Showing all 66 titles.
LA 242
Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance
Edited by Martin Hummel and Salvador Valera
Within the current discussion on grammatical interfaces, the word-classes of adjective and adverb are of particular interest because they appear to be separated or joined in manifold ways at the level of word-class or syntax, with morphology playing a prominent role, especially in Romance. The volume provides...
full descriptionDecember 2017. vi, 374 pp.
CLL 51
Afro-Peruvian Spanish
Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles
Sandro Sessarego
The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in the Americas in a broader sense. In order to provide a more concrete answer to the questions...
full descriptionOctober 2015. xvi, 184 pp.
Z 137
Anthropology of Color
Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling
Edited by Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei and Don Dedrick
The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches to the anthropological study of color. The editors have put great effort...
full descriptionNovember 2007. xx, 485 pp.
ATOH 16
Approaches to Hungarian
Volume 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference
Edited by Veronika Hegedűs and Irene Vogel
This volume contains selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Budapest, 2017).The contributions address current issues in Hungarian linguistics, including comparisons with other languages (e.g., English, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish).Specifically, the phonetics and...
full descriptionApril 2020. v, 233 pp.
SAL 6
Arabic in Contact
Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco
The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations, it explores both contact-induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. The volume brings...
full descriptionJuly 2018. vi, 372 pp.
Z 223
Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages
Edited by Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla, Lucía Buil-Legaz, Raúl López-Penadés, Victor A. Sanchez-Azanza and Daniel Adrover-Roig
This book presents a range of ongoing studies on atypical language development in Romance languages. Despite the steady increase in the number of studies on typical language development, there is still little research about atypical language development, especially in Romance languages. This book covers four main...
full descriptionJune 2019. vi, 257 pp.
BTL 62
Challenging the Traditional Axioms
Translation into a non-mother tongue
Nike K. Pokorn
Translation into a non-mother tongue or inverse translation, especially of literary texts, has always been frowned upon within Translation Studies in Western cultures and regarded by literary scholars and linguists as an activity of dubious worth, doomed to fail. The study, which received an award from EST in 2001,...
full descriptionApril 2005. xii, 163 pp.
Z 154
Chomskyan (R)evolutions
Edited by Douglas A. Kibbee
It is not unusual for contemporary linguists to claim that “Modern Linguistics began in 1957” (with the publication of Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures). Some of the essays in Chomskyan (R)evolutions examine the sources, the nature and the extent of the theoretical changes Chomsky introduced in the 1950s. Other...
full descriptionFebruary 2010. xii, 488 pp.
Z 200
Cognition, Language and Aging
Edited by Heather Harris Wright
Age-related changes in cognitive and language functions have been extensively researched over the past half-century. The older adult represents a unique population for studying cognition and language because of the many challenges that are presented with investigating this population, including individual differences...
full descriptionMarch 2016. viii, 248 pp.
SiGL 3
A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages
R.D. Fulk
Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German, along with some attention to...
full descriptionOctober 2018. xv, 420 pp.
SFSL 65
Connecting Grammaticalisation
Jens Nørgård-Sørensen, Lars Heltoft and Lene Schøsler
This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. What unites morphology, topology (word order), constructional...
full descriptionDecember 2011. xiii, 347 pp.
CAL 22
Constructicography
Constructicon development across languages
Edited by Benjamin Lyngfelt, Lars Borin, Kyoko Ohara and Tiago Timponi Torrent
In constructionist theory, a constructicon is an inventory of constructions making up the full set of linguistic units in a language. In applied practice, it is a set of construction descriptions – a “dictionary of constructions”. The development of constructicons in the latter sense typically means combining...
full descriptionJuly 2018. viii, 313 pp.
Z 211
Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches
Edited by Peter Bakker, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva M. Sippola
This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles and other contact varieties, and between creoles and lexifier languages. With evidence...
full descriptionMay 2017. x, 414 pp.
CLU 10
Culinary Linguistics
The chef's special
Edited by Cornelia Gerhardt, Maximiliane Frobenius and Susanne Ley
Language and food are universal to humankind. Language accomplishes more than a pure exchange of information, and food caters for more than mere subsistence. Both represent crucial sites for socialization, identity construction, and the everyday fabrication and perception of the world as a meaningful, orderly place....
full descriptionJuly 2013. xvi, 347 pp.
P&bns 213
Cyberpragmatics
Internet-mediated communication in context
Francisco Yus
Cyberpragmatics is an analysis of Internet-mediated communication from the perspective of cognitive pragmatics. It addresses a whole range of interactions that can be found on the Net: the web page, chat rooms, instant messaging, social networking sites, 3D virtual worlds, blogs, videoconference, e-mail, Twitter, etc....
full descriptionAugust 2011. xiv, 353 pp.
NSS 30
The Dawn of Dutch
Language contact in the Western Low Countries before 1200
Michiel de Vaan
The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even later. The hunt for...
full descriptionDecember 2017. xviii, 613 pp.
PALART 5
Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages
Edited by Jörg-U. Keßler, Anke Lenzing and Mathias Liebner
This edited volume brings together the work of a number of researchers working in the framework of Processability Theory (PT), a psycholinguistic theory of second language acquisition (SLA) (Pienemann 1998; 2005). The aim of the volume is two-fold: It engages with current issues in both theory development and theory...
full descriptionJune 2016. xviii, 244 pp.
DAPSAC 54
Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China
Edited by Qing Cao, Hailong Tian and Paul Chilton
After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully controlled by the political elites. Discourse, as a way of speaking and doing things, has...
full descriptionApril 2014. vi, 213 pp.
DAPSAC 78
The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline
Personal - group - collective
Edited by Birte Bös, Sonja Kleinke, Sandra Mollin and Nuria Hernández
This volume explores linguistic identity construction across online and offline contexts. The contributors focus on ‘clusivity’ as an overarching aspect and offer a multifaceted operationalisation of the linguistic processes of identity construction. The studies address three major strands of human identity, each of...
full descriptionJuly 2018. vii, 271 pp.
IHLL 33
East and West of The Pentacrest
Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky
Edited by Timothy Gupton and Elizabeth Gielau
This book is a collection of contemporary essays and squibs exploring the mental representation of Spanish and other languages in the Romance family. Although largely formal in orientation, they incorporate experimental and corpus data to inform questions of synchronic and diachronic importance. As a whole, these...
full descriptionMay 2021. viii, 217 pp.
Z 185
Elements of Structural Syntax
Lucien Tesnière
This volume appears now finally in English, sixty years after the death of its author, Lucien Tesnière. It has been translated from the French original into German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian, and now at long last into English as well. The volume contains a comprehensive approach to the syntax of natural languages,...
full descriptionFebruary 2015. lxxxii, 698 pp.
WLP 10
Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community
Sabine Fiedler and Cyril Robert Brosch
This book addresses a fascinating topic – a constructed language that has turned from a project into a fully-fledged language used by some of its speakers on a daily basis. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book provides rare and profound insights into the use of Esperanto in a large number of communicative areas. It...
full descriptionSeptember 2022. xx, 429 pp.
NSS 33
From West to North Frisia
A Journey along the North Sea Coast
Edited by Alastair Walker, Eric Hoekstra, Goffe Jensma, Wendy Vanselow, Willem Visser and Christoph Winter
This volume contains 25 articles covering a wide array of subjects, reflecting the breadth of scholarship of one of today’s leading experts in the field of Frisian Studies. The articles, written mostly in English and German, encompass a temporal range from Old Frisian to Modern Frisian and a geographical range from...
full descriptionMarch 2022. xxv, 476 pp.
DAPSAC 68
A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse
The Andalusian Parliament
Edited by Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez and Gloria Álvarez-Benito
Does gender condition politicians’ discourse strategies in parliament? This is the question we try to answer in A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament. This book, written by experts in the field of discourse analysis, covers key aspects of political discourse such as gender,...
full descriptionDecember 2016. vii, 222 pp.
SILV 18
Germanic Heritage Languages in North America
Acquisition, attrition and change
Edited by Janne Bondi Johannessen † and Joseph C. Salmons
This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The volume focuses on three...
full descriptionAugust 2015. vi, 418 pp.
Impact 48
Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Ethiopian Languages
Edited by Derib Ado, Almaz Wasse Gelagay and Janne Bondi Johannessen †
The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The Gurage languages, that often present a descriptive and sociolinguistic puzzle to researchers, have...
full descriptionApril 2021. viii, 415 pp.
FTL 6
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 science, and how...
full descriptionApril 2020. vi, 332 pp.
DAPSAC 83
Imagining the Peoples of Europe
Populist discourses across the political spectrum
Edited by Jan Zienkowski and Ruth Breeze
The political landscape in Europe is currently going through a phase of rapid change. New actors and movements that claim to represent 'the will of the people' are attracting considerable public attention, with dramatic consequences for election outcomes. This volume explores the new political order with a particular...
full descriptionAugust 2019. vi, 378 pp.
GS 4
Integrating Gestures
The interdisciplinary nature of gesture
Edited by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino
Gestures are ubiquitous and natural in our everyday life. They convey information about culture, discourse, thought, intentionality, emotion, intersubjectivity, cognition, and first and second language acquisition. Additionally, they are used by non-human primates to communicate with their peers and with humans....
full descriptionJune 2011. viii, 372 pp.
Z 215
Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev
Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world’s major language families owe their dispersal to the adoption of agriculture by their early...
full descriptionDecember 2017. xiii, 324 pp.
CLL 52
Language and Slavery
A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles
Jacques Arends
This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little known historical texts,...
full descriptionJuly 2017. xxix, 463 pp.
LSSE 2
Language-Learner Computer Interactions
Theory, methodology and CALL applications
Edited by Catherine Caws and Marie-Josée Hamel
This book focuses on learner-computer interactions (LCI) in second language learning environments drawing largely on sociocultural theories of language development. It brings together a rich and varied range of theoretical discussions and applications in order to illustrate the way in which LCI can enrich our...
full descriptionJune 2016. xv, 257 pp.
AALS 11
The Linguistics of Newswriting
Daniel Perrin
The Linguistics of Newswriting focuses on text production in journalistic media as both a socially relevant field of language use and as a strategic field of applied linguistics. The book discusses and paves the way for scientific projects in the emerging field of linguistics of newswriting. From empirical micro and...
full descriptionSeptember 2013. xiii, 302 pp.
CILT 307
Loan Phonology
Edited by Andrea Calabrese and W. Leo Wetzels
For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is that loanword nativization provides a...
full descriptionNovember 2009. vii, 273 pp.
DAPSAC 81
Migration and Media
Discourses about identities in crisis
Edited by Lorella Viola and Andreas Musolff
The socio-discursive landscape surrounding the migration debate is characterised by a growing sense of crisis in both personal and collective identities. From this viewpoint, discourses about immigration are also always attempts at reconstructing the threatened ‘home identity’ of the respective host society. It is...
full descriptionMarch 2019. xi, 360 pp.
BTL 122
New Insights in the History of Interpreting
Edited by Kayoko Takeda and Jesús Baigorri-Jalón
Who mediated intercultural exchanges in 9th-century East Asia or in early voyages to the Americas? Did the Soviets or the Americans invent simultaneous interpreting equipment? How did the US government train its first Chinese interpreters? Why is it that Taiwanese interpreters were executed for Japanese war crimes?...
full descriptionMarch 2016. xvi, 278 pp.
LA 270
Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective
Edited by Anne Mucha, Jutta M. Hartmann and Beata Trawiński
Control, typically defined as a specific referential dependency between the null-subject of a non-finite embedded clause and a co-dependent of the matrix predicate, has been subject to extensive research in the last 50 years. While there is a broad consensus that a distinction between Obligatory Control (OC),...
full descriptionSeptember 2021. v, 290 pp.
Z 179
Organic Creativity and the Physics Within
Mea M.M. Lowcre
A group of international top scientists from a diversity of disciplines sat together for five days with artists, designers, and entrepreneurs to develop a trans-disciplinary theory of creativity. Organic Creativity and the Physics Within assumes that creativity is a quality of nature visible in physics as well as in...
full descriptionMarch 2013. x, 59 pp.
AHS 8
Patterns of Change in 18th-century English
A sociolinguistic approach
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus of personal correspondence, including the auxiliary do, verbal -s and the...
full descriptionSeptember 2018. xi, 311 pp.
TBLT 14
Pedagogical Realities of Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching
Rosemary Erlam and Constanza Tolosa
This book documents how teachers, working in school foreign language learning contexts and teaching beginner learners of languages other than English, learn about and use tasks. It first presents a pedagogically researched account of how teachers learn about, design and evaluate tasks, after being introduced to TBLT...
full descriptionFebruary 2022. ix, 282 pp.
DAPSAC 79
Persuasion in Public Discourse
Cognitive and functional perspectives
Edited by Jana Pelclová and Wei-lun Lu
This book approaches persuasion in public discourse as a rhetorical phenomenon that enables the persuader to appeal to the addressee’s intellectual and emotional capacities in a competing public environment. The aim is to investigate persuasive strategies from the overlapping perspectives of cognitive and functional...
full descriptionAugust 2018. vi, 334 pp.
IHLL 20
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil
Edited by Laura Álvarez López, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese. Authored by specialists on varieties of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil, the eleven chapters and the epilogue promote a...
full descriptionNovember 2018. xii, 318 pp.
BSP 60
Scientia Media
Der Molinismus und das Faktenwissen
Sven K. Knebel
Molinismus ist heute ein Kapitel Philosophie. Das Thema dieses Buchs ist jedoch nicht die Renaissance der Scientia Media-Hypothese in der modernen angloamerikanischen Religionsphilosophie, sondern ihre scholastische Ausgestaltung in dem auf Molina folgenden Jahrhundert: Ohne den Kalkül mit den möglichen Welten z.B....
full descriptionApril 2021. xx, 440 pp.
BCT 103
Skyping the Family
Interpersonal video communication and domestic life
Edited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe
This collection is one of the first in-depth studies of video calling in family and domestic life. It explores the reasons that people themselves provide to explain their video calling, investigates how these reasons make that calling accountable and how, in turn, these reasons come to be things talked about in the...
full descriptionAugust 2019. v, 177 pp.
Z 159
Stylistic Use of Phraseological Units in Discourse
Anita Naciscione
Stylistic Use of Phraseaological Units in Discourse received honourable mention of the ESSE Book Award 2012 in the field of English Language and Linguistics.This interdisciplinary study presents the cutting-edge state of theoretical and applied research in the fascinating field of phraseology. The author elaborates...
full descriptionSeptember 2010. xiii, 292 pp.
BPA 13
Understanding L2 Proficiency
Theoretical and meta-analytic investigations
Edited by Eun Hee Jeon and Yo In'nami
This edited volume is a collection of theoretical and empirical overviews of second language (L2) proficiency based on four skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Each skill is reviewed in terms of how it has been conceptualized, measured, and studied over the years in relation to relevant (sub-)...
full descriptionAugust 2022. xi, 388 pp.
SILV 27
Urban Matters
Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics
Edited by Arne Ziegler, Stefanie Edler and Georg Oberdorfer
The city as a complex socio-cultural structure plays a central role, economically, administratively as well as culturally. Factors such as higher population density, a more expansive infrastructure, and larger social and cultural diversity compared to rural areas have a substantial impact on urban society and urban...
full descriptionDecember 2021. x, 280 pp.
Z 194
Writing(s) at the Crossroads
The process–product interface
Edited by Georgeta Cislaru
This volume aims at contributing to an interpretive approach to writing and its dynamics. It offers a general scope on the process-product interface by multiplying the points of view on both the process and the product and their links. The book presents new findings and perspectives in the study of language and...
full descriptionAugust 2015. vi, 304 pp.
CLSCC 10
“Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition
Yanying Lu
This book explores socio-cultural meanings of ‘self’ in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australia qualitatively on the topics of individuality, social relationships and collective identity. If language, culture and cognition are major roads, this book is the...
full descriptionNovember 2019. xv, 178 pp.
