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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Development of Speaker-Oriented Adverbs in English: Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy?

Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie

The book investigates the development of ‘speaker-oriented adverbs’ (SOAs) such as frankly, surprisingly, and apparently in standard written English. SOAs take propositional scope, i.e. they modify clauses or sentences. It is generally assumed that they have developed from historically prior… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 287] 2025. ix, 188 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.

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

A Construction Grammar of the English Language: CASA – a Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis

Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann

The present book provides an introduction to the linguistic model of Construction Grammar, offering a full analysis of the grammar of the English language. It covers all levels of morpho-syntactic form-meaning units: including sentence types, tense and aspect, argument structure, phrases, idioms,… read more

[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 5] 2024. xv, 315 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Serbian Clitics

Jasmina Milićević

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

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

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.

The Acquisition of Gender: Crosslinguistic perspectives

Edited by Dalila Ayoun

Gender as a morphosyntactic feature is arguably “an endlessly fascinating linguistic category” (Corbett 2014: 1). One may even say it is among “the most puzzling of the grammatical categories” (Corbett 1991: 1) that has raised probing questions from various theoretical and applied perspectives.… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 63] 2022. xi, 282 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.

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.

From Verbal Periphrases to Complex Predicates

Edited by Mar Garachana Camarero, Sandra Montserrat Buendia and Claus Dieter Pusch

This volume, which can be considered as a follow-up publication to Pusch & Wesch (2003), contains ten studies on verbal periphrases in a wide array of Romance languages, both in a synchronic and in a historic perspective. Thus, this collective volume addresses the Romance verbal periphrastic system… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 31] 2022. vi, 238 pp.

Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond. Selected proceedings of the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference

Edited by Tania Leal, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli

This volume brings together empirical studies and keynote addresses presented at the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019. The studies selected for the volume reflect how the latest developments in generative syntactic… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 67] 2022. vii, 318 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.

New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li

Edited by Andrew Simpson

This volume brings together 19 cutting edge studies written by some of the most prominent linguists working on Chinese formal syntax, as a Festschrift volume dedicated to Yen-Hui Audrey Li. The contributions to the volume address a wide range of issues currently developing in the field of Chinese… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 272] 2022. vi, 577 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.

Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications

Edited by Katherine Messenger

Syntactic priming is a naturally-occurring psycholinguistic phenomenon that has been used as an experimental manipulation to great effect: over the last 20 years, syntactic priming research with children of different backgrounds has added to our understanding of the mechanisms and stages of… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 31] 2022. viii, 226 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.

The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach

Edited by Anne Salazar-Orvig, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland

This book describes the repertoire and uses of referring expressions by French-speaking children and their interlocutors in naturally occurring dialogues at home and at school, in a wide range of communicative situations and activities. Through the lens of an interactionist and dialogical… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 28] 2021. xix, 372 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces

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

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

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

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.

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.

Prepositions, Case and Verbal Prefixes: The case of Slavic

Petr Biskup

This monograph is concerned with prepositional elements in Slavic languages, prepositions, verbal prefixes and functional elements of prepositional nature. It argues that verbal prefixes are incorporated prepositions projecting their argument structure in the complement of the verbal root and that… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 255] 2019. vii, 231 pp.

Reference Point and Case: A Cognitive Grammar exploration of Korean

Chongwon Park

This monograph answers the rarely discussed questions of why complicated grammatical case phenomena exist in Korean and what the connection is between the case forms and their functions. The author argues that the case forms in Korean reflect patterns of the human cognitive process. While this… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 68] 2019. xx, 264 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.

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.

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.

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.

Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond

Edited by Marco García García and Melanie Uth

What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages, and why are there such differing views on such a presumably clear-cut research subject? Bringing together original expert work from a variety of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 201] 2018. viii, 391 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.

The Noun Phrase in English: Past and present

Edited by Alex Ho-Cheong Leung and Wim van der Wurff

Building on a substantial earlier literature, the chapters in this volume further advance knowledge and understanding of properties of the noun phrase in English. The empirical material for the papers includes both historical and present-day data, with the two often shedding light on each other in… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 246] 2018. v, 229 pp.

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.

On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance

Edited by Anna Gavarró

This volume presents eleven papers on the acquisition of Romance, most of them presented at the Romance Turn VIII, held in Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain, in September 2016. Part I of the volume is devoted to passives and related constructions. The results unveil domains in comprehension in which… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 62] 2018. vi, 287 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.

Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia

Edited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi

Current theoretical approaches to language devote great attention to macro- and micro-variation and show an ever-increasing interest in minority languages. In this respect, few empirical domains are as rich and lively as the Italo-Romance languages, which together with Albanian were the main… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 252] 2018. viii, 395 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.

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.

Copular Constructions in Lithuanian

Rolandas Mikulskas

The fourth volume in the VARGReB series presents an in-depth investigation of Lithuanian copular constructions from the viewpoint of Cognitive Grammar. Apart from the fundamental problems of the ontology and taxonomy of copular sentences, the author also discusses a number of more specific… read more

[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 4] 2017. xv, 280 pp.

Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk

Edited by Elma Blom, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer

This book presents a current state-of-affairs regarding the study of cross-linguistic influence in bilingualism. Taking Hulk and Müller’s (2000) and Müller and Hulk’s (2001) hypotheses on cross-linguistic influence as a starting point, the book exemplifies the shift from the original focus on… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 52] 2017. vi, 358 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.

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.

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.

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.

Tense-Aspect-Modality in a Second Language: Contemporary perspectives

Edited by Martin Howard and Pascale Leclercq

Situated within the long-established domain of temporality research in Second Language Acquisition, this book aims to provide an update on recent research directions in the field through a range of papers which explore relatively new territory. Those areas include the expression of modality and… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 50] 2017. vi, 257 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.

Advances in Research on Semantic Roles

Edited by Seppo Kittilä and Fernando Zúñiga

Especially in functional-typological linguistics, semantic roles have been studied thoroughly, because they constitute a good starting point for any study on argument marking due to their semantically defined nature. However, the very concept of semantic roles is far from being without problems,… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 88] 2016. v, 219 pp.

Argument Realization in Baltic

Edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau

The third volume in the VARGReB series explores different aspects of varying argument realization in Baltic. It presents original studies on differential marking of both core and non-core verbal arguments, on argument structures of nouns and the encoding of nominal arguments, as well as on… read more

[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 3] 2016. vii, 560 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.

Corpus-based Approaches to Construction Grammar

Edited by Jiyoung Yoon and Stefan Th. Gries

This volume brings together empirical Construction Grammar studies to (i) promote cross-fertilization between researchers interested in constructional approaches on various languages, and (ii) further the growing trend towards empirically rigorous research that takes seriously a commitment not only… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 19] 2016. vi, 268 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.

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.

Interrogative Strategies: An areal typology of the languages of China

Tianhua Luo

This book deals with how to ask questions in the languages of China. The syntactic, morphological, and lexical forms for distinguishing interrogatives take centre stage; intonation is also dealt with, but more peripherally than question particles, disjunctive and negative constructions, and word… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 5] 2016. xiii, 252 pp.

Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters: Studies in honour of Juana M. Liceras

Edited by Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Elena Valenzuela and Cristina Martínez Sanz

The chapters in this volume take different approaches to the exploration of language acquisition processes in various populations (monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition, L2 acquisition) and address issues in syntax, morphology, pragmatics, language processing and interface phenomena.… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 51] 2016. vi, 305 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.

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.

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.

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.

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