BIC SubjectsLinguistics
A Linguistic Comparison of Chinese and English: Structural, functional, and typological perspectives
Chao Li
The book examines similarities and differences between Chinese and English from structural, functional, and typological perspectives. The linguistic comparison undertaken covers various aspects of the two languages, including, for example, typological features, the phonological system, the writing… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 239] 2026. xv, 399 pp.
Progress in Colour Studies: Colour Expression and Cognition
Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Domicele Jonauskaite, Mari Uusküla and Dimitris Mylonas
This volume presents recent research in colour studies with a particular focus on language, offering both continuity and innovation within the field. All chapters are developed from papers first presented at the Progress in Colour Studies 2022 (PICS2022) conference, held at Tallinn University,… read more[Not in series, 244] 2026. viii, 226 pp.
Research Synthesis Methodologies in Applied Linguistics
Edited by Sin Wang Chong
This edited volume offers a critical examination of research synthesis in Applied Linguistics at a moment when such work is increasingly influential – and increasingly misunderstood. The volume brings together reflective accounts of conducting and editing different types of research syntheses.… read moreThe ‘Idea’ in the One-New-Idea Constraint
Edited by Uta Reinöhl and Naomi Peck
Special issue of Functions of Language 33:1/2 (2026) ca. 125 pp.
Areal Effects on Argument-Coding Patterns
Edited by Daria Alfimova, Kirill Kozhanov and Sergey Say
Special issue of Studies in Language 49:4 (2025) v, 201 pp.
Aspects of Metaphor
Edited by Maria Theodoropoulou
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:1 (2025) vi, 326 pp.
Beyond Corpus Data — Complementary and Alternative Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Anton Granvik, Veera Hatakka, Olli O. Silvennoinen, Riku Erkkilä and Eveliina Mäntylä
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:2 (2025) vi, 357 pp.
Broken: Towards a vulnerability approach to Semiotic Landscape research
Edited by Máiréad Moriarty and Maida Kosatica
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 11:2 (2025) v, 100 pp.
Embodied, Social, and Creative Dimensions of Metonymy
Edited by Marlene Johansson Falck and Thomas Wiben Jensen
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 15:2 (2025) vi, 151 pp.
The Grammar of Canonical and Non-canonical Wh-constructions
Edited by C.-T. James Huang
Special issue of Concentric 51:2 (2025) v, 172 pp.
Instructing Bodies
Edited by Leelo Keevallik, Emily Hofstetter and Jan Lindström
Special issue of Interactional Linguistics 5:1/2 (2025) v, 228 pp.
Le verbe vouloir dans tous ses états
Edited by Anouch Bourmayan
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:1 (2025) v, 177 pp.
Love, Sex, and the Sacred: A metaphor analysis of Hungarian folk songs
Veronika Szelid
Most Hungarian folksongs are about SEX – according to a widely accepted opinion of ethnographers. But what is SEX about? How is it connected to LOVE, and what does THE SACRED have to do with these? Drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this book reveals the profound connections between the three… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 18] 2025. xi, 265 pp.
Modality in the Architecture of Language
Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese and Manuela Caterina Moroni
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 7:1/2 (2025) v, 207 pp.
Proper Names
Edited by Chia-Jung Pan and Yang Huang
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 6:1 (2025) v, 252 pp.
The Quality of Quantity, the Quantity of Quality
Edited by Steven Schoonjans
Published with support from the University Foundation / de Universitaire Stichting van België / la Fondation Universitiaire de Belgique
read moreSpecial issue of Nota Bene 2:1 (2025) v, 225 pp.
SFL Appliability, Visibility and Accessibility
Edited by Claudia E. Stoian, Jorge Arús-Hita and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
Special issue of Language, Context and Text 7:2 (2025) v, 297 pp.
Similatives: Semantic sources, pathways, and types of usage
Edited by Anna Kisiel, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems and Dejan Stosic
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:2 (2025) v, 257 pp.
Solitude Speech across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Mitsuko Narita Izutsu and Katsunobu Izutsu
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 12:1 (2025) v, 208 pp.
Today’s Innovations, Tomorrow’s Conventions: Usage-based approaches to incipient developments in English
Edited by David Lorenz and David Tizón-Couto
Special issue of Functions of Language 32:1 (2025) v, 161 pp.
Towards an Integrated Approach to Heritage and School Languages in Education Policies: The case of multilingual Geneva
Edited by Claire de Goumoëns, Laurent Gajo and Myriam Radhouane
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 49:3 (2025) v, 107 pp.
What makes a Figure: Rethinking figurativity
Edited by Herbert L. Colston
This volume presents works seeking to re-think the very nature and scope of figurativity, calling into attention some of the received tenets in accounts of figurativity, both as a holistic category and for individual types and families of figures, but also attempting to expand upon the current… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 19] 2025. vi, 322 pp.
10th Anniversary Issue: Engaging with LL futures
Edited by Robert Blackwood and Elana Shohamy
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 10:4 (2024) v, 110 pp.
Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa
Edited by Andrea Hollington, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein
This collection presents new research on key topics in anthropological linguistics, with a focus on African languages. While Africanist linguists have long been concerned with sociocultural aspects of language structure and use, no comprehensive volume dedicated to the anthropological linguistics… read more
Bringing Figurative Language into Real L2 Classrooms: The challenges of empirical testing
Edited by Ana M. Piquer-Píriz and Reyes Llopis-García
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22:2 (2024) vi, 316 pp.
Comparing Crosslinguistic Complexity
Edited by Jenny Ström Herold and Magnus Levin
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 24:1 (2024) v, 163 pp.
Decolonising or Recolonising?: Generative AI through the eyes of applied linguists, language teachers, and learners
Edited by Toni Dobinson, Julian Chen and Carly Steele
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:3 (2024) v, 165 pp.
Ethical Issues in Applied Linguistics Scholarship
Edited by Peter I. De Costa, Amr Rabie-Ahmed and Carlo Cinaglia
This volume contributes to ongoing discussions of ethics in Applied Linguistics scholarship by focusing in depth on several different sub-areas within the field. The book is comprised of four sections: methodological approaches to research; specific participant populations and contexts of research;… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 7] 2024. xii, 372 pp.
Evidentiality, Modality and Grammaticalization
Edited by Eric Mélac
Special issue of Studies in Language 48:3 (2024) v, 240 pp.
The Evolution of Expletives: Theoretical and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Eric Fuß and Benjamin L. Sluckin
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 6:1/2 (2024) v, 243 pp.
The Functions of Evidentiality
Edited by Eric Mélac and Pascale Leclercq
Special issue of Functions of Language 31:1 (2024) v, 114 pp.
La Référence Floue
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Frédéric Landragin
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 47:2 (2024) vi, 254 pp.
Lectures on Language Theory 1942–1943
Louis Hjelmslev
The present book is the English translation of Louis Hjelmslev’s lectures on glossematics, the theory of language developed in the forties by him and Hans Jørgen Uldall, and taught at the University of Copenhagen in 1942-43, thoroughly taken down in shorthand by his student Harry Wett Frederiksen.… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 132] 2024. viii, 234 pp.
Les droits fondamentaux linguistiques existent-ils? / Do Linguistic Human Rights Exist?
Edited by Laure Clément-Wilz
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 48:2 (2024) v, 101 pp.
Linguistic Constructions
Edited by Beata Trawiński, Marc Kupietz and Kristel Proost
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 24:2 (2024) v, 160 pp.
Moving towards Peace, Compassion and Empathy through Semiotic Enquiry: Special issue of the Journal Language, Context and Text 6:1 (2024)
Edited by Elizabeth A. Thomson, Awni Etaywe, Ingrid Wijeyewardene and Penny Wheeler
Special issue of Language, Context and Text 6:1 (2024) vi, 225 pp.
Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching
Edited by Paolo Della Putta and Ferran Suñer
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:1 (2023) vi, 330 pp.
Asian Perspectives on Queer Discourse
Edited by Ke Zhang and Chao Lu
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 33:2 (2023) vi, 152 pp.
Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 37 (2023): Tangible Traces of Language Ideologies
Edited by Esther Baiwir, Janine Berns and Marie Steffens
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 37] 2023. v, 143 pp.
Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches
Edited by Matthias Klumm, Anita Fetzer and Evelien Keizer
Special issue of Functions of Language 30:1 (2023) v, 135 pp.
Converging paradigms in contrastive and translation studies: Crosslinguistic corpus perspectives
Edited by Silvia Bernardini and Adriano Ferraresi
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 23:2 (2023) v, 155 pp.
Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research: Paving the way for teaching, translation and professional communication
Edited by Marlén Izquierdo and Zuriñe Sanz-Villar
Cross-linguistic research is a fruitful field of language inquiry that has benefited enormously from the use of corpora. As sources of linguistic data of various kinds and as tools for language processing, corpora have shaped the development of cross-linguistic research, enabling both language… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 113] 2023. vi, 237 pp.
Current challenges in metaphor research
Edited by Nina Julich-Warpakowski and Paula Pérez-Sobrino
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 13:1 (2023) vi, 143 pp.
Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective
Edited by Qiongpeng Luo, Zhiguo Xie and Xiao Li
Dire et ses marqueurs: approches contrastives
Edited by Laurence Rouanne
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 46:2 (2023) v, 169 pp.
Ethnolinguistic contact across the Indo-Myanmar-Southwestern China mountains
Edited by Alexander R. Coupe, Randy J. LaPolla and Hideo Sawada
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 4:2 (2023) v, 218 pp.
Language learning for language minority students in a globalized world
Edited by Mark Feng Teng and Fan Fang
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 46:2 (2023) v, 158 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023
Edited by Sterre Leufkens and Marco Bril
Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles presenting current linguistic research in the Netherlands and Belgium. This volume is based on the 54th annual conference of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands (on February 3, 2023). For this volume, 14… read more
Mapping “Language" in Education: Special issue of the Journal Language, Context and Text 5:2 (2023)
Special issue of Language, Context and Text 5:2 (2023) v, 166 pp.
Meaning in Interaction: Studies in memory of Jack Bilmes
Edited by Arnulf Deppermann and Elwys De Stefani
Special issue of Interactional Linguistics 3:1/2 (2023) v, 177 pp.
Naming and Labelling Contexts of Cultural Importance in Africa
Edited by Nico Nassenstein, Sambulo Ndlovu and Svenja Völkel
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 10:2 (2023) vi, 161 pp.
The Political Economy of Linguistic Landscapes
Edited by Johan Järlehed, Tommaso M. Milani and Tove Rosendal
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 9:3 (2023) v, 109 pp.
Promoting linguistic vitality through public policy: The role of rules, costs and incentives
Edited by Bengt-Arne Wickström, Noémi Nagy, Anneliese Rieger-Roschitz and Balázs Vizi
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 47:2 (2023) v, 117 pp.
Reconsidering Language and Gender in Contemporary Japan and among the Japanese Diaspora amid the #MeToo Movement
Edited by Kikuko Omori and Hiroshi Ota
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 33:1 (2023) v, 110 pp.
Retour(s) sur la cataphore
Edited by Anne Theissen and Annie Kuyumcuyan
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 46:1 (2023) v, 146 pp.
What can metacognition teach us about the evolution of communication?
Edited by Joëlle Proust
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 5:1 (2023) v, 101 pp.
Autism, Language, Communication and Cognition
Edited by Stephanie Durrleman
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 4:1 (2022) v, 151 pp.
Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics: New approaches to variability and change
Edited by Susanne Flach and Martin Hilpert
This volume presents a snapshot of the current state of the art of research in English corpus linguistics. It contains selected papers from the 40th ICAME conference in 2019 and features contributions from experts in synchronic, diachronic, and contrastive linguistics, as well as in… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 105] 2022. vi, 321 pp.
Classifiers
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 3:2 (2022) v, 227 pp.
Discourse-pragmatic perspectives on interrogatives
Edited by Malte Rosemeyer
Special issue of Functions of Language 29:1 (2022) v, 141 pp.
Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond
Edited by Herbert L. Colston, Teenie Matlock and Gerard J. Steen
The last half century witnessed an upheaval in scientific investigation of human meaning-making and meaning-sharing. Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond, is offered as a snapshot of the status of this multidisciplinary endeavor—a peak under the umbrella of what Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics,… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 9] 2022. vii, 359 pp.
English Sentence Constructions
Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Tim Kassenberg, Merel Keijzer and Gregory J. Poarch
English Sentence Constructions departs from a usage-based theoretical perspective in which all language units -- which we refer to as constructions -- have both a meaning and form, and context is all-important in determining the function and form of these constructions. … read more[Not in series, 240] 2022. 261 pp.
Figurativity and Human Ecology
Edited by Alexandra Bagasheva, Bozhil Hristov and Nelly Tincheva
Figurativity has attracted scholars’ attention for thousands of years and yet there are still open questions concerning its nature. Figurativity and Human Ecology endorses a view of figurativity as ubiquitous in human reasoning and language, and as a key example of how a human organism and its… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 17] 2022. vi, 307 pp.
Identity and Communication in Asian Contexts
Edited by Asmah Haji Omar and Michael Dimitrios Hadzantonis
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 32:1 (2022) v, 191 pp.
La phraséologie dans les interactions orales et écrites
Edited by Gaétane Dostie and Agnès Tutin
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 45:2 (2022) v, 221 pp.
Language and Islam in the Asian Pacific
Edited by Ali H. Al-Hoorie
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 32:2 (2022) v, 95 pp.
Language, conflict and security
Edited by Roberta Medda-Windischer and Andrea Carlà
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 46:2 (2022) v, 118 pp.
The Linguistic Landscape of Covid-19
Edited by Jackie Jia Lou, David Malinowski and Amiena Peck
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 8:2/3 (2022) vi, 176 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022
Edited by Jorrig Vogels and Sterre Leufkens
Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles presenting current linguistic research in the Netherlands.This volume is based on the 53rd annual conference of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands (online, on February 4, 2022). For this volume, 14… read more
Living Metaphors and Metonymies
Edited by Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar Szabó
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20:1 (2022) vi, 304 pp.
Motion Metaphors in Music Criticism: An empirical investigation of their conceptual motivation and their metaphoricity
Nina Julich-Warpakowski
The book explores (1) the motivation of motion expressions in Western classical music criticism in terms of conceptual metaphors (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, 1999) in two corpus studies, and (2) their perceived degree of metaphoricity among musicians and non-musicians in a rating study. The results… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 10] 2022. xiii, 247 pp.
Particles in German, English, and Beyond
Edited by Remus Gergel, Ingo Reich and Augustin Speyer
Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic properties. After an introductory overview of the complex field, the contributions… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 224] 2022. vi, 382 pp.
The Semiotic Diversity of Language: The Case of Signed Languages
Edited by Alysson Lepeut and Inez Beukeleers
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 36] 2022. v, 248 pp.
Signed and spoken language contrastive research: A multimodal approach
Edited by Sílvia Gabarró-López and Laurence Meurant
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 22:2 (2022) v, 192 pp.
The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese
Edited by Lian-Hee Wee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang
Translingual practices entangled with semiotized space and time
Edited by Shaila Sultana and Dariush Izadi
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 45:2 (2022) v, 116 pp.
Biological Evolution: More than a metaphor for grammar change
Edited by Maria Rita Manzini
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 3:1 (2021) v, 121 pp.
The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Anna Gladkova and Jesús Romero-Trillo
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 (2021) vii, 168 pp.
Context in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theoretical developments and directions
Edited by Wendy L. Bowcher and Tom Bartlett
Special issue of Functions of Language 28:3 (2021) v, 125 pp.
Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication
Edited by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda
The studies in the present volume illustrate the current state-of-the-art in the corpus-based approach in cognitive linguistics, which seeks to motivate linguistic phenomena through the combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. By focusing on language use in different contexts from a… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 119] 2021. v, 157 pp.
Current Perspectives on Codeswitching
Edited by Emma Vanden Wyngaerd, Renata Enghels, Mena B. Lafkioui and Marie Steffens
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 35] 2021. v, 213 pp.
Diaspora and Asian Spaces in a Transnational World
Edited by Thom Huebner
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 7:2 (2021) v, 141 pp.
Formal Language Theory and its Relevance for Linguistic Analysis
Edited by Diego Gabriel Krivochen
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 3:2 (2021) v, 134 pp.
Language and Communication of Asian Diaspora Communities in Europe
Edited by Zi Wang and Florian Coulmas
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 31:2 (2021) v, 175 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2021
Edited by Mark Dingemanse, Eva van Lier and Jorrig Vogels
This volume of Linguistics in the Netherlands contains 10 articles on topics representing the breadth of Dutch linguistics, along with a Foreword by the editors honouring the memory of Pieter Muysken (1950-2021). read more
The Linguistics of Olfaction: Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity
Edited by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Przemysław Staniewski
This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfactory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic and fourteen chapters based on philological… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 131] 2021. xiii, 481 pp.
Metaphor in Education: A multilingual perspective
Edited by Katrin Ahlgren, Anne Golden and Ulrika Magnusson
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 11:2 (2021) vi, 191 pp.
Postverbal negation
Edited by Olga Krasnoukhova, Johan van der Auwera and Mily Crevels
Special issue of Studies in Language 45:3 (2021) v, 208 pp.
Preparing Teachers for Addressing the Sociocultural Issues with Asian Pacific Immigrants and Refugees
Edited by Yin Lam Lee-Johnson and Hsiao-Chin Kuo
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 31:1 (2021) v, 121 pp.
Problematizing Language Policy and Practice in EMI and Transnational Higher Education: Challenges and Possibilities
Edited by Curtis Green-Eneix, Peter I. De Costa and Wendy Li
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 44:2 (2021) v, 145 pp.
Recurrent Gestures
Edited by Simon Harrison, Silva H. Ladewig and Jana Bressem
Special issue of Gesture 20:2 (2021) v, 177 pp.
Revisiting Linguistic Territoriality in Contemporary Europe
Edited by Till Burckhardt, John Coakley and László Marácz
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 45:2 (2021) v, 140 pp.
Source-Goal (a)symmetries across languages
Edited by Anetta Kopecka and Marine Vuillermet
Special issue of Studies in Language 45:1 (2021) v, 275 pp.
Time in Languages, Languages in Time
Edited by Anna Čermáková, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik
This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Swedish, all of which are contrasted with English. While the amount of published research on temporal relations in general is considerable,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 101] 2021. vi, 307 pp.
The Complementary Contribution of Comparable and Parallel Corpora to Crosslinguistic Studies
Edited by Sylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 20:2 (2020) v, 147 pp.
Corpus Linguistics and Education in Australia
Edited by Alexandra Garcia Murrago, Peter Crosthwaite and Monika Bednarek
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 43:2 (2020) v, 119 pp.
Developments in Diglossic Settings in the Asian Pacific Region
Edited by Marinus van den Berg
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 30:1/2 (2020) vi, 310 pp.
The Expression of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Albert Camus’s L'Étranger and Its Translations / L'Étranger de Camus et ses traductions : questions de temps, d'aspect, de modalité et d'évidentialité (TAME): An empirical study / Etude empirique
Edited by Eric Corre, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao
This book deals with the linguistic treatment of tense-aspect-modal-evidential (TAME) expressions in translations of the French novel L’Étranger by Albert Camus into sixteen languages. It is strongly empirical in spirit, and uses the method of contrastive linguistics and multilingual comparison… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 35] 2020. ix, 388 pp.
Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language
Edited by Annalisa Baicchi
This volume brings together twelve usage-based studies conducted by leading researchers in language and cognition that explore core issues of figurativeness from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The individual chapters reveal the central function of figurativeness in thought and its impact on… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 9] 2020. vii, 311 pp.
How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science
Edited by Anke Beger and Thomas H. Smith
Metaphors are essential to scientists themselves and strongly influence science communication. Through careful analyses of metaphors actually used in science texts, recordings, and videos, this book explores the essential functions of conceptual metaphor in the conduct of science, teaching of… read more
Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics
Edited by Ulrike Schröder, Milene Mendes de Oliveira and Hans-Georg Wolf
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 7:1 (2020) v, 145 pp.
Interfaces in Romance: A constraint-based approach
Edited by Gabriela Bîlbîie
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:1 (2020) v, 168 pp.
Les variations diatopiques dans les expressions figées
Sous la direction de Pedro Mogorrón Huerta, Aude Grezka et Lucía Navarro-Brotons
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:2 (2020) vi, 211 pp.
Lexical Issues in the Architecture of the Language Faculty
Edited by Andrea Padovan
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:1 (2020) v, 111 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2020
Edited by Elena Tribushinina and Mark Dingemanse
Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles presenting current linguistic research in the Netherlands.This volume is based on the 51st annual conference of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands (Utrecht on January 31, 2020). At this meeting, 70… read more
Metaphor in Mental Healthcare
Edited by Dennis Tay
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 10:2 (2020) vi, 166 pp.
Minorities in Italy in a changing legal landscape
Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro and Vittorio Dell’Aquila
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 44:3 (2020) v, 130 pp.
Multilingual Landscapes and the Construction of Community
Edited by Leonie Gaiser and Yaron Matras
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 6:2 (2020) v, 128 pp.
Notes from the field on perspective-indexing constructions: Irregular shifts and perspective persistence
Edited by Stef Spronck, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens and María Sol Sansiñena
Special issue of Functions of Language 27:1 (2020) v, 112 pp.
Operationalizing Iconicity
Edited by Pamela Perniss, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The Iconicity in Language and Literature series has long been dedicated to the recognition and understanding of the pervasiveness of iconicity in language in its many forms and functions. The present volume, divided into four sections, brings together and unifies different perspectives on iconicity. read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 17] 2020. xii, 331 pp.
Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages
Edited by Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff
Special issue of Language Ecology 4:1 (2020) v, 130 pp.
Tracking Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary, Cross-Theoretical Enterprise
Edited by Livio Gaeta
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:2 (2020) v, 103 pp.
The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research
Edited by Timothy Colleman, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 34] 2020. vii, 382 pp.
40 Years of Bill 101 in Québec
Edited by François Vaillancourt
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 43:2 (2019) v, 138 pp.
Anthropology of Gesture
Edited by Heather Brookes and Olivier Le Guen
Special issue of Gesture 18:2/3 (2019) vi, 282 pp.
Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication
Edited by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:1 (2019) vi, 301 pp.
Creativity in Language
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein and Anne Storch
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 6:1 (2019) vi, 223 pp.
Current Visions of TAML2: Tense, Aspect and Modality in Second Languages
Edited by Paz González and Tim Diaubalick
Differential objects and datives – a homogeneous class?
Edited by Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Anna Pineda
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 42:1 (2019) v, 131 pp.
Documentary Linguistics: Working with Communities
Edited by Sumittra Suraratdecha and Toshihide Nakayama
Special issue of Language Ecology 3:2 (2019) v, 122 pp.
Language and Intercultural Communication Pedagogies in Australian Higher Education
Edited by Paul J. Moore and Adriana Díaz
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 42:2 (2019) v, 100 pp.
Latin influence on the syntax of the languages of Europe
Edited by Bert Cornillie and Bridget Drinka
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 33] 2019. v, 250 pp.
Lexicalization patterns in color naming: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Ida Raffaelli, Daniela Katunar and Barbara Kerovec
The volume presents sixteen chapters focused on lexicalization patterns used in color naming in a variety of languages. Although previous studies have dealt with categorization and perceptual salience of color terms, few studies have been consistently conducted in order to investigate phonological,… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 78] 2019. vi, 429 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2019
Edited by Janine Berns and Elena Tribushinina
The 50th annual conference of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 2nd, 2019. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year’s meeting, 72 papers were presented, of which 16 were submitted in writing. read more
Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world
Edited by Susan Nacey, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse
This volume explores linguistic metaphor identification in a wide variety of languages and language families. The book is an essential read for anyone interested in researching language and metaphor, from students to experienced scholars. Its primary goals are to discuss the challenges involved in… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 22] 2019. vi, 330 pp.
Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language
Edited by Marianna Bolognesi, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot
This book describes methods, risks, and challenges involved in the construction of metaphor and metonymy digital repositories. The first part of this volume showcases established and new projects around the world in which metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified. The second part… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 8] 2019. x, 263 pp.
Negation and Speculation Detection
Noa P. Cruz Díaz and Manuel J. Maña López
Negation and speculation detection is an emerging topic that has attracted the attention of many researchers, and there is clearly a lack of relevant textbooks and survey texts. This book aims to define negation and speculation from a natural language processing perspective, to explain the need for… read more[Natural Language Processing, 13] 2019. ix, 95 pp.
Nominalization in Languages of the Americas
Edited by Roberto Zariquiey, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck
Recent scholarship has confirmed earlier observations that nominalization plays a crucial role in the formation of complex constructions in the world’s languages. Grammatical nominalizations are one of the most salient and widespread features of languages of the Americas, yet they have not been… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 124] 2019. vii, 662 pp.
Normativity in Language and Linguistics
Edited by Aleksi Mäkilähde, Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen
This volume sets out to discuss the role of norms and normativity in both language and linguistics from a multiplicity of perspectives. These concepts are centrally important to the philosophy and methodology of linguistics, and their role and nature need to be investigated in detail. The chapters… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 209] 2019. vii, 272 pp.
On mood and speech function and the ‘why’ of text analysis: In honour of Margaret Berry
Edited by Lise Fontaine, Miriam Taverniers and Kristin Davidse
Special issue of Functions of Language 26:1 (2019) vi, 135 pp.
Sound, Form, and Meaning of Chinese Dialects
Edited by Ik-sang Eom
Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units
Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki
Special issue of Studies in Language 43:2 (2019) vi, 253 pp.
Vagueness and Elasticity of 'Sort of' in TV Discussion Discourse in the Asian Pacific
Edited by Vahid Parvaresh and Grace Zhang
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29:1 (2019) v, 147 pp.
X-Scapes: New horizons in Linguistic Landscapes
Edited by Crispin Thurlow and Kellie Gonçalves
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 5:2 (2019) v, 106 pp.
The interface of semantics & etymology, morpho-syntax, and pragmatics in Chinese
Edited by Jeeyoung Peck
CLIL and Bilingual Education in the Netherlands
Edited by Tessa Mearns and Rick de Graaff
Special issue of Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 7:2 (2018) vi, 158 pp.
Czech and Slovak Contributions to African Studies
Special issue of Archív Orientální 86:3 (2018) 234 pp.
Event Structure Metaphors through the Body: Translation from English to American Sign Language
Daniel R. Roush
How do the experiences of people who have different bodies (deaf versus hearing) shape their thoughts and metaphors? Do different linguistic modes of expression (signed versus spoken) have a shaping force as well? This book investigates the metaphorical production of culturally-Deaf translators who… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 4] 2018. xv, 224 pp.
Expressions de la bhakti dans les littératures indiennes
Special issue of Archív Orientální 86:2 (2018) 142 pp.
Extending the notion of near-synonymy: Studies in morphological, syntactic and pragmatic equivalence
Edited by Renata Enghels
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 18:1 (2018) v, 153 pp.
From Culture to Language and Back: The Animacy Hierarchy in language and discourse
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 5:2 (2018) v, 190 pp.
Gender, Sexuality & Linguistic Landscapes
Edited by Tommaso M. Milani
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 4:3 (2018) v, 119 pp.
Genre and Disciplinarity
Edited by Tim Moore, Janne Morton and Steve Price
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 41:2 (2018) v, 120 pp.
Interpersonal Meaning: Systemic Functional Linguistics perspectives
Edited by J.R. Martin
Special issue of Functions of Language 25:1 (2018) v, 204 pp.
Issues in Humour Cognition
Edited by Marta Dynel
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 16:1 (2018) vi, 315 pp.
Language of Empire, Language of Power
Edited by Kees Versteegh
Special issue of Language Ecology 2:1/2 (2018) v, 146 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2018
Edited by Bert Le Bruyn and Janine Berns
The 49th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 3rd, 2018. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 65 papers were presented, of which 19 were submitted in writing.… read more
Mediation Strategies
Edited by Anthony Pym
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 42:3 (2018) v, 110 pp.
Morphology and emotions across the world's languages
Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet and Marine Vuillermet
Special issue of Studies in Language 42:1 (2018) v, 295 pp.
Non-prototypical clefts
Edited by Lena Karssenberg, Karen Lahousse, Béatrice Lamiroy, Stefania Marzo and Ana Drobnjakovic
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 32] 2018. v, 169 pp.
Observing Eurolects: Corpus analysis of linguistic variation in EU law
Edited by Laura Mori
Focusing on the multi-faceted topic of Eurolects, this volume brings together knowledge and methodologies from various disciplines, including sociolinguistics, legal linguistics, corpus linguistics, and translation studies. The legislative varieties of eleven EU official and working languages… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 86] 2018. xiv, 395 pp.
Progress in Colour Studies: Cognition, language and beyond
Edited by Lindsay W. MacDonald, Carole P. Biggam and Galina V. Paramei
This volume presents authoritative and up-to-date research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines, including vision science, psychology, psycholinguistics, linguistics, anthropology, onomastics, philosophy, archaeology and design. The chapters have been… read more[Not in series, 217] 2018. xx, 470 pp.
Strategic Communication: Beyond nation cultural adaption, images and identity
Edited by Hassan Abu Bakar and Bahtiar Bin Mohamad
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28:1 (2018) v, 194 pp.
Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork
Edited by Hannah Sarvasy and Diana Forker
In Word Hunters, eleven distinguished linguists reflect on their career-spanning linguistic fieldwork. Over decades, each has repeatedly stood up to physical, intellectual, interpersonal, intercultural, and sometimes political challenges in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. These… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 194] 2018. vi, 177 pp.
Cultural Linguistic Contributions to World Englishes
Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen and Arne Peters
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 4:2 (2017) v, 152 pp.
Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation
Edited by Ludovic De Cuypere, Clara Vanderschueren and Gert de Sutter
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 31] 2017. vi, 325 pp.
Emotions across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Ad Foolen
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 4:1 (2017) v, 119 pp.
Flourishing in Italian: Positive Psychology approaches to the teaching and learning of Italian in Australia
Edited by Antonia Rubino, Antonella Strambi and Vincenza Tudini
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 40:2 (2017) v, 109 pp.
Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages
Edited by Eva van Lier
Special issue of Studies in Language 41:2 (2017) v, 302 pp.
The Linguistic Expression of Mirativity
Edited by Agnès Celle and Anastasios Tsangalidis
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 15:2 (2017) v, 271 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2017
Edited by Sander Lestrade and Bert Le Bruyn
The 48th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 4th, 2017. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year’s meeting, 64 papers were presented, of which 18 were submitted in writing.… read more
Metaphor in Religion and Spirituality
Edited by Stephen Pihlaja
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 7:1 (2017) v, 157 pp.
Methodology in Linguistic Landscape Research
Edited by Robert Blackwood
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 3:3 (2017) v, 113 pp.
The Roles of Communication on a Regional Conflict: Antipathy, Nationalism, and Conflicts among China, Japan, and South Korea
Edited by Eung-jun Min
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 27:2 (2017) v, 111 pp.
Stance, resonance and the power of engagement
Edited by Bracha Nir and Elisabeth Zima
Special issue of Functions of Language 24:1 (2017) v, 137 pp.
Transitivity and Valency: From theory to acquisition
Edited by Georgia Fotiadou and Hélène Vassiliadou
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 40:1 (2017) v, 133 pp.
Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology
Edited by Ana M. Piquer-Píriz and Rafael Alejo-González
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:1 (2016) vi, 245 pp.
Asian Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca and Identity
Edited by Chit Cheung Matthew Sung
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:2 (2016) vi, 182 pp.
Computational Construction Grammar and Constructional Change
Edited by Katrien Beuls and Remi van Trijp
After several decades in scientific purgatory, language evolution has reclaimed its place as one of the most important branches in linguistics. This renewed interest is accompanied by powerful new methods for making empirical observations. At the same time, construction grammar is increasingly… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 30] 2016. v, 286 pp.
Lexical plurals and beyond
Edited by Peter Lauwers and Marie Lammert
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 39:2 (2016) v, 201 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2016
Edited by Jenny Audring and Sander Lestrade
Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles representing current research in the Netherlands, in various fields of linguistics.This year's volume is based on the 47th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands (Utrecht, 7 February,… read more
Memory and memorialization
Edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Elana Shohamy
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 2:3 (2016) v, 104 pp.
Restructuring Chinese Speech Communities: Urbanization, language contact and identity formation
Edited by Marinus van den Berg
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:1 (2016) v, 173 pp.
The Structure of the English NP: Synchronic and diachronic explorations
Edited by Kristin Davidse
Special issue of Functions of Language 23:1 (2016) v, 147 pp.
Switch Reference 2.0
Edited by Rik van Gijn and Jeremy Hammond
Switch reference is a grammatical process that marks a referential relationship between arguments of two (or more) verbs. Typically it has been characterized as an inflection pattern on the verb itself, encoding identity or non-identity between subject arguments separately from traditional person… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 114] 2016. vi, 503 pp.
Tibetan Margins
Guest-edited by Daniel Berounský and Jarmila Ptáčková
Special issue of Archív Orientální 84:3 (2016) iv, 195 pp.
Contrasting contrastive approaches
Guest-edited by Bart Defrancq
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 15:1 (2015) v, 160 pp.
Death, Graves and the Hereafter in Islam: Muslim Perceptions of the Last Things During the Middle Ages and Today
Guest-edited by Bronislav Ostřanský and Miroslav Melčák
Special issue of Archív Orientální 83:3 (2015) iv, 228 pp.
Emotion in Language: Theory – research – application
Edited by Ulrike M. Lüdtke
The miracle of children's language development and the joy of expressive language on the one hand and the vulnerability of language and the sorrow and grief caused by its distortion or even loss in people with aphasia or dementia on the other hand show us the inseparability of emotion and language… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 10] 2015. xi, 458 pp.
Evidentiality and the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
Edited by Bert Cornillie and Juana I. Marín-Arrese
Coming to grips with the semantics-pragmatics interface of evidentiality is an important step forward towards a comprehensive lexicography of this functional category. It not only allows for differentiating between encoded evidential meanings and contextually inferred pragmatic meanings, but also… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 29] 2015. v, 216 pp.
Explored but not Assumed: Revisiting Commonalities in Asian Pacific Communication
Edited by Hui-Ching Chang and Ling Chen
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:1 (2015) v, 164 pp.
Expressing and Describing Surprise
Edited by Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:2 (2015) vi, 250 pp.
Language and Cultural Values: Adventures in applied ethnolinguistics
Edited by Bert Peeters
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 2:2 (2015) vii, 161 pp.
Linguistic Equality
Edited by Humphrey Tonkin
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 39:3 (2015) v, 101 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2015
Edited by Björn Köhnlein and Jenny Audring
The 46th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on 7 February, 2015. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year's meeting, 86 papers were presented, of which 21 were submitted in writing to… read more
Media and communication as antecedents to the transformation agenda in Malaysia: Challenges and realities
Edited by Ali Salman
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:2 (2015) vi, 157 pp.
Sensory Perceptions in Language and Cognition
Edited by Rosario Caballero and Carita Paradis
Special issue of Functions of Language 22:1 (2015) v, 159 pp.
Spanish Phraseology: Varieties and variations
Edited by Pedro Mogorrón Huerta and Xavier Blanco
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 38:2 (2015) v, 159 pp.
Teachers’ Plurilingual Identities in Transnational Contexts
Edited by Clea Schmidt and Antoinette Gagné
The Why and How of Total Reduplication: Current Issues and New Perspectives
Edited by Daniela Rossi
Special issue of Studies in Language 39:4 (2015) v, 241 pp.
The political impact of metaphors
Edited by Julien Perrez and Min Reuchamps
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 5:2 (2015) v, 130 pp.
Advances in research on semantic roles
Edited by Seppo Kittilä and Fernando Zúñiga
Special issue of Studies in Language 38:3 (2014) v, 211 pp.
Anxiety, Insecurity, and Border Crossing: Language Contact in a Globalizing World
Edited by Mie Hiramoto and Joseph Sung-Yul Park
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24:2 (2014) vi, 184 pp.
Discourse linguistics: Theory and practice
Edited by Karin Aijmer and Anita Fetzer
Special issue of Functions of Language 21:1 (2014) iii, 137 pp.
The Evidential Basis of Linguistic Argumentation
Edited by András Kertész and Csilla Rákosi
Currently, one of the methodological debates in linguistics focuses on the question of what kinds of data are allowed in different linguistic theories and what subtypes of data can work as evidence for or against particular hypotheses. The first part of the volume puts forward a methodological… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 153] 2014. vi, 320 pp.
Genre- and register-related discourse features in contrast
Edited by Marie-Aude Lefer and Svetlana Vogeleer
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 14:1 (2014) v, 161 pp.
Linguistic Diversity and Social Inclusion in Australia
Edited by Ingrid Piller
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2014
Edited by Anita Auer and Björn Köhnlein
The 45th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on 1 February, 2014. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year's meeting, 80 papers were presented, of which 18 were submitted to the present… read more
Morphology and its interfaces: Syntax, semantics and the lexicon
Edited by Dany Amiot, Delphine Tribout, Natalia Grabar, Cédric Patin and Fayssal Tayalati
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 37:2 (2014) vi, 168 pp.
Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese: Revised edition
Insup Taylor and M. Martin Taylor
The book describes how the three East Asian writing systems-Chinese, Korean, and Japanese- originated, developed, and are used today. Uniquely, this book: (1) examines the three East Asian scripts (and English) together in relation to each other, and (2) discusses how these scripts are, and… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 14] 2014. xix, 487 pp.
Communication in Humans and Other Animals
Gisela Håkansson and Jennie Westander
Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of as a unique system, which separates humans from other animals. This textbook serves as a guide to different types of communication, and suggests that each is unique in its own way: human verbal and… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 4] 2013. xi, 242 pp.
In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque
Edited by Terje Lohndal
This volume in honor of Jan Terje Faarlund covers the areas in which he has contributed to linguistic theorizing, ranging from in-depth studies of Norwegian and Scandinavian grammar both synchronically and diachronically, to work on the Indian language Chiapas Zoque. The book is organized… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 202] 2013. vi, 361 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013
Edited by Suzanne Aalberse and Anita Auer
The 44th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 9th, 2013. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year's meeting, 83 papers were presented, of which 25 were submitted to the present… read more
Metaphor across Time and Conceptual Space: The interplay of embodiment and cultural models
James J. Mischler, III
Contemporary linguistic forms are partially the product of their historical antecedents, and the same is true for cognitive conceptualization. The book presents the results of several diachronic corpus studies of conceptual metaphor in a longitudinal and empirical “mixed methods” design, employing… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 3] 2013. xv, 237 pp.
Responses to Language Endangerment: In honor of Mickey Noonan. New directions in language documentation and language revitalization
Edited by Elena Mihas, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei-Doval and Kathleen Wheatley
This volume further complicates and advances the contemporary perspective on language endangerment by examining the outcomes of the most commonly cited responses to language endangerment, i.e. language documentation, language revitalization, and training. The present collection takes stock of many… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 142] 2013. xv, 273 pp.
Teaching Creole-Speaking Children: Issues, concerns and resolutions for the classroom
Edited by Gillian Wigglesworth
Describing School Achievement in Asian Languages for Diverse Learner Groups
Edited by Angela Scarino and Catherine Elder
Experimental Semiotics: Studies on the emergence and evolution of human communication
Edited by Bruno Galantucci and Simon Garrod
In the early twentieth century, Ferdinand de Saussure envisioned "a science which studies the role of signs as part of social life". About a century later, a science has emerged that is very much in the spirit of that envisioned by de Saussure. Researchers who are developing this science, which has… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 45] 2012. v, 161 pp.
Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Grammatical Structure
Edited by Bart Defrancq, Gudrun Rawoens and Els Tobback
This volume is a collection of papers dealing with the close connection between discourse and grammar, illustrating the many, sometimes conflicting, facets of that relationship in various European languages. Central to all contributions is their focus on diverse aspects of clause combination and on… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 26] 2012. v, 159 pp.
An Introduction to Linguistic Typology
Viveka Velupillai
This clear and accessible introduction to linguistic typology covers all linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change. There is also a discussion on methodological issues in typology. This… read more[Not in series, 176] 2012. xxii, 517 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2012
Edited by Marion Elenbaas and Suzanne Aalberse
The 43rd annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 4th, 2012. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year's meeting, 67 papers were presented, of which 22 were submitted to the present… read more
Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity
Edited by Luna Filipović and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt
This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A number of authors discuss expression of dynamic spatial relations cross-linguistically in a vast range of typologically different languages… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 36] 2012. xv, 492 pp.
Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition
Edited by Luna Filipović and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt
This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 37] 2012. xiii, 363 pp.
Australian Languages: A challenge for applied linguistics
Edited by Michael Walsh
Cognitive and Empirical Pragmatics: Issues and perspectives
Edited by Gregory Bochner, Philippe De Brabanter, Mikhail Kissine and Daniela Rossi
Over the last decade, research in semantics and pragmatics has started to increasingly incorporate new experimental methods from cognitive psychology. That this empirical stance on utterance interpretation has now reached maturity is revealed by two unmistakable symptoms: (i) an increased… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 25] 2011. v, 208 pp.
Converging Evidence: Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research
Edited by Doris Schönefeld
The volume argues for the use of multi-methodological strategies in linguistic research. In its lead chapter, in addition, the thorny issue of phenomenological pluralism is explored in detail. From a usage-based perspective, the individual chapters demonstrate methodological pluralism in the… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 33] 2011. x, 352 pp.
Landscape in Language: Transdisciplinary perspectives
Edited by David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult and David Stea
Landscape is fundamental to human experience. Yet until recently, the study of landscape has been fragmented among the disciplines. This volume focuses on how landscape is represented in language and thought, and what this reveals about the relationships of people to place and to land. Scientists… read more[Culture and Language Use, 4] 2011. xiii, 449 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2011
Edited by Rick Nouwen and Marion Elenbaas
The 42nd annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 5th, 2011. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 112 papers were presented, of which 19 were submitted to the present… read more
New Directions in Colour Studies
Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough, Christian Kay and David R. Simmons
Colour studies attracts an increasingly wide range of scholars from across the academic world. Contributions to the present volume offer a broad perspective on the field, ranging from studies of individual languages through papers on art, architecture and heraldry to psychological examinations of… read more[Not in series, 167] 2011. xii, 462 pp.
Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Vander Viana, Sonia Zyngier and Geoff Barnbrook
Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics is a collection of interviews with fourteen well-known researchers in the field of linguistics. Each interview consists of a set of ten questions: the first seven are common to all contributors while the last three are connected to the research experience of each… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 48] 2011. xvi, 256 pp.
Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800
Otto Zwartjes
From the 16th century onwards, Europeans encountered languages in the Americas, Africa, and Asia which were radically different from any of the languages of the Old World. Missionaries were in the forefront of this encounter: in order to speak to potential converts, they needed to learn local… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 117] 2011. xiv, 359 pp.
Transcribing Talk and Interaction: Issues in the representation of communication data
Christopher Jenks
Interest in transcript-based research has grown significantly in recent years. Alongside this growth has been an increase in awareness of the empirical utility of naturalistic research on language use in interaction. However, a quick scan of the literature reveals that very few transcription books… read more[Not in series, 165] 2011. xi, 120 pp.
Appraising Research in Second Language Learning: A practical approach to critical analysis of quantitative research. Second edition
Graeme Keith Porte
Designed for students of applied linguistics and second language acquisition on research training courses, practising language teachers, and those in training, this combination textbook/workbook is a set or recommended textbook on more than a hundred undergraduate and postgraduate courses worldwide. read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 28] 2010. xxv, 307 pp.
The Linguistic Structure of Modern English
Laurel J. Brinton and Donna M. Brinton
This text is for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language, primary or secondary-school education, English stylistics, theoretical and applied linguistics, or speech pathology. The… read more[Not in series, 156] 2010. xx, 426 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2010
Edited by Jacqueline van Kampen and Rick Nouwen
The 41th annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 6th, 2010. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year's meeting, 103 papers were presented, of which 22 were submitted to the… read more
Sociocognitive Approaches to Second Language Pedagogy
Edited by Bronwen Patricia Dyson
Clearing the Air: Applied linguistic perspectives on aviation communication
Edited by John Read and Ute Knoch
Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007
Edited by Bernard Comrie, Ray Fabri, Elizabeth Hume, Manwel Mifsud, Thomas Stolz and Martine Vanhove
This collection of articles highlights a selection of on-going research projects. Phonological, morphological, and syntactic issues are addressed by international experts on Maltese. The diachronic development of Maltese, its age-long contact with Italo-Romance, and the present diglossic situation… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 113] 2009. xi, 422 pp.
Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition
Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap
FOR SALE IN U.S. AND CANADA ONLY. FOR SALES IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES, PLEASE CONTACT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS.Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern linguistics and deals with the place of language in human societies. This second edition of Introducing Sociolinguistics expertly… read more[Not in series, 102] 2009. xxvi, 502 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009
Edited by Bert Botma and Jacqueline van Kampen
Linguistics in the Netherlands is a series of annual publications, sponsored by the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands (Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap) and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company since Volume 8 in 1991. Each volume contains a careful selection of papers presented… read more
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 6
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, 6] 2008. 366 pp.
Commitment
Edited by Philippe De Brabanter and Patrick Dendale
Commitment is a notion widely invoked in speech-act theory, in studies on modality and in dialogue modelling, but it has never been the central topic of a monograph or a collective volume in linguistics. This volume is the very first to bring together researchers from different linguistic… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 22] 2008. 276 pp.
English as an International Language: Challenges and possibilities
Edited by Michael Clyne and Farzad Sharifian †
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2008
Edited by Marjo van Koppen and Bert Botma
The 39th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 2nd, 2008. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 91 papers were presented, of which 24 were… read more
Unity and Diversity of Languages
Edited by Piet van Sterkenburg
The Permanent International Committee of Linguists (Comité International Permanent des Linguistes, CIPL) has organized the 18th Congress of Linguists in Seoul (July 21-26, 2008), in close collaboration with the Linguistic Society of Korea. In this book one finds the invited talks which address hot… read more[Not in series, 141] 2008. xii, 232 pp.
The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Ineta Savickienė and Wolfgang U. Dressler
This cross-linguistic volume innovates research of the acquisition of diminutives in the inflecting-fusional languages Lithuanian, Russian, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch, the agglutinating languages Turkish, Hungarian and Finnish and in the introflecting Hebrew. These… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 43] 2007. vi, 352 pp.
Anaphors in Text: Cognitive, formal and applied approaches to anaphoric reference
Edited by Monika Schwarz-Friesel, Manfred Consten and Mareile Knees
This volume contains a careful selection of papers concerned with actual research questions on anaphoric reference, a subject of current interest with various linguistic subdisciplines. This is reflected in this book as it methodically covers broadly invested approaches from cognitive,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 86] 2007. xvi, 282 pp.
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 5
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, 5] 2007. iv, 334 pp.
Aspects of Meaning Construction
Edited by Günter Radden, Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Thomas Berg and Peter Siemund
Meaning does not reside in linguistic units but is constructed in the minds of the language users. Meaning construction is an on-line mental activity whereby speech participants create meanings on the basis of underspecified linguistic units. The construction of meaning is guided by cognitive… read more[Not in series, 136] 2007. x, 289 pp.
Beiträge zur Morphologie: Germanisch, Baltisch, Ostseefinnisch
Herausgegeben von Hans Fix
Der vorliegende Band, der auf ein interdisziplinäres Symposion Morphologische Probleme in den Sprachen der Ostseeanrainer im September 2005 am Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald zurückgeht, enthält Beiträge von Norbert Endres (Greifswald), Frank Heidermanns (Köln), Arend Quak (Amsterdam),… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 23] 2007. viii, 484 pp.
The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition
Edited by Michel Aurnague, Maya Hickmann † and Laure Vieu
Despite a growing interest for space in language, most research has focused on spatial markers specifying the static or dynamic relationships among entities (verbs, prepositions, postpositions, case markings…). Little attention has been paid to the very properties of spatial entities, their status… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 20] 2007. viii, 371 pp.
Constraints on Spelling Changes
Edited by Guido Nottbusch and Eliane Segers
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 10:2 (2007) 162 pp.
Culture, Contexts, and Communication in Multicultural Australia and New Zealand: An Introduction
Edited by Yunxia Zhu and Herbert Hildebrandt
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 17:1 (2007) 176 pp.
Ditransitivity
Edited by Anna Siewierska and Willem B. Hollmann
Special issue of Functions of Language 14:1 (2007) vi, 173 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 7 (2007)
Edited by Leah Roberts, Ayşe Gürel, Sibel Tatar and Leyla Martı
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 7] 2007. iv, 207 pp.
French Applied Linguistics
Edited by Dalila Ayoun
This state-of-the-art volume on French Applied Linguistics includes two introductory chapters, the first summarizes the past, present and future of French in applied linguistics, and the second reviews the history of French from a sociolinguistic perspective. The six chapters of the first part… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 16] 2007. xvi, 560 pp.
Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing
Edited by Christopher S. Butler, Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López
This book, a tribute to Angela Downing, consists of twenty papers taking a broadly functional perspective on language, with topics ranging from the general (grammar as an evolutionary product, text comprehension, integrative linguistics) to particular aspects of the grammars of languages… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 85] 2007. xxx, 481 pp.
Historical Changes in Japanese: Subjectivity and intersubjectivity
Edited by Noriko O. Onodera and Ryoko Suzuki
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8:2 (2007) 176 pp.
Identifying sentences in signed languages
Edited by Onno A. Crasborn
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 10:2 (2007) 140 pp.
Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies in honour of Frits Beukema
Edited by Wim van der Wurff
This volume contains ten articles exploring a wide range of issues in the analysis of the imperative clause from a generative perspective. The language data investigated in detail in the articles come from Dutch, English, German, (old) Scandinavian, Spanish, and South Slavic; there is further… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 103] 2007. viii, 352 pp.
Information Structuring Resources in Contrast
Edited by Bergljot Behrens, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 7:2 (2007) vi, 190 pp.
Insistent Images
Edited by Elżbieta Tabakowska, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer
Insistent Images presents a number of new departures dealing with iconicity on the conceptual and the structural levels. On the level of structure, the interface between different aspects of iconicity, lexical meaning and grammar is discussed in reference to both spoken and signed languages. Novel… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 5] 2007. xiii, 361 pp.
Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley
Edited by Jeff Siegel, John Lynch and Diana Eades
This volume in memory of Terry Crowley covers a wide range of languages: Australian, Oceanic, Pidgins and Creoles, and varieties of English. Part I, Linguistic Description and Typology, includes chapters on topics such as complex predicates and verb serialization, noun incorporation, possessive… read more[Creole Language Library, 30] 2007. xv, 514 pp.
Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In honor of James Emil Flege
Edited by Ocke-Schwen Bohn and Murray J. Munro
This stimulating collection of articles from leading international researchers provides a state-of-the-art overview of core issues in second language speech perception and production. Aimed at phoneticians, speech scientists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, and pedagogical specialists, it… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 17] 2007. xvii, 406 pp.
Language as Action
Edited by Maurice Nevile and Johanna Rendle-Short
Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts
Edited by Judith Munat
The coining of novel lexical items and the creative manipulation of existing words and expressions is heavily dependent on contextual factors, including the semantic, stylistic, textual and social environments in which they occur. The twelve specialists contributing to this collection aim to… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 58] 2007. xvi, 294 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007
Edited by Bettelou Los and Marjo van Koppen
The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 3rd, 2007. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 99 papers were presented, of which 39 were… read more
Mechanicism and Autonomy: What Can Robotics Teach Us About Human Cognition and Action?
Edited by Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez, Willem F.G. Haselager and Itiel E. Dror
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 15:3 (2007) 224 pp.
Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Irene Mittelberg †, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey
Methods in Cognitive Linguistics is an introduction to empirical methodology for language researchers. Intended as a handbook to exploring the empirical dimension of the theoretical questions raised by Cognitive Linguistics, the volume presents guidelines for employing methods from a variety of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 18] 2007. xxviii, 452 pp.
Named Entities: Recognition, classification and use
Edited by Satoshi Sekine and Elisabete Ranchhod
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 30:1 (2007) vi; 163 pp.
The Nonverbal Shift in Early Modern English Conversation
Axel Hübler
This is the first historical investigation on the nonverbal component of conversation. In the courtly society of 16th and 17th century England, it is argued that a drift appeared toward an increased use of prosodic means of expression at the expense of gestural means. Direct evidence is provided by… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 154] 2007. x, 281 pp.
On Information Structure, Meaning and Form: Generalizations across languages
Edited by Kerstin Schwabe and Susanne Winkler
This collection of articles offers a new and compelling perspective on the interface connecting syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatics. At the core of this volume is the hypothesis that information structure represents the common interface of these grammatical components. Information structure… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 100] 2007. vii, 570 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XX: Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 2006
Edited by Mustafa A. Mughazy
This volume includes twelve papers selected from the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held in 2006 at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. The papers in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues pertaining to Arabic, particularly in the areas of phonology,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 290] 2007. xii, 247 pp.
Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation. In honor of Joseph E. Emonds
Edited by Simin Karimi, Vida Samiian and Wendy K. Wilkins
The present collection includes papers that address a wide range of syntactic phenomena. In some, the authors discuss such major syntactic properties as clausal architecture, syntactic labels and derivation, and the nature of features and their role with respect to movement, agreement, and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 101] 2007. vi, 424 pp.
Power and Narrative
Edited by Lisa Lau and Shari Daya
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 17:1 (2007) vii, 158 pp.
Psychological Benchmarks of Human–Robot Interaction
Edited by Peter H. Kahn, Jr. and Karl F. MacDorman
Special issue of Interaction Studies 8:3 (2007) 166 pp.
Reciprocal Constructions
Edited by Vladimir P. Nedjalkov
This monograph constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of reciprocal constructions and related phenomena in the world’s languages. Reciprocal constructions (of the type The two boys hit each other, The poets admire each other’s poems) have often been the subject of language-particular… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 71] 2007. xxiii, 2219 pp. (5 vols.)
Reduced Parenthetical Clauses as Mitigators: A corpus study of spoken French, Italian and Spanish
Stefan Schneider
While parentheticals attract constant attention, they very rarely constitute the main subject of monographs. This book provides a comprehensive account of reduced parenthetical clauses (RPCs) in three Romance languages. Typical French RPCs are je crois, disons, je dirais, je pense, je sais pas, and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 27] 2007. xiv, 237 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Utrecht, 8–10 December 2005
Edited by Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen and Manuela Pinto
The conference series Going Romance is the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages, where ideas about language and linguistics and about Romance languages are put in an interactive perspective, giving space to both universality and Romance-internal… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 291] 2007. viii, 338 pp.
Romance Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the 36th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New Brunswick, March-April 2006
Edited by José Camacho, Nydia Flores-Ferrán, Liliana Sánchez, Viviane Déprez and María José Cabrera
This volume presents selected papers from the 36th LSRL conference held at Rutgers University in 2006. It contains twenty-two articles of current approaches to the study of Romance linguistics. Well-known researchers present their findings in areas such as of syntax and semantics, phonology,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 287] 2007. viii, 340 pp.
Seeing through Multilingual Corpora: On the use of corpora in contrastive studies
Stig Johansson
Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has led to a renewal of contrastive studies. We gain new insight into similarities and differences between languages, at the same time as the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 26] 2007. xxii, 355 pp.
Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning–Text Theory: In honour of Igor Mel'čuk
Edited by Leo Wanner
The Meaning Text Theory (MTT) is a lexicon-centred and dependency-based theory for the description of language using a holistic model that incorporates semantics, syntax, morphology and lexis. This volume, prepared on the occasion of Igor Mel'čuk’s 70th birthday, offers a cross-section of the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 84] 2007. xviii, 377 pp.
Simultaneity in Signed Languages: Form and function
Edited by Myriam Vermeerbergen, Lorraine Leeson and Onno A. Crasborn
Signed language users can draw on a range of articulators when expressing linguistic messages, including the hands, torso, eye gaze, and mouth. Sometimes these articulators work in tandem to produce one lexical item while in other instances they operate to convey different types of information… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 281] 2007. viii, 360 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Speaking of Colors and Odors
Edited by Martina Plümacher and Peter Holz
How to speak of colors and odors? In many cases, we have to think about an adequate description of a perceived odor or shade of color. Words are not fluently available.The contributions discuss color and odor perception and its linguistic representation from different disciplinary angles: from… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 8] 2007. vi, 244 pp.
Split Auxiliary Systems: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Raúl Aranovich
The alternation between the auxiliaries BE and HAVE, which this collection examines, is often discussed in connection with generative analyses of split intransitivity. But this book's purpose is to place the phenomenon in a broader context. Well-known facts in the Romance and Germanic language… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 69] 2007. vii, 277 pp.
Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar: In honour of Lachlan Mackenzie
Edited by Mike Hannay and Gerard J. Steen
This collection presents a number of studies in the lexico-grammar of English which focus on the one hand on close reading of language in context and on the other hand on current functional theoretical concerns. The various contributions represent distinct functionalist models of language,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 83] 2007. vi, 393 pp.
Substrate Influence in Creole Formation
Edited by Bettina Migge and Norval Smith
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:1 (2007) 200 pp.
Symbol Grounding
Edited by Tony Belpaeme, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman
Special issue of Interaction Studies 8:1 (2007) 180 pp.
Washing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology
Andrew Goatly
Contemporary metaphor theory has recently begun to address the relation between metaphor, culture and ideology. In this wide-ranging book, Andrew Goatly, using lexical data from his database Metalude, investigates how conceptual metaphor themes construct our thinking and social behaviour in fields… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 23] 2007. xvii, 431 pp.
Words, grammar, text: revisiting the work of John Sinclair
Edited by Rosamund Moon
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:2 (2007) 156 pp.
Academic Voices: Across languages and disciplines
Kjersti Fløttum, Trine Dahl and Torodd Kinn
This book explores how the voices of authors and other researchers are manifested in academic discourse, and how the author handles the polyphonic interaction between these various parties. It represents a unique study of academic discourse in that it takes a doubly contrastive approach, focusing… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 148] 2006. x, 309 pp.
The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages
Edited by Vincent Torrens and Linda Escobar
This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory. They favour, discuss and sometimes challenge traditional explanations of first… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 41] 2006. viii, 422 pp.
Address from a World Perspective
Edited by Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, Catrin Norrby and Jane Warren
Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins
Edited by Joseph Davis, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern
This collection carries the functionalist Columbia School of linguistics forward with contributions on linguistic theory, semiotics, phonology, grammar, lexicon, and anthropology. Columbia School linguistics views language as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its communicative… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 57] 2006. x, 344 pp.
Advice Online: Advice-giving in an American Internet health column
Miriam A. Locher
Advice Online presents a comprehensive study of advice-giving in one particular American Internet advice column, referred to as ‘Lucy Answers’. The discursive practice investigated is part of a professional and educational health program managed by an American university. The study provides… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 149] 2006. xvi, 277 pp.
Agency and Impersonality: Their Linguistic and Cultural Manifestations
Mutsumi Yamamoto
In this monograph the author probes the fundamental nature of the concept of agency and its importance to human language and cognition. Whereas previous studies focused on grammatical manifestations this original work addresses such issues as the strong relationship between agency and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 78] 2006. x, 152 pp.
Agreement Systems
Edited by Cedric Boeckx
Agreement plays a central role in modern generative grammar. The present collection brings together contributions from experts on various aspects of agreement systems in the world’s languages in an attempt to formulate formal and substantive universals in this domain. All the papers contained here… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 92] 2006. ix, 346 pp.
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 4
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, 4] 2006. iv, 288 pp.
Asian Business Discourse(s) Part II
Edited by Francesca Bargiela
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:1 (2006) 164 pp.
Case, Valency and Transitivity
Edited by Leonid Kulikov, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart
The three concepts of case, valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 77] 2006. xx, 503 pp.
The Chinese Rime Tables: Linguistic philosophy and historical-comparative phonology
Edited by David Prager Branner
This book, the first in its field in a Western language, examines China’s native phonological tool with regard to reconstruction, theory, and linguistic philosophy.After an introductory essay on the nature of the tables and the history of their interpretation, the book concentrates on three areas:… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 271] 2006. viii, 358 pp.
Codeswitching on the Web: English and Jamaican Creole in e-mail communication
Lars Hinrichs
Based on a corpus of private email from Jamaican university students, this study explores the discourse functions of Jamaican Creole in computer-mediated communication. From this participant-centered perspective, it contributes to the longstanding theoretical debates in creole studies about the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 147] 2006. x, 302 pp.
Cognitive Linguistics Investigations: Across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries
Edited by June Luchjenbroers
The total body of papers presented in this volume captures research across a variety of languages and language groups, to show how particular elements of linguistic description draw on otherwise separate aspects (or fields) of linguistic investigation. As such, this volume captures a diversity of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 15] 2006. xiii, 334 pp.
Collaborating towards Coherence: Lexical cohesion in English discourse
Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
This book approaches cohesion and coherence from a perspective of interaction and collaboration. After a detailed account of various models of cohesion and coherence, the book suggests that it is fruitful to regard cohesion as contributing to coherence, as a strategy used by communicators to help… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 146] 2006. ix, 192 pp.
Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax: From Afrikaans to Zurich German
Edited by Jutta M. Hartmann and László Molnárfi
This selection of papers presented at the 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop brings together contributions that address issues in syntactic predication and studies in the nominal system, as well as papers on data from the history of English and German. Showing a strong comparative… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 97] 2006. vi, 332 pp.
Competing Models of Linguistic Change: Evolution and beyond
Edited by Ole Nedergaard Thomsen
The articles of this volume are centered around two competing views on language change originally presented at the 2003 International Conference on Historical Linguistics in the two important plenary papers by Henning Andersen and William Croft. The latter proposes an evolutionary model of language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 279] 2006. vi, 344 pp.
Creative Compounding in English: The Semantics of Metaphorical and Metonymical Noun-Noun Combinations
Réka Benczes
Metaphorical and metonymical compounds – novel and lexicalised ones alike – are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an expression such as land fishing in order to speak about metal detecting, the referent will be immediately understood even if the hearer had not… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 19] 2006. xvi, 206 pp.
Critical Linguistic Perspectives on Coping with Traumatic Pasts: Case studies
Edited by Christine Anthonissen and Jan Blommaert †
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 5:1 (2006) 162 pp.
Datives and Other Cases: Between argument structure and event structure
Edited by Daniel Hole, André Meinunger and Werner Abraham
This volume provides a state-of-the-art account of research into datives and other morphological cases. The contributors, among them leading scholars in the field, present fresh insights into traditional issues such as the dichotomy between lexical and structural case, and open up fascinating new… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 75] 2006. viii, 385 pp.
Deixis and Alignment: Inverse systems in indigenous languages of the Americas
Fernando Zúñiga
This book proposes a notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered). This third stance put forward here takes both grammar and pragmatic functions into… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 70] 2006. xii, 309 pp.
Demoting the Agent: Passive, middle and other voice phenomena
Edited by Benjamin Lyngfelt and Torgrim Solstad
Passives, middles, and other voice phenomena are issues at the core of modern linguistic research. This volume brings together different perspectives on voice different theoretical viewpoints, different languages, and different kinds of voice phenomena. The eleven articles each make a valuable… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 96] 2006. x, 333 pp.
Deriving Coordinate Symmetries: A phase-based approach integrating Select, Merge, Copy and Match
John R. te Velde
This monograph proposes a minimalist, phase-based approach to the derivation of coordinate structures, utilizing the operations Copy and Match to account for both the symmetries and asymmetries of coordination. Data are drawn primarily from English, German and Dutch. The basic assumptions are that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 89] 2006. x, 385 pp.
Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn
Edited by Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward
One of the most lively and contentious issues in contemporary linguistic theory concerns the elusive boundary between semantics and pragmatics, and Professor Laurence R. Horn of Yale University has been at the center of that debate ever since his groundbreaking 1972 UCLA dissertation. This volume… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 80] 2006. xii, 350 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 6 (2006)
Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, Marta Medved Krajnovic and Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 6] 2006. iv, 261 pp.
Emotive Communication in Japanese
Edited by Satoko Suzuki
It has become well recognized that affective dimensions of language constitute an integral part of the linguistic system. Japanese provides a prime example of the significance of emotivity as it has grammaticalized a wide variety of expressions to communicate affective information. The collected… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 151] 2006. x, 234 pp.
English with a Latin Beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish–English Interphonology
Edited by Barbara O. Baptista and Michael Alan Watkins
Although it has long been recognized that second language pronunciation is strongly influenced by the native language, second language phonology has only become a recognized area of study during the last thirty years. While English has been the most frequent target language involved, the learners'… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 31] 2006. vi, 214 pp.
Epigenetic robotics
Edited by Giorgio Metta and Luc Berthouze
Special issue of Interaction Studies 7:2 (2006) iv, 169 pp.
Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion
Edited by Tope Omoniyi and Joshua A. Fishman †
The Sociology of Language and Religion (SLR) is still in its infancy as a sub-discipline in the macrosociolinguistic tradition. It is therefore no coincidence that the editorial collaboration to produce its first definitive text Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion has involved… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 20] 2006. viii, 347 pp.
Features of Naturalness in Conversation
Martin Warren
The study describes a detailed and original piece of research work, investigating a very important genre of human communication, and that is conversation. It provides a definition of the genre of conversation by describing nine features of conversation, namely multiple sources, discourse coherence,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 152] 2006. x, 272 pp.
From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages
John Hewson and Vit Bubenik
In the historical development of many languages of the IE phylum the loss of inflectional morphology led to the development of a configurational syntax, where syntactic position marked syntactic role. The first of these configurations was the adposition (preposition or postposition), which… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 280] 2006. xxx, 419 pp.
Goals for Academic Writing: ESL students and their instructors
Edited by Alister Cumming
This book documents the results of a multi-year project that investigated the goals for writing improvement among 45 students and their instructors in intensive courses of English as a Second Language (ESL) then, a year later, in academic programs at two Canadian universities. The researchers… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 15] 2006. xii, 204 pp.
Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, space and person in Finnish
Edited by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Lyle Campbell
The papers of this volume investigate how grammar codes the subjective viewpoint of human language users, that is, how grammar reflects human conceptualization. Some of the articles deal with spatial relations and locations. They discuss how basic attributes of human conceptualization are encoded… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 277] 2006. x, 280 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 10] 2006. vi, 500 pp.
Heritage Language Development: Focus on East Asian Immigrants
Edited by Kimi Kondo-Brown
This collection of studies investigates the individual, micro-psychological, and macro-societal factors that promote or discourage the development of child and young adult heritage language learners’ spoken and written skills in East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). The research… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 32] 2006. x, 282 pp.
Hindi
Yamuna Kachru
This book presents the structure of Hindi keeping in view the sociolinguistic context of language use. It includes descriptions of sounds, devices of word formation, rules of phrase and sentence construction and conventions of language use in spoken and written texts incorporating the insights… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 12] 2006. xxi, 309 pp.
Historical Courtroom Discourse
Edited by Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 7:2 (2006) 160 pp.
Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and perspectives
Edited by Randall Gess and Deborah Arteaga
This volume contains 17 studies on historical Romance linguistics within a variety of current theoretical frameworks; it includes studies on phonology, morphology and syntax, focusing solely or comparatively on all five ‘major’ Romance languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 274] 2006. viii, 393 pp.
History, Society and Variation: In honor of Albert Valdman
Edited by J. Clancy Clements, Thomas A. Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen and Kevin J. Rottet
This volume presents a collection of new articles by sixteen specialists in the field of pidgin and creole studies, assembled in honor of the world-renowned creolist, Albert Valdman. The articles, written from a variety of theoretical perspectives, are organized thematically in three sections: on… read more[Creole Language Library, 28] 2006. vi, 304 pp.
Idiomatic Creativity: A cognitive-linguistic model of idiom-representation and idiom-variation in English
Andreas Langlotz
This book revisits the theoretical and psycholinguistic controversies centred around the intriguing nature of idioms and proposes a more systematic cognitive-linguistic model of their grammatical status and use. Whenever speakers vary idioms in actual discourse, they open a linguistic window into… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 17] 2006. xi, 325 pp.
Individuals in Time: Tense, aspect and the individual/stage distinction
María J. Arche
This monograph investigates the temporal properties of those predicates referring to individuals – the so-called individual-level (IL) predicates – in contrast to those known as stage-level (SL) predicates. Many of the traditional tenets attributed to the IL/SL dichotomy are not solidly founded,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 94] 2006. xiv, 281 pp.
Inference and Generalizability in Applied Linguistics: Multiple perspectives
Edited by Micheline Chalhoub-Deville, Carol A. Chapelle and Patricia A. Duff
Concepts such as dependability/generalization and inferences are dealt with implicitly or explicitly in any research undertaken in applied linguistics. This volume provides a well-balanced and cross-disciplinary perspective on how researchers conceptualize inferences about learner acquisition and… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 12] 2006. vi, 248 pp.
Information and Document Design: Varieties on Recent Research
Edited by Saul Carliner, Jan Piet Verckens and Cathy de Waele
Recent research in information and document design explores research by presenting reports of actual research studies in information and document design. It specifically reports on ten studies in the areas of marketing communication (part one), functional communication (part two) and online… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 7] 2006. xi, 252 pp.
Inquiries in Linguistic Development: In honor of Lydia White
Edited by Roumyana Slabakova, Silvina Montrul and Philippe Prévost
The focus of this collection is on important themes in L2 acquisition, the nature of grammatical systems developed by language learners in L1 acquisition, third language acquisition, and bilingualism and language attrition. The chapters present an interesting mix of theoretical contributions,… read more[Not in series, 133] 2006. vi, 363 pp.
Interfaces in Multilingualism: Acquisition and representation
Edited by Conxita Lleó
Modeling of linguistic knowledge generally involves the compartmentalization of grammar into phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic components. These components are not isolated but interacting components. It is the resulting interfaces between grammatical… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 4] 2006. xiv, 284 pp.
Interfaces with English Aspect: Diachronic and empirical studies
Debra Ziegeler
The field of verbal aspect has been a focus for the derivation of a multiplicity of theoretical approaches ranging over decades of linguistic research. From the point of view of recent studies, though, there has been relatively little emphasis on the nature of the interaction of aspect with other… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 82] 2006. xvi, 325 pp.
Introduction to Neurolinguistics
Elisabeth Ahlsén
This introduction to neurolinguistics is intended for anybody who wants to acquire a grounding in the field. It was written for students of linguistics and communication disorders, but students of psychology, neuroscience and other disciplines will also find it valuable. The introductory section… read more[Not in series, 134] 2006. xii, 212 pp.
Investigating Understudied Sign Languages - Croatian SL and Austrian SL, with comparison to American SL
Edited by Ronnie B. Wilbur
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 9:1/2 (2006) v, 256 pp.
L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues
Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan
In this volume, second language (L2) acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles (Siegel). The first group of papers… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 42] 2006. viii, 433 pp.
Language Planning and Varieties of (Modern Standard) Chinese
Edited by Minglang Zhou
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:2 (2006) 208 pp.
Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at ‘Heartland’ English
Edited by Thomas E. Murray and Beth Lee Simon
This volume explores the linguistic complexities and critical issues of the Midland dialect area of the USA, and contains a unique data-based set of investigations of the Midlands dialect. The authors demonstrate that the large central part of the United States known colloquially as the Heartland,… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G36] 2006. xii, 320 pp.
Language Variation – European Perspectives: Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005
Edited by Frans Hinskens
This volume presents 16 original studies of variation in languages representing the three main European language families, as well as in varieties of Greek and Hungarian. The studies concern variation in or across dialects or dialect groups, in standard varieties or in emerging regional varieties… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 1] 2006. vi, 279 pp.
Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East: A historical study
John Myhill
This book discusses the historical record of the idea that language is associated with national identity, demonstrating that different applications of this idea have consistently produced certain types of results. Nationalist movements aimed at ‘unification’, based upon languages which vary greatly… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 21] 2006. ix, 300 pp.
Languages of the Internet
Edited by Claudio Menezes
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 5:2 (2006) 151 pp.
Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics
Edited by John Flowerdew and Michaela Mahlberg
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11:3 (2006) 128 pp.
Linear Unit Grammar: Integrating speech and writing
John McH. Sinclair and Anna Mauranen
People have a natural propensity to understand language text as a succession of smallish chunks, whether they are reading, writing, speaking or listening. Linguists have found that this propensity can shed light on the nature and structure of language, and there are many studies which attempt to… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 25] 2006. xxii, 185 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006
Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer and Bettelou Los
The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 4th, 2006. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 89 papers were presented, of which 34… read more
Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English
Annelie Ädel
The pervasive phenomenon of metadiscourse – commentary on the ongoing discourse – is beginning to take its rightful place among the major topics of discourse studies. This book makes simultaneous contributions to the theory of metadiscourse, corpus-based methods of studying such phenomena, and our… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 24] 2006. x, 243 pp.
Minimalist Essays
Edited by Cedric Boeckx
The Minimalism Program is many things to many researchers, and there are by now many alternative versions of it. Central to all is the fundamental question: to what extent is the human language faculty an optimal solution to minimal design specifications. Taken as a whole, the volume outlines the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 91] 2006. xvi, 399 pp.
The Minimalist Syntax of Defective Domains: Gerunds and infinitives
Acrisio Pires
This book unifies the analysis of certain non-finite domains, focusing on subject licensing, agreement, and Case and control. It proposes a minimalist analysis of English gerunds which allows only a null subject PRO (TP-defective gerunds), a lexical subject (gerunds as complements of perception… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 98] 2006. xiv, 188 pp.
Narrative – State of the Art
Edited by Michael Bamberg
This special issue Narrative – State of the Art is edited by Michael Bamberg and contains 24 articles that look back and take stock of developments in narrative theorizing and empirical work with narratives. The attempt has been made to bring together researchers from different disciplines, with… read moreSpecial issue of Narrative Inquiry 16:1 (2006) 236 pp
New Approaches to the Study of Later Modern English
Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 33:1/2 (2006) 272
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005
Edited by Chiyo Nishida and Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil
This is the first of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote address delivered by Denis Bouchard on exaptation and linguistic explanation, as well as seventeen contributions by… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 275] 2006. xiv, 282 pp.
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics; Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology. 2 Vols. set. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005
Edited by Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil and Chiyo Nishida
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 275-276] 2006. 525 pp.
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005
Edited by Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil
This is the second of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote addresses delivered by Prof. Jacques Durand on the Phonology of Contemporary French Project and Prof. John Charles Smith… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 276] 2006. x, 213 pp.
Non-definiteness and Plurality
Edited by Svetlana Vogeleer and Liliane Tasmowski
This collection of studies by leading scholars in the field focuses on the semantics of non-definite (bare and indefinite) plural NPs. The contributions in the first part concentrate on bare plurals and their cross-linguistic counterparts. They discuss applicability of the notion of ‘semantic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 95] 2006. vi, 358 pp.
Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology
Edited by Fernando Martínez-Gil and Sonia Colina
This outstanding volume offers the first comprehensive collection of optimality-theoretic studies in Spanish phonology. Bringing together most of the best-known researchers in the field, it presents a state-of-the-art overview of research in Spanish phonology within the non-derivational framework… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 99] 2006. viii, 564 pp.
Ordre des mots et topologie de la phrase française
Sous la direction de Kim Gerdes et Claude Muller
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 29:1 (2006) 199 pp.
Passivization and Typology: Form and function
Edited by Werner Abraham and Larisa Leisiö
Is the passive a unified universal phenomenon? The claim derived from this volume is that the passive, if not universal, has become unified according to function. Language as a means of communication needs the passive, or passive-like constructions, and sooner or later develops them based on other… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 68] 2006. x, 553 pp.
Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz
Edited by Sharon Unsworth, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten
The main focus of generative language development research in recent decades has been the logical problem of language acquisition - how learners go beyond the input to acquire complex linguistic knowledge. This collection deals with the complementary issue of the developmental problem of language… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 39] 2006. viii, 222 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVI: , Cambridge, March 2002
Edited by Sami Boudelaa
The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held in Cambridge, UK, in 2002. They deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in varieties of Arabic. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 266] 2006. xii, 181 pp.
Perspectives on Grammar Writing
Edited by Thomas E. Payne and David J. Weber
Special issue of Studies in Language 30:2 (2006) iv, 227 pp.
Point of View in Plays: A cognitive stylistic approach to viewpoint in drama and other text-types
Dan McIntyre
This is the first book-length study of how point of view is manifested linguistically in dramatic texts. It examines such issues as how readers process the shifts in viewpoint that can occur within such texts. Using insights from cognitive linguistics, the book aims to explain how the analysis of… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 3] 2006. xii, 203 pp.
Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and culture & Volume II. Psychological aspects (set)
Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Christian Kay and Nicola Pitchford
These two volumes offer a fascinating glimpse into the current avenues of research into colour. The majority of the papers originated in a 2004 conference held in Glasgow, U.K.; some additional invited papers are included. The contributions to both books represent reviews of state-of-the-art colour… read more[Not in series, PICS S] 2006. xii, 223 pp. & xiv, 237 pp.
Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and culture
Edited by Carole P. Biggam and Christian Kay
Along with its companion volume, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the current avenues of research into colour, a phenomenon which daily affects all our lives in often surprising ways. The majority of the papers originated in a 2004 conference entitled ‘Progress in Colour Studies’ which… read more[Not in series, PICS 1] 2006. xii, 223 pp.
Prosody and Syntax: Cross-linguistic perspectives
Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Ivan Fónagy and Tsunekazu Moriguchi
This collection of papers is the third volume of the series “Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics” (UBLI), a product of the 21st Century COE Program of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). Prosody, as used in this text, appears in units larger than segments and generally refers to the… read more[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 3] 2006. v, 383 pp.
Readings in Second Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition: In Japanese Context
Edited by Asako Yoshitomi, Tae Umino and Masashi Negishi
The selected contributions of this volume focus on various issues related to second language pedagogy and second language acquisition in the Japanese context. Part I covers such topics as discourse pragmatics and cross-cultural pragmatics in language teaching; the instruction of conversation… read more[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 4] 2006. vi, 274 pp.
Request Sequences: The intersection of grammar, interaction and social context
Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm
This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of instances of requests in everyday German conversation. Using the framework of CA, the study systematically analyzes the grammatical and syntactical structure of the request-turn and its response and of the conversational exchanges before and… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 19] 2006. x, 125 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Leiden, 9–11 December 2004
Edited by Jenny Doetjes and Paz González
This volume brings together a selection of papers from the eighteenth ‘Going Romance’ symposium, held at Leiden University, 9–11 December 2004. These papers cover a broad range of topics in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, and acquisition, in a variety of Romance… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 278] 2006. viii, 320 pp.
Script Adjustment and Phonological Awareness
Edited by Martin Neef and Guido Nottbusch
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 9:1 (2006) 181 pp.
Second Language Interaction
Salla Kurhila
Members of divergent societies are increasingly involved in interactional situations, both publicly and privately, where participants do not share linguistic resources. Second language conversations have become common everyday events in the globalized world, and an interest has evolved to determine… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 145] 2006. vii, 257 pp.
Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages
Edited by Bert Peeters
This volume is part of a research program which started with the publication, in 1972, of Anna Wierzbicka’s groundbreaking work on Semantic Primitives. The first within the program to focus on a number of typologically similar languages, it proposes a French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian version… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 81] 2006. xvi, 374 pp.
Space in Languages: Linguistic Systems and Cognitive Categories
Edited by Maya Hickmann † and Stéphane Robert
Space is presently the focus of much research and debate across disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy. One strong feature of this collection is to bring together theoretical and empirical contributions from these varied scientific traditions, with the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 66] 2006. x, 361 pp.
Spoken Language Corpus and Linguistic Informatics
Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Susumu Zaima and Toshihiro Takagaki
Linguistic Informatics is a research field named by the Center of Excellence (COE) Program: Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics (UBLI), which aims to systematically integrate studies in computer science, linguistics, and language education. The first part of this volume contains three lectures on… read more[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 5] 2006. vi, 434 pp.
Structural Propensities: Translating nominal word groups from English into German
Monika Doherty
This book focuses on the translation of English academic texts into German, closely analysing the structural and discourse properties of original sentences and their possible translations. It consists of six chapters, with more than a hundred carefully discussed examples, and presents the author’s… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 65] 2006. xxii, 196 pp.
Structure and Variation in Language Contact
Edited by Ana Deumert and Stephanie Durrleman
This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions reflect – from various perspectives and using different types of data – on the interplay between structure and variation in contact… read more[Creole Language Library, 29] 2006. viii, 376 pp.
Studies in African Linguistic Typology
Edited by F.K. Erhard Voeltz
The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic typology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 64] 2006. xiv, 426 pp.
Studies on Agreement
Edited by João Costa and Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva
The status of agreement is a core issue in current morphological and syntactic theory. The collection of papers in this volume focuses on important issues, such as the nature of the relation between syntax and morphology in determining agreement relations; whether and which syntactic configurations… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 86] 2006. vi, 285 pp.
Suppletion in Verb Paradigms: Bits and pieces of the puzzle
Ljuba N. Veselinova
This book examines stem change in verb paradigms, as in English go 'go.PRESENT' vs. went 'go.PAST', a phenomenon referred to as suppletion in current linguistic theory. The work is based on a broad sample of 193 languages, and examines this long neglected phenomenon from a typological perspective.… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 67] 2006. xviii, 236 pp.
The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary perspectives
Edited by Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles-Suárez and Ellen Barton
This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the volume… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 93] 2006. x, 372 pp
Synthesizing Research on Language Learning and Teaching
Edited by John M. Norris and Lourdes Ortega
This volume presents the first collection of work on research synthesis in applied linguistics. It introduces readers to a cutting-edge approach for reviewing and summarizing exactly what accumulated research has to say about theoretical and practical subjects. John Norris and Lourdes Ortega… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 13] 2006. xiv, 349 pp.
Teacher Education in CALL
Edited by Philip Hubbard and Mike Levy
This volume addresses the need for a more considered and systematic approach to teacher education and training in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), in all its forms: Technology Enhanced Language Learning, Network-Based Language Learning, Information and Communication Technologies for… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 14] 2006. xii, 354 pp.
Textual Patterns: Key words and corpus analysis in language education
Mike Scott and Christopher Tribble
Textual Patterns introduces corpus resources, tools and analytic frameworks of central relevance to language teachers and teacher educators. Specifically it shows how key word analysis, combined with the systematic study of vocabulary and genre, can form the basis for a corpus informed approach to… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 22] 2006. x, 203 pp.
Themes in SLA Research. AILA Review, Volume 19
Edited by Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig and Zoltán Dörnyei
This issue of AILA Review contains the proceedings of a special symposium of the AILA Scientific Commission of Second Language Acquisition at the 2005 AILA Congress in Madison, WI, USA. Seven international experts in the field of SLA – Bardovi-Harlig, Dörnyei, N. Ellis, R. Ellis, Gass, Kasper,… read more[AILA Review, 19] 2006. 132 pp.
Three-Participant Constructions in English: A functional-cognitive approach to caused relations
An Laffut
This study aims to give a systematic and comprehensive description of the constructions involved in three important types of alternation: the locative alternation, which is by far the most researched of the three, the image impression alternation and the material/product alternation. The author… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 79] 2006. ix, 268 pp.
Topics in Subjectification and Modalization
Edited by Bert Cornillie and Nicole Delbecque
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.This… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 20] 2006. 208 pp.
Types of Variation: Diachronic, dialectal and typological interfaces
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen
This volume interfaces three fields of linguistics rarely discussed in the same context. Its underlying theme is linguistic variation, and the ways in which historical linguists and dialectologists may learn from insights offered by typology, and vice versa. The aim of the contributions is to raise… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 76] 2006. viii, 378 pp.
University Language: A corpus-based study of spoken and written registers
Douglas Biber
University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations and requirements. While many previous studies have investigated academic writing, we know comparatively little about academic speech; and no linguistic… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 23] 2006. viii, 261 pp.
Variation and Reconstruction
Edited by Thomas D. Cravens
The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected. The articles in the present volume consider this relationship from a number of different angles, with a number of different focuses. Several of the papers discuss evidence… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 268] 2006. viii, 223 pp.
Visual Thought: The depictive space of perception
Edited by Liliana Albertazzi
This volume starts from an interdisciplinary expertise of the contributors, and chooses to work on the very origins of conscious qualitative states in perception. The leading research paradigm can be synthesized in ‘phenomenology to neurons to stimuli, and backwards’, since as a starting point it… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 67] 2006. xii, 380 pp.
Vocative Constructions in the Language of Shakespeare
Beatrix Busse
This study investigates the functions, meanings, and varieties of forms of address in Shakespeare’s dramatic work. New categories of Shakespearean vocatives are developed and the grammar of vocatives is investigated in, above, and below the clause, following morpho-syntactic, semantic,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 150] 2006. xviii, 525 pp.
Voice and Grammatical Relations: In Honor of Masayoshi Shibatani
Edited by Tasaku Tsunoda and Taro Kageyama
This volume presents thirteen original papers dealing with various aspects of two related areas of research of major concern to linguists of all theoretical persuasions: voice and grammatical relations. The papers are written from typological, functional, and cognitive perspectives, and contain a… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 65] 2006. xviii, 342 pp.
Written Reliquaries: The resonance of orality in medieval English texts
Leslie K. Arnovick
Written Reliquaries: The resonance of orality in medieval English texts establishes the linguistic component of orality and oral tradition. The relics it examines are traces of spoken performance, artifacts of linguistic and cultural processes. Seven case studies animate verbal acts of making… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 153] 2006. xii, 292 pp.
‘Kubla Khan’ – Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality and Cognitive Style: A study in mental, vocal and critical performance
Reuven Tsur †
This book endorses Coleridge's statement: "nothing can permanently please which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so". It conceives 'Kubla Khan' as of a hypnotic poem, in which the "obtrusive rhythms" produce a hypnotic, emotionally heightened response, giving false security to the… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 16] 2006. xii, 252 pp.
The Acquisition of Swahili
Kamil Deen
This monograph is the first study of the acquisition of Swahili as a first language. It focuses on the acquisition of inflectional affixes, with a particular emphasis on subject agreement and tense. Other inflectional affixes are also investigated, including object agreement and mood. The study… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 40] 2005. xiv, 241 pp.
Advances in Greek Generative Syntax: In honor of Dimitra Theophanopoulou-Kontou
Edited by Melita Stavrou and Arhonto Terzi
This collection of original research focuses on various lesser studied aspects of Greek syntax. The articles combine a sound empirical coverage within current developments of generative theory and cover a wide spectrum of areas. The syntax of sentential structure is dealt with by two articles, one… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 76] 2005. viii, 366 pp.
Anaphora Processing: Linguistic, cognitive and computational modelling
Edited by António Branco, Tony McEnery and Ruslan Mitkov
Anaphora processing is a central topic in the study of natural language and has long been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines. The correct interpretation of anaphora has also become increasingly important for real-world natural language processing applications, including machine… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 263] 2005. x, 449 pp.
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 3
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, 3] 2005. 360 pp.
Applied Linguistics in Latin America. AILA Review, Volume 18
Edited by Kanavillil Rajagopalan
The focus of AILA Review 18 is on Latin America, a huge land mass stretching over as many as 33 different nations and another 13 political units. Applied linguistics has come of age in Latin America and is currently in a state of great activity. This AILA Review volume is testimony of this… read more[AILA Review, 18] 2005. 100 pp.
Asian Business Discourse(s) Part I
Edited by Francesca Bargiela
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 15:2 (2005) 121 pp.
Aspects of English Negation
Edited by Yoko Iyeiri
This book contains eleven carefully selected papers, all discussing negative constructions in English. The aim of this volume is to bring together empirical research into the development of English negation and analyses of syntactic variations in Present-day English negation. The first part… read more[Not in series, 132] 2005. xii, 239 pp.
Athabaskan Prosody
Edited by Sharon Hargus and Keren Rice
This collection of articles on stress and tone in various Athabaskan languages will interest theoretical linguists and historically oriented linguists alike. The volume brings to light new data on the phonetics and/or phonology of prosody (stress, tone, intonation) in various Athabaskan languages,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 269] 2005. xii, 432 pp.
Bare Plurals, Indefinites, and Weak–Strong Distinction
Edited by Svetlana Vogeleer
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 19] 2005. iv, 265 pp.
Beyond Rhetorical Questions: Assertive questions in everyday interaction
Irene Koshik
This book uses Conversation Analysis methodology to analyze rhetorical and other questions that are designed to convey assertions, rather than seek new information. It shows how these question sequences unfold interactionally in naturally-occurring talk in a variety of settings, e.g., friends… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 16] 2005. x, 183 pp.
Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy
Edited by Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
The Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy (METBIB) is an online bibliography which brings together references to publications on metaphor, metonymy, and other figurative language, starting from 1990. It covers monographs, journal articles, book series, dissertations, theses, proceedings, working… read more[Online Resources Collection, MetBib] 2005. ca. 10.000 records
Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness
Edited by Robin T. Lakoff and Sachiko Ide
This collection of 19 papers celebrates the coming of age of the field of politeness studies, now in its 30th year. It begins with an investigation of the meaning of politeness, especially linguistic politeness, and presents a short history of the field of linguistic politeness studies, showing how… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 139] 2005. xii, 342 pp.
C-ORAL-ROM: Integrated Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages
Edited by Emanuela Cresti and Massimo Moneglia
The C-ORAL-ROM book and DVD provide a unique set of comparable corpora of spontaneous speech for the main Romance languages, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The corpora are accompanied by comparative linguistic studies, models and standard linguistic measures of spoken language variability. read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 15] 2005. xviii, 304 pp. (incl. DVD)
Calling for Help: Language and social interaction in telephone helplines
Edited by Carolyn Baker, Michael Emmison and Alan Firth
Telephone helplines have become one of the most pervasive sites of expert-lay interaction in modern societies throughout the world. Yet surprisingly little is known of the in situ, language-based processes of help-seeking and help-giving behavior that occurs within them. This collection of original… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 143] 2005. xviii, 352 pp.
Case, Referentiality and Phrase Structure
Balkız Öztürk
This book proposes that the two “independent” conditions on argumenthood, namely, case and referentiality, are strongly correlated and have to be associated with each other in syntax as syntactic features. It shows that languages exhibit variation in the way this association is implemented in their… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 77] 2005. viii, 268 pp.
Clausal Architecture and Subject Positions: Impersonal constructions in the Germanic languages
Sabine Mohr
This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 88] 2005. viii, 207 pp.
Clitic and Affix Combinations: Theoretical perspectives
Edited by Lorie Heggie and Francisco Ordóñez
In this volume, the relationship between clitics and affixes and their combinatorial properties has led to a serious discussion of the interface between syntax, morphology, semantics, and phonology that draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., HPSG , Optimality Theory, Minimalism).… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 74] 2005. viii, 390 pp.
Clusivity: Typology and case studies of the inclusive–exclusive distinction
Edited by Elena Filimonova
This book presents a collection of papers on clusivity, a newly coined term for the inclusive–exclusive distinction. Clusivity is a widespread feature familiar from descriptive grammars and frequently figuring in typological schemes and diachronic scenarios. However, no comprehensive exploration of… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 63] 2005. xii, 436 pp.
Cognitive Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition
Edited by Itiel E. Dror
For more information on the Special Series devoted to Technology & Cognition, please see: Special Issues read moreSpecial issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 13:3 (2005) 220 pp.
Collocations in a Learner Corpus
Nadja Nesselhauf
Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first time comprehensively investigated. On the basis of a learner corpus, idiosyncratic collocation use by learners is uncovered, the building… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 14] 2005. xii, 331 pp.
Compliments and Compliment Responses: Grammatical structure and sequential organization
Andrea Golato
This book analyzes compliments and compliment responses in naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in German. Using Conversation Analytic methodology, it views complimenting and responding to compliments as social actions which are co-produced and negotiated among interactants. This study is the… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 15] 2005. xi, 248 pp.
Construction Grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Mirjam Fried
The notion ‘construction’ has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general. This volume extends the traditional domain of Construction Grammar (CxG) in several directions, all with a cognitive basis. Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, discourse… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 3] 2005. viii, 325 pp.
Context as Other Minds: The Pragmatics of Sociality, Cognition and Communication
T. Givón
Givon's new book re-casts pragmatics, and most conspicuously the pragmatics of sociality and communication, in neuro-cognitive, bio-adaptive, evolutionary terms. The fact that context, the core notion of pragmatics, is a framing operation undertaken on the fly through judgements of relevance, has… read more[Not in series, 130] 2005. xvi, 283 pp.
Contrast in Context
Edited by Karin Aijmer, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 5:1 (2005) 184 pp.
Copular Clauses: Specification, predication and equation
Line Mikkelsen
This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 85] 2005. viii, 210 pp.
Corpus-Based Approaches to Sentence Structures
Edited by Toshihiro Takagaki, Susumu Zaima, Yoichiro Tsuruga, Francisco Moreno-Fernández and Yuji Kawaguchi
This is the second volume of the series "Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics", a product of the 21st century COE program held at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). The project has an objective to realize an integration of theoretical and applied linguistics on the basis of computer sciences. read more[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 2] 2005. vi, 317 pp.
Creole Language in Creole Literatures
Edited by Susanne Mühleisen
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 20:1 (2005) 232 pp.
Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Processability Theory
Edited by Manfred Pienemann
Seven years ago Manfred Pienemann proposed a novel psycholinguistic theory of language development, Processability Theory (PT). This volume examines the typological plausibility of PT. Focusing on the acquisition of Arabic, Chinese and Japanese the authors demonstrate the capacity of PT to make… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 30] 2005. xiv, 303 pp.
Developmental Theory and Language Disorders
Edited by Paul Fletcher and Jon F. Miller
The chapters in this volume arise from presentations at a unique conference on typical and atypical language development held in Madison, USA in 2002. This joint meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, and the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 4] 2005. x, 217 pp.
Dialects Across Borders: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002
Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Marjatta Palander and Esa Penttilä
Nonstandard varieties of languages have recently become an object of new interest in scholarly research. This is very much due to the advances in the methods used in data collection and analysis, as well as the emergence of new language-theoretical frameworks. The articles in this volume stem from… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 273] 2005. xii, 291 pp.
Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English Discourse
Simone Müller
While discourse markers have been examined in some detail, little is known about their usage by non-native speakers. This book provides valuable insights into the functions of four discourse markers (so, well, you know and like) in native and non-native English discourse, adding to both discourse… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 138] 2005. xviii, 290 pp.
Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World
Adrian Blackledge
In Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World the discourse of politicians and policy-makers in Britain links languages other than English, and therefore speakers of these languages, with civil disorder and threats to democracy, citizenship and nationhood. These powerful arguments travel along… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 15] 2005. x, 252 pp.
The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in English
Heidi Quinn
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Modern English pronoun case. The author examines case trends in a wide range of syntactic constructions and concludes that case variation is confined to strong pronoun contexts. Data from a survey of 90 speakers provide new insights into the distributional… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 82] 2005. xii, 409 pp.
Dramatized Discourse: The Mandarin Chinese ba-construction
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
Language is a symbolic system of meanings evoked by linguistic forms. The choice of forms in communication is non-arbitrary. Rather, speakers pick those forms whose meanings best convey their discourse intention. The meaning of the Mandarin ba-construction, argues Jing-Schmidt, is discourse… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 56] 2005. xxii, 337 pp.
Dublin English: Evolution and change
Raymond Hickey
The present book describes the English language in all its facets as spoken in present-day Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland. It covers the entire range of its history since the first arrival of English there several hundred years ago. Apart from the evolution of English in the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G35] 2005. x, 270 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
The Dynamics of Language Use: Functional and contrastive perspectives
Edited by Christopher S. Butler, María de los Ángeles Gómez González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez
This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 140] 2005. xvi, 413 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 5 (2005)
Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, María del Pilar García Mayo and Jasone Cenoz
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 5] 2005. iv, 281 pp.
English General Nouns: A corpus theoretical approach
Michaela Mahlberg
This book proposes an innovative approach to general nouns. General nouns are defined as high-frequency nouns that are characterised by their textual functions. Although the concept is motivated by Halliday & Hasan (1976), the corpus theoretical approach adopted in the present study is… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 20] 2005. x, 206 pp.
Epistemic Modality: Functional properties and the Italian system
Paola Pietrandrea
This volume offers an original theoretical and methodological approach to the hotly debated issue of epistemic modality. The analysis is conducted in a rigorous typological frame developed after a careful consideration of a wealth of cross-linguistic data, and focuses on Italian, a language often… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 74] 2005. xii, 232 pp.
The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers
Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Corinne Rossari
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:2 (2005) 179 pp.
Expertise and Explicitation in the Translation Process
Birgitta Englund Dimitrova
This book addresses the complexities of the translation process. Informed by theoretical and methodological advances in translation studies, research on writing and the expertise paradigm, it explores translation as a text reproduction task. With triangulation of data from Russian-Swedish… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 64] 2005. xx, 295 pp.
Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning
Laura Gavioli
This book investigates the effects of corpus work on the process of foreign language learning in ESP settings. It suggests that observing learners at work with corpus data can stimulate discussion and re-thinking of the pedagogical implications of both the theoretical and empirical aspects of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 21] 2005. xi, 176 pp.
Fossilized Second Language Grammars: The acquisition of grammatical gender
Florencia Franceschina
This monograph is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the mechanisms and causes of successful and unsuccessful adult second language acquisition.Couched within a generative framework, the study explores how a learner’s first language and the age at which they acquire their second… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 38] 2005. xxiv, 288 pp.
From Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems
Edited by Martin Neef and Beatrice Primus †
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 7:2 (2005) 207 pp.
The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories
Edited by Marcel den Dikken and Christina Tortora
This volume brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the syntax of function words and functional categories in the Germanic languages. The works offered in this volume derive specifically from comparative studies of Germanic; at the same time they all bear directly on… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 78] 2005. vii, 292 pp.
Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates
Edited by Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika
Special issue of Gesture 5:1/2 (2005) 324 pp.
Grammar and Inference in Conversation: Identifying clause structure in spoken Javanese
Michael C. Ewing
This study analyzes how morphosyntactic structures and information flow characteristics are used by interlocutors in producing and understanding clauses in conversational Javanese, focusing on the Cirebon variety of the language. While some clauses display grammatical mechanisms used to code their… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 18] 2005. x, 276 pp.
Grammatical Constructions: Back to the roots
Edited by Mirjam Fried and Hans C. Boas
This volume brings into focus the conceptual roots of the notion ‘grammatical construction’ as the theoretical entity that constitutes the backbone of Construction Grammar, a unique grammatical model in which grammatical constructions have the status of elementary building blocks of human language.… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 4] 2005. viii, 246 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 2003–2005 Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 9] 2005. 311 pp. (incl. binder)
Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: Phonological papers in honour of John Anderson
Edited by Philip Carr, Jacques Durand and Colin J. Ewen
The papers in this volume focus on notions which are central to the work of John M. Anderson – the founder of Dependency Phonology – and to phonological theory: the idea of structural analogy between phonology and syntax; the head/dependent relation; the idea that phonological representations are… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 259] 2005. xxviii, 405 pp.
Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003
Edited by Michael Fortescue, Eva Skafte Jensen, Jens Erik Mogensen and Lene Schøsler
This volume consists of 19 papers presented at the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which was held in August 2003 in Copenhagen and drew the largest number of participants and the widest array of languages that this important biannual conference has ever had. As with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 257] 2005. x, 319 pp.
Hungarian Language Contact Outside Hungary: Studies on Hungarian as a minority language
Edited by Anna Fenyvesi
In Communist times, it was impossible to do sociolinguistic work on Hungarian in contact with other languages. In the short period of time since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Hungarian sociolinguists have certainly done their very best to catch up. This volume brings together the fruits of their… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 20] 2005. xxii, 424 pp.
Infinitival Syntax: Infinitivus Pro Participio as a repair strategy
Tanja Schmid
This monograph offers a new analysis of West Germanic ‘Infinitivus Pro Participio’ (IPP) constructions, within the framework of Optimality Theory. IPP constructions have long been problematic for syntactic theory, because a bare infinitive is preferred over the expected past participle. The book… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 79] 2005. xiv, 251 pp.
Language Acquisition
Edited by Anne E. Baker and Bencie Woll
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 8:1/2 (2005) 222 pp.
Language and Meaning: The structural creation of reality
Christopher Beedham
This book illustrates the structuralist idea that language creates the reality we perceive. The data presented in this volume focus on the problematic issues of the passive construction and irregular (strong) verbs, with examples taken primarily from English with separate subsections on German and… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 55] 2005. xiv, 225 pp.
Language and Social Life: Functional perspectives
Edited by Kristina Love
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 19] 2005. iv, 177 pp.
Language, Communication and the Economy
Edited by Guido Erreygers and Geert Jacobs
This volume brings together a number of wide-ranging, transdisciplinary research articles on the interface between discourse studies and economics. It explores in what way economics can contribute to the analysis of discursive practices in various institutional settings as well as investigating… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 16] 2005. viii, 239 pp.
Les Périphrases Verbales
Sous la direction de Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot et Nicole Le Querler
This comprehensive volume contains twenty-six out of thirty three papers that were presented at the International Conference on "Les Périphrases Verbales". The conference took place at the University of Caen-Basse-Normandie from June 25th to June 28th 2003, and was co-organized by the Crisco umr… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 25] 2005. viii, 521 pp.
Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories
Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Adam Hodges and David S. Rood
From the refinement of general methodology, to new insights of synchronic and diachronic universals, to studies of specific phenomena, this collection demonstrates the crucial role that language data play in the evolution of useful, accurate linguistic theories. Issues addressed include the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 72] 2005. xii, 432 pp.
Linguistic Dimensions of Crisis Talk: Formalising structures in a controlled language
Claudia Sassen
This book offers an HPSG-based discourse grammar for a controlled language (Air Traffic Control) that allows the identification of well-formed discourse patterns. A formalisation of discourse theoretical structures that occur especially in crisis situations that involve potential aviation disasters… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 136] 2005. ix, 230 pp.
Linguistic Informatics – State of the Art and the Future: The first international conference on Linguistic Informatics
Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Susumu Zaima, Toshihiro Takagaki, Kohji Shibano and Mayumi Usami
It is widely believed that linguistic theories and information technology have considerably influenced foreign language education. However, the collaboration of these three domains has not brought about new scientific results. It it thus, our attempt to realize an integration of theoretical and… read more[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 1] 2005. viii, 363 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2005
Edited by Jenny Doetjes and Jeroen van de Weijer
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, which took place in Utrecht on January 29th, 2005. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At… read more
Literacy Processes and Literacy Development
Edited by Pieter Reitsma and Ludo Verhoeven
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 8:2 (2005) 192 pp.
Machine Translation, Controlled Languages and Specialised Languages
Edited by Sylviane Cardey, Peter Greenfield and Séverine Vienney
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 28:1 (2005) 173 pp.
Making Minds I
Edited by Petra Hauf and Friedrich Försterling
Special issue of Interaction Studies 6:1 (2005) 149 pp.
Manipulation and Ideologies in the Twentieth Century: Discourse, language, mind
Edited by Louis de Saussure and Peter J. Schulz
This book is a collection of 12 papers dealing with manipulation and ideology in the 20th century, mostly with reference to political speeches by the leaders of major totalitarian regimes, but also addressing propaganda within contemporary right-wing populism and western ideological rhetoric. This… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 17] 2005. xvi, 312 pp.
Meaning Predictability in Word Formation: Novel, context-free naming units
Pavol Štekauer
This book aims to contribute to a growing interest amongst psycholinguists and morphologists in the mechanisms of meaning predictability. It presents a brand-new model of the meaning-prediction of novel, context-free naming units, relating the wordformation and wordinterpretation processes. Unlike… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 54] 2005. xxii, 288 pp.
Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics
Alice Deignan
Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. This book is addressed at readers from diverse academic backgrounds who are interested in ways of researching metaphor from different… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 6] 2005. x, 236 pp.
Missionary Linguistics II / Lingüística misionera II: Orthography and Phonology. Selected papers from the Second International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, São Paulo, 10–13 March 2004
Edited by Otto Zwartjes and Cristina Altman
This is the second volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic work produced by the religious missionaries who, within the scope of the European colonial enterprises along the period 1550–1850, described dozens of autochthonous languages, many of which are only known today thanks to their… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 109] 2005. vi, 292 pp.
Morphology and its demarcations: Selected papers from the 11th Morphology meeting, Vienna, February 2004
Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Franz Rainer
The papers in this volume derive from the International Morphology Meeting (Vienna 2004) and were selected because they address the main topic of the conference: external and internal demarcations of morphology. The external demarcation between syntax and morphology is dealt with in the papers by… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 264] 2005. xiv, 317 pp.
Multiple Perspectives on L1 and L2 Academic Literacy in Asia Pacific and Diaspora Contexts
Edited by Xiaoming Li and Christine Pearson Casanave
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 15:1 (2005) iv, 207 pp.
Negotiation of Contingent Talk: The Japanese interactional particles ne and sa
Emi Morita
Observing naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in Japanese, this book examines how Japanese speakers segment their talk into relevant interactional units and use particles such as ne and sa to accomplish local pragmatic work. The study provides a conversation analytic, action-oriented account… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 137] 2005. xvi, 240 pp.
A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis: Theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity
Edited by Ruth Wodak and Paul Chilton
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has established itself over the past two decades as an area of academic activity in which scholars and students from many different disciplines are involved. It is a field that draws on social theory and aspects of linguistics in order to understand and challenge… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 13] 2005. xviii, 320 pp.
Nominal Phrases from a Scandinavian Perspective
Marit Julien
This monograph presents a new model of the internal syntax of nominal phrases. The model is mainly based on Scandinavian, since with the wide range of variation that Scandinavian displays in the nominal domain, despite the close genetic relationship between the different varieties, Scandinavian is… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 87] 2005. xv, 348 pp.
Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past
Edited by Janne Skaffari, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita Wårvik
This volume presents a variety of pragmatic and discourse analytical approaches to a wide range of linguistic data and historical texts, including data from English, French, Irish, Latin, and Spanish. This diversity of research questions and methods is a feature of the field of historical… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 134] 2005. x, 418 pp.
The Order of Prepositional Phrases in the Structure of the Clause
Walter Schweikert
For a long time prepositions seemed to enjoy a clandestine status in linguistic research. This has changed with a novel path of inquiry into the inner structure of complex prepositional expressions. In a unique approach to the examination of the outer syntax of prepositions the author uses… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 83] 2005. xii, 337 pp.
Origins of Language: Constraints on hypotheses
Sverker Johansson
Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the student or researcher who prefers solid data and well-supported conclusions, over speculative scenarios. Much that has been written on the… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 5] 2005. xii, 345 pp.
Outside-In — Inside-Out
Edited by Costantino Maeder, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky
This fourth volume of the Iconicity series is like its predecessors devoted to the study of iconicity in language and literature in all its forms. Many of the papers turn the notion of iconicity ‘inside-out’, some suggesting that ‘less-is-more’; others focus on the cognitive factors ‘inside’ the… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 4] 2005. x, 427 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVII–XVIII: Alexandria, 2003 and Norman, Oklahoma 2004
Edited by Mohammad T. Alhawary and Elabbas Benmamoun
The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics, held in 2003 (Alexandria) and 2004 (Oklahoma). They tackle a broad range of issues in current linguistic research, particularly in the areas of phonology, morphology/lexicon,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 267] 2005. xvi, 315 pp.
Persuasion Across Genres: A linguistic approach
Edited by Helena Halmari and Tuija Virtanen
Persuasion, in its various linguistic forms, enters our lives daily. Politicians and the news media attempt to change or confirm our beliefs, while advertisers try to bend our tastes toward buying their products. Persuasion goes on in courtrooms, universities, and the business world. Persuasion… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 130] 2005. viii, 257 pp.
Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language
Edited by Rod Ellis
The last decade has seen a growing body of research investigating various aspects of L2 learners’ performance of tasks. This book focuses on one task implementation variable: planning. It considers theories of how opportunities to plan a task affect performance and tests claims derived from these… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 11] 2005. viii, 313 pp.
Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles
Edited by Susanne Mühleisen and Bettina Migge
Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site where… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G34] 2005. viii, 293 pp.
Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy: A corpus-driven approach to English progressive forms, functions, contexts and didactics
Ute Römer-Barron
This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in 'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from the largest… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 18] 2005. xiv + 328 pp.
Quantifier Scope in German
Jürgen Pafel
This book presents a comprehensive account of quantifier scope in German. The author investigates scope behavior of ordinary quantifiers and negative, adverbial, interrogative, relative and particle quantifiers. The areas which are dealt with include: relative scope in simple sentences, absolute… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 84] 2005. xvi, 312 pp.
Questions and Answers in the English Courtroom (1640–1760): A sociopragmatic analysis
Dawn Archer
This book belongs to the rapidly growing field of historical pragmatics. More specifically, it aims to lend definition to the area of historical sociopragmatics. It seeks to enhance our understanding of the language of the historical courtroom by documenting changes to the discursive roles of the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 135] 2005. xiv, 374 pp.
The Rhetoric of Philosophy
Shai Frogel
The book claims that philosophy can be defined by its distinct rhetoric. This rhetoric is shaped by two values: humanism and critique. Humanism is defined as preferring the individual human deliberation to any external authority or method. Self-conviction is the touchstone of truth in philosophy.… read more[Controversies, 3] 2005. x, 156 pp.
The Rise of Agreement: A formal approach to the syntax and grammaticalization of verbal inflection
Eric Fuß
This book investigates the historical paths leading from pronouns to markers of verbal agreement and proposes a unified formal account of this grammaticalization process. In opposition to beliefs widely held in the literature, it is argued that new agreement formatives can be coined in a multitude… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 81] 2005. xii, 336 pp.
The Role of Agreement in Non-Finite Predication
Gréte Dalmi
This comparative syntactic study claims that agreement is the most central functional category responsible for licensing predication in finite, non-finite and small clauses alike. Intriguing syntactic phenomena like Icelandic infinitival predicates taking non-nominative (quirky) subjects;… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 90] 2005. xvi, 222 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2003, Nijmegen, 20–22 November
Edited by Twan Geerts, Ivo van Ginneken and Haike Jacobs
The annual Going Romance conference is the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. Starting with the thirteenth conference held in 1999, volumes with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 270] 2005. viii, 369 pp.
The Soft Power of War: Legitimacy and community in Iraq war discourses
Edited by Lilie Chouliaraki
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 4:1 (2005) 175 pp.
Speech and Thought Presentation in French: Concepts and strategies
Sophie Marnette
This book analyses and describes Speech and Thought Presentation (S&TP) in French from a broad theoretical perspective, building bridges between linguistic, stylistic and narratological frameworks that have until now been developed separately. It combines the French théorie de l’énonciation and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 133] 2005. xiv, 379 pp.
Strategies in Academic Discourse
Edited by Elena Tognini-Bonelli and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti
This book focuses on theoretical and descriptive issues and techniques in the study of text and discourse. Drawing on a large number of corpora containing academic language, from spoken language to published research papers, the authors approach their subject from multiple angles: The academic… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 19] 2005. xii, 212 pp.
Syntax and Lexis in Conversation: Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction
Edited by Auli Hakulinen and Margret Selting
This volume is a collection of current work at the interface of linguistics and conversation analysis. The focus is on linguistic items in their action contexts: syntactic structures and lexical items in data from natural conversations in six European languages: Danish, English, Finnish, German,… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 17] 2005. viii, 406 pp.
Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social
Edited by Leonie Cornips and Karen P. Corrigan
The papers in this collection share a common interest in the empirical, theoretical and meta-theoretical aspects of the ‘internal-external’ (‘formal-functional’) debate in linguistic theory. The primary aim of this volume is to initiate cooperation between internationally renowned generative and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 265] 2005. vi, 312 pp.
The Syntax–Discourse Interface: Representing and interpreting dependency
Petra B. Schumacher
This book combines theoretical and experimental aspects of the establishment of dependency. It provides an account of dependency relations by focusing on the representation and interpretation of referentially dependent elements, particularly regular reflexives, logophors, and pronouns. First, the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 80] 2005. xii, 259 pp.
Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages: Theoretical and applied perspectives
Edited by Dalila Ayoun and M. Rafael Salaberry
This volume presents a state-of-the-art descriptive and explanatory analysis of the second language development of Romance tense-aspect systems. It contains new experimental data from adult French, Catalan, Portuguese learners, and Italian children learners. Standing research questions are… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 29] 2005. x, 318 pp.
Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004
Edited by Randall Gess and Edward J. Rubin
The 20 papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 34th LSRL, held in Salt Lake City, in 2004. The papers deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in Romance Linguistics and include several from the conference parasession, which focused on experimental approaches to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 272] 2005. viii, 367 pp.
UG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
This book explores the interaction of the grammar with the external systems, conceptual-intentional and sensori-motor. The papers in the Language section include configurational analyses of the interface properties of depictives, clitic clusters, imperatives, conditionals, clefts, as well as… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 75] 2005. xviii, 398 pp.
Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages
Edited by Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley and Sheila Dooley
This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 73] 2005. xiv, 431 pp.
Verbes supports: Nouvel état des lieux
Sous la direction de Gaston Gross et Sophie de Pontonx
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 27:2 (2005) 199 pp.
Vocalize to Localize
Edited by Christian Abry, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz
Special issue of Interaction Studies 5:3 (2005) 125 pp.
Vocalize to Localize II
Edited by Christian Abry, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz
Special issue of Interaction Studies 6:2 (2005) iv, 191 pp.
Written Communication across Cultures: A sociocognitive perspective on business genres
Yunxia Zhu
Winner of ABC's award for Distinguished Publication for 2006This book explores effective written communication across cultures both theoretically and practically. Specifically it conceptualizes cross-cultural genre study and compares English and Chinese business writing collected from Australia,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 141] 2005. xviii, 216 pp.
Academic Interaction
Edited by Helen Marriott
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 14:1 (2004) 199 pp.
The Acquisition of Spanish: Morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual L1 acquisition and adult L2 acquisition
Silvina Montrul
This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is organized around key grammatical themes that form the empirical base of research in generative… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 37] 2004. xvi, 413 pp.
The Acquisition of Swedish Grammar
Edited by Gunlög Josefsson, Christer Platzack and Gisela Håkansson
This book provides a number of studies of different aspects of Swedish child language. Some of the thematic chapters present original, unpublished data: on the acquisition of tense, on the range and frequency of different word order patterns in early child Swedish, related to the input, meaning the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 33] 2004. vi, 313 pp.
Adpositions of Movement
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Walter De Mulder and Tanja Mortelmans
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 18] 2004. viii, 323 pp.
Adverbials: The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure
Edited by Jennifer R. Austin, Stefan Engelberg and Gisa Rauh
Adverbials have become an important testing ground for research on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The articles selected for this volume present recent research on this topic. Among the issues addressed are the occurrence of adverbials in various domains of the sentence… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 70] 2004. ix, 343 pp.
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 2
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, 2] 2004. iv, 355 pp.
Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study
Richard Xiao † and Tony McEnery
Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory. This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the linguistic devices that Mandarin Chinese employs to express aspectual meanings. The work presented here is the first corpus-based account of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 73] 2004. x, 305 pp.
Balkan Syntax and Semantics
Edited by Olga Mišeska Tomić
The book deals with some syntactic and semantic aspects of the shared Balkan Sprachbund properties. In a comprehensive introductory chapter, Tomić offers an overview of the Balkan Sprachbund properties. Sobolev, displaying the areal distribution of 65 properties, argues for dialect cartography.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 67] 2004. xvi, 496 pp.
Building Coherence and Cohesion: Task-oriented dialogue in English and Spanish
Maite Taboada
This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other’s contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 129] 2004. xvii, 264 pp.
Categorization in the History of English
Edited by Christian Kay and Jeremy J. Smith
The papers in this volume are linked by a common concern, which is at the centre of current linguistic enquiry: how do we classify and categorize linguistic data, and how does this process add to our understanding of linguistic change? The scene is set by Aitchison’s paper on the development of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 261] 2004. viii, 268 pp.
Cognition and Technology: Co-existence, convergence and co-evolution
Edited by Barbara Gorayska and Jacob L. Mey
This new collection of contributions to the field of Cognitive Technology (CT) provides the (to date) widest spectrum of the state of the art in the discipline — a disciple dedicated to humane factors in tool design. The reader will find here a summary of past research as well as an overview of new… read more[Not in series, 127] 2004. vi, 369 pp.
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics: Second revised edition
Edited by René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 1] 2004. xii, 277 pp.
The Composition of Meaning: From lexeme to discourse
Edited by Alice G.B. ter Meulen and Werner Abraham
In the modular design of generative theory the syntax–semantics interface has accounted all along for meanings at the level of Logical Form. The syntax–pragmatics interface, on the other hand, is the result of what one may call the ‘pragmatic turn’ in the linguistic theory, where content is… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 255] 2004. vi, 230 pp.
Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating, resisting, making sense
Edited by Michael Bamberg and Molly Andrews
Counter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering. The very name identifies it as a positional category, in tension with another category. But what is dominant and what is resistant are not, of course, static questions, but rather are forever shifting… read more[Studies in Narrative, 4] 2004. x, 381 pp.
Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective
Edited by Mirjam Fried and Jan-Ola Östman
This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980’s by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 2] 2004. vi, 209 pp.
Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Bloomington, Indiana, April 2003
Edited by Julie Auger, J. Clancy Clements and Barbara Vance
This collection of twenty articles, selected from the 33rd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at Indiana University in 2003, presents current theoretical approaches to a variety of issues in Romance linguistics. Invited speakers Luigi Burzio and José Ignacio Hualde contribute… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 258] 2004. viii, 404 pp.
Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation
Edited by Gene H. Lerner
This collection assembles early, yet previously unpublished research into the practices that organize conversational interaction by many of the central figures in the development and advancement of Conversation Analysis as a discipline. Using the methods of sequential analysis as first developed by… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 125] 2004. x, 300 pp.
Coordinating Constructions
Edited by Martin Haspelmath
This is the first book on coordinating constructions that adopts a broad cross-linguistic perspective. Coordination has been studied intensively in English and other major European languages, but we are only beginning to understand the range of variation that is found world-wide. This volume… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 58] 2004. xcv, 576 pp.
Corpora and Language Learners
Edited by Guy Aston, Silvia Bernardini and Dominic Stewart
Corpus-aided language pedagogy is one of the central application areas of corpus methodologies, and a test bed for theories of language and learning. This volume provides an overview of current trends, offering methodological and theoretical position statements along with results from empirical… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 17] 2004. vi, 312 pp.
Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English
Edited by Hans Lindquist and Christian Mair
Grammaticalization is an important concept in general and typological linguistics and a prominent type of explanation in historical linguistics. For historical corpus linguists, grammaticalization theory provides a frame of orientation in their effort to analyze and systematize a fast-accumulating… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 13] 2004. xiv, 264 pp.
Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications
Edited by Geneviève Escure and Armin Schwegler
This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of… read more[Creole Language Library, 27] 2004. x, 355 pp.
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Parliamentary Discourse
Edited by Paul Bayley
The activity of parliaments is largely linguistic activity: they produce talk and they produce texts. Broadly speaking, the objectives that this discourse aims to satisfy are similar all over the world: to legitimate or contest legislation, to represent diverse interests, to scrutinise the activity… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 10] 2004. vi, 384 pp.
Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish
Edited by Rosina Márquez Reiter and María Elena Placencia
Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish provides the reader with a representative spectrum of current research in the most dynamic areas of the pragmatics of Spanish. It brings together a collection of academic essays written by well-established as well as emerging voices in Hispanic pragmatics. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 123] 2004. xvi, 381 pp.
Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar
Edited by Eric Fuß and Carola Trips
This volume emphasizes a new line of thinking in generative grammar which acknowledges that certain synchronic properties of languages can only be fully understood if diachronic data is taken into consideration. The central topics addressed in this collection of papers are (1) a critical assessment… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 72] 2004. viii, 228 pp.
Discourse Across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Carol Lynn Moder and Aida Martinovic-Zic
This volume brings together for the first time research by linguists working in cross-linguistic discourse analysis and by second language researchers working in the contrastive rhetoric tradition. The collection of articles by prominent authors and younger scholars encompasses a variety of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 68] 2004. vi, 366 pp.
Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora
Edited by Karin Aijmer and Anna-Brita Stenström
This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area of text and discourse characterized by the alliance between text linguistics and areas such as corpus linguistics, genre analysis, literary… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 120] 2004. viii, 273 pp.
Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics
Edited by Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton
This book explores the structure and use of academic and professional discourse through the lens of corpus linguistics. The goal of this book is to show how insights from corpus linguistic analyses can help us better understand how we use academic and professional language and help us find ways to… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 16] 2004. vi, 333 pp.
The Dynamic Consultation: A discourse analytical study of doctor–patient communication
Marisa Cordella
This book introduces a unique model of medical discourse that identifies the forms of talk – voices – that doctors and patients use during the consultation, and studies the dynamic interaction as it unfolds particularly in follow-up visits. Natural recordings, semi-structured interviews,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 128] 2004. xvi, 254 pp.
Emotion in Dialogic Interaction: Advances in the complex
Edited by Edda Weigand
This volume contains a selection of papers given at the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on ‘Emotion in Dialogic Interaction’ at the University of Münster in October 2002. In the literature, the complex network of ‘emotion in dialogic interaction’ is mostly addressed by reducing the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 248] 2004. xii, 284 pp.
Focus Structure in Generative Grammar: An integrated syntactic, semantic and intonational approach
Carsten Breul
The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is realized. This claim is discussed in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 68] 2004. x, 430 pp.
Formulaic Sequences: Acquisition, processing and use
Edited by Norbert Schmitt
Formulaic sequences (FS) are now recognized as an essential element of language use. However, research on FS has generally been limited to a focus on description, or on the place of FS in L1 acquisition. This volume opens new directions in FS research, concentrating on how FS are acquired and… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 9] 2004. x, 303 pp.
Functional Constraints in Grammar: On the unergative–unaccusative distinction
Susumu Kuno and Ken-ichi Takami
This book examines in detail the acceptability status of sentences in the following five English constructions, and elucidates the syntactic, semantic, and functional requirements that the constructions must satisfy in order to be appropriately used: There-Construction, (One’s) Way Construction,… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 1] 2004. ix, 242 pp.
Functional Linguistics and Contrastive Description
Edited by Kristin Davidse and Liesbet Heyvaert
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 4:1 (2004) 199 pp.
Fundamental Aspects of Interpreter Education: Curriculum and Assessment
David B. Sawyer
The author offers an overview of the Interpreting Studies literature on curriculum and assessment. A discussion of curriculum definitions, foundations, and guidelines suggests a framework based upon scientific and humanistic approaches – curriculum as process and as interaction. Language testing… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 47] 2004. xviii, 312 pp.
Gender, Language and Culture: A study of Japanese television interview discourse
Lidia Tanaka
This book analyzes the relationship between gender, age and role in Japanese television interviews. It covers a wide range of topics on Japanese communication; cultural and gender variables are interwoven in the interpretation of the findings. The study shows how participants interact through… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 69] 2004. xvii, 229 pp.
Grammaticalization as Economy
Elly van Gelderen
This book provides much detail on the changes involving the grammaticalization of personal and relative pronouns, topicalized nominals, complementizers, adverbs, prepositions, modals, perception verbs, and aspectual markers. It accounts for these changes in terms of two structural economy… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 71] 2004. xv, 318 pp.
Grounding and headedness in the noun phrase
Edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete
Special issue of Functions of Language 11:1 (2004) 145 pp.
The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity
Östen Dahl
This book studies linguistic complexity and the processes by which it arises and is maintained, focusing not so much on what one can say in a language as how it is said. Complexity is not seen as synonymous with “difficulty” but as an objective property of a system – a measure of the amount of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 71] 2004. x, 333 pp.
How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching
Edited by John McH. Sinclair
After decades of being overlooked, corpus evidence is becoming an important component of the teaching and learning of languages. Above all, the profession needs guidance in the practicalities of using corpora, interpreting the results and applying them to the problems and opportunities of the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 12] 2004. viii, 307 pp.
Introduction to Discourse Studies
Jan Renkema
Introduction to Discourse Studies follows on Jan Renkema’s successful Discourse Studies: An Introductory Textbook (1993), published in four languages. This new book deals with even more key concepts in discourse studies and approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European… read more[Not in series, 124] 2004. x, 363 pp.
Japanese Discourse Markers: Synchronic and diachronic discourse analysis
Noriko O. Onodera
This book is one of the pioneering historical pragmatic studies of Japanese. It closely illustrates the usage and contributions of some Japanese discourse markers, and reveals their developmental history. The section on Synchronic Analysis explores the previously uninvestigated functions of some… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 132] 2004. xiv, 253 pp.
Language Development across Childhood and Adolescence
Edited by Ruth A. Berman
This volume brings together work by scholars with backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, education, and language pathology. As such, the book adds psycholinguistic and crosslinguistic perspectives to the clinical and classroom approaches that have dominated the… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 3] 2004. xiv, 308 pp.
Language Standardization and Language Change: The dynamics of Cape Dutch
Ana Deumert
Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or ‘Cape Dutch’ as it was then called) are… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 19] 2004. xx, 361 pp.
Language Typology: A functional perspective
Edited by Alice Caffarel-Cayron, J.R. Martin and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
This book is intended as a systemic functional contribution to language typology both for those who would like to understand and describe particular languages against the background of generalizations about a wide range of languages and also for those who would like to develop typological accounts… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 253] 2004. xiv, 702 pp.
Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia
Edited by Edward J. Vajda
The twelve articles in this volume describe Yeniseic, Samoyedic and Siberian Turkic languages as a linguistic complex of great interest to typologists, grammarians, diachronic and synchronic linguists, as well as cultural anthropologists. The articles demonstrate how interdependent the disparate… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 262] 2004. x, 275 pp.
Letter Writing
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5:2 (2004) iv, 181 pp.
Linguistica Berolinensia
Edited by Thorsten Fögen and E.F.K. Koerner †
Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 31:2/3 (2004) 314 pp.
Linguistics Today – Facing a Greater Challenge
Edited by Piet van Sterkenburg
Every five years the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (CIPL) organises a world congress for linguists. And every five years the Committee faces the challenge of presenting a programme at the highest possible level. The CIPL Executive Committee decided for the Congress planned for 2003… read more[Not in series, 126] 2004. viii, 367 pp. (incl. CD Rom)
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004
Edited by Leonie Cornips and Jenny Doetjes
Memory-Based Parsing
Sandra Kübler
Memory-Based Learning (MBL), one of the most influential machine learning paradigms, has been applied with great success to a variety of NLP tasks. This monograph describes the application of MBL to robust parsing. Robust parsing using MBL can provide added functionality for key NLP applications,… read more[Natural Language Processing, 7] 2004. viii, 294 pp.
The Moving Text: Localization, translation, and distribution
Anthony Pym
For the discourse of localization, translation is often "just a language problem". For translation theorists, localization introduces fancy words but nothing essentially new. Both views are probably right, but only to an extent. This book sets up a dialogue across those differences. Is there… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 49] 2004. xviii, 223 pp.
Multilingual Communication
Edited by Juliane House and Jochen Rehbein
In a world of increasing migration and technological progress, multilingual communication has become the rule rather than the exception. This book reflects the growing interest in understanding communication between members of different linguistic groups and contains a collection of original papers… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 3] 2004. viii, 359 pp.
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume II: Lexis and Transmission
Edited by Christian Kay, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon
This is the second of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The first is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (1): Syntax and Morphology. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 252] 2004. xii, 271 pp.
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology Volume II: Lexis and Transmission
Edited by Christian Kay
Together these two volumes provide an overview of many of the issues that are currently engaging practitioners in the field of English historical linguistics. In the first volume, the primary concern is with the historical grammar of English. Some papers take a broad overview of the subject,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 251-252] 2004. 559 pp.
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology
Edited by Christian Kay, Simon Horobin and Jeremy J. Smith
This is the first of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The second is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (2): Lexis and Transmission. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 251] 2004. x, 262 pp.
Non-nominative Subjects: Volume 1 and 2 (set)
Edited by Peri Bhaskararao and Karumuri V. Subbarao
These two volumes on Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) present the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis. A significant feature of these volumes is that authors with different theoretical… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 60-61] 2004. 668 pp.
Non-nominative Subjects: Volume 1
Edited by Peri Bhaskararao and Karumuri V. Subbarao
Volume 1 of Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) presents the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis. A significant feature of these volumes is that authors with different theoretical… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 60] 2004. xii, 325 pp.
Non-nominative Subjects: Volume 2
Edited by Peri Bhaskararao and Karumuri V. Subbarao
Volume 2 of Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) presents the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis. A significant feature of these volumes is that authors with different theoretical… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 61] 2004. xii, 317 pp.
Phrasal Constructions and Resultativeness in English: A sign-oriented analysis
Marina Gorlach
Eat up the apple or Eat the apple up? Is there any difference in the messages each of these alternative forms sends? If there isn’t, why bother to keep both? On the other hand, is there any semantic similarity between eat the apple up and break the glass to pieces? This study takes a fresh look at… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 52] 2004. ix, 150 pp.
Pragmatic Markers in Oral Narrative: The case of English and Catalan
Montserrat González
This book presents the multifunctional nature of pragmatic discourse markers in English and Catalan oral narratives from the point of view of text linguistics and contrastive analysis. It is argued that English and Catalan markers are distributed and operate differently at four different levels in… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 122] 2004. xvi, 409 pp.
Principles of Generative Phonology: An introduction
John T. Jensen
Principles of Generative Phonology is a basic, thorough introduction to phonological theory and practice. It aims to provide a firm foundation in the theory of distinctive features, phonological rules and rule ordering, which is essential to be able to appreciate recent developments and discussions… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 250] 2004. xii, 324 pp.
Process and Acquisition of Written Language
Edited by Robert Schreuder and Ludo Verhoeven
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 7:1 (2004) iv, 132 pp.
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing III: Selected papers from RANLP 2003
Edited by Nicolas Nicolov, Kalina Bontcheva, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov
This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the 2003 International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing”. A wide range of topics is covered in the volume: semantics, dialogue, summarization, anaphora resolution, shallow parsing,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 260] 2004. xii, 402 pp.
Recontextualizing Context: Grammaticality meets appropriateness
Anita Fetzer
In the humanities and social sciences, context is one of those terms which is frequently used and frequently referred to, but hardly made explicit.This book proposes a model for describing the multifaceted connectedness between language and language use, and between cognitive context, linguistic… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 121] 2004. x, 272 pp.
Seduction, Community, Speech: A Festschrift for Herman Parret
Edited by Frank Brisard, Michael Meeuwis and Bart Vandenabeele
This volume unites various contributions reflecting the intellectual interests exhibited by Professor Herman Parret (Institute of Philosophy, Leuven), who has continued to observe, and often critically assess, ongoing developments in pragmatics throughout his career. In fact, Parret’s contributions… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 127] 2004. vi, 202 pp.
Singapore English: A grammatical description
Edited by Lisa Lim
Singapore English: A grammatical description provides a vivid account of current, contemporary Singapore English, complementing older seminal accounts of this variety. Drawing primarily on the Grammar of Spoken Singapore English Corpus, which comprises naturally-occurring conversational speech, the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G33] 2004. xiv, 172 pp.
Sound Patterns in Interaction: Cross-linguistic studies from conversation
Edited by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Cecilia E. Ford
This collection of original papers by eminent phoneticians, linguists and sociologists offers the most recent findings on phonetic design in interactional discourse available in an edited collection. The chapters examine the organization of phonetic detail in relation to social actions in… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 62] 2004. viii, 406 pp.
South Africa
Edited by Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu and Timothy Reagan
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 28:2 (2004) 114 pp.
Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and quantitative perspectives
David Eddington
Unlike most monographs on Spanish phonology and morphology that approach these topics from a structuralist or generativist framework, this volume is written from a less traditional point of view. More specifically, it emphasizes quantitative evidence from sources such as usage-based studies,… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 53] 2004. xvi, 198 pp.
Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus
Laura Callahan
Spanish/English codeswitching in published work represents a claim to the right to participate in the marketplace on a bilingual and not just monolingual basis. This book offers a syntactic and sociolinguistic analysis of the codeswitching in a corpus of thirty texts: novels and short stories… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 27] 2004. viii, 181 pp.
Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese: Text and Cognition
Yi’an Wu
As a subject of universal appeal, spatial demonstratives have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplines. What marks the present study as distinct is that it is an English-Chinese comparative study set in a cognitive-linguistic framework and that the methodology features a parallel… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 126] 2004. xviii, 234 pp.
Stance in Talk: A conversation analysis of Mandarin final particles
Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu
Guided by the methodology of conversation analysis (CA), this book explores how participants in Mandarin conversation display stance in the unfolding development of action and interaction, and, in particular, how this is accomplished through the use of two Mandarin final particles. Through a close… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 117] 2004. xvi, 260 pp.
Studies in Stemmatology II
Edited by Pieter van Reenen, August den Hollander and Margot van Mulken
Stemmatology is the discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts. The object of this volume is the evaluation of the most recent methods and techniques in the field of stemmatology, as well as the development… read more[Not in series, 125] 2004. xii, 312 pp.
Theory Construction in Second Language Acquisition
Geoff Jordan
Recently, many SLA researchers have adopted a postmodernist approach which challenges the assumption that SLA research is a rationalist, scientific endeavour. The resulting epistemological arguments, plus problems of theory proliferation, contradicting theories, and theory domain, hinder progress… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 8] 2004. xviii, 294 pp.
Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization
Edited by Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon
The basic idea behind this volume is to probe the nature of grammaticalization. Its contributions focus on the following questions: (i) In how far can grammaticalization be considered a universal diachronic process or mechanism of change and in how far is it conditioned by synchronic factors? (ii)… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 59] 2004. viii, 406 pp.
Urban Bahamian Creole: System and variation
Stephanie Hackert
This volume, a detailed empirical study of the creole English spoken in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, contributes to our understanding of both urban creoles and tense-aspect marking in creoles. The first part traces the development of a creole in the Bahamas via socio-demographic data and outlines… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G32] 2004. xiv, 254 pp.
Using and Learning Italian in Australia
Edited by Antonia Rubino
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 18] 2004. iii, 133 pp.
Verb Clusters: A study of Hungarian, German and Dutch
Edited by Katalin É. Kiss and Henk van Riemsdijk
Many languages have constructions in which verbs cluster. But few languages have verb clusters as rich and complex as Continental West Germanic and Hungarian. Furthermore the precise ordering properties and the variation in the cluster patterns are remarkably similar in Hungarian and Germanic. This… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 69] 2004. vi, 514 pp.
Vocabulary in a Second Language: Selection, acquisition, and testing
Edited by Paul Bogaards and Batia Laufer
The eleven chapters of Vocabulary in a Second Language are written by the world’s leading researchers in the field of vocabulary studies in second language acquisition. Each chapter presents experimental research leading to new conclusions about and insights into the selection, the learning and… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 10] 2004. xiv, 234 pp.
Web Advertising: New forms of communication on the Internet
Anja Janoschka
This book examines new forms of communication that have emerged through the interactive capabilities of the Internet, in particular online advertising and web advertisements. It develops a new model of online communication, incorporating mass communication and interpersonal communication.… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 131] 2004. xiv, 230 pp.
What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness
Edited by Martina Penke and Anette Rosenbach
Special issue of Studies in Language 28:3 (2004) 280 pp.
Williams Syndrome across Languages
Edited by Susanne Bartke and Julia Siegmüller
Williams Syndrome (WS), aka Williams Beuren Syndrome, is a developmental disorder that we have known about for some forty years. The cause for WS was detected only recently: a micro deletion on chromosome 7, more specifically at the region of chromosome 7q11.23. The cognitive and behavioral profile… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 36] 2004. xvi, 385 pp.
World Applied Linguistics: A Celebration of AILA at 40. AILA Review, Volume 17
Edited by Susan M. Gass and Sinfree Makoni
Volume 17 of AILA Review will focus on Applied Linguistics as an international discipline. Authors from various regions of the world will focus on the following questions: What has been the development of Applied Linguistics in your region? What are current issues being dealt with in Applied… read more[AILA Review, 17] 2004. 143 pp.
Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals: A survey of style and grammatical metaphor
Inger Lassen
Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals is written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing. With the main emphasis on technical manuals the book is primarily targeted at those who have a special interest in the design and use of… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 4] 2003. xviii, 183 pp.
Africa and Applied Linguistics. AILA Review, Volume 16
Edited by Sinfree Makoni and Ulrike H. Meinhof
AILA Review is a publication of the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée, an international federation of national associations for applied linguistics. Volume 16 of AILA Review is the first to appear with John Benjamins and contains a unique collection of articles, guest-edited by… read more[AILA Review, 16] 2003. ii, 173 pp.
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 1
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, 1] 2003. iv, 289 pp.
Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 3 (2003)
Edited by Lynn Santelmann, Maaike Verrips, Frank Wijnen and Clara Levelt
[Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 3] 2003. vi, 180 pp.
The Art of Commemoration: Fifty years after the Warsaw Uprising
Edited by Titus Ensink and Christoph Sauer
The Art of Commemoration focuses on a particular historical event that illustrates how nations define their own identities and establish mutual relations in their discourse: the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 and its Commemoration in 1994. This Commemoration was an innovative and unique form of… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 7] 2003. xii, 245 pp.
Asian Languages and Computers
Edited by Debra Hoven and Jeong-Bae Son
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 17] 2003. iv, 150 pp.
Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Gisella Ferraresi
This volume gives an up-to-date account of various situations of language contact and multilingualism in Europe especially from a historical point of view. Its ten contributions present newly collected data from different parts of the continent seen through diverse theoretical perspectives. They… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 2] 2003. viii, 289 pp.
Bibliography and Handbook of Pragmatics Online (set)
Edited by Jef Verschueren
Linguistic Pragmatics is characterized by its continuous worldwide development into an extremely productive, innovative and intriguing research area within language studies. At www.benjamins.com/online we invite you to explore the entire range of topics that cover this interdisciplinary yet… read more[Online Resources Collection, BoPHoP S] 2003.
Bibliography of Pragmatics Online
Edited by Frank Brisard, Michael Meeuwis and Jef Verschueren
This annotated bibliography covers the broad field of linguistic pragmatics, conceived as the interdisciplinary cognitive, social, and cultural - science of natural language use.It incorporates all the bibliographical data from the renowned Comprehensive Bibliography of Pragmatics (1987), edited… read more[Online Resources Collection, BoP] 2003. Over 50.000 records
Corpus Presenter: Software for language analysis. With a manual and A Corpus of Irish English as sample data
Raymond Hickey
The current book together with the accompanying CD-ROM forms the Corpus Presenter suite which can be used to compile text corpora and to carry out retrieval tasks on any corpus or selection of text files, no matter what their source or how they are organised. The suite is designed to have a… read more[Not in series, 122] 2003. x, 292 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson
Edited by Dee Ann Holisky and Kevin Tuite
This volume is a collection of seventeen papers, on languages of all three indigenous Caucasian families as well as other languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Several papers are concerned with diachronic questions, either within individual families, or at deeper time depths. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 246] 2003. xxviii, 426 pp.
Dependent-Head Synthesis in Nivkh: A contribution to a typology of polysynthesis
Johanna Mattissen
Dependent-Head Synthesis in Nivkh has been awarded a prize of the Offermann-Hergarten Donation at the University of Cologne in 2004. The endowments are granted for outstanding innovative and comprehensibly documented research.This book offers an innovative approach to three interlaced topics: A… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 57] 2003. x, 350 pp.
The Development of Prosodic Structure in Early Words: Continuity, divergence and change
Mitsuhiko Ota
This monograph addresses three basic questions regarding the development of word-internal prosodic structure: How much of the phonological structure of early words is regulated by the same constituents and principles that govern the organization of prosodic structure of mature grammar? Why do early… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 34] 2003. xii, 224 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 3 (2003)
Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen and Simona Pekarek Doehler
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 3] 2003.
English Language Learning and Technology: Lectures on applied linguistics in the age of information and communication technology
Carol A. Chapelle
This book explores implications for applied linguistics of recent developments in technologies used in second language teaching and assessment, language analysis, and language use. Focusing primarily on English language learning, the book identifies significant areas of interplay between technology… read more
English Words Abroad
Manfred Görlach †
English Words Abroad summarizes the methods developed for the innovative multilingual Dictionary of European Anglicisms (Görlach 2001, OUP) which combines data on English loanwords in sixteen European languages (four each for Germanic, Slavic, Romance and others). This summary allows us to quantify… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 7] 2003. xii, 188 pp.
Epistemic Stance in English Conversation: A description of its interactional functions, with a focus on I think
Elise Kärkkäinen
This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 115] 2003. xii, 213 pp.
From Sign to Signing
Wolfgang G. Müller and Olga Fischer
This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999) and The Motivated Sign (2001), offers a selection of papers given at the Third International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (Jena 2001). The studies collected here present a number of new departures. Special consideration is… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 3] 2003. xiv, 441 pp.
Grammaires et Lexiques Comparés: Actes du Colloque
Edited by Mirella Conenna and Éric Laporte
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 26:1 (2003) vi, 174 pp.
Grammatical Metaphor: Views from systemic functional linguistics
Edited by Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Miriam Taverniers and Louise J. Ravelli
Since the 1980s, metaphor has received much attention in linguistics in general. Within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) the area of 'grammatical metaphor' has become increasingly more important. This volume aims to raise and debate problematic issues in the study of lexico-grammatical… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 236] 2003. vi, 453 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics Online
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use, using the authoritative Handbook of Pragmatics as a basis (edited by the IPrA Research Center since 1995).It provides easy access… read more[Online Resources Collection, HoP] 2003.
History of Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, 14–19 September 1999, Fontenay-St.Cloud
Edited by Sylvian Auroux
This volume represents a selection of 25 out of altogether 86 papers given at the Eighth International Conference for the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VIII), which took place at the Ecole Normale Supérieure at Fontenay-aux-Roses, near Paris, in September 1999. This conference was marked… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 99] 2003. xii, 397 pp.
Hybrid Quotations
Edited by Philippe De Brabanter
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 17] 2003. 232 pp.
Implicatures in Discourse: The case of Spanish NP anaphora
Sarah E. Blackwell
Implicatures in Discourse examines Spanish conversations and oral narratives in order to seek support for a pragmatic theory of anaphora. Blackwell argues that the use of anaphoric expressions may be considered conversational implicatures that give rise to inferences of coreference and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 105] 2003. xvi, 303 pp.
Language Contacts in Prehistory: Studies in Stratigraphy. Papers from the Workshop on Linguistic Stratigraphy and Prehistory at the Fifteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 17 August 2001
Edited by Henning Andersen
Every language includes layers of lexical and grammatical elements that entered it at different times in the more or less distant past. Hence, for periods preceding our earliest historical documentation, linguistic stratigraphy — the systematic study of such layers — may yield information about the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 239] 2003. viii, 292 pp.
Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches
Edited by Mark Janse and Sijmen Tol
Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50% to as much as 90% by the end of the century. This collection of original papers tries to strike a balance between theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches to language death and language maintenance. It… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 240] 2003. xviii, 244 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2003
Edited by Leonie Cornips and Paula Fikkert
The Making of a Mixed Language: The case of Ma’a/Mbugu
Maarten Mous
The Mbugu (or Ma'á) language (Tanzania) is one of the few genuine mixed languages, reputedly combining Bantu grammar with Cushitic vocabulary. In fact the people speak two languages: one mixed and one closely related to the Bantu language Pare. This book is the first comprehensive description of… read more[Creole Language Library, 26] 2003. xx, 322 pp.
Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 2
Edited by Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner
These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 100] 2003. viii, 496 pp.
Media and Language Change
Edited by Susan C. Herring
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4:1 (2003) iv, 159 pp.
Motion, Direction and Location in Languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Edited by Erin Shay and Uwe Seibert
This book contributes to an area of study that is of interest to linguists of all backgrounds. Typological in nature this volume presents data analysis from the major language families of Africa as well as Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Japanese, Indo-European, Siouan and Penutian. The 16 contributors… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 56] 2003. xvi, 305 pp.
Motivation in Language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Thomas Berg, René Dirven † and Klaus-Uwe Panther
This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, ‘Is the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?’ The greater part of the papers (Sections 1–3) analyze linguistic phenomena in which not… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 243] 2003. xxvi, 403 pp.
The Phonological Spectrum: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst
The two volumes of the Phonological Spectrum aim at giving a comprehensive overview of current developments in phonological theory, by providing a number of papers in different areas of current theorizing which reflect on particular problems from different angles.Volume I is concerned with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 233-234] 2003. x, 308 pp. & x, 264 pp.
Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000
Edited by Jacqueline Lecarme
This volume contains 22 of the papers presented at the 5th Conference on Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5) held at Université Paris VII in June 2000. The authors report their latest research on the syntax, morphology, and phonology of quite a number of languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Tigrinya,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 241] 2003. vii, 547 pp.
Rethinking Communicative Interaction: New interdisciplinary horizons
Edited by Colin B. Grant
This volume breaks open traditional disciplinary confines and approaches the full complexity of communicative interaction from an impressive range of exciting state-of-the-art perspectives in social psychology, conversation analysis, hermeneutics, constructivist psychology, communication theory,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 116] 2003. viii, 330 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001: Selected papers from 'Going Romance', Amsterdam, 6–8 December 2001
Edited by Josep Quer, Jan Schroten, Mauro Scorretti, Petra Sleeman and Els Verheugd-Daatzelaar
The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory published in the series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.Romance Languages and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 245] 2003. viii, 355 pp.
Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition. Selected papers from the 32nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Toronto, April 2002
Edited by Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Yves Roberge
This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 32nd Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, dealing with linguistic theory as applied to the Romance languages, and on empirical studies on the acquisition of Romance, with studies on Romanian, French,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 244] 2003. viii, 388 pp.
Small Phrase Layers: A study of Finnish Manner Adverbials
Satu Manninen
This monograph examines the structure and properties of Finnish manner adverbials. The central idea is that, instead of AdvPs, DPs, APs, PPs, NumPs and InfinitivalPs, manner adverbials have the form of either kPs or pPs, and they are licensed as unique specifiers of a manner-related small vP.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 65] 2003. xii, 275 pp.
Studies in Evidentiality
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon
In a number of languages, the speaker must specify the evidence for every statement whether seen, or heard, or inferred from indirect evidence, or learnt from someone else. This grammatical category, referring to information source, is called ‘evidentiality’. Evidentiality systems differ in how… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 54] 2003. xiv, 349 pp.
Analogical Modeling: An exemplar-based approach to language
Edited by Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale and Dilworth B. Parkinson
Analogical Modeling (AM) is an exemplar-based general theory of description that uses both neighbors and non-neighbors (under certain well-defined conditions of homogeneity) to predict language behavior. This book provides a basic introduction to AM, compares the theory with nearest-neighbor… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 10] 2002. x, 416 pp.
Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 2 (2002)
Edited by Lynn Santelmann, Maaike Verrips and Frank Wijnen
[Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 2] 2002. iv, 202 pp.
Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and face-to-face interaction
Diana Boxer
Diana Boxers Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and Face-to-Face Interaction is an up-to-date overview of discourse studies in oral interaction. Its focus is on encounters in the various spheres of life: family, educational, social, religious, and work, with an additional chapter on cross-cultural… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 15] 2002. xii, 245 pp.
Appraising Research in Second Language Learning: A practical approach to critical analysis of quantitative research
Graeme Keith Porte
Designed for students of applied linguistics and TEFL on research training courses, practising language teachers, and those in training, this combination textbook/workbook is the first to provide specific advice and support to those wishing to learn how to approach the critical analysis of a… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 3] 2002. xx, 268 pp.
Bilingual Couples Talk: The discursive construction of hybridity
Ingrid Piller
This sociolinguistic study of the linguistic practices of bilingual couples describes the conditions, processes and results of private language contact. It is based on a unique corpus of more than 20 hours of private conversations between partners in bilingual marriages. Adding to its breadth of… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 25] 2002. xii, 315 pp.
Bio-Linguistics: The Santa Barbara lectures
T. Givón
Is human language an evolutionary adaptation? Is linguistics a natural science? These questions have bedeviled philosophers, philologists and linguists from Plato through Chomsky. Prof. Givón suggests that the answers fall naturally within an integrated study of living organisms.In this new work,… read more[Not in series, 113] 2002. xviii, 383 pp.
The Body in Description of Emotion: Cross-linguistic studies
Edited by N.J. Enfield and Anna Wierzbicka
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 10:1/2 (2002) vi, 369 pp.
Children's Literature as Communication: The ChiLPA project
Edited by Roger D. Sell
In this book, members of the ChiLPA Project explore the children’s literature of several different cultures, ranging from ancient India, nineteenth century Russia, and the Soviet Union, to twentieth century Britain, America, Australia, Sweden, and Finland. The research covers not only the form and… read more[Studies in Narrative, 2] 2002. xii, 352 pp.
Clinical Linguistics: Theory and applications in speech pathology and therapy
Edited by Elisabetta Fava
This book covers different aspects of speech and language pathology and it offers a fairly comprehensive overview of the complexity and the emerging importance of the field, by identifying and re-examining, from different perspectives, a number of standard assumptions in clinical linguistics and in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 227] 2002. xxiv, 353 pp.
Clitics between Syntax and Lexicon
Birgit Gerlach
As a typical interface phenomenon, clitics have become increasingly important in linguistic theory during the last decade. The present book contributes to the recent discussion and first provides a comprehensive overview of clitic sequencing, clitic placement and clitic doubling in the major… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 51] 2002. xii, 282 pp.
Cognitive Stylistics: Language and cognition in text analysis
Edited by Elena Semino and Jonathan Culpeper
This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. The twelve chapters combine linguistic analysis with insights from cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics in order to… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 1] 2002. xvi, 333 pp.
Comparative Historical Dialectology: Italo-Romance clues to Ibero-Romance sound change
Thomas D. Cravens
This brief monograph explores the historical motivations for two sets of phonological changes in some varieties of Romance: restructured voicing of intervocalic /p t k/, and palatalization of initial /l/ and /n/. These developments have been treated repeatedly over the decades, yet neither has… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 231] 2002. xii, 163 pp.
Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Michael Noonan
The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson’s career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are… read more[Not in series, 110] 2002. viii, 363 pp.
Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching
Edited by Sylviane Granger, Joseph Hung and Stephanie Petch-Tyson
This book takes stock of current research into computer learner corpora conducted both by ELT and SLA specialists. It should be of particular interest to researchers looking to assess its relevance to SLA theory and ELT practice. Throughout the volume, emphasis is also placed on practical,… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 6] 2002. x, 246 pp.
Creole Discourse: Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles
Susanne Mühleisen
Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image. How has this prestige been formed? And is it as static as the diglossic situation in many anglo-creolophone societies seems to suggest? This volume examines socio-historical and epistemological factors in the prestige… read more[Creole Language Library, 24] 2002. xiv, 331 pp.
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Development of Text-Production Abilities in Speech and Writing. Part 1
Edited by Ruth A. Berman and Ludo Verhoeven
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 5:1 (2002) iv, 135 pp.
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Development of Text-Production Abilities in Speech and Writing. Part 2
Edited by Ruth A. Berman and Ludo Verhoeven
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 5:2 (2002) iv, 172 pp.
Current Issues in Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ann Arbor, 8–11 April 1999
Edited by Teresa Satterfield, Christina Tortora and Diana Cresti
This book presents an enlightening collection of papers contributing to theoretical discussions across many topics within the study of Romance Languages and Linguistics. The work originates from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held in 1999 at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 220] 2002. viii, 412 pp.
Defining Language: A local grammar of definition sentences
Geoff Barnbrook
Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself. Beyond this inherent significance as a crucial element of language study, definitions also provide a rich potential source of the information needed for Natural… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 11] 2002. xvi, 281 pp.
Degrees of Explicitness: Information structure and the packaging of Bulgarian subjects and objects
John Leafgren
This book explores factors relevant in the choices speakers and writers make in regard to explicitness of reference to the subjects and objects in their utterances. Bulgarian is a particularly felicitous target language for this type of study, since it possesses a rich inventory of available… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 102] 2002. xii, 252 pp.
Dimensions of Movement: From features to remnants
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Sjef Barbiers and Hans-Martin Gärtner
This volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative research into the properties of phrasal and feature movement, which explore these key syntactic phenomena from different angles and across languages. The papers advance or build on models of movement which capitalize either on… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 48] 2002. vi, 345 pp.
Directions in Sign Language Acquisition
Edited by Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll
As the first book of its kind, this volume with contributions from many well known scholars brings together some of the most recent original work on sign language acquisition in children learning a variety of different signed languages (i.e., Brazilian Sign Language, American SL, SL of the… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 2] 2002. xx, 339 pp.
Discourse Intonation in L2: From theory and research to practice
Dorothy M. Chun
Intonation, rhythm, and general “melody” of language are among the first aspects of speech that infants attend to and produce themselves. Yet, these same features are among the last to be mastered by adult L2 learners. Why is this, and how can L2 learners be helped? This book first presents the… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 1] 2002. xviii, 285 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Doric: The dialect of North-East Scotland
J. Derrick McClure
The dialect of North-East Scotland, one of the most distinctive and best preserved in the country, survives as both a proudly maintained mark of local identity and the vehicle for a remarkable regional literature. The present study, after placing the dialect in its historical, geographical and… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T8] 2002. vi, 219 pp.
The Dynamics of Terminology: A descriptive theory of term formation and terminological growth
Kyo Kageura
The discovery of rules for the systematicity and dynamics of terminology creations is essential for a sound basis of a theory of terminology. This quest provides the driving force for The Dynamics of Terminology in which Dr. Kageura demonstrates the interaction of these two factors on a specific… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 5] 2002. viii, 322 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 2 (2002)
Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, Tanja Ruthenberg and Marie Louise Poschen
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 2] 2002. iv, 289 pp.
English Discourse Particles: Evidence from a corpus
Karin Aijmer
There are few aspects of language which are more problematic than its discourse particles. The present study of discourse particles draws upon data from the London-Lund Corpus to show how the methods and tools of corpora can sharpen their description. The first part of the book provides a picture… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 10] 2002. xvi, 298 pp.
English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000. Volume 1
Edited by Teresa Fanego, Javier Pérez-Guerra and María José López-Couso
This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present twelve papers were carefully selected to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 223] 2002. ix, 297 pp.
Essays in Speech Act Theory
Edited by Daniel Vanderveken and Susumu Kubo
Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context. This book addresses questions such as:- What do we mean?- How do we say it? and- How is it understood?in the broad context of universal, socio-cultural and psychological issues that bear on… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 77] 2002. vi, 345 pp.
The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar: The formation of the resultative construction and its effects
Yuzhi Shi
This book investigates historical motivations for the emergence of the resultative construction in Chinese from the following four aspects: (a) disyllabification, (b)adjacent context, (c) semantic integrity, and (d) frequency of co-occurence of a pair of verb and resultative. The author also… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 59] 2002. xiv, 262 pp.
The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language
Edited by T. Givón and Bertram F. Malle
The contributors to this volume are linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, primatologists, and anthropologists who share the assumption that language, just as mind and brain, are products of biological evolution. The rise of human language is not viewed as a serendipitous mutation that gave… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 53] 2002. x, 394 pp.
Exploring Natural Language: Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English
Gerald Nelson, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts
ICE-GB is a 1 million-word corpus of contemporary British English. It is fully parsed, and contains over 83,000 syntactic trees. Together with the dedicated retrieval software, ICECUP, ICE-GB is an unprecedented resource for the study of English syntax.Exploring Natural Language is a comprehensive… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G29] 2002. xviii, 344 pp.
Exploring Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural Language Database Interfaces
Ion Androutsopoulos
Advances in temporal databases make it increasingly easier to store time-dependent information, creating a need for facilities that will help end-users access this information. In the context of natural language interaction, significant effort has been devoted to interfaces that allow database… read more[Natural Language Processing, 6] 2002. x, 306 pp.
The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English: A pragmatic approach
Susan Fitzmaurice
This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 95] 2002. viii, 263 pp.
First Language Attrition, Use and Maintenance: The case of German Jews in anglophone countries
Monika S. Schmid
This book is a study of the L1 attrition of German among German Jews who emigrated to anglophone countries under the Nazi regime. It places the study of language attrition within the historical and sociocultural framework of Weimar and Nazi Germany, applying issues of identity and identification to… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 24] 2002. xiv, 259 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
From OV to VO in Early Middle English
Carola Trips
This monograph answers the question of why English changed from an OV to a VO language on the assumption that this change is due to intensive language contact with Scandinavian. It shows for the first time that the English language was much more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than assumed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 60] 2002. xiv, 359 pp.
From Whitney to Chomsky: Essays in the history of American linguistics
John E. Joseph
What is ‘American’ about American linguistics? Is Jakobson, who spent half his life in America, part of it? What became of Whitney’s genuinely American conception of language as a democracy? And how did developments in 20th-century American linguistics relate to broader cultural trends?This book… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 103] 2002. viii, 240 pp.
Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 2
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann
This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 10] 2002. xiv, 349 pp.
Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis
Edited by Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland
Gender and discourse interface in many more epistemological sites than can be represented in one collection. Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis therefore focuses on a principled diversity of key sites within four broad areas: the media, sexuality, education and parenthood. The different… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 2] 2002. vii, 335 pp.
Gender in Interaction: Perspectives on femininity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse
Edited by Bettina Baron and Helga Kotthoff
In this volume, gender is seen as a communicative achievement and as a social category interacting with other social parametres such as age, status, prestige, institutional and ethnic frameworks, cultural and situative contexts. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds such as sociology of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 93] 2002. xxiv, 357 pp.
Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French
Kate Beeching
This study aims to investigate politeness in women’s and men’s speech, with a particular focus on the use of c’est-à-dire, enfin, hein and quoi in contemporary spoken French. Politeness is defined as going beyond the notion of the face-threatening act, englobing both everyday ideas of politeness… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 104] 2002. x, 251 pp.
The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation
Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani
This volume presents fifteen original papers dealing with various aspects of causative constructions ranging from morphology to semantics with emphasis on language data from Central and South America. Informed by a better understanding of how different constructions are positioned both… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 48] 2002. xviii, 551 pp.
Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: Volume 2
Edited by Daniel Long and Dennis R. Preston
The Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology, Volume 2, expands on the coverage of both regions and methodologies in the investigation of nonlinguists' perceptions of language variety. New areas studied include Canada (anglophone and francophone), Cuba, Hungary, Italy, Korea, and Mali, and most… read more[Not in series, HPD 2] 2002. xxvi, 412 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 2000 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 6] 2002. iv, 298 pp.
Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning
Edited by Peter Robinson
Second language learners differ in how successfully they adapt to, and profit from, instruction. This book aims to show that adaptation to L2 instruction, and subsequent L2 learning, is a result of the interaction between learner characteristics and learning contexts. Describing and explaining… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2] 2002. xii, 387 pp.
Information Design: An introduction
Rune Pettersson
The goal of communication-oriented design of messages should always be clarity of communication. In information design the task of the sender is actually not completed until the receivers have received and understood the intended messages.Information Design – An introduction includes chapters… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 3] 2002. x, 296 pp.
An Introduction to the Grammar of English: Syntactic arguments and socio-historical background
Elly van Gelderen
This Introduction provides a lively and clearly written textbook. It introduces basic concepts of grammar in a format which inspires the reader to use linguistic arguments. The style of the book is engaging and examples from poetry, jokes, and puns illustrate grammatical concepts.The focus is on… read more[Not in series, 111] 2002. xxiv, 200 pp.
Invisible Work: Bilingualism, language choice and childrearing in intermarried families
Toshie Okita
There is growing recognition that context is important for bilingual language development, but understanding of that context remains underdeveloped. This innovative study, spanning the fields of bilingualism, ethnicity and family studies, shows how language use in intermarried families is deeply… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 12] 2002. x, 275 pp.
Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology
Edited by Werner Abraham and Jan-Wouter Zwart
This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 45] 2002. xviii, 336 pp.
Japanese
Shoichi Iwasaki
Japanese ranks as the sixth language of the world with more than 125 million speakers in the island state of Japan. Its genetic relation has been a topic of heated discussion, but Altaic and Austronesian languages appear to have contributed to the early formation of this language. It has a long… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 5] 2002. xx, 360 pp.
Jewish Translation History: A bibliography of bibliographies and studies
Robert Singerman
A classified bibliographic resource for tracing the history of Jewish translation activity from the Middle Ages to the present day, providing the researcher with over a thousand entries devoted solely to the Jewish role in the east-to-west transmission of Greek and Arab learning and science into… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 44] 2002. xxxvi, 420 pp.
The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology
Edited by M. Rafael Salaberry and Yasuhiro Shirai
The present volume provides a cross-linguistic perspective on the development of tense-aspect in L2 acquisition. Data-based studies included in this volume deal with the analysis of a wide range of target languages: Chinese, English, Italian, French, Japanese, and Spanish. Theoretical frameworks… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 27] 2002. x, 489 pp.
Language in Language Teacher Education
Edited by Hugh Trappes-Lomax and Gibson Ferguson
This volume explores the defining element in the work of language teacher educators: language itself. The book is in two parts. The first part holds up to scrutiny concepts of language that underlie much practice in language teacher education yet too frequently remain under-examined. These include… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 4] 2002. vi, 258 pp.
Language in South Africa: The role of language in national transformation, reconstruction and development
Victor Webb
Language in South Africa (LiSA) debates the role of language and language planning in the reconstruction, development and transformation of post-apartheid democratic South Africa. The 1996 constitution of South Africa is founded on the political philosophy of pluralism and is directed at promoting… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 14] 2002. xxviii, 357 pp.
Language, Vision and Music: Selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, 1999
Edited by Paul Mc Kevitt, Seán Ó Nualláin and Conn Mulvihill
Language, vision and music: what common cognitive patterns underlie our competence in these disparate modes of thought? Language (natural & formal), vision and music seem to share at least the following attributes: a hierarchical organisation of constituents, recursivity, metaphor, the possibility… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 35] 2002. xii, 433 pp.
The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st century. Volume 1: Philosophy of science, syntax and semantics
Edited by Bruce E. Nevin
Zellig Harris opened many lines of research in language, information, and culture, from generative grammar to informatics, from mathematics to language pedagogy. An international array of scholars here describe further developments and relate this work to that of others. Volume 1 begins with a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 228] 2002. xxxv, 323 pp.
The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st century. Volume 2: Mathematics and computability of language
Edited by Bruce E. Nevin and Stephen B. Johnson
Zellig Harris had a profound influence in formal systems and applied mathematics, in demonstrations of the computability of language, and in informatics. Volume 2 begins with a commentary by André Lentin on Harris's grounding in constructivist, intuitionist mathematics, drawing a parallel between… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 229] 2002. xix, 312 pp.
The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, computational and experimental issues
Edited by Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson
Lexical effects on language processing are currently a major focus of attention in studies of sentence comprehension. This thematic collection provides a uniquely multi-faceted and integrated viewpoint on key aspects of lexicalist theories, drawing from the fields of theoretical linguistics,… read more[Natural Language Processing, 4] 2002. viii, 363 pp.
Lexical Template Morphology: Change of state and the verbal prefixes in German
B. Roger Maylor
While there have been many attempts in the literature to account for the semantics and syntax of individual German(ic)prefixes, this is the first time that the prefixes have been analysed in a unified way and a framework established that is capable of relating the prefixes to each other and to… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 58] 2002. x, 273 pp.
Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches
Edited by Bengt Altenberg and Sylviane Granger
This volume takes stock of current research in contrastive lexical studies. It reflects the growing interest in corpus-based approaches to the study of lexis, in particular the use of multilingual corpora, shared by researchers working in widely differing fields — contrastive linguistics,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 7] 2002. x, 339 pp.
Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts
Fredric Field
A number of previous approaches to linguistic borrowing and contact phenomena in general have concluded that there are no formal boundaries whatsoever to the kinds of material that can pass from one language into another. At the same time, various hierarchies illustrate that some things are indeed… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 62] 2002. xviii, 252 pp.
Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus: Morpho-syntactic variability of second person pronouns
Ulrich Busse
This study investigates the morpho-syntactic variability of the second person pronouns in the Shakespeare Corpus, seeking to elucidate the factors that underlie their choice. The major part of the work is devoted to analyzing the variation between you and thou, but it also includes chapters that… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 106] 2002. xiv, 344 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2002
Edited by Hans Broekhuis and Paula Fikkert
The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying
Edited by John Newman
This volume explores properties of ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ verbs, reflecting three of the most salient postures associated with humans. An introductory chapter by the Editor provides an overview of directions for research into posture verbs. These directions are then explored in detail in a… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 51] 2002. xii, 409 pp.
Literacies: Tertiary contexts
Compiled and edited by Zosia Golebiowski
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25:2 (2002) vii, 148 pp.
Maintaining and Setting Standards and Language Variation in the Asian Pacific Region
Edited by Amy B.M. Tsui
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 12:1 (2002) vi, 184 pp.
Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings. Volume 1
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka
This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal grammar is constituted by the inherent grammatical properties of some 60 empirically established semantic primes, which appear… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 60] 2002. xvi, 337 pp.
Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings. Volume 2
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka
This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal grammar is constituted by the inherent grammatical properties of some 60 empirically established semantic primes, which appear… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 61] 2002. xvi, 334 pp.
Middle Voice: A comparative study in the syntax-semantics interface of German
Markus Steinbach
This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages. It integrates the interpretation of non-argument reflexives into a modified version of recent… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 50] 2002. xii, 337 pp.
Modality and its Interaction with the Verbal System
Edited by Sjef Barbiers, Frits Beukema and Wim van der Wurff
This book provides a broad overview of the issues relevant for the study of syntax of modals and their interaction with the verbal system. A large number of novel observations are offered from a variety of languages, including Dutch, (Modern and Middle) English, German, Lele, Macedonian, Middle… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 47] 2002. x, 290 pp.
Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000
Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Maria D. Voeikova
This volume focuses on two main topics: comparative morphology (i.e. cross-linguistic analysis, including typology, dialectology and diachrony) and psycholinguistics (i.e. on-line processing, off-line experiments, child language). Since the psycholinguistic papers of this volume consistently refer… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 218] 2002. vii, 317 pp.
Natural Language Processing for Online Applications: Text retrieval, extraction and categorization
Peter Jackson and Isabelle Moulinier
This text covers the emerging technologies of document retrieval, information extraction, and text categorization in a way which highlights commonalities in terms of both general principles and practical issues. It seeks to satisfy a need on the part of technology practitioners in the Internet… read more[Natural Language Processing, 5 (1st)] 2002. x, 226 pp.
New Reflections on Grammaticalization
Edited by Ilse Wischer and Gabriele Diewald
The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues and raise a number of new questions that indicate the future direction of grammaticalization studies. The volume focuses on issues such as grammaticalization and lexicalization; the unidirectionality… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 49] 2002. xiv, 435 pp.
The Nominative & Accusative and their counterparts
Edited by Kristin Davidse and Béatrice Lamiroy
This volume is devoted to the central cases relating to the basic oppositions between subject-object and agent-patient, viz. nominative and accusative, as well as their counterparts such as ergative and absolutive. It aims at contributing to the typological investigation of these cases by providing… read more[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 4] 2002. x, 363 pp.
Particle Verbs in English: Syntax, information structure and intonation
Nicole Dehé
This book offers a new account of the transitive particle verb construction in English. The main emphasis is on the alternation between the two word orders possible in English (continuous: hand in the manuscript vs. discontinuous: hand the manuscript in). The central aim is to show that the choice… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 59] 2002. xii, 302 pp.
Particles
Edited by Ton van der Wouden, Ad Foolen and Piet Van de Craen
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 16] 2002. iv, 208 pp.
Pedagogical Norms for Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Studies in honour of Albert Valdman
Edited by Susan M. Gass, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Sally Magnan Pierce and Joel Walz
The concept of Pedagogical Norm is grounded in both sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic principles. Pedagogical norms guide the selection and sequencing of target language features for language teaching and learning. This book both situates and expands on this concept highlighting the interaction… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 5] 2002. vi, 305 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XIII-XIV: Stanford, 1999 and Berkeley, California 2000
Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson and Elabbas Benmamoun
The papers in this collection derive from the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics held in Stanford (1999) and Berkeley (2000). The selection is noteworthy for its diversity of approach, and for a noticeable broadening of the kinds of questions that are being asked and the kind of data being… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 230] 2002. xiv, 250 pp.
Point of View and Grammar: Structural patterns of subjectivity in American English conversation
Joanne Scheibman
This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject, tense, and verb type are those… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 11] 2002. xiv, 187 pp.
Politics as Text and Talk: Analytic approaches to political discourse
Edited by Paul Chilton and Christina Schäffner
Human beings are political animals. They are also articulate mammals. How are these two aspects linked? This is a question that is only beginning to be explored. The present collection makes a contribution to the investigations into the use of language in those situations which, informally and… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 4] 2002. x, 246 pp.
Postvelar Harmony
Kimary N. Shahin
This book examines the formal bases of postvelar harmony and its crosslinguistic variation. It is of interest especially to phonologists concerned with segmental harmony and its explanation within Optimality Theory. Postvelar harmony in two unrelated languages, Palestinian Arabic and St'át'imcets… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 225] 2002. viii, 344 pp.
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série. Volume 4
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Petr Sgall, Jirí Hana and Tomáš Hoskovec
The fourth volume of the revived series of “Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague” brings three contributions (by J. Vachek, O. Leška and V. Skalička) connected with the classical period of the Prague School, as well as papers delivered at the conference “Function, Form, and Meaning: Bridges and… read more[Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague N.S., 4] 2002. viii, 376 pp.
Precursors of Functional Literacy
Edited by Ludo Verhoeven, Carsten Elbro and Pieter Reitsma
The purpose of this volume is to present recent research in the field of the acquisition of functional literacy and its precursors. The volume aims to capture the state of the art in this rapidly expanding field. An attempt is made to clarify the vague and often inconsistent definitions of… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 11] 2002. viii, 360 pp.
Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context
Edited by Susanne Feigenbaum and Dennis Kurzon
The growing interest in prepositions is reflected by this impressive collection of papers from leading scholars of various fields. The selected contributions of Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context focus on the local and temporal semantics of prepositions in relation to… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 50] 2002. vi, 304 pp.
Pronouns – Grammar and Representation
Edited by Horst J. Simon and Heike Wiese
The contributions of this thematic collection center around the typology of pronominal paradigms, the generation of syntactic and semantic representations for constructions containing pronouns, and the neurological underpinnings for linguistic distinctions that are relevant for the production and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 52] 2002. xii, 294 pp.
Pronouns, Clitics and Empty Nouns: ‘Pronominality’ and licensing in syntax
Phoevos Panagiotidis
Two issues little discussed in the generative literature are the internal structure of pronouns and what it is in Syntax that triggers pronominal reference. This monograph treats these two topics in detail and investigates whether pronominal (strong, weak and clitic pronouns) and related elliptical… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 46] 2002. x, 214 pp.
Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains
Edited by Tom Güldemann and Manfred von Roncador
The present volume unites 15 papers on reported discourse from a wide genetic and geographical variety of languages. Besides the treatment of traditional problems of reported discourse like the classification of its intermediate categories, the book reflects in particular how its grammatical,… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 52] 2002. xii, 425 pp.
Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction
Edited by Anita Fetzer and Christiane Meierkord
This book addresses current approaches to sequentiality in pragmatics and discourse analysis. It reflects the current moves in ethnomethodological conversation analysis and speech act theory to cross methodological borders to arrive at a conception of a sequence, which extends the local notion of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 103] 2002. vi, 300 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2000: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2000, Utrecht, 30 November–2 December
Edited by Claire Beyssade, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Frank Drijkoningen and Paola Monachesi
This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 2000 'Going Romance' conference, held in Utrecht. The papers discuss current topics in formal syntax in Romance languages. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 232] 2002. viii, 354 pp.
Romance Phonology and Variation: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000
Edited by Caroline R. Wiltshire and Joaquim Camps
This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, focussing on the areas of phonology and language variation. The papers address issues in phonology such as the emergence of the unmarked, representational… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 217] 2002. xi, 238 pp.
Semitic and Indo-European: Volume II: Comparative morphology, syntax and phonetics
Saul Levin
This is a sequel to the author's Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies (1995). That volume provided the key examples of morphological correspondences between the Semitic and the Indo-European languages. In this sequel, the author analyzes correspondences of structure, either within a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 226] 2002. xviii, 592 pp.
Separate and Unequal: Judicial rhetoric and women's rights
Huang Hoon Chng
This book argues for a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the language of judges with respect to the issue of gender discrimination. Drawing its inspiration from Dell Hymes' socially constituted linguistics, the author examines the language of the judicial opinions of four U.S. Supreme… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 3] 2002. viii, 156 pp.
Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics
Edited by Wallis Reid, Ricardo Otheguy and Nancy Stern
This is the second volume of papers on sign-based linguistics to emerge from Columbia School linguistics conferences. One set of articles offers semantic analyses of grammatical features of specific languages: English full-verb inversion; Serbo-Croatian deictic pronouns; English auxiliary do;… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 48] 2002. xxii, 413 pp.
Sounds, Words, Texts and Change: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000. Volume 2
Edited by Teresa Fanego, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane
This volume and its companion one (English Historical Syntax and Morphology, CILT 223) offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 224] 2002. ix, 301 pp.
A Source Book for Irish English
Raymond Hickey
The current book intends to provide a flexible and comprehensive bibliographical tool to those scholars working or interested in Irish English. A whole range of references (approx. 2,500) relating to Irish English in all its aspects are gathered together here and in the majority of cases… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 27] 2002. xii, 541 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Speaking Back: The free speech versus hate speech debate
Katharine Gelber
This book proposes an original policy framework for addressing hate speech. Gelber argues that a policy designed to provide support to affected groups and communities to enable them to speak back when hate speech occurs, is a more useful way of addressing the harms of hate speech than punitive… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 1] 2002. xiv, 177 pp.
Standardization: Studies from the Germanic languages
Edited by Andrew R. Linn and Nicola McLelland
This volume presents fourteen case studies of standardization processes in eleven different Germanic languages. Together, the contributions confront problematic issues in standardization which will be of interest to sociolinguists, as well as to historical linguists from all language disciplines.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 235] 2002. xii, 258 pp.
Still More Englishes
Manfred Görlach †
This monograph comprises eight papers, most of which originated as presentations given at international conferences or guest lectures. These papers deal with the problematic nature of English as a global language, and discuss what makes texts authentic and reliable for linguistic analysis, Scots in… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G28] 2002. xiv, 240 pp.
Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax: Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000)
Edited by Jan-Wouter Zwart and Werner Abraham
This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages.Divided in four main sections, the book focuses on issues of subordination and complementation (with… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 53] 2002. xiv, 404 pp.
The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish Mood
Henk Haverkate
This study provides a consistent description and explanation of the syntax, the semantics and the pragmatics of Spanish mood. A major focus of attention is the central role of the truthfunctional categories of realis, potentialis and irrealis as parameters relevant to mood selection in both… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 96] 2002. vi, 235 pp.
Talking Gender and Sexuality
Edited by Paul McIlvenny
This edited volume brings together scholars from psychology, linguistics, sociology and communication science to investigate how performative notions of gender and sexuality can be fruitfully explored with the rich set of tools that have been developed by conversation analysis and discursive… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 94] 2002. x, 327 pp.
Telephone Calls: Unity and diversity in conversational structure across languages and cultures
Edited by K.K. Luke and Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
Telephone conversation is one of the most common forms of communication in contemporary society. For the first time in human history, some people are spending as much time, if not more, talking on the telephone as they are on face-to-face conversations. The aims of this book are: to bring together… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 101] 2002. x, 290 pp.
Thematics: Interdisciplinary Studies
Edited by Max M. Louwerse and Willie van Peer
Themes play a central role in our everyday communication: we have to know what a text is about in order to understand it. Intended meaning cannot be understood without some knowledge of the underlying theme. This book helps to define the concept of ‘themes’ in texts and how they are structured in… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 3] 2002. x, 448 pp.
Theoretical Approaches to Universals
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou
The present volume has its origin in the GLOW conference on Universals hosted in Berlin in March 1999. The papers in this volume are concerned both with formal as well as with substantive universals. All the contributions attempt to identify universal properties of the language faculty, as well as… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 49] 2002. viii, 319 pp.
Tone of Voice and Mind: The connections between intonation, emotion, cognition and consciousness
Norman D. Cook
Tone of Voice and Mind is a synthesis of findings from neurophysiology (how neurons produce subjective feeling), neuropsychology (how the human cerebral hemispheres undertake complementary information-processing), intonation studies (how the emotions are encoded in the tone of voice), and music… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 47] 2002. x, 293 pp.
Trends in Teenage Talk: Corpus compilation, analysis and findings
Anna-Brita Stenström, Gisle Andersen and Ingrid Kristine Hasund
Teenage talk is fascinating, though so far teenage language has not been given the attention in linguistic research that it merits. The dearth of investigations into teenage language is due in part to under representation in language corpora. With the Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT)… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 8] 2002. xii, 229 pp.
Us and Others: Social identities across languages, discourses and cultures
Edited by Anna Duszak †
It is natural for people to make the distinction between in-group (Us) and out-group members (Others). What is it that brings people together, or keeps them apart? Ethnicity, nationality, professional expertise or life style? And, above all, what is the role of language in communicating solidarity… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 98] 2002. viii, 517 pp.
Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation
Edited by Randi Reppen, Susan Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber
Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation illustrates the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation. Two major kinds of research questions are considered: variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature, and variation across dialects or… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 9] 2002. xii, 275 pp.
200 Years of Syntax: A critical survey
Giorgio Graffi
This book argues convincingly against the widespread opinion that very few syntactic studies were carried out before the 1950s. Relying on the detailed analysis of a large amount of original sources, it shows that syntactic matters were in fact carefully investigated throughout both the 19th… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 98] 2001. xiv, 551 pp.
Actualization: Linguistic Change in Progress. Papers from a workshop held at the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, B.C., 14 August 1999
Edited by Henning Andersen
This collection of papers consolidates the observation that linguistic change typically is actualized step by step: any structural innovation being introduced, accepted, and generalized, over time, in one grammatical environment after another, in a progression that can be understood by reference to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 219] 2001. vii, 250 pp.
Ambiguity
Sous la direction de Éric Laporte
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 24:1 (2001) iv, 146 pp.
Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 1 (2001)
Edited by Lynn Santelmann, Maaike Verrips and Frank Wijnen
[Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 1] 2001. 197 pp.
Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. Volume 1
Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Barbara Höhle
Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 23] 2001. xviii, 298 pp.
Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. Volume 2
Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Barbara Höhle
Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 24] 2001. vi, 336 pp.
Aspects of “Interpersonal Grammar”: Grounding, modality, and evidentiality
Edited by Kristin Davidse and Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen
This thematic issue focuses on aspects of ‘interpersonal’ grammar. The underlying assumption, found in most functional frameworks, is that utterances are not only ‘representations’ of reality, but also encode the speaker’s attitude to, and his or her interactive intentions with, those… read moreSpecial issue of Functions of Language 8:2 (2001) iv, 154 pp.
Automatic Summarization
Inderjeet Mani
With the explosion in the quantity of on-line text and multimedia information in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in automatic summarization. This book provides a systematic introduction to the field, explaining basic definitions, the strategies used by human summarizers, and… read more[Natural Language Processing, 3] 2001. xii, 286 pp.
Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 1: Past and Present
Edited by Östen Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European — Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 54] 2001. xx, 382 pp.
Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 2: Grammar and Typology
Edited by Östen Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European —Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 55] 2001. xx, 423 pp.
Communicative Organization in Natural Language: The semantic-communicative structure of sentences
Igor Mel’čuk
The book defines the concept of Semantic-Communicative Structure [= Sem-CommS]-a formal object that is imposed on the starting Semantic Structure [= SemS] of a sentence (under text synthesis) in order to turn the selected meaning into a linguistic message. The Sem-CommS is a system of eight… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 57] 2001. xii, 393 pp.
Conversational Dominance and Gender: A study of Japanese speakers in first and second language contexts
Hiroko Itakura
This book investigates the notion of conversational dominance in depth, and seeks to establish a systematic method of analysing it. It also offers a new insight into the role of gender and the pragmatic transfer of conversational norms in the first and second language conversations among native… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 89] 2001. xviii, 231 pp.
Corpus Linguistics at Work
Elena Tognini-Bonelli
The book offers a combined discussion of the main theoretical, methodological and application issues related to corpus work. Thus, starting from the definition of what is a corpus and why reading a corpus calls for a different methodology from reading a text, the underlying assumptions behind… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 6] 2001. xii, 224 pp.
Creolization and Contact
Edited by Norval Smith and Tonjes Veenstra
This volume contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at “The Amsterdam Workshop on Language Contact and Creolization.” These studies apply the concept of relexification to creoles as well as other contact languages; highlight the relevance of strategies of… read more[Creole Language Library, 23] 2001. vi, 323 pp.
Culture in Communication: Analyses of intercultural situations
Edited by Aldo Di Luzio, Susanne Günthner and Franca Orletti
This volume is dedicated to questions arising in linguistic, sociological and anthropological analyses of intercultural encounters. It aims at presenting new theoretical and methodological aspects of Intercultural Communication, focusing on issues such as ideology and hegemonial attitudes,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 81] 2001. xvi, 341 pp.
Dimensions of Possession
Edited by Irène Baron, Michael Herslund and Finn Sørensen
Few linguistic concepts are more elusive than ‘possession’. The present collection of articles, selected from an international workshop held in Copenhagen in May 1998, confronts the subject from several angles (lexicon; the semantics of possession and the verb HAVE; the syntax of genitives and… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 47] 2001. vi, 335 pp.
Détermination et Formalisation
Sous la direction de Xavier Blanco, Pierre-André Buvet et Zoé Gavriilidou
The contributions brought together in this volume represent the state-of-the-art in the study of determiners, which finds itself in the intersection of such fields as theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, and logic. The articles provide original viewpoints on determination, and bring… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 23] 2001. xii, 344 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 1 (2001)
Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen and Anna Nizegorodcew
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 1] 2001. iv, 289 pp.
Empty Categories in Sentence Processing
Sam Featherston
This book reports a research program into one of the most controversial questions in the syntax — processing interface: The behavior of the parser at gap positions. While the work done is largely experimental, the results are analyzed both for their relevance to sentence processing and for their… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 43] 2001. xvi, 277 pp.
English World-Wide 1980–1999: Index to volumes 1–20
Compiled by Manfred Görlach †
This index to 20 volumes of English World-Wide provides an overview of the journal by presenting the complete tables of contents of those volumes, and – more importantly – easy access to the contents of the journal by carefully compiled indices of Names and Subjects. read more[English World-Wide, 21:IND] 2001. viii, 94 pp.
English in Australia
Edited by David Blair and Peter Collins
This unique collection fills a ten-year gap in studies on the nature of Australian English, and it is the first to deal exclusively with varieties of English on the Australian continent. The book contains chapters on the phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon of the dialect, and chapters on… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G26] 2001. vi, 366 pp.
Ethnicity and Language Change: English in (London)Derry, Northern Ireland
Kevin McCafferty
Part sociolinguistic, part ethnographic, this book takes up the neglected question of how ethnic division interacts with variation and change in Northern Irish English. It identifies an idealised folk model of harmoniouscommunities, in spite of the social divide and open conflict that have long… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 7] 2001. xx, 244 pp.
Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: Narrative Retelling
Ilana Mushin
This book explores the discourse pragmatics of reportive evidentiality in Macedonian, Japanese and English through an empirical study of evidential strategies in narrative retelling. The patterns of evidential use (and non-use) found in these languages are attributed to contextual, cultural and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 87] 2001. xviii, 240 pp.
Evidentials and Relevance
Elly Ifantidou
This book uses Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory to show how evidential expressions can be analysed in a unified semantic/pragmatic framework. The first part surveys general linguistic work on evidentials, presents speech-act theory and examines Grice’s theory of meaning and communication with… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 86] 2001. xii, 225 pp.
The Evolution of Grounded Communication
Edited by Luc Steels
Special issue of Evolution of Communication 4:1 (2001) iv, 161 pp.
Features and Interfaces in Romance: Essays in honor of Heles Contreras
Edited by Julia Herschensohn, Enrique Mallén and Karen Zagona
This volume brings together new research on theoretical Romance Linguistics; its intended audience is scholars in the field of formal grammar, especially those specializing in Romance languages. It represents the latest work on the structure of Romance languages, with relevant comparisons to other… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 222] 2001. xiv, 302 pp.
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Paul J. Hopper
A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 45] 2001. vii, 492 pp.
Functional Structure in Nominals: Nominalization and ergativity
Artemis Alexiadou
This monograph offers an in depth investigation of nominalization processes across languages e.g. Greek, Germanic, Romance, Hebrew, Slavic. Adopting and extending the view that category formation does not involve any lexical operation (recently put forth within the framework of Distributed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 42] 2001. x, 231 pp.
Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 1
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann
This is the first of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 9] 2001. xiv, 328 pp.
Grammatical Relations in Change
Edited by Jan Terje Faarlund
The eleven selected contributions making up this volume deal with grammatical relations, their coding and behavioral properties, and the change that these properties have undergone in different languages. The focus of this collection is on the changing properties of subjects and objects, although… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 56] 2001. viii, 326 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 1999 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 5] 2001. vi, 282 pp.
Hausa
Philip J. Jaggar
Hausa is a major world language, spoken as a mother tongue by more than 30 million people in northern Nigeria and southern parts of Niger, in addition to diaspora communities of traders, Muslim scholars and immigrants in urban areas of West Africa, e.g. southern Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo, and the… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 7] 2001. xxxiv, 754 pp.
Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999
Edited by Laurel J. Brinton
This is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held August 9-13, 1999, at the University of British Columbia. From the rich program and the many papers given during this conference, the present twenty-three papers were carefully selected to display… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 215] 2001. xii, 389 pp.
History of Linguistics in Spain/Historia de la Lingüística en España: Volume II
Edited by E.F.K. Koerner † and Hans-Josef Niederehe
The contributions in this volume, a sequel to the volume published in 1986 (SiHoLS 34), treat many aspects of the history of the language sciences in Spain and in Hibero-America, from the Renaissance and ‘Siglo de Oro’ to the 20th century. Most papers were published in the journal Historiographia… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 100] 2001. xxii, 463 pp.
Ideophones
Edited by F.K. Erhard Voeltz and Christa Kilian-Hatz
The present volume represents a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Ideophones held in January 1999 in St. Augustin, Germany. They center around the following hypotheses: Ideophones are universal; and constitute a grammatical category in all languages of the world;… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 44] 2001. x, 436 pp.
Input and Evidence: The raw material of second language acquisition
Susanne Elizabeth Carroll
Input and Evidence: the raw material of second language acquisition is an empirical and theoretical treatment of one of the essential components of SLA: the input to language learning mechanisms. It reviews and adds to the empirical studies showing that negative evidence (correction, feedback,… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 25] 2001. xviii, 461 pp.
Language Management and Language Problems: Part II
Edited by Björn H. Jernudd
Dedicated to Professor J. V. Neustupný, this volume offers a discussion of the development function as a source of language problems. read moreSpecial issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 11:1 (2001) vi, 100 pp.
Language and Ideology: Volume 2: descriptive cognitive approaches
Edited by René Dirven †, Roslyn M. Frank and Cornelia Ilie
Together with its sister volume on Theoretical Cognitive Approaches, this volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies. This volume shows that descriptive tools which cognitive linguistics developed for the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 205] 2001. vi, 267 pp.
Language and National Identity: Comparing France and Sweden
Leigh Oakes
This book re-examines the relationship between language and national identity. Unlike many previous studies, it employs a comparative approach: France and Sweden have been chosen as case studies both for theirsimilarities (e.g. both are member states of the European Union) as well as their… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 13] 2001. x, 305 pp.
Languages Within Language: An evolutive approach
Ivan Fónagy
There is little hope of reconstructing by means of comparative or typological studies a lingua adamica essentially different from present-day languages. The distant preverbal past is however still present in live speech. Phonetic, syntactic and semantic rule transgressions, far from being products… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 13] 2001. xiii, 828 pp.
Linguistic Approaches to Poetry
Edited by Christine Michaux and Marc Dominicy
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 15] 2001. viii, 228 pp.
Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish
Edited by Arın Bayraktaroğlu and Maria Sifianou
This volume includes 14 papers investigating politeness phenomena in Greece and Turkey, the cultural cross-roads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It reflects current research and provides observations of and findings in patterns of linguistic politeness in a geographical area other than the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 88] 2001. xiv, 435 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2001
Edited by Ton van der Wouden and Hans Broekhuis
The Minimalist Parameter: Selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21–23 March 1997
Edited by Galina M. Alexandrova and Olga Arnaudova
In view of its exploratory nature, Chomsky's 'minimalist' model has undergone multiple changes, triggering in response numerous proposals that are consistent with the tendencies that it follows or anticipates, and numerous proposals that offer alternatives to it. A good illustration of the variety… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 192] 2001. x, 360 pp.
The Motivated Sign
Edited by Olga Fischer and Max Nänny
This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999), offers a selection of papers given at the second international symposium on iconicity (Amsterdam 1999). In the light of semiotic, linguistic and literary theory the studies gathered here investigate how iconicity works on all levels of language,… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 2] 2001. xiv, 387 pp.
Multilingual Literacies: Reading and writing different worlds
Edited by Marilyn Martin-Jones and Kathryn E. Jones
The research in this unique collection lies at the interface between the fields of bilingualism and literacy. It deepens our understanding of the significance of reading and writing as social practices and opens up new lines of inquiry for research on multilingualism. The authors incorporate… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 10] 2001. xxvi, 395 pp.
Narrative Development in a Multilingual Context
Edited by Ludo Verhoeven and Sven Strömqvist
In this volume, the results of a number of empirical studies of the development of narrative construction within a multilingual context are presented and discussed. It is explored what operating principles underlie the process of narrative production in L1 and L2. Developmental relations between… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 23] 2001. viii, 430 pp.
Narrative and Identity: Studies in Autobiography, Self and Culture
Edited by Jens Brockmeier and Donal Carbaugh
How does narrative give shape and meaning to human life? And what special role do narratives play in identifying one as a person in the world? This book explores these questions from the vantage points of various human and cultural sciences, with special attention to the importance of narrative as… read more[Studies in Narrative, 1] 2001. vi, 307 pp.
Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction
Edited by Edda Weigand and Marcelo Dascal †
The topic of negotiation has turned out to be of crucial interdisciplinary interest for our understanding of what we are doing in language use. Are we exchanging meanings defined in advance and presupposing equal understanding on the basis of a rule-governed system, or are we negotiating meaning… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 214] 2001. viii, 294 pp.
New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy: In honour of Bernard Dov Spolsky
Edited by Robert L. Cooper, Elana Shohamy and Joel Walters
This formidable selection of papers reflects the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic underpinnings of the interface between language and education. Following an introduction that positions the field of educational linguistics historically and conceptually, the volume presents 15 contributions by… read more[Not in series, 104] 2001. vi, 307 pp.
Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R.M.W. Dixon and Masayuki Onishi
In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object. But there are languages in which a small set of verbs mark their subjects or their objects in an unusual way. For example, most verbs may mark their subject with nominative case, but one small set of verbs may have… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 46] 2001. xii, 364 pp.
Papers on Grammar: Volume VII
Edited by Alessandra Bertocchi, Mirka Maraldi and Anna Orlandini
[Not in series, POG 7] 2001. xii, 146 pp.
Particle Verbs and Local Domains
Jochen Zeller
This book offers a new account of particle verbs in German and Dutch by looking at the conditions under which a non-morphological structure may exhibit “word-like” properties. It shows that although particles are represented as phrasal complements of their verbs, they lack the functional structure… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 41] 2001. xii, 323 pp.
Patterns of Text: In honour of Michael Hoey
Edited by Mike Scott and Geoff Thompson †
It is increasingly clear that, in order to understand language as a phenomenon, we must understand the phenomenon of text. Our primary experience of language comes in the form of texts, which embody the complete communicative events through which our language-using lives are lived. These events are… read more[Not in series, 107] 2001. viii, 323 pp.
Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items
Edited by Jack Hoeksema, Hotze Rullmann, Víctor Sánchez-Valencia and Ton van der Wouden
Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items contains a selection of papers on the semantics, acquisition and licensing behavior of negation. Negation, being one of the prevalent features of any human language, has many facets of interest to linguists, psychologists and philosophers alike. In recent… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 40] 2001. xii, 368 pp.
Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse: A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer
Edited by István Kenesei and Robert M. Harnish
Professor Ferenc Kiefer of the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was instrumental in bringing early transformational grammar to Europe. His extensive work contributes substantially to making a connection between the grammatical theory and other areas of linguistics. The 17… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 90] 2001. xxii, 348 pp.
Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens and Britta E. Zawada
In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.e., related meanings of words form categories centering around a prototype and bearing family resemblance relations to one another. Under this polysemy = categorization view, the scope of investigation has been gradually… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 177] 2001. xxvii, 296 pp.
Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation: A relevance-theoretic approach to the language of adolescents
Gisle Andersen
This book combines theoretical work in linguistic pragmatics and sociolinguistics with empirical work based on a corpus of London adolescent conversation. It makes a general contribution to the study of pragmatic markers, as it proposes an analytical model that involves notions such as… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 84] 2001. ix, 352 pp.
The Pragmatics of Crisis
Edited by Geert Jacobs and Luuk Van Waes
Links up the field of discourse practices in and around the workplace with the notion of crisis in organizations, analyzing issues such as Y2K risk communication, product recall advertising and interaction with and within emergency rescue centers. read moreSpecial issue of Document Design 2:3 (2001) 94 pp.
Präteritumschwund und Diskursgrammatik: Präteritumschwund in gesamteuropäischen Bezügen: areale Ausbreitung, heterogene Entstehung, Parsing sowie diskursgrammatische Grundlagen und Zusammenhänge
Werner Abraham und C. Jac Conradie
This work demonstrates that what is commonly called preterite decay in Upper German (PS; cf. German Präteritumschwund) is in fact a phenomenon common to a great number of European languages, all of which are in areal con-tact. However, the conclusion that this is a phenomenon arising under areal… read more[Not in series, 103] 2001. xiv, 148 pp.
Reanimated Voices: Speech reporting in a historical-pragmatic perspective
Daniel E. Collins
Reanimated Voices addresses three activities: reporters evoking speech events; interpreters (re)constituting those speech events; and historical pragmaticians eavesdropping in time on the reporters and interpreters. Can one reconstruct aspects of pragmatic competence on the basis of written texts… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 85] 2001. xx, 380 pp.
Recent Advances in Computational Terminology
Edited by Didier Bourigault, Christian Jacquemin and Marie-Claude L'Homme
This first collection of selected articles from researchers in automatic analysis, storage, and use of terminology, and specialists in applied linguistics, computational linguistics, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence offers new insights on computational terminology. The recent… read more[Natural Language Processing, 2] 2001. xviii, 379 pp.
Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen
Edited by Marcel Bax and Jan-Wouter Zwart
In Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen, thirty-one leading language scholars and educational linguists in the Netherlands and abroad with whom over the years Professor van Essen, one of the grandees of applied linguistics, has collaborated provide original… read more[Not in series, 109] 2001. xxxiv, 366 pp.
Responding in Conversation: A study of response particles in Finnish
Marja-Leena Sorjonen
This book concerns particles that are used as responses in conversations. It provides much needed methodological tools for analyzing the use of response particles in languages, while its particular focus is Finnish. The book focuses on two Finnish particles, nii(n) and joo, which in some of their… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 70] 2001. x, 330 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1999: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 1999, Leiden, 9–11 December 1999
Edited by Yves D’hulst, Johan Rooryck and Jan Schroten
This volume brings together a selection of articles presented at 'Going Romance' 1999. The articles focus on current syntactic and semantic issues in various Romance languages, including Catalan, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and a number of Northern Italian dialects. A large number of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 221] 2001. viii, 406 pp.
Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000
Edited by Joaquim Camps and Caroline R. Wiltshire
This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, representing the areas of syntax, semantics, their interfaces, and second language acquisition. The topics addressed include movement (both wh- and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 216] 2001. xii, 246 pp.
Self-Reference and Self-Awareness
Edited by Andrew Brook and Richard C. DeVidi
Rich in precursors (Kant and Frege) and stimulated by Castañeda’s study in the logic of self-consciousness and Shoemaker’s seminal paper ‘Self-reference and self-awareness’, the work of the past thirty-five years on self-reference and self-awareness has generated a wealth of deep, sophisticated… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 30] 2001. viii, 277 pp.
Sign Transcription and Database Storage of Sign Information
Edited by Brita Bergman, Penny Boyes Braem, Thomas Hanke and Elena Antinoro Pizzuto
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 4:1/2 (2001) iv, 302
Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and practice
Edited by Mohsen Ghadessy, Alex Henry and Robert L. Roseberry
Recent developments in this field of small corpus studies, largely brought about by the personal computer, have yielded remarkable insights into the nature and use of real language. This book presents work by a number of leading researchers in the field and covers a series of topics directly… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 5] 2001. xxiv, 419 pp.
Social and Stylistic Variation in Spoken French: A comparative approach
Nigel Armstrong
Many of the assumptions of Labovian sociolinguistics are based on results drawn from US and UK English, Latin American Spanish and Canadian French. Sociolinguistic variation in the French of France has been rather little studied compared to these languages. This volume is the first examination and… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 8] 2001. x, 278 pp.
Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English
Edited by Sonja L. Lanehart
This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally. It explores the relationship between AAE and other varieties of English (namely Southern… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G27] 2001. xviii, 371 pp.
Speaking in Other Voices: An ethnography of Walloon puppet theaters
Joan Gross
Linking actual instances of language use with structures of social power in francophone Belgium, Gross outlines the history and contemporary configuration of rod puppetry in Liège. The analysis of this working class performance art moves between what occurs on and off stage. As puppeteers speak in… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 91] 2001. xxviii, 339 pp.
Studies in Interactional Linguistics
Edited by Margret Selting and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Current interactional linguistic research appears to be crystallizing around systematic themes, which are all represented in this collection of papers. In the first section, where the relation between language and interaction is viewed from the perspective of language structure, several articles… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 10] 2001. viii, 438 pp.
Syntax: An Introduction. Volume I
T. Givón
This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and… read more[Not in series, SYN 1] 2001. xviii, 500 pp.
Syntax: An Introduction. Volume II
T. Givón
This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and… read more[Not in series, SYN 2] 2001. x, 406 pp.
Syntax in the Making: The emergence of syntactic units in Finnish conversation
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
Research on the interplay between language structure and language use has shown that grammar is shaped, maintained, and modified by language use. In this view, then, grammar is not seen as existing apart from language use, but rather as a set of recurrent, grammaticized patterns of discourse. This… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 9] 2001. xiv, 175 pp.
Telicity in the Second Language
Roumyana Slabakova
The author combines a syntax-theoretical treatment of telicity marking and an empirical study of the second language acquisition of English telicity marking by native speakers of Bulgarian, a Slavic language. It is argued that Vendlers lexical classes of verbs (states, activities, accomplishments… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 26] 2001. xii, 235 pp.
Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography
Wolfgang Teubert
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6:SI (2001) iv, 170 pp.
Text Representation: Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects
Edited by Ted J.M. Sanders, Joost Schilperoord and Wilbert Spooren
This book brings together linguistics and psycholinguistics. Text representation is considered a cognitive entity: a mental construct that plays a crucial role in both text production and text understanding.The focus is on referential and relational coherence and the role of linguistic… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 8] 2001. viii, 363 pp.
The Theme–Topic Interface: Evidence from English
María de los Ángeles Gómez González
The Theme-Topic Interface (TTI) gives a useful catalogue of approaches to the concept Theme in the analysis of Natural Language. The book is written with both theoretical and descriptive goals and aims to synthesize andrevise current approaches to pragmatic functions. In addition, TTI explains that… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 71] 2001. xxiv, 434 pp.
Towards a History of Linguistics in Poland: From the early beginnings to the end of the 20th century
Edited by E.F.K. Koerner † and Aleksander Szwedek
Apart from the names of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929), Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851–1887), and, later, Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895–1978), Polish linguists and Polish linguistics generally have been little known in the West. The first two were mentioned with approval by Saussure in an unpublished… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 102] 2001. xxii, 335 pp.
Trends in Bilingual Acquisition
Edited by Jasone Cenoz and Fred Genesee
The chapters in this volume provide the first comprehensive overview of trends in research on early phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic development in children acquiring two (or more) languages simultaneously. Ongoing as well as emerging issues are examined and discussed by leading… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 1] 2001. viii, 288 pp.
The Verb in Turkish
Edited by Eser Erguvanlı Taylan
This book is a collection of articles on the properties of the verb in Turkish as the core element of clause structure, by linguists from different parts of the world. Articles present the most recent analyses on the Turkish language carried out in various theoretical orientations within the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 44] 2001. xvii, 267 pp.
Web Site Design is Communication Design
Thea M. van der Geest
Web Site Design is Communication Design is written for practitioners, trainers, and students of Communication, Business, Information Science and Media Design. This book is based on a series of case studies of web-site design processes in smaller and larger organizations, including Amazon and… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 2] 2001. viii, 165 pp.
When Listeners Talk: Response tokens and listener stance
Rod Gardner
Listeners are usually considered recipients in conversational interaction, whose main activity is to take in messages from other speakers. In this view, the listening activity is separate from speaking. Another view is that listeners and speakers are equal co-participants in conversations who… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 92] 2001. xxi, 289 pp.
Whose German?: The ach/ich alternation and related phenomena in ‘standard’ and ‘colloquial’
Orrin W. Robinson
The author addresses a number of issues in German and general phonology, using a specific problem in German phonology (the ach/ich alternation) as a springboard. These issues include especially the naturalness, or lack thereof, of the prescriptive standard in German, and the importance of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 208] 2001. xi, 169 pp.
Writing Organization: (Re)presentation and control in narratives at work
Carl Rhodes
Carl Rhodes examines the implicit power of writing and authorship that is at play when people and organisations are (re)presented in research. To explore this, the book reports a research project in the area of organisational storytelling that investigates how people in one organisation used… read more[Advances in Organization Studies, 7] 2001. xvi, 134 pp.
Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue: Studies in computational pragmatics
Edited by Harry Bunt and William Black
Language is always generated and interpreted in a certain context, and the semantic, syntactic, and lexical properties of linguistic expressions reflect this. Interactive language understanding systems, such as language-based dialogue systems, therefore have to apply contextual information to… read more[Natural Language Processing, 1] 2000. vii, 471 pp.
The Acquisition of Direct Object Scrambling and Clitic Placement: Syntax and pragmatics
Jeannette Schaeffer
This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the “real time acquisition” of grammar in First Language Acquisition Theory. It combines detailed and quantitative observations of object placement in Dutch and Italian child language with an analysis that makes use of the Modularity… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 22] 2000. xii, 187 pp.
Analysing Professional Genres
Edited by Anna Trosborg
An understanding of genres in communication (written and spoken) is essential to professional success. This volume studies situationally appropriate responses in professional communication in face-to-face interaction and distance communication, from a socio-cognitive point of view. A traditional… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 74] 2000. xvi, 255 pp.
Arguments and Case: Explaining Burzio’s Generalization
Edited by Eric J. Reuland
The ideas presented by the contributions in this volume originated in a workshop on Burzio’s generalization. Burzio’s Generalization (BG) states that a verb which does not assign an external theta-role to its subject does not assign structural accusative Case to an object and conversely. It… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 34] 2000. xii, 255 pp.
Between Grammar and Lexicon
Edited by Ellen Contini-Morava and Yishai Tobin
This volume has its origins in a theme session entitled: “Lexical and Grammatical Classification: Same or Different?” from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. It includes theme session presentations, additional papers from that conference, and several invited contributions.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 183] 2000. xxxii, 365 pp.
Bridging and Relevance
Tomoko Matsui
While it has long been taken for granted that context or background information plays a crucial role in reference assignment, there have been very few serious attempts to investigate exactly how they are used. This study provides an answer to the question through an extensive analysis of cases of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 76] 2000. xii, 247 pp.
Clitic Phenomena in European Languages
Edited by Frits Beukema and Marcel den Dikken
This book is concerned with a number of central issues in the theory of clitics, a topic that has become much debated in recent years. Mainly written within a recent generative framework, its contrastive approach discusses these issues against the background of a number of European languages, among… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 30] 2000. x, 320 pp.
Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax
Edited by Birgit Gerlach and Janet Grijzenhout
This book contains fourteen articles that reflect current ideas on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of clitics. It covers the forms and functions of clitics in various typologically diverse languages and presents data from, e.g. European Portuguese, Macedonian, and Yoruba. It extensively deals… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 36] 2000. xii, 441 pp.
Complementation: Cognitive and functional perspectives
Edited by Kaoru Horie
Complementation, i.e. predication encoded in argument slots, is well-renowned for its syntactic and semantic variability across languages. As such, it poses a tantalizing descriptive/explanatory challenge to linguists of any theoretical persuasion.Recent developments in Cognitive and… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 1] 2000. vi, 242 pp.
Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997
Edited by Ad Foolen and Frederike van der Leek
This volume contains selected papers from the 5th ICLC, Amsterdam 1997. The papers present cognitive analyses of a variety of constructions (phrasal verbs, prepositional phrases, transitivity, accusative versus dative objects, possessives, gerunds, passives, causatives, conditionals), in a variety… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 178] 2000. xvi, 338 pp.
Conversational Narrative: Storytelling in everyday talk
Neal R. Norrick
This book investigates the forms and functions of storytelling in everyday conversation. It develops a rhetoric of everyday storytelling through an integrated approach to both the internal structure and the contextual integration of narrative passages. It aims at a more complete picture of oral… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 203] 2000. xiv, 233 pp.
Corpus-based and Computational Approaches to Discourse Anaphora
Edited by Simon Philip Botley and Tony McEnery
Discourse anaphora is a challenging linguistic phenomenon that has given rise to research in fields as diverse as linguistics, computational linguistics and cognitive science. Because of the diversity of approaches these fields bring to the anaphora problem, the editors of this volume argue that… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 3] 2000. vi, 257 pp.
Cross-Linguistic Structures in Simultaneous Bilingualism
Edited by Susanne Döpke
This volume explores the implications of cross-linguistic structures in simultaneous bilingualism. It aims to find cognitive explanations for the presence or absence of cross-linguistic structures that go beyond the debate of ‘one system or two’. The contributors present syntactic, morphological… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 21] 2000. x, 258 pp.
Defining Standards and Monitoring Progress in Learning Languages other than English
Guest-edited by Catherine Elder
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 23:2 (2000) iii, 90 pp.
Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages
Edited by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh and Edgar W. Schneider
Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of “creole languages” itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical grounds? Can creolization be understood as a graded process, possibly resulting in different… read more[Creole Language Library, 22] 2000. iv, 492 pp.
The Derivation of VO and OV
Edited by Peter Svenonius
The Derivation of VO and OV takes a new look at the relationship between head-final or OV structures and head-initial or VO ones, in light of recent work by Richard Kayne and others. The various papers in the volume take different positions with respect to whether one type of structure is derived… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 31] 2000. vi, 370 pp.
The Development of Past Tense Morphology in L2 Spanish
M. Rafael Salaberry
This book presents an extended analysis of the development of L2 Spanish past tense morphology among L1 English-speaking learners. The study addresses three major questions: (1) what is the developmental pattern of acquisition of past tense verbal morphology among tutored learners? (2) what are the… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 22] 2000. xii, 210 pp.
Diachronic Pragmatics: Seven case studies in English illocutionary development
Leslie K. Arnovick
The purpose of Diachronic Pragmatics is to exemplify historical pragmatics in its twofold sense of constituting both a subject matter and a methodology. This book demonstrates how diachronic pragmatics, with its complementary diachronic function-to-form mapping and diachronic form-to-function… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 68] 2000. xii, 191 pp.
Diachronica 1984–1998: Index to Volumes I–XV
Compiled by David J. Holsinger
Since its start in 1984 the journal Diachronica has provided a forum for the presentation and discussion of information about all aspects of language change in any and all languages of the globe. This index covers the first 15 volumes, including articles, discussion notes, review articles, reviews… read more[Diachronica, 17:IND] 2000. vi, 66 pp.
Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching
Edited by Eva Alcón-Soler and Josep R. Guzman Pitarch
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 16] 2000. iv, 156 pp.
Early Years in Machine Translation: Memoirs and biographies of pioneers
Edited by John W. Hutchins
Machine translation (MT) was one of the first non-numerical applications of the computer in the 1950s and 1960s. With limited equipment and programming tools, researchers from a wide range of disciplines (electronics, linguistics, mathematics, engineering, etc.) tackled the unknown problems of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 97] 2000. xii, 400 pp.
English Media Texts – Past and Present: Language and textual structure
Edited by Friedrich Ungerer
This book is among the first to combine a historical view of media texts with a critical look at their textual diversity today. The thirteen chapters cover corpora of early news-papers and pamphlets, present-day news stories and commentaries, TV talk shows and commercials as well as internet… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 80] 2000. xiv, 286 pp.
English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course
Marjolijn H. Verspoor and Kim Sauter
English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course is designed as a 10-week course for students of English Language and Literature, Linguistics, or other language related fields. In 10 weeks the student will be proficient in English analysis at sentence, clause and phrase level and have a solid… read more[Not in series, 100] 2000. 237 pp.
Essays on Definition
Juan C. Sager
This collection of essays on definitions, from Plato and Aristotle to modern times, assembles interesting, sometimes less widely known and controversial texts. They examine the subject from the point of view of philosophy which is essential for a theory of terminology seeking to establish the… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 4] 2000. viii, 257 pp.
Events and Predication: A new approach to syntactic processing in English and Spanish
Montserrat Sanz
Studies on the syntactic consequences of event type in languages have shown that Aktionsart plays a role in Universal Grammar. This book contributes to the exploration of the syntax/semantics interface by presenting a thorough comparison of event and predicate types in English and Spanish. The… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 207] 2000. xiv, 219 pp.
Evidence for Linguistic Relativity
Edited by Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven †
This volume has arisen from the 26th International LAUD Symposium on “Humboldt and Whorf Revisited. Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis”. While contrasting two or more languages, the papers in this volume either provide empirical evidence confirming hypotheses… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 198] 2000. xxii, 240 pp.
Explorations in Linguistic Relativity
Edited by Martin Pütz and Marjolijn H. Verspoor
About a century after the year Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) was born, his theory complex is still the object of keen interest to linguists. Rencently, scholars have argued that it was not his theory complex itself, but an over-simplified, reduced section taken out of context that has become known… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 199] 2000. xvi, 369 pp.
Francisco Varo's Grammar of the Mandarin Language (1703): An English translation of ‘Arte de la lengua Mandarina’. With an Introduction by Sandra Breitenbach
W. South Coblin and Joseph A. Levi
Francisco Varo’s Arte de la Lengua Mandarina, completed ca. 1680, is the earliest published grammar of any spoken form of Chinese and the fullest known description of the standard language of the seventeenth century. It establishes beyond doubt that this “Language of the Mandarins” was not… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 93] 2000. liv, 282 pp.
Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition: Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb
Edited by David G. Lockwood, Peter H. Fries and James E. Copeland
This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors range from cognitive approaches including Stratificational grammar to more socially oriented ones including Systemic Functional linguistics.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 163] 2000. xxxiv, 656 pp.
Getting Acquainted in Conversation: A study of initial interactions
Jan Svennevig
What makes a ‘getting acquainted’ a recognizable conversational activity, and how are interpersonal relationships established in a first conversation? This book presents a theoretical framework for the study of relationship management in conversation and an empirical study of a corpus of initial… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 64] 2000. x, 383 pp.
Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase. with a Foreword by Frans Plank (Universität Konstanz)
Edited by Viktor Elšík and Yaron Matras
This is the first typologically-oriented collection on Romani that is devoted to a particular thematic domain — that of noun phrase grammar. The approach taken is unique in that it places this typologically hybrid language in the centre of a general linguistic, universal discussion of the relevant… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 211] 2000. x, 245 pp.
Grammaticalization: Studies in Latin and Romance morphosyntax
Jurgen Klausenburger
In this monograph, various aspects of the morphosyntactic evolution of the Romance languages are shown to interact in a theory of grammaticalization. The study argues for the incorporation and subordination of inflectional morphology within a grammaticalization continuum, constituting but a portion… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 193] 2000. xiii, 183 pp.
Grammaticization, Synchronic Variation, and Language Contact: A study of Spanish progressive -ndo constructions
Rena Torres Cacoullos
This study of Old Spanish and present-day Mexico and New Mexico data develops a grammaticization account of variation in progressive constructions. Diachronic changes in cooccurrence patterns show that grammaticization involves reductive change driven by frequency increases. Formal reduction… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 52] 2000. xvi, 252 pp.
Greek and Indo-European Etymology in Action: Proto-Indo-European *aǵ-
Raimo Anttila
This study resurrects the genre of Wortstudien contributions or lexilogus treatments, the core of historical lexical semantics. Such studies used to be quite popular, and interest in lexical matters is again rising. The word family around the Indo-European root *aǵ- ‘drive’ is placed against its… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 200] 2000. xii, 314 pp.
Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse
Esam N. Khalil
Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse explores the discourse notion of grounding (viz. the foreground-background structure), and examines it in the various structures that occur in short news texts. A text-level approach to grounding and the differentiation between several core concepts… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 82] 2000. x, 274 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 1998 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 4] 2000. vi, 342 pp.
Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages.. Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995
Edited by John Charles Smith and Delia Bentley
This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance, Slavonic, Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European. A second volume, edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, contains papers on Germanic.read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 161] 2000. xii, 438 pp.
Historiographia Linguistica 1973–1998: Indexes to Volumes I–XXV
Compiled by E.F.K. Koerner †
This index provides an important and useful tool to access the contents of the 25 volumes of Historiographia Linguistica that have appeared in print from the journals foundation in 1973 until 1998. The index consists of four parts. Part I offers the complete tables of contents of all issues; Part… read more[Historiographia Linguistica, 27:IND] 2000. x, 230 pp.
History and Perspectives of Language Study: Papers in honor of Ranko Bugarski. .
Edited by Olga Mišeska Tomić and Milorad Radovanović
Each of the contributions in this volume expresses in some way the hope that it is possible to achieve an integrity of linguistics, understood as a science of man, in its psychological, sociological, pragmatic and cultural context. The first section focuses on the history of language study, the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 186] 2000. xxi, 305 pp.
A History of English Reflexive Pronouns: Person, Self, and Interpretability
Elly van Gelderen
This book brings together a number of seemingly distinct phenomena in the history of English: the introduction of special reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself), the loss of verbal agreement and pro-drop, and the disappearance of morphological Case. It provides vast numbers of examples from Old and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 39] 2000. xiv, 277 pp.
Hypothetical Modality: Grammaticalisation in an L2 dialect
Debra Ziegeler
This book marks a new development in the field of grammaticalisation studies, in that it extends the field of grammaticalisation studies from relatively homogeneous languages to those possessing well-established and institutionalised second language varieties. In Hypothetical Modality, special… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 51] 2000. xx, 287 pp.
Ideology, Politics and Language Policies: Focus on English
Edited by Thomas Ricento
This volume critically examines the effects of the spread of English from colonialism to the ‘New World Order’. The research explores the complex and often contradictory roles English has played in national development. Historical analyses and case studies by leading researchers in language policy… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 6] 2000. x, 197 pp.
Introducing Sociolinguistics
Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap
FOR SALE IN U.S. AND CANADA ONLY. FOR SALES IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES, PLEASE CONTACT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS. Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern linguistics and deals with the place of language in human societies. This introductory textbook expertly synthesizes the main… read more[Not in series, 102 (1st)] 2000. 528 pp.
Japanese Term Extraction
Kyo Kageura and Teruo Koyama
The product of a workshop on Automatic Term Recognition (ATR), which focused on the conceptual aspects of ATR. read moreSpecial issue of Terminology 6:2 (2000)
Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar
David Lebeaux
Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar attempts to re-think the ideal organization of the grammar, given its need to be learned. The book proposes a fundamental connection between the form of the adult grammar and the sequence of grammars which the child adopts in first language… read more[Not in series, 97] 2000. xxx, 277 pp.
Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles
Edited by John H. McWhorter
This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly… read more[Creole Language Library, 21] 2000. vii, 503 pp.
Language History: An introduction
Andrew L. Sihler
This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as prime subject or as background information, it should help students understand the assumptions and reasoning that underlie the contents of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 191] 2000. xvi, 298 pp.
Language Management and Language Problems: Part I
Edited by Björn H. Jernudd
Dedicated to Professor J. V. Neustupný, these papers discuss communicative, symbolic, social and entertainment functions of language as sources of language problems. read moreSpecial issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 10:2 (2000) 142 pp.
Language Policy and Pedagogy: Essays in honor of A. Ronald Walton
Edited by Richard D. Lambert and Elana Shohamy
In this memorial volume for A. Ronald Walton, cutting-edge scholars interrelate two normally separate domains: the formation of language policy and the improvement of language teaching. Bernard Spolsky, Elana Shohamy, Joshua Fishman, and Kees de Bot address theoretical aspects of national language… read more[Not in series, 96] 2000. xii, 279 pp.
Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script
Gabrielle Vail and Martha J. Macri
The geographic and temporal range of the Maya Hieroglyphic script, found in over 2,000 texts spanning 1,300 years, suggests that the texts may record more that one language or dialect. This collection results from a symposium at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,… read moreSpecial issue of Written Language & Literacy 3:1 (2000) 198 pp.
Letter Writing as a Social Practice
Edited by David Barton and Nigel Hall
This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life. More broadly, the… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 9] 2000. vi, 262 pp.
The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing: A Prince Edward Island French case study
Ruth King
This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 14 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 209] 2000. xvi, 241 pp.
Lexical Specification and Insertion
Edited by Peter Coopmans, Martin B.H. Everaert and Jane Grimshaw
The papers in this volume address the general question what type of lexical specifications we need in a generative grammar and by what principles this information is projected onto syntactic configurations, or to put it differently, how lexical insertion is executed. Many of the contributions focus… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 197] 2000. xviii, 467 pp.
Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998
Edited by Julie Coleman and Christian Kay
The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic change and lexical innovation, interpreted within a sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. Many of the papers draw on the remarkable… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 194] 2000. xiv, 249 pp.
The Light Verb Construction in Japanese: The role of the verbal noun
Tadao Miyamoto
This study deals with the so-called Light Verb Construction in Japanese, which consists of the verb “suru” do and an accusative (“o”) marked verbal noun (VN). There have been unresolved debates on the role of “suru”: whether “suru” in “VN-o suru” functions as a light or heavy verb. The previous… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 29] 2000. xiv, 232 pp.
Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and modern theories of language
John E. Joseph
The idea that some aspects of language are ‘natural’, while others are arbitrary, artificial or derived, runs all through modern linguistics, from Chomsky’s GB theory and Minimalist program and his concept of E- and I-language, to Greenberg’s search for linguistic universals, Pinker’s views on… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 96] 2000. x, 224 pp.
Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay: A contrastive study of requests and apologies
Rosina Márquez Reiter
The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 83] 2000. xviii, 225 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2000
Edited by Helen de Hoop and Ton van der Wouden
Literature as Communication: The foundations of mediating criticism
Roger D. Sell
This book offers foundations for a literary criticism which seeks to mediate between writers and readers belonging to different historical periods or social groupings. This makes it, among other things, a timely intervention in the postmodern “culture wars”, though the theory put forward will be of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 78] 2000. xiv, 348 pp.
Local Educational Order: Ethnomethodological studies of knowledge in action
Edited by Stephen K. Hester and David Francis
The studies in this book take an ethnomethodological approach to educational phenomena. Ethnomethodology’s concern is with the locally accomplished and situated character of social order. With reference toeducational phenomena, this means that ethnomethodology investigates how the ‘natural facts’… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 73] 2000. viii, 322 pp.
Metarepresentation: A relevance-theory approach
Eun-Ju Noh
Eun-Ju Noh’s book provides a close look at linguistic metarepresentation showing how beliefs, utterances, and propositions are represented and how they are inferred. The author explains how metarepresentation works in various types of uses: quotations, negation, echo questions, and conditionals in… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 69] 2000. xii, 242 pp.
Middle Voice in Modern Greek: Meaning and function of an inflectional category
Linda Joyce Manney
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the inflectional middle category in Modern Greek. Against the theoretical backdrop of cognitive linguistics, it is argued that a wide range of seemingly disparate middle structures in Modern Greek comprise a complex semantic network, and that this network… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 48] 2000. xiii, 276 pp.
Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Johan van der Auwera and Patrick Dendale
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 14] 2000. vi, 264 pp.
Morphological Analysis in Comparison
Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer, Markus A. Pöchtrager and John R. Rennison
This volume consists of selected and revised papers from the Seventh International Morphology Meeting, held in 1996 in Vienna. It presents advances in morphological theorizing, such as the foundations of sign-based morphology, the morphology-syntax interface, the boundaries between compounding and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 201] 2000. x, 261 pp.
Narrative Identity
Michael Bamberg and Allyssa McCabe
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 10:1 (2000) 265 pp.
New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance historical linguistics
Edited by Steven N. Dworkin and Dieter Wanner
This volume contains revised versions of thirteen of the papers presented at the parasession, “New Solutions to Old Problems: Issues in Romance Historical Linguistics”, held as part of the 29th Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages (1999). These studies examine specific problems in Romance… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 210] 2000. xiv, 235 pp.
New Zealand English
Edited by Allan Bell and Koenraad Kuiper
New Zealand English is currently one of the most researched varieties of English world-wide. This book presents an up-to-date account of all the major aspects of New Zealand English by leading scholars as well as younger specialists in each of the major fields of enquiry. The book is authoritative… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G25] 2000. 368 pp.
The Organizing Property of Communication
François Cooren
What is an organization? What are the building blocks that ultimately constitute this social form, so pervasive in our daily life? Like Augustine facing the problem of time, we all know what an organization is, but we seem unable to explain it. This book brings an original answer by mobilizing… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 65] 2000. xvi, 272 pp.
Papers on Rhetoric: Volume III
Edited by Lucia Calboli Montefusco
[Not in series, POR 3] 2000. viii, 282 pp.
Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English
Edited by Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein
There is a continual growth of interest among linguists of all-theoretical denominations in grammaticalization, a concept central to many linguistic (change) theories. However, the discussion of grammaticalization processes has often suffered from a shortage of concrete empirical studies from one… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 53] 2000. x, 391 pp.
Pattern Grammar: A corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English
Susan Hunston and Gill Francis
This book describes an approach to lexis and grammar based on the concept of phraseology and of language patterning arising from work on large corpora. The notion of 'pattern' as a systematic way of dealing with the interface between lexis and grammar was used in Collins Cobuild English Dictionary… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 4] 2000. xiv, 288 pp.
Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy
Edited by Lori Repetti
These articles provide new explorations into phonological patterns attested in the minor Romance languages (‘dialects’) spoken in Italy. The goal of this book is both theoretical and empirical. First, it aims to introduce non-Italianists to the phonological structures of the Italian dialects,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 212] 2000. x, 301 pp.
Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude
Edited by Gisle Andersen and Thorstein Fretheim
In interactive discourse we not only express propositions, but we also express different attitudes to them. That is, we communicate how our mind entertains those propositions that we express. A speaker is able to express an attitude of belief, desire, hope, doubt, fear, regret or pretence that a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 79] 2000. viii, 269 pp.
Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition
Sophia Marmaridou
This book provides a good overview of philosophical and cognitive approaches to language use and meaning. A synthesis of such approaches leads to a dynamic concept of pragmatic meaning which is on the one hand grounded in cognition and motivated by linguistic and cultural convention and, on the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 72] 2000. xii, 322 pp.
Pragmatics in Speech and Language Pathology: Studies in clinical applications
Edited by Nicole Müller
The selected contributions in this volume bring together applications of pragmatics in speech and language pathology, as well as discussions of the applicability of different theoretical strands of the study of human linguistic interaction and its cognitive bases to the field of communication… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 7] 2000. viii, 173 pp.
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Volume II: Selected papers from RANLP ’97
Edited by Nicolas Nicolov and Ruslan Mitkov
This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the Second International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP’97) held in Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 1997. The aim of the conference was to give researchers the opportunity to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 189] 2000. xi, 422 pp.
Reciprocals: Forms and functions. Volume 2
Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Traci Walker
The theoretical issues addressed in the present volume are semantic and cognitive properties of reciprocal events, syntactic properties of reciprocals, and the relationship of reciprocals to other grammatical categories. Several papers discuss the history of reciprocal constructions, offering… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 41] 2000. xii, 201 pp.
Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization
Edited by Spike Gildea
Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both. The methods and goals of each group seem largely distinct: comparative linguists have by and large avoided reconstructing grammar, while… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 43] 2000. xiv, 267 pp.
Reflexives: Forms and functions. Volume 1
Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Traci Walker
The importance of reflexive markers in the study of language structure cannot be underestimated: they participate in the coding of the argument structure of a clause; in the coding of semantic relations between arguments and verbs; in the coding of the relationship between arguments; in the coding… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 40] 2000. xiv, 286 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 13 (2000)
Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers
[Reinardus, 13] 2000. viii, 278 pp.
Research in Afroasiatic Grammar: Papers from the Third conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis, 1996
Edited by Jacqueline Lecarme, Jean Lowenstamm and Ur Shlonsky
This volume presents a selection of papers from the 3rd Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1996. The languages discussed include (varieties of) Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, Chaha, Wolof, and Old Egyptian. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 202] 2000. vi, 386 pp.
Right Node Raising and Gapping: Interface conditions on prosodic deletion
Katharina Hartmann
This book investigates two elliptical coordinations in German, Right Node Raising and Gapping. Ellipsis in both constructions is claimed to be the result of a phonological process which is conditioned by prosodic and focus semantic constraints. It is convincingly argued that Right Node Raising… read more[Not in series, 106] 2000. xiv, 190 pp.
The Second Time Around – Minimalism and L2 Acquisition
Julia Herschensohn
Linking recent advances in theoretical syntax and empirical research in language development, the book claims that second language acquisition is not totally distinct from first language acquisition, but rather is a replay, a relearning of language. It argues that Universal Grammar is a template… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 21] 2000. xiv, 287 pp.
Sign Language in Indo-Pakistan: A description of a signed language
Ulrike Zeshan
To find a suitable framework for the description of a previously undocumented language is all the more challenging in the case of a signed language. In this book, for the first time, an indigenous Asian sign language used in deaf communities in India and Pakistan is described on all linguistically… read more[Not in series, 101] 2000. xii, 178 pp.
Sound Mutations: The morphophonology of Chaha
Degif Petros Banksira
This monograph, which evolved from the first linguistic dissertation to be written on Chaha (an Ethiopian Semitic language), is also the first book to deal exclusively with the phonology and morphology of the language. It is an exhaustive description and analysis, by a native speaker, of the sound… read more[Not in series, 93] 2000. xxxii, 332 pp.
Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time
Edited by Rosanna Sornicola, Erich Poppe and Ariel Shisha-Halevy
The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories. The interest in this theme has been revamped by contemporary research in typology with its emphasis on correlation or ‘harmonies’ of structures of word-order as… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 213] 2000. xxxii, 323 pp.
The Structure of Modern English: A linguistic introduction
Laurel J. Brinton
The Structure of Modern English is an extensive introduction to all aspects of Modern English structure, including:PhonologyMorphologyLexical and sentence semanticsSyntaxPragmaticsThis text is for advanced undergraduate (and graduate) students interested in contemporary English, especially those… read more[Not in series, 94] 2000. xxii, 335 pp. (incl. workbook on CD-rom)
The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue II
Edited by M. Martin Taylor, Françoise Néel and Don Bouwhuis
Most dialogues are multimodal. When people talk, they use not only their voices, but also facial expressions and other gestures, and perhaps even touch. When computers communicate with people, they use pictures and perhaps sounds, together with textual language, and when people communicate with… read more[Not in series, 99] 2000. xviii, 522 pp.
Students Writing in the University: Cultural and epistemological issues
Edited by Carys Jones, Joan Turner and Brian Street
This volume aims to raise awareness of the underlying complexities concerning student writing in the universities. The authors address a series of theoretical as well as practical questions regarding the literacies required of students in Higher Education, from the perspective of both students… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 8] 2000. xxiv, 232 pp.
Syntactic Aspects of Topic and Comment
André Meinunger
The book focuses on the syntactic behavior of argument noun phrases depending on their discourse status. The main language of consideration is German, but it is shown that the observations can be carried over to other languages. The claim is that discourse-new arguments remain inside the VP where… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 38] 2000. xii, 245 pp.
The Syntax of Relative Clauses
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Paul Law, André Meinunger and Chris Wilder
This book presents a cross-section of recent generative research into the syntax of relative clauses constructions. Most of the papers collected here react in some way to Kayne’s (1994) proposal to handle relative clauses in terms of determiner complementation and raising of the relativized nominal. read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 32] 2000. vi, 395 pp.
Terminology and Language Planning: An alternative framework of practice and discourse
Bassey E. Antia
Changing socio-political landscapes, the dynamics of glocalisation, among other factors, are spawning new policy attitudes towards multilingualism, and again putting language planning (LP) on the map in a manner reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. With respect to terminology, this book suggests… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 2] 2000. xxiv, 264 pp.
Textual Parameters in Older Languages
Edited by Susan C. Herring, Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler
Textual Parameters in Older Languages takes a contemporary approach to the inherent limitations of using older texts as data for linguistic analysis, drawing on methods of text analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to supplement traditional historical and philological methods. The focus of the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 195] 2000. x, 448 pp.
A Theory of Syntax for Systemic Functional Linguistics
Robin P. Fawcett
This book describes and evaluates alternative approaches within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to representing the structure of language at the level of form. It assumes no prior knowledge of SFL, and can therefore be read as an introduction to current issues within the theory. It will… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 206] 2000. xxviii, 360 pp.
Towards New Ways of Terminology Description: The sociocognitive approach
Rita Temmerman
Based on an empirical study of categorisation and lexicalisation processes in a corpus of scientific publications on the life sciences, Rita Temmerman questions the validity of traditional terminology theory. Her findings are that the traditional approach impedes a pragmatic and realistic… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 3] 2000. xv, 258 pp.
Wh-Movement and the Theory of Feature-Checking
Andrew Simpson
Wh-movement and the theory of feature-checking argues that cross-linguistic variation in wh-constructions reduces to the availability of different lexical instantiations of a +wh C0 both across languages and within a single language, and the way in which such lexical elements are syntactically… read more[Not in series, 98] 2000. xii, 244 pp.
Wh-Scope Marking
Edited by Uli Lutz, Gereon Müller and Arnim von Stechow
This volume is the first comprehensive overview of the syntax and semantics of wh-scope marking. Wh-scope marking constructions have recently received a lot of attention; their very existence and their intricate properties have important consequences for syntax, semantics, and the syntax–semantics… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 37] 2000. vi, 483 pp.
Why We Curse: A neuro-psycho-social theory of speech
Timothy Jay
Psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, linguists and speech pathologists currently have no coherent theory to explain why we curse and why we choose the words we do when we curse. The Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Speech draws together information about cursing from different disciplines and… read more[Not in series, 91] 2000. xv, 328 pp.
Word Order Change in Icelandic: From OV to VO
Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patterns. In this volume, the author both examines the various VP-word order patterns from a descriptive and statistical point of view and provides… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 35] 2000. xiv, 385 pp.
Word Order in Hungarian: The syntax of Ā-positions
Genoveva Puskás
Hungarian word-order is characterized by large scale preposing of constituents to sentence-initial positions. This study examines systematically the elements which occur in the left periphery. Focal, wh- and negative operators which have scope over the whole sentence must appear in the left… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 33] 2000. xvi, 396 pp.
Word Order, Agreement and Pronominalization in Standard and Palestinian Arabic
Mohammad A. Mohammad
The two related issues of word order, and subject-verb agreement have occupied center stage in the study of Arabic syntax since the time of Sibawayhi in the eighth century. This book is a contribution to both of these areas. It is grounded within the generative grammar framework in one of its most… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 181] 2000. xvi, 189 pp.
Writing in Nonstandard English
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta
This book investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use from standard to nonstandard. In our view, these notions can only be established through mutual definition, and they cannot exist without the opposite pole. What is considered standard English changes according to… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 67] 2000. viii, 403 pp.
The Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language
Edited by Kazue Kanno
This book marks the first-ever collection of papers in English on the acquisition of Japanese as a second language. Its overarching goal is to broaden and deepen the field of SLA research by focusing on Japanese rather than on more commonly studied European languages. Broad in scope and eclectic in… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 20] 1999. xii, 180 pp.
Analyse Lexicale et Syntaxique: Le système INTEX
Edited by Cédrick Fairon
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 22:1/2 (1999) v, 449 pp.
Animacy and Reference: A cognitive approach to corpus linguistics
Mutsumi Yamamoto
The concept of ‘animacy’ concerns the fundamental and cognitive question of the extent to which we recognize and express living things as saliently human-like or animal-like.In Animacy and Reference Mutsumi Yamamoto pursues two main objectives: First, to establish a conceptual framework of animacy,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 46] 1999. xviii, 278 pp.
Bibliografía Nebrisense: Las obras completas del humanista Antonio de Nebrija desde 1481 hasta nuestros días
Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres and Hans-Josef Niederehe
The Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522) is the author of an impressive body of scientific work which comprises a broad spectrum of humanistic knowledge. While the languages dealt with by Nebrija include not only Latin and Spanish, but the most prominent Romance languages, his… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 90] 1999. vi, 374 pp.
Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax
Edited by Lunella Mereu
The volume collects a selection of papers presented at a European Colloquium held at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in October 1997. It focuses on phenomena at the boundary between morphology and syntax, and provides analyses for data from the fields of both inflectional and derivational… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 180] 1999. viii, 312 pp.
Chinese Dialect Classification: A comparative approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu
Richard VanNess Simmons
This volume is an investigation and classification of dialects along the Wu and Jiang-Hwai Mandarin border in China's eastern Yangtze Valley. It is the first monograph-length study to critically question the traditional single criterion of initial voicing for the classification of Wu dialects and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 188] 1999. xviii, 317 pp.
The Clause in English: In honour of Rodney Huddleston
Edited by Peter Collins and David Lee
The focus in this volume is on grammatical aspects of the clause in English, presenting a fine balance between theoretically- and descriptively-oriented approaches. Some authors investigate the status and properties of ‘minor’ or ‘fringe’ constructions, including ‘deictic-presentationals’;… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 45] 1999. xxii, 327 pp.
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics
René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 1 (1999)] 1999. xiv, 300 pp.
Cognitive Semantics: Meaning and cognition
Edited by Jens Allwood and Peter Gärdenfors
Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic traditions. Cognitive semantics, the latest of the major trends which have dominated the century, attempts to do this by focusing on meaning… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 55] 1999. x, 201 pp.
Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create it and how to describe it. Selected papers from the International Workshop on Coherence, Augsburg, 24-27 April 1997
Edited by Wolfram Bublitz, Uta Lenk and Eija Ventola
Until very recently, coherence (unlike cohesion) was widely held to be a ‘rather mystical notion’. However, taking account of new trends representing a considerable shift in orientation, this volume aims at helping relieve coherence of its mystifying aura. The general bibliography which concludes… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 63] 1999. xiv, 300 pp.
Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English
Edited by Laurel J. Brinton and Minoji Akimoto
The focus of this carefully selected volume concerns the existence, frequency, and form of composite/complex predicates (the “take a look” construction) in earlier periods of the English language, an area of scholarship which has been virtually neglected. The various contributions seek to… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 47] 1999. xiv, 283 pp.
Control in Grammar and Pragmatics: A cross-linguistic study
Rudolf Růžička
The claim that “…pronominals have phonological features only where they must, for some reason”, is strongly supported by the occurrence of the null pronoun PRO as coined and introduced by Noam Chomsky. How reference of PRO is determined is the main subject of control theory, the subsystem of core… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 27] 1999. x, 206 pp.
Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato
Edited by John R. Rickford and Suzanne Romaine
This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951–1996) brings together contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three primary areas: Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development; Attitudes and Education, and Creole Discourse and Literature. The varieties covered come… read more[Creole Language Library, 20] 1999. viii, 418 pp.
Crossing Boundaries: Advances in the theory of Central and Eastern European languages
Edited by István Kenesei
The book contains eleven articles on theoretical problems in Albanian, Hungarian, Polish, (Old) Russian, Romanian, and the South Slavic languages of Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian. They cover topics such as clitics, head and phrasal movement, the structure of the DP, and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 182] 1999. viii, 302 pp.
Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995
Edited by Masako K. Hiraga, Chris Sinha and Sherman Wilcox
Cognitive linguistics is nothing if not an interdisciplinary and comparative enterprise. This collection addresses both the implications OF and the implications FOR cognitive linguistics of psycholinguistic, computational, neuroscientific, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research.read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 152] 1999. vii, 338 pp.
Demonstratives: Form, function and grammaticalization
Holger Diessel
All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 42] 1999. xii, 205 pp.
The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory
Edited by Ben Hermans and Marc van Oostendorp
Constraint-based frameworks such as Optimality Theory (OT) have significantly altered phonologists' views on the nature of derivations and their role in linguistic theory. Earlier frameworks of generative phonology were characterized by a fairly complicated theory of derivations, involving lexical… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 28] 1999. viii, 321 pp.
The Development of Second Language Grammars: A generative approach
Edited by Elaine C. Klein and Gita Martohardjono
This volume is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in generative studies of second language (L2) acquisition bringing together an unusually broad range of interests and inquiry. Selected papers report on controlled experimental studies within specific areas of research investigating the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 18] 1999. vi, 428 pp.
Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, July 1997
Edited by Karen Van Hoek, Andrej A. Kibrik and Leo Noordman
This volume presents selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference within the area of discourse analysis.The topics addressed include pronominal anaphora in English and Russian narratives, the subtleties of the definite article in English and Spanish, the use of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 176] 1999. vi, 187 pp.
The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner. Volume 1: Historiographical perspectives
Edited by Sheila Embleton, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe
Although it is widely thought that structural linguistics began abruptly with the publication of Saussure's 'revolutionary' Course in General Linguistics, the work of E. F. K. Koerner has demonstrated that Saussure, for all his originality, remained true to the basic tenets of his 19th-century… read more[Not in series, EMLS 1] 1999. lvi, 310 pp.
The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner. Volume 2: Methodological perspectives and applications
Edited by Sheila Embleton, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe
Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of… read more[Not in series, EMLS 2] 1999. lvi, 335 pp.
Exploring the Role of Morphology in the Evolution of Spanish
Joel Rini
After a brief survey of the perception of morphological change in the standard works of the Hispanic tradition in the 20th century, the author first attempts to refine concepts such as analogy, leveling, blending, contamination, etc. as they have been applied to Spanish. He then revisits difficult… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 179] 1999. xvi, 187 pp.
External Possession
Edited by Doris L. Payne and Immanuel Barshi
External Possession Constructions (EPCs) are found in nearly all parts of the world and across widely divergent language families. The data-rich papers in this first-ever volume on EPCs document their typological variability, explore diachronic reasons for variations, and investigate their… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 39] 1999. ix, 573 pp.
Form Miming Meaning
Edited by Max Nänny and Olga Fischer
The recent past has seen an increasing interest in iconicity especially among linguists. This collection puts the interdisciplinary study of iconic dimensions (comprising what has been termed ‘imagic iconicity’, as well as ‘diagrammatic iconicity’, i.e. iconicity of a more abstract and less… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 1] 1999. xxxvi, 443 pp.
Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 28th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVIII), University Park, 16–19 April 1998
Edited by Jean-Marc Authier, Barbara E. Bullock and Lisa A. Reed
This volume presents current research in the formal treatment of linguistic phenomena in the Romance languages. It focuses on a variety of issues in phonology, second language acquisition, semantics, and syntax. Topics in phonological theory include the analysis of geminates, assimilation, rhotics,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 185] 1999. xii, 334 pp.
A French-English Grammar: A contrastive grammar on translational principles
Morris Salkoff
In this contrastive French-English grammar, the comparisons between French structures and their English equivalents are formulated as rules which associate a French schema (of a particular grammatical structure) with its translation into an equivalent English schema. The grammar contains all the… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 22] 1999. xvi, 342 pp.
Function and Structure: In honor of Susumu Kuno
Edited by Akio Kamio and Ken-ichi Takami
This collection of papers on functional syntax shows the development of a specific stream of functional linguistics initiated by Susumu Kuno of Harvard University. Inspired by Prague School linguists such as Jan Firbas and Vilém Mathesius, Kuno developed a more comprehensive and theory-oriented… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 59] 1999. x, 398 pp.
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers
Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley
The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches – functionalists and formalists – in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 41] 1999. vi, 514 pp.
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume II: Case studies
Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley
The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 42] 1999. vi, 407 pp.
Ghanaian Pidgin English in its West African Context: A sociohistorical and structural analysis
Magnus Huber
This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPEs structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G24] 1999. xviii, 322 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
The Grammar of Focus
Edited by Georges Rebuschi and Laurice Tuller
The grammar of focus has been studied in generative grammar from its inception. It has been the subject of intense, detailed cross-linguistic investigation for over 20 years, particularly within the Principles and Parameters framework. It is appropriate at this point, therefore, to take stock.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 24] 1999. vi, 366 pp.
Grammatical Analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics: Papers in honor of Mario Saltarelli
Edited by Jon A. Franco, Alazne Landa and Juan Martín
This volume contains fifteen articles on current theoretical issues in Basque and Romance linguistics. Even though Basque and Romance languages are typologically different and have different genetic origins, one thousand years of coexistence have shown certain parallelisms in their respective… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 187] 1999. viii, 306 pp.
Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: Volume 1
Edited by Dennis R. Preston
Perceptual dialectology investigates what ordinary people (as opposed to professional linguists) believe about the distribution of language varieties in their own and surrounding speech communities and how they have arrived at and implement those beliefs. It studies the beliefs of the common folk… read more[Not in series, HPD 1] 1999. xl, 413 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 1997 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 3] 1999. 297 pp.
Historical Dialogue Analysis
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Gerd Fritz and Franz Lebsanft
Historical dialogue analysis is a new branch of historical pragmatics. The papers of this interdisciplinary volume contribute to charting the developing field by presenting a survey of recent research from the different traditions of English, German and Romance language studies. Both the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 66] 1999. viii, 478 pp.
History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 1: Traditions in Linguistics Worldwide
Edited by David Cram, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak
The papers in this volume present a colourful picture of the range of research currently being undertaken in the field of the history of linguistics, with contribution both from established scholars and from younger researchers. The volume is organised on a geographical basis, with sections devoted… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 94] 1999. xx, 341 pp.
History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics
Edited by David Cram, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak
This volume contains papers on linguistic historiography ranging chronologically from ancient Greece to the present, and covering philosophical, social and political aspects of language as well as the study of grammar in the narrow sense. The work opens with the report on a round-table discussion… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 95] 1999. xx, 390 pp.
Images of Language: Six essays on German attitudes to European languages from 1500 to 1800
William Jervis Jones
This volume consists of six essays on interrelated themes, focusing on key aspects of language reflection during the period 1500-1800, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century. German speakers are seen attempting to discover and define the nature of adjacent languages, whilst also… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 89] 1999. x, 299 pp.
Intercultural Education and Literacy: An ethnographic study of indigenous knowledge and learning in the Peruvian Amazon
Sheila Aikman
Indigenous peoples around the world are calling for control over their education in order to reaffirm their identities and defend their rights. In Latin America the indigenous peoples, national governments and international organisations have identified intercultural education as a means of… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 7] 1999. xx, 232 pp.
Issues in Mathematical Linguistics: Workshop on Mathematical Linguistics, State College, PA, April 1998
Edited by Carlos Martín-Vide
This brief collection of refereed papers approaches several technical as well as methodological aspects of the mathematical formalization of natural language, particularly in syntax and in semantics. Such kind of investigation is a prerequisite for the computational processing of language and is… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 47] 1999. xii, 214 pp.
Issues in Morphosyntax
Peter Ackema
Of particular interest to morphologists and syntacticians Issues in Morphosyntax aims to contribute to the discussion on the question whether there exists a separate morphological module in the grammar, distinct from the other modules, with special focus on the connection of morphology with syntax.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 26] 1999. viii, 310 pp.
Issues in Phonological Structure: Papers from an International Workshop
Edited by S.J. Hannahs and Mike Davenport
This volume contains revised, expanded and updated versions of papers originally presented at the International Workshop on Phonological Structure held at the University of Durham in September 1994. As the title suggests, the contributions focus on aspects of phonological structure, both segment… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 196] 1999. xii, 268 pp.
The Japanese Mental Lexicon: Psycholinguistic Studies of Kana and Kanji processing
Joseph F. Kess and Tadao Miyamoto
This book surveys the psycholinguistic dimensions of lexical access to the mental lexicon in Japanese, and attempts to synthesize the diversity of Japanese psycholinguistic research into the nature of written word processing in Japanese. Ten chapters focus on the nature of such psycholinguistic… read more[Not in series, 95] 1999. x, 268 pp.
Learning a Second Language through Interaction
Rod Ellis
This book examines different theoretical perspectives on the role that interaction plays in second language acquisition. The principal perspectives are those afforded by the Interaction Hypothesis, Socio-Cultural Theory and the Levels of Processing model. Interaction is, therefore, defined broadly;… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 17] 1999. x, 285 pp.
Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning: Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995
Edited by Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Kee Dong Lee and Eve Sweetser
The basic tenet of cognitive linguistics is that every linguistic expression is a construal relation. The first section of this volume focuses on issues of such construal and presentation of information, including figure-ground relations, image-schematic structures, and the role of syntactic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 150] 1999. xii, 454 pp.
Linguistic Attractors: The cognitive dynamics of language acquisition and change
David L. Cooper
The interdisciplinary linguistic attractor model portrays language processing as linked sequences of fractal sets, and examines the changing dynamics of such sets for individuals as well as the speech community they comprise. Its motivation stems from human anatomic constraints and several… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 2] 1999. xv, 375 pp.
Linguistic Historiography: Projects & prospects
E.F.K. Koerner †
The present volume brings together the author's most recent thinking on the tasks and methods of linguistic historiography and his critical assessment of the legacy of a number of major 20th-century scholars. Some of the chapters are revisions of previously published articles, which together with… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 92] 1999. x, 236 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1999
Edited by Renée van Bezooijen and René Kager
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the thirtieth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on February, 6, 1998. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. At… read more
Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997
Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Gerard J. Steen
This book contains a selection of refereed and revised papers originally presented at the 5th ICLC. After an introduction by the editors, the book opens with a long-needed chapter on historical precedents for the Cognitive Linguistic theory of metaphor. Two chapters demonstrate the method of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 175] 1999. viii, 226 pp.
Morphology-Driven Syntax: A theory of V to I raising and pro-drop
Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher
This book argues that syntactic parameters are set in a principled fashion on the basis of overt functional morphology. The main focus of the book is on the different positions of the finite verb in the Germanic SVO languages. In addition, other syntactic phenomena (null subjects, transitive… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 15] 1999. viii, 296 pp.
Negotiated Interaction in Target Language Classroom Discourse
Jamila Boulima
This book addresses some of the most fundamental questions that can be asked about target language (TL) acquisition in the classroom context, namely1. What is negotiated interaction?2. What are the main discourse functions of negotiated interaction?3. How frequent is negotiated interaction in TL… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 51] 1999. xiv, 338 pp.
Negotiating Agreement and Disagreement in Japanese: Connective expressions and turn construction
Junko Mori
On the basis of the meticulous transcription/observation process of Conversation Analysis, this book observes recurrent patterns in sequences where Japanese speakers negotiate agreement and disagreement. It contributes to the growing body of research on interaction and grammar by examining how… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 8] 1999. xii, 240 pp.
Papers on Rhetoric: Volume II
Edited by Lucia Calboli Montefusco
[Not in series, POR 2] 1999. viii, 163 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XII: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1998
Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun
The papers in this volume deal with various topics in Arabic Linguistics. Most of the papers focus on new issues and introduce new empirical generalizations that haven't been studied before within the context of Arabic linguistics. The syntax and morphosyntax papers explore issues ranging from the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 190] 1999. vii, 204 pp.
Phonetics of the Origins and Evolution of Speech
Edited by Didier Demolin and Jean-Marie Hombert
Papers from a satellite meeting of the XIVth Congress of the Phonetic Sciences regarding the phonetics of the origin and evolution of speech. Topics include: the internal structure of words, the question of the growth of the vocal tract, and principles of self-organization as they relate to the… read moreSpecial issue of Evolution of Communication 3:1 (1999) 103 pp.
Politics and Sociolinguistic Reflexes: Palestinian border villages
Muhammad Hasan Amara
This sociolinguistic study describes and analyzes an Israeli Palestinian border village in the Little Triangle and another village artificially divided between Israel and the West Bank, tracing the political transformations that they have undergone, and the accompanying social and cultural changes.… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 19] 1999. xx, 261 pp.
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série. Volume 3
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Tomáš Hoskovec, Oldřich Leška †, Petr Sgall and Zdena Skoumalová
This volume is the third one of the revived series of Travaux, which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic Circle, published in the years 1929-39. The tradition of the Circle still attracts attention in broad circles of European and American linguistics. read more[Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague N.S., 3] 1999. viii, 310 pp.
Preformulating the News: An analysis of the metapragmatics of press releases
Geert Jacobs
Preformulating the News is a study of press releases and of how they anticipate the requirements of journalistic writing. Drawing from a large corpus (Dutch and English), it is argued that the genre’s peculiar audience-directedness can be related to a number of metapragmatic textual features and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 60] 1999. xviii, 428 pp.
The Prominence of Tense, Aspect and Mood
D.N.S. Bhat
The book puts forth an exciting hypothesis for the typologist. Its major claim is that languages can generally be regarded as belonging to a tense-prominent, aspect-prominent or mood-prominent language type. This grouping can be based upon the relative prominence that languages attach to one or the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 49] 1999. xii, 198 pp.
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 12 (1999)
Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers
[Reinardus, 12] 1999. vi, 248 pp.
The Roots of Old Chinese
Laurent Sagart
The phonology, morphology and lexicon of late Zhou Chinese are examined in this volume. It is argued that a proper understanding of Old Chinese morphology is essential in correctly reconstructing the phonology. Based on evidence from word-families, modern dialects and related words in neighboring… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 184] 1999. xi, 255 pp.
Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax
Edited by Esthela Treviño and José Lema
All of the articles in this volume focus on the interaction of form and meaning. Most of them are developed under the principal thesis of the Minimalist Program. These works show that the theoretical linguistic trend is to discover semantic aspects which are assumed to have visible syntactic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 173] 1999. viii, 309 pp.
Simultaneous Interpretation: A cognitive-pragmatic analysis
Robin Setton
Simultaneous interpretation is among the most complex of human cognitive/linguistic activities. This study, which will interest practitioners and trainers as well as linguists, draws more on linguistics-based theories of cognition in communication (cognitive semantics and pragmatics) than on the… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 28] 1999. xv, 397 pp.
Slavic Gender Linguistics
Edited by Margaret H. Mills
This edited volume offers the first comprehensive collection devoted to the study of Slavic gender linguistics by a team of international Slavic linguists. It features eleven highly-original, data-driven contributions representing a variety of approaches to this understudied and underrepresented… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 61] 1999. xviii, 251 pp.
Slips of the Tongue: Speech errors in first and second language production
Nanda Poulisse
This book reports the results of an extensive study of slips of the tongue produced by foreign language (L2) learners at different levels of proficiency. Thus, it provides new data which can be used to test current monolingual models of speech production and to further the development of bilingual… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 20] 1999. xvi, 266 pp.
Sociocultural Perspectives on Language Change in Diaspora: Soviet immigrants in the United States
David R. Andrews
This book is a sociolinguistic examination of the Russian speech of the American “Third Wave”, the migration from the Soviet Union which began in the early 1970s under the policy of détente. Within the framework of bilingualism and language contact studies, it examines developments in emigré… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 5] 1999. xviii, 182 pp.
Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA
Edited by Thom Huebner and Kathryn A. Davis
This volume is the result of a colloquium on socio-political dimensions of language policy and language planning held at the 1997 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference. The focus is on language planning and policy in the USA, but the issues raised will be applicable to other… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 16] 1999. xvi, 365 pp.
Somali
John Saeed
Somali is spoken by more than nine million people in the Horn of Africa and by expatriate communities in the Middle East, Europe and North America. It is the official language of Somalia and an important regional language in Ethiopia and Kenya. As a Cushitic language Somali is part of the great… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 10] 1999. xv, 295 pp.
Source Book for Linguistics: Third revised edition
William Cowan and Jaromira Rakušan
This is a revised and expanded edition of Cowan and Rakušan’s Source Book for Linguistics. In addition to the chapters on Phonetics, Phonology, Phonological Alternations, Morphology, Syntax, Sound Change and Historical Reconstruction, there are two new chapters: one on Semantics and one on… read more[Not in series, 89] 1999. xii, 252 pp.
Studies on the Phonological Word
Edited by Tracy Alan Hall and Ursula Kleinhenz
The present volume consists of nine articles dealing with the role of the constituent ‘phonological word’ (or ‘prosodic word’) in various typologically diverse languages. These languages and their respective families subsume Indo-European (Dutch, German, English, European Portuguese), Bantu… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 174] 1999. vi, 297 pp.
Talking at Cross-Purposes: The dynamics of miscommunication
Angeliki Tzanne
Misunderstandings have been examined extensively in studies on cross-cultural (mis)communication which associate them with participants’ differing cultural backgrounds and/or linguistic knowledge. Drawing on a large corpus of misunderstandings from cross- and intra-cultural encounters, this book… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 62] 1999. xiv, 263 pp.
Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity: Essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov
Edited by Werner Abraham and Leonid Kulikov
This collection presents typological work on tense, aspect, and epistemic modality in a variety of languages and against the background of different schools of thinking, among which the St. Petersburg Typological School developed and so masterfully implemented by the Petersburg linguist, Vladimir… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 50] 1999. xxxiv, 359 pp.
Text and Context in Functional Linguistics
Edited by Mohsen Ghadessy
The shift towards a sociolinguistic approach to the analysis of language in the last few decades has necessitated new definitions for a number of concepts that linguists have taken for granted for a long time. This volume attempts to demystify the important notions of ‘text’ and ‘context’ by… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 169] 1999. xviii, 340 pp.
Tibetan
Philip Denwood
The Tibetan language comprises a wide range of spoken and written varieties whose known history dates from the 7th century AD to the present day. Its speakers inhabit a vast area in Central Asia and the Himalayas extending into seven modern nation states, while its abundant literature includes much… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 3] 1999. xix, 372 pp.
Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics
Edited by Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova and Lars Hellan
This collection of articles presents a variety of approaches to central phenomena in South Slavic syntax and semantics, with an informal introduction by the editors on South Slavic clause structure. Phenomena addressed (treated partly on a language specific basis, partly comparative) include: the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 172] 1999. xxviii, 263 pp.
Translating the Elusive: Marked word order and subjectivity in English-German translation
Monika S. Schmid
This work presents an in-depth analysis of text- and speaker-based meaning of non-canonical word order in English and ways to preserve this in English-German translation. Among the sentence structures under discussion are subject-verb inversion, Left Dislocation, Topicalization as well as wh-cleft… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 36] 1999. xii, 174 pp.
Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation: A Study in Grammar and Interaction
Hiroko Tanaka
This book explores the interpretation of grammar and turn-taking in Japanese talk-in-interaction from the perspective of conversation analysis. It pays special attention to the projectability patterns of turns in Japanese in comparison to English. Through qualitative and quantitative methods, it is… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 56] 1999. xiv, 242 pp.
Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect
Peter L. Patrick
A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G17] 1999. xx, 329 pp.
Variation in (Sub)standard language
Edited by Rob Belemans and Reinhild Vandekerckhove
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 13] 1999. vi, 222 pp.
Verbal Complement Clauses: A minimalist study of direct perception constructions
Claudia Felser
This monograph examines the syntax of bare infinitival and participial complements of perception verbs in English and other European languages, and investigates the general conditions under which verbal complement clauses are licensed. The introductory chapter is followed by an overview of the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 25] 1999. xiv, 278 pp.
The Acquisition of Dutch
Edited by Steven Gillis and Annick De Houwer
In the present-day context of cross-linguistic perspectives on language acquisition, The Acquisition of Dutch offers a much needed overview of the wealth of Dutch child language research that was hitherto lacking. Its comprehensive coverage in terms of topics, its many new theoretical contributions… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 52] 1998. xvi, 444 pp.
Adverbs of Degree in Dutch and Related Languages
Henny Klein
Adverbs of degree form an intriguing part of the lexicon: numerous, multiform and everchanging. They also show a great variety in distribution. In this study, the characteristics of adverbs of degree are investigated from a semantic point of view. The main focus is on Dutch, but previous studies… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 21] 1998. x, 232 pp.
American Sociolinguistics: Theorists and theory groups
Stephen O. Murray
This is a revised version of Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America (1994), the post-World-War-II history of the emergence of sociolinguistics in North America that was described in Language in Society as “a heady combination of detailed scholarship, mordant wit, and sustained… read more[Not in series, 86] 1998. x, 339 pp.
And Along Came Boas: Continuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology
Regna Darnell
The advent of Franz Boas on the North American scene irrevocably redirected the course of Americanist anthropology. This volume documents the revolutionary character of the theoretical and methodological standpoint introduced by Boas and his first generation of students, among whom linguist Edward… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 86] 1998. xviii, 333 pp.
An Annotated Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English
Manfred Görlach †
In the 19th century, education became accessible to much wider circles of society in a great number and variety of schools and the teaching of grammar came to be obligatory from 1870/72 with the advent of general education. Whereas these general trends of the 19th century are well-known to scholars… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 26] 1998. ix, 395 pp.
Approaching Dialogue: Talk, interaction and contexts in dialogical perspectives
Per Linell
Approaching Dialogue has its primary focus on the theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of talk-in-interaction. It deals with conversation in general as well as talk within institutions against a backdrop of Conversation Analysis, context-based discourse analysis, social pragmatics,… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 3] 1998. xviii, 330 pp.
Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake
Edited by Anna Siewierska and Jae Jung Song
The present volume is a collection of fifteen original articles that include descriptive, typological and/or theoretical studies of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena, such as case, transitivity, grammaticalization, valency alternations, etc., in a variety of languages or language groups, and… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 38] 1998. 395 pp.
Coding the Hypothetical: A comparative typology of Russian and Macedonian conditionals
Jane F. Hacking
Conditionals encode speculation. They convey how events could have been different in the past or present, or might be different in the future if particular conditions had been or will be met. While all languages afford the means to speculate or hypothesize about possible events, the ways in which… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 38] 1998. vi, 156 pp.
Comparative Studies in Word Order Variation: Adverbs, pronouns, and clause structure in Romance and Germanic
Christopher Laenzlinger
The present book is a typological study in crucial portions of the grammars of French/Romance and German/Germanic. It starts by asking: What do adverbs, pronouns and full noun phrases have in common? This question is tackled, on the one hand, from an empirical perspective by the description of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 20] 1998. x, 371 pp.
The Concept of Reference in the Cognitive Sciences
Edited by Amichai Kronfeld and Lawrence D. Roberts
An interdisciplinary look at the concept of reference, using perspectives from the philosophy of language and mind, logic and formal semantics, to developmental psychology and cognitive science. read moreSpecial issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 6:1/2 (1998) vii, 364 pp.
The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: A perspective from Chinese
Ning Yu
This comparative study of Chinese and English metaphor contributes to the search for metaphoric universals by placing the contemporary theory of metaphor in a broad cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. The author explores to what degree abstract reasoning is metaphorical and which… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 1] 1998. x, 278 pp.
Contrastive Functional Analysis
Andrew Chesterman
Why is a raven like a writing-desk? The concept of similarity lies at the heart of this new book on contrastive analysis. Similarity judgements depend partly on properties of the objects being compared, and partly on what the person judging considers to be relevant to the assessment; similarity… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 47] 1998. viii, 230 pp.
Contrastive Lexical Semantics
Edited by Edda Weigand
Contrastive lexical semantics was the main topic of an International Workshop at the University of Münster in May, 1997. It was addressed from different perspectives, from the pragmatic perspective of a corpus-oriented approach as well as from the model-oriented perspective of sign theoretic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 171] 1998. x, 270 pp.
The Cultural Context in Business Communication
Edited by Susanne Niemeier, Charles P. Campbell and René Dirven †
The Cultural Context in Business Communication focuses on differences and similarities in business negotiations and written communication in intercultural settings. To set the scene, Edward T. Hall looks back at “culture” as an evolutionary concept and Charles Campbell explains the value of… read more[Not in series, 87] 1998. vi, 269 pp.
Current Issues in Relevance Theory
Edited by Villy Rouchota and Andreas H. Jucker
The eleven original papers collected in this volume address themselves to some of the central issues in the relevance theoretic research programme since the 1995 publication of the second edition of Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance. Communication and Cognition.Several papers investigate the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 58] 1998. xii, 368 pp.
The Dative: Volume 2: Theoretical and contrastive studies
Edited by Willy Van Langendonck and William Van Belle
This book is the second part of a two-volume reader on the ‘Dative’. In the first part, which appeared in 1996, eleven papers were presented providing a syntactic and semantic description of the category ‘Dative’ in eleven languages. The aim of this second part is to discuss several aspects of the… read more[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 3] 1998. xvi, 296 pp.
Deixis and Information Packaging in Russian Discourse
Lenore A. Grenoble
The role deixis plays in structuring language and its relation to the context of utterance provides the focus for an examination of information packaging in Russian discourse. The analysis is based on a model which interprets discourse as constituted by four interrelated frameworks — the linguistic… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 50] 1998. xviii, 338 pp.
Die Grenzen der Sprache: Sprachimmanenz – Sprachtranszendenz
Herausgegeben von Christoph Asmuth, Friedrich Glauner und Burkhard Mojsisch
Der vorliegende Sammelband widmet sich einem Thema der Sprachphilosophie: den Grenzen der Sprache. Die Begrenztheit des Sprechens, das Versagen der Sprache und das Schweigen sind Bereiche, denen das Interesse dieses Buches gilt. Groß e Bedeutung gewinnt deshalb die Frage, in welchem Sinne und ob… read more[Not in series - Grüner, 143] 1998. ix, 406 pp.
Discourse Markers: Descriptions and theory
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Yael Ziv
Studies of Discourse Markers so far have concentrated on either the descriptive or the theoretical parameter. This book brings together thirteen papers concerning aspects of lexical instantiations of Discourse Marking devices, ranging from functional descriptions along cognitive, attitudinal,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 57] 1998. x, 363 pp.
Discourse of Silence
Dennis Kurzon
The book deals initially with the interpretation of the silent answer to a question. From a semiotic approach to the contrast between silence and speech mainly within a Greimasian framework, the discussion turns to the application of pragmatic tools such as conversational analysis and adjacency… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 49] 1998. vi, 162 pp.
Even More Englishes: Studies 1996–1997. With a foreword by John Spencer
Manfred Görlach †
Even More Englishes comprises Manfred Görlachs more recent papers devoted to general problems of the world language and to individual varieties. The collection starts with principal questions as to what can rightly be regarded as English, looks at specific features of emigrant Englishes and the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G22] 1998. x, 260 pp.
First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American scholars in the language sciences
Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †
This sequel to the First Person Singular volumes published in 1980 and 1991, respectively (SiHoLS 21 and 61) presents autobiographical accounts by major North American linguists. This material provides an important primary source for the history and development of the discipline during the 20th… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 88] 1998. x, 267 pp.
The Function of Discourse Particles: A study with special reference to spoken standard French
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
This monograph aims to contribute to linguistic knowledge about the distribution and function of discourse particles, particularly with respect to a small group of particles which are highly frequent in contemporary spoken standard French.The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 (Theory) defines… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 53] 1998. xii, 418 pp.
Functional Grammar and Verbal Interaction
Edited by Mike Hannay and A. Machtelt Bolkestein
Functional Grammar (FG) as set out by Simon Dik is the ambitious combination of a functionalist approach to the study of language with a consistent formalization of the underlying structures which it recognizes as relevant. The present volume represents the attempts made within the FG framework to… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 44] 1998. xii, 308 pp.
Hedging in Scientific Research Articles
Ken Hyland
This book provides a comprehensive study of hedging in academic research papers, relating a systematic analysis of forms to a pragmatic explanation for their use. Based on a detailed examination of journal articles and interviews with research scientists, the study shows that the extensive use of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 54] 1998. x, 308 pp.
Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 2: Germanic linguistics. Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995
Edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen
The Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which is the major forum for the presentation of work in progress in the field of diachronic linguistics, took place at the University of Manchester in August 1995. The quality and breadth of the abstracts submitted for the general… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 162] 1998. x, 365 pp.
Historical Linguistics 1997: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997
Edited by Monika S. Schmid, Jennifer R. Austin and Dieter Stein
This volume presents a selection from the papers given at the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. It offers a window on the current state of the art in historical linguistics: the papers cover a wide range of different languages, different language families, and different… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 164] 1998. x, 409 pp.
A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan (Apabhraṃśa)
Vit Bubenik
This monograph aims to close the gap in our knowledge of the nature and pace of grammatical change during the formative period of today’s Indo-Aryan languages. During the 6th-12th c. the gradual erosion of the synthetic morphology of Old Indo-Aryan resulted ultimately in the remodelling of its… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 165] 1998. xxiv, 265 pp.
Indian English: Texts and Interpretation
Raja Ram Mehrotra
Indian English, or rather, the forms of English used in India, have long been a topic of interest for laymen and scholars. For generations, the ‘exotic’ nature of the transplanted language was commented on, often ridiculed as a matter of unintentional comic. It was only from the 1960s onwards that… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T7] 1998. x, 148 pp.
Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English
Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward
This work provides a comprehensive discourse-functional account of three classes of noncanonical constituent placement in English – preposing, postposing, and argument reversal – and shows how their interaction is accounted for in a principled and predictive way. In doing so, it details the variety… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 40] 1998. xiv, 314 pp.
Issues in the Teaching and Learning of Japanese
Edited by Nicolette Bramley and Naoko Hanamura
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 15] 1998. iv, 194 pp.
Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights: Selected Proceedings of the Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights Conference, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March, 1996
Edited by Douglas A. Kibbee
The contributions to this volume cover a broad range of issues in language policy that are hotly debated in every corner of the globe. The articles included investigate the implications of language policies on the notion of language rights as the issues are played out in very specific circumstances… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 2] 1998. xvi, 415 pp.
Language Processing and Second Language Development: Processability theory
Manfred Pienemann
This book marks a new development in the field of second language acquisition research. It explores the way in which language processing mechanisms shape the course of language development. Language Processing and Second Language Development thus adds one major psychological component to the search… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 15] 1998. xviii, 366 pp.
Language and its Functions: A historico-critical study of views concerning the functions of language from the pre-humanistic philology of Orleans to the rationalistic philology of Bopp. Translated by Paul Salmon in consultation with Anthony J. Klijnsmit
Pieter A. Verburg
When Pieter Verburg (1905-1989) published Taal en Functionaliteit in 1952, the work was received with admiration by linguistic scholars, though the number of those who could read the Dutch text for themselves remained limited. The title alludes to the theories of linguistic function set out in 1936… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 84] 1998. xxxiv, 577 pp.
Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity: Causative constructions in English
Maarten Lemmens
Fusing insights from cognitive grammar, systemic-functional grammar and Government & Binding, the present work elaborates and refines Davidse’s view that the English grammar of lexical causatives is governed by the transitive and ergative paradigms, two distinct models of causation (Davidse 1991,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 166] 1998. xii, 268 pp.
The Limits of Grammaticalization
Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paul J. Hopper
The earliest use of the term “grammaticalization” was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in “he keeps bees”) become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in “he keeps looking at me”). Changes of this kind, which involve semantic fading and a… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 37] 1998. vi, 307 pp.
Linguistic Choice across Genres: Variation in spoken and written English
Edited by Antonia Sánchez-Macarro and Ronald Carter
This book, based on revised papers originally delivered at the VII International Systemic Functional Workshop in Valencia in 1995, explores some of the choices open to speakers and writers for the expression of meaning in different socio-cultural contexts. Many of the papers draw their inspiration… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 158] 1998. viii, 347 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998
Edited by Renée van Bezooijen and René Kager
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January, 17, 1998. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. At… read more
The Linguistics of Giving
Edited by John Newman
In this collection of papers twelve linguists explore a range of interesting properties of ‘give’ verbs. The volume offers an in-depth look at many morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of ‘give’ verbs, including both literal and figurative senses, across languages. Topics include: an… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 36] 1998. xv, 384 pp.
Mathematical and Computational Analysis of Natural Language: Selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Linguistics (ICML ’96), Tarragona, 1996
Edited by Carlos Martín-Vide
In the last decade, computational linguistics has produced a revival of the interest in the mathematical study of the various levels of human language. This volume contains a selection of recent research papers approaching mathematical and computational topics in natural languages, with a special… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 45] 1998. xviii, 391 pp.
Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax: Word formation in Swedish
Gunlög Josefsson
In Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax the author combines a detailed description of the morphological structure of words in Swedish with a daring new approach to theoretical morphology, based on the Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995) (as developed for syntactic structure). The X-bar theoretic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 19] 1998. ix, 199 pp.
Morphology and its Interfaces in Second Language Knowledge
Edited by Maria-Luise Beck
This volume treats the connection between syntax and morphology with a focus on L2 acquisition. This interface has been a matter of considerable interest in theoretical circles ever since Chomsky (1994) and others argued that morphological parameters form the primary locus of cross-linguistic… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 19] 1998. x, 387 pp.
Neighborhood and Ancestry: Variation in the spoken Arabic of Maiduguri, Nigeria
Jonathan Owens
Over the past 35 years urban sociolinguistics has developed upon the base of detailed case studies carried out mainly in western countries. A fundamental dichotomy informing the interpretation of variation has been carried out within what is termed the “standard-vernacular model”. Higher vs. lower… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 4] 1998. xiii, 396 pp.
New Zealand English Grammar – Fact or Fiction?: A corpus-based study in morphosyntactic variation
Marianne Hundt
New Zealand English (NZE) is one of the younger post-colonial varieties of English. It is therefore not surprising that previous research focused on lexical and phonological aspects of NZE and practically neglected grammatical peculiarities. New Zealand English Grammar — Fact or Fiction? presents a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G23] 1998. xvi, 212 pp.
Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence
Edited by Joseph C. Salmons and Brian D. Joseph
The “Nostratic” hypothesis — positing a common linguistic ancestor for a wide range of language families including Indo-European, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic — has produced one of the most enduring and often intense controversies in linguistics. Overwhelmingly, though, both supporters of the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 142] 1998. vi, 293 pp.
An Onomasiological Theory of English Word-Formation
Pavol Štekauer
Pavol Štekauer presents an original approach to the intricate problems of English word-formation. The emphasis is on the process of coining new naming units (words). This is described by an onomasiological model, which takes as its point of departure the naming needs of a speech community, and… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 46] 1998. x, 192 pp.
Patterns and Meanings: Using corpora for English language research and teaching
Alan Partington
Patterns and Meanings consists of case studies which make use of corpora and concordance technology. Each case study elaborates a problem area, makes reference to both the descriptive and applied literature thus far, and then suggests ways of exploiting corpus data to shed light on the problem.… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 2] 1998. x, 162 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XI: Atlanta, Georgia, 1997
Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun, Mushira Eid and Niloofar Haeri
The papers in this volume address core areas in contemporary Arabic linguistics: syntax, phonology, and variation studies. The papers in the syntax sections address different topics from the perspective of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995) and subsequent work. The topics in this section are… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 167] 1998. viii, 231 pp.
Phonetics and Phonology of Tense and Lax Obstruents in German
Michael Jessen
Knowing that the so-called voiced and voiceless stops in languages like English and German do not always literally differ in voicing, several linguists among them Roman Jakobson have proposed that dichotomies such as fortis/lenis or tense/lax might be more suitable to capture the invariant… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 44] 1998. xx, 394 pp.
Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical Dependency
Anastasia Giannakidou
Polarity phenomena have been known to linguists since Klimas seminal work on English negation. In this monograph Giannakidou presents a novel theory of polarity which avoids the empirical and conceptual problems of previous approaches by introducing a notion wider than negation and downward… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 23] 1998. xvi, 282 pp.
Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 1989–1991
Edited by Paul Chilton, Mikhail V. Ilyin and Jacob L. Mey
The year 1989 brought political upheavals in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, the effects of which have not yet ended. The political discourse of the Cold War period disintegrated and gave way to competing alternatives. The contributors to this book are linguists, discourse analysts and social… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 36] 1998. xi, 272 pp.
Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the Determiner Phrase
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Chris Wilder
This volume presents a cross-section of current research on the internal syntax of ‘Determiner Phrases` (DPs), with special emphasis on the analysis of DPs modified by genitival, adjectival and other non-finite attributes. Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the DP illustrates clearly the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 22] 1998. vi, 388 pp
Relevance Theory: Applications and implications
Edited by Robyn Carston and Seiji Uchida
This collection of papers arises from a meeting of relevance theorists held in Osaka, May 29-30, 1993. Speakers at the conference included both of the originators of the theory, Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, the editors of this volume and several other Japanese linguists and pragmatists, all of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 37] 1998. x, 300 pp.
Romance Linguistics: Theoretical Perspectives. Selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVII), Irvine, 20–22 February, 1997
Edited by Armin Schwegler, Bernard Tranel and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria
This volume contains selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-27), which was held at the University of California, Irvine, on February 20-22, 1997. The 22 papers deal with current issues in linguistic theory as they can be illuminated by the close analysis and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 160] 1998. vi, 349 pp. + index
Second Language Phonology
John Archibald
This volume explores a variety of aspects of second language speech, with special focus on contributions to the field made by (primarely) generative linguists looking at the sounds and sound systems of second language learners. Second Language Phonology starts off with an overview of second… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 17] 1998. xii, 313 pp.
The Structure of the Lexicon in Functional Grammar
Edited by Hella Olbertz, Kees Hengeveld and Jesús Sánchez García
The papers collected in this volume concern five different aspects of the role of the lexicon in the theory of Functional Grammar such as developed by Simon C. Dik and his co-workers. The volume starts off with an eminently practical section on the Functional-Lexematic Model, a lexicological and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 43] 1998. xii, 312 pp.
Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency
Edited by Richard Young and Agnes Weiyun He
This book brings together a collection of current research on the assessment of oral proficiency in a second language. Fourteen chapters focus on the use of the language proficiency interview or LPI to assess oral proficiency. The volume addresses the central issue of validity in proficiency… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 14] 1998. x, 395 pp.
Tense and Aspect: The contextual processing of semantic indeterminacy
Edited by Svetlana Vogeleer, Walter De Mulder and Ilse Depraetere
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 12] 1998. x, 226 pp.
Terms in Context
Jennifer Pearson
Terms in Context applies the methodology that has been developed over the last two decades in corpus linguistics to the relatively new and still little developed field of corpus-based terminography. While corpora are already being used by some terminologists for the identification of terms and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 1] 1998. xii, 246 pp.
Themes in Greek Linguistics: Volume II
Edited by Brian D. Joseph, Geoffrey C. Horrocks and Irene Philippaki-Warburton
This volume brings together 11 original papers on a variety of themes in Greek linguistics, covering phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, both synchronically and diachronically.Collectively, these papers report on recent advances in the study of Greek grammar within the framework of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 159] 1998. x, 335 pp.
Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVI), Mexico City, 28–30 March, 1996
Edited by José Lema and Esthela Treviño
From the papers presented at the 26th LSRL, this volume offers a selection of a contributions on phonological issues and on syntax. Most of the grammatical phenomena discussed are treated within the frameworks of the Minimalist Program, Distributed Morphology, or Optimality Theory. It was apparent… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 157] 1998. viii, 380 pp.
Writing and Identity: The discoursal construction of identity in academic writing
Roz Ivanič
Writing is not just about conveying ‘content’ but also about the representation of self. (One of the reasons people find writing difficult is that they do not feel comfortable with the ‘me’ they are portraying in their writing. Academic writing in particular often poses a conflict of identity for… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 5] 1998. xiii, 373 pp.
The “Broken” Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic: Allomorphy and analogy in non-concatenative morphology
Robert R. Ratcliffe
The formal aspects of non-concatenative morphology have received considerable attention in recent years, but the diachronic dimensions of such systems have been little explored. The current work applies a modern methodological and theoretical framework to a classic problem in Arabic and Semitic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 168] 1998. xii, 261 pp.
The Acquisition of Spatial Relations in a Second Language
Angelika Becker and Mary Carroll
This book is the third to appear in the SIBIL series based on results from the European Science Foundation's Additional Activity on the second language acquisition of adult immigrants. It analyses from a longitudinal and cross-linguistic perspective the acquisition of the linguistic means to… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 11] 1997. xii, 212 pp.
Adverb Placement: A case study in antisymmetric syntax
Artemis Alexiadou
This monograph investigates a number of central issues in the Syntax of Adverbs with special reference to Greek in the light of Kayne's (1994) Antisymmetry Hypothesis. It examines the conditions on the placement of the various adverb types, their licensing requirements, and their relation to… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 18] 1997. x, 256 pp.
The Categories of Grammar: French lui and le
Alan Huffman
This book offers an analysis of the French clitic object pronouns lui and le in the radically functional Columbia school framework, contrasting this framework with sentence-based treatments of case selection. It suggests that features of the sentence such as subject and object relations, normally… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 30] 1997. xiv, 379 pp.
Clitics, Pronouns and Movement
Edited by James R. Black and Virginia Motapanyane
The introduction to this volume by Anders Holmberg provides a reflection on movement in the light of recent developments in Minimalist theory. His discussion of the theories of category versus feature movement in terms of displacement and copying, provides the background for 12 papers dealing with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 140] 1997. 375 pp.
The Cognitive System of the French Verb
John Hewson
This study is based on the writings and teaching of Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960), one of the earliest proponents of what is today called Cognitive Linguistics. It offers (1) a much needed presentation in English of Guillaume’s view of the French system, (2) the clarifications added by his… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 147] 1997. xii, 187 pp.
Communicating Gender in Context
Edited by Helga Kotthoff and Ruth Wodak
The contributions to the book “Communicating Gender in Context” deal not only with grammatical gender, but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context. Attention is directed to European cultures which till now have come up short in… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 42] 1997. xxvi, 424 pp.
Contact Languages: A wider perspective
Edited by Sarah G. Thomason
This book contributes to a more balanced view of the most dramatic results of language contact by presenting linguistic and historical sketches of lesser-known contact languages. The twelve case studies offer eloquent testimony against the still common view that all contact languages are pidgins… read more[Creole Language Library, 17] 1997. xiii, 506 pp.
Conversation: Cognitive, communicative and social perspectives
Edited by T. Givón
The papers in this volume were originally presented at the Symposium on Conversation, held at the University of New Mexico in July 1995. The symposium brought together scholars who work on face-to-face communication from a variety of perspectives: social, cultural, cognitive and communicative. Our… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 34] 1997. viii, 302 pp.
Creole and Dialect Continua: Standard acquisition processes in Belize and China (PRC)
Geneviève Escure
Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition. Using a combination of function-based grammar and sociolinguistic methodology to analyze topic marking strategies,… read more[Creole Language Library, 18] 1997. x, 307 pp.
Demonstratives in Interaction: The emergence of a definite article in Finnish
Ritva Laury
This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative se is currently emerging as a definite article in spoken Finnish. This book describes… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 7] 1997. viii, 294 pp.
Dialect Death: The case of Brule Spanish
Charles E. Holloway
The Brule Dwellers of Ascension Parish are descendants of Canary Island immigrants who came to Louisiana in the late 1700s. A few residents in and around the Ascension Parish area still speak an archaic dialect of Spanish which is at the brink of linguistic extinction. Because the Brule dialect is… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 13] 1997. x, 220 pp.
Directions in Functional Linguistics
Edited by Akio Kamio
Functional linguistics is concerned with the function of language and considers it an essense of human language. Views like this is not particularly new, but rather traditional in the history of linguistics. But today functional linguistics is constituted by a wide range of theoretical and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 36] 1997. xiii, 259 pp.
Discourse and Perspective in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Wolf-Andreas Liebert, Gisela Redeker and Linda R. Waugh
Cognitive models, perspectives, and the construction of situated meaning have always been core concepts in Cognitive Linguistics. The papers in this volume present applications of those concepts to the study of discourse phenomena like the use and interpretation of metaphors, modal expressions,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 151] 1997. xiv, 272 pp.
The Emergence of Semantics in Four Linguistic Traditions: Hebrew, Sanskrit, Greek, Arabic
Wout J. van Bekkum, Jan Houben, Ineke Sluiter and Kees Versteegh
The aim of this study is a comparative analysis of the role of semantics in the linguistic theory of four grammatical traditions, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic. If one compares the organization of linguistic theory in various grammatical traditions, it soon turns out that there are marked… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 82] 1997. ix, 322 pp.
Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach. Volume 1: General studies, British Isles, North America
Edited by Edgar W. Schneider
The two volumes of Englishes around the World present high-quality original research papers written in honour of Manfred Görlach, founder and editor of the journal English World-Wide and the book series Varieties of English Around the World. The papers thematically focus on the field that Manfred… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G18] 1997. vi, 329 pp.
Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach. Volume 2: Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Australasia
Edited by Edgar W. Schneider
The two volumes of Englishes around the World present high-quality original research papers written in honour of Manfred Görlach, founder and editor of the journal English World-Wide and the book series Varieties of English Around the World. The papers thematically focus on the field that Manfred… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G19] 1997. viii, 358 pp.
Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón
Edited by Joan L. Bybee, John Haiman † and Sandra A. Thompson
In their subject matter and in their theoretical orientation all the papers in this volume reflect the powerful influence of T. Givón. Most of them deal with questions of morphosyntactic typology, pragmatics, and grammaticalization theory. Many of them are directly based on extensive fieldwork on… read more[Not in series, 82] 1997. vi, 480 pp.
Focus on Ireland
Edited by Jeffrey L. Kallen
Irish English is both the oldest overseas variety of English and, thanks to its co-existence with Irish Gaelic, one of the longest-documented examples of a contact-influenced language variety. The dual aspects of substratal influence and dialectal conservatism, together with the spread of this… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G21] 1997. xviii, 260 pp.
Focus on Phonological Acquisition
Edited by S.J. Hannahs and Martha Young-Scholten
The publication of this edited volume comes at a time when interest in the acquisition of phonology by both children learning a first language and adults learning a second is starting to swell. The ten contributions, from established scholars and relative newcomers alike, provide a comprehensive… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 16] 1997. v, 289 pp.
Genre, Frames and Writing in Research Settings
Brian Paltridge
This book presents a perspective on genre based on what it is that leads users of a language to recognise a communicative event as an instance of a particular genre. Key notions in this perspective are those of prototype, inheritance, and intertextuality; that is, the extent to which a text is… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 45] 1997. x, 192 pp.
Gestural Communication in Human and Non-Human Primates
Edited by Dario Maestripieri and Jill P. Morford
NB. For the 2005 special issue of Gesture on "Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates", edited by Liebal, Müller & Pika, click here. read moreSpecial issue of Evolution of Communication 1:2 (1997) 143 pp.
Government and Codeswitching: Explaining American Finnish
Helena Halmari
Bilingual codeswitching is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, which calls for explanations on several different linguistic levels. This volume focuses on one such level: the level of syntax. An explanation for the regularities and consistencies in the codeswitching patterns of American Finns in… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 12] 1997. xvi, 276 pp.
Grammatical Relations: A functionalist perspective
Edited by T. Givón
This volume presents a functional perspective on grammatical relations (GRs) without neglecting their structural correlates. Ever since the 1970s, the discussion of RGs by functionally-oriented linguists has focused primarily on their functional aspects, such as reference, cognitive accessibility… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 35] 1997. viii, 350 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 1996 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 2] 1997. vi, 268 pp.
Inversion in Modern English: Form and function
Heidrun Dorgeloh
The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences. It treats inversion as a speaker-based decision for reordering within a fairly rigid word order system and identifies the meaning of the construction… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 6] 1997. x, 236 pp.
Language Choices: Conditions, constraints, and consequences
Edited by Martin Pütz
This volume is about various aspects of the theory and application of language contact and language conflict phenomena seen from an interdisciplinary perspective. The focus is on the linguistic, social, psychological, and educational issues (conditions, constraints, and consequences) involved in… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 1] 1997. xxi, 430 pp.
Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges
Edited by William Eggington and Helen Wren
‘Think globally, act locally’ is the message of Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges. The book examines the impact of English in countries in which it is taken for granted — Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. It explores how the dominance of English impacts on… read more[Not in series, 83] 1997. xxviii, 170 pp.
Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and his critics
Edited by George Wolf and Nigel Love
Roy Harriss thoroughgoing attack on the presuppositions underpinning the dominant traditions of Western thought about language, and his advocacy of a radically reconceived linguistics focused on the idea that the linguistic sign is contextually created and interpreted as a function of the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 148] 1997. xxviii, 344 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1997
Edited by Jane A. Coerts and Helen de Hoop
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January, 18, 1997. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. At… read more
The Locative Alternation in German: Its structure and acquisition
Ursula Brinkmann
This monograph deals with the locative alternation in German, a change in the argument structure of verbs like spray and load. Like most argument structure changes, the alternation is both productive and constrained: new forms may be derived, but not from all candidate verbs. This raises a… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 15] 1997. x, 289 pp.
Managing Language: The discourse of corporate meetings
Francesca Bargiela and Sandra J. Harris
The book attempts to answer the question: what do managers in multinational companies really do during meetings? Following fieldwork in three corporations in Britain and Italy, the picture that emerges is one that challenges the widespread understanding of meetings as boring, routine events in the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 44] 1997. ix, 295 pp.
Materials on Left Dislocation
Edited by Elena Anagnostopoulou, Henk van Riemsdijk and Frans Zwarts
Materials on Left Dislocation consists of two parts. Part I contains a selection of the main texts on which our present understanding of the Left Dislocation construction is based. For various reasons most of these texts had never been published, or are published in obsolete places. These articles,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 14] 1997. viii, 349 pp.
Narrative Performances: A study of Modern Greek storytelling
Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Conversational narratives provide valuable resources for the discursive construction and invoking of personal and sociocultural identities. As such, their sociolinguistic and cultural analysis constitute a high priority in the agenda of discourse studies. This book contributes to the growing line… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 46] 1997. xvii, 282 pp.
Negation and Polarity: Syntax and semantics. Selected papers from the colloquium Negation: Syntax and Semantics. Ottawa, 11–13 May 1995
Edited by Danielle Forget, Paul Hirschbühler, France Martineau and María Luisa Rivero
In the last decade, there has been a revival of interest regarding negation and polarity, with much cross-fertilization between semantic and syntactic approaches. The papers in the present volume address key issues regarding the syntax and semantics of negation and polarity, including both… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 155] 1997. viii, 367 pp.
Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia
Edited by Mark Harvey and Nicholas Reid
This volume aims to extend both the range of analyses and the database on nominal classification systems. Previous analyses of nominal classification systems have focussed on two areas: the semantics of the classification system and the role of the system in discourse. In many nominal… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 37] 1997. x, 296 pp.
Noun-Modifying Constructions in Japanese: A frame semantic approach
Yoshiko Matsumoto
This study examines the clausal noun-modifying construction (NMC) in Japanese, a much-discussed construction that embraces what have usually been called relative clause and noun complement constructions. Drawing upon a broad range of naturally-occurring NMCs, including types that fall outside the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 35] 1997. x, 211 pp.
On Conditionals Again
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and René Dirven †
The volume brings together a selection of papers from a symposium on Conditionality held in the University of Duisburg on 25-26 March 1994.Ten years after the Stanford symposium, the Proceedings of which were edited by Traugott et al. (1986), the area of conditionality is revisited in a synthesis… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 143] 1997. viii, 418 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume X: Salt Lake City, 1996
Edited by Mushira Eid and Robert R. Ratcliffe
The papers in this volume are a selection of papers presented at the 10th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (Salt Lake City, 1-3 March 1996). The contributions are:Remarks on Focus in Standard Arabic: Jamal Ouhalla;Definiteness Realization and Function in Palestinian Arabic: Dina Belyayeva;… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 153] 1997. vii, 296 pp.
Perspectives on Foreign Language Policy: Studies in honor of Theo van Els
Edited by Theo Bongaerts and Kees de Bot
This volume, containing fourteen invited papers on foreign-language policy, starts off with a brief history of foreign-language teaching policy in the Netherlands. This historical outline is followed by four contributions of authors who once developed the Dutch National Action Programme (NAP) on… read more[Not in series, 81] 1997. viii, 224 pp.
The Phonology of Coronals
Tracy Alan Hall
This study investigates the phonological behavior of coronal consonants, i.e. sounds produced with the tip or blade of the tongue. The analysis draws on data from over 120 languages and dialects. A definition of coronality is proposed that rejects the current view holding that palatals are… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 149] 1997. x, 176 pp.
Political Linguistics
Edited by Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.After a… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 11] 1997. vi, 312 pp.
Problems in Organizing the Configuration of a Language Family: Edita and Inedita, 1979–1988. Volume III. Taken from program
Yakov Malkiel
Taken from the program. read more[Not in series, EAI 3] 1997. ca. 250 pp.
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Selected Papers from RANLP ’95
Edited by Ruslan Mitkov and Nicolas Nicolov
This volume is based on contributions from the First International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP’95) held in Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 14-16 September 1995. This conference was one of the most important and competitively reviewed conferences in Natural Language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 136] 1997. xii, 472 pp.
Recent Trends in Meaning–Text Theory
Edited by Leo Wanner
The present volume contains articles of well-known representatives of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) and other related linguistic theories.Founded by I. Mel’cuk and A. Zholkovsky in the sixties in Moscow, MTT soon became known in the West as a “prominent outsider” theory. The picture changed since… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 39] 1997. xx, 202 pp.
Reconnecting Language: Morphology and Syntax in Functional Perspectives
Edited by Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Kristin Davidse and Dirk Noël
Although the contributors to this book do not belong to one particular ‘school’ of linguistic theory, they all share an interest in the external functions of language in society and in the relationship between these functions and internal linguistic phenomena. In this sense they all take a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 154] 1997. xiii, 339 pp.
Rightward Movement
Edited by Dorothee Beermann, David LeBlanc and Henk van Riemsdijk
Symmetries and asymmetries have always played an important role in linguistic theorizing. From the early works on potentially universal properties of transformational processes, differences between rightward and leftward movement processes were noted and constituted a challenge to theories of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 17] 1997. vi, 410 pp.
Scope and Specificity
Feng-hsi Liu
Scope and Specificity is an investigation of quantifier scope interaction in natural language, with special reference to English and Chinese. In particular, it is concerned with semantic properties of NPs. Quantifier scope plays an important role in current theories of syntax and semantics.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 16] 1997. viii, 187 pp.
The Semantics of Aspect and Modality: Evidence from English and Biblical Hebrew
Galia Hatav
“The semantics of aspect and modality” will be of interest both to linguists working on temporality, as a general phenomenon in language, and Hebraists investigating the semantics of the verbal forms in biblical Hebrew.Tense, aspect and modality are among the most challenging discussed areas of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 34] 1997. x, 224 pp.
Standards and Variation in Urban Speech: Examples from Lowland Scots
Ronald K.S. Macaulay
Standards and Variation in Urban Speech is an examination and exploration of the aims and methods of sociolinguistic investigation, based on studies of Scottish urban speech. It criticially examines the implications of the notions vernacular, standard language, Received Pronunciation, social… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G20] 1997. x, 201
The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics
Edited by Arthur K. Spears and Donald Winford
Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to… read more[Creole Language Library, 19] 1997. viii, 461 pp.
Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Tracy Alan Hall
The articles of the present volume consist of generative analyses dealing with several current topics of discussion and debate in syntactic theory, such as clitics, word order, scrambling, directionality, movement. The data in the volume are drawn from a number of typologically diverse languages (e. read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 13] 1997. viii, 252 pp.
Teaching Languages, Teaching Culture
Edited by Anthony J. Liddicoat and Chantal Crozet
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 14] 1997. iv, 146 pp.
Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony
John Hewson and Vit Bubenik
This monograph presents a general picture of the evolution of IE verbal systems within a coherent cognitive framework. The work encompasses all the language families of the IE phylum, from prehistory to present day languages.Inspired by the ideas of Roman Jakobson and Gustave Guillaume the authors… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 145] 1997. xii, 403 pp.
Territory of Information
Akio Kamio
Most higher animals are said to be territorial, as a huge amount of work in ethology has made it clear. Human beings are no exceptions. They tend to occupy a certain space around them where they claim their own presence and exclude others quite naturally. If territory is so prevalent among higher… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 48] 1997. xiv, 227 pp.
Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume 2: Social interaction and discourse structures
Edited by Gregory R. Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh
This is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and II of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 128] 1997. xviii, 358 pp.
The Typology and Dialectology of Romani
Edited by Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov
Contributions to this collection focus on the unity and diversity of the language of the Roma (Gypsies), the only Indic language spoken exclusively in Europe. Properties discussed include the distinct inflectional and derivational patterns applied to Asian and European lexical layers, the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 156] 1997. xxxii, 223 pp.
Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory
Edited by Frans Hinskens, Roeland van Hout and W. Leo Wetzels
There is a growing awareness that a fruitful cooperation between the (diachronic and synchronic) study of language variation and change and work in phonological theory is both possible and desirable. The study of language variation and change would benefit from this kind of cooperation on the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 146] 1997. x, 314 pp.
Vietnamese
Nguyễn Ðình-Hoà
An essential descriptive introduction to a South-East Asian language with over seventy million speakers, this book provides a conservative treatment of the phonology, lexicon and syntax of Vietnamese, with comments on semantics and history, with particular reference to writing systems, loan words… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 9] 1997. x, 289 pp.
Writing Development: An interdisciplinary view
Edited by Clotilde Pontecorvo
This volume presents a selection of papers presented at a series of three workshops organized by the Network “Written Language and Literacy” as launched by the European Science Foundation. The main topics making up Writing Development are: (1) Writing and literacy acquisition: Links between speech… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 6] 1997. xxxii, 338 pp.
Academic Writing: Intercultural and textual issues
Edited by Eija Ventola and Anna Mauranen
Writing is crucial to the academic world. It is the main mode of communication among scientists and scholars and also a means for students for obtaining their degrees. The papers in this volume highlight the intercultural, generic and textual complexities of academic writing. Comparisons are made… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 41] 1996. xiv, 258 pp.
Advances in Clinical Phonetics
Edited by Martin J. Ball and Martin Duckworth
Advances in Clinical Phonetics focuses on important developments in phonetic description. Recent years have seen increasing developments in phonetic description, in both instrumental and impressionistic approaches. Not restricted to the phonetics of normal speech, clinical phoneticians and speech… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 6] 1996. xiv, 258 pp.
Anglicisms, Neologisms and Dynamic French
Michael D. Picone
This comprehensive study of Anglicisms in the context of accelerated neological activity in Contemporary Metropolitan French not only provides detailed documentation and description of a fascinating topic, but opens up new vistas on issues of general linguistic interest: the effects of technology… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 18] 1996. xii, 462 pp.
Aspects of Argument Structure Acquisition in Inuktitut
Shanley E.M. Allen
This book discusses the first language acquisition of three morphosyntactic mechanisms of transitivity alternation in arctic Quebec Inuktitut. Data derive from naturalistic longitudinal spontaneous speech samples collected over a nine-month period from four Inuit children. Both basic and advanced… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 13] 1996. xvi, 248 pp.
Case Suspension and Binary Complement Structure in French
Julia Herschensohn
Adopting the theoretical framework of the minimalist program, this study of syntactic limitations on complement configuration investigates the link between thematic external arguments and case. Using evidence from pronominal, psychological experiencer, and inalienable constructions, it argues that… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 132] 1996. xi, 200 pp.
Classification Syntaxique des Constructions Adjectivales en Coréen
Jeesun Nam
The purpose of this study is the systematic description of a set of data called Adjectives in Korean, which reduces to a minimum theoretical preoccupations and abstract formalisations with no practical applications. The framework of our research is the Lexicon-grammar, whose fundamental idea is… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 21] 1996. xxvi, 560 pp.
Coherence and Anaphora
Edited by Walter De Mulder and Liliane Tasmowski
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.The… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 10] 1996. viii, 217 pp.
Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives
Edited by Susan C. Herring
Text-based interaction among humans connected via computer networks, such as takes place via email and in synchronous modes such as “chat”, MUDs and MOOs, has attracted considerable popular and scholarly attention. This collection of 14 articles on text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC),… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 39] 1996. viii, 326 pp.
Content, Expression and Structure: Studies in Danish functional grammar
Edited by Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft and Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen
This collection of papers offers an alternative to mainstream functional linguistics on two points. Especially in American linguistics, function and structure are often viewed almost as polar opposites; in addition, structure is often understood as being only a matter of linguistic form — or… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 29] 1996. xvi, 510 pp.
The Dative: Volume 1: Descriptive studies
Edited by William Van Belle and Willy Van Langendonck
Since antiquity, scholars have been fascinated by the phenomena of case. The explanation for this fascination is, as Hjelmslev already pointed out over fifty years ago, the fact that he who can unravel the meaning of case-relations, has the key to language structure as a whole.For over three years,… read more[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 2] 1996. xviii, 455 pp.
De Lingua Latina X: A new critical text and English translation with prolegomena and commentary
Daniel J. Taylor
De Lingua Latina X has never been so courageously edited nor so daringly translated as in this long-awaited sequel to Taylors Declinatio (SiHoLS 2). The editors intimate familiarity with both the extant archetype and Varros unique linguistic theory and practice make this volume indispensable for… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 85] 1996. x, 205 pp.
Discourse and Meaning: Papers in honor of Eva Hajičová
Edited by Barbara H. Partee and Petr Sgall
A collection of papers in honor of Eva Hajičová, who represents the continuation of the Prague School tradition in the methodological context of formal and computational linguistics. Her broadly acknowledged contribution to syntax, topic-focus studies, discourse analysis and natural language… read more[Not in series, 78] 1996. xiv, 430 pp.
The Early Stages of Creolization
Edited by Jacques Arends
This volume brings together a number of studies on the early stages of creolization which are entirely based on historical data. The recent (re)discovery of early documents written in creole languages such as Negerhollands, Bajan, and Sranan, allows for a detailed and empirically founded… read more[Creole Language Library, 13] 1996. xvi, 297 pp.
Ecological Validity in Pragmatic Research
Aaron V. Cicourel and Albert N. Katz
Addresses the problem of ensuring a higher degree of ‘ecological validity’ in pragmatic research.No postage, no electronic access included. For subscription information (including electronic access) please refer to our Journals section.
read moreSpecial issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 4:2 (1996) viii, 216 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 1994: Papers from the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (8 ICEHL, Edinburgh, 19–23 September 1994)
Edited by Derek Britton
This volume offers a selection of 19 papers from those read at the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics in Edinburgh. Many of the writers are established authorities in the field, but there are also significant contributions from a younger generation of scholars. The… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 135] 1996. viii, 403 pp.
Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics: In honor of Charles J. Fillmore
Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani and Sandra A. Thompson
This volume reflects the influence of Chuck Fillmore’s ground-breaking work in the fields of semantics and pragmatics. The papers in the volume pay tribute to his pioneering research into the deepest realms of the nature of ‘meaning’. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 32] 1996. x, 332 pp.
Focus on South Africa
Edited by Vivian de Klerk
This volume brings together a range of studies on various aspects of English and its use in Southern Africa. Experts in their field have written chapters on topics including the history and development of English in South Africa, the characteristics of particular pan-ethnic varieties of English… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G15] 1996. 328 pp.
Focus on the USA
Edited by Edgar W. Schneider
This volume presents fifteen original research papers by renowned specialists in their respective fields. A variety of research traditions are included, such as dialect geography and sociolinguistics, but also smaller sub-fields such as the study of slang and perceptual dialectology. Varieties… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G16] 1996. vi, 368 pp.
From Grammar to Science: New Foundations for General Linguistics
Victor H. Yngve
Although efforts have been under way for the past two centuries to treat language scientifically, linguists and others who work with language, speech, or communication have not found an adequate scientific foundation in current linguistic theory. Many of the difficulties are caused by longstanding… read more[Not in series, 80] 1996. xii, 350 pp.
Functional Descriptions: Theory in practice
Edited by Ruqaiya Hasan †, Carmel Cloran and David Butt
This volume focuses on the relation between theory and description by examining aspects of transitivity in different languages. Transitivity — or case grammar, to use the popular term — has always occupied a centre-stage position in linguistics, not least because of its supposedly privileged… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 121] 1996. xxxvi, 381 pp.
Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons
Edited by Harald Clahsen
Against the background of the proliferation of the various subdisciplines of language acquisition research over the past decades, this volume aims to enhance the existing but somewhat fragile links between language acquisition and theoretical linguistics. With regard to previous research, the book… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 14] 1996. xxvii, 499 pp.
The Genesis of a Language: The formation and development of Korlai Portuguese
J. Clancy Clements
Korlai Portuguese (KP), a Portuguese-based creole only recently discovered by linguists, originated around 1520 on the west coast of India. Initially isolated from its Hindu and Muslim neighbors by social and religious barriers, the small Korlai community lost virtually all Portuguese contact as… read more[Creole Language Library, 16] 1996. xviii, 281 pp.
Germanic Linguistics: Syntactic and diachronic
Edited by Rosina L. Lippi-Green and Joseph C. Salmons
This volume contains ten revised and expanded papers selected from the dozens presented at the last Michigan-Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, five contributions each from syntax (by Werner Abraham, Sarah Fagan, Isabella Barbier, John te Velde, and Ruth Lanouette) and historical linguistics… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 137] 1996. viii, 192 pp.
The Grammar of Possession: Inalienability, incorporation and possessor ascension in Guaraní
Maura Velázquez-Castillo
The Grammar of Possession: Inalienability, incorporation and possessor ascension in Guaraní, is an exhaustive study of linguistic structures in Paraguayan Guaraní which are directly or indirectly associated with the semantic domain of inalienability. Constructions analyzed in the book include… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 33] 1996. xvi, 274 pp.
Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 25th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXV) Seattle, 2–4 March 1995
Edited by Karen Zagona
This volume presents recent theoretical research on Romance languages, selected from papers presented at the 25th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. It includes studies of individual Romance languages as well as comparative studies both within the Romance family and with non-Romance… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 133] 1996. vi, 330 pp.
Grammaticalization of the Complex Sentence: A case study in Chadic
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
The general objective of the study is systematic examination of the processes involved in the formation and evolution of complex sentence constructions in a group of genetically related languages. The Chadic language group, at about 140 languages, constitutes the largest and most diversified branch… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 32] 1996. xviii, 501 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 1995 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 1] 1996. 336 pp. + Binder
Korean
Suk-Jin Chang
Spoken by nearly 70 million people not only within the Korean Peninsula but also in five continents, Korean is one of a dozen major languages of the world. Yet outside Korea it is not as much studied as it should be, nor has it acquired commensurate international recognition. With its difficult… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 4] 1996. xviii, 252 pp.
The Language Testing Cycle: From inception to washback
Edited by Gillian Wigglesworth and Catherine Elder
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 13] 1996. ii, 242 pp.
Language and Society in Early Modern England: Selected essays 1982–1994
Vivian Salmon
This volume brings together twelve previously published essays, divided into three sections: 1. Surveys of 16th- and 17th-Century Linguistic Scholarship, 2. The Study of Universal and Particular Traits of Language, and 3. Language Learning and Language Instruction. The volume is completed by an… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 77] 1996. viii, 276 pp.
Language, Action and Context: The early history of pragmatics in Europe and America 1780–1930
Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke
The roots of pragmatics reach back to Antiquity, especially to rhetoric as one of the three liberal arts. However, until the end of the 18th century proto-pragmatic insights tended to be consigned to the pragmatic, that is rhetoric, wastepaper basket and thus excluded from serious philosophical… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 80] 1996. xiv, 497 pp.
Learnability and the Lexicon: Theories and second language acquisition research
Alan Juffs
This book provides a critical review of recent theories of semantics-syntax correspondences and makes new proposals for constraints on semantic structure relevant to syntax. Data from several languages are presented which suggest that semantic structure in root morphemes is subject to parametric… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 12] 1996. xi, 277 pp.
Lexical Functions in Lexicography and Natural Language Processing
Edited by Leo Wanner
Lexical Functions in Lexicography and Natural Language Processing is entirely devoted to the topic of Lexical Functions, which have been introduced in the framework of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) as a means for describing restricted lexical co-occurrence and derivational relations. It provides… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 31] 1996. xx, 355 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1996
Edited by Crit Cremers and Marcel den Dikken
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Linguistic society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January, 20, 1996. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. read more
Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation
Edited by James R. Black and Virginia Motapanyane
Richard Kayne’s introduction to this volume stresses that comparative work on the syntax of very closely related languages and dialects is a research tool promising to provide both a broad understanding of parameters at their finest-grained and an approach to the question of the minimal units of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 139] 1996. xviii, 269 pp.
Minimal Ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework
Edited by Werner Abraham, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson and Jan-Wouter Zwart
The articles in this volume are inspired by the Minimalist Program first outlined in Chomsky’s MIT Fall term class lectures of 1991 and in his seminal paper “A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory”. The articles seek to develop further some key idea in the Minimalist Program, sometimes in ways… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 12] 1996. xii, 364 pp.
Numeral Classifier Systems: The Case of Japanese
Pamela A. Downing
Numeral Classifier Systems considers the functional significance of the Japanese numeral system, its conclusions based on a corpus of 500 uses of classifier constructions drawn from oral and written Japanese texts.Interestingly, although the Japanese system appears to conform at least superficially… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 4] 1996. xx, 336 pp.
On Language and Consciousness
Ray Jackendoff and Wallace Chafe
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 4:1 (1996) viii, 217 pp.
The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages: Proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloqium, Odense University, November 1994
Edited by Hans Frede Nielsen † and Lene Schøsler
The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages is the proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloquium held at Odense University, November 1994 read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 17] 1996. xi, 318 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VIII: Amherst, Massachusetts 1994
Edited by Mushira Eid
This volume includes ten papers selected from the Eighth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Masschusetts, Amherst, 1994. Six of them deal with the syntax of Arabic two with phonology, and two with variation. The topics represented in the volume include binding in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 134] 1996. vii, 261 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume IX: Washington D.C., 1995
Edited by Mushira Eid and Dilworth B. Parkinson
This volume includes twelve papers selected from the Ninth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 1995. Three of the papers deal with codeswitching with Arabic, two with the acquisition of Arabic, and four with different aspects of Arabic grammatical… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 141] 1996. xiii, 249 pp.
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série. Volume 2
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Oldřich Leška †, Petr Sgall and Zdena Skoumalová
Volume 2 of the Prague Linguistic Circle Papers constitutes a single whole together with Vol. 1 of the series, reviving the classical series of Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague which was of great importance for the development of European structural linguistics in the 1930s. In the present… read more[Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague N.S., 2] 1996. viii, 346 pp.
Reference and Referent Accessibility
Edited by Thorstein Fretheim and Jeanette K. Gundel
The papers in this volume are concerned with the question of how a speaker’s intended referent is interpreted by the addressee. Topics include the interpretation of coreferential vs. disjoint reference, the role of intonation, syntactic form and animacy in reference understanding, and the way in… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 38] 1996. 313 pp.
Reported Speech: Forms and functions of the verb
Edited by Theo Janssen and Wim van der Wurff
In sentences containing reported speech, thought, or perception, it is possible to distinguish different voices or views, associated with different discourse roles. They originate in two different clauses: one clause signals a reporting situation, and the other a reported situation.This volume… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 43] 1996. x, 312 pp.
Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation
Edited by Robert Bayley and Dennis R. Preston
This volume corrects the relative neglect in Second Language Acquisition studies of the quantitative study of language variation and provides insights into such issues as language transfer, acquisition through exposure, language universals, learner’s age and so forth.These studies bolster the idea… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 10] 1996. xix, 317 pp.
The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa
Edited by Mastin Prinsloo and Mignonne Breier
This book details the findings of a research project investigating the social uses of literacy in a range of contexts in South Africa. This approach treats literacy not simply as a set of technical skills learnt in formal education, but as social practices embedded in specific contexts, discourses… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 4] 1996. viii, 279 pp.
Status and Power in Verbal Interaction: A study of discourse in a close-knit social network
Julie Diamond
Status and Power in Verbal Interaction is a sociolinguistic study of conversation in a social context. Using an ethnographic methodology and a network analysis of the social roles and relationships in a particular language community, the book explores how speakers negotiate status, relationship,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 40] 1996. viii, 184 pp.
Studies in Anaphora
Edited by Barbara A. Fox
The last 15 years has seen an explosion of research on the topic of anaphora. Studies of anaphora have been important to our understanding of cognitive processes, the relationships between social interaction and grammar, and of directionality in diachronic change. The contributions to this volume… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 33] 1996. xii, 518 pp.
Theoretical Linguistics and Grammatical Description: Papers in honour of Hans-Heinrich Lieb
Edited by Robin Sackmann and Monika Budde
This volume presents a collection of 23 papers by renowned linguists on current research in the field of theoretical linguistics. The book focuses on linguistic theory and metatheory, and on fundamental concepts and assumptions of modern linguistics. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 138] 1996. x, 375 pp.
Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis
Edited by Edna Andrews and Yishai Tobin
This volume contains papers presented at a symposium in honor of Cornelis H. van Schooneveld and invited papers on the topics of invariance, markedness, distinctive feature theory and deixis. It is not a Festschrift in the usual sense of the word, but more of a collection of articles which… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 43] 1996. xxviii, 432 pp.
Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics
Edited by Rajendra Singh
This collection of twelve essays, some of which have been written specifically for this volume by well-known European and North-American sociolinguists, reflects an increasing recognition within the field that sociological and theoretical innocence can no longer be underwritten by it, and offers a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 125] 1996. xii, 342 pp.
Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume 1: Variation and change in language and society
Edited by Gregory R. Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh
This is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and II of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 127] 1996. xviii, 436 pp.
Trubetzkoy's Orphan: Proceedings of the Montréal Roundtable on “Morphonology: contemporary responses” (Montréal, October 1994)
Edited by Rajendra Singh
In putting ‘morphonology’ up for adoption as a chapitre particulier in 1929, Trubetzkoy started a debate regarding the boundary between phonology and morphology that has not ended yet. Essentially a record of a roundtable devoted to that boundary (Montréal, October 1994), Trubetzkoy’s Orphan is a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 144] 1996. xiv, 363 pp.
Units in Mandarin Conversation: Prosody, discourse, and grammar
Hongyin Tao
This book provides a new way of studying grammar. The basic thrust of the book is to investigate grammar based on a prosodic unit, the intonation unit (IU), in spontaneous speech. The author challenges the dominant practice in the study of syntax, which has been to focus on the unit of the… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 5] 1996. xvi, 226 pp.
The Whorf Theory Complex: A critical reconstruction
Penny Lee
At last — a comprehensive account of the ideas of Benjamin Lee Whorf which not only explains the nature and logic of the linguistic relativity principle but also situates it within a larger ‘theory complex’ delineated in fascinating detail. Whorf’s almost unknown unpublished writings (as well as… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 81] 1996. xix, 324 pp.
The Acquisition of Temporality in a Second Language
Rainer Dietrich, Wolfgang Klein and Colette Noyau
This is the second volume of the SiBil series to present results from the European Science Foundation's project 'Second language acquisition by adult immigrants'. It deals specifically with the acquisition of temporality in five European languages: Dutch, English, French, German and Swedish,… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 7] 1995. xii, 288 pp.
Advances in Roumanian Linguistics
Edited by Guglielmo Cinque and Giuliana Giusti
The aim of the book is to collect and make available to the public recent studies on Roumanian in the framework of Generative Grammar. All the studies can be considered as highly advanced from both the empirical and the theoretical point of view. In fact, they deal with many of the phenomena that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 10] 1995. xi, 172 pp.
Alternative Linguistics: Descriptive and theoretical modes
Edited by Philip W. Davis
The papers in this volume were presented at the Fifth Biennial Symposium of the Department of Linguistics, Rice University, March 1993. The participants were asked to concentrate in depth and in a self-reflective way upon some range of data. The intent was multifold. The first purpose was… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 102] 1995. vii, 325 pp.
Bibliography of Quantitative Linguistics: Bibliographie zur quantitativen Linguistik. Библиографиа по квантитативной лингвистике
Reinhard Köhler
The Bibliography of Quantitative Linguistics (BQL) comprises more than 6500 titles from all areas of quantitative linguistic research. Publications have been included without restrictions regarding form, place, language, and date of publication. This bibliography thus provides, for the first time,… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 25] 1995. lii, 780 pp.
The Biology of Language
Stanislaw Puppel
This volume brings together 15 papers on the evolution and origin of language. The authors approach the subject from various angles, exploring biological, cultural, psychological and linguistic factors. A wide variety of topics is discussed, such as animal communication, language acquisition, the… read more[Not in series, 75] 1995. x, 300 pp.
By Word of Mouth: Metaphor, metonymy and linguistic action in a cognitive perspective
Louis Goossens, Paul Pauwels, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Johan Vanparys
This volume contains seven synchronic and diachronic empirical investigations into the expression and conceptualization of linguistic action in English, focusing on figurative extensions. The following issues are explored: Source domains, and their relation to the complexities of linguistic action… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 33] 1995. xii, 254 pp.
Cognition and Representation in Linguistic Theory
Antoine Culioli
The objective of this book is to better acquaint English-speaking linguistics with a corpus of texts hitherto untranslated, containing the cognitive-based research in formal linguistics of one of the most important theoreticians in the field: Antoine Culioli (b. 1924). Culioli's viewpoint is… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 112] 1995. x, 161 pp.
Coherence in Spontaneous Text
Edited by Morton Ann Gernsbacher and T. Givón
The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech production-and-comprehension, allowing the speech receiver to form roughly the same episodic… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 31] 1995. x, 267 pp.
Contemporary Research in Romance Linguistics: Papers from the XXII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, El Paso/Juárez, February 22–24, 1992
Edited by Jon Amastae, Grant Goodall, M. Montalbetti and M. Phinney
This volume contains 23 papers selected from those presented at the 22nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. The papers address issues in phonology, morphology, syntax/semantics from contemporary theoretical perspectives. In addition, in keeping with the symposium's US-Mexico location and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 123] 1995. viii, 381 pp.
The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford
Edited by Lynn Eubank, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith
This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA like Lydia White and Susan Gass, from well-known researchers in… read more[Not in series, 73] 1995. vii, 293 pp.
Discourse, Grammar and Typology: Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar
Edited by Werner Abraham, T. Givón and Sandra A. Thompson
This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1) generalizations are to be made on the basis of spoken texts in… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 27] 1995. xx, 352 pp.
The Explanation of Linguistic Causes: Az-Zağğāğī's Theory of Grammar. Introduction, translation, commentary
Kees Versteegh
The ultimate aim of every linguistic tradition is to go beyond the purely descriptive level and seek an explanation for linguistic phenomena. Traditions differ, however, with regard to the class of linguistic phenomena they wish to explain and the framework in which they define their explanation.… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 75] 1995. xvi, 310 pp.
Functionalism and Grammar
T. Givón
This book is Prof. Givón's long-awaited critical examination of the fundamental theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the functionalist approach to grammar. It challenges functionalists to take their own medicine and establish non-circular empirical definitions of both 'function' and… read more[Not in series, 74] 1995. xvii, 486 pp.
Georgian: A structural reference grammar
George Hewitt
The Caucasus for its size can boast more languages than any other region on earth. Of the 40 or so native tongues Georgian is the most widely spoken (by up to 5 million, of whom 3 million are ethnic Georgians). With its own unique script, Georgian has been written since the 4th century and has a… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 2] 1995. xviii, 716 pp.
The Hard Work–Entertainment Continuum: Teaching Asian languages in Australia
Edited by Andy Kirkpatrick, Yong Zhong and Helen Kirkpatrick
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 12] 1995. vii, 283 pp.
Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993
Edited by Henning Andersen
This volume contains a selection of 34 of the 96 papers presented at ICHL 1993, including several of the contributions to the workshop on Parameters and Typology organized jointly by Henning Andersen and David W. Lightfoot. Major topics represented are grammaticalization and functional renewal… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 124] 1995. x, 460 pp.
Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker
Until very recently, pragmatics has been restricted to the analysis of contemporary spoken language while historical linguistics has studied historical texts and language change in a decontextualized way. This has now radically changed and scholars from around the world are trying to build a new… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 35] 1995. xv, 623 pp.
Historical Roots of Linguistic Theories
Edited by Lia Formigari and Daniele Gambarara
Most of the papers collected in this volume concentrate on the history of linguistic ideas in France and Italy in the modern period (from the Renaissance to the present day). Some of them are specifically focused on the links between the two traditions of reflection on language. The contributions… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 74] 1995. viii, 309 pp.
History of Linguistics 1993: Papers from the Sixth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VI), Washington DC, 9–14 August 1993
Edited by Kurt R. Jankowsky
The 32 papers of this volume were selected from 78 papers read at ICHoLS VI, were contributed by linguists from 16 countries of Europe, Asia, and the Americas. They are presented in six sections:1. General Concerns 2. Oriental Linguistics and Related Issues 3. From the Early Middle Ages to the End… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 78] 1995. xx, 380 pp.
Iconicity in Language
Edited by Raffaele Simone
Several current linguistic approaches converge in rejecting the wide-spread idea that language is an autonomous system, i.e. that it is structured independently from the outside world and the natural equipment of language users. Around the world, semiotically biased linguistics (functionalism,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 110] 1995. xii, 315 pp.
Interlanguage and Learnability: From Chinese to English
Virginia Yip
This book investigates a set of structures characteristic of Chinese speakers' English interlanguage (CIL) in the light of grammatical theory and principles of learnability. As a study of CIL grammar, it illuminates both the theory of interlanguage syntax in general and some specific problems in… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 11] 1995. xvi, 247 pp.
Irony in Context
Katharina Barbe
In her book, Barbe discusses verbal irony as an interpretative notion. Verbal irony is described in its various realizations and thus placed within linguistics and pragmatics. From the point of view of an analyzing observer, Barbe provides an eclectic approach to irony in context, a study of how… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 34] 1995. x, 208 pp.
Language International World Directory of Sociolinguistic and Language Planning Organizations
Compiled by Francesc Domínguez and Núria López
This directory gives guidance in the complicated world of sociolinguistic and language planning organizations, giving structural information on regional, national, provincial and community level, both public and private. Each entry gives full details, including full addresses, phone/fax numbers,… read more[Language International World Directory, 1] 1995. xx, 530 pp.
Lexical Issues in Language Learning
Birgit Harley
The nine major empirical studies of Lexical Issues in Language Learning address key issues in the development and use of vocabulary by child bilinguals and older second language learners. The thematic focus in this collection of Language Learning articles is on the assessment of lexical development… read more[Best of Language Learning, 2] 1995. iv, 318 pp.
Lexical Knowledge in the Organization of Language
Edited by Urs Egli, Peter E. Pause, Christoph Schwarze, Arnim von Stechow and Götz Wienold
This book contains a selection of the papers given at an international conference at the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 1991. All contributions relate to the assumption that lexical knowledge plays a central role in the organization of language, inasmuch as the components or modules of grammar… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 114] 1995. xiv, 367 pp.
Lexiques-Grammaires comparés en français: Actes du colloque international de Montréal (3–5 juin 1992)
Sous la direction de Jacques Labelle et Christian Leclère
In most French linguistic studies, the object is so-called standard French, a rather woolly and reductive designation. The particularities of national languages such as Belgian and Quebec French are often forgotten or treated as outlandish facts. The first Montreal conference Lexiques grammaires… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 17] 1995. 217 pp.
Linguistic Theory and the Romance Languages
Edited by John Charles Smith and Martin Maiden
This volume contains revised versions of papers given at a conference at the Manoir de Brion, in Normandy. They deal with phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, and cover a wide range of Romance languages, including many lesser-known varieties. The contributors to the volume are committed to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 122] 1995. xiii, 240 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1995
Edited by Marcel den Dikken and Kees Hengeveld
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Linguistic society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January, 21, 1995. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. The… read more
Literacy and Religion: The textual politics and practice of Seventh-day Adventism
Cushla Kapitzke
This book explores the interrelation of literacy and religion as practiced by Western Christians in, first, historical contexts and, second, in one contemporary church setting. Using both a case study and a Foucauldian theoretical framework, the book provides a sustained analysis of the reciprocal… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 2] 1995. xxi, 343 pp.
Modality in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Suzanne Fleischman
This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 32] 1995. viii, 575 pp.
More Englishes: New studies in varieties of English 1988–1994
Manfred Görlach †
This collection of eight papers is a continuation of Manfred Görlach’s previous collection “Englishes” with the author’s most influential writings in the field of varieties of Englishread more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G13] 1995. 276 pp.
Non-fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World
Lise Menn, Michael P. O’Connor, Loraine K. Obler and Audrey Holland
“Non-fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World” is an up-to-date introduction to the language of patients with non-fluent aphasia. Recent research in languages other than English has challenged our old descriptions of aphasia syndromes: while their patterns can be recognized across languages, the… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 5] 1995. xvii, 212 pp.
On Extraction and Extraposition in German
Edited by Uli Lutz and Jürgen Pafel
Extraction has traditionally been one of the main topics in generative grammar, and it retains this status in current variants of the theory. German provides a good testing ground for traditional as well as current theories of extraction. The nine contributions to this volume document the recent… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 11] 1995. xii, 315 pp.
On Subject and Theme: A discourse functional perspective
Edited by Ruqaiya Hasan † and Peter H. Fries
The ten papers in this volume focus on Subject and Theme. Theme began its life as a semantic notion in the work of Vilém Mathesius, while Subject has traditionally been seen as just a syntactic entity. More recently two related perspectives on these concepts have attracted linguists' attention: the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 118] 1995. xlvi, 414 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VII: Austin, Texas 1993
Edited by Mushira Eid
This volume includes ten papers selected from the Seventh Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. For the first time in this series, three of the papers represent experimental studies dealing with Arabic syllable and morphological structure. Four are focused on aspects of agreement in Arabic. The… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 130] 1995. vii, 192 pp.
The Possibility of Language: A discussion of the nature of language, with implications for human and machine translation
Alan K. Melby and Terry Warner
This book is about the limits of machine translation. It is widely recognized that machine translation systems do much better on domain-specific controlled-language texts (domain texts for short) than on dynamic general-language texts (general texts for short). The authors explore this general —… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 14] 1995. xxvi, 276 pp.
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série. Volume 1
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Miroslav Červenka, Oldřich Leška † and Petr Sgall
This volume is the first one of the revived series of Travaux, which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic Circle, published in the years 1929-39. The tradition of the Circle still attracts attention in broad circles of European and American linguistics.… read more[Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague N.S., 1] 1995. x, 336 pp.
Professing Linguistic Historiography
E.F.K. Koerner †
The volume brings together recent papers by the author, selected to form a broad picture of his teachings, all of them revised and updated, either addressing particular topics in the Histor(iograph)y of Linguistics (Part I) or offering historical accounts of linguistic subfields (Part II), in… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 79] 1995. viii, 274 pp.
Romani in Contact: The history, structure and sociology of a language
Edited by Yaron Matras
A language of Indic origin heavily infuenced by European idioms for many centuries now, Romani provides an interesting experimental field for students of language contact, linguistic minorities, standardization, and typology. Approaching the language via its ever-surfacing character as a language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 126] 1995. xvii, 208 pp.
Scots and its Literature
J. Derrick McClure
Among the topics treated in this collection are the status of Scots as a national language; the orthography of Scots; the actual and potential degree of standardisation of Scots; the debt of the vocabulary of Scots to Gaelic; the use of Scots in fictional dialogue; and the development of Scots as a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G14] 1995. vi, 218 pp.
Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context
Edited by Barbara F. Freed
Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context brings together for the first time a series of studies which explore the relationship between language learning and the study abroad experience. Utilizing different research methodologies (quantitative, qualitative, descriptive), the focus in… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 9] 1995. xiv, 345 pp.
Semitic and Indo-European: Volume I: The Principal Etymologies. With observations on Afro-Asiatic
Saul Levin
This volume presents the key examples of morphological correspondences between Indo-European and Semitic languages, afforded by nouns, verbal roots, pronouns, prepositions, and numerals. Its focus is on shared morphology embodied in the cognate vocabulary.The facts that are brought out in this… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 129] 1995. xxii, 514 pp.
Tendances Récentes en Linguistique Française et Générale: Volume dédié à David Gaatone
Sous la direction de Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot et Lucien Kupferman
The contributors of this book aim to present a broad spectrum of different theoretical approaches in French linguistics. Despite the apparent heterogeneity in the field, a deeper unity in the varous topics emerges demonstrating that French linguistics today is more and more characterized as a… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 20] 1995. xvi, 409 pp.
Towards a History of the Basque Language
Edited by José Ignacio Hualde, Joseba A. Lakarra and R.L. Trask
Questions related to the origin and history of the Basque language spark considerable interest, since it is the only surviving pre-Indo-European language in western Europe. However, until now, there was no readily available source in English providing answers to these questions or giving an… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 131] 1995. v, 365 pp.
Word Order in Discourse
Edited by Pamela A. Downing and Michael Noonan
This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar.… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 30] 1995. x, 595 pp.
Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese
Insup Taylor and M. Martin Taylor
Chinese, Japanese, South (and North) Koreans in East Asia have a long, intertwined and distinguished cultural history and have achieved, or are in the process of achieving, spectacular economic success. Together, these three peoples make up one quarter of the world population.They use a variety of… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 3] 1995. xiii, 412 pp.
Writings in General Linguistics: On Sound Alternation (1881) and Outline of Linguistic Science (1883)
Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851–1887)
This volume brings together the most important general linguistic writings by Mikołay Kruszewski (1851-1887), whom Roman Jakobson described as “one of the greatest theoreticians of language among the world linguists of the late nineteenth century”. Apart from reissuing a revised version of the late… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 11] 1995. xl, 188 pp.
Zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache: New edition
Wilhelm Scherer (1841–1886)
Wilhelm Scherer (1841-1886) has gained wide recognition for his extraordinary accomplishments in linguistics as well as in literary studies.His first and most important contribution to the development of linguistic science was his monumental work of 508 pages Zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache,… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 16] 1995. lxii, 492 pp.
'Geschichtszahlen der Phonetik' (1941), together with 'Quellenatlas der Phonetik' (1940): New edition
Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia (1878–1966)
In this volume two monographs are reprinted in their entirety; these texts by the most distinguished phonetician of the first half of this century, Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia (1878-1966), are even today still the most comprehensive accounts of the 3000-year history of the study of sound by humans.… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 16] 1994. xxxviii, 174 pp.
The Acquisition of Mauritian Creole
Dany Adone
This work is based on an investigation of language acquisition process, particularly in regard to syntax, among Mauritian children learning to speak Mauritian Creole as their first language. As such, it is the first major study of the development of child grammar in a Creole context. Mauritian… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 9] 1994. xii, 167 pp.
Acting Out Participant Examples in the Classroom
Stanton E.F. Wortham
This volume explores a relational pattern that occurs during one type of speech event classroom “participant examples.” A participant example describes, as an example of something, an event that includes at least one person also participating in the conversation. Participants with a role in the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 30] 1994. xiv, 178 pp.
The Adjectival Category: Criteria for differentiation and identification
D.N.S. Bhat
This monograph sets out (i) to establish criteria for differentiating adjectives from other word-classes for languages in which they form a distinct category, and (ii) to establish criteria for determining their (non-)identity with words from other categories for languages in which they do not. As… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 24] 1994. xiii, 295 pp.
Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge
D. Gary Miller
This study investigates the properties of several ancient syllabic and linear segmental scripts to make explicit the aspects of linguistic knowledge they attempt to represent. Some recent experimental work suggests that nonliterate speakers do not have segmental knowledge and that only syllabic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 116] 1994. xvi, 139 pp.
Bilingual First Language Acquisition: French and German grammatical development
Edited by Jürgen M. Meisel
The contributions in this volume are based on an analysis of data from bilingual children acquiring French and German simultaneously. The longitudinal studies started at approximately age one year and six months and continued till age six. The papers focus on the development of specific… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 7] 1994. vi, 282 pp.
Bilingual Performance in Reading and Writing
Edited by Alister Cumming
In the past decade, literacy in second language has emerged as one of the most significant and intriguing topics of inquiry into language processes, human knowledge, cultural practices, and educational policy. Whereas earlier inquiry, theories and policies had often considered literacy and… read more[Best of Language Learning, 1] 1994. vi, 378 pp.
Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations: A comprehensive bibliography
Petra Campe
This is the first of a series of 6 books dealing with case phenomena in different languages, both Indo- and non-Indo-European, resulting from work by a team of 20 specialists at the University of Leuven. It is the first time such a large-scale investigation into case has been undertaken, and a… read more[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 1] 1994. vii, 644 pp.
Clitics: A comprehensive bibliography 1892–1991
Joel A. Nevis, Brian D. Joseph, Dieter Wanner and Arnold M. Zwicky
This bibliography provides an alphabetical listing of over 1500 articles, books, and dissertations that treat in some way the topic of clitics and related matters, e.g. affixes, words, word order, movement, sandhi, etc. The beginning point for the bibliographic entries is 1892, taking Jacob… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 22] 1994. xxxviii, 274 pp.
Combinatorial Morphology
John T. Stonham
This book presents a detailed examination of the most important arguments for a process-based theory of morphology and offers a highly-constrained alternative to the powerful mechanisms proposed in processual theories of morphology.Data is presented from dozens of different languages from numerous… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 120] 1994. xii, 206 pp.
Constructing a Productive Other: Discourse theory and the Convention refugee hearing
Robert F. Barsky
This book is a description of the process of constructing a productive Other for the purpose of being admitted to Canada as a Convention refugee. The whole claiming procedure is analyzed with respect to two actual cases, and contextualized by reference to pertinent national and international… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 29] 1994. x, 272 pp.
Continuity in Linguistic Semantics
Edited by Catherine Fuchs and Bernard Victorri
Until recently, most linguistic theories as well as theories of cognition have avoided use of the notion of continuity. At the moment, however, several linguistic trends, sharing a preoccupation with semantico-cognitive problems (e.g. cognitive grammars, 'psychomechanics', 'enunciative theories'),… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 19] 1994. iv, 255 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 1992: Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22–26 September 1992
Edited by Francisco Fernández, Miguel Fuster Márquez and Juan Jose Calvo
This volume brings together a selection of 28 out of the 76 papers read at ICHEL-7 in Valencia. The book opens with a general section, in which Richard Hogg examines the relationship between linguistics and philology, Enrique Bernárdez analyzes syntactic change from the point of view of catastrophe… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 113] 1994. viii, 388 pp.
Functional Literacy: Theoretical issues and educational implications
Edited by Ludo Verhoeven
The purpose of the volume is to open up new perspectives in the study of literacy by bringing together current research findings from linguistics, psychology, sociology and anthropology. The book divides into five parts. The first part deals with theoretical questions related to the definition and… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 1] 1994. viii, 493 pp.
The Grammar of Space
Soteria Svorou
A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language. The discussion of the similarities and differences among languages in the encoding… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 25] 1994. xiv, 290 pp.
Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Analysis: A contrastive study of sign systems in English and Hebrew
Yishai Tobin
This volume provides a new kind of contrastive analysis of two unrelated languages English and Hebrew based on the semiotic concepts of invariance, markedness and distinctive feature theory. It concentrates on linguistic forms and constructions which are remarkably different in each language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 111] 1994. xxii, 406 pp.
Japanese Psycholinguistics: A classified and annotated research bibliography
Joseph F. Kess and Tadao Miyamoto
This classified and annotated research bibliography is meant to serve as an introduction to the rich field of Japanese psycholinguistics, by providing an exhaustive inventory of what has been done in or about Japanese in a psycholinguistic sense. Thus, this volume captures the tradition of… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 24] 1994. xii, 355 pp.
Kriyol Syntax: The Portuguese-based Creole language of Guinea-Bissau
Alain Kihm
This book describes the Portuguese-based Creole which is widely spoken as a first language in Guinea-Bissau. The study focuses on one variety, 'central Kriyol', and its main aim is to present a complete description of the grammar of the language. The theoretical framework for the syntactic analysis… read more[Creole Language Library, 14] 1994. xii, 310 pp.
Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar
Edited by Teun Hoekstra and Bonnie D. Schwartz
This is a collection of essays on the native and non-native acquisition of syntax within the Principles and Parameters framework. In line with current methodology in the study of adult grammars, language acquisition is studied here from a comparative perspective. The unifying theme is the issue of… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 8] 1994. xii, 401 pp.
Language Contact and Language Conflict
Edited by Martin Pütz
The selected articles compiled in the present volume are based on contributions prepared for the 17th International L.A.U.D. (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg) Symposium held at the University of Duisburg on 23-27 March 1992. The 13 papers in this book focus on problems and issues of… read more[Not in series, 71] 1994. xviii, 256 pp.
Language Engineering and Translation: Consequences of automation
Juan C. Sager
At a time when information technology has become a regular tool of specialised translators in all aspects of their work, it is useful to place the activity of technical translation into its appropriate environment and to describe it from the point of view of its role in the broader context of… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 1] 1994. xx, 345 pp.
Language Ideology and Language Change in Early Modern German: A sociolinguistic study of the consonantal system of Nuremberg
Rosina L. Lippi-Green
This quantitative study, based on a computerized corpus of texts written by five men in early 16th-century Nuremberg, employs multivariate GLM statistical procedures to analyze the way linguistic, social and stylistic factors work individually and in interaction to influence variation observed in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 119] 1994. xiv, 150 pp.
Language Planning in Multilingual Contexts: Policies, communities, and schools in Luxembourg
Kathryn A. Davis
This volume examines the sociocultural factors that influence language choices and uses in the multilingual country of Luxembourg. Patterns of language use within and across communities are viewed in terms of interrelationships among language policy intent, implementation, and experience. The study… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 8] 1994. xix, 220 pp.
Language, Discourse and Translation in the West and Middle East
Edited by Robert de Beaugrande, Abdullah Shunnaq and Mohamed Helmy Heliel
The papers collected in this volume are a selection of papers presented at a conference on Language and Translation (Irbid, Jordan, 1992). In their revised form, they offer comparisons between Western and Arabic language usage and transfer. The articles bring together linguistic and cultural… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 7] 1994. xii, 256 pp.
Linguistic Minorities in Multilingual Settings: Implications for language policies
Christina Bratt Paulston
The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition. Such… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 4] 1994. xi, 136 pp.
Linguistic Studies on Latin: Selected papers from the 6th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (Budapest, 23–27 March 1991)
Edited by József Herman
The volume contains 26 articles (17 in English, 9 in French), selected from the papers presented at the 6th International Colloquim on Latin Linguistics, organized in Budapest. The authors share a common interest in applying to the study of Latin the conceptual framework of contemporary… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 28] 1994. ix, 421 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1994
Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema and Crit Cremers
This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Linguistic society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht in January 1994. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. The… read more
Najdi Arabic: Central Arabian
Bruce Ingham
The region of Najd in Central Arabia has always been regarded as inaccessible, ringed by a belt of sand deserts, the Nafūd, Dahana and the Rub’ al-Khāli and often with its population at odds with the rulers of the outer settled lands. It is however the centre of a purely Arabian culture based on a… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 1] 1994. xvi, 215 pp.
On the History of Grammar among the Arabs
Ignaz Goldziher
This essay was written in 1878 by I. Goldziher, who is considered one of the founders and greatest masters of Islamic studies in Europe. He examines the origin and early history of Arabic grammar and some features of its later development with special regard to the cultural historical apsects of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 73] 1994. xx, 153 pp.
Papers on Grammar: Volume IV
Edited by Gualtiero Calboli
This is the fourth in a series of volumes bringing together a selection of papers presenting linguistic and philological studies on Latin. The papers combine a thorough theoretical approach of Latin grammar with a rigorous and detailed analysis of the data. read more[Not in series, POG 4] 1994. xi, 246 pp.
A Paradigm Lost: The linguistic thought of Mikołaj Kruszewski
Joanna Radwańska-Williams
The general theory of language of Mikołaj Kruszweski (1851-1887) is, this book argues, a “lost paradigm” in the history of linguistics. The concept of 'paradigm' is understood in a broadly construed Kuhnian sense, and its applicability to linguistics as a science is examined. It is argued that… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 72] 1994. xii, 200 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VI: Columbus, Ohio 1992
Edited by Mushira Eid, Vicente Cantarino and Keith Walters
This volume divides into 3 sections: I. Arabic in Contact: the Hispano-Arabic Connection; II. Arabic in Contact: Other Connections; III. Phonological Perspectives.read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 115] 1994. viii, 238 pp.
Perspectives on Grammaticalization
Edited by William Pagliuca
This is the second of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UWM linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in 1990. It focuses on the evolution of grammatical form and meaning from lexical material, which has reinvigorated historical analysis and theory and led to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 109] 1994. xx, 306 pp.
Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction
Edited by Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith
This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II: Theories of Genesis constitute the core for presentation and discussion… read more[Creole Language Library, 15] 1994. xv, 409 pp.
The Prague School of Structural and Functional Linguistics
Edited by Philip A. Luelsdorff
The importance of the Prague School for the rise of structuralism and for integration of the theoretical linguistics of today can hardly be overestimated. The volume brings together 13 papers showing the main results of the research of the Prague School and of its continuation in the domains of… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 41] 1994. vii, 385 pp.
Praguiana 1945–1990
Edited by Philip A. Luelsdorff, Jarmila Panevová and Petr Sgall
The aim of this volume is to witness how the activities of the Prague School have continued to bring important new insights and discussions between the 1940s and the present time. Contributions are included which have escaped attention on an international scale because they were published in Czech;… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 40] 1994. x, 250 pp.
Process, Image, and Meaning: A realistic model of the meaning of sentences and narrative texts
Wolfgang Wildgen
The general topic of this book is the development of a “realistic” model of meaning; it has to account for the ecological basis of meaning in perception, action, and interaction, and is realistic in the sense of “scientific realism”, i.e. it is based on the most successful paradigm of modern… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 31] 1994. xii, 281 pp.
Reader in the History of Aphasia: From Franz Gall to Norman Geschwind
Edited by Paul Eling
The study of language and the brain is heavily dependent on the work of the early aphasiologists, and those wanting to get acquainted with the discipline will come across frequent references to these classic authors. This collection brings together seminal publications by 19th- and 20th-century… read more[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 4] 1994. xvi, 392 pp.
The Reality of Linguistic Rules
Susan D. Lima, Roberta Corrigan and Gregory Iverson
This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 21st Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium. Researchers from linguistics, psychology, computer science, and philosophy, using many different methods and focusing on many different facts of language, addressed the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 26] 1994. xxiii, 480 pp.
Semantic and Lexical Universals: Theory and empirical findings
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka
This set of papers represents a unique collection; it is the first attempt ever to empirically test a hypothetical set of semantic and lexical universals across a number of genetically and typologically diverse languages. In fact the word 'collection' is not fully appropriate in this case, since… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 25] 1994. viii, 510 pp.
Sound Change
Edited by Marc Dominicy and Didier Demolin
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 9] 1994. 158 pp.
Spoken Interaction Studies in Australia
Edited by Rod Gardner
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 11] 1994. vi, 191 pp.
Studies in Language Origins: Volume 3
Edited by Jan Wind, Abraham Jonker, Robin Allott and Leonard Rolfe
This collection brings together the best papers presented at recent meetings of the Language Origins Society. The volume reflects the diversity of approaches from many disciplines that are used to unravel the mystery of the origin of language: linguistics, anatomy, physiology, paleoanthropology,… read more[Not in series, LOS 3] 1994. xx, 344 pp.
The Syntax of Sentence and Text: A Festschrift for František Daneš
Edited by Svĕtla Čmejrková and František Štícha
This is a collection of papers inspired by the work of František Daneš and is published in honour of his 75th birthday. Daneš' international contribution to the development of Prague School functionalism, the theory of functional sentence perspective, discourse studies and semantics is reflected in… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 42] 1994. 398 pp.
Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993
Edited by Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Katerina Nicolaidis and Maria Sifianou
This volume brings together 65 papers which were presented at this Conference, the aim of which was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between scholars with expertise in various aspects of the Greek language. For this reason the volume contains the majority of the contributions. It should… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 117] 1994. xviii, 535 pp.
Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America: A social history
Stephen O. Murray
Based on extensive archival research, interviews, and participant observation over the course of two decades, Theory Groups in the Study of Language in North America provides a detailed social history of traditions and “revolutionary” challenges to traditions within North American linguistics,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 69] 1994. xx, 598 pp.
Trial Language: Differential discourse processing and discursive formation
Gail Stygall
This study of Anglo-American legal discourse is the first comprehensive discourse analysis of American legal language in its prototypical setting, the trial by jury. With ethnographic data gathered in a civil jury trial, the book compares the discourse processing of the legal participants and the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 26] 1994. xii, 226 pp.
Typological Studies in Negation
Edited by Peter Kahrel and René van den Berg
This collection of articles offers descriptions of the negation system in 16 languages. As not much is known about negation systems in non-European languages, the first aim of the volume is to provide data on various aspects on negation; for all articles these data were collected on the basis of… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 29] 1994. x, 385 pp.
Universal Grammar in Child Second Language Acquisition: Null subjects and morphological uniformity
Usha Lakshmanan
This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG). Specifically, the book focuses on null-subjects in the developing grammars of children acquiring English as a second language. The book provides evidence from the longitudinal… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 10] 1994. x, 162 pp.
Voice and Inversion
Edited by T. Givón
This collection aims first to establish a structure-independent, language-independent definition of pragmatic voice, and more specifically then a universal functional definition of “inverse”. The grammar and pragmatic function of the four major voice constructions direct-active, inverse, passive,… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 28] 1994. viii, 402 pp.
Voice: Form and Function
Edited by Barbara A. Fox and Paul J. Hopper
The volume's central concern is grammatical voice, traditionally known as diathesis, and its classical manifestations as Active, Middle, and Passive. While numerous problems in the meaning, syntax, and morphology of these categories in Indo-European remain unsolved, their counterparts in more… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 27] 1994. xiii, 377 pp.
American Dialect Research: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Dialect Society, 1889–1989
Edited by Dennis R. Preston
Containing all new material and published for the American Dialect Society's centennial celebration (1889-1989), this volume bings together in one place, as no previously published work has, current approaches to the general problems of language distribution and variation. The several chapters… read more[Not in series, 68] 1993. xiv, 464 pp.
Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization
Edited by Francis Byrne and John Holm †
Selected papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics. read more[Creole Language Library, 11] 1993. ix, 465 pp.
The Bilingual Lexicon
Edited by Robert Schreuder and Bert Weltens
In the study of bilingualism, the lexical level of language is of prime importance because, in practical terms, vocabulary acquisition is an essential prerequisite for the development of skill in language use; from a theoretical point of view, the mental lexicon, as a bridge between form and… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 6] 1993. viii, 307 pp.
Causatives and Transitivity
Edited by Bernard Comrie and Maria Polinsky
This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia. The inspirations for the volume is the pioneering work on causative constructions by the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 23] 1993. x, 399 pp.
Comparative-Historical Linguistics: Indo-European and Finno-Ugric. Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi III
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp
This volume offers an important contribution to the comparative historical study of languages. Most of the articles deal with topics concerning the Indo-European proto-language as well as the individual languages descended from it. Essays in Finno-Ugric philology complete the volume. The book is… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 97] 1993. xii, 566 pp.
Complex Verb Formation
D. Gary Miller
This investigation of complex verb formation seeks to identify and clarify the way(s) in which a base verb becomes 'complex'. The author carefully considers both the syntactic and the morphological side of this question, and in doing so brings a wealth of data from very diverse languages to bear on… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 95] 1993. xx, 381 pp.
Confluence: Linguistics, L2 acquisition and speech pathology
Edited by Fred Eckman
That linguistics, L2 acquisition and speech pathology impinge on each other in areas of vital importance to each discipline seems to be almost undeniable. All three fields are concerned with the characterization of language in one form or another; and all deal with the acquisition of language by… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 4] 1993. xvi, 260 pp.
Diglossia: A comprehensive bibliography, 1960–1990, and supplements
Mauro Fernández
Today, the notion of 'diglossia' occupies a prominent place in sociolinguistic research. Since the 1960s, when the dominant sense of 'diglossia' was the complementary sociofunctional distribution of two varieties of the same language, the term has been applied often controversially to a growing… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 23] 1993. lii, 472 pp.
Discourse Modality: Subjectivity, Emotion and Voice in the Japanese Language
Senko K. Maynard
The emotional aspects of language have so far not received the attention they deserve. This study focuses on nonpropositional, i.e. expressive and interactional meanings of Japanese signs, with special emphasis on understanding their cognitive, psychological and social meanings. It shows how the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 24] 1993. x, 315 pp.
Discourse Studies: An introductory textbook
Jan Renkema
This book familiarizes the student with the key concepts and the major issues in the field of discourse studies. It provides a scientific 'toolkit' for courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of the professional literature.The book consists of four parts. read more[Not in series, 69] 1993. x, 224 pp.
English Grammar: A function-based introduction. Volume I
T. Givón
The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and… read more[Not in series, ENGRAM 1] 1993. xxii, 318 pp.
English Grammar: A function-based introduction. Volume II
T. Givón
The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and… read more[Not in series, ENGRAM 2] 1993. xv, 363 pp.
English Phonology
John T. Jensen
This is a general discussion of the phonology of English within the frameworks of lexical, metrical, and prosodic phonology. It not only presents a synthesis of current approaches but also reconciles their discrepancies and presents critical commentary. There is a discussion of current theories,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 99] 1993. x, 251 pp.
English Speech Rhythm: Form and function in everyday verbal interaction
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 25] 1993. x, 346 pp.
Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages: Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
Edited by Francis Byrne and Donald Winford
The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level… read more[Creole Language Library, 12] 1993. xvi, 329 pp.
Focus on Canada
Edited by Sandra Clarke
Although varieties of North American English have come in for a good deal of linguistic scrutiny in recent years, the vast majority of published works have dealt with American rather than Canadian English. This volume constitutes a welcome addition to our linguistic knowledge of English-speaking… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G11] 1993. xii, 302 pp.
From Indo-European to Latin: The evolution of a morphosyntactic type
Helena Kurzová
This study aims to describe the typological characteristics of the original Indo-European structure, called the derivative-flectional stage (or (sub)type), and to trace its developments to the paradigmatically organized structure of the individual Indo-European languages, called the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 104] 1993. xiv, 259 pp.
Generative Studies in Basque Linguistics
Edited by José Ignacio Hualde and Jon Ortiz de Urbina
In part due to its exotic place within the languages of Europe, but mainly because of its basic typological differences with better-described languages, Basque has often attracted the interest of linguists of very different theoretical persuasions. This book presents a collection of articles which… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 105] 1993. 334 pp.
Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions
Carol Lord
This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 26] 1993. x, 273 pp.
Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, New Brunswick, 14–18 August 1989
Edited by Henk Aertsen and Robert J. Jeffers
The present volume contains revised versions of selected papers from the general sessions of ICHL 9. The 34 papers cover topics from the full range of contemporary historical linguistic scholarship. The papers address issues of language change in a large variety of languages and language families,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 106] 1993. xviii, 538 pp.
Historical Linguistics 1991: Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991
Edited by Jaap van Marle
This volume contains 22 of the 95 papers presented during ICHL 10. The articles included here clearly reflect the on-going interest in the general mechanisms of language change, the close relationship between present-day historical linguistics and linguistic theory, and the renewed interest in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 107] 1993. xviii, 395 pp.
History of Linguistic Thought in the Early Middle Ages
Edited by Vivien A. Law
Surveys of linguistics in the Middle Ages often begin with the twelfth century, dismissing the preceding six centuries as 'devoid of originality' or 'dependent upon Donatus and Priscian'. This collection of articles devoted to linguistics in the early Middle Ages attempts to redress the balance by… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 71] 1993. viii, 255 pp.
Knowledge of Reflexives in a Second Language
Margaret Thomas
This study addresses the debate about whether adult language learners have access to the principles and parameters of universal grammar in constructing the grammar of a second language. The data are based on two related experiments. The first examines the interpretation of English reflexive… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 6] 1993. x, 234 pp.
The Language Builder: An essay on the human signature in linguistic morphogenesis
Claude Hagège
Linguistics, as a social science, should have something to teach us about humans as social beings. However, modern grammatical theories regard languages as autonomous systems, so these theories are little concerned with speakers and hearers, their interactions, and their relationship to the world… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 94] 1993. xii, 283 pp.
Language and Gender in the Australian Context
Edited by Joanne Winter and Gillian Wigglesworth
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 10] 1993. iii, 181 pp.
Linguistic Perspectives on Romance Languages: Selected Papers from the XXI Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Santa Barbara, February 21–24, 1991
Edited by William J. Ashby, Marianne Mithun and Giorgio Perissinotto
This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 1991 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, held in Santa Barbara. In addition, the volume contains revised versions of three of the keynote papers. A welcome aspect of this collection, reflective of the conference itself, is the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 103] 1993. xxii, 404 pp.
Linguistic Variables: Towards a unified theory of linguistic variation
Hans-Heinrich Lieb
This book for the first time reconstructs in a single theoretical framework the more important approaches to linguistic variation found in areas as different as historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, stylistics, contrastive linguistics, language typology,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 108] 1993. xiv, 261 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1993
Edited by Frank Drijkoningen and Kees Hengeveld
This volume contains a selection of 17 of the papers presented at the twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Linguistic society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January 16, 1993. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in… read more
The Middle Voice
Suzanne Kemmer
This book approaches the middle voice from the perspective of typology and language universals research. The principal aim is to provide a typologically valid characterization of the category of middle voice in terms of which it can be incorporated in a cognitively-based theory of human language.… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 23] 1993. xii, 300 pp.
A New Bibliography of Writings on Varieties of English, 1984–1992/93
Beat Glauser, Edgar W. Schneider and Manfred Görlach †
The continuing expansion of research in dialectology, sociolinguistics and English as a world language has made the field increasingly difficult to survey. This bibliography is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the relevant publications of the past few years. Like its predecessor, it… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G12] 1993. 208 pp.
Papers on Rhetoric: Volume I
Edited by Lucia Calboli Montefusco
[Not in series, POR 1] 1993. viii, 94 pp.
Paralanguage: A linguistic and interdisciplinary approach to interactive speech and sounds
Fernando Poyatos
This is the first interdisciplinary book-length treatment of paralanguage, briefly defined as: nonverbal vocal or narial communication. After sensitizing the reader to our sound-generating movements and to all human external and environmental sounds for their unquestionable communicative qualities,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 92] 1993. xii, 478 pp.
The Parametrization of Universal Grammar
Edited by Gisbert Fanselow
In this volume the subject of parametrization is addressed from various, though interrelated perspectives, ranging from learnability, the form and nature of parametrization, the role of the interface between morphology and syntax and the parameters of X-bar syntax, to the lexical parametrization… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 8] 1993. xvii, 232 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume V: Ann Arbor, Michigan 1991
Edited by Mushira Eid and Clive Holes
The papers in the first section of this volume, 'Variation in Arabic', deal with a wide range of topics: the function of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) vs. dialect variation in political speeches, patterns of variation in concord in Cairene dialect, the extent to which Cairenes 'know' MSA, and the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 101] 1993. viii, 347 pp.
Perspectives on Language and Conceptualization
Edited by Jan Nuyts and Eric Pederson
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 8] 1993. 207 pp.
Pragmatics and Classical Sanskrit: A pilot study in linguistic politeness
Lieve Van de Walle
This book explores the possibilities and limitations of pragmatic research in classical Sanskrit concentrating on linguistic politeness. The four case studies it comprises are in essence empirical, and try to accurately describe a fairly limited number of interactions between an also limited number… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 28] 1993. xii, 454 pp.
Predication in Caribbean English Creoles
Donald Winford
This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively. The book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of CEC… read more[Creole Language Library, 10] 1993. viii, 419 pp.
Principles and Prediction: The analysis of natural language. Papers in honor of Gerald Sanders
Edited by Mushira Eid and Gregory Iverson
The volume is divided into four sections: typology, syntax, discourse and phonology. Two of the typology papers study the structure and organization of category systems (Joseph Greenberg, Linda Schwartz); the third discusses language typology and universals from the perspective of language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 98] 1993. xix, 382 pp.
Progress in Language: With special reference to English. New edition
Otto Jespersen (1860–1943)
Progress in Language, first published in 1894, dates from fairly early in Otto Jespersen's (1860-1943) academic career; it already contains many of the essentials of his argument against the prevailing mode of 19th-century linguistic thought which he maintained until the end of his life. As James D. read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 17] 1993. xviii, 382 pp. (printed 2-up)
The Rise of Functional Categories
Elly van Gelderen
In recent years, word order has come to be seen, within a Government Binding/Minimalist framework, as determined by functional as well as lexical categories. Within this framework, functional categories are often seen as present in every language without evidence being available in that language.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 9] 1993. x, 224 pp.
Russian-English Dictionary of Verbal Collocations
Morton Benson and Evelyn Benson
All languages are characterized by the regular cooccurrence of certain words; for example, we say in English, tall building but high mountain. These recurrent combinations or collocations are peculiar to each individual language and cannot be predicted by a learner of that language. There are… read more[Not in series, 65] 1993. xviii, 269 pp.
Studies in Functional Stylistics
Edited by Jan Chloupek and Jiří Nekvapil
The 15 contributions in the present collection can be divided roughly into three groups: (1) Papers directly following up functional stylistics and the theory of language culture, elaborated in the classical period of the Prague Linguistic School. (2) Papers concerning the problems of style in a… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 36] 1993. 293 pp.
Subjectivity in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical considerations and a case study of Japanese spoken discourse
Shoichi Iwasaki
This book investigates the notion of subjectivity from a pragmatic point of view. There have been attempts to reduce the notion of the speaker or subjectivity as a syntactic category, or to seek an explanation for it in semantic terms. However, in order to understand the vast range of subjectivity… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 2] 1993. xii, 152 pp.
Symbolism and Reality: A study in the nature of mind
Charles W. Morris
Charles W. Morris' doctoral thesis Symbolism and Reality, written in 1925 at Chicago under George H. Mead, has never before been published. It sets out to prove that thought and mind are not entities, nor even processes involving a psychical substance distinguishable from the rest of reality, but… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 15] 1993. xxv, 128 pp.
Syntactic Change in Germanic: Aspects of language change in Germanic with particular reference to Middle Dutch
Kate Burridge
This study examines certain features of Dutch syntax between approximately 1300 and 1650. Of central importance are the overall developments in the word order patterning and the various changes they entail elsewhere in the grammar, such as in the negative construction. After an introductory chapter… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 89] 1993. xii, 287 pp.
Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair
Edited by Mona Baker, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli
Text and Technology focuses on three major areas of modern linguistics: discourse analysis, corpus-driven analysis of language, and computational linguistics. The volume starts off with a description of the various British traditions in text analysis by Michael Stubbs. The first section “Spoken and… read more[Not in series, 64] 1993. xii, 361 pp.
Topics in African Linguistics: Papers from the XXI Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Georgia, April 1990
Edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene and Lioba Moshi
The 16 papers in this volume are revised versions of papers presented at the conference; they represent the state of the art in various subfields of African linguistics into which the book is organized: (1) morphosyntax, (2) semantics, (3) phonology, and (4) language contact. The last part covers… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 100] 1993. x, 307 pp.
Trinidad and Tobago
Lise Winer
This volume describes the English and English Creole of Trinidad and Tobago. Sources from the early 19th through late 20th centuries are gathered from a wide range of materials: novels, editorials, advertisements, cartoons, proverbs, newspaper articles, plays, lyrics of traditional songs and… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T6] 1993. xii, 368 pp.
Varieties of Questions in English Conversation
Elizabeth G. Weber
This book examines relations which hold between morphosyntactic form and communicative function in discourse by examining form-function correlations of noninterrogative questions in ordinary English conversation. So-called nontypical declarative and nonclausal questions are identified functionally.… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 3] 1993. x, 252 pp.
The Wedding Report: A prototypical approach to the study of traditional text types
Hans-Jürg Suter
Traditional text types (or genres) are complex linguistic, sociocultural and cognitive phenomena that can only be analysed in flexible interdisciplinary frameworks fusing structural and process-oriented approaches and combining quantitative description with qualitative interpretation and evaluation. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 27] 1993. xii, 314 pp.
(On) Searle on Conversation: Compiled and introduced by Herman Parret and Jef Verschueren
John R. Searle, Herman Parret and Jef Verschueren
At an international conference held in 1981 at the Universidada Estudual of Campinas (Brazil), a controversial lecture was given by John Searle which presented two conceptual theses: that conversation does not have an intrinsic structure about which a relevant theory can be formulated, and that… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 21] 1992. vi, 154 pp.
Advances in Non-Verbal Communication: Sociocultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives
Edited by Fernando Poyatos
This volume on nonverbal communication studies, the most multi- and interdisciplinary contribution to this field in almost twenty years, offers numerous suggestions for further research in many hitherto unexplored areas. The twenty contributions include the most recent theoretical and empirical… read more[Not in series, 60] 1992. xxiv, 412 pp.
Advances in Role and Reference Grammar
Edited by Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
This volume presents research on major issues in syntactic theory within Role and Reference Grammar. This theory was first presented in detail in Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar [FSUG], and these papers represent both expansions and applications of the theory to a wide range of phenomena.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 82] 1992. xiii, 569 pp.
Aspects of a Cognitive-Pragmatic Theory of Language: On cognition, functionalism, and grammar
Jan Nuyts
This book is about a theory of language that combines two observations (1) that language is based on an extensive cognitive infrastructure (cognitivism) and (2) that it is functional for its user (functionalism). These observations are regarded as two dimensions of one phenomenon that both need to… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 20] 1992. xii, 399 pp.
The Construct of Language Proficiency: Applications of psychological models to language assessment
Edited by Ludo Verhoeven and John H.A.L. de Jong
This books aims to open up new perspectives in the study of language proficiency by bringing together current research from different fields in psychology and linguistics. All contributions start out from empirical studies, which are then related to applications in language assessment. The book… read more[Not in series, 62] 1992. viii, 212 pp.
The Contextualization of Language
Edited by Peter Auer and Aldo Di Luzio
This volume suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction. On a theoretical level, it advocates a switch of focus from 'context' as a preestablished, monolithic category which constringes co-participants' verbal and nonverbal behaviour, to an active notion of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 22] 1992. xvi, 402 pp.
Current Advances in Semantic Theory
Edited by Maxim I. Stamenov
This volume contains selected contributions to the interdisciplinary symposium on 'Models of Meaning' held in Varna, September 25-28, 1988, under the auspices of the Institute of the Bulgarian Language of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The aim of the meeting was to broaden the horizons of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 73] 1992. xi, 565 pp.
Cursing in America: A psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets
Timothy Jay
This is the first serious and extensive examination of American cursing from a psycholinguistic-contextual point of view. Several field studies and numerous laboratory-based experiments focus on the relationship between cursing and language acquisitions, anger expresssion, gender stereotypes,… read more[Not in series, 57] 1992. viii, 272 pp.
Deixis, Grammar, and Culture
Revere D. Perkins
Many linguists have believed that there is no connection between culture and language structures. This study reviews some of the literature supporting vocabulary connections, hypotheses for other connections, and critical views of this type of hypothesis. Precisely such a connection is developed… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 24] 1992. x, 245 pp.
Diachronic Studies in Lexicology, Affixation, Phonology: Edita and Inedita 1979–1988. Volume II
Yakov Malkiel
The ten articles collected in this volume are an impressive indication of the range and depth of Malkiel's knowledge of diachronic processes in the Romance languages. In the author's experience, etymological studies of lexis frequently lead one into the areas of phonology and morphology, and the… read more[Not in series, EAI 2] 1992. vi, 312 pp.
Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain: Recherches lexico-sémantiques. Volume 3
Compiled by Igor Mel’čuk
[Not in series, DECFC 3] 1992. 325 pp.
Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text
Edited by William C. Mann and Sandra A. Thompson
Discourse Description presents in one convenient volume a variety of approaches to text description that have been proposed in the linguistic literature in the last decade or so. The book is organized to make it easy to understand and compare the various approaches. Since all of the researchers are… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 16] 1992. xiii, 409 pp.
Diversions of Galway: Papers on the history of linguistics from ICHoLS V
Edited by Anders Ahlqvist
This volume contains a selection of papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, dealing with subjects ranging from the classical period till the 20th century.read more
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 68] 1992. xxviii, 384 pp.
English Text: System and structure
J.R. Martin
This book is a comprehensive introduction to text forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use. It has been designed to complement functional grammars of English, building on the generation of discourse analysis… read more[Not in series, 59] 1992. xiv, 620 pp.
Explanation in Historical Linguistics
Edited by Garry W. Davis and Gregory Iverson
This is the first of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UVM Linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in April 1990. The contributions in this volume investigate the general question of what constitutes an explanation of diachronic change, and illustrate their… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 84] 1992. xiv, 238 pp.
The Focusing Hypothesis: The theory of left hemisphere lateralised language re-examined
Alison Wray
This book explores the nature of the control of language processing by the hemispheres of the neocortex. The author expounds a novel hypothesis, “The Focusing Hypothesis”, which holds that language processing in the brain is achieved through analytic and holistic systems, the former through left… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 3] 1992. xiv, 207 pp.
From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction: On Left-Dislocation in English
Ronald Geluykens
This study deals with interactional processes in conversational discourse, and the way they may get 'syntacticized' into grammatical constructions. It investigates the link between discourse function and syntactic form, and the ways in which grammatical form is a reflection on communicative… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 1] 1992. xii, 182 pp.
Grammars and Grammaticality
Michael B. Kac
At the outset, the goal of generative grammar was the explication of an intuitive concept grammaticality (Chomsky 1957:13). But psychological goals have become primary, referred to as “linguistic competence”, “language faculty”, or, more recently, “I-language”. Kac argues for the validity of the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 78] 1992. x, 259 pp.
Grammatical Number in English Nouns: An empirical and theoretical account
Mark A. Wickens
Apart from the coverage given to it in the grammars, number in English nouns has received relatively little attention, especially in the area of theoretical considerations. Guided by the principles of psychomechanics, Hirtle (1982a) put forth a fairly elaborate theory of number in English nouns.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 76] 1992. xvi, 321 pp.
Historical Philology: Greek, Latin, and Romance. Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi II
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp
The present volume mainly contains contributions on the classical language, Greek and Latin. In addition to the historical comparative linguistic aspects of these languages, philological and historical questions are dealt with as well. Consideration of Italic and Romance topics is also included.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 87] 1992. xii, 386 pp.
A History of Indo-European Verb Morphology
Kenneth Shields
This book explores the origin and evolution of important grammatical categories of the Indo-European verb, including the markers of person, tense, number, aspect, and mood. Its central thesis is that many of these markers can be traced to original deictic particles which were incorporated into… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 88] 1992. viii, 160 pp.
The History of Linguistics in the Low Countries
Edited by Jan Noordegraaf, Kees Versteegh and E.F.K. Koerner †
The importance of the Low Countries as a centre for the study of foreign languages is well-known. The mutual relationship between the Dutch grammatical tradition and the Western European context has, however, been largely neglected. In this collection of papers on the history of linguistics in the… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 64] 1992. vi, 400 pp. + ills.
Intelligibility in Speech Disorders: Theory, measurement and management
Edited by Raymond D. Kent
The papers in this volume, written by authors experienced in intelligibility issues in speech pathology and related fields, describe the basic dimensions by which speech intelligibility can and must be understood. The dimensions are auditory perceptual, linguistic, acoustic and physiologic. These,… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 1] 1992. vi, 365 pp.
The Joy of Grammar: A festschrift in honor of James D. McCawley
Edited by Diane Brentari, Gary N. Larson and Lynn A. MacLeod
Two threads run through this collection of 22 papers by students and colleagues of James D. McCawley. The first is a commitment to deep reflection on the direction of linguistic study, sometimes resulting in challenges to the writings of major figures or new appreciations, sometimes questioning our… read more[Not in series, 55] 1992. xii, 400 pp.
Language Teaching and Learning in Australia
Edited by Chris Mann and Richard B. Baldauf, Jr. †
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 9] 1992. iv, 162 pp.
Language Transfer in Language Learning: Revised edition
Edited by Susan M. Gass and Larry Selinker
The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. This book, which includes 12 chapters by distinguished researchers in the field of second language acquisition, traces the conceptual history of language transfer from… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 5] 1992. x, 236 pp.
Language and Earth: Elective affinities between the emerging sciences of linguistics and geology
Edited by Bernd Naumann, Frans Plank and Gottfried Hofbauer
In former times, the study of language was rarely pursued in isolation, and many of the other intellectual concerns that used to be intertwined with language study have long been on the record of historians of linguistics. The present volume is the first to probe into an association of linguistics… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 66] 1992. xvi, 445 pp.
The Languages of Joyce: Selected Papers from the 11th International James Joyce Symposium Venice 1988
Edited by Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli, Carla Marengo and Christine van Boheemen
The papers collected in this volume capture some of the excitement of the 11th International James Joyce Symposium, held in Venice and Trieste, June 1988. ‘The contents of this book are by no means as restrictive as the title might suggest. The contributors explore not only Joyce’s ‘languages’ and… read more[Not in series, 54] 1992. xx, 277 pp.
Layered Structure and Reference in a Functional Perspective: Papers from the Functional Grammar Conference, Copenhagen, 1990
Edited by Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder and Lars Kristoffersen
This volume contains revised and expanded versions of those papers from the 1990 Functional Grammar Conference in Copenhagen that contributed specifically to the current investigation of clause structure in terms of semantic layers. One of the key concepts in this discussion is 'reference'. Some… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 23] 1992. xiii, 444 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1992
Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema and Roeland van Hout
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-third annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. The papers present an overview of… read more
Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages
Edited by Willem Fase, Koen Jaspaert and Sjaak Kroon
The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of the book theoretical perspectives are presented, followed by linguistic, sociological and descriptive studies of languages and countries that… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 1] 1992. xii, 403 pp.
One Parent – One Language: An interactional approach
Susanne Döpke
This volume examines the relationship between young children's degrees of bilingualism and features of the verbal input which these children receive from their parents. In particular, it seeks to explore the following question: to what extent are families who follow the 'one parent-one language'… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 3] 1992. xviii, 231 pp.
Papers in Theoretical Linguistics
Niels Danielsen
This volume contains eight papers by the late Niels Danielsen, Danish linguist and philologist, and serves as a fine introduction to this theory of linguistic universality. The papers highlight the most important universals introduced by him, such as Linguistic Polarity, the Constitutional Axis of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 23] 1992. xxii, 224 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume IV: Detroit, Michigan 1990
Edited by Ellen Broselow, Mushira Eid and John McCarthy
This volume includes papers on the study of Arabic dialects and their implications for general linguistics (Section I), as well of papers of a more general nature (Sections II and III). Because the Arabic dialects are similar in many ways, a study of their differences can help isolate precisely the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 85] 1992. viii, 282 pp.
The Phonetics of Fingerspelling
Sherman Wilcox
We now know that natural signed languages such as American Sign Language, French Sign Language, British Sign Language and others are fully independent languages. But natural signed languages are only one way of conveying language in the visual/gestural modality. Signed languages also have… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 4] 1992. vi, 108 pp.
Phonological Investigations
Edited by Jacek Fisiak and Stanislaw Puppel
The papers in this volume deal with subjects ranging from sound change and general phonological issues to analyses of specific problems in Polish and English, while some papers are of a crosslinguistic/contrastive nature. No single phonological paradigm has been followed, and this diversity of… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 38] 1992. x, 507 pp.
Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility
Edited by Doris L. Payne
For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a “basic” order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the “basic” order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages.… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 22] 1992. viii, 320 pp.
Predication
Edited by Johan De Caluwé, André Hantson and Willy Vandeweghe
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 7] 1992. 195 pp.
Prehistory, History and Historiography of Language, Speech, and Linguistic Theory: Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi I
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi
This collection of papers deals primarily with topics in general linguistics, including history of linguistic science. The volume is divided in 5 parts: I. Origin and Prehistory of Language, II. Historiography of Linguistics, III. Phonology and Phonetic Change, IV. Morphology and Syntax, and V.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 64] 1992. x, 407 pp.
Prospects for a New Structuralism
Edited by Hans-Heinrich Lieb
This volume, which has partly grown from a Round Table at the XIVth International Congress of Linguists, argues for a large amount of underlying unity in outlook among different frameworks in present-day linguistics: the contemporary Prague School; the Noematic approach; the UNITYP model;… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 96] 1992. vii, 275 pp.
Psycholinguistics: Psychology, linguistics, and the study of natural language
Joseph F. Kess
This textbook is designed to serve as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of psycholinguistics. It is directed at filling the reading needs of courses in departments of linguistics and of psychology, presenting an integrated overview of the ways in which both disciplines have… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 86] 1992. xiv, 383 pp.
Quantitative Linguistics
Marie Těšitelová
Since the 1960s quantitative linguistics has undergone a great development marked especially by attempts to work systematically with language phenomena on all language levels. Besides traditional areas where significant results were already achieved before the 60s (phonology, graphemics and… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 37] 1992. 253 pp.
Recent Developments in Germanic Linguistics
Edited by Rosina L. Lippi-Green
These are selected papers from the Second Annual Michigan/Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable held in April of 1991 at Ann Arbor. Topics include the evolution of the gender system, the delineation of the relative clause in historical texts, and language as a political tool in the new Europe.read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 93] 1992. xii, 163 pp.
Romance Languages and Modern Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from the XX Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Ottawa, April 10–14, 1990
Edited by Paul Hirschbühler and E.F.K. Koerner †
The contributions in this volume are selected and revised papers from the 20th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, held in Ottawa in 1990. They reflect the state of Romance linguistics carried out within a broadly defined generative framework. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 91] 1992. viii, 416 pp.
The Semantic Structure of Spanish: Meaning and grammatical form
Larry D. King
In recent years, linguistics has become increasingly more willing to allow some type of representation of 'meaning' in the study of language. However, most approaches deal with sentence or utterance meaning and thereby ignore the meaning of linguistic form. Yet no description of linguistic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 90] 1992. xii, 303 pp.
Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830–1930: From etymology to contextuality
Brigitte Nerlich
It is widely believed by historians of linguistics that the 19th-century was largely devoted to historical and comparative studies, with the main emphasis on the discovery of soundlaws. Syntax is typically portrayed as a mere sideline of these studies, while semantics is seldom even mentioned. If… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 59] 1992. xi, 359 pp.
Studies out in Left Field: Defamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley on his 33rd or 34th birthday. Reprint of the original edition
Edited by Arnold M. Zwicky, Peter H. Salus, Robert I. Binnick and Anthony L. Vanek
Transformational Grammar’s Underground Classic!Back in Print in the Nick of Time!(Just as the photocopies were getting too fuzzy to read!)Here is the complete and unexpurgated version of the legendary lost classic of porno- and scatolinguistic theory. Included are the seminal writings of Quang Phuc… read more[Not in series, 63] 1992. xxiv, 200 pp.
The Syntax of Norwegian Passive Constructions
Tor A. Åfarli
This book provides an analysis of the passive phenomenon in general and of Norwegian passive constructions in particular. Related topics such as English passive constructions and Norwegian ergative constructions are also examined. The analysis is carried out within a Government and Binding… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 7] 1992. xii, 177 pp.
Theoretical Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XIX, Ohio State University, April 21–23, 1989
Edited by Christiane Laeufer and Terrell A. Morgan
This nineteenth edition of LSRL proceedings contains a selection of papers on variety of Romance idioms and includes current topics in established areas of study. The phonology papers focus mostly on syllabic and higher-level prosodic structure. The morphology section deals primarily with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 74] 1992. viii, 515 pp.
Theoretical Syntax 1980–1990: An annotated and classified bibliography
Rosemarie Whitney Ostler
This volume is intended to be used by practicing scholars as well as students. It represents all major and some of the minor trends that have evolved during the past decade. Book titles from all available sources have been included, as well as periodical articles from the major journals, whenever… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 21] 1992. viii, 192 pp.
Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution: Studies in honour of René Dirven on the occasion of his 60th birthday
Edited by Martin Pütz
For this volume, 30 well-known linguistics and researcher in related fields were invited to present an overview of their most important insights and theories as these have evolved over the past 30 years. Against the background of work done in other areas of study, the contributors reflect on the… read more[Not in series, 61] 1992. xl, 632 pp.
Utterance Structure: Developing grammars again
Wolfgang Klein and Clive Perdue
This volume presents the results of part of the ESF project 'Second language acquisition by adult immigrants'. The present study deals specifically with structure of utterances in learner varieties. The authors have attempted to find general principles which determine the form of utterances from… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 5] 1992. xvi, 354 pp.
Variation in Language: Code switching in Czech as a challenge for sociolinguistics
Edited by Petr Sgall, Jirí Hronek, Alexandr Stich and Ján Horecký
Czech, a clear case of a language having a Standard and a strong central vernacular with intensive shifting between them, offers many points of general interest to sociolinguists. This volume is divided in 5 chapters and opens with a general discussion of language varieties. 'The Two Central… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 39] 1992. xii, 370 pp.
Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine
The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 19:1] 1991. xii, 360 pp.
Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine
The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 19:2] 1991. xii, 558 pp.
A Case for Psycholinguistic Cases
Edited by Gabriela Appel and Hans W. Dechert
This volume comprises ten papers presented as plenary lectures on the occasion of the Second World Congress of the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL) at the University of Kassel, Germany, from July 27 — 31, 1987. The articles collected in this volume focus on the production,… read more[Not in series, 46] 1991. viii, 195 pp.
Categories and Case: The sentence structure of Korean
William O’Grady
The principal objective of this book is to provide a unified treatment of morphological case in Korean. Focussing on the nominative, accusative and dative suffixes, the author seeks to show that each of these morphemes consistently encodes a corresponding combinatorial relation in the 'surface'… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 71] 1991. vii, 294 pp.
Child Language and Developmental Dysphasia: Linguistic studies of the acquisition of German
Harald Clahsen
The subject of this two part work is the acquisition of language structure in which the development of syntax and morphology is examined by investigations on children without language problems and on children with developmental dysphasia. The author uses a comparative acquisition study to provide… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 2] 1991. x, 350 pp.
Conflict and Cooperation in Job Interviews: A study of talks, tasks and ideas
Martha L. Komter
An empirical study based on an analysis of 35 taped job interviews. The verbal interaction of the participants in the interviews is seen as embedded within wide ideological and institutional environments. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 15] 1991. viii, 252 pp.
Conversation for Action: The computer terminal as medium of communication
Denise E. Murray
Today, computer-mediated communication spans a range of activities from interactive messages to word processing. Researchers interested in this new technology have concentrated on its effects in the workplace for knowledge production and dissemination or on its word processing function. The study… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 10] 1991. xii, 180 pp.
Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory
Edited by Thom Huebner and Charles A. Ferguson
The term “crosscurrent” is defined as “a current flowing counter to another.” This volume represents crosscurrents in second language acquisition and linguistic theory in several respects. First, although the main currents running between linguistics and second language acquisition have… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 2] 1991. viii, 435 pp.
Development and Structures of Creole Languages: Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton
Edited by Francis Byrne and Thom Huebner
This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally… read more[Creole Language Library, 9] 1991. x, 222 pp.
Developmental Orthography
Philip A. Luelsdorff
Philip Luelsdorff's highly original approach to the grammar of orthography is to analyse in detail how German pupils learn about written English. In this collection of essays and experiments we are presented with the rich finds of a decade of programmatic research. The context is set with an… read more[Not in series, 51] 1991. xii, 273 pp.
A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700–1800 (DENG)
Bertil Sundby, Anne Kari Bjørge and Kari E. Haugland
Eighteenth-century English grammarians plead eloquently for purity, precision and perspicuity, but their method of teaching largely amounts to citing examples of impurity, imprecision and lack of clarity from contemporary writings. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed systematic… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 63] 1991. x, 486 pp.
Discourse Particles: Descriptive and theoretical investigations on the logical, syntactic and pragmatic properties of discourse particles in German
Edited by Werner Abraham
This book is about particles in the narrower sense of the word as opposed to the broader meaning covering all uninflected words of a language. In the narrower meaning of the linguistic term particles can be distinguished between logical, or scalar particles and modal, or pragmatic particles. The… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 12] 1991. viii, 338 pp.
The Emergence of Black English: Text and commentary
Edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila
Debate over the evolution of Black English Vernacular (BEV) has permeated Afro-American studies, creole linguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics for a quarter of a century with little sign of a satisfactory resolution, primarily because evidence that bears directly on the earlier stages of… read more[Creole Language Library, 8] 1991. x, 352 pp.
The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604–1755
De Witt T. Starnes and Gertrude E. Noyes
This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 57] 1991. cxii, xxii, 299 pp.
English Traditional Grammars: An international perspective
Edited by Gerhard Leitner
Until recently grammars of English have received surprisingly little scholarly attention, while a lot of research is done on dictionaries. It appears, however, that learners of English shy away from modern grammars and prefer to consult dictionaries or traditional reference grammars instead. This… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 62] 1991. x, 392 pp.
Englishes: Studies in varieties of English 1984–1988
Manfred Görlach †
Problems of how to describe and explain the forms and functions of English outside Britain and the United States (and of varieties within the two countries) have become central for English linguistics over the past twenty years. The present collection combines 8 of Gorlach's major articles in the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G9] 1991. 211 pp.
Error Analysis: A comprehensive bibliography
Bernd Spillner
Errors are information. In contrastive linguistics, they are thought to be caused by unconscious transfer of mother tongue structures to the system of the target language and give information about both systems. In the interlanguage hypothesis of second language acquisition, errors are indicative… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 12] 1991. xxxix, 552 pp.
First Person Singular II: Autobiographies by North American scholars in the language sciences
Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †
This sequel to First Person Singular (1980) presents autobiographical sketches of 15 eminent scholars in the language sciences. These personal reminiscences on their careers in linguistics reflect developments in the field over the past decades and shed light on the role each of them played and the… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 61] 1991. x, 303 pp.
Focus on Bilingual Education: Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman. Volume 1
Edited by Ofelia García
This volume contains interdisciplinary essays on bilingual education in various countries of the world. Some contributions deal with policy and curricular issues with regard to minority and majority language, some consider the enrichment aspect of bilingual education. Others focus on language… read more[Not in series, FISHFEST 1] 1991. x, 348 pp.
Focus on Language Planning: Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman. Volume 3
Edited by David F. Marshall
This volume begins with an overview of Joshua A. Fishman's extensive work and influence in the field of language planning. The other papers link language planning with weighty issues such as politics, ecology, and national development. More specific papers deal with the problems of political and… read more[Not in series, FISHFEST 3] 1991. viii, 360 pp.
Focus on Language and Ethnicity: Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman. Volume 2
Edited by James R. Dow
An impressive collection of theoretical perspectives and empirical data which includes papers on Catalan, Galician, Tagalog, and the minority languages of Kenya. Most of the contributions deal with ethnic minorities in North America: language maintenance and shift and cultural aspects of various… read more[Not in series, FISHFEST 2] 1991. viii, 255 pp.
For to Speke Frenche Trewely: The French language in England, 1000–1600. Its status, description and instruction
Douglas A. Kibbee
The first grammatical descriptions of the French language were produced in England, several centuries before the first grammar written in French (but also several centuries after the Norman Conquest). This book describes the status of French in England during the period from the marriage of Emma of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 60] 1991. viii, 268 pp.
Foreign Language Research in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Edited by Kees de Bot, Ralph B. Ginsberg and Claire Kramsch
This volume focuses on priorities for research in language pedagogy. The aim is to give an up-to-date overview of current thinking about important research issues such as the viability of large scale comparisons, the quantitative/qualitative research controversy, new trends in language testing and… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 2] 1991. xi, 275 pp.
Functional Grammar: A Field Approach
Alexander V. Bondarko
Every grammar has to a greater or lesser extent a functional aspect. In this book, Bondarko provides a comprehensive discourse on the theoretical foundations of grammar, concentrating on functional-semantic fields, with emphasis on the diversity of their structural types. Criteria for… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 35] 1991. viii, 207 pp.
Further Insights into Contrastive Analysis
Edited by Jacek Fisiak
After a period of crisis in the 1960s, Contrastive Analysis has now regained its firm position, although in a different form and with broader goals. This collection of papers reflects the scope of research and the range of interest of linguists who are involved in contrastive linguistics research.… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 30] 1991. vii, 610 pp.
An Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain
Andreas Fischer and Daniel Ammann
The results of the dialect surveys of Great Britain have been published in the form of hundreds of single and collected maps, but so far there has been no actual handbook to the charted material. The Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain, containing a full introduction, an alphabetical word-list… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G10] 1991. iv, 150 pp.
Language Bases ... Discourse Bases: Some aspects of contemporary French-language psycholinguistics research
Edited by Gilberte Piéraut-Le Bonniec and Marlene Dolitsky
When child language began to be studied in the sixties, what interested researchers most was what could be considered language per se. Holophrases were excluded as seemingly having no syntax and research work was carried out as of the two-word stage. Language development was studied up to around… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 17] 1991. vi, 342 pp.
Language Planning and Language Policy in Australia
Edited by Anthony J. Liddicoat
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 8] 1991. iv, 230 pp.
Language Typology 1988: Typological Models in the Service of Reconstruction
Edited by Winfred P. Lehmann and Helen-Jo Jakusz Hewitt
This is the third volume of papers yielded from the annual Linguistic Typology symposia inaugurated by the International Research and Exchange Board. The volume deals with an area of linguistics in which scholars of the USSR have made notable contributions and makes available to the West at least… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 81] 1991. vi, 182 pp.
Le discours aspectualisé
Edited by Jacques Fontanille
L'objectif affiché du colloque 'Le Discours aspectualisé' était d'examiner à quelles conditions on peut passer d'une conception phrastique et linguistique de l'aspect à une théorie de l'aspectualisation discursive en sémiotique. La confrontation de plusieurs disciplines et de plusieurs méthodes —… read more[Nouveaux Actes Sémiotiques, 1] 1991. 234 pp.
Levels of Linguistic Adaptation: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987. Volume 2
Edited by Jef Verschueren
This volume comprises the second part of selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference in Antwerp, August 1987. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 6:2] 1991. viii, 339 pp.
Linguistic Theory and Grammatical Description: Nine Current Approaches
Edited by Flip G. Droste and John E. Joseph
This volume presents nine of today's grammatical theories with a view to comparing their starting points and their methods. The particular features and properties of each theory are discussed in this book, as well as the major conceptual differences and methodological obstacles each has overcome… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 75] 1991. vii, 355 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1991
Edited by Frank Drijkoningen and Ans M.C. van Kemenade
This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the twenty-second annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. The seventeen papers in this volume… read more
New Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XVIII, Urbana-Champaign, April 7–9, 1988
Edited by Dieter Wanner and Douglas A. Kibbee
The twenty papers from the eighteenth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages deal with diverse aspects of the Romance languages and Romance linguistics. They reflect the current state of Romance studies in North America and of the particular outlook among the international group of contributors… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 69] 1991. xviii, 406 pp.
New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation. Proceedings of the Second International Roman Jakobson Conference, New York University, Nov. 5–8, 1985
Edited by Linda R. Waugh and Stephen Rudy
The papers in this volume reflect the renewed interest in the semantics of grammatical categories and the issues of invariance and variation in grammar. In particular, this collection presents the current understanding of invariance of grammar with respect to the synchronic and diachronic analyses… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 49] 1991. x, 540 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume III: Salt Lake City, Utah 1989
Edited by Bernard Comrie and Mushira Eid
This is the third in a continuing series of papers presented at the annual meetings of the Arabic Linguistic Society whose primary purpose is to provide a forum for the study of Arabic within current approaches in linguistics. The volume includes a section on Arabic in relation to other languages,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 80] 1991. xii, 274 pp.
Perspectives on Aspect and Aktionsart
Edited by Carl Vetters and Willy Vandeweghe
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 6] 1991. 182 pp.
Pragmatics at Issue: Selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17–22, 1987. Volume 1
Edited by Jef Verschueren
This volume comprises the first part of selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference in Antwerp, August 1987. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 6:1] 1991. viii, 314 pp.
The Pragmatics of International and Intercultural Communication: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987. Volume 3
Edited by Jan Blommaert † and Jef Verschueren
This volume contains a selection of papers from a special session of the International Pragmatics Conference (Antwerp, August 1987) and from the Symposium on Intercultural Communication (Ghent, December 1987).Studying the communicative styles of cultures and social groups, both at the descriptive… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 6:3] 1991. viii, 249 pp.
Repetition in Arabic Discourse: Paradigms, syntagms and the ecology of language
Barbara Johnstone
In this examination of expository prose in contemporary Arabic, structural and semantic repetition is found to be responsible both for linguistic cohesion and for rhetorical force. Johnstone identifies and discusses repetitive features on every level of analysis. Writers in Arabic use lexical… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 18] 1991. viii, 130 pp.
STAEFCRAEFT: Studies in Germanic Linguistics. Selected papers from the 1st and 2nd Symposium on Germanic Linguistics, University of Chicago, 4 April 1985, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3–4 Oct. 1986
Edited by Elmer H. Antonsen and Hans Henrich Hock
The first Symposium on Germanic Linguistics was organized at the University of Chicago by Jan Terje Faarlund. The notable success of this undertaking led Elmer H. Antonsen, Hans Henrich Hock, and James W. Marchand to arrange the Second Symposium on Germanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 79] 1991. viii, 217 pp.
Serial Verbs: Grammatical, Comparative and Cognitive Approaches
Edited by Claire Lefebvre
The papers in this volume offer several analyses of verb serialization written within various theoretical frameworks: grammatical, comparative and cognitive/functional. They cover a wide range of language families. All authors address two basic questions about verb serialization: First, what is the… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 8] 1991. viii, 210 pp.
Studies in Brythonic Word Order
Edited by James Fife and Erich Poppe
While Celtic languages are nominally VSO in basic word order, the languages of the Brythonic branch have exhibited striking synchronic and historical variations from the prototype. This volume comprises the very latest research in word order in Welsh, reton and Cornish from nine of the leading… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 83] 1991. x, 360 pp.
Studies in Language Origins: Volume 2
Edited by Walburga von Raffler-Engel, Jan Wind and Abraham Jonker
The question of language origin has fascinated people for years. The contributions in the present book stem primarely from the papers presented at the Third International Meeting of the Language Origins Society (LOS) held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, June 1988. The contributors… read more[Not in series, LOS 2] 1991. xxi, 348 pp.
Studies in the Historical Phonology of Asian Languages
Edited by William G. Boltz and Michael C. Shapiro
This volume owes its genesis to a series of lectures on various aspects of the historical phonology of Asian languages, sponsored by the Asian Linguistics Colloquium of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature of the University of Washington, in Seattle. The volume includes papers on both… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 77] 1991. viii, 249 pp.
Syntax: A functional-typological introduction. Volume II
T. Givón
The long-awaited second volume of the two-volume work on syntax from a functional-typological perspective. Grammar is viewed as a non-arbitrary language-processing device, to be understood in terms of the various substantive parameters relevant to language: Communicative function, cognitive… read more[Not in series, 50] 1991. xxvi, 554 pp.
Towards a Critical Sociology of Reading Pedagogy: Papers of the XII World Congress on Reading
Edited by Carolyn Baker and Allan Luke
Through critical sociological appraisals of literary theory, research and pedagogy, this volume presents challenges to dominant psychological approaches in reading research and to mainstream discourses about reading and writing pedagogy. Bringing together the recent work of literacy researchers in… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 19] 1991. xxi, 287 pp.
Universal History of Linguistics: India, China, Arabia, Europe
Esa Itkonen
This wide-ranging book presents the linguistic achievements of four major cultures to readers presumably conversant with modern theoretical linguistics. The chapter on India discusses in detail Pāṇini's (c. 400 B.C.) grammar Ast-adhy-ay-i as well as the work of his commentators Kātyāyana,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 65] 1991. x, 368 pp.
Untersuchungen über die Grundfragen des Sprachlebens: Reprint from the 1885 edition
Philipp Wegener (1848–1916)
Newly edited by Konrad Koerner (University of Ottawa), with an introduction by Clemens Knobloch (Universitat Siegen)The importance of Wegener's Untersuchungen uber die Grundfragen des Sprachlebens can only be compared to that of Karl Buhler's Sprachtheorie. Even now, however, Wegener's work remains… read more[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 5] 1991. lii, viii, 214 pp.
Using the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A workbook with exercises
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young
This volume has been replaced by a new (online) edition. Please click here for more information.USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people to the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed, demonstrates how… read more[Not in series, BBI 2 (2nd)] 1991. x, 58 pp. incl. key
Using the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A workbook with exercises
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young
USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people to the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed, demonstrates how collocations differ from free combinations and idioms, and shows how collocations of all types can… read more[Not in series, BBI 2 (1st)] 1991. x, 58 pp.incl. key
Varia Eurasiatica: Festschrift für Professor András Róna-Tas
This collection of 24 articles reflects the wide range of interests of Professor Róna-Tas: the contributions deal with topics from Altaic, Mongolic and Uralic studies, Eurasian history, Turkology, Tibetology and Hungarian history. The articles are in English (12), German (10) and Russian (2). read more[Not in series, 53] 1991. 270 pp.
Yiddish: Turning to Life
Joshua A. Fishman †
Worldwide interest in Yiddish has often concentrated on its secular forms of expression: its literature, its theater, its journalism and its political-party associations. This all-encompassing study, covers these phenomena as well as investigating the demographic and political mushrooming of… read more[Not in series, 49] 1991. xii, 522 pp.
Young Children's Dyadic Pretend Play: A communication analysis of plot structure and plot generative strategies
Ursula V. Schwartz
Pretend play in early childhood arises in the context of social interaction and, as such, constitutes a form of discourse indigenous to the child's world. The present study is a first detailed investigation of thematic-ideational structure in young children's dyadic pretend play with special… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 14] 1991. vi, 151 pp.
Approaches to Grammaticalization: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine
The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 19:S] 1990. xii, 360 pp. + xii, 560 pp.
Bibliography of Bibliographies of the Languages of the World: Volume I: General and Indo-European languages of Europe
Compiled by Rudolph C. Troike
This is Volume I of a monumental two-volume work, a historical record and guide to bibliographic efforts on all the languages of the world, which is designed to serve the professional as well as non-professional reader as a first point of entry for information about any language. By consulting the… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 19] 1990. xxii, 473 pp.
Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. Festschrift for T. Arwyn Watkins
Edited by Martin J. Ball, James Fife, Erich Poppe and Jenny Rowland
This collection of papers on the Brythonic languages of the Celtic group is divided into four parts: Welsh linguistics, Breton and Cornish linguistics, literary linguistics, and historical linguistics. This has resulted in a book providing a thorough and comprehensive coverage of this branch of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 68] 1990. xxiv, 470 pp.
Charles S. Peirce, 1839–1914: An intellectual biography
Gérard Deledalle
This work is the intellectual biography of the greatest of American philosophers. Peirce was not only a pioneer in logic and the creator of a philosophical movement pragmatism he also proposed a phenomenological theory, quite different from that of Husserl, but equal in profundity; and long before… read more[Not in series, 42] 1990. xxxii, 92 pp.
Communication and Translation in Aboriginal Contexts
Edited by Edith L. Bavin
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 5] 1990. iv, 99 pp.
Cross-Cultural Communication in the Professions in Australia
Edited by Anne Pauwels
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 7] 1990. vi, 132 pp.
De Ortu Grammaticae: Studies in medieval grammar and linguistic theory in memory of Jan Pinborg
Edited by Geoffrey L. Bursill-Hall, Sten Ebbesen and E.F.K. Koerner †
The Danish scholar Jan Pinborg (1937-1982) made outstanding contributions to our understanding of medieval language study. The papers in this volume clearly demonstrate the wealth of Pinborg's scholarly interests and the extent of his influence.Though centered on medieval theories of grammar and… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 43] 1990. x, 372 pp.
Diachronic Problems in Phonosymbolism: Edita and Inedita, 1979–1988. Volume I
Yakov Malkiel
Phonosymbolism, or sound symbolism (Lautsymbolik), is a vital ingredient of language growth. Many serious scholars, however, have regarded it with embarrassment or indifference. A cautious reintroduction of phonosymbolism as a factor responsible for changes undergone, in varying degrees, by most… read more[Not in series, EAI 1] 1990. vii, 274 pp.
Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings: The Vietnamese system of person reference
Hy V. Luong
This is a theoretically oriented study of the pragmatics of Vietnamese person reference (kinship terms, personal pronouns, naming set and status terms). Drawing upon linguistic data from a radically different non-Western society and the seminal insights of Volosinov, Bakhtin, and Leach, it offers a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 11] 1990. x, 213 pp.
Early Arabic Grammatical Theory: Heterogeneity and standardization
Jonathan Owens
The Arabic grammatical tradition is remarkable for having organized a large amount of descriptive material within a sophisticated formal framework. The present study seeks to elucidate the early development of this system from a theory-internal perspective; it is mainly concerned with the… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 53] 1990. xvi, 294 pp.
Essays on Significs: Papers presented on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Victoria Lady Welby (1837–1912)
Edited by H. Walter Schmitz
Significs is one of those (by no means exclusively) sign theoretically relevant movements which arose at the turn of the century. It established a philosophical tradition which, from its very inception, was interlaced with widely varying movements ranging, for example, from Breal's semantics to… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 23] 1990. xv, 313 pp.
A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi
William B. McGregor
This volume sets out to provide a comprehensive description of the grammar of Gooniyandi, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the southern-central Kimberley region of Western Australia. It covers phonetics and phonology, word phrase and clause structure, and the semantics of closed-class grammatical… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 22] 1990. xx, 618 pp.
The Grimm Brothers and the Germanic Past
Edited by Elmer H. Antonsen, James W. Marchand and Ladislav Zgusta
The pioneering work of Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm in the areas of Germanic comparative and historical linguistics, lexicography, philology, and medieval studies places them squarely among the most important figures in the history of the language sciences. The contributions to this volume present… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 54] 1990. x, 162 pp.
Historical Linguistics 1987: Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, August 30-September 4, 1987
Edited by Henning Andersen and E.F.K. Koerner †
The volume contains 37 papers originally presented at the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Lille, France. The papers bring historical data to bear on issues in theoretical linguistics, both descriptive and diachronic or deal with specific questions in the history of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 66] 1990. xii, 577 pp.
History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987. 2 Volumes. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Hans-Josef Niederehe and E.F.K. Koerner †
This wide-ranging volume brings together a selection of papers dealing with the history of linguistics from Antiquity to the present and from various areas of the world. The volume is divided into nine sections and includes an index of names and an index of subjects. I. Generalia: Sylvain Auroux,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 51:S] 1990. xxv, x, 873 pp.
History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987. Volume 1: Antiquitity–17th Century
Edited by Hans-Josef Niederehe and E.F.K. Koerner †
These two volume present papers from the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), held at the University of Trier, Germany, in August 1987. Volume 1 contains the following sections: I. Generalia; II. Antiquity; III. Arabic Linguistics; IV. Middle Ages; V.… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 51:1] 1990. xxv, 396 pp.
History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987. Volume 2: 18th–20th Century
Edited by Hans-Josef Niederehe and E.F.K. Koerner †
These two volume present papers from the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), held at the University of Trier, Germany, in August 1987. Volume 1 contains the following sections: I. Generalia; II. Antiquity; III. Arabic Linguistics; IV. Middle Ages; V.… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 51:2] 1990. x, 397-873 pp.
History from Below: The “Vocabulary of Elisabethville” by André Yav: Text, Translations and Interpretive Essay
Edited by Johannes Fabian
Johannes Fabian with assistance from Kalundi Mango (Administrator, National Museum of Zaire) and with linguistic notes by Walter Schicho (University of Vienna). An extraordinary linguistic and sociopolitical document, this is a history of colonization written by the colonized, about the colonized,… read more[Creole Language Library, 7] 1990. vii, 236 pp.
Language Typology 1987: Systematic Balance in Language. Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Berkeley, 1–3 Dec 1987
Edited by Winfred P. Lehmann
These papers from the 1987 Typology Symposium — a follow-up to the 1985 meeting in Moscow — deal with the relevance of typology for historical linguistics. Its application in understanding phonological and grammatical change is examined for a variety of languages. Its relevance for application of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 67] 1990. x, 212 pp.
Language as Behaviour, Language as Code: A study of academic English
Lynne Young
This work arose from the desire to teach foreign students in North America a particular variety of language used in their disciplines (speech situations), whereupon the inadequacy or non-existence of previous study became apparent. Given this raison d'être, the work first illustrates one approach… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 8] 1990. ix, 304 pp.
Layers and Levels of Representation in Language Theory: A functional view
Edited by Jan Nuyts, A. Machtelt Bolkestein and Co Vet
Rather than simply a record of proceedings (3rd International Conference on Functional Grammar, Amsterdam, June 1988), this volume contains revised and expanded papers from the conference and other papers inspired by the lively discussion there. The volume focuses on the nature of the structures… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 13] 1990. xii, 348 pp.
Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987. Volume 1
Edited by M.A.K. Halliday †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas
This volume contains selected papers from the Eight World Congress of Applied Linguistics held in Sydney in 1987. Volume I starts off with an overview of the field by G. Richard Tucker in which he identifies two areas: innovative language education and language education policy. The overal focus of… read more[Not in series, LKUL 1] 1990. xx, 508 pp.
Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987. Volume 2
Edited by M.A.K. Halliday †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas
This volume contains selected papers from the Eight World Congress of Applied Linguistics held in Sydney in 1987. Whereas the focus of Volume I is on learning language and the standpoint of the individual learner, the contributions to Volume II are concerned not so much with individuals as with… read more[Not in series, LKUL 2] 1990. xvi, 488 pp.
Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism: Proceedings of the international conference, Rome, 25–28 September 1986
Edited by Tullio De Mauro † and Lia Formigari
Both Leibniz and Humboldt are scholars in whose work we find a passionate interest in the history and development of languages combined with a strong theoretical commitment. Linking their names to linguistic comparativism draws attention to the contribution these scholars have made to the history… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 49] 1990. vii, 329 pp.
A Life for Language: A biographical memoir of Leonard Bloomfield
Robert A. Hall, Jr.
Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) was one of the greatest linguists of the twentieth century. He devoted his entire life to a thorough-going study of language, its structure and its use, summed up in masterly fashion in his book Language (1933). After his premature death at the age of 62, his work was… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 55] 1990. x, 129 pp.
Meaning and Lexicography
Edited by Jerzy Tomaszczyk and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
While lexicology, lexical semantics, and lexicography all share an interest in lexical items, they often tend to be regarded as three separate albeit interrelated fields. Indeed, the extent to which the interrelationship is recognized and taken into account in lexicographic practice is the moot… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 28] 1990. xxv, 340 pp.
Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia
Edited by John W.M. Verhaar, S.J.
The First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia was planned mainly for Tok Pisin, but no predetermined theme(s) had been proposed to the participants. Nevertheless, in this collection of papers several principal themes stand out.One is that of a revived interest in… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 20] 1990. xiv, 409 pp.
Metaphor II: A classified bibliography of publications from 1985 to 1990
Compiled by Jean-Pierre van Noppen and Edith Hols
Metaphor, though not now the scholarly “mania” it once was, remains a topic of great interest in many disciplines albeit with interesting shifts in emphasis. Warren Shibles' Metaphor: An Annotated Bibliography and History (Bloomington, Ind. 1971) recorded the initial interest. Then Metaphor: A… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 20] 1990. iv, 350 pp.
Morphology: Word structure in generative grammar
John T. Jensen
A self-contained and lively text prepared in response to a perceived need for an up-to-date introduction to the field of morphology within the framework of generative grammar. The material is presented in the framework of the lexicalist hypothesis of Chomsky (1970), but also taking in the more… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 70] 1990. x, 210 pp.
New Studies in Latin Linguistics: Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Cambridge, April 1987
Edited by Robert Coleman
The 29 papers in this volume cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from the Glottalic Theory and Lachmann's Law to the hermeneutic analysis of text-structure in Tacitus' Germania. The volume focuses on three themes specifically: the morphology and semantics of lexical formation; the internal and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 21] 1990. x, 480 pp.
Nonsentential Constituents: A theory of grammatical structure and pragmatic interpretation
Ellen Barton
Linguists traditionally have assumed that full sentence sources truncated by ellipsis rules account for the grammatical structure as well as the semantic interpretation of fragments like B below: A: What happened in 1974? B: A scandal in the White House. A sentential structure dominated by the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 2] 1990. xviii, 251 pp.
North American Contributions to the History of Linguistics
Edited by Francis P. Dinneen, S.J. and E.F.K. Koerner †
This volume unites papers given by members of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) at meetings held in Washington, D.C., in March and December 1989, respectively. They represent the scope and breadth of interest of North American scholars in this growing… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 58] 1990. xii, 238 pp.
Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Edited by Sylvia M. Adamson, Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright
This volume is a collection of articles based on papers presented at the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics at Cambridge in 1987. It draws together important state-of-the-art' studies in the syntax, phonology, morphology and semantics of Old, Middle and Modern English by… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 65] 1990. xxviii, 583 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume I: Salt Lake City, Utah 1987
Edited by Mushira Eid
This volume provides a general perspective on aspects of Arabic in relation to various areas of linguistics. To the general linguist, it is a source of information and data on Arabic analyzed within current models of analysis; to the Arabic linguist, it provides current analyses of both familiar… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 63] 1990. xiii, 293 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume II: Salt Lake City, Utah 1988
Edited by Mushira Eid and John McCarthy
The papers in this volume approach the study of Arabic, its structure and use, from different linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. The book is divided into three sections: Section I Morphological and Phonological Perspectives; Section II Semantic Perspectives; Section III Sociolinguistic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 72] 1990. xiv, 332 pp.
Peter of Spain: Language in Dispute. An English translation of Peter of Spain's Tractatus called afterwards Summulae Logicales, based on the critical edition by L.M. de Rijk
Francis P. Dinneen, S.J.
This volume presents an English translation of Petrus Hispanus Portugalensis’ (d. 1277) Tractatus — called afterwards Summulae Logicales — on the basis of the critical edition established by L. M. de Rijk (1972). The Summulae’s first part (I-V) introduces Aristotelian ideas familiar enough at the… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 39] 1990. xl, 271 pp.
Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems
Edited by John Victor Singler
More than any other area of the grammar, tense-mood-aspect (TMA) has provided evidence to fuel the ongoing debates about creole genesis and about the relevance of pidgin and creole phenomena to language theory more generally. This volume advances the debate in two ways. First, it makes available in… read more[Creole Language Library, 6] 1990. xvi, 240 pp.
Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics: Volume 10
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Marie Těšitelová and Ján Horecký
The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Těšitelová; M. Ludvíková; H. Confortiová; Ludmila Uhlířová; I. Nebeská; Jan Králík; J. Krámský; J. Sabol; J. Štěpán. Part 2 Algebraic Linguistics contains contributions by M.… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 34] 1990. 199 pp.
Scrambling and Barriers
Edited by Günther Grewendorf and Wolfgang Sternefeld
The articles in this volume deal with various phenomena which have been covered traditionally by the term scrambling. The analyses presented here refer to the most recent developments in generative grammar (the so-called Barriers-framework developed in Chomsky 1986). Some of the topics discussed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 5] 1990. vi, 442 pp.
The Semiotics of Fortune-telling
Edna Aphek and Yishai Tobin
This book presents a semiotic analysis of the linguistic and extralinguistic elements of fortune-telling as part of a larger pragmatic-oriented theory of human communication. The material was collected in Israel, in Hebrew, and parallels are made with other languages and cultures. The analysis is… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 22] 1990. vii, 216 pp.
Sing Without Shame: Oral traditions in Indo-Portuguese Creole verse
Kenneth David Jackson
This study of literary themes, linguistic practice and cultural traditions analyzes the oral traditions of Indo-Portugese creole verse, as a synthesis from European, African and Asian sources. This musical, dramatic and textual syncretism defines tradition within the group and maintains the… read more[Creole Language Library, 5] 1990. xxiv, 257 pp.
Speech and Sociability at French Urban Marketplaces
Jacqueline Lindenfeld
This study is both particularistic and generalizing. At one level it can be seen as an investigation of French urban marketplaces as systems of communication, with a microscopic examination of verbal interaction and sociability patterns in a specific cultural setting. At another level it… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 7] 1990. viii, 173 pp.
Studies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday
Edited by William A. Croft, Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning
Joseph H. Greenberg is a towering figure in late twentieth century linguistics. His major contributions in the field have been in the area of typology and universals, virtually launched by his paper on word order universals, and in diachronic linguistics. The major thrust of Greenberg's work in the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 20] 1990. xxxiv, 243 pp.
Studies in the History of Arabic Grammar II: Proceedings of the second symposium on the history of Arabic grammar, Nijmegen, 27 April–1 May, 1987
Edited by Kees Versteegh and Michael G. Carter
This volume presents papers given at the second Symposium on the History of Arabic Grammar (Nijmegen, 1987). The subject has many aspects and invites many different approaches, which might roughly be categorized into three main groupings, viz. treatments of individual grammarians, examinations of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 56] 1990. x, 320 pp.
Theory of Language: The Representational Function of Language
Karl Bühler
Karl Bühler (1879-1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of this century. His masterwork Sprachtheorie (1934) has been praised widely and gained considerable recognition in the fields of linguistics, semiotics, the philosophy of language and the psychology of language. The work has,… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 25] 1990. lxii, 508 pp.
Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation
K.K. Luke
Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning), and few can be… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 9] 1990. xvi, 329 pp.
Verbal Aspect in Discourse
Edited by Nils B. Thelin
In the light of growing insights into the universal temporal-semantic nature of aspectual distinctions, today's aspectology has broadened its attention from restrictedly event-defining functions of aspect on the sentence level towards its primary perspectival functions on the discourse/situation… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 5] 1990. xvi, 490 pp.
Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook
Edited by Lise Menn and Loraine K. Obler
This major reference work fills a need long recognized in neurolinguistics: a source for analyzable speech transcripts from agrammatic aphasic patients that provides detailed grammatical descriptions and distributional analyses. This 3-volume set is unique in that it presents narrative speech from… read more[Not in series, 39] 1989. xxvii, 1985 pp., 3 Vols.
Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook. Volume 3. Control Subjects
Edited by Lise Menn and Loraine K. Obler
[Not in series, AA 3] 1989. xx, 594 pp.
Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook. Volume 1
Edited by Lise Menn and Loraine K. Obler
[Not in series, AA 1] 1989. xxvii, 816 pp.
Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook. Volume 2
Edited by Lise Menn and Loraine K. Obler
[Not in series, AA 2] 1989. xx, 575 pp.
Antike Rhythmustheorien: Historische Form und aktuelle Substanz
Wilfried Neumaier
[Heuremata: Studien zu Literatur, Sprachen und Kultur der Antike, 11] 1989. viii, 139 pp.
Aspect and Meaning in Slavic and Indic
Ranjit Chatterjee
Three features set this book apart from other recent publications on aspect. First, it looks closely at the language family, Slavic, that has been the main source of assumptions and data about aspect. Second, it looks upon the object of linguistic study, natural language, from an angle shared by… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 51] 1989. xxiii, 137 pp.
Contrastive Pragmatics
Edited by Wieslaw Oleksy
This volume deals with a variety of pragmatic issues involved in cross-language and interlanguage studies as well as second-language acquisition and cross-cultural studies. Part I contains papers dealing with general issues stemming from contrastive work, for example, the question of tertium… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 3] 1989. xiv, 282 pp.
Current Progress in Chadic Linguistics: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chadic Linguistics, Boulder, Colorado, 1–2 May 1987
Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier
The volume consists of papers prepared for the International Symposium of Chadic Linguistics (Boulder, Colorado, May 1-2, 1987). Although the papers are representative of the current work being done in the field of Chadic linguistics, they also reflect the current and past interests and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 62] 1989. vi, 312 pp.
Doctor–Patient Interaction
Edited by Walburga von Raffler-Engel
This volume covers many of the ways of speaking that create problems between doctor and patient. The questions under consideration in the present book are the following: How is the doctor-patient interaction structured in a particular culture? What takes place during the process? What causes… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 4] 1989. xxxviii, 294 pp.
Etymology and Grammatical Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Mark E. Amsler
This study focuses on the uses of the grammatical concept of etymologia in primarily Latin writings from the early Middle Ages. Etymologia is a fundamental procedure and discursive strategy in the philosophy and analysis of language in early medieval Latin grammar, as well as in Biblical exegesis,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 44] 1989. xi, 280 pp.
From Sign to Text: A semiotic view of communication
Edited by Yishai Tobin
This volume contains selected contributions from the colloquium From Sign to Text' (Ben Gurion University, 1985) and combines the diverse interdisciplinary interests and approaches of the contributors in a fundamentally shared definition of language seen as a flexible and open-ended system of… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 20] 1989. xiii, 545 pp.
Genre and Systemic Functional Studies
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 6] 1989. vi, 136 pp.
Hellenistic and Roman Greece as a Sociolinguistic Area
Vit Bubenik
This study concentrates on the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the history of Greek language. It focuses on the gradual contamination of classical dialects by the Hellenistic Koine, their disappearance, the range of intraregional variation, and the process of Koinization from the angle of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 57] 1989. xv, 331 pp.
Historical and Comparative Linguistics
Raimo Anttila
In any course of historical and comparative linguistics there will be students of different language backgrounds, different levels of linguistic training, and different theoretical orientation. This textbook attempts to mitigate the problems raised by this heterogeneity in a number of ways. Since… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 6] 1989. xv, 462 pp.
Language Change and Variation
Edited by Ralph W. Fasold and Deborah Schiffrin
The study of language variation in social context continues to hold the attention of a large number of linguists. This research is promoted by the annual colloquia on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English' (NWAVE). This volume is a selection of revised papers from the NWAVE XI, held at… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 52] 1989. viii, 450 pp.
Language and Schizophrenia
Janusz Wrobel
This book investigates the functioning of linguistic phenomena, especially in the area of semantics and pragmatics of the language of schizophrenics. By making semantics and pragmatics the primary objects of this work, the author departs from the traditional approach of those psycholinguistic and… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 33] 1989. viii, 132 pp.
Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in political discourse
Edited by Ruth Wodak
The topic of Language and Ideology has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences. The general aim of critical linguistics is the exploration of the mechanisms of power which establish inequality, through the systematic analysis of political discourse (written or oral). This reader… read more[Critical Theory, 7] 1989. xx, 288 pp.
Linguistic Categorization: Proceedings of an International Symposium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 10–11, 1987
Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Fred Eckman and Michael Noonan
This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the 16th International Symposium at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee. Two central question were addressed: What is the nature of the categories that underlie the structure of human language? What is the nature of extralinguistic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 61] 1989. viii, 348 pp.
On the Medieval Theory of Signs
Edited by Umberto Eco and Costantino Marmo
In the course of the long debate on the nature and the classification of signs, from Boethius to Ockham, there are at least three lines of thought: the Stoic heritage, that influences Augustine, Abelard, Francis Bacon; the Aristotelian tradition, stemming from the commentaries on De… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 21] 1989. ix, 224 pp.
Otto Jespersen: Facets of his Life and Work
Edited by Arne Juul and Hans Frede Nielsen †
This is the first book to give a comprehensive view of the work of Otto Jespersen (1860-1943), the Danish linguist who is perhaps best known for his monumental work A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. The articles in this volume show the wide range of Jespersen's interests and… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 52] 1989. xviii, 154 pp.
Practicing Linguistic Historiography
E.F.K. Koerner †
This collection contains 24 articles on the history of linguistics written between 1978 and 1988, divided into three parts: 1. Methods and Models in Linguistic Historiography 2. Tradition and Transmission of Linguistic Notions 3. Schools and Scholars in the History of Linguistics Three articles are… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 50] 1989. xiv, 455 pp.
Semiotics and Pragmatics: Proceedings of the Perpignan Symposium, 1983
Edited by Gérard Deledalle
This collective volume contains carefully selected papers presented at the international semiotics conference ‘Semiotique et pragmatique’ that took place in Perpignan on 17 to 19 November, 1983. The volume starts of with four debate papers by Searle, Apel, Greimas and Landowski, and is followed… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 18] 1989. xii, 467 pp.
The Speech of the Negros Congos in Panama
John M. Lipski
The negros congos of Panama's Caribbean coast are a unique cultural manifestation of Afro-Hispanic contact. During Carnival season each year, this group reenacts dramatic events which affected black slaves in colonial Panama, performs dances and pantomimes, and enforces a set of ritual laws' and… read more[Creole Language Library, 4] 1989. vii, 159 pp.
Studies in Language Origins: Volume 1
Edited by Jan Wind, Edward G. Pulleyblank, Éric de Grolier and Bernard H. Bichakjian
The question of language origin has fascinated people for years. Traditionally, humanists like linguists and philosophers attempted to solve it with limited success. In the last decades, however, the sciences have begun to study the same question seemingly with more success. This book is the result… read more[Not in series, LOS 1] 1989. xxii, 332 pp.
Studies in Romance Linguistics: Selected Proceedings from the XVII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
Edited by Carl Kirschner and Janet Ann DeCesaris
The papers collected in this volume reflect the numerous interests in the field of Romance languages and Romance linguistics today. A far-ranging amount of Romance data are presented: French, Italian, and Spanish dialect data are crucial to several authors' arguments, Rumanian is the focus of two… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 60] 1989. ix, 496 pp.
Subordination and Other Topics in Latin: Proceedings of the Third Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Bologna, 1–5 April 1985
Edited by Gualtiero Calboli
The papers in this volume are centered around the following topics: subordination; cases and prepositions; moods, tenses and voices of the verb; nominal forms of the verb; anaphors and pronouns; word order, theme and rheme, negation, style, morphology and word formation. read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 17] 1989. xxix, 691 pp.
Syntactic Phrase Structure Phenomena in Noun Phrases and Sentences
Edited by Christa Bhatt, Elisabeth Löbel and Claudia Maria Schmidt
The main topic of this volume is the phrase structural analysis of noun phrases and sentences. This analysis is based on recent ideas within the Government and Binding framework and makes crucial use of such modules as Theta assignment, Binding Theory, Case assignment, as well as different… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 6] 1989. ix, 187 pp.
Text and Discourse Connectedness: Proceedings of the Conference on Connexity and Coherence, Urbino, July 16–21, 1984
Edited by Maria-Elisabeth Conte, János Sánder Petöfi and Emel Sözer
The 35 papers in this volume provide a comprehensive picture of crucial aspects of connectedness. The papers are divided into three main groups: the papers in the first group deal with particular questions of the text-constituting role of anaphora, deixis, coreference, modality, conjunctions and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 16] 1989. xxiv, 584 pp.
Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
Lydia White
This book explores the relationship between linguistic universals and second language acquisition. Although no knowledge of generative grammar is presupposed, the theoretical framework underlying the work is the principles and parameters approach to Universal Grammar (UG), as realized in Chomsky's… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 1] 1989. xii, 198 pp.
Universals of Language
Edited by Michel Kefer and Johan van der Auwera
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 4] 1989. 192 pp.
Written Language Revisited
Josef Vachek
Josef Vachek, one of the last living exponents of the Prague School, has dedicated 50 years of his life to the study of written language in all its aspects. This volume is a tribute to him on the occasion of his 80th birthday. It contains a selection of his papers written between 1945 and 1987. read more[Not in series, 41] 1989. xiv, 220 pp.
Yugoslav General Linguistics
Edited by Milorad Radovanović
This volume is the first anthology of readings in Yugoslav general linguistics in English. It contains twenty contributions by outstanding Yugoslav scholars in such areas as comparative typology and contact linguistics, sociolinguistics (including such topics as bilingualism, multilingualism,… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 26] 1989. viii, 381 pp.
Austronesian Root Theory: An essay on the limits of morphology
Robert Blust
Since the pioneering analyses of Renward Brandstetter (1860–1942) a quasi-morphological element called the ‘root’ has been recognized in Austronesian linguistics. This monograph confronts many of the methodological and substantive issues raised but never fully resolved by Brandstetter. In an effort… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 19] 1988. xi, 190 pp.
Bibliography of Morphology, 1960–1985
Compiled by Robert Beard and Bogdan Szymanek
Rather than an attempt at an exhaustive bibliography of morphology, this is a collection of major and selected minor works of theoretical interest in the broadest sense. The area of morphology represented here exhaustively is contemporary (generative) theoretical morphology, interpreted broadly… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 18] 1988. xiv, 193 pp.
Categorial Grammar
Edited by Wojciech Buszkowski, Witold Marciszewski and Johan van Benthem
This book is devoted to the mathematical foundations of categorial grammar including type-theoretic foundations of mathematics, grammatical categories and other topics related to categorial grammar and to philosophical and linguistic applications of this framework. The volume consists of three… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 25] 1988. viii, 365 pp.
Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by John Haiman † and Sandra A. Thompson
Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 18] 1988. xiii, 442 pp.
Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
Edited by Peter Austin
Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena. The present volume presents descriptions of complex sentence phenomena in ten Australian languages and provides important new material… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 15] 1988. vii, 289 pp.
Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain: Recherches lexico-sémantiques. Volume 2
Compiled by Igor Mel’čuk
[Not in series, DECFC 2] 1988. 344 pp.
Distributions spatiales et temporelles, constellations des manuscrits/Spatial and Temporal Distributions, Manuscript Constellations: Etudes de variation linguistiques offertes à Anthonij Dees à l'occasion de son 60ème anniversaire / Studies in language variation offered to Anthonij Dees on the occasion of his 60th birthday
Sous la direction de Pieter van Reenen et Karin van Reenen-Stein
Throughout the years the extent of the contributions by A. Dees to the renewal of philology, has become progressively more evident. In his Etudes sur l'evolution des demonstratifs en ancien et en moyen français (1971) Dees has developed a framework within which language evolution in the past can be… read more[Not in series, 37] 1988. xxii, 277 pp.
Event Structure
Jan van Voorst
This study establishes a relation between the semantics of the subject and the direct object-NP and aspect. The notion of event is central. Events have a beginning and an end. This means in temporal terms that events have a point in time at which they begin and a point in time at which they end. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 59] 1988. x, 181 pp.
The Foundations of Grammar: An introduction to medieval Arabic grammatical theory
Jonathan Owens
The Arabic grammatical tradition is one of the great traditions in the history of linguistics, yet it is also one that is comparatively unknown to modern western linguistics. The purpose of the present book is to provide an introduction to this grammatical tradition not merely by summarizing it,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 45] 1988. xii, 371 pp.
Fucus: A Semitic/Afrasian Gathering in Remembrance of Albert Ehrman
Edited by Yoël L. Arbeitman
This is a memorial volume for Albert Ehrman. The contributions of this Gedenkschrift testify to his scholarly excellence in the field of Judaic-Semitic lexicography and etymology, and do full justice to the richness and thought inspiring qualities of his publications. Besides the papers in honour… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 58] 1988. xvi, 530 pp.
The Jury Summation as Speech Genre: An ethnographic study of what it means to those who use it
Bettyruth Walter
The American courtroom trial is a speech situation. Everything occurs through the spoken word. The 'summation', as speech event embedded within the trial, which is the chronological and psychological culmination of it, is one of the few opportunities for the lawyer to communicate directly with… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 1] 1988. xvii, 264 pp.
Karl Bühler's Theory of Language/Karl Bühlers Sprachtheorie: Proceedings of the Conference held at Kirchberg, August 26, 1984 and Essen, November 21–24, 1984
Edited by Achim Eschbach
This volume contains selected proceedings of the conferences held at Kirchberg, August 26, 1984 and Essen, November 21–24, 1984 devoted to Karl Bühler's Theory of Language. Both conferences took place exactly fifty years after the publication of Bühler's masterpiece. However, it was felt necessary… read more[Viennese Heritage/Wiener Erbe, 2] 1988. xxxi, 433 pp.
La phonologie du schwa français
Sous la direction de S. Paul Verluyten
Ce livre présente quatre études sur la phonologie du schwa français. “Sur l’identité phonologique du schwa français dans l’accentuation et dans la syllabation”, par Hans Basbøll; “La syllabification et les regles de changement de syllabe en français”, par Roland Noske; “A propos de l’ajustement de… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 16] 1988. vi, 202 pp.
Language Testing Colloquium: Selected papers from a Colloquium at the Horwood Language Center, University of Melbourne, 24–25 August, 1987
Edited by Tim F. McNamara
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 11:2 (1988) vii, 98 pp.
Language and Experience in 17th-Century British Philosophy
Lia Formigari
The focus of this volume is the crisis of the traditional view of the relationship between words and things and the emergence of linguistic arbitrarism in 17th-century British philosophy. Different groups of sources are explored: philological and antiquarian writings, pedagogical treatises, debates… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 48] 1988. viii, 178 pp.
Linguistics and Formulas in Homer: Scalarity and description of the particle per
Egbert J. Bakker
The purpose of this study is to provide a description of the Greek particle per as it occurs in the text of Homer. As such it is a contribution to the study of Ancient Greek in general and of the Greek' particles in particular. But the work transgresses the boundaries of Greek linguistics' proper. read more[Not in series, 31] 1988. x, 306 pp.
Linguistics in a Systemic Perspective
Edited by James D. Benson, Michael J. Cummings and William S. Greaves
The purpose of this book is to provide a general introduction to Systemic Linguistics in the form of essays written by leading figures in the field. These are, with one exception, not previously published, and taken together they constitute a comprehensive coverage of the diverse interests of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 39] 1988. x, 452 pp.
Machine Translation: Linguistic characteristics of MT systems and general methodology of evaluation
John Lehrberger and Laurent Bourbeau
The use of the computer in translating natural languages ranges from that of a translator's aid for word processing and dictionary lookup to that of a full-fledged translator on its own. However the obstacles to translating by means of the computer are primarily linguistic. To overcome them it is… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 15] 1988. viii, 240 pp.
The Nature of the Right: Feminist analysis of order patterns
Edited by Gill Seidel
This volume challenges and extends the definition of right and right-wing discourse as traditionally conceived in male scholarship. The eleven papers share a common perspective: a critique of the ideology of 'natural difference' as the basis for oppression of the dominated group. In a radical… read more[Critical Theory, 6] 1988. ix, 183 pp.
Normale und gestörte Kindersprache
Harald Clahsen
Clahsen geht es in seinem neuen Buch um eine prazise empirische Theorie des kindlichen Spracherwerbs. Er argumentiert fur einige zentrale Bestandteile einer solchen Theorie, die groîenteils im Kontext linguistischer Theoriebildung stehen. Fur diesen Zweck werden vergleichende… read more[Not in series, 33] 1988. ix, 340 pp.
Old and Middle English Language Studies: A classified bibliography 1923–1985
Compiled by Matsuji Tajima
Since the publication of Kennedy's monumental Bibliography of Writings on the English Language, no bibliography has systematically surveyed the Old and Middle English scholarship accumulated over the past 60 years. Tajima's work aims to meet the need for an updated bibliography of Old and Middle… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 13] 1988. xxxii, 391 pp.
Passive and Voice
Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani
This volume brings together 18 original papers dealing with voice-related phenomena.The languages dealt with represent both typological and geographic diversity, ranging from accusative-type languages to ergative-type and Philippine-type languages, and from Australia to Africa and Siberia. The… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 16] 1988. xi, 706 pp.
Phonological Reconstruction
Edited by Marc Dominicy and Juliette Dror
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 3] 1988. 183 pp.
The Prague School and Its Legacy
Edited by Yishai Tobin
Many of the fundamental ideas of the classical Prague School have guided or inspired much of the interdisciplinary post World War II research in linguistics, literary theory, semiotics, folklore and the arts. The Prague School promoted a humanistic and functional Leitmotiv of language as an open,… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 27] 1988. xxx, 317 pp.
The Semantics of Grammar
Anna Wierzbicka
“The semantics of grammar” presents a radically semantic approach to syntax and morphology. It offers a methodology which makes it possible to demonstrate, on an empirical basis, that syntax is neither “autonomous” nor “arbitrary”, but that it follows from “semantics”. It is shown that every… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 18] 1988. x, 617 pp.
Studies in Syntactic Typology
Edited by Michael Hammond, Edith A. Moravcsik and Jessica Wirth
The papers in this volume are revised versions of presentations at the conference on Language Universals and Language Typology in March 1985 at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. They include new proposals of universals, results of investigations to validate or refine previously proposed… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 17] 1988. xiv, 394 pp.
The Study of Language in 17th-Century England: Second Edition
Vivian Salmon
This volume brings together a number of papers by Vivian Salmon, previously published in various journals and collections that are unfamiliar, and perhaps even inaccessible, to historians of the study of language. The central theme of the volume is the study of language in England in the 17th… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 17] 1988. x, 218 pp.
Supportive Fellow-Speakers and Cooperative Conversations: Discourse topics and topical actions, participant roles and 'recipientaction' in a particular type of everyday conversation
Wolfram Bublitz
This is a study of a specific type of everyday conversation whose essential hallmark is its participants' attempt to gain agreement and consent when establishing and maintaining a continuous and coherent flow of talk. Basing his analyses on the Survey'-corpus and resorting to an interpretative,… read more[Not in series, 32] 1988. xii, 308 pp.
The Theory of Neutralization and the Archiphoneme in Functional Phonology
Tsutomu Akamatsu
The theory of neutralization and the archiphoneme is well known to have been expounded by the Prague School. It is now being fully accepted and practised by A. Martinet and his associates, to whom Akamatsu refers as the neo-Prague School. The objective is to propose a maximally functionalist theory… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 43] 1988. xxi, 533 pp.
Topics in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn
This volume presents new developments in cognitive grammar and explores its descriptive and explanatory potential with respect to a wide range of language phenomena. These include the formation and use of locationals, causative constructions, adjectival and nominal expressions of oriented space,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 50] 1988. x, 704 pp.
Typology of Resultative Constructions: Translated from the original Russian edition (1983)
Edited by Vladimir P. Nedjalkov
This volume, originally published in Russian, combines data from a wide range of languages, meticulously analyzed, with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus capable of isolating the most important syntactic and semantic parameters and of drawing those generalizations that are most significant from… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 12] 1988. xx, 573 pp.
Approaches to Discourse, Poetics and Psychiatry: Papers from the 1985 Utrecht Summer School of Critical Theory
Edited by Iris M. Zavala, Teun A. van Dijk and Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz
A collection of innovative essays representing the most recent developments in poetry as discourse, the discourse of power, and discourse of psychiatry and psychosis. The essays in this volume deal with questions of interpretation of poetry, psychoanalysis, and political theory. All are presented… read more[Critical Theory, 4] 1987. vi, 240 pp.
Australian Applied Language Studies
Edited by Tim F. McNamara
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 10:2 (1987) vi, 236 pp.
Coherence and Grounding in Discourse: Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984
Russell S. Tomlin
This volume seeks to expand our understanding of the relation holding between discourse relations, cognitive units, and linguistic coding. The twenty contributions in this collection explore one or more of the following themes: How point of view, or the salience of information in discourse, affects… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 11] 1987. viii, 512 pp.
A Comprehensive Bibliography of Pragmatics
Compiled by Jan Nuyts and Jef Verschueren
[Not in series, 30] 1987. xi, 2197 pp. (4 vols)
Discourse and Word Order
Olga T. Yokoyama
Integrating various aspects of human communication traditionally treated in a number of separate disciplines, Olga T. Yokoyama develops a universal model of the smallest unit of informational discourse, and uncovers the regularities that govern the intentional verbal transfer of knowledge from one… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 6] 1987. xii, 361 pp.
Emotive Signs in Language and Semantic Functioning of Derived Nouns in Russian
Bronislava Volkova
This monograph is intended as a contribution to the integral description of language and verbal communication. Chapter I and Chapters VII and VIII are concerned with general problems of emotivity and expressivity in language as such and on all linguistic levels. These chapters describe emotivity… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 24] 1987. xi, 270 pp.
Explanation and Linguistic Change
Edited by Willem F. Koopman, Frederike van der Leek, Olga Fischer and Roger Eaton
This volume presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Amsterdam in 1985, on the nature, even possibility, of explanation in Historical Linguistics: why changes take place and others do not, and why they occur at a particular time and place. The workshop, and this volume, aim to explore questions… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 45] 1987. viii, 300 pp.
Functionalism in Linguistics
Edited by René Dirven † and Vilém Fried
This volume offers a variety of viewpoints on the functional approach to the study of language. After an exposition of the Prague School functionalism, and Dik's and Halliday's functional approaches, it presents a wider area of text-linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, theoretical,… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 20] 1987. xviii, 489 pp.
Grammatical Relations in a Radical Creole: Verb Complementation in Saramaccan
Francis Byrne
With English and Portuguese as parent languages; the significant lexical retention of African languages; and the relative isolation of its speakers, Saramaccan has always stood out among Creole languages. Yet despite its obvious interest Saramaccan received little in the way of scholarly study.… read more[Creole Language Library, 3] 1987. xiv, 293 pp.
The History of Linguistics in the Classical Period
Edited by Daniel J. Taylor
The study of Greek and Roman language science has figured prominently in the remarkable renascence of interest in the history of linguistics of the last twenty years. We know more now than we did several decades ago about what the Greeks and Romans were thinking, writing, and doing in matters… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 46] 1987. xii, 298 pp.
An Introduction to the Comparative Phonetics of English and French in North America
Marc Picard
This textbook is designed to fill two basic needs. One is for a clear and straightforward presentation of the rudiments of articulatory phonetics which is geared specifically to the requirements of the (future) language teacher, and not exclusively to the student of linguistics, and in which the… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 7] 1987. xi, 90 pp.
Italian in Australia: Applied linguistics
Edited by Camilla Bettoni
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 4] 1987. iv, 204 pp.
Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Ross Steele and Terry Threadgold
[Not in series, LT S] 1987. 1160 pp.
Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday. Volume 1
Edited by Ross Steele and Terry Threadgold
This volume in honour of Michael Halliday begins with a section on the background to the development of MAK’s ideas. The second section groups papers on language development in early childhood, which has always been one of Halliday’s main interests. The focus of the third section is on aspects of… read more[Not in series, LT 1] 1987. xxxii, 490 pp.
Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday. Volume 2
Edited by Ross Steele and Terry Threadgold
This second volume in honour of Michael Halliday contains three sections: The Design of Language, Text and Discourse and Exploring Language as Social Semiotic, and concludes with a recent interview conducted by Paul Thibault in which Halliday provides further insights in his theory of language. The… read more[Not in series, LT 2] 1987. xvi, 669 pp.
Leitmotifs in Natural Morphology
Wolfgang U. Dressler, Willi Mayerthaler, Oswald Panagl and Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel
Natural Morphology is the term the four authors of this monograph agreed on to cover the leitmotifs of their common and individual approaches in questions of theoretical morphology. The introduction summarizes the basic concepts and strategies of Natural Morphology, to be followed by Mayerthaler… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 10] 1987. ix, 168 pp.
Leonard Bloomfield: Essays on his life & work
Edited by Robert A. Hall, Jr.
These essays were brought together to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), one of the most outstanding and influential linguists of the twentieth century. The contributions have been grouped in three sections according to their relevance to his work,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 47] 1987. x, 237 pp.
Linguistics and Pseudo-Linguistics
Robert A. Hall, Jr.
The doctrines of transformational-generative grammar (as promulgated in 1957, with frequent later emendations) have on occasion been criticised, sometimes severely. Such criticism have, however, appeared mostly in article-form, and mostly in relatively inaccessible places. Discussions in bookform… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 55] 1987. vii, 147 pp.
Mathematics of Language: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1984
Edited by Alexis Manaster-Ramer
By mathematics of language is meant the mathematical properties that may, under certain assumptions about modeling, be attributed to human languages and related symbolic systems, as well as the increasingly active and autonomous scholarly discipline that studies such things. More specifically, the… read more[Not in series, 35] 1987. ix, 401 pp.
Narrators and Focalizers: The Presentation of the Story in the Iliad
Irene J.F. de Jong
[Not in series - Grüner, 138] 1987. xvi, 317 pp.
Orthography and Phonology
Edited by Philip A. Luelsdorff
Collected here are eleven papers devoted to various aspects of the orthography/phonology interface. Topics include spelling-to-sound correspondence for English, French, and Russian, the design of a generative phonology for orthography data-base access, the linguistic sign and orthographic and… read more[Not in series, 29] 1987. xi, 238 pp.
Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics
Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat, Onofrio Carruba and Giuliano Bernini
These papers, deriving from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) in Pavia in 1984, provide an overview of the current status of research in this field. They clearly show that new issues are emerging in the theory of linguistic change which tend to incorporate… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 48] 1987. xvi, 672 pp.
Papers in the History of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS III), Princeton, 19–23 August 1984
Edited by Hans Aarsleff, L.G. Kelly and Hans-Josef Niederehe
This volume presents a selection of – slightly revised versions – of papers from the third International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS III), Princeton, 1984. The papers are organized under the following headings: I Generalia; II Classical Period; III Medieval Period; IV… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 38] 1987. xxvi, 680 pp.
Perspectives on Child Language
Edited by Annick De Houwer and Steven Gillis
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2] 1987. 161 pp.
Perspectives on Topicalization: The case of Japanese wa
Edited by John Hinds, Shoichi Iwasaki and Senko K. Maynard
Within the field of Japanese linguistics, few areas have generated as much controversy as the morpheme wa; traditionally described as a marker of old or contrasted information, its function as a discourse marker has also been studied. This work aims to deepen the understanding of wa through careful… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 14] 1987. xi, 307 pp.
Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics: Volume 9
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Marie Těšitelová and Ján Horecký
The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Těšitelová; Ludmila Uhlířová; I. Nebeská; M. Ludvíková; H. Confortiová; Marie Těšitelová , J. Petr & Jan Králík; J. Štěpán; J. Krámský; J. Dušková; J. Sabol. Part 2 Algebraic… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 22] 1987. 200 pp.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Hamito-Semitic Congress
Edited by Herrmann Jungraithmayr and Walter W. Mueller
The papers in this volume derive from the 4th International Hamito-Semitic Congress, held in Marburg in 1983. The papers deal with the (morpho)phonology or syntax of individual languages or language (sub)families, and many have a diachronic angle. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 44] 1987. xiv, 609 pp.
Reader in Czech Sociolinguistics
Edited by Jan Chloupek and Jiří Nekvapil
Although in Czechoslovakia sociolinguistics is not institutionalized, some results and approaches of Czech linguistics appear to be sociolinguistic, and that from the viewpoint of other linguistic and scientific traditions in general. The socio-component' of Czech linguistics took shape as early as… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 23] 1987. 344 pp.
A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama
Vivian Salmon and Edwina Burness
In recent years the language of Shakespearean drama has been described in a number of publications intended mainly for the undergraduate student or general reader, but the studies in academic journals to which they refer are not always easily accessible even though they are of great interest to the… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 35] 1987. xx, 523 pp.
Refurbishing our Foundations: Elementary linguistics from an advanced point of view
Charles F. Hockett
This essay challenges several patterns of thinking common in twentieth-century linguistics. The most pervasive of these is our habit of looking at language from the point of view of the speaker. When we take, instead, that of the hearer, matters fall into place in a new way. In syntax, we are led… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 56] 1987. x, 181 pp.
The Semantics of Form in Arabic: In the mirror of European languages
David Justice
Justice's first aim in this volume is to demystify the Arabic language, which is widely perceived as difficult to learn, and has been characterised as ambiguous and confusingly polysemous. The central concern of this three-dimensional portrait of Classical Arabic is a version of the Sapir-Whorf… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 15] 1987. iv, 417 pp.
Sentential Complementation in Spanish: A lexico-grammatical study of three classes of verbs
Carlos Subirats
The aim of the present work is to study the main distributional and transformational properties of verbs with a non-prepositional sentential complement in the two-argument sentence in Spanish. read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 14] 1987. xii, 290 pp.
Structures and their Functions in Usan
Ger P. Reesink
Usan is a Papuan language. In this monograph on the grammatical structures of Usan and their function the author shows the unique features of this language: how speakers can exploit certain principles for communicative purposes, how the language reflects their physical environment. Uniqueness can… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 13] 1987. xviii, 369 pp.
The Syntax of Serial Verbs: An investigation into serialisation in Sranan and other languages
Mark Sebba
This monograph is about the chains of verbs commonly found in Creole Languages, West African languages, in particular the Kwa sub-group of Niger-Congo, Chinese and certain other languages and have acquired the name of 'serial verbs' in the literature. As a case study, the serial constructions of… read more[Creole Language Library, 2] 1987. xv, 226 pp.
Tibeto-Burman Tonology: A Comparative Analysis
Alfons Weidert
This monograph lays the foundation for a prosodological theory of Tibeto-Burman languages within a comparative and reconstructional framework. It is primarily based on data collections of mostly unknown languages on which the author worked for more than 10 years on several projects. This… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 54] 1987. xvii, 512 pp.
The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A guide to word combinations
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson
This unique dictionary gives essential collocations of English in an easily accessible form. It shows which word combinations exist in English and which grammatical constructions are possible. Whenever possible, the collocations are listed under the noun, so that in order to find out, for instance,… read more[Not in series, BBI 1 (1st)] 1986. xxxvi, 286 pp.
Complementation: Its Meaning and Forms
Evelyn N. Ransom
This book presents a stage in the evolution of a theory of modality meanings and forms. It covers exclusively complements. There are two questions that this book addresses. Can one find a small, finite set of meanings which systematically underlies the enormous variety of meanings found in… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 10] 1986. xii, 226 pp.
Constraints on Error Variables in Grammar: Bilingual misspelling orthographies
Philip A. Luelsdorff
An in-depth investigation of constraints on error variables in grammar with special reference to bilingual misspelling orthographies. A corpus of errors is examined in minute detail. In the course of this analysis, received categories and standard assumptions about linguistic errors are critically… read more[Not in series, 25] 1986. xix, 504 pp.
Contemporary Sociolinguistics: Theory, Problems, Methods
Aleksandr D. Švejcer
The "common core" of different sociolinguistic schools includes a number of general problems such as the social differentiation of language, the sociolinguistic aspects of bilingualism and diglossia, the typology of linguistic situations, language engineering, national and standard languages and… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 15] 1986. vii, 193 pp.
Diversity and Diachrony
David Sankoff
This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the 12th Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), held in Montréal in 1983. It is divided into three sections: 1. Varieties of English and their history; 2. Change and variation in Romance; 3. Functions and discourse. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 53] 1986. xii, 430 pp.
Explorations in Japanese Sociolinguistics
Leo Loveday
Explorations in Japanese Sociolinguistics provides a treasure of information on the Japanese language and the social and cultural system it has developed and is embedded in. To the non-specialist, it opens an unknown world. To the specialist it offers theoretical and methodological perspectives… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:1] 1986. xi, 153 pp.
Focus in Generative Grammar
Michael Rochemont
The topic of this book is the notion of ‘focus’ and its linguistic characterization. The main thesis is that focus has a uniform grammatical identification only as a syntactic element with – in English at least – a certain systematic phonological interpretation and – presumably universally – a… read more[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 4] 1986. ix, 221 pp.
Focus on the Caribbean
Edited by Manfred Görlach † and John Holm †
This collection represents an important contribution not only to creole linguistics but also to Caribbean studies and English dialectology. It contains eleven essays on the special development and present-day functions of English and Creole in the Caribbean, ranging from Central America to Guyana.… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G8] 1986. viii, 209 pp.
From Logic to Rhetoric: Translated from the French original edition, Paris, 1982
Michel Meyer
What is language, and how has it been conceived since Frege? How did the development of thought about language lead to a renewed interest in rhetoric in the twentieth century and ultimately to the ‘problematological synthesis’? These are the main questions treated in this book. A constant… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:3] 1986. ix, 147 pp.
Functional Explanations in Linguistics
Edited by Alain Bossuyt
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 1] 1986. 285 pp.
Germanic Dialects: Linguistic and Philological Investigations
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi and Thomas Krömmelbein
This volume seeks to present ‘Germanic philology’ with its main linguistic, literary and cultural subdivisions as a whole, and to call into question the customary pedagogical division of the discipline. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 38] 1986. ix, 693 pp.
The History of Lexicography
Edited by R.R.K. Hartmann
Most dictionaries have forerunners, and all have imitators; an understanding of the historical foundations of dictionary-making is therefore one of the preconditions of further progress in academic lexicography. The papers in this volume, which were presented at the 1986 Exeter Seminar, survey most… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 40] 1986. viii, 265 pp.
The History of Linguistics in Italy
Edited by Paolo Ramat, Hans-Josef Niederehe and E.F.K. Koerner †
This volume brings together the papers published in Historiographia Linguistica 9:3 (1982), which was devoted to the history of linguistics in Italy, with Marazzini’s paper first published in Historiographia Linguistica 10:1/2 (1983), and an original article by Franco Lo Piparo expressly written… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 33] 1986. x, 364 pp.
The History of Linguistics in Spain
Edited by Antonio Quilis Morales and Hans-Josef Niederehe
This selection of papers is concerned with the history of linguistics in Spain, dealing with the evolution of linguistic ideas from the Middle Ages and the European context of the linguistic debates in Spain to the 20th century, concluding with Malkiel's appraisal of Ramón Menéndez Pidal… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 34] 1986. viii, 360 pp.
Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Aleksandr D. Švejcer and L.B. Nikol'skij
Translation from the original Russian edition. The first Soviet text-book on sociolinguistics, the book introduces the reader to some of its basic problems, such as language and social structure, language as a social factor, language and nation, language and culture, language and the sociology of… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 14] 1986. xii, 181 pp.
It is Hereby Performed...: Explorations in legal speech acts
Dennis Kurzon
This book deals with speech acts, especially performatives, that are regarded as ‘operative’ in legal discourse. After a detailed exposition of speech act theory in relation to legislative texts, the author discusses the legal document as a communicative act; potential speech acts and delegated… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:6] 1986. vii, 81 pp.
Language Inequality and Distortion in Intercultural Communication: A Critical Theory Approach
Yukio Tsuda
This study sheds light on the problem of communicative inequality, neglected both by linguists and communication scholars, among speakers of different languages. It provides a four-step Critical Theory analysis of language-based inequality and distortion between speakers of a few dominant… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:7] 1986. xi, 97 pp.
Language Typology 1985: Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Moscow, 9–13 Dec. 1985
Edited by Winfred P. Lehmann
This volume presents revised versions of papers originally presented at the Colloquium in Linguistic Typology, held in Moscow in 1985. The organizers and participants of the colloquium considered it of great importance to come to terms on primary principles, in order to be able to build on previous… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 47] 1986. viii, 209 pp.
Language and Discourse: Test and Protest. A Festschrift for Petr Sgall
Edited by Jacob L. Mey
The present volume was brought together on the occasion of Petr Sgall’s 60th birthday. It bears testimony to the multifarious and variegated character of his background and activities. It is to be hoped that this kind of variety will contribute – as Petr Sgall strives to do – to a broader and… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 19] 1986. xiii, 611 pp.
The Language of Love and Guilt
Ruth Wodak and Muriel Schulz
Although mother and daughter are two central female roles, they have rarely been investigated. The relationship is specific, certainly different than the mother–son or father–daughter relationships. And this difference manifests itself in sex-specific language behavior. Despite ‘eternal’ features… read more[Not in series, 27] 1986. x, 253 pp.
Lexicographic Description of English
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson
Designed to help lexicographers compile better dictionaries of English, this book provides information about the language that is not available in any other single source. It is the first serious attempt to describe in detail the lexical and grammatical differences between American and British… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 14] 1986. xiii, 288 pp.
Literacy
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 9:2 (1986) v, 157 pp.
Metaphors of Anger, Pride and Love: A lexical approach to the structure of concepts
Zoltán Kövecses
This study is an attempt to uncover the structure of three emotion concepts: anger, pride and love. The results indicate that the conceptual structure associated with these emotions consists of four parts: (1) a system of metaphors, (2) a system of metonymies, (3) a system of related concepts, and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:8] 1986. vii, 147 pp.
New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality: Proceedings of the Edward Sapir Centenary Conference (Ottawa, 1–3 October 1984)
Edited by William Cowan, Michael Foster and E.F.K. Koerner †
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884-1939) a conference was held in the Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada, where Sapir had his office for most of his time as Chief of the Anthropological Division of the Geographical Survey of Canada (1910-1925). This… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 41] 1986. xiv, 627 pp.
News Interviews: A pragmalinguistic analysis
Andreas H. Jucker
Jucker endeavors to test pragmatic concepts (such as Grice’s principles of conversational inference) by applying them to concrete data. This application leads to suggestions for various modifications in the available pragmatic methodology. While pursuing this theoretical goal, he makes a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:4] 1986. ix, 195 pp.
Noam Chomsky: A personal bibliography, 1951–1986
Compiled by E.F.K. Koerner † and Matsuji Tajima
The impetus for producing a bibliography of Noam Chomky’s output (so far) derives from a strong interest in and commitment to a historical accounting of the contribution to the field of linguistic theory and possibly other subjects, such as philosophy and political science, by a man who has… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 11] 1986. xi, 217 pp.
Noun Classes and Categorization: Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983
Edited by Colette G. Craig
This volume is about the nature of categories in cognition and the relevance of these in language description, especially classifier systems. The classical view of categories was that they were discrete and based upon clusters of properties which were inherent to the entities. In recent years this… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 7] 1986. vii, 481 pp.
Sentence Adverbials in a Functional Description
Eva Koktová
The author presents empirical arguments in favor of a joint syntactico-semantic treatment, within the framework of a functional generative description, of a range of adverbial expressions which should be viewed as belonging to a single, lexically heterogeneous but functionally homogeneous, class… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:2] 1986. viii, 96 pp.
The Southwest of England
Martyn F. Wakelin
The volume consists of a substantial introduction, providing a geographical and historical outline of the area, an account of the origin of the area, an account of the origin of present-day southwestern speech varieties and a synopsis of their main features. This is followed by texts of three main… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T5] 1986. xii, 231 pp.
Sprachphilosophie in Antike und Mittelalter: Bochumer Kolloquium, 2.–4. Juni 1982
Herausgegeben von Burkhard Mojsisch
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 3] 1986. vii, 488 pp.
Strategies and Structures: The processing of relative clauses
Gary D. Prideaux and Will Baker
In this monograph, the nature of processing strategies is explored in some detail, with an attempt to cut through the maze of often contradictory and confused proposals concerning the nature and form of various strategies. Once a preliminary conception of the nature of cognitive strategies and a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 46] 1986. ix, 197 pp.
Studies in Turkish Linguistics
Edited by Dan I. Slobin and Karl Zimmer
Turkish is a member of the Turkic family of languages, which extends over a vast area in southern and eastern Siberia and adjacent portions of Iran, Afganistan, and China. Turkic, in turn, belongs to the Altaic family of languages. This book deals with the morphological and syntactic, semantic and… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 8] 1986. vi, 300 pp.
Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985
Edited by Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith
Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the structures of the Creole languages of the Atlantic and the Pacific differ are the universalist and he substrate hypotheses. The universalist hypothesis claims, essentially, that the particular grammatical properties of Creole languages directly… read more[Creole Language Library, 1] 1986. vii, 311 pp.
Surface Syntax of English: A formal model within the meaning-text framework
Igor Mel’čuk and Nikolaj V. Pertsov
This book is the first attempt to describe the syntax of Contemporary English exclusively in terms of dependencies (most American works on the subject being in terms of phrase structure, or constituency). The three main features of it are: (1) a fully formal presentation, (2) a reasonably complete… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 13] 1986. xv, 526 pp.
Television Advertising and Televangelism: Discourse Analysis of Persuasive Language
Rosemarie Schmidt and Joseph F. Kess
The research reported in this volume attempts to refine our understanding of persuasive messages of television advertising by studying the role of language in persuasion in two ways. First, it comprises an attempt to refine our understanding of how language might function in persuasion by examining… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:5] 1986. vi, 88 pp.
Topic, Focus and Configurationality: Papers from the 6th Groningen Grammar Talks, Groningen, 1984
Edited by Werner Abraham and Sjaak de Meij
Some fundamental questions regarding sentence structure in linguistics concern whether all languages, at some level of abstraction, have the same structure, and what are the basic categories with which to describe sentence structure. The contributors of this volume are specialized in two quite… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 4] 1986. v, 349 pp.
Volume 3
Edited by Tim F. McNamara
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 3] 1986. v, 135 pp.
William Bathe, S.J., 1564–1614: A pioneer in linguistics. English translation from the Irish edition, Dublin, 1981
Seán P. Ó Mathúna
William Bathe, S.J. (1564-1614) was a pioneer in linguistics. The present book deals with Bathe's family background, his life and service as a courtier, diplomat and, finally, Jesuit educator, and, in particular, his contribution to the study of language and his most important publication, Ianua… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 37] 1986. iv, 211 pp. + 16 ill.
'Dialect' and 'Accent' in Industrial West Yorkshire
K.M. Petyt
This volume is concerned with one of the few thorough-going Labovian studies carried out in Britain. Based on a survey of over hundred randomly selected informants from the towns of Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield, it deals first with the methodology employed, and then sketches some aspects of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G6] 1985. viii, 401 pp.
African Linguistics: Essays in Memory of M.W.K. Semikenke
Edited by Didier L. Goyvaerts
This volume presents papers on issues in African linguistics, covering a variety of African languages and ranging from phonology to lexicology. read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 6] 1985. v, 508 pp.
Aspects of Dynamic Phonology
Toby D. Griffen
Dynamic phonology is the natural consequence of the combination of the latest developments in physiological and acoustic phonetics and the traditional structural/functional theories of linguistics. In phonetics, the segmental approach has long since given way to dynamic phonetics, leaving linguists… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 37] 1985. ix, 302 pp.
Chicano English: An ethnic contact dialect
Joyce Penfield and Jacob L. Ornstein-Galicia
Chicano English can rightly be said to be, in its different varieties, the most widespread ethnic dialect of U.S. English, spoken by large sections of the population in the American Southwest. It represents a type of speech referred to by E. Haugen as a ‘bilingual’ dialect, having developed out of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G7] 1985. vii, 112 pp.
A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon
Compiled by Roy Albert and David L. Shaul
A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon is a lexical research tool for persons interested in the Hopi language. An effort has been made to include the most frequent forms of basic roots. The work is designed to serve as wide-ranging an audience as possible: Hopi speakers as well as those not fluent in… read more[Not in series, 19] 1985. vii, 204 pp.
Contributions to Functional Syntax, Semantics and Language Comprehension
Edited by Petr Sgall
This volume presents a rather complete survey of the research activities of the Prague group of algebraic linguistics. Some of the papers included bear witness to the fact that algebraic linguistics, or the formal description of language, is not the only domain in which the Prague group is active.… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 16] 1985. 379 pp.
Current Issues in First and Second Language Development: Proceedings of the ALAA Working Group on Language Development, Alice Springs, August 1984
Edited by Howard Nicholas
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 8:2 (1985) iii, 151 pp.
Dialogue: An interdisciplinary approach
Edited by Marcelo Dascal †
Dialogue: An interdisciplinary approach is a pioneering collection of papers that take Dialogue Studies out of its ‘classic’ narrow definition into the study of the complexities and processes in dialogue. It is a first move toward interdisciplinary research in Dialogue Studies. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 1] 1985. xiv, 473 pp.
Dépendance et niveaux de représentation en syntaxe
Jean-Roger Vergnaud
Dans cette étude, nous développons une approche formelle de quelques problèmes de linguistique. Les questions que nous considérons se rattachent plus spécialement à la théorie des dépendances et à celle des niveaux de représentation, ainsi qu'à la relation entre ces théories: une théorie formelle… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 13] 1985. xvi, 372 pp.
Focus on Scotland
Edited by Manfred Görlach †
This collection comprises 15 essays ranging from the social history of and attitudes towards Scots to the representation of Scottishness in literary language and to modern sociolinguistic work. The uniqueness of the historical and present-day linguistic situation in Scotland makes the volume of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G5] 1985. iv, 241 pp.
Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983
Edited by John Haiman †
The papers in this volume all explore one kind of functional explanation for various aspects of linguistic form – iconicity: linguistic forms are frequently the way they are because they resemble the conceptual structures they are used to convey, or, linguistic structures resemble each other… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 6] 1985. vi, 402 pp.
International News Reporting: Metapragmatic metaphors and the U-2
Jef Verschueren
With reference to a brief description of inherent properties of the international news reporting process in a free press tradition, Verschueren criticizes their being neglected in linguistic approaches to the language of the media. In an attempt to illustrate the potential contribution of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:5] 1985. viii, 109 pp.
Jordanian Arabic between Diglossia and Bilingualism: Linguistic analysis
Salah M. Suleiman
Suleiman provides a linguistic analysis of Jordanian Arabic spoken by educated groups and in particular by students at Yarmouk University. He investigates the extent to which spoken Jordanian Arabic is affected by the classical-colloquial dichotomy (i.e. the extent to which diglossia is involved).… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:8] 1985. xvi, 131 pp.
Language and Action: A reassessment of Speech Act Theory
Danilo Marcondes de Souza Filho
This work consists of an examination and revision of some of the main theses of Speech Act Theory in relation to the problem of ideology and action-guiding language. Starting from the idea that linguistic philosophy must take into account how the social structure of the linguistic community may… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:6] 1985. x, 165 pp.
The Laws of Indo-European
N.E. Collinge
This book collects all the named laws of Indo-European, presents each in its original form and rationale and then provides an evaluation of all major attacks, revisions and exploitations, along with a full bibliography and index. Complete – thorough – exhaustive. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 35] 1985. xvii, 308 pp.
Linguistics and Philosophy: Festschrift for Rulon S. Wells
Edited by Adam Makkai and Alan K. Melby
This volume contains papers by a large number of influencial linguists, written as a tribute to the work of Rulon S. Wells. The volume is subdivided into sections on the Philosophy of Language, Phonology, Syntax, Historical and Typological Linguistics, and Diachronic and Synchronic Derivation. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 42] 1985. xviii, 472 pp.
Metaphor: A Bibliography of post-1970 publications
Compiled by Jean-Pierre van Noppen
The aim of the present bibliography is to provide the student of metaphor with an up-to-date and comprehensive (albeit not exhaustive) overview of recent publications dealing with various aspects of metaphor in a variety of disciplines. Where the emphasis is primarily on specific works “about”… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 17] 1985. x, 497 pp.
Morphology: A Study of the Relation between Meaning and Form
Joan L. Bybee
This is a textbook right in the thick of current interest in morphology. It proposes principles to predict properties previously considered arbitrary and brings together the psychological and the diachronic to explain the recurrent properties of morphological systems in terms of the processes that… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 9] 1985. xii, 235 pp.
Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985
Edited by Roger Eaton, Olga Fischer, Willem F. Koopman and Frederike van der Leek
These papers are a selection from papers presented at the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Amsterdam, 1985). Most studies deal with some aspect of an earlier stage of English, though present day varieties of English are also under investigation. Many of the papers… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 41] 1985. xvii, 341 pp.
Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 22–26 August 1983
Edited by Jacek Fisiak
This volume presents a selection of papers from the 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in 1983, in Poznań, Poland. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 34] 1985. xxiii, 622 pp.
Pragmatics and Fiction
Jon-K. Adams
Pragmatics and Fiction explores the basic pragmatic differences between fictional and nonfictional discourse. These differences derive mainly from the creation of a fictional figure who narrates the text and who, in turn, addresses his narrative to a fictional audience. Since these figures become… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:2] 1985. vi, 79 pp.
The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French
Betsy K. Barnes
Left detachment constructions (LDs) (e.g. un buffet de campagne, c’est un meuble) are examined in a corpus of informal spontaneous conversation between educated native speakers of French. The overwhelming majority of these constructions are shown to have a clearly pragmatic motivation. The author’s… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:3] 1985. viii, 123 pp.
Questions on Social Explanation: Piagetian themes reconsidered
Edited by Luigia Camaioni and Claudia de Lemos
The various contributions to this volume converge on two themes. First, the explanatory role of social interaction, which, for a long time, has been a source of criticism of Piaget’s view of intelligence, is dealt with not only in relation to cognitive development, but also to language acquisition… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:4] 1985. viii, 141 pp.
Scientific and Humanistic Dimensions of Language: Festschrift for Robert Lado. On the Occasion of his 70th Birthday
Edited by Kurt R. Jankowsky
The volume has been written by a great variety of scholars and educators. Not only are the authors literally from all four corners of the world; they also represent, in spite of the large body of shared professional viewpoints and objectives, many different, even diverging, approaches,… read more[Not in series, 22] 1985. lii, 614 pp.
Selected papers from the XIIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance: Languages, Chapel Hill, N.C., 24–26 March 1983
Edited by Larry D. King and Catherine A. Maley
The papers in this volume are a selection from the paper presented at the 13th Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (1983). The languages discussed include Romance in general, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Gascon. The diversity of the topics encompassed by these papers conforms to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 36] 1985. x, 440 pp.
Social Setting, Stigma, and Communicative Competence: Explorations of the conversational interactions of retarded adults
Sharon Sabsay and Martha Platt
Mentally retarded individuals have been studied almost exclusively as clinical entities, not as persons immersed in the stream of social life. This has led not only to a lack of appreciation for the complexity of their lives and concerns, but also to an underestimation and incomplete understanding… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:6] 1985. vi, 137 pp.
Source Book for Linguistics
William Cowan and Jaromira Rakušan
Developed at Carleton University, Ottawa, this is a comprehensive workbook now in its second, revised edition designed primarily for use with introductory courses in linguistics. With 334 graded excercises and problems from more than 60 languages and dialects. read more[Not in series, 20] 1985. xxvi, 338 pp.
Speech Act Taxonomy as a Tool for Ethnographic Description: An analysis based on videotapes of continuous behavior in two New York households
Nira Reiss
This study is intended to design measures for ethnographic description including speech acts in an etic instrumental approach, oriented toward an analysis of the functions of communicative events in relation to the ongoing stream of behavior. A revised taxonomy of speech acts is applied to an… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:7] 1985. x, 153 pp.
Syntaxe des verbes de mouvement en coréen contemporain
Chai-Song Hong
Ce travail est une description syntaxique des constructions des verbes de mouvement (Vmt) en coréen contemporain. L’objectif immédiat est the caractériser syntaxiquement les phrases acceptant un Vmt et de décrire leurs propriétés formelles. Dans cette optique, on doit: construire sur la base de… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 12] 1985. xv, 309 pp.
Theoretical Aspects of Passivization in the Framework of Applicative Grammar
Jean-Pierre Desclés, Zlatka Guentchéva and Sebastian Shaumyan
Passivization is explained by using the formalism of combinatory logic. The agented passive is derived from the agentless as follows: a term denoting an agent is transposed into a predicate modifier and applied to the passive predicate of the agentless construction. The passive predicate consists… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:1] 1985. viii, 115 pp.
Toward an Understanding of Language: Charles Carpenter Fries in Perspective
Edited by Peter H. Fries and Nancy M. Fries
Charles C. Fries (1887-1967) was a major figure in American linguistics and language education during the first half of the 20th century. Theoretical innovation and practical implementation were important threads that ran throughout his work. Fries believed that the attempt to deal with practical… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 40] 1985. xvi, 384 pp.
The Ubiquity of Metaphor: Metaphor in language and thought
Edited by Wolf Paprotté and René Dirven †
This volume brings together a number of articles representative of the present outlook on the importance of metaphors, and of the work done on metaphors in several domains of (psycho)linguistics. The first part of the volume deals with metaphor and the system of language. The second part offers… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 29] 1985. iii, 628 pp.
Volume 2
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 2] 1985. iii, 179 pp.
Whose Language?: A study in Linguistic Pragmatics
Jacob L. Mey
"For the colonized person, objectivity is always directed against him" (Frantz Fanon). Colonized persons do not live on what we call (or used to call) the "colonies" alone. In general, objective reality, or the "facts of life", are very different depending on the kind of life you can afford. This… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 3] 1985. ix, 412 pp.
Women, Feminist Identity and Society in the 1980s: Selected papers
Edited by Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz and Iris M. Zavala
The general objective of this volume is to present and discuss different modes of existence in women’s texts and feminist identity in political and poetic discourse on the one hand, and to analyze the factors which determine differing relationships between women and society, and which result in… read more[Critical Theory, 1] 1985. x, 138 pp.
A Bibliography of Writings on Varieties of English, 1965–1983
Compiled by Wolfgang Viereck, Edgar W. Schneider and Manfred Görlach †
After the growth of English and American dialectology since the 1930’s and the expansion of sociolinguistics since the 1960’s, the study of ‘world English’ has emerged in recent years to join these other disciplines. This bibliography is intended to reflect what has been achieved in this area and… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G3] 1984. iv, 319 pp.
Bilingual Conversation
Peter Auer
Code-switching and related phenomena have met with linguists’ increasing interest over the last decade. However, much of the research has been restricted to the structural (grammatical) properties of the use of two languages in conversation; scholars who have tried to capture the interactive… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:8] 1984. vii, 116 pp.
Current Progress in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics: Papers of the Third International Hamito-Semitic Congress, London, 1978
Edited by James Bynon
The papers in this volume derive from the Third Hamito-Semitic Congress, which took place in London in 1978. The papers, loosely grouped according to language families and theoretical issues, are in a number of cases considerably expanded and updated version of those presented at the conference.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 28] 1984. xi, 505 pp.
Das Germanische und die Rekonstruktion der Indogermanischen Grundsprache: Akten des Freiburger Kolloquiums der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Freiburg, 26–27 Februar 1981.. Proceedings of the Colloquium of the Indogermanische Gesellschhaft, Freiburg, 26–27 February 1981
Herausgegeben von Jürgen Untermann und Bela Brogyanyi
Es war kein Zufall, daß das achte Fachkolloquium der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft (1981) in Freiburg im Breisgau stattfand, – es war, wie dieser Band, dem Kollegen, Freund und Lehrer Oswald Szemerényi gewidmet, der das letzte Jahr seiner Amtszeit als Hochschullehrer angetreten hatte. Eher… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 22] 1984. xvii, 237 pp.
De la Syntaxe à la Pragmatique: Actes du Colloque de Rennes, Université de Haute-Bretagne
Sous la direction de Pierre Attal et Claude Muller
Les textes ici rassemblées donnent un tableau fidèle de l’état actuel et l’orientation des recherches linguistiques. Non que toutes les écoles, chapelles, églises et sectes y soient représentées: un seul volume n’y suffirait pas. Mais les principaux courants y sont, et pas seulement dans les… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 8] 1984. iv, 389 pp.
Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain: Recherches lexico-sémantiques. Volume 1
Compiled by Igor Mel’čuk
Sole distribution world-wide excl. CanadaThe Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain (DECFC) is the first dictionary that provides the user with systematic and complete descriptions of each entry word. The DECFC endeavours to realize the age-old dream of all lexicographers… read more[Not in series, DECFC 1] 1984. 172 pp.
Edward Sapir – Appraisals of his life and work
Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884–1939), this volume brings together a number of papers by distinguished North American scholars appraising the life and work of the world-renowned anthropologist and linguist. It includes an introduction by the editor, a full… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 36] 1984. xxviii, 224 pp.
Focus on: England and Wales
Edited by Wolfgang Viereck
This volume is a wide-ranging study in dialectology. General surveys appear along with in-depth studies of particular problems. Some papers describe the present situation in terms of dynamic synchrony, others deal with the past and making use of present-day dialectal data to help solve certain… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G4] 1984. iv, 304 pp. (includes 40 maps).
Foundations for a Science of Language
Gustave Guillaume (1883–1960)
This volume presents, for the first time in English, a representative view of Gustave Guillaume's thought. The texts, drawn mainly from his manuscript notes for lectures at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, were selected as far as possible for their accessibility, as requiring no prior… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 31] 1984. xxiv, 175 pp.
A Guide to Germanic Reference Grammars
John C. McKay
This guide provides brief descriptions and evaluations of the best reference grammars and comprehensive works on the syntax of contemporary Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, and Yiddish. read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 15] 1984. xviii, 239 pp.
Interrogativity: A colloquium on the grammar, typology and pragmatics of questions in seven diverse languages, Cleveland, Ohio, October 5th 1981-May 3rd 1982
Edited by William Chisholm, Louis T. Milic and John A.C. Greppin
This is a comparative study on the subject of interrogativity, presenting broad and narrow attributes on this subject in diverse languages: Russian, Mandarin, Georgian, Bengali, Bantu, Japanese, West Greenlandic and Ute. Each contribution presents, first the basic facts about the language in… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 4] 1984. v, 302 pp.
Language Handicap
Guest-edited by Ann Zubrick
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 7:2 (1984) iv, 75 pp.
Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition
Edited by William E. Rutherford
This volume consists of papers presented at the Conference on Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition, University of Southern California, February 1982. Published with the papers are the remarks of the originally assigned discussants. The collection represents an important… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 5] 1984. ix, 264 pp.
Learning and Hatred for Meaning
Hugo Kuyper Letiche
This study poses the problems of theoretical and philosophical pedagogy in the practice of teaching. The research goal was to improve my teaching. A concrete experience of undergraduate lecturing is the subject. This unconventional New Paradigm research strives for an immediacy of contact between… read more[Not in series, 18] 1984. 263 pp.
Lexique-Grammaire des langues romanes: Actes du 1er colloque européen sur la grammaire et le lexique comparés des langues romanes, Palerme, 1981
Sous la direction de Alain Guillet et Nunzio La Fauci
Une méthodologie commune est la caractéristique principale des travaux qui sont réunis dans ces actes du Premier Colloque Européen sur la Grammaire et le Lexique comparés des langues Romanes (Palerme 1981). La comparaison n’est pas une nouveauté en linguistique Romane; l’originalité des travaux… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 9] 1984. xiii, 319 + 58 pp. Tables.
Mercury: or the Secret and Swift Messenger: Shewing how a Man may with Privacy and Speed communicate his Thoughts to a Friend at any distance. Reprinted from the third edition (1708)
John Wilkins
Works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins' (1708). Together with an abstract of Dr. Wilkin's 'Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Languages,' a sketch of the life of the author and an account of his writings. With an introductory essay on the Universal Language Movement in England,… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 6] 1984. cix, 124 pp.
New Directions in Linguistics and Semiotics
Edited by James E. Copeland
This volume derives from a symposium held in March 1982, to celebrate the inauguration of the Department of Linguistics at Rice University. The focus of the symposium was the state of linguistics and semiotics in its recent past, the current status, and directions to be explored in the immediate… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 32] 1984. xi, 269 pp.
Papers from the XIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University Park, April 1–3, 1982
Edited by Philip Baldi
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the XII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held in April 1982 at Penn State University. These papers reflect the general state of the art in Romance Linguistics. Some of the studies are theoretical papers that seek to establish… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 26] 1984. xii, 611 pp.
Pidginization and Creolization: The Case of Arabic
Kees Versteegh
This book is concerned with the notions of “pidginization” and “creolization” and the role of these processes of language learning in the history of the Arabic language. It is argued that when a new type of Arabic emerged after the Islamic conquests in the 7th century AD, the language went through… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 33] 1984. xiii, 194 pp.
Prejudice in Discourse: An analysis of ethnic prejudice in cognition and conversation
Teun A. van Dijk
In this book, a study is made of ethnic prejudice in cognition and conversation, based on intensive interviewing of white majority group members. After an introductory survey of traditional and more recent approaches in social psychology to the study of prejudice, a new 'sociocognitive' theory is… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:3] 1984. x, 170 pp.
Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing
Roger Van de Velde
This book shows that in reading verbal texts human reasoning is responsible for the recognition and construction of different forms of organization. On the one hand, it spells out in what ways human thinking succeeds in recognizing the surface form of grammatical organization which is… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:2] 1984. vii, 100 pp.
Proto-Romance Morphology: Comparative Romance Grammar, vol. III
Robert A. Hall, Jr.
This volume deals with the reconstructed morphology of Proto-Romance. It is the third in a series by this author. The first volume (1974, Elsevier) deals with the external history of the Romance languages: the conditions under which they developed, were used, and (in some instances) went out of use. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 30] 1984. xii, 304 pp.
The Semantics of Coordination
Ewald Lang
This study is an attempt to explain coordinate conjoining as a rule-governed process of establishing specific semantic relations within and between sentences. Coordination is thus conceived of both as a basic device of linguistic complex formation and as a rather fundamental principle underlying… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 9] 1984. 300 pp.
Sociolinguistics in the Low Countries
Edited by Kas Deprez
This volume contains the papers read at the Second Sociolinguistics Conference of the Association Belge de Linguistique Appliquee (Belgian Association of Applied Linguistics) that was held at the University of Antwerp on the in May, 1980. The papers are grouped around two topics: 'Language and… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 5] 1984. viii, 359 pp.
Speech Acts, Speakers and Hearers: Reference and referential strategies in Spanish
Henk Haverkate
This study is an inquiry into the pragmatics of speaker and hearer reference. It falls into a theory-based and a description-based part. The former covers three topics: (a) the categories of speaker and hearer as opposed to the category of nonparticipants in the speech act; (b) the interactional… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:4] 1984. xi, 142 pp.
Syntax: A functional-typological introduction. Volume I
T. Givón
[Not in series, 17] 1984. xx, 464 pp.
Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic
Allan R. Bomhard
This book represents the culmination of the author’s work to date – it incorporates and updates previous articles and adds much new material. This book is not – nor was it ever intended to be – a comparative grammar of either the Indo-European or the Afroasiatic language families. It is, rather, a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 27] 1984. xi, 356 pp.
Transfer and Interference in Language: A Selected Bibliography
Compiled by Hans W. Dechert, Monika Brüggemeier and Dietmar Fütterer
The topic of this bibliography in its broadest sense is the subject of a wide range of academic disciplines. Given these circumstances, the particular associations and connotations of the terms ‘transfer’ and ‘interference’ in each of these areas are legion, with resultant differences in meaning in… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 14] 1984. xiv, 488 pp.
Under the Tumtum Tree: From nonsense to sense, a study in non-automatic comprehension
Marlene Dolitsky
Any informal discussion of a piece of nonsense literature produces highly varying interpretations which retain, however, a common core. It seemed, then, that nonsense would be a fertile base in the study of nonautomatic comprehension, i.e. comprehension where the word-meaning relations do not seem… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:1] 1984. vii, 118 pp.
‘Well’ in Dialogue Games: A discourse analysis of the interjection ‘well’ in idealized conversation
Lauri Carlson
This dialogue game approach to the discourse analysis of the English interjection well aims at the formulation of rules which would be informative (marking some contexts of use as more natural than others), systematic (applicable in a mechanical or at least in a non-ad hoc way), and adequate… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:5] 1984. ix, 104 pp.
Central American English
Edited by John Holm †
This volume is about the Anglophone creoles to be found on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and its offshore islands (Providencia, San Andrés and the Caymans) . The study of these Anglophone varieties is comparatively recent and based on… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T2] 1983. vi, 184 pp.
Die Sprachen Europas in systematischer Übersicht: Linguistische Untersuchungen (Bonn, 1850). New edition
August Schleicher (1821–1868)
In Die Sprachen Europas in systematischer Uebersicht (Bonn 1850) Schleicher works out a naturalistic conception of language and a research program inspired by the methods of the natural sciences, in particular botany and geology. It does not only provide a general exposition of Schleicher’s views,… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 4] 1983. lxii, viii, 270, 4 pp (altog. 344 pp).
Essays in the History of Linguistic Anthropology
Dell H. Hymes
Anthropology and linguistics, as historically developing disciplines, have had partly separate roots and traditions. In particular settings and in general, the two disciplines have partly shared, partly differed in the nature of their materials, their favorite types of problem the personalities of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 25] 1983. xxiii, 406 pp.
Foreign Language Teaching
Edited by T.J. Quinn
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 6:2 (1983) iv, 103 pp.
From Particular to General Linguistics: Selected Essays 1965–1978. With an introduction by the author, an index rerum and an index nominum
Yakov Malkiel
The period of 1965 to 1978 was an extremely productive time for U.S. (Russian born) Romance etymologist and philologist Yakov Malkiel whose specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish. Malkiel will be known as the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 3] 1983. xxii, 659 pp.
A Glance at the History of Linguistics: with particular regard to the historical study of phonology
Holger Pedersen (1867–1953)
This volume presents a translation into English of Holger Pedersen’s Et Blik på Sprogvidenskabens Historie (Copenhagen 1916). In addition, it provides an introductory article by E.F.K. Koerner on Pedersen’s life and work, and a bibliography of his writings. read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 7] 1983. xxxii, 100 pp.
Glasgow
Caroline Macafee
The Glasgow ‘toonheid vernacular’ is certainly the most vital and widespread – if least prestigious – form of present-day Scots. No comprehensive description has existed so far, Macauley’s sociolinguistic research having barely scratched the surface. Caroline Macafee’s long introduction to the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T3] 1983. iv, 167 pp.
Grammatical Proof of the Affinity of the Hungarian Language with Languages of Fennic Origin (Göttingen: Dieterich, 1799)
Sámuel Gyarmathi (1751–1830)
Sámuel Gyarmathi’s Affinitas linguae hungaricae cum linguis fennicae originis grammatice demonstrata (Göttingen 1799) was received as a distinguished work of scholarship in its own days, and its historical importance has been fully recognized ever since. This volume provides an English translation… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 15] 1983. xl, 327 pp.
History of Semiotics
Edited by Achim Eschbach and Jürgen Trabant
This volume brings together a collection of papers on the general theoretical and methodological problems in the historiography of semiotics. It is not a history in the conventional sense, even though the main periods and figures in the development of semiotics are given due prominence.… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 7] 1983. xvi, 386 pp.
Integrational Linguistics: Vol. I: General Outline
Hans-Heinrich Lieb
This is the first volume of a work envisioned to consist of six volumes, providing a complete overview of the unified approach to basic problems of linguistics, as developed by Hans-Heinrich Lieb. This first volume contains a detailed overview of Integrational Linguistics, and outlines a major… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 17] 1983. xxiii, 527 pp.
Introduction to English Derivational Morphology
Theodore M. Lightner
This book aims to give an indication of the extent of derivational morphology in English; of how much immanent, internal structure must be presumed for words -- even apparently simplex ones. This is done by showing that three (morpho-)phonological processes which tend to hide surface sound-meaning… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 6] 1983. xxxviii, 533 pp.
An Introduction to the Study of Language: New edition
Leonard Bloomfield
This is a fac simile edition of Bloomfield's An Introduction to the Study of Language (New York 1914), with an introductory article by Joseph S. Kess.Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) was responsible for two classic textbooks in the field of linguistics. The earlier, reproduced here, shows some… read more[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 3] 1983. xxxviii, x, 335 pp.
Latin Linguistics and Linguistic Theory: Proceedings of the 1st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 1981
Edited by Harm Pinkster
The articles of this collection on Latin linguistics are representative of the kind of research that is currently carried out in the field of linguistics. Most deal with syntax or sentence structure, but they vary with respect to their emphasis on theory or description. They also vary with respect… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 12] 1983. xviii, 307 pp.
Les verbes de mouvement en français et en espagnol: Etude comparée de leurs infinitives
Béatrice Lamiroy
Ce livre présente une étude comparée des infinitives des verbes de mouvement en français et en espagnol, avec l’intention d’illustrer la valeur heuristique de la pratique comparative en confrontant deux langues sur un point particulier de la syntaxe. read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 11] 1983. xiv, 323 pp.
The Letter Liveth: The life, work and library of August Friedrich Pott (1802–87)
Joan Leopold
Recently, there has been increased appreciation of the fact that August Friedrich Pott (1802–1887) possessed valuable insights and articulated uncommon positions in Indo-European comparative linguistics, general linguistics, and linguistic ethnology. This introduction and accompanying bibliography… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 9] 1983. clii, 438 pp.
Non-declarative Sentences
Richard Zuber
Non-declarative sentences such as interrogatives, imperatives and exclamations are analyzed together as a single class. The author gives a general characterization of all three types and shows that there are no other types of non-declarative sentences. Definitions are offered for the notions of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:2] 1983. ix, 123 pp.
On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermania: Papers from the 3rd Groningen Grammar Talks (3e Groninger Grammatikgespräche), Groningen, January 1981
Edited by Werner Abraham
It has often been noted that Dutch (and Frisian) reflects a particular stage of development between German and English. Phonologically, syntactically and morphologically, Dutch and German are closely related languages. Yet, there remain sufficient morphosyntactic differences in terms of language… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 3] 1983. vi, 242 pp.
PRAGUIANA: Some Basic and Less Known Aspects of the Prague Linguistic School. With an introduction by Philip A. Luelsdorff
Edited by Josef Vachek and Libuše Dušková
Contains key papers by the founders of the Prague School; including Vilém Mathesius famous article “Functional Linguistics” (1929), the theses presented at the First Congress of Slavists in Prague (1929), an earlier paper by Mathesius “On the potentiality of the phenomena of language” (1911), Jan… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 12] 1983. xxxi, 321 pp.
The Perception of Nonverbal Behavior in the Career Interview
Walburga von Raffler-Engel
Walburga von Raffler-Engel takes a novel approach to compiling information about doctor-patient communication. She has surveyed popular literature around the world to gain a grass-roots' perception of this relationship in various cultures. Most of the contributions are by practicing physicians,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:4] 1983. viii, 148 pp.
Pragmalinguistics: East European Approaches
Jan Prucha
This volume describes and evaluates the latest theories, empirical findings, and applications in the field of pragmalinguistics developed in some socialist states of Europe – mainly in Czechoslovakia, Poland, the German Democratic Republic, and the USSR. The results of the author’s own research in… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:5] 1983. v, 103 pp.
Pragmatics and the Philosophy of Mind: Vol. I: Thought in Language
Marcelo Dascal †
This volume deals with the relation between pragmatics and the philosophy of mind. Unlike most of the books written on the subject, it does not defend the view that a specific form of dependence holds between language and thought, to the exclusion of all other possible relations. Taking pragmatics… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:1] 1983. xii, 207 pp.
Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics: Volume 8
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Marie Těšitelová and Ján Horecký
The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Těšitelová; M. Ludvíková; H. Confortiová; Ludmila Uhlířová; I. Nebeská; Jan Králík; J. Krámský; L. Klimeš; J. Štěpán; Z. Lišková. Part 2 Algebraic Linguistics contains… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 17] 1983. 224 pp.
Productivité morphologique et emprunt
Wiecher Zwanenburg
Le choix de décrire la dérivation déverbale savante du français moderne découle de la considération de quelques problèmes posés par le système dérivationnel du français aussi bien que par la théorie de la morphologie. Dans le chapitre introducteur, l’auteur s'étendre sur les problèmes particuliers… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 10] 1983. x, 199 pp.
Singapore and Malaysia
John Platt, Heidi Weber and Mian Lian Ho
Over the years, the Englishes of Singapore and Malaysia have developed into varieties in their own right, ranging from the sub-varieties spoken by people with high levels of English-medium education and of higher socio-economic status. This text volume illustrates this from a range of examples of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T4] 1983. iv, 138 pp.
Social Order in Child Communication: A study in microethnography
Jürgen Streeck
‘Context’ is a concept for linguistic analysis which has rarely been subjected to close empirical scrutiny. This volume presents an attempt to investigate in microscopic detail various processes of contextualization by which children organize their interaction ‘frame by frame’, achieve, sustain,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:8] 1983. vii, 130 pp.
Switch Reference and Universal Grammar: Proceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981
Edited by John Haiman † and Pamela Munro
Canonical switch-reference is an inflectional category of the verb, which indicates whether or not its subject is identical with the subject of some other verb. Switch-reference may be analyzed from a structural or a functional point of view. Functionally, switch-reference is a device for… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 2] 1983. xv, 337 pp.
Topic Continuity in Discourse: A quantitative cross-language study
T. Givón
The functional notion of “topic” or “topicality” has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. And second, quite often its definition boiled down to structure-dependent circularity. This volume represents a major… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 3] 1983. v, 492 pp.
Understatements and Hedges in English
Axel Hübler
The goal of this monograph is a comprehensive analysis of understatements and other forms of non-direct speech (hedges) in modern English. It is based on a multi-level approach, including philosophical, cultural, and socio-psychological arguments. The main part consists of an investigation of the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:6] 1983. ix, 192 pp.
Uniformitarianism in Linguistics
T. Craig Christy
This study examines specific implications of the considerable overlap in methodology and theory of 19th-century geology and philology. Recognition of this overlap is indispensable to a complete understanding of philology’s development into the more empirical science of linguistics, especially as… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 31] 1983. xiv, 139 pp.
Word Order Typology and Comparative Constructions
Paul Kent Andersen
This monograph, discussing various aspects involved with a typology of word order, strives to take a next step towards a better understanding of the profound unity underlying languages. The volume is divided into five sections: 1) Word order typology; 2) A critical analysis of word order typology;… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 25] 1983. xvii, 245 pp.
Approaches to Syntax
Jean-Pierre Paillet and André Dugas
This volume is an enhanced version of the English translation from the French original edition 'Principes d'analyse syntaxique' (Québec, 1973). It provides a survey of theoretical approaches to syntax, including traditional grammars, structuralism, functionalism, and formal approaches. read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 5] 1982. viii, 282 pp.
Argumentation: Approaches to theory formation. Containing the contributions to the Groningen Conference on the Theory of Argumentation, October 1978
Edited by E.M. Barth and J.L. Martens
The contributions in the first part ‘Re-modelling logic’ of this volume take account of formal logic in the theory of ‘rational’ argumentation. Part two contains papers that distinguish the various dialogue games for logics in terms of ‘rights’ and ‘obligations’ of the players. The authors… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 8] 1982. xviii, 333 pp.
Augenkommunikation: Methodenreflexion und Beispielanalyse
Konrad Ehlich und Jochen Rehbein
The book sketches a systematics of non-verbal communication. It contains the following separate chapters: movement potential and expression repertoire; clinical literature on the eye’s movement potential; eye movement viewed from the perspective of communicative action; eye communication as part of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 2] 1982. viii, 150 pp. With many photographic ills.
Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication: Towards a biocybernetics of language
Thomas T. Ballmer
This is the second of two volumes – the first volume being Waltraud Brennenstuhl’s Control and Ability (P&B III:4) – treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts out from an investigation of the (neuro-)biological relevancy of natural language from the point of view of grammar… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:7] 1982. x, 161 pp.
Cameroon
Loreto Todd
This volume on the Cameroonian English contains two main sections. The first section is devoted to the history of language contact in Cameroon (contact with Islam and contact with Europeans); the development of English in Cameroon; the teaching of English in Cameroon in various stages of its… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T1] 1982. 180 pp., 1 map.
Catastrophe Theoretic Semantics: An elaboration and application of René Thom's theory
Wolfgang Wildgen
René Thom, the famous French mathematician and founder of catastrophe theory, considered linguistics an exemplary field for the application of his general morphology. It is surprising that physicists, chemists, biologists, psychologists and sociologists are all engaged in the field of catastrophe… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:5] 1982. iv, 124 pp.
The Communicative Perspective in the Sentence: A study of Latin word order
Dirk G.J. Panhuis
This monograph fills a gap in our understanding of a so-called free word order language. Thus far many observations have been made on Latin word order, particularly within the noun phrase. Yet a more systematic investigation with respect to the order of the sentence consituents was still lacking,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 11] 1982. viii, 178 pp.
Control and Ability: Towards a Biocybernetics of Language
Waltraud Brennenstuhl
This is the first of the two volumes – the second volume being Thomas Ballmer’s Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication (P&B III:7) – treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts from a cybernetic explication of some action theoretic notions, like control and ability.… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:4] 1982. vi, 122 pp.
Festschrift für Karl Schneider
Herausgegeben von Ernst S. Dick und Kurt R. Jankowsky
This volume is in honour of Karl Schneider and covers the wide spectrum of Schneider’s own interests: Part I covers runology (Elmer H. Antonsen, Hans Schwartz, Winfred P. Lehmann); The second part deals with indogermanics, etymology and lexicography (Edgard C. Polomé, Fritz W. Schulze, Kurt R.… read more[Not in series, 14] 1982. xx, 595 pp.
Here and There: Cross-linguistic Studies on Deixis and Demonstration
Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Wolfgang Klein
Deixis – the rooting of utterances in the speech situation – is one of the most salient universals of natural language. The ways in which different languages link utterances to pragmatic factors such as speech time, speech place, and speech participants show a rich variation. This makes deixis a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:2-3] 1982. vi, 298 pp.
The History of Linguistics in the Near East
Edited by Kees Versteegh, E.F.K. Koerner † and Hans-Josef Niederehe
This collection of papers deals with aspects of the history of Arabic and Hebrew linguistics. These papers appeared simultaneously in Historiographia Linguistica 8:2/3 (1981). read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 28] 1982. xii, 265 pp.
A History of Semantics
W. Terrence Gordon
In this monograph the author outlines, for the first time in the history of linguistics, the development of the study of 'meaning', from the pioneering work of Christian Karl Reisig (1792-1829), Friedrich Haase (1808-1867), Ferdinand Heerdegen (1845-1930), Arsène Darmesteter (1846-88) and Michel… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 30] 1982. viii, 284 pp.
Hungarian General Linguistics
Edited by Ferenc Kiefer †
This volume contains papers on Hungarian general linguistics. ‘Hungarian’ here means that the work of these authors either centers around the Hungarian language or has close ties to present-day Hungarian linguistics, or both. Topics include: philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, historical… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 4] 1982. vii, 599 pp.
Language Form and Linguistic Variation: Papers dedicated to Angus McIntosh
Edited by John A.E. Anderson
The papers in this volume celebrate the work of Angus McIntosh, who specialized in dialects of Later Middle English, and wrote on other topics in English linguistics as well. Of the papers in this volume most deal with English and a few with other subjects in (historical) dialectology. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 15] 1982. viii, 496 pp.
Language Planning
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 5:2 (1982) viii, 159 pp.
Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981
Edited by Anders Ahlqvist
This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in Galway, April 6–10 1981. These papers provide an overview of work in the field of historical linguistics, covering a wide variety of topics and languages. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 21] 1982. xxix, 527 pp.
Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Hamburg, August 22–26 1977
Edited by J. Peter Maher, Allan R. Bomhard and E.F.K. Koerner †
The papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 3rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), held in 1977 at the University of Hamburg. These selected papers deal with a wide variety of issues, some from a more general-theoretical perspective, some deriving… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 13] 1982. xvi, 434 pp.
Perspectives on Historical Linguistics: Papers from a conference held at the meeting of the Language Theory Division, Modern Language Assn., San Francisco, 27–30 December 1979
Edited by Winfred P. Lehmann and Yakov Malkiel
This volume presents seven extensive essays by specialists in their respective fields of historical linguistics. The first essay after the Introduction states the principles presented in Directions for Historical Linguistics (1968) and assesses the progress made since then towards constructing a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 24] 1982. xii, 379 pp.
Sanctius' Theory of Language: A contribution to the history of Renaissance linguistics
Manuel Breva-Claramonte
This volume presents the main tenets of Sanctius’ linguistic theory and explores the questions raised by Robin Lakoff in her 1969 review of the Grammaire générale et raisonnée (Port Royal). Part I surveys earlier developments in the study of language, in particular the Graeco-Roman and Medieval… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 27] 1982. viii, 294 pp.
The Scene of Linguistic Action and its Perspectivization by SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL
René Dirven †, Louis Goossens, Yvan Putseys and Emma Vorlat
The four papers presented in this volume are corpus-based investigations into the meaning of the verbs speak, talk, say and tell. More specifically they want to explore how the scene of linguistic action has been put into perspective by these four high-frequency verbs. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:6] 1982. vi, 186 pp.
Situation et signification
Ivan Fónagy
Ceux qui parlent une langue seconde, savent par leur propre expérience que, malgré une bonne connaissance du vocabulaire et des règles de la grammaire, ils n’arrivent pas à réagir verbalement à des situations concrètes de la même manière que ceux qui la parlent en langue maternelle. Cet ouvrage, à… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:1] 1982. v, 160 pp.
Tense-Aspect: Between semantics & pragmatics
Edited by Paul J. Hopper
The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker’s reported experience. They are universal categories both in terms of the semantic-functional domain they cover as well as in terms… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 1] 1982. ix, 350 pp.
Topical Relevance in Argumentation
Douglas N. Walton
It is a longstanding if not altogether coherent tradition of logic and rhetorical studies that an argument can be incorrect or fallacious in virtue of some proposition in it being “irrelevant”. This monograph clarifies that tradition. Non-classical propositional calculi, including relevance logics… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:8] 1982. viii, 81 pp.
Ambiguity in Psycholinguistics
Joseph F. Kess and Ronald A. Hoppe
The authors present a comprehensive overview of past research in ambiguity in the field of psycholinguistics. Experimental results have often been equivocal in allowing a choice between the single-reading hypothesis and the multiple-reading hypothesis of processing of ambiguous sentences. This text… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:4] 1981. vi, 124 pp.
Apollonius Dyscolus: The Syntax of Apollonius Dyscolus
Translated and with commentary by Fred W. Householder
Apollonius Dyscolus was the first formal syntactician in Graeco-Roman linguistics. He considered the nature of language to be logical and rule-governed, and assumed an underlying structure for all levels of language. It might be said that from the work of his predecessors, he extracted syntax. This… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 23] 1981. vi, 281 pp.
Arab Linguistics: An introductory classical text with translation and notes
Edited by Michael G. Carter
This volume provides an analysis of a famous medieval Arabic grammatical text, al-Ājurrūmiya (c. 1300), as commented on by aš-Šhirbīnī (d. 1570). This edition includes the original text and a translation into English, as well as extensive comments and annotations, with the aim of making accessible… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 24] 1981. ix, 485 pp.
Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics, in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. (2 volumes)
Edited by Yoël L. Arbeitman and Allan R. Bomhard
The volume starts with a -- posthumous -- paper by Alexander Kerns, written by Benjamins Schwartz, on the Indo-European tense system. This is followed by a rich array of papers on the reconstruction of older languages, ranging from Indo-European and Afroasiatic to Cretan. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 16] 1981. xvi, 557, viii, 581 pp.
Essai sur les modalités tensives
Claude Zilberberg
The four studies grouped under the title Essai sur les modalités tensives touch upon several questions of semiotics presently debated in the theoretical framework proposed by A.J. Greimas. They are mainly concerned with the passages between meaning and form, and with the convertibilités between the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:8] 1981. xii, 154 pp. + 4 fold. tables.
From Linguistics to Literature: Romance Studies offered to Francis M. Rogers
Edited by Bernard H. Bichakjian
Francis M. Rogers, to whom the current volume is in honor of, may be a modest man in principle, but not in his academic pursuits. To call his interests broad in scope is no exaggeration as they cover the fields of linguistics, literature, philology, bibliography, travel narratives and celestial… read more[Not in series, 13] 1981. x, 292 pp. + 6 ills.
Generative Phonology: A Case Study from French
Nigel Love
This study is a discussion of, rather than a contribution to, generative phonology. The central question posed, is: Does linguistic theory provide a basis for choosing between competing grammars — that is, an evaluation procedure for grammars? If so, then what is its form? If not, then how are we… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 4] 1981. viii, 241 pp.
The Inheritance of Presupposition
John Dinsmore
This work presents a procedural account of the so-called ‘projection problem’ for presupposition. It is assumed that presuppositions embedded in complex sentences are subject to no projection rules or ad-hoc conditions whatever, but are in fact satisfied in appropriate contexts in a completely… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:1] 1981. vi, 98 pp.
Lexical Innovation: A study of slang, colloquialisms and casual speech
Karl Sornig
In addition to borrowing from various foreign sources, the main origins of slang terms are the activation and revitalization of existing morphological and lexical material. Metaphorical manipulation of lexical items, as the main device used for the production of slangisms, shows remarkable… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:5] 1981. viii, 117 pp.
Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics: Proceedings of the Conference on Pragmatics, Urbino, July 8–14, 1979
Edited by Herman Parret, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren
This impressive volume attempts to make an assessment of past achievements, but also to open up new perspectives in the field of pragmatics, exactly ten years after the publication of Searle’s seminal Speech Acts. This rich collection presents an unrivaled diversity of topics and approaches united… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 7] 1981. x, 854 pp.
Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics: Volume 7
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Marie Těšitelová and Ján Horecký
The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Těšitelová; Jiří Kraus; Ján Horecký & E. Nemcová; J. Sabol; Z. Lišková; V. Smetáček & M. Königová; J. Štěpán; L. Klimeš; P. Vašák. Part 2 Algebraic Linguistics contains… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 9] 1981. 255 pp.
Prepositions: An analytical bibliography
Claude Guimier
The aim of the present bibliography is to provide a single and reasonably comprehensive list of books and articles which deal with problems related to prepositions in natural languages. If most of publications listed consider syntax or semantics, they also take into account morphological,… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 8] 1981. viii, 244 pp.
Semiotic Principles in Semantic Theory
Neal R. Norrick
This study represents a contribution to the theory of meaning in natural language. It proposes a semantic theory containing a set of regular relational principles. These principles enable semantic theory to describe connections from the lexical reading of a word to its figurative contextual… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 20] 1981. xiii, 252 pp.
Semiotics and Dialectics: Ideology and the Text
Edited by Peter V. Zima
By focusing on the “East European” dialogues and polemics, both contemporary and past, the present volume pursues two aims: 1) It would like to locate the discussion between semiotics and dialectics in an historical context. 2) It would like to make the reader familiar with the solutions proposed… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 5] 1981. vi, 573 pp.
Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphic Systems to a Uniform Orthography in European Letters (2nd rev.ed. London, 1863)
Richard Lepsius (1810–1884)
This new edition of Carl Richard Lepsius’s Standard Alphabet reproduces the text of the second, enlarged, edition of 1863. The extensive Introduction by J. Alan Kemp places it in its historical setting and provides comments on the phonetic basis for the Alphabet and the notation. read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 5] 1981. x, 99, xvii, 336 pp.
Theoretical Issues in Contrastive Linguistics
Edited by Jacek Fisiak
Contrastive Linguistics, roughly defined as a subdiscipline of linguistics which is concerned with the comparison of two or more (subsystems of) languages, has long been associated primarily with language teaching. Apart from this applied aspect, however, it also has a strong theoretical purpose,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 12] 1981. x, 430 pp.
Topic, Antitopic and Verb Agreement in Non-Standard French
Knud Lambrecht
The author describes and explains the syntactic and pragmatic properties of the nominal and pronominal elements in sentences of the types Ces Romains ils sont fous and Ils sont fous, ces Romains, which, in spite of their frequent occurrence, have so far received little attention among linguists and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:6] 1981. vii, 113 pp.
The True and the False: The Domain of the Pragmatic
Charles Travis
Pragmatics often begins by supposing that specifying and describing truth bearers is a proper task for semantics. The main thrust of the present work is to show why truth and truth bearers lie essentially beyond the descriptive reach of semantics, and to outline a theory of truth bearers as a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:2] 1981. vi, 165 pp.
What Do We Talk About When We Talk?: Speculative grammar and the semantics and pragmatics of focus
Johan van der Auwera
This monograph deals with the aboutness of language. First, the sense in which language is about or reflects both reality and a mental picture of reality is turned into a cornerstone of a reflectionist or Speculative Grammarian semantics and pragmatics. Second, the Speculative Grammar… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:3] 1981. vi, 122 pp.
You Know: A discourse-functional approach
Jan-Ola Östman
The basic function the expression you know serves in conversational discourse is said to be that of a pragmatic particle used when the speaker wants the addressee to accept as mutual knowledge (or at least be cooperative with respect to) the propositional content of his utterance. The fact that you… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:7] 1981. ix, 91 pp.
'The boat's gonna leave': A study of children learning a second language from conversations with other children
Anca M. Nemoianu
This essay attempts to show how a second language is acquired by very young children in the process of socialization with other children. The study seeks to integrate the process of second language learning in the general framework of child development, concentrating in particular on the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:1] 1980. vi, 116 pp.
Analyse syntaxique du Français: Grammaire en chaîne
Morris Salkoff
Cet essai prolongue l’esquisse d’analyse distributionelle que l’on trouvera dans Un grammaire en chaîne du français (Salkoff, 1973). Dans ce livre ici, l’auteur presente quelques aspects additionels de la grammaire et du programme associé, necessaire pour analyser un texte scientifique. Le chapitre… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 2] 1980. xvi, 334 pp.
Contexts of Understanding
Herman Parret
This essay deals with the difficulty of understanding understanding, taking the understanding of natural language fragments as a paradigm. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:6] 1980. viii, 109 pp.
A Discourse Production Model for 'Twenty Questions'
Michael Fortescue
This essay is an attempt to build up a plausible model of the cognitive processes behind the behavior exhibited by speaker-hearers in a specific discourse situation. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:2] 1980. ix, 137 pp.
Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics
Geoffrey N. Leech
The aim of this book is to show the way forward to a coherent view of language in which the achievement of the formalist paradigm is strengthened to the extent that its claims are weakened. A formal theory such as generative grammar is a special theory which is to be subsumed in a general theory of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:5] 1980. viii, 133 pp.
First Person Singular: Papers from the Conference on an Oral Archive for the History of American Linguistics. (Charlotte, N.C., March 1979)
Edited by Boyd Davis and Raymond K. O’Cain
This volume consists of autobiographical by the following scholars, together with pictures and autographs: Raven I. McDavid, Jr., Henry M. Hoenigswald, John B. Carroll, William G. Moulton, Archibald A. Hill, Yakov Malkiel, Charles F. Hockett, Harold B. Allen, William Bright, Einar Haugen, George S.… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 21] 1980. xiv, 239 pp.
The History of Grammar in the Middle Ages: Collected Papers. With a select bibliography, and indices
Richard William Hunt (1908–1979)
This volume brings together a number of papers written by R. W. Hunt (1908-1979) on the history of grammar in the Middle Ages. The importance of these papers lies almost as much in the spark of scholarly investigation that they have inspired, as in their contribution to original research. The first… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 5] 1980. xxxvi, 214 pp.
Hua: A Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
John Haiman †
There is no country in the world where as many different languages are spoken as in New Guinea, approximately a fifth of the languages in the world. Most of these so-called Papuan languages seem to be unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere. The present work is the first truly comprehensive study… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 5] 1980. lvii, 550 pp.
Issues in English Creoles: Papers from the 1975 Hawaii Conference
Edited by Richard R. Day
The purpose of this volume is to make more accessible, for the use of researchers and students in the field of pidgins and creoles, presentations of the third International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Honolulu, 1975, dealing with English-based creoles. Aside from their documentary value,… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G2] 1980. xi, 185 pp.
Issues in Vowel Harmony: Proceedings of the CUNY Linguistics Conference on Vowel Harmony, May 14, 1977
Edited by Robert M. Vago
Vowel harmony is a well known phonological phenomenon found in a large number of languages spoken mainly in Eurasia and the African continent. In simple terms, vowel harmony is a law which governs the co-occurrence of vowels within a span of utterance, nearly always the word. The contributions of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 6] 1980. xx, 340 pp.
Italic and Romance: Linguistic studies in honor of Ernst Pulgram
Edited by Herbert J. Izzo
The papers in this volume deal with the languages of ancient Italy and the Romance dialects that grew from them. The arrangement of papers in the volume is topical, starting with ancient Italy and moving upward in time and outward in space through general Romance to Italian, French and Provençal,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 18] 1980. xxi, 338 pp.
Le Langage en Contexte: Etudes philosophiques et linguistiques de pragmatique
Essay(s) by Herman Parret, Leo Apostel, Paul Gochet, Maurice Van Overbeke, Oswald Ducrot, Liliane Tasmowski-De Ryck, Norbert Dittmar et Wolfgang Wildgen
Les lois générales gouvernant la formation des théories sont valable dans la pragmatique comme partout ailleurs où se manifeste l’ambition théorique. La méthodologie adequate, ici come ailleurs, est plutôt celle de la reconstruction et de la découverte que celle de la description et de… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 3] 1980. iv, 790 pp.
Linguistic Reconstruction and Indo-European Syntax: Proceedings of the Colloquium of the 'Indogermanische Gesellschaft'. University of Pavia, 6–7 September 1979
Edited by Paolo Ramat
The aim of the colloquium, from which this volume derives, was to bring together approaches from general linguistics and language reconstruction, to show how these can benefit from eachother. Although the focus was on Indo-European languages, other language families were present in the discussion,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 19] 1980. viii, 263 pp.
Meaning Detachment
Benoît de Cornulier
This essay concerns meaning detachment and (self-)interpreting utterances. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:7] 1980. v, 124 pp.
On Speech Act Verbs
Jef Verschueren
This essay concerns the analysis of speech act verbs. It offers a range of ideas which form theoretical preliminaries to the analysis of this phenomenon. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:4] 1980. viii, 83 pp.
Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Stanford, March 26–30 1979
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Rebecca Labrum and Susan C. Shepherd
The studies in this volume are revised versions of a selection from the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at Stanford University on 26–30 March 1979. Papers at this conference, and in this volume, treat aspects of all current topics in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 14] 1980. x, 437 pp.
A Pragmatic Logic for Commands
Melvin Joseph Adler
The purpose of this essay is to both discuss commands as a species of speech act and to discuss commands within the broader framework of how they are used and reacted to. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:3] 1980. viii, 131 pp.
Progress in Linguistic Historiography: Papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Ottawa, 28–31 August 1978
Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †
This volume presents a selection of revised papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (Ottawa 1978). These have been organized under the following headings: I. Classical Traditions in the Middle Ages and Medieval Thought in the Renaissance and After; II.… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 20] 1980. xiv, 421 pp.
Puns and Poetry in Lucretius' 'De rerum natura'
Jane McIntosh Snyder
[Not in series - Grüner, 102] 1980. 151 pp.
Resümierende Auswahlbibliographie zur Neueren Sowjetischen Sprachlehrforschung: (gesteuerter Fremdsprachenerwerb)
Rupprecht S. Baur
Die vorliegende Bibliographie ist das erste Ergebnis eines von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft von 1974 bis 1978 geförderten Forschungsprojekts. Sie gibt einen Uberblick über Stand und Entwicklung der Sprachlehr- und Sprachlernforschung in der UdSSR für den Bereich des gesteuerten… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 3] 1980. lxviii, 318 pp.
Studien zur Modernen Deutschen Lexikographie: Auswahl aus den Lexikographischen Arbeiten. Erweitert um drei Beiträge von Helene Malige-Klappenbach
Ruth Klappenbach (1911–1977)
The book sketches the history and technical apparatus of dictionary writing, in detail Ruth Klappenbach’s Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. Berlin: Akademieverlag 1956, a loner at its time and setting the pattern for the many other German dictionaries to come. The book’s main chapters… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 1] 1980. xxiii, 313 pp.
Studies in Medieval Linguistic Thought: Dedicated to Geofrey L. Bursill-Hall on the occassion of his 60th birthday on 15 May 1980
Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †, Hans-Josef Niederehe and Robert H. Robins
This volume presents a set of papers on linguistic thought in the Middle Ages. It is complemented by a comprehensive bibliography and indices. The papers in this volume appeared earlier in Historiographia Linguistica 7:1/2 (1980). read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 26] 1980. vi, 321 pp.
Talk and Taxonomy: A methodological comparison of ethnosemantics and ethnomethodology with reference to terms for Canadian doctors
Peter Eglin
The thesis of this essay is that social or cultural competence consists more of an interpretive or methodological ability to use language in the service of interaction than of a substantive knowledge of collections of cultural categories and of the semantic relations between the terms naming those… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:8] 1980. x, 125 pp.
Anatomy of the Verb: The Gothic Verb as a Model for a Unified Theory of Aspect, Actional Types, and Verbal Velocity. (Part I: Theory; Part II: Application)
Albert L. Lloyd
The continuing debate over the existence or non-existence of formal verbal aspect in Gothic triggered the author to write this monograph whose aim is to provide a completely new foundation for a theory of aspect and related features. Gothic, with its limited corpus, representing a translation of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 4] 1979. x, 351 pp.
Be and Equational Sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic
Mohamed Sami Anwar
The volume attempts to deal with equational sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and their remote structure. In this unique monograph Mohamed Sami Anwar oes to show that equational sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic are derived from underlying sentences that have transitive or intransitive… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 2] 1979. vi, 128 pp.
Current Issues in the Phonetic Sciences: Proceedings of the IPS-77 Congress, Miami Beach, Florida, 17–19 December 1977
Edited by Harry Hollien and Patricia Hollien
These papers, from the IPS-77 Congress held in Miami Beach, Florida in 1977, present the state-of-the-art in phonetic science. The volume is subdivided into twelve sections: History of Phonetics, Issues of Method and Theory in Phonetics, Laryngeal Function, Temporal Factors and Intonation,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 9] 1979. xxi, 587pp., xiii, 608 pp.
Dutch Contributions to the Eighth International Congress of Slavists, Zagreb, Ljubljana, September 3–9, 1978
Edited by Jan M. Meijer
This volume contains 18 papers derived from presentations by Dutch linguists at the Eighth International Congress of Slavists. read more[Not in series, 10] 1979. iv, 425 pp.
A Guide to Romance Reference Grammars: The modern standard languages
John C. McKay
This guide provides brief descriptions and evaluations of the best reference grammars and comprehensive works on the syntax of contemporary French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, and Rumanian. read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 6] 1979. xviii, 126 pp.
Integrale Linguistik: Festschrift für Helmut Gipper
Herausgegeben von Edeltraud Bülow und Peter Schmitter
Integrale Linguistik honour the life and work of Helmut Gipper. Part I covers the History of Linguistics (Hennig Brinkmann, Eugenio Coseriu, Hartwig Franke & Kristina Franke, Johannes Lohmann, Gerold Ungeheur); Part II Theory of Linguistics (Karl-Otto Apel, Edeltraud Bülow, Shirô Hattori, Ladislaus… read more[Not in series, 12] 1979. xiii, 817 pp.
Linear Order and Generative Theory
Edited by Jürgen M. Meisel and Martin D. Pam
The term ‘word order studies’ designates an area of syntax which has become an increasingly central theme in linguistic research. Since, in at least a narrow sense, syntax is the study of how meaningful elements are put together to form sentences, a preoccupation with word order would seem inherent… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 7] 1979. ix, 512 pp.
Perspectives in Experimental Linguistics: Papers from the University of Alberta Conference on Experimental Linguistics, Edmonton, 1–14 Oct. 1978
Edited by Gary D. Prideaux
Over the past few years interest and research in experimental linguistics has shifted more toward centre stage, perhaps because of the growing recognition that purely theoretical formulations and speculations about language must necessarily be tested against the empirical facts of language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 10] 1979. xi, 176 pp.
Prolegomena to a Grammar of Basque
Terence H. Wilbur
The purpose of this study is to apply experimentally the principles of recent grammatical theories to the facts of the Basque language. This study aims to test out those principles, and endeavours to discover the best form for a grammar of Basque. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 8] 1979. x, 188 pp.
Sir William Jones: A bibliography of primary and secondary sources
Garland Cannon
Sir William Jones (1746 –1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. His third annual discourse before the Asiatic Society on the history and culture of the Hindus (1786)… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 7] 1979. xiv, 73 pp.
The Standard in South African English and its Social History
Len W. Lanham and C.A. MacDonald
This study of the South African variety of English is an exercise in the sociology of language conducted mainly within the conceptual framework and methodology created by William Labov. It accepts that social process and social structure are reflected in patterns of covariation involving linguistic… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G1] 1979. 96 pp.
Studies in Diachronic, Synchronic, and Typological Linguistics: Festschrift for Oswald Szemérenyi on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi
This two-volume collection of papers was brought together in honor of Oswald Szemerényi on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The volumes contain 70 papers, most of which deal with Indo-European (historical) linguistics. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 11] 1979. xiv, 487, x, 506 pp. (2 vols.)
Theoretical Morphology of the French Verb
James Foley
The analysis of French verbs presented in this monograph is neither a synchronic nor a diachronic description, but rather a theoretical achronic analysis whose goal is the explanation of the historical phonetic development of the French verb in terms of changes in the underlying abstract… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 1] 1979. iv, 292 pp.
Voice Quality: A classified research bibliography
John Laver
The characteristic voice quality of a speaker conveys to listeners a wealth of information about his physical, psychological and social attributes. For this reason, voice quality is of interest to a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, phonetics and speech science, speech pathology,… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 5] 1979. viii, 225 pp.
Zur 'Heliand' metrik: Das Verhältnis von Rhythmus und Satzgewicht im Altsächsischen
Ingeborg Hinderschiedt
Die Heliandmetrik ist eine Metrik im Altsachsischen. In dieser Studie wird versucht eine Analyse, Beschreibung und Auswertung nach der formalen Kriterien zu beschreiben. Wichtig ist vor allem das Verhältnis von Rhythmus und Satzgewicht. read more[German Language and Literature Monographs, 8] 1979. vi, 143 pp.
Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die psychologischen Grundlagen der sprachlichen Analogiebildung (1901): New edition
Albert Thumb (1865–1915) and Karl Marbe (1869–1953)
Fac simile edition with a Foreword by E. F. K. Koerner and an Introduction by David J. Murray. The appendix contains Erwin A. Esper’s A Contribution to the Experimental Study of Analogy (1918). read more[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 1] 1978. lxiii, 108 pp.
Grammatical Theory and Metascience: A critical investigation into the methodological and philosophical foundations of 'autonomous' linguistics
Esa Itkonen
In this book, the author analyses the nature of the science of grammar. After presenting some methodological and historical background, he sets forth a theory of language and of grammar, showing that the science of grammar is not an empirical, but a normative science, comparable to logic and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 5] 1978. x, 355 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1974–1976
Wim Zonneveld
This volume contains papers from the 1974, 1975, and 1976 meetings of the annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands (Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap), held in Amsterdam. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members with an opportunity to report on their work in… read more[Not in series - Grüner, 135] 1978. vi, 227 pp.
The Order of Words in the Ancient Languages compared with that of the Modern Languages
Henri Weil (1818–1909)
New edition of a pioneering work on word order, which originally appeared in French in 1844 (3rd ed., 1879), with an index. read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 14] 1978. xxxix, 114 pp.
Pragmatics: An annotated bibliography
Jef Verschueren
The selection of entries in this bibliography reflects the following definition of pragmatics: The study (i) of the use and extra-linguistic function(s) of language, and (ii) of the relation between such uses or functions and the structure of language, i.e., the contextual appropriateness… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 4] 1978. xvi, 270 pp.
Studia linguistica: Alexandro Vasilii Filio Issatschenko. A Collegis Amicisque Oblata
Edited by Henrik Birnbaum, Ľubomir Ďurovič, Gunnar Jacob, Nils Åke Nilsson et Anders Sjöberg
[Not in series - Grüner, 13] 1978. xxvi, 517 pp.
The Theory of English Lexicography 1530–1791
Tetsuro Hayashi
This book serves as a welcome addition to the better known English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755, by Starnes & Noyes (new edition published by Benjamins 1991). Whereas Starnes & Noyes describe the history of English lexicography as an evolutionary progress-by-accumulation process,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 18] 1978. xii, 168 pp.
Toward a Historiography of Linguistics: Selected Essays
E.F.K. Koerner †
The papers brought together in the present volume represent the essence of the author’s reflections on issues concerning linguistic historiography and of particular investigations in 19th and 20th century linguistic thought. The papers are clustered in three sections: I. Towards a Historiography of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 19] 1978. xx, 222 pp.
Valence, Semantic Case, and Grammatical Relations: Workshop studies prepared for the 12th International Congress of Linguists, Vienna, August 29th to September 3rd, 1977
Edited by Werner Abraham
The papers in this volume have been grouped in three thematic parts: Valence which plays a key concept in the syntactic classification of verbs and adjectives, provides a necessary link for decoding and encoding grammatical relations, and is an important requisite for the evaluation of formal… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 1] 1978. xiv, 729 pp.
Versprechen und Verlesen: Eine psychologisch-linguistische Studie. New edition
Rudolf Meringer (1859–1931) und Carl Mayer (1862–1936)
Versprechen und Verlesen (1895) is distinguished more by observational accuracy than by theoretical sophistication; but it is exactly this characteristic which has proved its lasting value. It is a scrupulously collected, usefully organized, and very large corpus of errors, providing material on… read more[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 2] 1978. xl, xiv, 207 pp.
Western Histories of Linguistic Thought: An annotated chronological bibliography, 1822–1976
E.F.K. Koerner †
The present bibliography suggests that there has been a constant flow of publications which survey the discipline of linguistics in its various stages of development. It attempts to offer a comprehensive coverage of general accounts of the history of linguistic thought in the western world over the… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 11] 1978. x, 113 pp.
XIV Congresso Internationale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza: Napoli, 15–20 Aprile 1974. ATTI
Edited by Alberto Varvaro
These acts of the 1974 Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza (Naples) were co-published by John Benjamins Publishing Company and Gaetano Macchiaroli. The five volumes are subdivided into sections by linguistic sub-fields. Vol. 1 contains the plenary papers and papers from the… read more[Not in series, 9] 1978. vi, 3281 pp. (5 Vols.)
'Quaestiones Alberti de Modis significandi': A critical edition
Pseudo-Albertus Magnus
This book provides a critical edition, translation and commentary of the British Museum Incunabulum C.21.C.52 and the Cambridge Incunabulum 5.J.3.7. of the Quaestiones Alberti. Although the British Museum catalogue ascribes the incunabulum to Albertus Magnus, the authorship is debated.The format of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 15] 1977. xxxvii, 191 pp.
'Über den Umlaut: Zwei Abhandlungen' (Carlsruhe, 1843) and 'Über den Ablaut' (Carlsruhe, 1844)
Adolf Holtzmann (1810–1870)
Über den Umlaut (1843) and Über den Ablaut (1844) grew out of a review of Grimm’s Deutsche Grammatik by Holtzmann, in which he also made an excursus into Bopp’s theory of vowel gradation in Sanskrit. Holtzmann was the first to observe the correlation of guṇa and accent. At the same time he noted… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 12] 1977. xxix, 48, and 81 pp.
Adverbs and Comparatives: An analytical bibliography
Conrad Sabourin
There are indications that interest in the study of adverbs has been growing steadily in recent years, largely due to the so-called Chomskyan revolution in linguistics which put much emphasis on the study of syntax, but probably also because of the position these adverbs and other particles take… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 2] 1977. vii, 208 pp.
Analogy: A basic bibliography
Raimo Anttila and Warren A. Brewer
This basic bibliography of analogy aims to be a useful tool for linguistic research. The compilers have emphasized the years from 1868 onwards, starting with Scherer’s statement, but a few important premonitory works have been included as well. read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 1] 1977. xiv, 50 pp.
Charles Morris and the Criticism of Discourse
Richard A. Fiordo
[Studies in Semiotics, 4] 1977. viii, 197 pp.
Der ästhetische Inhalt: Zur semantischen Funktion poetischer Verfahren
Wolf Schmid
[Not in series - Grüner, 94] 1977. 113 pp.
Dissertation on the Sanskrit Language
Paulinus A.S. Bartholomaeo
Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo’s Dissertatio historico-critica in linguam Samscrdamicam (1790) serves as an introduction to his Sidharubam, the first Sanskrit grammar published in Europe. The Dissertatio is also important for another reason: it is concerned with speculations about the nature and origin… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 12] 1977. xx, 222 pp.
Germanic and its Dialects: A grammar of Proto-Germanic. Volume III: Bibliography and Indices
Compiled by Thomas Markey, R.L. Kyes and Paul T. Roberge
Germanists have long lamented the lack of comprehensive bibliographies of past and present literature, particularly in the areas of Frisian, Old English, Old High German, and, most notably, Old Saxon. The compilers of this bibliography deem it crucial to fill this lacuna before embarking on two… read more[Not in series, 7] 1977. 525 pp.
The Lautgesetz-Controversy: A documentation (1885–86). New edition
Essay(s) by Georg Curtius (1820–85), Berthold Delbrück (1842–1922), Karl Brugmann (1849–1919), Hugo Schuchardt (1842–1927), Hermann Collitz (1855–1945), Hermann Osthoff (1847–1909) and Otto Jespersen (1860–1943)
The essays reproduced in this volume represent the major and characteristic documents in that flood of literature that was produced during the neogrammarian controversy. At that time, the entire community of linguists came face to face with the most profound problems of its theory and practice; it… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 9] 1977. 587 pp.
Papers on Language Theory and History: Volume I: Creation and Tradition in Language
J. Peter Maher
Interest in word-meaning is on the increase among mainstream linguists again after a half-century of neglect. During this interval progress in phonology and syntax was great, but further progress in these sub-disciplines will remain blocked until it is recognized that the prime functional unit of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 3] 1977. xx, 171 pp.
The Role of Prescriptivism in American Linguistics 1820–1970
Glendon F. Drake
The phenomenon of absolutist, prescriptive correctness is persistent and pervasive in the linguistic through of educated and intelligent citizens of the United States. This volume is not only and attempt to gain some understanding of the source, nature, and operation of the prescriptive attitude,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 13] 1977. x, 130 pp.
A Structural Description of the Macedonian Dialect of Dihovo: Phonology, morphology, texts, lexicon
B.M. Groen
[Not in series - Grüner, 134] 1977. viii, 307 pp.
Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics: Festschrift for Winfred P. Lehmann
Edited by Paul J. Hopper
This volume of articles was prepared in honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The papers are presented in two sections: I. Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, and II. Studies in Historical Linguistics. The volume contains contributions by R.M.W. Dixon, Ralph M. Goodman,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 4] 1977. x, 502 pp.
Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier: Ein Beitrag zur Begründung der Altertumskunde (Heidelberg, 1808). New edition
Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829)
This volume presents a fac simile edition of Friedrich Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier. Ein Beitrag zur Begründung der Altertumskunde (Heidelberg, 1808). It is preceded by an introductory article by Sebastiano Timpanaro ‘Friedrich Schlegel and the beginnings of Indo-European… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 1] 1977. lvii, 172 + 22pp. (i.e., 2pp.of orig.txt reprod.)
Chronologisches Verzeichnis französischer Grammatiken vom Ende des 14. bis zum Ausgange des 18. Jahrhunderts, nebst Angabe der bisher ermittelten Fundorte derselben
Dargestellt von Edmund Stengel (1845–1935)
This volume (1976) contains a fac simile reprint of the original 1890 edition of Stengel’s Chronologisches Verzeichnis Französischer Grammatiken. In addition, it contains an appendix by Hans-Josef Niederehe which gives a short biography of E.M. Stengel and brings together the additions and… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 8] 1976. x, 240 pp.
Cultivated Plants and Domesticated Animals in their Migration from Asia to Europe: Historico-linguistic studies (London, 1885)
Victor Hehn (1813–1890)
New edition, prepared with a bio-bibliographical account of Hehn and a survay of the research into Indo-European prehistory by James P. Mallory. It was Hehn who for the first time combined the tools of comparative linguistics and the direct historical approach in order to discover the origins of… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 7] 1976. lxxv, 523 pp.
The Development of Morphophonemic Theory
James Kilbury
The aim of this book is to provide a concise historical survey of linguistic investigation relating to the notion of morphophonemics. The study is essentially historical and thus does not offer its own theory of morphophonemics. Since attention is focused on the development of morphophonemic… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 10] 1976. viii, 155 pp.
A Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue
Rasmus Rask (1787–1832)
This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask’s Anvising till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket (1818). This re-edition, with an added bio-bibliography of Rask, should enable the linguist of today to obtain a fairly rounded picture of this… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 2] 1976. lx, viii, 273 pp.
In Memoriam Friedrich Diez: Akten des Kolloquiums zum Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Romanistik/Actes du Colloque sur l'Histoire des Etudes Romanes/ Proc
Edited by Hans-Josef Niederehe and Harald Haarmann
The first 'Kolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Romanistik' (Trier 1975) was held to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the death of Friedrich Diez, the founder of Romance philology. The colloquium offered Romanists and historians of linguistics the opportunity for intense discussion,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 9] 1976. viii, 508 pp.
Linguistic and Literary Studies in Honor of Archibald A. Hill: Vol. I: General and theoretical linguistics
Edited by Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Edgar C. Polomé and Werner Winter
[Not in series - Grüner, 129] 1976. 412 pp.
The Radozda-Vevcani Dialect of Macedonian: Structure, Text, Lexicon
Petra Hendriks
[Not in series - Grüner, 128] 1976. viii, 309 pp.
Studies in the Grammatical Tradition in Tibet
Roy Andrew Miller
This volume reprints — with additions and corrections — seven papers originally published 1962–1973, on the indigenous grammars of Tibet and their linguistic tradition. Two ancient treatises commonly attributed to “Thon-mi Sambhoṭa” are studied extensively, as well as extracts from many other… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 6] 1976. xix, 142 pp.
Arte de la Lengua General del Reyno de Chile: 1607. Reprinted. 1975 (Ed. Cabildo, Vaduz/Georgetown)
Andrés Febrés
The Jesuit Andrés Febrés compiled this manual for learning the Araucanian language during his first years as a missionary among the Indians of northern Chile. In addition to the grammatical instruction, the work includes a dialogue between two caciques, the Christian doctrine, a brief dictionary,… read more[Not in series, 129] 1975. 682 pp
Componential Analysis of Lushai Phonology
Alfons Weidert
The aim of this essay is to present a phonological analysis of Lushai, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Mizoram province of India, in terms of componential features applying – as mutation rules – to the morphophonological level. An analysis of this nature becomes possible if the concepts of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 2] 1975. xiv, 139 pp.
Gramatica y Arte nueva de la Lengua general de todo el Perö, llamada Lengua Qquichua, o Lengua del Inca: Ciudad de los Reyes del Perö, 1607. Reprinted. 1975 (Ed. Cabildo, Vaduz/Georgetown), + intro. Bernard Pottier
P. Diego-Conçalez Holguin
[Not in series, 6] 1975. Small 4to. iv, 144 pp.
Linguistics and Anthropology: In Honor of C.F. Voegelin
Edited by Dale M. Kinkade, Kenneth L. Hale and Otmar Werner
[Not in series - Grüner, 124] 1975. 720 pp.
The Transformational-Generative Paradigm and Modern Linguistic Theory
Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †
This volume reflects the fact that the possibilities in theory construction allow for a much wider spectrum than students of linguistics have perhaps been led to believe. It consists of articles by scholars of differing generations and widely varying academic persuasions: some have received their… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 1] 1975. viii, 462 pp.
Ut videam: Contributions to an understanding of linguistics. For Pieter Verburg on the occasion of his 70th birthday
Edited by Werner Abraham
[Not in series - Grüner, 123] 1975. 300 pp. + 1 photo.
Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic Languages, shewing the original identity of their grammatical structure: New edition
Franz Bopp (1791–1867)
The publication in 1816 of Bopp’s Über das Conjugationssystem can be considered the beginning of a systematic comparison of Indo-European languages, and thus as having led too the development of the study of language as a science, distinct from philology. The Analytical Comparison (1820) represents… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 3] 1974. xxxviii, 68 pp. 2nd corrected edition, 1989
Declinatio: A study of the linguistic theory of Marcus Terentius Varro
Daniel J. Taylor
Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 B.C.) was one of the most prolific writers in antiquity. However, of his De Lingua Latina only six of 25 books have survived, and these are neither complete nor free of textual corruption. This study is an attempt to provide an adequate, consistent, and comprehensive… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 2] 1974. xv, 131 pp.
Die Anfänge der hebräischen Grammatik (1895), together with Die hebräische Sprachwissenschaft vom 10. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert (1892)
Wilhelm Bacher (1850–1913)
The present volume reproduces two still unsurpassed accounts of the flourish and eventual decline of Hebrew linguistic scholarship covering the period from the 10th to the 16th century, at a time when Christian scholars and theologians – as a result of the Reformation with its emphasis on the… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 4] 1974. xix, 57, 235 pp.
Einleitung in die Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (1884–1890) together with Zur Literatur der Sprachenkunde Europas (Leipzig, 1887)
August Friedrich Pott (1802–87)
This volume contains August Friedrich Pott's Einleitung in de Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, which appeared between 1884 and 1890 in F. Techmer's Internationale Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Leipzig). In addition, the volume contains Pott's Zur Literatur der Sprachenkunde Europas… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 10] 1974. xlvi, 502 pp. Small-4to.
Introduction to the Study of Language: A critical survey of the history and methods of comparative philology of Indo-European languages (Leipzig, 1882). New edition
Berthold Delbrück (1842–1922)
This volume contains a fac simile edition of the 1882 English translation of Delbrück’s Einleitung in das Sprachstudium. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Methodik der vergleichenden Sprachforschung (Leipzig 1880), together with a Foreword and a Selected Bibliography.
read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 8] 1974. xix, 148 pp. 2nd corrected edition, 1989.
The Study of Indo-European Vocalism in the 19th century: From the beginnings to Whitney and Scherer. A critical-historical account
Wilbur A. Benware
In the 19th century research on the Indo-European languages was to a large degree coterminus with the development of linguistics itself. The most notable accomplishments, as related in every history of linguistics, took place in the area of phonology. The present study examines one aspect of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 3] 1974. xii, 126 pp. 2nd. printing 1995.
The Importance of Techmer's 'Internationale Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft' in the Development of General Linguistics
E.F.K. Koerner †
Techmer’s Internationale Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (1884–1890) served, at a time of neogrammarian domination in the linguistic scene of the late 19th century, as an international forum for the discussion of general linguistics topics, the Humboldtian philosophy of language, and… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 1] 1973. vii, 76 pp., small-4to.
Linguistic Structures and Linguistic Laws
Ferenc Kovacs
This monograph has as its objective to give a critical survey of the development of the theories concerning the essence, the function, and the most characteristic (determining) features of language, and to explore and evaluate the motive forces responsible for this development. The author explains… read more[Not in series - Grüner, 121] 1971. 398 pp.
Die türkische Sprache in Ungarn im siebzehnten Jahrhundert
Jenö U. Németh
[Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica, 13] 1970. 281 pp., 90 ills.
Theoretical Problems of Typology and the Northern Eurasian Languages
Edited by László Dezső and Péter Hajdú
[Not in series - Grüner, 120] 1970. 184 pp.
A Complete Lexicon of the Latinity of Caesar's Gallic War: 1891
E.G. Sihler
[Not in series - Grüner, 99] 1968. iv, 188 pp.
Slavische Bibliothek: Beiträge zur slavischen Philologie und Geschichte. 1851-58. 2 vols in 1
Herausgegeben von F. Miklosich und J. Fiedler
[Not in series - Grüner, 101] 1965. 320 pp.