structures

Edited by Kerstin Schwabe and Susanne Winkler

The Interfaces: Deriving and Interpreting Omitted Structures is a collection of never-before-published papers that explore the nature of the interfaces of syntax with semantics, phonology, and discourse. The papers investigate the various ways in which elliptical structures are related to these… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 61] 2003. vi, 403 pp.

Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation: Syntactic, informational and functional structures

Kazuko Matsumoto

This book explores how speakers of Japanese organize their messages into coherent units as they jointly and interactively construct conversational discourse. Specifically, it investigates the syntactic, informational, and functional structures of intonation units (IUs) as basic units of discourse… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 65] 2003. xviii, 212 pp.

An Introduction to African Languages

G. Tucker Childs

This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate… read more

[Not in series, 121] 2003. xx, 265 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Islands and Chains: Resumption as stranding

Cedric Boeckx

The present work provides a detailed analysis of chain formation and locality conditions imposed on it within the Minimalist Program. It does so by analyzing resumptive strategies in great detail. This study claims that resumptive pronouns and their antecedents are first merged as constituents, and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 63] 2003. xii, 224 pp.

Joint Utterance Construction in Japanese Conversation

Makoto Hayashi

This book focuses on how participants in Japanese conversation negotiate and achieve joint courses of action within a single turn at talk. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis as a central framework, this book describes in detail the structures and procedures used by Japanese speakers to… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 12] 2003. xii, 249 pp.

Language and Function: To the memory of Jan Firbas

Edited by Josef Hladký

The present volume, originally prepared to celebrate Jan Firbas' 80th birthday, unfortunately is presented only belatedly, to commemorate one of the most outstanding personalities of functional and structural linguistics. Its contributors have been inspired by the richness and penetrating invention… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 49] 2003. x, 336 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2003

Edited by Pierre Pica

Linguistic Variation Yearbook is devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. It aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It seeks in particular to investigate to what extent… read more

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 3] 2003. 249 pp.

Multiple Wh-Fronting

Edited by Cedric Boeckx and Kleanthes K. Grohmann

Typological differences in the formation of multiple Wh-questions are well-known. One option is fronting all Wh-phrases to the sentence periphery. The contributions to this volume all explore this option from a number of perspectives. Topics covered include finer investigations of the “classic”… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 64] 2003. ix, 289 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XV: Salt Lake City 2001

Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson and Samira Farwaneh

This volume includes nine papers selected from the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Four of the papers deal with the area of corpus linguistics (new for this series), including papers from both a computational and a variationist point of view. The other papers deal with… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 247] 2003. x, 214 pp.

Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as architecture for function

Edited by John W. Du Bois, Lorraine E. Kumpf and William J. Ashby

Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure. In his original publication on Preferred Argument Structure, Du Bois (1987) demonstrated the power of this perspective by using it to explain the origins of ergativity and… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 14] 2003. ix, 458 pp.

Prolific Domains: On the Anti-Locality of movement dependencies

Kleanthes K. Grohmann

Standard conceptions of Locality aim to establish that a dependency between two positions may not span too long a distance. This book explores the opposite conception, Anti-Locality: Don’t move too close. The model of clause structure, syntactic computation, and locality concerns Kleanthes Grohmann… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 66] 2003. xv, 369 pp.

A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use: Selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001

Edited by Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López and Richard Cameron

Twenty-one articles from the 31st LSRL investigate cutting-edge issues and interfaces across phonology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, semantics, and syntax in multiple dialects of such Romance languages as Catalan, French, Creole French, and Spanish, both old and modern. Research in Romance… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 238] 2003. xv, 384 pp.

Searching for Structure: The problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation

Robert Englebretson

This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversational… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 13] 2003. x, 205 pp.

Structure and Function – A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories: Part 1: Approaches to the simplex clause

Christopher S. Butler

This book and its companion volume present a detailed guide to three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar. This first volume provides the necessary background through a discussion of the characteristics of functional… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 63] 2003. xx, 573 pp.

Structure and Function – A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories: Part 2: From clause to discourse and beyond

Christopher S. Butler

Like its companion volume, this book offers a detailed description and comparison of three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar, illustrated throughout with corpus-derived examples from English and other languages.… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 64] 2003. xiv, 579 pp.

Verb Constructions in German and Dutch

Edited by Pieter A.M. Seuren and Gerard Kempen

German and Dutch verb constructions show a rich array of syntactic phenomena that have so far been underexposed in the literature, despite the fact that they have proved to be a source of substantial problems in theoretical grammar. The cross-linguistic study of verb constructions and … read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 242] 2003. vi, 314 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2002

Edited by Pierre Pica

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 2] 2002. iv, 308 pp.

The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole: The Sotavento varieties

Marlyse Baptista

This book offers an in-depth treatment of a variety of morpho-syntactic issues in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) both from a descriptive and theoretical perspective. The investigated topics include the determiner system, Tense, Mood, Aspect markers and pronominal paradigms. The study of TMA markers… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 54] 2002. xxii, 294 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2001

Edited by Pierre Pica

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 1] 2001. xiv, 270 pp.

The Structure of Complementation

Antonio Carlos Quicoli

The study of complementation has received considerable attention in generative studies. Following Rosenbaum's (1967) pioneering study of the English complement system, there are extensive studies by Lakoff (1965), Ross (1967), Perlmutter (1971) and a large number of publications. More recent… read more

[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 3] 1982. xii, 172 pp.

The (w)hole of the doughnut: Syntax and its boundaries

S.-Y. Kuroda

From the author’s preface: "I once facetiously stated: 'Syntax is to semantics as the hole of the doughnut is to the whole of the doughnut.' Semantics without syntax, thus, is like a doughnut without a hole. This was in the heyday of generative semantics, and having heard that my major interest was… read more

[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 1] 1979. ix, 256 pp.

Anaphora in Generative Grammar

Thomas Wasow

Intuitively, it is clear why languages have anaphoric relations: anaphora reduces redundancy, thereby shortening (and hence simplifying) sentences. In order for this simplification to be possible, however, it is necessary that the speaker of a language be able to identify correctly the elements… read more

[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 2] 1979. x, 181 pp.