SubjectsLinguistics / English linguistics
Book series
ISSN 2452-1930
Journals
English Text Construction
Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Brecht de Groote
ISSN 1874-8767 | E‑ISSN 1874‑8775
ISSN 0172-8865 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9730
Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes
Edited by Pejman Habibie and Sue Starfield
ISSN 2590-0994 | E‑ISSN 2590‑1001
Journal of English-Medium Instruction
Edited by Diane Pecorari and Hans Malmström
ISSN 2666-8882 | E‑ISSN 2666‑8890
Grammar through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Javier Pérez-Guerra, Yolanda Fernández-Pena and Ana Elina Martínez-Insua
This book brings together cutting-edge research on grammatical variation and change in English, showcasing the state of the art in contemporary corpus linguistics. The studies apply corpus-based and variationist methods to a wide range of grammatical categories (nominal, adjectival, verbal,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 128] 2026. vi, 281 pp. + index
A 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.
Cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English
Anna Finzel
The study presented in this book explores the cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English, drawing on the research fields of Cultural Linguistics, Cognitive Sociolinguistics and World Englishes. With the help of different methodologies and empirical data in the form… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 17] 2025. xxi, 229 pp.
The Development of Speaker-Oriented Adverbs in English: Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy?
Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie
The book investigates the development of ‘speaker-oriented adverbs’ (SOAs) such as frankly, surprisingly, and apparently in standard written English. SOAs take propositional scope, i.e. they modify clauses or sentences. It is generally assumed that they have developed from historically prior… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 287] 2025. ix, 188 pp.
Dialect on Air: Bahamian Creole in historical radio broadcasts
Diana Wengler
Despite the increasing interest in diachronic linguistic studies, such research remains particularly scarce for creole varieties, largely due to the limited availability of historical data on non-standard languages. This book addresses this gap by introducing a soap opera from the early 1970s as a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G71] 2025. xvii, 198 pp.
English across Borders: A reflexive approach to anglophone migrants’ repertoires
Axel Bohmann
This book presents an account of English in the communicative repertoires of anglophone West-Africans living in Southwestern Germany. Adopting an ethnographically grounded perspective, it analyzes how participants perceive and utilize English as well as other linguistic resources at their disposal… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G72] 2025. xi, 244 pp.
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Writing for Scholarly Publication
Edited by A. Mehdi Riazi
Special issue of Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 6:2 (2025) vi, 194 pp.
The Second Language Acquisition of English Tense, Aspect and Modality
Dalila Ayoun
After a comprehensive description of the French and English tense, aspect, mood/modality (TAM) systems in Chapter 1, an overview of key theoretical perspective and applied perspectives from the morpheme-order studies to examples of internal and external interfaces in monolingual child acquisition… read more[Not in series, 243] 2025. xi, 244 pp.
World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies
Edited by Peter Siemund, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl
World Englishes coexist and interact with local languages in multilingual ecologies. Multilingual speakers use the languages in their ecologies for different functions, with different interlocutors, and at different proficiency levels. Attitudinal responses to the languages vary. Speaker groups are… read more
A Construction Grammar of the English Language: CASA – a Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis
Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann
The present book provides an introduction to the linguistic model of Construction Grammar, offering a full analysis of the grammar of the English language. It covers all levels of morpho-syntactic form-meaning units: including sentence types, tense and aspect, argument structure, phrases, idioms,… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 5] 2024. xv, 315 pp.
English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers: A contrastive interlanguage analysis across intonational dimensions
Karin McClellan
Discover the intricate dynamics of L2 prosody with this pioneering study, which examines how advanced learners from Czech, German, and Spanish backgrounds engage with British and American English intonation. By employing a multidimensional approach - spanning phonetic, phonological,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 120] 2024. xix, 296 pp.
English-medium instruction: Different stakeholders and conflicting interests
Edited by Robert Wilkinson and René Gabriëls
Special issue of Journal of English-Medium Instruction 3:1 (2024) v, 140 pp.
Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell
Edited by Jennifer Hendriks and B. Richard Page
This volume celebrates Robert B. Howell's wide-ranging contribution as a scholar, mentor, collaborator, and colleague in the field of Germanic linguistics. In addition to investigating present-day or past varieties of Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Flemish, German, and Pennsylvania Dutch, each of the… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 8] 2024. vi, 327 pp.
Keys to the History of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography. Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL
Edited by Thijs Porck, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon
This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The contributions deal with various aspects of English language across time and geographical space, shedding light on both long-term… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 363] 2024. vii, 235 pp.
The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: A corpus-based study of grammatical change
Xinyue Yao
This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and British English. Drawing on neo-Gricean pragmatics, it proposes a novel and principled analysis of the verb forms’ context-independent meanings… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 114] 2024. xvii, 235 pp.
Textbook English: A multi-dimensional approach
Elen Le Foll
This book provides a systematic, empirical account of the language typically presented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks, based on a large corpus of EFL textbooks used in secondary schools. A modified version of the Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) framework serves to examine… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 116] 2024. xix, 294 pp.
Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types. Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL
Edited by Luisella Caon, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck
This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The chapters deal with aspects of language use throughout the history of English, including efforts to prescribe and regulate… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 364] 2024. viii, 253 pp.
English Complex Words: Exercises in construction and translation
Piotr Twardzisz
English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages. It offers today’s broadest available coverage of English prefixation, suffixation and compounding. Comprising a treasury of real language… read more[Not in series, 242] 2023. xi, 392 pp.
Interdisciplinary approaches to the language of pop culture
Edited by Rocío Montoro and Valentin Werner
Special issue of English Text Construction 16:2 (2023) v, 152 pp.
New Englishes, New Methods
Edited by Guyanne Wilson and Michael Westphal
There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions in this volume critically explore the gamut of familiar and unfamiliar methods applied in data collection and analysis in order to… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G68] 2023. viii, 276 pp.
Saipanese English: Local and global sociolinguistic trends
Dominique B. Hess
In this volume, the emergence of English in Saipan is examined in the complex context of its colonial past. The focus lies on the influence of the American era on the linguistic outcomes in Saipan. Sociolinguistic interviews with indigenous Chamorros and Saipan Carolinians were analyzed using… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G69] 2023. xx, 249 pp.
The Sociophonetics of Dublin English: Phonetic realisation and sociopragmatic variation
Marion Schulte
The Sociophonetics of Dublin English shows how social inequalities and language are connected by the stances speakers take in interaction. It is based on an instrumental phonetic analysis of recorded interviews and broadcasting data and a detailed qualitative account of the same data as well as the… read more
Theme in English and German: A corpus-based contrastive analysis of clause openings in original and translated texts
Jonas Freiwald
This book represents a detailed discussion and corpus analysis of Theme in English and German originals and translations. The empirical results are based on thousands of clauses from four different registers, cover a variety of linguistic aspects including multiple Themes, marked Themes,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 112] 2023. xiii, 297 pp.
Collocations as a Language Resource: A functional and cognitive study in English phraseology
Sonja Poulsen
Are collocations problems or solutions to problems? If you take the perspective of the foreign learner, as in traditional phraseology, they are certainly challenging, and they have therefore been categorized as arbitrary, or even defective, deviations from an assumed norm of full compositionality.… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 71] 2022. xvi, 348 pp.
Discourse Structuring Markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions for how to do so. The empirical domain is the development of Discourse Structuring… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 33] 2022. xviii, 274 pp.
Earlier North American Englishes
Edited by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers
Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twenty-first century. To throw light on the linguistics of North American Englishes and their socio-historical contexts, this volume brings together research from various traditions,… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G66] 2022. viii, 261 pp.
Emerging Assessment Needs and Solutions in EMI in Higher Education
Edited by Slobodanka Dimova and Joyce Kling
Special issue of Journal of English-Medium Instruction 1:2 (2022) v, 138 pp.
English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact. Papers from the XXth ICEHL
Edited by Bettelou Los, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux
This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. It showcases a wide variety of historical linguistic approaches, including ‘big data’ analyses of large corpora,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 359] 2022. vi, 185 pp.
English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning. Papers from the XXth ICEHL
Edited by Bettelou Los, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale
This volume contains a set of articles based on papers selected from those delivered at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018). It focuses on cutting-edge research in the history of English, while reflecting the diversity that exists in the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 358] 2022. viii, 349 pp.
English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current issues
Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Evelien Keizer
Despite a significant increase in interest over the last two decades in the English Noun Phrase, there are still many open questions and unexplored issues. The papers collected in this volume contribute to this ongoing research by addressing a range of topics concerning the internal structure, use… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 221] 2022. vii, 433 pp.
English Rock and Pop Performances: A sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes
Lisa Jansen
This book addresses the phenomenon of non-American rock and pop singers emulating an Americanized singing style for performance purposes. By taking a novel approach to this pop cultural trend and drawing attention to the audience, British and American students’ perceptions of English rock and pop… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 51] 2022. ix, 191 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.
Genre in World Englishes: Case studies from the Caribbean
Susanne Mühleisen
World Englishes and English in postcolonial contexts have been curiously neglected in an otherwise abundant research literature on text types and genres in English. This volume looks at the adaptation, transformation and emergence of genres in the particular cultural context of the Anglophone… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G67] 2022. viii, 229 pp.
Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications
Edited by Alba E. Ruz, Cristina Fernández-Alcaina and Cristina Lara-Clares
The focus of Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications is on the relevance of paradigms for linguistic description. Paradigmatic organization has traditionally been considered an inherent feature of inflectional morphology, but research in the last decades clearly shows the existence of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 225] 2022. vii, 382 pp.
Pejorative Suffixes and Combining Forms in English
José A. Sánchez Fajardo
The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the concept of linguistic pejoration, and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms, such as -ie, -o, -ard, -holic, -rrhea, -itis, -porn, -ish, in the formation of English pejoratives. The examination of the inner structure of the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 222] 2022. xvi, 229 pp.
Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English: Records of communities and people
Olga Timofeeva
This is the first extensive study of Old English to utilise the insights and methodologies of sociolinguistics. Building on previous philological and historical work, it takes into account the sociology and social dialectology of Old English and offers a description of its speech communities… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 13] 2022. xv, 204 pp.
Voicing Absences/Presences in a Damaged World
Edited by Jessica Maufort and Marc Maufort
Special issue of English Text Construction 15:2 (2022) v, 83 pp.
The dynamics of academic knowledge production: Text histories and text trajectories
Edited by Theresa Lillis and Mary Jane Curry
Special issue of Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 3:1 (2022) v, 163 pp.
Bermudian English: A sociohistorical and linguistic profile
Nicole Eberle
Bermudian English. A sociohistorical and linguistic profile focuses on a hitherto severely under-researched variety of English. The book traces the origins and development of Bermudian English, so as to situate the variety within the canon of other lesser-known varieties of English, and provides a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G64] 2021. xv, 231 pp.
Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes: A constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning
Samantha Laporte
This book takes an integrated approach to the fields of Corpus Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and World Englishes through a thorough constructional and corpus-based examination of the patterning of the versatile high-frequency verb make in British English and New Englishes. It contributes to… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 100] 2021. xxii, 395 pp.
Defining with Simple Vocabulary in English Dictionaries
Mariusz Piotr Kamiński
This book investigates an important but under-researched aspect of dictionary making: the use of a controlled vocabulary in definitions. The main concern of the author is the role of a definition vocabulary in how foreign learners understand and perceive dictionary definitions. The author takes the… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 22] 2021. xv, 326 pp.
The Dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety
Edited by Anne Schröder
The English language as spoken in Namibia has virtually been overlooked in most textbooks, handbooks, and surveys of varieties of English around the world, or else has only been mentioned in passing. However, this variety of English has recently attracted the attention of several researchers and… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G65] 2021. ix, 305 pp.
Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey N. Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan
The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference grammars. But GSWE is unique in that it gives equal attention to describing… read more[Not in series, 232] 2021. xxxv, 1220 pp.
Nominal and Pronominal Address in Jamaica and Trinidad: Variation and patterns
Matthias Klumm
This book examines the various patterns of nominal and pronominal address used in Jamaica and Trinidad, the two most populous islands of the English-speaking Caribbean. Given that the Anglo-Caribbean context has so far been largely neglected in address research, this study aims to provide an… read more[Topics in Address Research, 3] 2021. xiv, 246 pp.
The Sociopragmatics of Stance: Community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trials
Peter J. Grund
Anchored in historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, this book weaves together a powerful narrative of the significance of stance marking in the history of English. Focusing on the community of practice that developed during the witch trials in Salem… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 329] 2021. ix, 246 pp.
“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts aims at exploring scientific writing in late Modern English. This volume is the fourth of its kind devoted to the analysis of the relations between language and different scientific disciplines from 1700 to 1900. Here,… read more[Not in series, 237] 2021. xv, 310 pp.
Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English
Edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola
This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be it from Old English to the present, or a shorter time span in the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 96] 2020. xii, 305 pp.
The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English
Edited by Matti Peikola and Birte Bös
This volume explores the complex relations of texts and their contextualising elements, drawing particularly on the notions of paratext, metadiscourse and framing. It aims at developing a more comprehensive historical understanding of these phenomena, covering a wide time span, from Old English to… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 317] 2020. vii, 313 pp.
Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft verbs in English and German
Ryan Dux
While verb classes are a mainstay of linguistic research, the field lacks consensus on precisely what constitutes a verb class. This book presents a novel approach to verb classes, employing a bottom-up, corpus-based methodology and combining key insights from Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar,… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 28] 2020. x, 320 pp.
Late Modern English: Novel encounters
Edited by Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg
The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, spelling and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 214] 2020. vii, 359 pp.
Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
This volume traces the multifaceted concept of manners in the history of English from the late medieval through the early and late modern periods right up to the present day. It focuses in particular on transgressions of manners and norms of behaviour as an analytical tool to shed light on the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 312] 2020. viii, 298 pp.
Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents
Edited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs
English local documents – leases, wills, accounts, letters and the like – provide a unique resource for historical sociolinguistics. Abundant from the early fifteenth century, they represent the language and concerns of people from a wide range of social, institutional and geographical backgrounds.… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 11] 2020. ix, 310 pp.
Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö
Edited by Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson
This volume provides a diachronic and synchronic overview of linguistic variability and change in involved, speech-related and spoken texts in English. While previous works on the topic have focused on more limited time periods, this book covers data from the 16th century up to the present day. The… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 97] 2020. xiii, 348 pp.
World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian diaspora in the USA
Mirka Honkanen
World Englishes on the Web focuses on linguistic practices at the intersection of international migration and social media, examining the language repertoires of Nigerians living in the United States, and their negotiations of identity and authenticity on a Nigerian web forum. Based on a large… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G63] 2020. vii, 338 pp.
Agreement in Language Contact: Gender development in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Florian Dolberg
Gender in English changed dramatically from the elaborate system found in Old English to the very simple he/she/it-alternation in use from (late) Middle English onwards. While either system is well described and understood, the change from one to the other is anything but: more than 120 years of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 208] 2019. xxi, 351 pp.
Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes
Edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia
Corpus linguistics has become one of the most widely used methodologies across the different linguistic subdisciplines; especially the study of world-wide varieties of English uses corpus-based investigations as one of the chief methodologies. This volume comprises descriptions of the many new… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 88] 2019. ix, 403 pp.
A Dependency Grammar of English: An introduction and beyond
Timothy Osborne
Dependency grammar (DG) is an approach to the syntax of natural languages with a long and venerable tradition, yet awareness of its potential to serve as a basis for principled analyses of natural language syntax is minimal due to the predominance of phrase structure grammar (PSG). This book… read more[Not in series, 224] 2019. ix, 447 pp.
Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax
Edited by Claudia Claridge and Birte Bös
Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 346] 2019. vi, 312 pp.
Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world
Edited by Raymond Hickey
The current volume presents a number of chapters which look at informal vernacular letters, written mostly by emigrants to the former colonies of Britain, who settled at these locations in the past few centuries, with a focus on letters from the nineteenth century. Such documents often show… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 10] 2019. x, 289 pp.
Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century. Including the LMEMT Corpus
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Turo Hiltunen
The eighteenth century in medicine is a fallow period lying between the innovations of the Royal Society (1662–) with its new ways of doing science and the nineteenth-century achievements of clinical and laboratory medicine. The period deserves more attention, as the seeds of some modern… read more[Not in series, 221] 2019. xix, 432 pp., incl. CD-RoM
Learning the Language of Dentistry: Disciplinary corpora in the teaching of English for Specific Academic Purposes
Peter Crosthwaite and Lisa Cheung
This book explores the affordances of disciplinary corpora for the teaching and learning of the language of dentistry, within the field of English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP). We extract disciplinary register features and vocabulary from three key genres of the dentistry discipline… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 93] 2019. xiv, 222 pp.
Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English
Sofia Rüdiger
Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English presents fundamental research on the use of English by South Korean speakers. Despite the extraordinary and vibrant status of the English language in South Korean society (demonstrated, for example, by the notion of English Fever), research on the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G62] 2019. xvii, 228 pp.
Norms and Conventions in the History of English
Edited by Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge
This volume explores changing norms and conventions in the English language, as displayed in a broad range of historical data from more than five centuries. The contributions discuss the interplay of sociocultural conditions, specific discourse traditions and structural aspects of language, paying… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 347] 2019. v, 215 pp.
Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English
Edited by Sandra Jansen and Lucia Siebers
The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the existing literature by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective of aspects of change in English from around 1700 until the present… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 21] 2019. vii, 263 pp.
Semantic Plurality: English collective nouns and other ways of denoting pluralities of entities
Laure Gardelle
This monograph proposes a comparative approach to all the ways of denoting ‘more than one’ entity, from collective and aggregate nouns (with the first-ever typology), to count plurals, partly substantivised adjectives and conjoined NPs. This semantic feature approach to plurality, which cuts across… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 349] 2019. x, 215 pp.
Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015)
Edited by Paul Simpson
This commemorative volume comprises ten essays which celebrate the work of Walter (Bill) Nash. Bill Nash was an extraordinary scholar – a classicist, parodist, critic, musician, linguist, poet, polyglot, humourist and novelist. He was as adroit in his reading of the Old Norse sagas as he was in his… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 34] 2019. ix, 205 pp.
Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco
This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900. It pays particular attention to English History writing in late Modern English as compiled in the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), a newly released sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus of… read more[Not in series, 225] 2019. vii, 278 pp.
Building and Using the Siarad Corpus: Bilingual conversations in Welsh and English
Margaret Deuchar, Peredur Webb-Davies and Kevin Donnelly
This book is a research monograph divided into two parts. The first part describes the methods used to build the first sizeable corpus of informal conversational data collected from bilingual speakers of Welsh and English: Siarad. The second part describes the linguistic analysis of data from this… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 81] 2018. vii, 199 pp.
Explicitation in Consecutive Interpreting
Fang Tang
Explicitation has been studied as a Translation Universal in corpus-based translation studies by several scholars, yet its features in interpreting have only been mildly touched upon. Given the obvious differences between translation and interpreting, it is worthwhile exploring whether… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 135] 2018. xxi, 238 pp.
Explorations in English Historical Syntax
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert and Charlotte Maekelberghe
The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 198] 2018. viii, 312 pp.
Modeling World Englishes: Assessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties
Edited by Sandra C. Deshors
At a time when globalization and the advent of the internet have accelerated the spread and diversification of English varieties worldwide, this book provides a constructive assessment of the theoretical models that best account for the development and use of Englishes in the early 21st century. In… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G61] 2018. x, 297 pp.
The Noun Phrase in English: Past and present
Edited by Alex Ho-Cheong Leung and Wim van der Wurff
Building on a substantial earlier literature, the chapters in this volume further advance knowledge and understanding of properties of the noun phrase in English. The empirical material for the papers includes both historical and present-day data, with the two often shedding light on each other in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 246] 2018. v, 229 pp.
Offers and Offer Refusals: A postcolonial pragmatics perspective on World Englishes
Eric A. Anchimbe
This study offers a pragmatic dimension to World Englishes research. It is particularly timely because pragmatics has generally been understudied in past research on World Englishes, especially postcolonial Englishes. Apart from drawing attention to the paucity of research, the book also… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 298] 2018. xix, 316 pp.
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… read more
Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic
Elżbieta Adamczyk
The book is a comprehensive corpus study of analogical developments in the nominal morphology of four Northern West Germanic languages: Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon and Old Low Franconian. It examines the patterns of reorganisation of the nominal paradigms, focusing on the analogical… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 31] 2018. xxvii, 572 pp.
Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes
Edited by Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte
At a time when the paradigm gap (Sridhar & Sridhar 1986) between the EFL and ESL research areas is attracting much scholarly attention, the contributions in the current volume explore this gap from the perspective of linguistic innovations across the two different types of non-native Englishes. In… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 98] 2018. vi, 223 pp.
Revisiting Shakespeare's Language
Edited by Annalisa Baicchi, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani and Antonio Bertacca
Special issue of English Text Construction 11:1 (2018) v, 168 pp.
Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English
Edited by Peter Petré, Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D'hoedt
The chapters collected in this volume examine how the sociohistorical and cultural context may influence structural features of lexis and text types. Each paper pays particular attention to social ‘labels’ and attitudes (conservative, religious, ideological, endearing, or other), thereby focusing… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 343] 2018. viii, 258 pp.
Cameroon Pidgin English: A comprehensive grammar
Miriam Ayafor and Melanie Green
Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) is an English-lexified Atlantic expanded pidgin/creole spoken in some form by an estimated 50% of Cameroon’s population, primarily in the anglophone west regions, but also in urban centres throughout the country. Primarily a spoken language, CPE enjoys a vigorous oral… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 20] 2017. xxi, 314 pp.
Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse
Edited by Minna Palander-Collin, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen
The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For example, audience engagement is by no means an invention of the digital age. This collection highlights major topics that range from newspaper genres like… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 6] 2017. vii, 301 pp.
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE
Alexandra D'Arcy
Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 187] 2017. xx, 235 pp.
Grammar, usage and discourse: Functional studies offered to Kristin Davidse
Edited by Lieven Vandelanotte, Wout Van Praet and Lieselotte Brems
Special issue of English Text Construction 10:2 (2017) v, 159 pp.
Language Variation on Jamaican Radio
Michael Westphal
This volume presents an in-depth analysis of language variation in Jamaican radio newscasts and talk shows. It explores the interaction of global and local varieties of English with regard to newscasters’ and talk show hosts’ language use and listeners’ attitudes. The book illustrates the benefits… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G60] 2017. xvi, 257 pp.
Negation and Contact: With special focus on Singapore English
Edited by Debra Ziegeler and Zhiming Bao
The study of negation across languages has left no stone unturned with respect to a range of frequently-researched areas, such as negative raising, negative concord, and the behavior of quantifiers under negative scope. Past research has chiefly focused on the category of negation from a… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 183] 2017. vii, 208 pp.
'The Conditioned and the Unconditioned': Late Modern English texts on philosophy. incl. CD-rom: A Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Gonzalo Camiña, Inés Lareo and Begoña Crespo
This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT), together with a number of pilot studies that demonstrate how the corpus can be used to investigate English philosophy writing in the eighteenth and… read more[Not in series, 198] 2016. xi, 182 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)
Emotive Interjections in British English: A corpus-based study on variation in acquisition, function and usage
Ulrike Stange-Hundsdörfer
Emotive Interjections in British English: A corpus-based study on variation in acquisition, function and usage constitutes the first in-depth corpus-based study on the use of emotive interjections in Present Day British English. In a novel approach, it systematically distinguishes between child and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 75] 2016. xxi, 221 pp.
English in the Netherlands: Functions, forms and attitudes
Alison Edwards
This volume provides the first comprehensive investigation of the Netherlands in the World Englishes paradigm. It explores the history of English contact, the present spread of English and attitudes towards English in the Netherlands. It describes the development and analysis of the Corpus of Dutch… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G56] 2016. xv, 271 pp.
The Idiom Principle and L1 Influence: A contrastive learner-corpus study of delexical verb + noun collocations
Ying Wang
This book examines delexical verb + noun collocations such as make a decision, give rise to and take care of in Swedish and Chinese learner English. Using a methodological framework that combines learner corpus research with a contrastive perspective, the study is one of the very few in the field… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 77] 2016. xii, 249 pp.
A Middle English Syntax: Parts of speech
Tauno F. Mustanoja
For a good orientation into the history of English grammar, several books are indispensable. One of those is Mustanoja’s A Middle English Syntax. However, for a long time this work was not readily available; the present edition changes that. This is a fac simile reprint from the 1960 publication… read more[Not in series, 207] 2016. ix, 702 pp.
New Approaches to English Linguistics: Building bridges
Edited by Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja and Sarah Chevalier
This book aims at providing a cross-section of current developments in English linguistics, by tracing recent approaches to corpus linguistics and statistical methodology, by introducing new inter- and multidisciplinary refinements to empirical methodology, and by documenting the on-going emphasis… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 177] 2016. vi, 326 pp.
Requests in American and British English: A contrastive multi-method analysis
Ilka Flöck
This volume encompasses a thorough examination of the use of request strategies on two contrastive dimensions. On the cross-cultural dimension, it compares the use of British and American English request strategies in naturally occurring informal conversations. The conversational data are retrieved… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 265] 2016. xvi, 264 pp.
Semantic Structure in English
Jim Feist
Syntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a structure in the meaning that is expressed in the syntax and phonology. Some writers use the phrase “semantic structure”, but are referring to conceptual… read more
Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US
Edited by Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo, Catherine M. Mazak and M. Carmen Parafita Couto
This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United States. In thirteen chapters, it brings together the work of leading scholars representing diverse disciplinary perspectives within linguistics,… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 11] 2016. viii, 326 pp.
Textplicating Iconophones: Articulatory iconic action in Ulysses
Nurit Levy
This volume applies a sign-oriented approach to the description of articulatory and acoustic iconic phenomena in James Joyce’s Ulysses. In its hypothesis, the greater the role of sensory experience in the message of a text, the more likely it is to employ linguistic representation in articulated… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 72] 2016. xvii, 333 pp.
Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate
Edited by Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo
Ugandan English is a variety that has scarcely been noticed in past research. This timely volume brings together African and European scholars in a first-ever collection of articles that offer comprehensive discussions of the historical and present-day sociolinguistics of English in Uganda and… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G59] 2016. vi, 280 pp.
World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations
Edited by Elena Seoane and Cristina Suárez-Gómez
This book provides a collection of articles that reflect the current state of affairs in the blossoming field of World Englishes by bringing together several innovative synchronic and diachronic approaches. It contributes to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the criteria that make a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G57] 2016. viii, 285 pp.
World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition: Insights from Southeast Asian Englishes
Michael Percillier
Bridging the gap between the fields of World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition, this volume offers an in-depth comparative analysis of two postcolonial varieties of English (Singapore and Malaysian English) and neighbouring Indonesian learner English in order to examine the Outer/Expanding… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G58] 2016. xviii, 205 pp.
The dynamicity of communication below, around and above the clause
Edited by Ben Clarke and Jorge Arús-Hita
Special issue of English Text Construction 9:1 (2016) v, 219 pp.
Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse
Edited by Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl
This volume explores the dynamics of genre conventions in historical English news discourse. The contributions cover a wide spectrum of news writing and publication formats: from corantos to modern tabloids, from prototypical hard news stories and crime reports to more specialised genres such as… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 5] 2015. xiv, 254 pp.
Grammatical Change in English World-Wide
Edited by Peter Collins
The contributions to this volume apply and extend the techniques of corpus linguistics and diachronic linguistics to the challenge of describing and explaining grammatical change in varieties of English world-wide. The book is divided into two parts, with ten chapters on ‘Inner Circle’ varieties… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 67] 2015. vi, 488 pp.
Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Edited by Paula Prescod
This collection is a pioneer study of linguistic phenomena in St Vincent and the Grenadines, written by scholars who are both respected in their field of research and connected to the linguistic realities in the geographic area under investigation. This book covers the subfields of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G51] 2015. xv, 191 pp.
Language and Material Culture
Allison Paige Burkette
This innovative and provocative work introduces complexity theory and its application to both the study of language and the study of material culture. The book begins with a wide-ranging theoretical background, covering the areas of dialect geography, the anthropological study of material culture,… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 38] 2015. xvii, 192 pp.
The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English
Tobias Bernaisch
This book offers the first in-depth corpus-based description of written Sri Lankan English. In comparison to British and Indian English, lexical and lexicogrammatical features of Sri Lankan English are analysed in a complex corpus environment comprising data from the respective components of the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G54] 2015. xiv, 248 pp.
Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
Edited by Dirk Delabastita and Ton Hoenselaars
No literary tradition in early modern Europe was as obsessed with the interaction between the native tongue and its dialectal variants, or with ‘foreign’ languages and the phenomenon of ‘translation’, as English Renaissance drama. Originally published as a themed issue of English Text Construction … read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 73] 2015. viii, 215 pp.
Pragmatic Markers in Irish English
Edited by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan
Pragmatic Markers in Irish English offers 18 studies from the perspective of variational pragmatics by established and younger scholars with an interest in the English of Ireland. Taking a broad definition of pragmatic markers (PMs) as items operating outside the structural limits of the clause… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 258] 2015. vi, 443 pp.
Researching Northern English
Edited by Raymond Hickey
Northern English has become the focus of intensive research in the past decade or so, following on a series of dedicated conferences. The present book brings together leading-edge contributions on various aspects of language use, variation and change in the North of England. The volume covers the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G55] 2015. x, 483 pp.
A Sociophonetic Approach to Scottish Standard English
Ole Schützler
Applying a sociophonetic research paradigm, this volume presents an investigation of variation and change in the Scottish Standard English accent. Based on original audio recordings made in Edinburgh, it provides detailed acoustic and auditory analyses of selected accent features. In contrast to… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G53] 2015. xx, 179 pp.
South Pacific Englishes: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan English and Cook Islands English
Carolin Biewer
Second-language varieties of English in the South Pacific have received scant attention, until now. This monograph offers the first book-length analysis of the sociolinguistics and morphosyntax of three representatives of South Pacific L2 English in comparison – two of which have never been… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G52] 2015. xvi, 351 pp.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English
Edited by Marina Dossena
The volume presents an innovative approach to studies in Late Modern English by giving attention to variation and change in varieties of English on both sides of the Atlantic. As new corpora become available, scholarly interests broaden their horizons to encompass varieties, the history of which… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 4] 2015. vii, 221 pp.
The (Ir)reversibility of English Binomials: Corpus, constraints, developments
Sandra Mollin
This book focuses on binomials (word pairs such as heart and soul, rich and poor, or if and when), and in particular on the degree of reversibility that English binomials demonstrate. Detailed and innovative corpus linguistic analyses investigate the correlates of the degree of reversibility,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 64] 2014. x, 254 pp.
Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English
Edited by Simone E. Pfenninger, Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier
The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change, (socio)linguistic research on variation, and contact linguistics. Drawing on a range of recently-developed methodological innovations, such… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 159] 2014. vi, 326 pp.
A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Literary Language and Characterization: Virginia Woolf's The Waves
Giuseppina Balossi
This book focusses on computer methodologies as a way of investigating language and character in literary texts. Both theoretical and practical, it surveys investigations into characterization in literary linguistics and personality in social psychology, before carrying out a computational analysis… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 18] 2014. xxi, 277 pp.
Educated Fiji English: Lexico-grammar and variety status
Lena Zipp
This volume contains a comprehensive corpus-based study of prepositional constructions in written Fiji English. It explores the endo- and exonormative dynamics of norm-giving and norm-developing varieties and contributes to our understanding of structural nativization and variety formation in a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G47] 2014. xvii, 230 pp.
English in Nordic Universities: Ideologies and practices
Edited by Anna Kristina Hultgren, Frans Gregersen and Jacob Thøgersen
This volume brings together theoretical perspectives and empirical studies on the ongoing Englishization of Nordic universities. A core objective is to contrast and address the gap between ideological representations of this phenomenon and the ways in which it unfolds in the practices on the ground. read more[Studies in World Language Problems, 5] 2014. vi, 268 pp.
English in the Indian Diaspora
Edited by Marianne Hundt and Devyani Sharma
Diasporic populations offer unique opportunities for the study of language variation and change. This volume is the first collection of sociolinguistic studies of English use across the historically complex and widely dispersed Indian diaspora. The contributions describe particular sociohistorical… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G50] 2014. ix, 244 pp.
The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond
Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch
This two-part volume provides a collection of 27 linguistic studies and contributions that shed light on the evolution of different Englishes world-wide (varieties, learner Englishes, dialects, creoles) from a broad spectrum of different perspectives, including both synchronic and diachronic… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G49] 2014. xviii, 513 pp.
Exploring Second Language Creative Writing: Beyond Babel
Edited by Dan Disney
Exploring Second Language Creative Writing continues the work of stabilizing the emerging Creative Writing (SL) discipline. In unique ways, each essay in this book seeks to redefine a tripartite relationship between language acquisition, literatures, and identity. All essays extend B.B. Kachru’s… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 19] 2014. v, 157 pp.
Grammatical Variation and Change in Jersey English
Anna Rosen
Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on a specially compiled corpus of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G48] 2014. xii, 237 pp.
A History of the English Language: Revised edition
Elly van Gelderen
The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most suggestions brought up by users and reviewers have been incorporated, for instance, a… read more[Not in series, 183] 2014. xx, 338 pp.
Intersubjectivity and Intersubjectification in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical and descriptive advances
Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde
Recent years saw a growing interest in the study of subjectivity, as the linguistic expression of speaker involvement. Intersubjectivity, defined by Traugott as "the linguistic expression of a speaker/writer's attention to the hearer/reader", on the other hand, has so far received little explicit… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 65] 2014. vi, 161 pp.
Korean English: A corpus-driven study of a new English
Glenn Hadikin
The English language is changing every day and it is us – the individual speakers and writers – that drive those changes in small ways by choosing to use certain strings of words over others. This book discusses and describes some of the choices made by speakers from South Korea by examining the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 62] 2014. xiv, 192 pp.
Old Northumbrian Verbal Morphosyntax and the (Northern) Subject Rule
Marcelle Cole
This volume provides both a quantitative statistical and qualitative analysis of Late Northumbrian verbal morphosyntax as recorded in the Old English interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels. It focuses in particular on the attestation of the subject type and adjacency constraints that… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 25] 2014. xvii, 286 pp.
Personalisation in Mass Media Communication: British online news between public and private
Daniela Landert
It seems to be a truism that today’s news media present the news in a more personal and direct way than print newspapers some twenty-five years ago. However, it is far from obvious, how this can be described linguistically. This study develops a model that integrates and differentiates between the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 240] 2014. xiv, 294 pp.
Symmetry Breaking in Syntax and the Lexicon
Leah S. Bauke
This book is a research monograph that explores the implications of the strongest minimalist thesis from an antisymmetric perspective. Three empirical domains are investigated: nominal root compounds in German and English, nominal gerunds in English and their German counterparts, and small clauses… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 216] 2014. xi, 304 pp.
Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach
Edited by Isabel Verdaguer, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar
The corpus-based studies in this volume explore biomedical research writing in English from a variety of perspectives. The articles in this collection delve into the lexicographic issues involved in building an electronic database of collocations and lexical bundles, offer insight on the teaching… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 56] 2013. xiii, 214 pp.
Communities of Practice in the History of English
Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk and Andreas H. Jucker
Languages change and they keep changing as a result of communicative interactions and practices in the context of communities of language users. The articles in this volume showcase a range of such communities and their practices as loci of language change in the history of English. The notion of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 235] 2013. vii, 291 pp.
Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories
Edited by Gabriele Diewald, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer
This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories, even though they… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 138] 2013. vi, 318 pp.
Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis
Edited by Hilde Hasselgård, Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling
A hallmark of corpus linguistics is the study of patterns of language use. The studies presented in this volume all use corpora to investigate patterns of lexis from various perspectives. The first section, “Sequence and Order”, presents theoretical and practical aspects of the linguist’s task of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 57] 2013. viii, 299 pp.
The Discursive Construction of the Scots Language: Education, politics and everyday life
Johann Wolfgang Unger
This monograph is about how the Scots language is discursively constructed, both from ‘above’ (through texts such as educational policies, debates in parliament and official websites) and from ‘below’ (in focus group discussions among Scottish people). It uses the interdisciplinary… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 51] 2013. xvi, 178 pp.
English in Cyprus or Cyprus English: An empirical investigation of variety status
Sarah Buschfeld
This volume provides the first-ever comprehensive analysis of a potential variety of English, spoken in the Greek part of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Despite the fact that Cyprus was a British colony from 1878 to 1960, the status of the English language spoken there has not yet been… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G46] 2013. xvi, 246 pp.
Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech
Sandra Götz
This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and nonnative speech.… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 53] 2013. xxiii, 238 pp.
The Macregol Gospels or The Rushworth Gospels: Edition of the Latin text with the Old English interlinear gloss transcribed from Oxford Bodleian Library, MS Auctarium D. 2. 19
Edited by Kenichi Tamoto
This work is composed of two parts. The first or introductory part, contains a palaeographical discussion about Bodleian Library, MS Auctarium D.2.19, that is to say, the MacRegol Gospels or the Rushworth Gospels, edited by Kenichi Tamoto, and which forms the second and main part of this book. The… read more[Not in series, 180] 2013. cxxxix, 339 pp.
Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho
Uncovering the meaning of individual words or entire texts is a complex process that needs to take into consideration the multiple interactions of linguistic organization including orthography, morphology, syntax and, ultimately, pragmatics. The papers in this volume pay close attention to these… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 148] 2013. vii, 348 pp.
Metaphors in Learner English
Susan Nacey
This volume presents results from a corpus-based investigation into the metaphorical production of foreign language learners, comparing texts written by Norwegian (L2) learners of English with those written by British (L1) students. Three types of questions are addressed. The first has empirically… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 2] 2013. xi, 279 pp.
Multilingualism in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Edited by Dirk Delabastita and Ton Hoenselaars
Special issue of English Text Construction 6:1 (2013) vi, 212 pp.
New Perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca
Heiko Motschenbacher
This volume complements earlier work on English as a lingua franca (ELF) by providing an in-depth study of the phenomenon from a decidedly European perspective. Distancing itself from more traditional approaches to the study of English in Europe (linguistic imperialism and “Euro-English”), the… read more[Not in series, 182] 2013. xi, 249 pp.
The Politics of English: South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific
Edited by Lionel Wee, Robbie B.H. Goh and Lisa Lim
This volume brings together contributions that explore the increasingly important roles that English plays in Asia, including its contribution to economic growth, national imaginaries and creative writing. These are issues that are political in a broad sense, but the diversity of Asian contexts… read more[Studies in World Language Problems, 4] 2013. ix, 322 pp.
The Regularity of the 'Irregular' Verbs and Nouns in English
Elena Even-Simkin and Yishai Tobin
This volume presents an in-depth study of the so-called irregular Past Tense (sing/sang) and Noun Plural (foot/feet) forms with Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in English demonstrating that they possess both a fixed phonological and semantic regularity. The innovative sign-oriented analysis and… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 66] 2013. xvii, 273 pp.
The Second Language Acquisition of French Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality
Dalila Ayoun
Temporal-aspectual systems have a great potential of informing our understanding of the developing competence of second language learners. So far, the vast majority of empirical studies investigating L2 acquisition have largely focused on past temporality, neglecting the acquisition of the… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 10] 2013. xiii, 252 pp.
The Structure of Discourse-Pragmatic Variation
Heike Pichler
Everyday language use overflows with discourse-pragmatic features. Their frequency, form and function can vary greatly across social groups and change dramatically over time. And yet these features have not figured prominently in studies of language variation and change. The Structure of… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 13] 2013. xxi, 276 pp.
Thanking Formulae in English: Explorations across varieties and genres
Sabine Jautz
In the present study the use of thanking formulae is examined across different genres and varieties of English. Data is taken from the British National Corpus and the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English.Employing a form-to-function mapping, thanking formulae are not only analysed… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 230] 2013. xv, 308 pp.
Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents
Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Gijsbert Rutten
The study of ego-documents figures as a prominent theme in cutting-edge research in the Humanities. Focusing on private letters, diaries and autobiography, this volume covers a wide range of different languages and historical periods, from the sixteenth century to World War I. The volume stands out… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 1] 2013. vii, 279 pp.
Women's Epistolary Utterance: A study of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611
Graham T. Williams
Located at the intersection of historical pragmatics, letters and manuscript studies, this book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611. It investigates multiple ways in which socio-culturally and socio-familially contextualized reading of particular… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 233] 2013. ix, 266 pp.
Affectivity in Interaction: Sound objects in English
Elisabeth Reber
How do participants display affectivity in social interaction? Based on recordings of authentic everyday conversations and radio phone-ins, this study offers a fine-grained analysis of how recipients of affect-laden informings deploy sound objects, i.e. interjections (oh, ooh and ah) and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 215] 2012. ix, 281 pp.
The Anglicization of European Lexis
Edited by Cristiano Furiassi, Virginia Pulcini and Félix Rodríguez González
This volume explores the lexical influence of English on European languages, a topical theme with linguistic and cultural implications. It provides an extensive introductory background to a cross-national view of English-induced lexical borrowing, posing crucial analytical questions such as what… read more[Not in series, 174] 2012. ix, 356 pp.
Astronomy ‘playne and simple’: The writing of science between 1700 and 1900. Including CD-Rom: A Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA)
Edited by Isabel Moskowich and Begoña Crespo
This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA), together with a number of pilot studies using these texts showing how the corpus can be used to investigate English Astronomy writing between 1700… read more[Not in series, 173] 2012. xi, 240 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative: With special reference to Japanese imperatives
Hidemitsu Takahashi
This volume offers the first comprehensive description of English imperatives made from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. It proposes a new way of explaining the meaning and function of the imperative independently of illocutionary act classifications, which allows for quantifying the strength of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 35] 2012. xvii, 242 pp.
Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP: Issues and applications
Edited by Alex Boulton, Shirley Carter-Thomas and Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet
These specially-commissioned studies cover corpus-informed approaches to researching, teaching and learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The corpora used range from very large published corpora to small tailor-made collections of written and spoken text, as well as parallel and contrastive… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 52] 2012. ix, 306 pp.
Discourse Markers in Early Modern English
Ursula Lutzky
This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three corpora (A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 227] 2012. ix, 293 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008. Volume II: Words, texts and genres
Edited by Hans Sauer and Gaby Waxenberger
The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al. 2010). Nine concentrate on the development of the English vocabulary and six on historical text linguistics, including the development of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 324] 2012. xviii, 271 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010
Edited by Irén Hegedűs and Alexandra Fodor
The volume brings together seventeen peer-reviewed, revised papers originally presented at the 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), held in August 2010 at the University of Pécs, Hungary. This selection aims to show how theoretical and empirical approaches can… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 325] 2012. viii, 386 pp.
English in Southeast Asia: Features, policy and language in use
Edited by Ee-Ling Low and Azirah Hashim
This volume provides a first systematic, comprehensive account of English in Southeast Asia (SEA) based on current research by leading scholars in the field. The volume first provides a systematic account of the linguistic features across all sub-varieties found within each country. It also has a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G42] 2012. xiv, 394 pp.
Intersections of Intersubjectivity
Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde
Special issue of English Text Construction 5:1 (2012) v, 152 pp.
Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics
Edited by Ulrich Busse and Axel Hübler
The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to, i.e. historical metapragmatics. More particularly, the collected papers apply a meta-communicative approach to historical texts by focusing on lexis that either directly or… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 220] 2012. vii, 292 pp.
Language Contact and Development around the North Sea
Edited by Merja Stenroos, Martti Mäkinen and Inge Særheim
This volume brings together eleven studies on the history of language and writing in the North Sea area, with focus on contacts and interchanges through time. Its range spans from the investigation of pre-Germanic place-names to present-day Shetland; the materials studied include glosses, legal and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 321] 2012. xvi, 235 pp.
Language Maintenance and Language Death: The decline of Texas Alsatian
Karen A. Roesch
This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved with… read more[Culture and Language Use, 6] 2012. xv, 253 pp.
Literary Community-Making: The dialogicality of English texts from the seventeenth century to the present
Edited by Roger D. Sell
The writing and reading of so-called literary texts can be seen as processes which are genuinely communicational. They lead, that is to say, to the growth of communities within which individuals acknowledge not only each other’s similarities but differences as well. In this new book, Roger D. Sell… read more[Dialogue Studies, 14] 2012. x, 263 pp.
Make Peace and Take Victory: Support verb constructions in Old English in comparison with Old Irish
Patricia Ronan
This corpus-based study examines the use of support verb constructions in Old English and Old Irish. It determines in how far these constructions can be seen as a means to offer semantic specification of existing verbal expressions. The study further investigates whether support verb constructions… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 24] 2012. xiv, 251 pp.
Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes
Edited by Marianne Hundt and Ulrike Gut
This volume presents a collection of in-depth cross-varietal studies on a broad spectrum of grammatical features in English varieties spoken all over the world. The contributions explore the structural unity and diversity of New Englishes and thus investigate central aspects of dialect evolution… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G43] 2012. xiv, 294 pp.
Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A multi-dimensional approach
Edited by Manfred Markus, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson
This book brings together a variety of approaches to English corpus linguistics and shows how corpus methodologies can contribute to the linking of diachronic and synchronic studies. The articles in this volume investigate historical changes in the English language as well as specific aspects of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 50] 2012. viii, 287 pp.
New Perspectives on Irish English
Edited by Bettina Migge and Máire Ní Chiosáin
This volume brings together current research by international scholars on the varieties of English spoken in Ireland. The papers apply contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches and frameworks to a range of topics. A number of papers explore the distribution of linguistic features in… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G44] 2012. xvii, 361 pp.
Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools
Véronique Lacoste
This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. For sociolinguists and second language/dialect researchers interested in the acquisition and use of sociolinguistic variables, an… read more[Creole Language Library, 42] 2012. xiv, 293 pp.
The Syntax of Spoken Indian English
Claudia Lange
This book offers an in-depth analysis of several features of spoken Indian English that are generally considered as ‘typical’, but have never before been studied empirically. Drawing on authentic spoken data from the International Corpus of English, Indian component, the book focuses on the domain… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G45] 2012. xv, 265 pp.
Textual Choices in Discourse: A view from cognitive linguistics
Edited by Barbara Dancygier, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte
In recent years, research in cognitive linguistics has expanded its interests to cover a variety of texts – spoken, written, or multimodal. Analytical tools such as conceptual metaphor, frame semantics, mental spaces and grammatical constructions have been productively applied in various discourse… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 40] 2012. v, 198 pp.
The Transmission of Anglo-Norman: Language history and language acquisition
Richard P. Ingham
This investigation contributes to issues in the study of second language transmission by considering the well-documented historical case of Anglo-Norman. Within a few generations of the establishment of this variety, its phonology diverged sharply from that of continental French, yet core syntactic… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 9] 2012. xii, 179 pp.
Adjective Complementation: An empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses
Ilka Mindt
This is the first empirical study to focus on adjectives complemented by that-clauses. The in-depth analysis of more than 50,000 cases taken from the British National Corpus gives comprehensive insights into hitherto neglected relations of lexis and grammar. The result of this corpus-driven study… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 42] 2011. vii, 238 pp.
Bilingualism in the USA: The case of the Chicano-Latino community
Fredric Field
This text provides an overview of bi- and multilingualism as a worldwide phenomenon. It features comprehensive discussions of many of the linguistic, social, political, and educational issues found in an increasingly multilingual nation and world. To this end, the book takes the Chicano-Latino… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 44] 2011. xviii, 320 pp.
English in Europe Today: Sociocultural and educational perspectives
Edited by Annick De Houwer and Antje Wilton
This volume discusses several facets of English in today's multilingual Europe. It emphasizes the interdependence between cultures, languages and situations that influence its use. This interdependence is particularly relevant to European settings where English is being learned as a second language. read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 8] 2011. xi, 170 pp.
Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a paradigm gap
Edited by Joybrato Mukherjee and Marianne Hundt
The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 44] 2011. vi, 222 pp.
Historical Sociopragmatics
Edited by Jonathan Culpeper
Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:2 (2009), this is the first book to map out historical sociopragmatics, a multidisciplinary field located within historical pragmatics, but overlapping with socially-oriented fields, such as sociolinguistics and critical… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 31] 2011. vii, 135 pp.
The Pragmatics of Requests and Apologies: Developmental patterns of Mexican students
Elizabeth Flores-Salgado
The purpose of this research is to analyse the pragmatic development of language groups at different proficiency levels and to investigate the relationship between interlanguage pragmatics and grammatical competence. For this study, 36 native Spanish speaking EFL learners at different proficiency… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 212] 2011. xi, 263 pp.
Recreation and Style: Translating humorous literature in Italian and English
Brigid Maher
This volume explores the translation of literary and humorous style, including comedy, irony, satire, parody and the grotesque, from Italian to English and vice versa. The innovative and interdisciplinary theoretical approach places the focus on creativity and playful rewriting as central to the… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 90] 2011. ix, 193 pp.
Referring Expressions in English and Japanese: Patterns of use in dialogue processing
Etsuko Yoshida
It is a major challenge for linguists to explore the relations between referential choice and the discourse structure in dialogues, because, unlike written modes of discourse, dialogue as an interactional mode of discourse needs careful treatment for linguistic analysis. This book investigates how… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 208] 2011. xviii, 206 pp.
Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar
Marco Schilk
This book contains the first in-depth corpus-based description of structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface in Indian English, the largest institutionalized second-language variety of English world-wide. For a set of three ditransitive verbs give, send and offer –collocational… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 46] 2011. xiii, 182 pp.
Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED)
Merja Kytö, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker
Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England examines various aspects of the witness depositions comprising An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED) on the accompanying CD-ROM.ETED combines modern corpus linguistic methodology and editorial theory, and makes available… read more[Not in series, 162] 2011. xxi, 360 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)
The Typology of Asian Englishes
Edited by Lisa Lim and Nikolas Gisborne
When considering the structure of New Englishes which have evolved in – multilingual, mostly post-colonial – contexts of Asia (thus, Asian Englishes), the significant factors to be considered are: 1) the variety/ies of the English lexifier that entered the local context; 2) the nature of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 33] 2011. vii, 120 pp.
Appositive Relative Clauses in English: Discourse functions and competing structures
Rudy Loock
This book sheds new light on Appositive Relative Clauses (ARCs), a structure that is generally studied from a merely syntactic point of view, in opposition to Determinative (or Restrictive) Relative Clauses (DRCs). In this volume, ARCs are examined from a discourse/pragmatic point of view,… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 22] 2010. xiii, 232 pp.
The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: Your guide to collocations and grammar. Third edition revised by Robert Ilson
Compiled by Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson
Speak and write perfect English!BBI teaches you how to combine words with words to form phrases (so you can say “mortgaged to the hilt; I want something badly”). BBI also teaches you how to combine words into structures to form clauses and sentences (so you can say “I want you to go = What I want… read more[Not in series, BBI] 2010. xxxix, 462 pp.
Corpus and Sociolinguistics: Investigating age and gender in female talk
Bróna Murphy
Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 38] 2010. xviii, 231 pp.
Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta
The corpus Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT) is the second component of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (CEEM), a three-part series of historical corpora of medical writing from 1375-1800. EMEMT contains a two-million word representative sample of the entire field of English… read more[Not in series, 160] 2010. xv, 370 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008.. Volume I: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions
Edited by Ursula Lenker, Judith Huber and Robert Mailhammer
The fourteen studies selected for this volume – all of them peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics 2008 (23–30 August) at the University of Munich – investigate syntactic variation and change in the history of English from… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 314] 2010. vii, 281 pp.
English Prepositions Explained: Revised edition
Seth Lindstromberg
This completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998, covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time – with the focus being on short prepositions such as at, by, in, and on. Its target… read more[Not in series, 157] 2010. xiii, 273 pp.
Expressing Opinions in French and Australian English Discourse: A semantic and interactional analysis
Kerry Mullan
Based on the analysis of conversations between French and Australian English speakers discussing various topics, including their experiences as non-native speakers in France or Australia, this book combines subjective personal testimonies with an objective linguistic analysis of the expression of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 200] 2010. xvii, 282 pp.
Heterogeneity in Word-Formation Patterns: A corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English
Susanne Mühleisen
Postulated word-formation rules often exclude formations that can nevertheless be found in actual usage. This book presents an in-depth investigation of a highly heterogeneous word-formation pattern in English: the formation of nouns by suffixation with -ee. Rather than relying on a single semantic… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 118] 2010. xiii, 245 pp.
The Interactional Organization of Academic Talk: Office hour consultations
Holger Limberg
This book provides interesting and critical insights into a common university practice, the academic office hour. Office hours are a discursive site for a variety of different issues, ranging from administrative matters to course-related and study-related concerns. The study offers both an… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 198] 2010. xiv, 397 pp.
An Introduction to the Grammar of English: Revised edition
Elly van Gelderen
It has been eight years since An Introduction to the Grammar of English was first published. The second edition is completely revised and greatly expanded, especially where texts, example sentences, exercises, and cartoons are concerned. It continues to provide a very lively and clearly written… read more[Not in series, 153] 2010. xxi, 232 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.
Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions
Edited by John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts and Tomonori Matsushita
For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co.The general aim of the Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals is investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages, such as… read more[The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals, 2] 2010. vii, 225 pp.
Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English
Edited by Päivi Pahta, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin
This volume presents a ground-breaking overview of the interconnections between socio-cultural reality and language practices, by looking at the different ways in which social roles are performed, maintained, adopted and assigned through linguistic means. The introductory chapter discusses and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 195] 2010. viii, 241 pp.
Soliloquy in Japanese and English
Yoko Hasegawa
Language is recognized as an instrument of communication and thought. Under the shadow of prevailing investigation of language as a communicative means, its function as a tool for thinking has long been neglected in empirical research, vis-à-vis philosophical discussions. Language manifests itself… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 202] 2010. ix, 230 pp.
Textual choices and discourse genres: Creating meaning through form
Edited by Barbara Dancygier and José Sanders
Special issue of English Text Construction 3:2 (2010) v, 192 pp.
Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence
Edited by Raymond Hickey
This volume is concerned with assessing fictional and non-fictional written texts as linguistic evidence for earlier forms of varieties of English. These range from Scotland to New Zealand, from Canada to South Africa, covering all the major forms of the English language around the world. Central… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G41] 2010. x, 378 pp.
Verbs of Implicit Negation and their Complements in the History of English
Yoko Iyeiri
For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The principal focus of this book concerns various shifts of complements which verbs of implicit negation (e.g. forbid, forbear, avoid, prohibit, and prevent) have experienced in the history of English.… read more[Not in series, 155] 2010. xv, 223 pp.
Classical Spanish Drama in Restoration English (1660–1700)
Jorge Braga Riera
From 1660 to c 1700, England set her eyes on Spain and on the seventeenth-century Spanish comedy of intrigue with an aim to import new plots and characters that might appeal to the Anglo-Saxon audience. As a consequence, Hispanic drama in translation enjoyed a period of relative popularity never to… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 85] 2009. xv, 330 pp.
Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond
Edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins and Adam Smith
This anthology brings together fresh corpus-based research by international scholars. It contrasts southern and northern hemisphere usage on variable elements of morphology and syntax. The nineteen invited papers include topics such as irregular verb parts, pronouns, modal and quasimodal verbs, the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G39] 2009. x, 406 pp.
Contemporary Indian English: Variation and change
Andreas Sedlatschek
Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change offers the first comprehensive description of Indian English and its emerging regional standard in a corpus-linguistic framework. Drawing on a wealth of authentic spoken and written data from India (including the Kolhapur Corpus and the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G38] 2009. xix, 363 pp.
The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations
Glyn Hicks
The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations resolves a conspicuous problem for Minimalist theory, the apparently representational nature of the binding conditions. Hicks adduces a broad variety of evidence against the binding conditions applying at LF and builds upon the insights of recent proposals by… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 139] 2009. xii, 309 pp.
Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker
In Early Modern Britain, new publication channels were developed and new textual genres established themselves. News discourse became increasingly more important and reached wider audiences, with pamphlets as the first real mass media. Newspapers appeared, first on a weekly and then on a daily… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 187] 2009. vii, 227 pp.
Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals
Edited by John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts, Tomonori Matsushita and Hiroshi Hasegawa
For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals has as its general aim the investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages,… read more[The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals, 1] 2009. v, 213 pp.
Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English: The syntax–pragmatics interface in second language acquisition
Marcus Callies
This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 186] 2009. xviii, 293 pp.
Instructional Writing in English: Studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen
Edited by Matti Peikola, Janne Skaffari and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 189] 2009. xiii, 240 pp.
Interactive Dialogue Sequences in Middle English Drama
Gabriella Mazzon
This book looks at mediaeval English drama using the theoretical frameworks of historical sociopragmatics and dialogue analysis. It focuses on the collection of cycle plays known as the N.Town Plays, preserved in a manuscript from the fifteenth century. The book examines various linguistic markers… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 185] 2009. ix, 228 pp.
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.
The Language of Outsourced Call Centers: A corpus-based study of cross-cultural interaction
Eric Friginal
The Language of Outsourced Call Centers is the first book to explore a large-scale corpus representing the typical kinds of interactions and communicative tasks in outsourced call centers located in the Philippines and serving American customers. The specific goals of this book are to conduct a… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 34] 2009. xxii, 319 pp.
More Support for More-Support: The role of processing constraints on the choice between synthetic and analytic comparative forms
Britta Mondorf
This book provides the most comprehensive account so far of novel and hitherto unexplained factors operative in the choice between synthetic (prouder) and analytic (more proud ) comparatives. It argues that the underlying motivation in using the analytic variant is to mitigate processing demands –… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 4] 2009. xi, 222 pp.
Register Variation in Indian English
Chandrika Balasubramanian
Register Variation in Indian English constitutes the first large-scale empirical investigation of an international variety of English. Using a combination of the corpus compiled for this project and relevant sections of ICE-India as its database, this work tests existing descriptions and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 37] 2009. xviii, 284 pp.
World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference
Edited by Thomas Hoffmann and Lucia Siebers
World Englishes is a vibrant research field that has attracted scholars from many different linguistic subdisciplines. Emphasizing the common ground of all research on World Englishes, the 22 articles in this collected volume, selected from more than a hundred papers presented at the 2007… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G40] 2009. xix, 436 pp.
The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800)
Edited by Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin
The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research. The volume contains nine studies and an introductory essay which discuss linguistic and social variation and change over four centuries. Each study… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 183] 2009. vii, 312 pp.
A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation: The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic)
Winnie Cheng, Chris Greaves and Martin Warren
The book is the first to apply David Brazil’s Discourse Intonation systems (prominence, tone, key and termination) to the study of a corpus of authentic, naturally-occurring spoken discourses. The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (prosodic) is made up of approximately one million words consisting… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 32] 2008. xi, 325 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen
Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the ‘life cycle’ of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range from electronic corpora to the internet. In the spirit of the 1968 Weinreich, Labov and Herzog classic, the fifteen contributions divide… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 2] 2008. viii, 339 pp.
ESP in European Higher Education: Integrating language and content
Edited by Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez and Christine A. Räisänen
The Bologna Reform has been implemented in a large part of the European Union and it is time to take a short pause to reflect over some of the lessons learned up to now. The aim of this book is to share experiences and reflections on English for Specific Purposes pedagogy in Western European higher… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 4] 2008. vi, 285 pp.
English Adjective Comparison: A historical perspective
Victorina González-Díaz
The present work contributes to a better understanding of the English system of degree by means of a study of a number of aspects in the evolution of adjective comparison that have so far either been considered controversial or not been accounted for at all. As will be shown, the diachronic aspects… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 299] 2008. xix, 252 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English
Edited by Marina Dossena, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti
The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, lexis and semantics, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on geo-historical… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 297] 2008. xiii, 197 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21-25 August 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology & Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change & Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English (3 vols. set)
Edited by Marina Dossena, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti
These three volumes contain selections of revised papers, originally presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Bergamo 2006). The volumes focus, respectively, on syntax and morphology, lexis and semantics, and geo-historical variation. The papers,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295-297] 2008. ca. 760 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change
Edited by Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena
The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, and dialectology, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on semantics, pragmatics… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 296] 2008. xiii, 264 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology
Edited by Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena and Richard Dury
The papers selected for this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). At that important event, alongside studies of phonology, lexis, semantics and dialectology (presented in two companion volumes in this series), many… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295] 2008. xiv, 259 pp.
Language Change and Variation in Gibraltar
David Levey
While much has been written about Gibraltar from historical and political perspectives, sociolinguistic aspects have been largely overlooked. This book describes the influences which have shaped the colony’s linguistic development since the British occupation in 1704, and the relationship between… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 23] 2008. xxii, 192 pp.
New-Dialect Formation in Canada: Evidence from the English modal auxiliaries
Stefan Dollinger
This book details the development of eleven modal auxiliaries in late 18th- and 19th-century Canadian English in a framework of new-dialect formation. The study assesses features of the modal auxiliaries, tracing influences to British and American input varieties, parallel developments, or Canadian… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 97] 2008. xxii, 355 pp.
Politeness in Mexico and the United States: A contrastive study of the realization and perception of refusals
J. César Félix-Brasdefer
This book explores the issue of politeness phenomena and socially appropriate behavior in two societies, Mexico and the United States, in three different contexts: refusing invitations, requests, and suggestions. In addition to a state-of-the-art review of the speech act of refusals in numerous… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 171] 2008. xiv, 195 pp.
Speech Acts in the History of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did they negotiate them in case of uncertainty? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this volume in innovative case studies… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 176] 2008. viii, 318 pp.
St Helenian English: Origins, evolution and variation
Daniel Schreier
This volume provides the first-ever sociolinguistic analysis of English on the island of St Helena, the oldest variety of English in the Southern Hemisphere. It is based on a concise synchronic profile of the variety (describing its segmental phonology and morphosyntax) and an evaluation of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G37] 2008. xv, 312 pp.
Silence in Intercultural Communication
:Perceptions and performance
Ikuko Nakane
How and why is silence used interculturally? Approaching the phenomenon of silence from multiple perspectives, this book shows how silence is used, perceived and at times misinterpreted in intercultural communication. Using a model of key aspects of silence in communication – linguistic, cognitive… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 166] 2007. xii, 240 pp.
Adverb Licensing and Clause Structure in English
Dagmar Haumann
This monograph provides an in-depth investigation of the structural integration and the licensing of adverbs in relation to clause structure, with special emphasis on the structural implementation of the relation between the position and interpretation of adverbs. The book substantiates the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 105] 2007. ix, 435 pp.
Cognitive English Grammar
Günter Radden and René Dirven †
Cognitive English Grammar is designed to be used as a textbook in courses of English and general linguistics. It introduces the reader to cognitive linguistic theory and shows that Cognitive Grammar helps us to gain a better understanding of the grammar of English. The notions of motivation and… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 2] 2007. xiv, 374 pp.
Conceptual Structure in Lexical Items: The lexicalisation of communication concepts in English, German and Dutch
Kristel Proost
This volume deals with the occurrence of lexical gaps in the domain of linguistic action verbs. Though these constitute a considerable proportion of the verb inventory of many languages, not all concepts of verbal communication may be expressed by lexical items in any particular one of them.… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 168] 2007. xii, 304 pp.
Connectives as Discourse Landmarks
Edited by Agnès Celle and Ruth Huart
This set of eleven articles, by linguists from four different European countries and a variety of theoretical backgrounds, takes a new look at the discourse functions of a number of English connectives, from simple coordinators (and, but) to phrases of varying complexity (after all, the fact is… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 161] 2007. viii, 212 pp.
Connectives in the History of English
Edited by Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin
Clausal connection is one of the key building blocks of language and thus a field where a wide range of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and cognitive phenomena meet. The availability of large databases as well as considerable advances in corpus-linguistic methods have strengthened the interest in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 283] 2007. viii, 318 pp.
Irregularities in Modern English: Second edition revised by Erik Hansen
Hans Frede Nielsen † and Erik W. Hansen
This book, which appeared first in a Danish version in 1980 and subsequently in an English translation in 1986, reverses the history of the English language: it takes present-day English ‘irregularities’ in grammar and spelling as its point of departure, providing historical explanations only to… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 2] 2007. xii, 382 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.
Norse-derived Vocabulary in late Old English Texts: Wulfstan's works, a case story
Sara M. Pons-Sanz
This book focuses on the Norse-derived vocabulary in the works of Archbishop Wulfstan II of York (d. 1023). A considerable advantage derives from studying Wulfstan's compositions because, unlike most Old English texts, they are closely dateable and, to a certain extent, localizable. Thus, they… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 22] 2007. xviii, 318 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.
Talking about Motion: A crosslinguistic investigation of lexicalization patterns
Luna Filipović
This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English, with contrasting examples from Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Albanian. Talmy’s typology (1985) provides the backdrop for the analysis and the focus is on intratypological differences that… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 91] 2007. x, 182 pp.
Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues: Trials, Depositions, and Drama Comedy
Terry Walker
This book is a corpus-based study examining thou and you in three speech-related genres from 1560–1760, a crucial period in the history of second person singular pronouns, spanning the time from when you became dominant to when thou became all but obsolete. The study embraces the fields of corpus… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 158] 2007. xx, 339 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A History of the English Language
Elly van Gelderen
THIS INFORMATION REFERS TO AN OLD EDITION. This exceptionally clear text focuses on internal changes in the English language. It outlines the history of English from pre-Old English times to the present. Not only does it present the traditional morphological descriptions of the various stages of… read more[Not in series, 135] 2006. xviii, 334 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
From Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154–1776
Hans Frede Nielsen †
From Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154–1776 is the second volume of a set of three offering a comprehensive survey of what by the author is seen as the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and America. read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 21] 2005. xx, 300 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.
Middle English Medical Texts
Compiled by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Martti Mäkinen
Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT) is an electronic corpus including 86 texts and 495,322 words from three traditions of medical writing (surgical treatises, specialized texts, and remedy books) from 1375 to 1500, and an appendix of recipes from c. 1330. MEMT provides a new research resource for… read more[Not in series, 131] 2005. CD-ROM
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.
Talk and Practical Epistemology: The social life of knowledge in a Caribbean community
Jack Sidnell
Drawing on the methods of conversation analysis and ethnography, this book sets out to examine the epistemological practices of Indo-Guyanese villagers as these are revealed in their talk and daily conduct. Based on over eighty-five hours of conversation recorded during twelve months of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 142] 2005. xvi, 255 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.
(Mis)Representing Islam: The racism and rhetoric of British broadsheet newspapers
John Richardson
(Mis)Representing Islam explores and illustrates how élite broadsheet newspapers are implicated in the production and reproduction of anti-Muslim racism. The book approaches journalistic discourse as the inseparable combination of ‘social practices’, ‘discursive practices’ and the ‘texts’… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 9] 2004. xxiii, 260 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.
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.
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.
The Discourse of Court Interpreting: Discourse practices of the law, the witness and the interpreter
Sandra Hale
This book explores the intricacies of court interpreting through a thorough analysis of the authentic discourse of the English-speaking participants, the Spanish-speaking witnesses and the interpreters. Written by a practitioner, educator and researcher, the book presents the reader with real… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 52] 2004. xviii, 267 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.
Getting Things Done at Work: The discourse of power in workplace interaction
Bernadette Vine
The linguistic study of workplace language is a new and exciting area of research. This book explores the expression of power in a New Zealand workplace through examination of 52 everyday interactions between four women and their colleagues. The main focus of this research is the expression of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 124] 2004. x, 278 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics: Learning how to do things with words in a study abroad context
Anne Barron
Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics provides readers with a much-needed insight into the development of pragmatic competence, an area of research long neglected in interlanguage pragmatics. The longitudinal investigation which provides the basic material for this book consists of a corpus of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 108] 2003. xviii, 403 pp.
Bilingual Sentence Processing: Relative clause attachment in English and Spanish
Eva M. Fernández
The cross-linguistic differences documented in studies of relative clause attachment offer an invaluable opportunity to examine a particular aspect of bilingual sentence processing: Do bilinguals process their two languages as if they were monolingual speakers of each? This volume provides a review… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 29] 2003. xx, 294 pp.
Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean
Edited by Michael Aceto and Jeffrey P. Williams
Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean is the first collection to focus, via primary linguistic fieldwork, on the underrepresented and neglected area of the Anglophone Eastern Caribbean. The following islands are included: The Virgin Islands (USA & British), Anguilla, Barbuda, Dominica, St.… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G30] 2003. xx, 322 pp.
Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to modern
Edited by Risto Hiltunen and Janne Skaffari
Covering nearly one thousand years, this volume explores medieval and modern English texts from fresh perspectives. Within the relatively new field of historical discourse linguistics, the synchronic analysis of large textual units and consideration of text-external features in relation to… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 119] 2003. viii, 243 pp.
Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization
Rick A.M. Iedema
This book considers the discourses that come into play in organizational change. The book outlines the tensions that arise for people having to enact change, and analyzes the ways in which they position themselves in changing organizational environments. The book takes a social semiotic perspective… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 5] 2003. xiv, 234 pp.
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
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.
Filipino English and Taglish: Language switching from multiple perspectives
Roger M. Thompson
English competes with Tagalog and Taglish, a mixture of English and Tagalog, for the affections of Filipinos. To understand the competing ideologies that underlie this switching between languages, this book looks at the language situation from multiple perspectives. Part A reviews the social and… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G31] 2003. xiv, 288 pp.
Language, Social Structure, and Culture: A genre analysis of cooking classes in Japan and America
Patricia Mayes
Comparing Japanese and American interaction, Language, Social Structure, and Culture argues that language use is instrumental in the construction of social structure and culture. In order to ground the work in empirical evidence, verbal interaction in similar situations – Japanese and American… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 109] 2003. xiv, 228 pp.
Tok Pisin Texts: From the beginning to the present
Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton and Suzanne Romaine
Tok Pisin is one of the most important languages of Melanesia and is used in a wide range of public and private functions in Papua New Guinea. The language has featured prominently in Pidgin and Creole linguistics and has featured in a number of debates in theoretical linguistics. With their… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T9] 2003. x, 284 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000: Volume 1. English Historical Syntax and Morphology; Volume 2. Sounds, Words, Texts and Change. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso, Javier Pérez-Guerra, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane
These volumes 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 during the conference), the twelve papers in Volume 1 were carefully selected… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 223-224] 2002. x, 306 pp. & x, 310 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154
Hans Frede Nielsen †
In conjunction with two other volumes, which are scheduled to appear later, The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154 aims at giving a comprehensive survey of what by the author is seen as the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 19] 1998. xiv, 234 pp.
English Prepositions Explained
Seth Lindstromberg
English Prepositions Explained has been written both for non-native and native speakers of English and is intended for: teachers of English; translators; materials writers; advanced students of English; frequent users of English generally.English Prepositions Explained furnishes information about… read more[Not in series, 88] 1998. xii, 309 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations: Revised edition
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson
Speak and write perfect English! The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations tells you which words go together in English and which words do not.The BBI will help you master the difficulties of common but unpredictable English phrases and word combinations.The BBI shows key differences between… read more[Not in series, BBI 1 (2nd)] 1997. xl, 386 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Old English Legal Language: The lexical field of theft
Jürg R. Schwyter
This corpus-based study examines the lexical field of theft in the Anglo-Saxon law-codes and documents containing reports of lawsuits (charters, writs, and some chapters of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle). The individual Old English lexemes are analysed not only in terms of their meaning, collocation… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 15] 1996. iv, 197 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Grammar: A function-based introduction. 2 Volumes (set)
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 S] 1993. xxii, 318 pp. & xvi, 363 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 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.
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.
Prepositions in Old and Middle English: A study of prepositional syntax and the semantics of At, In and On in some Old and Middle English texts
Tom Lundskær-Nielsen
The present book covers various aspects of prepositional syntax between c. 900-1400, including case relations and the range of prepositional complements; it also examines word order, both within the PP and at clause level, and it explores changes in clausal word order. Furthermore, it provides a… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 9] 1993. x, 206 pp.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations: Dictionary and workbook (set)
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young
[Not in series, BBI S] 1991. x, 58 pp.; xl, 386 pp. + key
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anaphora in Generative Grammar
Thomas Wasow
Intuitively, it is clear why languages have anaphoric relations: anaphora reduces redundancy, thereby shortening (and hence simplifying) sentences. In order for this simplification to be possible, however, it is necessary that the speaker of a language be able to identify correctly the elements… read more[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 2] 1979. x, 181 pp.
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.
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.
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.