SubjectsLinguistics / Romance linguistics
Book series
ISSN 2213-3887
Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa
Edited by Jorge Baptista, Cédrick Fairon, Natalia Grabar and Corinne Rossari
ISSN 0165-7569
Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages
Edited by Howard Mancing, Enrique Caracciolo-Trejo, Djelal Kadir, Allan H. Pasco and Allen G. Wood
ISSN 0165-8743
Journals
Lingvisticæ Investigationes
International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources
Edited by Jorge Baptista, Cédrick Fairon, Natalia Grabar and Corinne Rossari
ISSN 0378-4169 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9927
Revue Romane
Langue et littérature. International Journal of Romance Languages and Literatures
Edited by Julio Jensen and Johan Pedersen
ISSN 0035-3906 | E‑ISSN 1600‑0811
Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology
Edited by Peter Herbeck and Natascha Pomino
Zero elements are used by several theories in morphology and syntax as analytical tool, but the question of whether phonologically empty elements should be structurally present or not has been a controversial issue from the very beginning. In addition to analyses that work with zero, there are also… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 291] 2026. ix, 379 pp.
Pardon my French?: Dutch–French language contact in the Netherlands (1500–1900)
Gijsbert Rutten, Andreas Krogull, Brenda Assendelft and Jill Puttaert
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Dutch–French contact situation in the Early and Late Modern period, when the Dutch language and culture supposedly underwent frenchification in various spheres of life. Bringing together empirical approaches based on a wide range of datasets,… read more
Silent Instruments: Syntax, semantics, and acquisition of the instrumental role in Italian
Alice Suozzi
This book offers the first systematic investigation of the instrumental role across syntax, semantics, and language acquisition. Focusing primarily on Italian within a comparative perspective, the book addresses a long-standing puzzle: why Instruments can be syntactically omitted even when they… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 293] 2026. xiv, 217 pp.
Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages
Edited by Henry Tyne and Stefania Spina
Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages is the first major volume dedicated to the use of corpora in teaching and learning Romance languages. Covering four Mediterranean Romance languages – French, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan – the volume provides a thematically structured… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 122] 2025. vi, 406 pp.
Approaches and Methods in French Second Language Acquisition Research
Edited by Martin Howard
Against the backdrop of the critical importance of recognising the specificity of learning languages other than English (LOTEs) in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, this volume focuses on a state-of-the-art presentation of the research approaches and methods that characterise French as… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 9] 2025. xi, 379 pp.
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Edited by Mark Amengual and Amanda Dalola
The study of Romance linguistics has long been a vibrant and dynamic field, enriched by diverse theoretical perspectives and a range of methodological innovations. This volume gathers contributions from leading scholars and emerging voices in the field to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 45] 2025. vi, 331 pp.
Italo-Romance Heritage Languages: Multiple approaches
Edited by Eugenio Goria and Margherita Di Salvo
This volume brings together research on Italian and Italo-Romance varieties spoken as heritage languages across the world, with contributions from different fields of linguistics and from diverse regions (the Americas, Australia, Europe). It offers a timely update on the state of the art, combining… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 68] 2025. vi, 302 pp.
La Percepción de las Variedades Cultas del Español en el S. XXI
Edited by Cristina Illamola and Mar Forment Fernández
Special issue of Spanish in Context 22:1 (2025) vi, 310 pp.
Le verbe vouloir dans tous ses états
Edited by Anouch Bourmayan
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:1 (2025) v, 177 pp.
Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities: 19th- and 21st-century language commentary on French
Emma Humphries
This book offers two new perspectives on language attitudes and ideologies. First, it compares language commentary from two thus far relatively neglected time periods: the 19th and 21st centuries. Second, it draws on non-traditional, dialogic sources to explore not only the well-studied “expert”… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 54] 2025. xv, 262 pp.
New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole: Standardization, grammar and language use
Edited by Muhsina Alleesaib and Julie Lefort
In the South-West Indian Ocean, Mauritius and Reunion are part of a group of islands where French-based Creoles are spoken. In spite of their geographical proximity, Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole are strikingly different in their morphosyntax. The first part of this volume describes some… read more[Contact Language Library, 61] 2025. vi, 326 pp.
Researching Occitan in the 21st Century: Un dialòg interdisciplinari
Edited by Marc Olivier and Anna Paradis
Special issue of Revue Romane 60:1 (2025) v, 151 pp.
Similatives: Semantic sources, pathways, and types of usage
Edited by Anna Kisiel, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems and Dejan Stosic
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:2 (2025) v, 257 pp.
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact
Edited by Farah Ali, Carol Ready and Sherez Mohamed
This volume brings together empirical research in sociolinguistics that focuses on Arabic and Spanish contact across different geopolitical, sociocultural, and digital spaces. Bridging historical and modern sociolinguistic perspectives, this volume challenges the marginalization of Arabic-Spanish… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 44] 2025. vii, 222 pp.
Spanish Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century: Current trends and methodologies
Edited by Cecilia Montes-Alcalá and Miguel García
This volume features the latest advancements in Spanish sociolinguistics, drawing from the 10th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS10). Organized into three sections, its nine chapters explore crucial issues in bilingualism and sociolinguistic variation (morpho-syntactic, phonetic,… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 42] 2025. xi, 241 pp.
Culturas Juveniles, Contracultura y Procesos de Difusión en el Español Coloquial
Edited by Ana Llopis Cardona
Special issue of Spanish in Context 21:1 (2024) v, 218 pp.
The Fine-grained Structure of the Lexical Area: Gender, appreciatives and nominal suffixes in Spanish
Antonio Fábregas
This is the first book that presents a complete description and analysis of the Spanish suffixes that alter the grammatical behaviour of nouns and adjectives without changing their grammatical category, supporting a fine-grained decomposition of the syntactic area where these word classes are… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 39] 2024. xiii, 394 pp.
Intonation in Language Contact: The case of Spanish in Catalonia
Jonas Grünke
The intense language contact between Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia has led to cross-linguistic influence at all linguistic levels, but its effect on the prosody of these languages has received little attention to date. Based on semi-spontaneous and read speech data from 31 Catalan–Spanish… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 286] 2024. ix, 427 pp.
La Référence Floue
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Frédéric Landragin
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 47:2 (2024) vi, 254 pp.
La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE: Integrating pronunciation in the Spanish language classroom
Editado por Zsuzsanna Bárkányi, M. Mar Galindo Merino y Aarón Pérez-Bernabeu
La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE es una obra colectiva de 23 especialistas que abordan la enseñanza de la pronunciación del español como lengua adicional desde distintas perspectivas con el fin de enriquecer su didáctica. El objetivo es mostrar que la pronunciación encuentra su… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 42] 2024. vi, 310 pp.
Language Acquisition in Romance Languages
Edited by Vicenç Torrens
The research presented in this volume covers first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language heritage and language impairment. Papers in this collection use a variety of experimental methods, such as eye-tracking, elicitation tasks, production tasks administered off-line and… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 18] 2024. viii, 308 pp.
Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages
Edited by Salvador Pons Bordería and Shima Salameh Jiménez
Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages examines the distinctive features that set the study of the 20th century apart from preceding periods. With a primary focus on Romance languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese, the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 340] 2024. vi, 292 pp.
Recent Developments in Hispanic Linguistics: Studies in structure, variation, and bilingualism
Edited by Michael Gradoville and Sean McKinnon
This book brings together eleven peer-reviewed chapters of cutting-edge research produced by both established and rising scholars in the field. Given that this volume is inspired by papers from the 25th iteration of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, the editors track the development of the field… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 41] 2024. xvi, 296 pp.
Revisiting Modality: A corpus-based study of epistemic adverbs in Galician
Vítor Míguez
This book presents the first in-depth investigation of modality in Galician linguistics, offering a theoretical discussion of modal categories and a fine-grained description of epistemic adverbs. The first half of the monograph deconstructs the most relevant approaches to modal categories and shows… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 40] 2024. xvii, 234 pp.
Auxiliary Selection in Italo-Romance: A Nested-Agree approach
Irene Amato
This book proposes a new solution to the long-standing puzzle of auxiliary selection in Romance languages, in particular Italian. The following questions are addressed: why the perfect auxiliary appears in the two forms be and have within a single language, what drives this distribution, and how… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 281] 2023. xvi, 264 pp.
Constructions in Spanish
Edited by Inga Hennecke and Evelyn Wiesinger
Constructions in Spanish is the first book-length English-language volume in the field of usage-based and Cognitive Construction Grammar dedicated exclusively to Spanish. The contributions investigate a wide range of constructions from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective, cutting across… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 34] 2023. vi, 409 pp.
Copulas in Spanish and Beyond
Edited by Silvia Gumiel-Molina and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez
Special issue of Spanish in Context 20:2 (2023) v, 160 pp.
Differential Object Marking in Romance: Towards microvariation
Edited by Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Alexandru Mardale
Differential marking as applied to direct objects has long been discussed as one of the characterizing traits of many Romance languages. There is, however, wide consensus that a detailed investigation into the nature of this phenomenon raises numerous challenges both at the empirical and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 280] 2023. viii, 350 pp.
Dire et ses marqueurs: approches contrastives
Edited by Laurence Rouanne
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 46:2 (2023) v, 169 pp.
Innovative Approaches to Research in Hispanic Linguistics: Regional, diachronic, and learner profile variation
Edited by Sara Fernández Cuenca, Tiffany Judy and Lauren Miller
This volume presents research from across the subdisciplines of Hispanic Linguistics in an attempt to showcase how new research methods, together with a renewed focus on language variation, have advanced our field. This volume is divided into three sections of original research, with the first… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 38] 2023. x, 250 pp.
On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader
William J. Ashby
This scholarly edition invites us to reconsider our assumptions about the French language, by showcasing the oeuvre of one of the pioneers of diachronic Spoken French corpus linguistics, William J. Ashby, and the ground-breaking findings to come out of his influential Tours corpora (1976 & 1995),… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 226] 2023. xiv, 534 pp.
Retour(s) sur la cataphore
Edited by Anne Theissen and Annie Kuyumcuyan
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 46:1 (2023) v, 146 pp.
The Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect in Discourse
Lukas Müller
This monograph presents a theoretical and empirical study of the Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect (PP). The innovative claim is that the two tense forms operate in the field of tension between temporal quantification and temporal reference. Based on this approach, it presents the first… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 279] 2023. xviii, 276 pp.
Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish
Edited by Sara Zahler, Avizia Y. Long and Bret Linford
This volume offers a comprehensive snapshot of the breadth of empirical research currently being conducted on the second language acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in Spanish during study abroad. Research on this topic spans diverse methodological approaches, types of programs, linguistic… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 37] 2023. xxi, 371 pp.
Catalan Sociolinguistics: State of the art and future challenges
Edited by Miquel Àngel Pradilla Cardona
L’objectiu de l’obra Catalan Sociolinguistics. State of the Art and Future Challenges és donar compte, de manera sumària, dels grans vèrtexs en què s’ha manifestat l’estudi de la relació entre llengua i societat en la comunitat lingüística catalana, la recepció que s’ha fet dels plantejaments… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 32] 2022. x, 333 pp.
From Verbal Periphrases to Complex Predicates
Edited by Mar Garachana Camarero, Sandra Montserrat Buendia and Claus Dieter Pusch
This volume, which can be considered as a follow-up publication to Pusch & Wesch (2003), contains ten studies on verbal periphrases in a wide array of Romance languages, both in a synchronic and in a historic perspective. Thus, this collective volume addresses the Romance verbal periphrastic system… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 31] 2022. vi, 238 pp.
La phraséologie dans les interactions orales et écrites
Edited by Gaétane Dostie and Agnès Tutin
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 45:2 (2022) v, 221 pp.
The Middle Voice and Connected Constructions in Ibero-Romance: A variationist and dialectal account
Carlota de Benito Moreno
The reflexive constructions that are the focus of this book are the constructions broadly described with the term “middle”: i.e., those that can appear in all persons, and in which the reflexive marker (RM) cannot be understood as a full referential pronoun. One goal of this study is to provide a… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 29] 2022. ix, 375 pp.
Paremias: Estudio lingüístico contrastivo francés-español
Lucía Navarro-Brotons
La importancia del estudio de la fraseología en general, y de la paremiología en particular, viene avalada tanto por el interés que han suscitado las unidades fraseológicas desde la Antigüedad como porque los investigadores del tema ponen de manifiesto que se trata de la piedra angular del lexicón… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 33] 2022. xxii, 176 pp.
Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018
Edited by Gabriela Alboiu and Ruth King
This volume brings together selected papers from the 48th annual Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, held at York University in Toronto, Canada, in April 2018. It presents original research on a wide variety of Romance languages both past (Latin, Old Catalan, Old Iberian Romance, Old… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 360] 2022. vii, 275 pp.
Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias
Edited by Guillermo Lorenzo
This is the first generative-oriented volume ever published about Asturian and Asturian Galician, two Romance languages which, along with their intrinsic interest, are crucial to understand the parametric distance between Spanish and Galician/Portuguese. Its chapters offer new insights about old… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 36] 2022. ix, 218 pp.
Address Variation in Sociocultural Context: Region, power and distance in Italian service encounters
Agnese Bresin
This study looks at the sociocultural context of five Italian regions and at the situational context of restaurant encounters (a sub-type of service encounters) to examine address variation in spoken Italian—with a focus on singular address pronouns tu, voi and lei. It offers a thorough examination… read more[Topics in Address Research, 2] 2021. xxi, 290 pp.
Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, challenges, and possibilities
Edited by Mandy R. Menke and Paul A. Malovrh
This book analyzes the construct of advanced proficiency in second language learning by bringing together empirical research from numerous linguistic domains and methodological traditions. Focusing on the dynamic nature of language use, the volume explores diverse manifestations of high-level… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 31] 2021. x, 512 pp.
Aspects of Latin American Spanish Dialectology: In honor of Terrell A. Morgan
Edited by Manuel Díaz-Campos and Sandro Sessarego
This book focuses on contemporary sociolinguistic approaches to Spanish dialectology. Each of the authors draws on key issues of contemporary sociolinguistics, combining theoretical approaches with empirical data collection. Overall, these chapters address topics concerning language variation and… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 32] 2021. vi, 292 pp.
East and West of The Pentacrest: Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky
Edited by Timothy Gupton and Elizabeth Gielau
This book is a collection of contemporary essays and squibs exploring the mental representation of Spanish and other languages in the Romance family. Although largely formal in orientation, they incorporate experimental and corpus data to inform questions of synchronic and diachronic importance. As… read more
Humour in Spanish Context
Edited by Larissa Timofeeva-Timofeev
Special issue of Spanish in Context 18:1 (2021) v, 159 pp.
L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance
Edited by Larisa Avram, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu
This volume includes fourteen papers on the acquisition of Romance languages, eleven of which were presented at the Romance Turn 9, held in Bucharest in September 2018. The studies offer new insights into central issues in the literature, such as syntactic complexity in both typical and impaired… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 65] 2021. vi, 380 pp.
La burla en la literatura del Siglo de Oro
Edited by Ignacio Arellano
Special issue of Revue Romane 56:1 (2021) v, 140 pp.
La «cavalleria umanistica» italiana / The Italian “Humanistic Chivalry”: Enyego (Inico) d’Àvalos e ‘Curial e Guelfa’ / Enyego (Inico) d’Àvalos and ‘Curial e Guelfa’
Edited by Antoni Ferrando and Anna Maria Babbi
This book aims to contribute to the knowledge of the cultural and linguistic relations between Italy and the Crown of Aragon in the 15th century. In particular, it studies some relevant aspects of the chivalric romance entitled Curial e Guelfa, written in Italy around 1443-1448 in Catalan, but… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 29] 2021. xxiii, 208 pp.
Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World
Edited by Patricia Gubitosi and Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia
Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World is the first book dedicated to languages in the urban space of the Spanish-speaking world filling a gap in the extensive research that highlights the richness and complexity of Spanish Linguistic Landscapes. This book provides scholars with an… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 35] 2021. xi, 395 pp.
Romance Interrogative Syntax: Formal and typological dimensions of variation
Caterina Bonan
This monograph offers an innovative understanding of the mechanisms involved in Romance ‘optional’ wh-in situ. New supporting evidence in favour of Cable’s (2010) Grammar of Q is presented, as well as novel implementations of his original theory. In particular, it is claimed that wh-in situ idioms… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 266] 2021. xiv, 252 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest
Edited by Alexandru Nicolae and Adina Dragomirescu
This volume contains a selection of 18 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 31st edition of Going Romance. Phenomena found in Romance languages (European Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian), in Romance dialects (Cosentino, Salentino, southern Calabrese, Neapolitan, and Trevigiano), and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 355] 2021. vi, 377 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 32, Utrecht
Edited by Frank Drijkoningen, Sergio Baauw and Luisa Meroni
This volume contains a peer reviewed selection of invited contributions, papers and posters that were presented at the 2018 venue of Going Romance (XXXII) in Utrecht (a four day program that included two thematic workshops).The papers all discuss data and formalized analyses of one or more Romance… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 357] 2021. vi, 320 pp.
Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics: Isolation and contact
Edited by Whitney Chappell and Bridget Drinka
This interdisciplinary volume explores the unique role of the sociohistorical factors of isolation and contact in motivating change in the varieties of Spanish worldwide. Recognizing the inherent intersectionality of social and historical factors, the book’s eight chapters investigate phenomena… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 12] 2021. v, 235 pp.
Syntactic Geolectal Variation: Traditional approaches, current challenges and new tools
Edited by Alba Cerrudo, Ángel J. Gallego and Francesc Roca Urgell
This volume brings together studies that combine both traditional and contemporary tools in the study of syntactic geolectal variation, with a special focus on a subset of Iberian varieties. There is an increasing body of research on syntactic micro-variation, but the interaction between… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 34] 2021. vi, 385 pp.
Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution
Edited by Stephen Fafulas
Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution explores the unique origins, linguistic features, and geo-political situation of the Spanish that has emerged in the Amazon. While this region boasts much linguistic diversity, many of the indigenous languages found within its limits are now being… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 23] 2020. viii, 303 pp.
Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics: 20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais
Edited by Roberta Pires De Oliveira, Ina Emmel and Sandra Quarezemin
This book opens with Angelika Kratzer and Luigi Rizzi talking about contemporary issues, such as non-recursiveness of focus and the semantics of topics. The chapters climb down the spine from the left periphery to DP: the value of subjunctive across the history of German, expressive expressions in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 260] 2020. ix, 216 pp.
Canvi lingüístic, estandardització i identitat en català / Linguistic Change, Standardization and Identity in Catalan
Edited by Hans-Ingo Radatz
The multiplicity of parallel identities that make up our personalities is a phenomenon in which our individual identitary choices merge with diverse collective identities. The present volume is a contribution to the field of Identity Studies, but from a clearly linguistic perspective. It unites… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 27] 2020. xvii, 190 pp.
Changes in Meaning and Function: Studies in historical linguistics with a focus on Spanish
Edited by Jorge Fernández Jaén and Herminia Provencio Garrigós
Diachronic linguistics has been experiencing a strong revival during the last few decades, since an increasing number of researchers have assumed that evolutionary and historical factors must be considered to properly understand how natural languages work. This book offers new data and insights on… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 25] 2020. xii, 332 pp.
Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Edited by Diego Pascual y Cabo and Idoia Elola
Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics is a 15-chapter compilation written by both established and emerging scholars representing a wide array of theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives. Each chapter presents original and significant… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 27] 2020. vi, 344 pp.
Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives
Edited by Luis A. Ortiz López, Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Melvin González-Rivera
This volume comprises cutting edge research on language contact and change. The chapters present a wide scope of settings in which Spanish is in contact with other languages, such as Catalan, English, and Quechua; a large breadth of geographical areas (e.g., United States, Puerto Rico, Colombia,… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 22] 2020. vii, 336 pp.
Hispanic Linguistics: Current issues and new directions
Edited by Alfonso Morales-Front, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz
This volume addresses a wide range of phenomena including intonation, restructuring, clitic climbing, aspectual structure, subject focus marking, code-switching, lenition, loanwords, and heritage learning that are central in Hispanic linguistics today. The authors approach these issues from a… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 26] 2020. vi, 344 pp.
Interfaces in Romance: A constraint-based approach
Edited by Gabriela Bîlbîie
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:1 (2020) v, 168 pp.
Les variations diatopiques dans les expressions figées
Sous la direction de Pedro Mogorrón Huerta, Aude Grezka et Lucía Navarro-Brotons
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:2 (2020) vi, 211 pp.
Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language
Edited by Karina Veronica Molsing, Cristina Becker Lopes Perna and Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños
This book includes a selection of theoretical and practical accounts of the acquisition of Portuguese from a broad range of linguistic perspectives. This collection is particularly appealing in the broad academic sphere of language acquisition due to the fact that there has yet to be one entirely… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 24] 2020. x, 300 pp.
Morphologically Derived Adjectives in Spanish
Antonio Fábregas
This is the first book that presents a complete empirical description and theoretical analysis of all major classes of derived adjectives in Spanish, both deverbal and denominal. The reader will find here both a detailed empirical description of the syntactic, morphological and semantic properties… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 30] 2020. xi, 377 pp.
New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World
Edited by Talia Bugel and Cecilia Montes-Alcalá
The analysis of language attitudes is important not only because attitudes can affect language maintenance and language change but also because such reflections and discussions can bring light to social, cultural, political and educational matters that require an interdisciplinary approach. This… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 25] 2020. xi, 274 pp.
Palenquero and Spanish in Contact: Exploring the interface
John M. Lipski
Bilingual speakers are normally aware of what language they are speaking or hearing; there is, however, no widely accepted consensus on the degree of lexical and morphosyntactic similarity that defines the psycholinguistic threshold of distinct languages. This book focuses on the Afro-Colombian… read more[Contact Language Library, 56] 2020. xvii, 318 pp.
Past Participle Agreement: A study on the grammaticalization of formal features
Jorge Vega Vilanova
In this book, the traditional definition of ‘grammaticalization’ is challenged in the light of current developments in grammar theory. The main innovation of this approach is the focus on the feature composition of lexical items. From this perspective, the loss of past participle agreement in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 265] 2020. xix, 236 pp.
Right Peripheral Fragments: Right dislocation and related phenomena in Romance
Javier Fernández-Sánchez
In recent years, a number of authors (De Vries 2009, Truckenbrodt 2015, Ott and de Vries 2016, inter alia) have defended that right dislocations (RD) should be treated as bisentential structures, where the “dislocated” constituent is actually a remnant of a clausal ellipsis operation licensed under… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 258] 2020. ix, 214 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16: Selected papers from the 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Newark, Delaware
Edited by Irene Vogel
The chapters in this book represent the theme of “bridges” – bridging research approaches and directions across languages, methodologies and disciplines. Alongside descriptive and theoretical studies, the contributions present experimental studies addressing issues in syntax, phonetics-phonology… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 16] 2020. vi, 278 pp.
Sociolinguistic patterns and processes of convergence and divergence in Spanish
Edited by Isabel Molina Martos, Florentino Paredes García and Ana M. Cestero Mancera
Special issue of Spanish in Context 17:2 (2020) vi, 219 pp.
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain
Edited by Rajiv Rao
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain brings together scholars working on a wide range of aspects of the Spanish sound system and how their coexistence with another language in speech communities across the Hispanophone world influences their… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 28] 2020. x, 452 pp.
Stative Inquiries: Causes, results, experiences, and locations
Alfredo García-Pardo
This monograph studies stative predicates from a neo-constructionist perspective and integrates them in a comprehensive theory of event and argument structure. It focuses on two sets of stative verbs: govern-type verbs and object experiencer psychological verbs. For govern-verbs, it shows how… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 264] 2020. xiv, 258 pp.
Variation and Evolution: Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking world
Edited by Sandro Sessarego, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli
This book is a collection of original studies analyzing how different internal and external factors affect Spanish language variation and evolution across a number of (socio)linguistic scenarios. Its primary goal is to expand our understanding of how native and non-native varieties of Spanish… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 29] 2020. viii, 277 pp.
Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages
Edited by Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla, Lucía Buil-Legaz, Raúl López-Penadés, Victor A. Sanchez-Azanza and Daniel Adrover-Roig
This book presents a range of ongoing studies on atypical language development in Romance languages. Despite the steady increase in the number of studies on typical language development, there is still little research about atypical language development, especially in Romance languages. This book… read more
Differential objects and datives – a homogeneous class?
Edited by Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Anna Pineda
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 42:1 (2019) v, 131 pp.
The Intricacy of Languages
Edited by Francesc Feliu and Olga Fullana
If, as we believe, the history of languages is the history of the construction of an ideal artefact that permits a specific interpretation of the linguistic reality and helps to approve and assimilate a certain zone of diversity, enabling the accumulation of collective historical knowledge and… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 20] 2019. xi, 436 pp.
Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces
Edited by Silvio Cruschina, Adam Ledgeway and Eva-Maria Remberger
Recent years have seen a growing interest in linguistic phenomena whose formal manifestation and underlying licensing conditions represent the convergence of two or more areas of the grammar, an area of investigation particularly invigorated in recent generative research by developments such as… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 251] 2019. vi, 369 pp.
Les prépositions complexes dans les langues romanes
Edited by Benjamin Fagard, José Pinto De Lima and Dejan Stosic
Special issue of Revue Romane 54:1 (2019) v, 203 pp.
Prosodic Issues in Language Contact Situations
Edited by Yolanda Congosto Martín and Laura Morgenthaler
Special issue of Spanish in Context 16:3 (2019) vi, 250 pp.
Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception
Edited by Whitney Chappell
This book provides a cutting-edge exploration of the social meaning of phonetic variation in the Spanish-speaking world. Its 11 chapters elucidate the ways in which listeners process, perceive, and propagate phonetically motivated social meaning across monolingual and contact varieties, including… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 21] 2019. vi, 344 pp.
Rhapsodie: A prosodic and syntactic treebank for spoken French
Edited by Anne Lacheret-Dujour, Sylvain Kahane and Paola Pietrandrea
This monograph describes the development of Rhapsodie, a 33,000-word syntactic and prosodic treebank of spoken French created with the aim of modeling the interface between prosody, syntax and discourse in spoken French. Theoretical foundations and methodological choices are presented and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 89] 2019. xv, 396 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt
Edited by Ingo Feldhausen, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt and Mareike Neuhaus
In 2016, the Going Romance conference series celebrated its 30th edition and the Goethe University of Frankfurt (Germany) had the honor of organizing this.The edited volume at hand presents a selection of 17 peer-reviewed articles, based on papers that were presented at this occasion. The volume… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 15] 2019. vii, 358 pp.
The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French: Descriptive, experimental and formal studies on motion expression
Edited by Michel Aurnague and Dejan Stosic
Research on the semantics of spatial markers in French is known mainly through Vandeloise’s (1986, 1991) work on static prepositions. However, interest in the expression of space in French goes back to the mid-1970s and focused first on verbs denoting changes in space, whose syntactic properties… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 66] 2019. ix, 396 pp.
The Biblical Book of Daniel: The Catalan Translation by the French Hebraist Maties Delcor
Joan Ferrer Costa, Francesc Feliu and Olga Fullana
Delcor (1919-1992) is responsible for a translation of the Book of Daniel, which is the only Catalan version of a book of the Bible produced by a North Catalan author to be included in Fundació Bíblica Catalana’s 1968 Bible. This unique circumstance was the inspiration to recover this translation… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 19] 2018. v, 184 pp.
Code-switching – Experimental Answers to Theoretical Questions: In honor of Kay González-Vilbazo
Edited by Luis López
This volume compiles eight original chapters dedicated to different topics within bilingual grammar and processing with special focus on code-switching. Three main features unify the contributions to this volume. First, they focus on making a contribution to our understanding of the human language… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 19] 2018. vii, 270 pp.
Community Service-Learning for Spanish Heritage Learners: Making connections and building identities
Kelly Lowther Pereira
This book proposes community service-learning as a critical pedagogy that connects learners and communities to address key challenges in heritage language education. The book’s purpose is two-fold: to fill a crucial gap in empirical research on community service-learning in the heritage language… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 18] 2018. x, 248 pp.
Complement Clauses in Portuguese: Syntax and acquisition
Edited by Ana Lúcia Santos and Anabela Gonçalves
This volume addresses core issues on complement clauses, focusing on Portuguese (European, Brazilian and Mozambican varieties). It contributes to the discussion of complementation, providing an overview of how theoretical syntax and acquisition studies may combine to broaden our knowledge about the… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 17] 2018. vi, 418 pp.
Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015
Edited by Jonathan E. MacDonald
Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics offers a panorama of current research into multiple varieties of Spanish from several different regions (Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, Costa Rica, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras), Catalan, Brazilian Portuguese, as well as varieties in… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 15] 2018. ix, 376 pp.
Del manuscrit a la paraula digital / From Manuscript to Digital Word: Estudis de llengua i literatura catalanes / Studies of Catalan language and literature
Edited by Manuel Pérez-Saldanya and Rafael Roca Ricart
This collection, which transports readers from the age of manuscripts to the digital word, is a good demonstration not only of the current vitality of studies of Catalan language and literature, but also of the variety of interests and theoretical approaches and the diversity of origin of Catalan… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 16] 2018. vii, 439 pp.
Estrategias atenuantes en géneros discursivos del español: Interfaz semántico-pragmática
Edited by Marta Albelda Marco
Special issue of Spanish in Context 15:2 (2018) v, 192 pp.
Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond
Edited by Marco García García and Melanie Uth
What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages, and why are there such differing views on such a presumably clear-cut research subject? Bringing together original expert work from a variety of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 201] 2018. viii, 391 pp.
Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change: Spanish across space and time
Edited by Jeremy King and Sandro Sessarego
This collection of original contributions dealing with Hispanic contact linguistics covers an array of Spanish dialects distributed across North, South, and Central America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Bosporus. It deals with both native and non-native varieties of the language,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 340] 2018. vi, 336 pp.
A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students
Paul Boucher
A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students offers the reader an in-depth contrastive study of French and English based on recent theories of linguistics and discourse analysis. At the same time it is a practical manual for the advanced language student or the translator… read more[Not in series, 216] 2018. xiv, 297 pp.
Models of Discourse Units in Romance Languages
Edited by Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga, Vahram Atayan and Sybille Große
Special issue of Revue Romane 53:1 (2018) v, 179 pp.
On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance
Edited by Anna Gavarró
This volume presents eleven papers on the acquisition of Romance, most of them presented at the Romance Turn VIII, held in Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain, in September 2016. Part I of the volume is devoted to passives and related constructions. The results unveil domains in comprehension in which… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 62] 2018. vi, 287 pp.
Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish: Explorations across genres
Edited by Carolina Figueras Bates and Adrián Cabedo
Evidentiality in communication is better investigated in delimited and recognizable contexts where the multiple levels of meaning in interactional practices are manifested. Taking this viewpoint, the present volume explores the interrelations between evidentials and textual genre in Spanish.… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 290] 2018. vi, 254 pp.
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil
Edited by Laura Álvarez López, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese. Authored by specialists on varieties of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil, the eleven chapters and the… read more
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 13: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 29, Nijmegen
Edited by Janine Berns, Haike Jacobs and Dominique Nouveau
In the three decades of its existence, the annual Going Romance conference has turned out to be the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current theoretical ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 13] 2018. vi, 340 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14: Selected papers from the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Stony Brook, NY
Edited by Lori Repetti and Francisco Ordóñez
This book contains a peer-reviewed selection of papers presented at the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 46) that took place in April 2016 at Stony Brook University (SUNY), New York. The most current research and debates on bilingualism, historical linguistics, morphology,… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 14] 2018. vii, 345 pp.
Spanish in Colombia and New York City: Language contact meets dialectal convergence
Rafael Orozco
This volume fills a void in language variation and change research. It is the first to provide an empirical, comparative study of Spanish in Colombia and New York City. Remarkable similarities in the linguistic conditioning on language variation in both communities contrast with interesting… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 46] 2018. xv, 193 pp.
Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia
Edited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi
Current theoretical approaches to language devote great attention to macro- and micro-variation and show an ever-increasing interest in minority languages. In this respect, few empirical domains are as rich and lively as the Italo-Romance languages, which together with Albanian were the main… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 252] 2018. viii, 395 pp.
Studies in Historical Ibero-Romance Morpho-Syntax
Edited by Miriam Bouzouita, Ioanna Sitaridou and Enrique Pato
This volume features fourteen papers by leading specialists on various aspects of historical morpho-syntax in the Ibero-Romance languages. In these papers, fine-grained analyses are developed to capture the richness of undiscussed or —often— previously unknown data. Comparative across the… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 16] 2018. vi, 340 pp.
Un cançoner català del Renaixement a Roma: Les poesies de Joan Salom, astrònom valencià
Albert Rossich and Pep Valsalobre
This book contains an edited and contextualized collection of poetry that is preserved, without an author's name, in a manuscript in the Vatican Apostolic Library. The internal and external analysis of the manuscript has made it possible to attribute it to Joan Salom (or Salon), a Franciscan monk… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 18] 2018. iv, 120 pp.
The Vindel Parchment and Martin Codax / O Pergamiño Vindel e Martin Codax: The Golden Age of Medieval Galician Poetry / O esplendor da poesía galega medieval
Edited by Alexandre Rodríguez Guerra and Xosé Bieito Arias Freixedo
This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, multidisciplinary approach to the work of Galician jongleur Martin Codax and the Vindel Parchment. This medieval manuscript with the texts of seven cantigas de amigo by Martin Codax and the music score of six of them, is a philological gem that… read more[Not in series, 218] 2018. xvi, 343 pp.
Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance
Edited by Martin Hummel and Salvador Valera
Within the current discussion on grammatical interfaces, the word-classes of adjective and adverb are of particular interest because they appear to be separated or joined in manifold ways at the level of word-class or syntax, with morphology playing a prominent role, especially in Romance. The… read more
Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: An integral approach
Albert Wall
Over the last three decades, Brazilian Portuguese bare nominals have turned into a hot topic in the cross-linguistic study of nominal syntax and semantics. This contribution is the first comprehensive, book-length treatment of the issue, covering both the long-standing discussion about the adequate… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 245] 2017. xv, 322 pp.
Camus et Faulkner: Écriture et modernité
Edited by Steen Bille Jørgensen and Hans Peter Lund
Special issue of Revue Romane 52:1 (2017) v, 112 pp.
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World
Edited by Kate Bellamy, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto
This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another. The thirteen contributions in this volume offer… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 13] 2017. vii, 327 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11: Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario
Edited by Silvia Perpiñán, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar and Adriana Soto-Corominas
This collection brings together current research on a range of phenomena in French, Spanish, Occitan and Italian, that will be of interest to scholars and students of Romance and general linguistics. The volume includes 12 peer-reviewed articles, first presented at the 44th Linguistic Symposium on… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 11] 2017. vi, 269 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12: Selected papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil
Edited by Ruth E.V. Lopes, Juanito Ornelas de Avelar and Sonia M. L. Cyrino
The current volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 45th meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 45), which took place from May 6 to 9, 2015 at the University of Campinas, Brazil. A volume of selected papers, such as this one, will ultimately be successful… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 12] 2017. xi, 277 pp.
Studies on Variation in Portuguese
Edited by Pilar Barbosa, Maria da Conceição de Paiva and Celeste Rodrigues
Studies on Variation in Portuguese offers a collection of studies on a range of variable phenomena attested within and across varieties of Portuguese. The volume starts out with an overview of current issues in the study of intralinguistic variation and is divided in two parts. Part 1 is dedicated… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 14] 2017. vi, 345 pp.
The Substance and Value of Italian Si
Joseph Davis
This book offers an original treatment of the Italian clitic si. Sharply separating encoded grammar from inference in discourse, it proposes a unitary meaning for si, including impersonals, passives, and reflexives. Si signals third-person participancy but makes no distinctions of number, gender,… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 74] 2017. xiii, 257 pp.
Transitivity and Valency: From theory to acquisition
Edited by Georgia Fotiadou and Hélène Vassiliadou
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 40:1 (2017) v, 133 pp.
Advances in Spanish as a Heritage Language
Edited by Diego Pascual y Cabo
Bringing together contributions from some of the leading experts in the field of Spanish as a Heritage Language, this volume aims to provide an in-depth understanding of current and emerging trends in research and praxis. To this end, the volume is divided into three thematic units. The first unit… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 49] 2016. ix, 353 pp.
Focus-related Operations at the Right Edge in Spanish: Subjects and Ellipsis
Iván Ortega-Santos
Syntactic movement is a pervasive phenomenon in natural language and, as such, has played a key role in syntactic theorizing. Nonetheless, an understanding of the mechanism that allows a constituent to appear to the right of its base-generated position has remained elusive. This groundbreaking… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 7] 2016. xii, 204 pp.
Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas
Edited by María Irene Moyna and Susana Rivera-Mills
In the growing field of address research, Spanish emerges as one of the most complex Indo European languages. Firstly, it presents second person variation in its nominal, pronominal, and verbal systems. Moreover, several Spanish varieties have more than two address variants, which compete and mix… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 10] 2016. x, 352 pp.
A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament
Edited by Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez and Gloria Álvarez-Benito
Does gender condition politicians’ discourse strategies in parliament? This is the question we try to answer in A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament. This book, written by experts in the field of discourse analysis, covers key aspects of political discourse… read more
Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence
Edited by Alejandro Cuza, Lori Czerwionka and Daniel Olson
Inquires in Hispanic Linguistics: From Theory to Empirical Evidence showcases eighteen chapters from formal and empirical approaches related to Spanish syntax and semantics, phonetics and phonology, and language contact and variation. Drawing on data from a number of monolingual and contact Spanish… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 12] 2016. xi, 358 pp.
Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields
Edited by Meghan E. Armstrong, Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell
Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields is a volume of empirical research papers incorporating recent theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary advances in the field of intonation, as they relate to the Ibero-Romance languages. The volume brings… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 6] 2016. xxi, 389 pp.
IntraLatino Language and Identity: MexiRican Spanish
Kim Potowski
The increasing diversity of the U.S. Latino population has given rise to a growing population of “mixed” Latinos. This is a study of such individuals raised in Chicago, Illinois who have one Mexican parent and one Puerto Rican parent, most of whom call themselves “MexiRicans.” Given that these two… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 43] 2016. ix, 278 pp.
Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters: Studies in honour of Juana M. Liceras
Edited by Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Elena Valenzuela and Cristina Martínez Sanz
The chapters in this volume take different approaches to the exploration of language acquisition processes in various populations (monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition, L2 acquisition) and address issues in syntax, morphology, pragmatics, language processing and interface phenomena.… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 51] 2016. vi, 305 pp.
Lexical plurals and beyond
Edited by Peter Lauwers and Marie Lammert
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 39:2 (2016) v, 201 pp.
Linguistic Purism: Language Attitudes in France and Quebec
Olivia Walsh
This book represents the first in-depth, comparative investigation of linguistic purism in modern French. It investigates the relative prevalence of purist ideology in France and Quebec. Both experience influence from English and have similar language legislation, but they differ in their social,… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 41] 2016. xviii, 324 pp.
Nasals and Nasalization in Spanish and Portuguese: Perception, phonetics and phonology
C. Elizabeth Goodin-Mayeda
Nasality, whether part of a consonant or vowel, has certain phonetic and phonological characteristics that lead to outcomes seen time and again in languages with and without common ancestries. Spanish and Portuguese constitute a particularly fruitful language pairing for studying phonological… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 9] 2016. x, 115 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 10: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 28, Lisbon
Edited by Ernestina Carrilho, Alexandra Fiéis, Maria Lobo and Sandra Pereira
This volume contains a selection of papers of the 28th Going Romance conference, which was organized by the Linguistics centers of Universidade de Lisboa and Universidade Nova de Lisboa in December 2014. It assembles the invited contributions by Alain Rouveret, Guido Mensching, Luigi Rizzi, and… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 10] 2016. x, 330 pp.
Romance Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17-19 April, 2013
Edited by Christina Tortora, Marcel den Dikken, Ignacio L. Montoya and Teresa O'Neill
This volume contains a selection of peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held in New York in 2013. The articles deal with various synchronic and diachronic aspects of Romance languages and dialects world-wide. They will be of interest… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 9] 2016. xix, 418 pp.
Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis
Edited by Sandro Sessarego and Fernando Tejedo-Herrero
This book explores the current state of Spanish sociolinguistics and its contribution to theories of language variation and change, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. It offers original analyses on a variety of topics across a wide spectrum of linguistic subfields from different… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 8] 2016. xvi, 406 pp.
Spanish Learner Corpus Research: Current trends and future perspectives
Edited by Margarita Alonso-Ramos
The aim of this book is to present a comprehensive picture of the current state of Spanish learner corpus research (SLCR), which makes it unique, since no other monograph has focused on collecting research dealing with learner corpora of any language other than English. In addition to an… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 78] 2016. vi, 337 pp.
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.
Third Person References: Forms and functions in two spoken genres of Spanish
Jenny Dumont
This volume, a case study on the grammar of third person references in two genres of spoken Ecuadorian Spanish, examines from a discourse-analytic perspective how genre affects linguistic patterns and how researchers can look for and interpret genre effects. This marks a timely contribution to… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 71] 2016. ix, 179 pp.
The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Roís de Corella: A multilingual edition of a classic from the Crown of Aragon
Joan Rois de Corella
Joan Roís de Corella is one of the most renowned authors of fifteenth-century Catalan literature. His Story of Leander and Hero uses a well-known Vergilian and Ovidian motif of unremitting love that turns into tragedy. Corella retells the story adding to it a great dose of suspense and pathos and… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 12] 2016. v, 238 pp.
The Acquisition of Italian: Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition
Adriana Belletti and Maria Teresa Guasti
A major contribution to the study of language acquisition and language development inspired by theoretical linguistics has been made by research on the acquisition of Italian syntax. This book offers an updated overview of results from theory-driven experimental and corpus-based research on the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 57] 2015. xiv, 326 pp.
The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings
Edited by Tiffany Judy and Silvia Perpiñán
By examining the acquisition of Spanish in combination with languages other than English (Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Nahuatl, Quechua, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish), this volume advances novel data pertinent to the field’s understanding of acquisition of Spanish… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 3] 2015. vi, 362 pp.
Afro-Peruvian Spanish: Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles
Sandro Sessarego
The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in the Americas in a broader sense. In order to provide a more concrete answer to… read more
Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES V): Desde el año 1861 hasta el año 1899
Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres y Hans-Josef Niederehe
Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably, and most manuscript and secondary sources had never been… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 124] 2015. v, 957 pp.
Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change: Motion Verbs from Latin to Romance
Natalya I. Stolova
This monograph offers the first in-depth lexical and semantic analysis of motion verbs in their development from Latin to nine Romance languages — Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Sardinian, and Raeto-Romance — demonstrating that the patterns of innovation and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 331] 2015. viii, 261 pp.
Hearer-Orientation in Spoken Genres
Edited by Bert Cornillie and Barbara De Cock
Special issue of Spanish in Context 12:1 (2015) vi, 176 pp.
Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2013
Edited by Rachel Klassen, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela
This collection of articles, contributed by both experienced and novice researchers, addresses core issues in three different domains of Hispanic Linguistics: theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Together these papers provide an overview of how the analysis of Spanish… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 4] 2015. xviii, 339 pp.
Impersonals and other Agent Defocusing Constructions in French
Michel Achard
This book investigates French impersonals as a functional category. Any structure whose agent is defocused and whose predicate describes a situation stable enough to be generally available should be considered impersonal. In addition to il impersonals, the category also includes demonstrative… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 50] 2015. ix, 372 pp.
Introduction to Healthcare for Spanish-speaking Interpreters and Translators
Ineke H.M. Crezee, Holly Mikkelson and Laura Monzon-Storey
This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee, 2013) and has been supplemented with Spanish glossaries. Just like the 2013 textbook, this practical resource will allow interpreters and translators to quickly read up on healthcare settings, familiarizing themselves with… read more[Not in series, 193] 2015. xxviii, 388 pp.
New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar
Edited by Isabel Pérez-Jiménez, Manuel Leonetti and Silvia Gumiel-Molina
This is the first book entirely and exclusively devoted to the grammar of the two copular verbs ser and estar, certainly one of the most intriguing features of Spanish grammar. Although the topic has long attracted the interest of scholars, it had never given rise to a collection of papers that… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 5] 2015. vi, 326 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Jeannette Schaeffer and Petra Sleeman
The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. This volume assembles a selection of the papers that were presented at the 27th edition of Going Romance, which was organized by the University of Amsterdam in… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 8] 2015. xi, 280 pp.
Romance Linguistics 2012: Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Cedar City, Utah, 20-22 April 2012
Edited by Jason Smith and Tabea Ihsane
This volume contains a selection of nineteen peer-reviewed papers from the 42nd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, in 2012. The contributions cover a wide range of current topics in the areas of phonetics, phonology, syntax,… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 7] 2015. xii, 304 pp.
Spanish Phraseology: Varieties and variations
Edited by Pedro Mogorrón Huerta and Xavier Blanco
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 38:2 (2015) v, 159 pp.
The Syntax of Multiple-que Sentences in Spanish: Along the left periphery
Julio Villa-García
Complementizers offer a window into the architecture of the left-periphery and further our understanding of the demarcation of the boundaries between the C(omplementizer) and T(ense) domains. Using the articulated left-periphery as a laboratory and Spanish constructions featuring more than one… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2] 2015. xv, 274 pp.
Time and Emergence in Grammar: Dislocation, topicalization and hanging topic in French talk-in-interaction
Simona Pekarek Doehler, Elwys De Stefani and Anne-Sylvie Horlacher
This monograph examines how language contributes to the social coordination of actions in talk-in-interaction. Focusing on a set of frequently used constructions in French (left-dislocation, right-dislocation, topicalization, and hanging topic), the study provides an empirically rich contribution… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 28] 2015. x, 275 pp.
The Book of the Order of Chivalry / Llibre de l'Ordre de Cavalleria / Libro de la Orden de Caballería
Ramon Llull
The Book of the Order of Chivalry was written in Catalan by Ramon Llull between 1274 and 1276 and is one of the author’s earliest works. After his death, it achieved a wide dissemination throughout Europe in part because it was considered the theoretical manual on knighthood par excellence. The… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 8] 2015. v, 226 pp.
The Phonetics–Phonology Interface: Representations and methodologies
Edited by Joaquín Romero and María Riera
This volume is a collection of advanced laboratory phonology research papers concerned with the interaction between the physical and the mental aspects of speech and language. The traditional linguistic theoretic distinction between phonetics and phonology is put to the test here in a series of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 335] 2015. xxi, 288 pp.
The Acquisition of French as a Second Language: New developmental perspectives
Edited by Christina Lindqvist and Camilla Bardel
Within the field of second language acquisition, interest in the acquisition of French as a second language has a long-standing tradition, especially in the European context. The aim of this book is to offer a synthesis of current research within this area. It contains contributions from different… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 62] 2014. v, 168 pp.
Adjectives in Germanic and Romance
Edited by Petra Sleeman, Freek Van de Velde and Harry Perridon
Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate syntactic and morphological category, the syntax, morphology, and interpretation of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 212] 2014. vii, 286 pp.
Auxiliary Selection in Spanish: Gradience, gradualness, and conservation
Malte Rosemeyer
Although usage-based linguistics emphasises the need for studies of language change to take frequency effects into account, there is a lack of research that tries to systematically model frequency effects and their relation to diffusion processes in language change. This monograph offers a… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 155] 2014. xix, 313 pp.
Coarticulation and Sound Change in Romance
Daniel Recasens
This volume should be of great interest to phoneticians, phonologists, and both historical and cognitive linguists. Using data from the Romance languages for the most part, the book explores the phonetic motivation of several sound changes, e.g., glide insertions and elisions, vowel and consonant… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 329] 2014. xi, 207 pp.
Discourse Segmentation in Romance Languages
Edited by Salvador Pons Bordería
This volume gathers together for the first time contributions from the most relevant approaches in discourse segmentation developed in the last fifteen years in Romance languages. All these approaches share the assumption that discourses (either oral or written) can be fully divided into units and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 250] 2014. v, 276 pp.
Idiomatic Constructions in Italian: A Lexicon-Grammar approach
Simonetta Vietri
This study is devoted to the analysis of Italian idioms with either ordinary or support verbs (also called light verbs). The research focuses on the exhaustive description of idioms, and is based on their systematic classification according to the principles of the Lexicon-Grammar methodology… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 31] 2014. vi, 259 pp.
Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Kristin Bech and Kristine Gunn Eide
The contributions of this volume offer new perspectives on the relation between syntax and information structure in the history of Germanic and Romance languages, focusing on English, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. In… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 213] 2014. vii, 421 pp.
Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Andreas Dufter and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta
Since the advent of syntactic cartography, left sentence peripheries have begun to take center stage in linguistic research. Following the lead of Rizzi (1997), much work on left peripheries has been focused on Italian, whereas other Romance languages have attracted somewhat less attention. This… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 214] 2014. viii, 423 pp.
Morphology and its interfaces: Syntax, semantics and the lexicon
Edited by Dany Amiot, Delphine Tribout, Natalia Grabar, Cédric Patin and Fayssal Tayalati
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 37:2 (2014) vi, 168 pp.
Mots nous en català / New words in Catalan: Una panoràmica geolectal / A diatopic view
Edited by Teresa Cabré, Ona Domènech Bagaria and Rosa Estopà
This is an innovative and distinctive comparative monograph about new word creation in the different varieties of Catalan. In eight chapters, it provides a panoramic analysis of the neologisms documented by the NEOXOC network. Each chapter is dedicated to the qualitative and quantitative analysis,… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 7] 2014. xiv, 276 pp
Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context: Studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht
Edited by Stacey Katz Bourns and Lindsy L. Myers
In this tribute to Knud Lambrecht, a pioneer of Information Structure, a diverse group of scholars examines the intersection of syntax, discourse, pragmatics, and semantics. The six chapters in the first section of the volume consider issues of grammar with new theoretical and applied insights,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 244] 2014. xv, 244 pp.
Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact
Edited by Patrícia Amaral and Ana Maria Carvalho
Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces captures the diversity of encounters that these languages have known and explores their relevance for current linguistic theories. The book focuses on dimensions along which Portuguese and Spanish can be fruitfully compared and highlights the theoretical value of… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 1] 2014. vi, 468 pp.
Profiling Discourse Participants: Forms and functions in Spanish conversation and debates
Barbara De Cock
The construction of discourse is a challenging field where many discourse structures and interactional effects remain poorly understood. This analysis provides a systematic explanation for the way in which discourse participants (speaker and hearer) are construed in Spanish through a corpus-driven… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 246] 2014. xvii, 307 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2012: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leuven 2012
Edited by Karen Lahousse and Stefania Marzo
This volume contains a selective collection of peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the 26th Going Romance conference, organized at the KU Leuven (Belgium) from 6-8 December 2012. The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 6] 2014. xiii, 247 pp.
Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Francisco Gonzálvez-García
The chapters in this book show how the different flavors of Construction Grammar provide illuminating insights into the syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse-functional properties of specific phenomena in Romance languages such as (Castilian) Spanish, French, Romanian, and Latin from a… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 15] 2014. x, 316 pp.
Variation within and across Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011
Edited by Marie-Hélène Côté and Eric Mathieu
This volume is a selection of twenty peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 41st annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held at the University of Ottawa in 2011. They are thematically linked by a broad notion of variation across languages, dialects, speakers, time,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 333] 2014. viii, 426 pp.
Adverbes et compléments adverbiaux / Adverbs and adverbial complements
Edited by Jan Radimský and Ignazio Mauro Mirto
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 36:2 (2013) v, 149 pp.
After the Classics: A translation into English of the selected verse of Vicent Andrés Estellés
Vicent Andrés Estellés
This selection of the verse of Valencian poet Vicent Andres Estelles (1924-1993) is accompanied by a translation into English from the original Catalan. The format of an innovative dialogue with classical authors — a cornerstone of Estellesian expression — constitutes an ingenious invocation and… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 5] 2013. xi, 242 pp.
Deixis and Pronouns in Romance Languages
Edited by Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Jan Lindschouw
This volume proposes a new way to address the classical question concerning the relation between language, cognition, and culture from the perspective of two basic systems: deixis and the pronominal system. It investigates the linguistic structuring of basic concepts of person, place and time in… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 136] 2013. vi, 289 pp.
Dizionario Combinatorio Italiano
A cura di Vincenzo Lo Cascio
Le parole di una lingua non sono mai isolate ma si usano in combinazione e non con qualunque parola ma solo con alcune. Per parlare bene bisogna usare le combinazioni appropriate. In italiano si dice un tozzo di pane per indicare un pezzo di pane, ma si dice anche un tozzo di carne? E una… read more[Not in series, 178] 2013. xxii, 1392 pp. (2 vols. set) (708+706)
New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond
Edited by Johannes Kabatek and Albert Wall
This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determination. Combining insights from different theoretical backgrounds and extending the empirical coverage of bare noun phenomena, the ten… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 141] 2013. v, 334 pp.
A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase
Edited by Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Giurgea
Based on recent research in formal linguistics, this volume provides a thorough description of the whole system of Romanian Noun Phrases, understood in an extended sense, that is, in addition to nouns, pronouns and determiners, it examines all the adnominal phrases: genitive-marked DPs, adjectives,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 207] 2013. xxviii, 900 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2011: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Utrecht 2011
Edited by Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen, Luisa Meroni and Manuela Pinto
In 2011, the annual conference series Going Romance celebrated its 25th edition in Utrecht, the founder city of the enterprise. Since its inception in the eighties of the last century, the local initiative has developed into the major European discussion forum for research focussing on the… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 5] 2013. ix, 269 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.
Understanding Interfaces: Second language acquisition and first language attrition of Spanish subject realization and word order variation
Laura Domínguez
By combining theoretical analysis and empirical investigation, this monograph investigates the status of interfaces in Minimalist linguistic theory, second language acquisition and native language attrition. Two major questions are currently under debate: (1) what exactly makes a linguistic… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 55] 2013. xx, 267 pp.
The Syntax–Prosody Interface: A cartographic perspective with evidence from Italian
Giuliano Bocci
This book presents an experimental and theoretical investigation of the interplay between information structure, word order alternations, and prosody in Italian. Left/right dislocations, focus fronting, and other reordering phenomena are analyzed, taking into account their morphosyntactic and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 204] 2013. ix, 213 pp.
Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES IV): Desde el año 1801 hasta el año 1860
Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres y Hans-Josef Niederehe
Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the early… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 118] 2012. v, 696 pp.
Constructions in French
Edited by Myriam Bouveret and Dominique Legallois
The book Constructions in French is the first collected volume to focus on French syntax from a constructionist perspective. It has been written with two kinds of readers in mind: for readers interested in the relationship between the French linguistic tradition and cognitive linguistics, and for… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 13] 2012. vi, 287 pp.
Dizionario Combinatorio Compatto Italiano
A cura di Vincenzo Lo Cascio
Le parole di una lingua non sono mai isolate ma si usano in combinazione e non con qualunque parola ma solo con alcune. Per parlare bene bisogna usare le combinazioni appropriate. In italiano si dice un tozzo di pane per indicare un pezzo di pane, ma si dice anche un tozzo di carne? E una… read more[Not in series, 171] 2012. xxvi, 642 pp.
Estudis lingüístics i culturals sobre Curial e Güelfa: Novel·la cavalleresca anònima del segle XV en llengua catalana. Linguistic and Cultural Studies on 'Curial e Güelfa', a 15th Century Anonymous Chivalric Romance in Catalan
Editat per Antoni Ferrando
Curial e Güelfa és una novel·la anònima del segle XV escrita en llengua catalana, desconeguda fins al segle XIX i publicada por primera vegada el 1901. Es tracta d’una obra singular, a cavall entre l’Edat Mitjana i el Renaixement, en què es conjuminen magistralment els components cavalleresc i… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 3] 2012. xxi, 1193 pp. (2 vols.)
Ibero-Asian Creoles: Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Hugo C. Cardoso, Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda-Nunes
Starting in 1498, contact between Ibero-Romance and Asian languages has taken place along a vast stretch of the coastlines of continental and insular Asia, producing a string of contact varieties which are among the least visible in the field of Creole Studies. This volume, the first one dedicated… read more[Creole Language Library, 46] 2012. xi, 375 pp.
Inflection and Word Formation in Romance Languages
Edited by Sascha Gaglia and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin
Morphology, and in particular word formation, has always played an important role in Romance linguistics since it was introduced in Diez’s comparative Romance grammar. Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in inflectional morphology, and current research shows a strong interest in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 186] 2012. vii, 400 pp.
La sociolingüística con perspectiva etnográfica en el mundo hispano: Nuevos contextos, nuevas aproximaciones
Edited by Eva Codó, Adriana Patiño-Santos and Virginia Unamuno
Special issue of Spanish in Context 9:2 (2012) vi, 201 pp.
Latin Embedded Clauses: The left periphery
Lieven Danckaert
This monograph is one of the first studies that approaches Latin syntax from a formal perspective, combining detailed corpus-based description with formal theoretical analysis. The empirical focus is word order in embedded clauses, with special attention to clauses in which one or more constituents… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 184] 2012. xviii, 368 pp.
Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from three continents
Edited by Randall Gess, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg
This volume presents a selection of French varieties representing the great diversity of this language along geographical, social, and stylistic dimensions. Twelve illustrations from regions as far removed as Western Canada and Central Africa represent widely divergent social contexts of language… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 11] 2012. vii, 397 pp.
Reflexive Marking in the History of French
Richard Waltereit
While French reflexive clitics have been widely studied, other forms of expressing co-reference within the clause have not received much attention. This monograph offers a diachronic study of the wider system of clause-mate co-reference in French, including the stressed pronouns, their suffixed… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 127] 2012. x, 224 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2010: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leiden 2010
Edited by Irene Franco, Sara Lusini and Andrés Saab
The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. The twenty-fourth Going Romance conference was… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 4] 2012. viii, 223 pp.
SMS Communication: A linguistic approach
Edited by Louise-Amélie Cougnon and Cédrick Fairon
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 35:2 (2012) viii, 261 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.
Compound Words in Spanish: Theory and history
María Irene Moyna
This is the first book devoted entirely to the history of compound words in Spanish. Based on data obtained from Spanish dictionaries and databases of the past thousand years, it documents the evolution of the major compounding patterns of the language. It analyzes the structural, semantic, and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 316] 2011. xxv, 451 pp.
Curial and Guelfa: A classic of the Crown of Aragon. Translated into English by Max W. Wheeler
Translated by Max W. Wheeler
Among 15th-century literature in the Romance languages, Curial and Guelfa is one of the most successful romances of chivalry. It is a veritable jewel of late medieval European literature and of narrative in the Crown of Aragon in particular. Curial shares a range of features — realism, humanity,… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 2] 2011. v, 363 pp.
Intonational Phrasing in Romance and Germanic: Cross-linguistic and bilingual studies
Edited by Christoph Gabriel and Conxita Lleó
Languages differ regarding both the ways they group words into phrases and the surface cues they use to indicate relevant phrasing patterns. Modeling intonation in as many languages as possible has become a central goal of theoretical and empirical linguistics. However, intonational research has… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 10] 2011. viii, 237 pp.
The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and change
Edited by Petra Sleeman and Harry Perridon
One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likely that each 'average European' language developed a definite article all by itself, without any influence from neighbouring languages. It… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 171] 2011. vii, 283 pp.
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.
Represented Discourse, Resonance and Stance in Joking Interaction in Mexican Spanish
Minerva Oropeza-Escobar
The book provides a new angle for the study of otherwise amply discussed discourse and interactional phenomena. The new perspective consists in addressing the interconnections between resonance, stance, represented discourse and joking in Mexican conversational discourse. In so doing, it… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 204] 2011. vii, 271 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2009: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Nice 2009
Edited by Janine Berns, Haike Jacobs and Tobias Scheer
The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. The twenty-third Going Romance conference was a… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 3] 2011. viii, 393 pp.
Romance Linguistics 2010: Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010
Edited by Julia Herschensohn
This volume contains a selection of nineteen peer-reviewed papers from the 40th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Washington in March 2010. In addition to overviews of Romance linguistics by the editor and by Jurgen Klausenburger in the keynote… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 318] 2011. xvii, 332 pp.
Spanish Word Formation and Lexical Creation
Edited by José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Susana Rodríguez Rosique
This volume contributes a wider approach to word formation processes and sheds light on some unsolved issues. While the formal relationships established between the different constituents of a complex word have been analyzed in great depth, the semantic links have received little dedication. In… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 1] 2011. xvi, 485 pp.
The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System: A case study of Mauritian creole
Diana Guillemin
Within the framework of Chomsky’s Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns,… read more[Creole Language Library, 38] 2011. xviii, 310 pp.
Academic and Professional Discourse Genres in Spanish
Edited by Giovanni Parodi †
This volume offers a description and a deep examination of discourse genres across four disciplines (Psychology, Social Work, Industrial Chemistry, and Construction Engineering), in academic and professional settings. The study is based on one of the largest available corpus on disciplinary written… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 40] 2010. xii, 255 pp.
Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose
Olga Spevak
Latin is a language with variable (so-called 'free') word order. Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose (Caesar, Cicero, and Sallust) presents the first systematic description of its constituent order from a pragmatic point of view. Apart from general characteristics of Latin constituent order,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 117] 2010. xv, 318 pp.
Dialogue in Spanish: Studies in functions and contexts
Edited by Dale Koike and Lidia Rodríguez-Alfano
Dialogue in Spanish provides a strong theoretical and empirical foundation for the study of dialogue. This edited collection of twelve original studies contributes to a broad comprehension of dialogue in two general contexts: personal interactions among friends and family; and public speech, such… read more[Dialogue Studies, 7] 2010. xiii, 324 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.
French Syntax in Contrast
Edited by Karen Lahousse, Béatrice Lamiroy and Kristel Van Goethem
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 33:2 (2010) vi, 170 pp.
Ideologías lingüísticas y el español en contexto histórico
Edited by José del Valle and Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux
Special issue of Spanish in Context 7:1 (2010) v, 172 pp.
Les genres littéraires et l’œuvre singulière
Edited by Thomas Pavel
Special issue of Revue Romane 45:2 (2010) v, 158 pp.
Lexical Pragmatics and Theory of Mind: The acquisition of connectives
Sandrine Zufferey
The concept of theory of mind (ToM), a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five years, has gained increasing importance in the fields of linguistics and pragmatics. However, even though the relationship between ToM and verbal communication is now recognized, the extent, causality… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 201] 2010. ix, 192 pp.
Phase Theory
Ángel J. Gallego
This book provides a detailed and up to date review of the framework of phases (Chomsky 2000 and subsequent work). It explores the interaction between the narrow syntactic computation and the external systems from a minimalist perspective. As has sometimes been noted, Phase Theory is the current… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 152] 2010. xii, 365 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2008: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Groningen 2008
Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Bart Hollebrandse
This volume assembles a significant number of selected papers that were presented at the 22nd edition of Going Romance, held at the University of Groningen in December 2008. Though it contains a variety of topics, 'tense, mood and aspect' is represented most extensively. This volume contains a rich… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 2] 2010. x, 251 pp.
Romance Linguistics 2008: Interactions in Romance. Selected papers from the 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Urbana-Champaign, April 2008
Edited by Karlos Arregi, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Silvina Montrul and Annie Tremblay
The sixteen papers here united have been selected from the 38th Linguistic Symposium of the Romance Languages held in Champaign-Urbana in 2008. The papers, whose authors include both well-known researchers and younger scholars, cover a broad and truly interdisciplinary range of topics in phonology,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 313] 2010. vii, 266 pp.
Romance Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Tucson, Arizona, March 2009
Edited by Sonia Colina, Antxon Olarrea and Ana Maria Carvalho
This volume contains a selection of twenty-four peer-reviewed papers from the 39th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Arizona in 2009. Contributions cover a wide variety of topics in the areas of phonology, phonetics, syntax, morphology, and diachronic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 315] 2010. xiv, 426 pp.
Sentential Form and Prosodic Structure of Catalan
Ingo Feldhausen
This monograph presents an experimental and theoretical inquiry into the role of sentential form and variation in the prosodic structure of Catalan. The empirical section examines intonational phrasing across sentence forms, including SVO structures with either nominal or sentential objects and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 168] 2010. xiii, 285 pp.
The Acquisition of French: The development of inflectional morphology and syntax in L1 acquisition, bilingualism, and L2 acquisition
Philippe Prévost
This book presents a thorough description of morphosyntactic knowledge developed by learners of French in four different learning situations — first language (L1) acquisition, second (L2) language acquisition, bilingualism, and acquisition by children with Specific Language Impairment — within the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 51] 2009. xx, 458 pp.
Actes du «27e colloque international sur le lexique et la grammaire» (L'Aquila, 10-13 septembre 2008). Première partie
Sous la direction de Michele De Gioia
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 32:2 (2009) vi, 160 pp.
The Architect of Modern Catalan: Selected writings
Pompeu Fabra (1868–1948)
Pompeu Fabra (1868-1948) is renowned as the person who reformed and codified modern Catalan, giving it the condition of a normativised language of culture that proved fit to meet all the challenges of the twentieth century. The context in which he worked was defined by the ideology and momentum of… read more[Not in series, 150] 2009. xxxii, 240 pp.
Aspect and the Categorization of States: The case of ser and estar in Spanish
David Brian Roby
In this work, the Spanish copulae ser and estar are argued to be aspectual morphemes. Their binary opposition reflects the universal aspectual values [±Perfective], which are the same ones overtly expressed by the preterite and imperfect past tense forms in Spanish. It can therefore be shown that… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 114] 2009. xiii, 191 pp.
Focus and Background in Romance Languages
Edited by Andreas Dufter and Daniel Jacob
Focus–background structure has taken center stage in much current theorizing about sentence prosody, syntax, and semantics. However, both the inventory of focus expressions found cross-linguistically and the interpretive consequences associated with each of these continue to be insufficiently… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 112] 2009. vii, 362 pp.
Grammatical Variation across Space and Time: The French interrogative system
Martin Elsig
Interrogative clauses in French show abundant variation, especially with regard to the position of the subject vis-à-vis the finite verb, the placement of the wh-word, and the use of question markers such as est-ce que and ti/tu. This book presents a comprehensive study of the evolution and use of… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 3] 2009. xvi, 282 pp.
Hispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development
Edited by John Grinstead
This book contains 12 papers contributed by leading scholars in the field of language development, studying variants of the languages which originated on the Iberian peninsula. The contributors examine language development in both typically-developing and language-impaired populations who are… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 50] 2009. xix, 304 pp.
Minimal Answers: Ellipsis, syntax and discourse in the acquisition of European Portuguese
Ana Lúcia Santos
This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the acquisition of the syntax-discourse interface. It provides evidence that children acquiring European Portuguese have a very early ability to spontaneously produce VP ellipsis as answers to yes-no questions. It is also argued that the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 48] 2009. xv, 296 pp.
Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax
Edited by Jairo Nunes
This collection of papers discusses some of the major syntactic properties of Brazilian Portuguese from a minimalist perspective. The volume focuses on movement and empty category issues and brings new empirical material on a variety of topics (null subjects and finite control, possessive and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 142] 2009. vi, 243 pp.
The Motivated Syntax of Arbitrary Signs: Cognitive constraints on Spanish clitic clustering
Erica C. García
This detailed study challenges the claim that syntax is arbitrary and autonomous, as well as the assumption that Spanish clitic clusters constitute grammaticalized units. Diverse--apparently unrelated--restrictions on clitic clustering in both simplex VP's and Accusative cum Infinitive structures… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 61] 2009. xv, 335 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Amsterdam 2007
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Elisabeth van der Linden, Josep Quer and Petra Sleeman
The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.This volume assembles a significant number of… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 1] 2009. xii, 288 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006
Edited by Danièle Torck and W. Leo Wetzels
The annual conference series ‘Going Romance’ has developed into a major European discussion forum where ideas about language and linguistics and about Romance languages in particular are put in an interactive perspective, giving room to both universality and Romance-internal variation. The current… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 303] 2009. viii, 262 pp.
Romance Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15–18 March 2007
Edited by Pascual José Masullo, Erin O'Rourke and Chia-Hui Huang
The present volume includes a selection of twenty-one peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 37th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. The papers cover a range of topics in morphology, syntax, phonology and language acquisition. A… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 304] 2009. vii, 361 pp.
Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French
Edited by Kate Beeching, Nigel Armstrong and Françoise Gadet
Divided into three main sections on Phonology, Syntax and Semantics, this new volume on variation in French aims to provide a snapshot of the state of sociolinguistic research inside and outside metropolitan France. From a diatopic perspective, varieties in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Africa and… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 26] 2009. xi, 257 pp.
Spanish Maintenance and Loss in the U.S. Southwest
Edited by Daniel J. Villa and Susana Rivera-Mills
Special issue of Spanish in Context 6:1 (2009) 156 pp.
Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the crossroads with other languages
Edited by Mercedes Niño-Murcia and Jason Rothman
Sociolinguists have been pursuing connections between language and identity for several decades. But how are language and identity related in bilingualism and multilingualism? Mobilizing the most current methodology, this collection presents new research on language identity and bilingualism in… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 37] 2008. vii, 365 pp.
The Layered DP: Form and meaning of French indefinites
Tabea Ihsane
This book examines argumental un-NPs and du/des-NPs in French: nominals with the indefinite article and with the so-called ‘partitive article’ respectively. The main aim is to account for the different interpretations of these indefinites and to determine how interpretation and structure are… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 124] 2008. ix, 260 pp.
The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance
Edited by Ulrich Detges and Richard Waltereit
Recent years have seen intense debates between formal (generative) and functional linguists, particularly with respect to the relation between grammar and usage. This debate is directly relevant to diachronic linguistics, where one and the same phenomenon of language change can be explained from… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 293] 2008. vi, 252 pp.
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.
Studies in French Applied Linguistics
Edited by Dalila Ayoun
Studies in French Applied Linguistics invites the reader to adopt a broad perspective on applied linguistics, illustrating the fascinating multifaceted work researchers are conducted in so many various, inter-connected subfields. The five chapters of the first part are dedicated to the first and… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 21] 2008. xiii, 400 pp.
The Bantu–Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure
Edited by Cécile De Cat and Katherine Demuth
This landmark volume is the first work specifically designed to explore the extent to which striking surface morpho-syntactic similarities between Bantu and Romance languages actually represent similar syntactic structures. In particular, it explores the timely and much debated issues of verbal… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 131] 2008. xix, 355 pp.
Expressing the Same by the Different: The subjunctive vs the indicative in French
Igor Dreer
This volume offers an alternative, sign-oriented analysis of the distribution of the French Indicative and Subjunctive. It rejects both government and functions, attributed to both moods, and shows that the distribution of the Indicative and the Subjunctive is motivated by their invariant meanings.… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 59] 2007. xxx, 272 pp.
French Applied Linguistics
Edited by Dalila Ayoun
This state-of-the-art volume on French Applied Linguistics includes two introductory chapters, the first summarizes the past, present and future of French in applied linguistics, and the second reviews the history of French from a sociolinguistic perspective. The six chapters of the first part… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 16] 2007. xvi, 560 pp.
La négation dans les langues romanes
Sous la direction de Franck Floricic
Negation has always been and still is a central topic in typological studies and theoretical research. Its centrality shows itself in the fact that it is not restricted to a given linguistic field but compasses the whole domain of linguistic studies. Very often, works on negation are brought about… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 26] 2007. xii, 229 pp
Reduced Parenthetical Clauses as Mitigators: A corpus study of spoken French, Italian and Spanish
Stefan Schneider
While parentheticals attract constant attention, they very rarely constitute the main subject of monographs. This book provides a comprehensive account of reduced parenthetical clauses (RPCs) in three Romance languages. Typical French RPCs are je crois, disons, je dirais, je pense, je sais pas, and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 27] 2007. xiv, 237 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Utrecht, 8–10 December 2005
Edited by Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen and Manuela Pinto
The conference series Going Romance is the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages, where ideas about language and linguistics and about Romance languages are put in an interactive perspective, giving space to both universality and Romance-internal… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 291] 2007. viii, 338 pp.
Romance Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the 36th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New Brunswick, March-April 2006
Edited by José Camacho, Nydia Flores-Ferrán, Liliana Sánchez, Viviane Déprez and María José Cabrera
This volume presents selected papers from the 36th LSRL conference held at Rutgers University in 2006. It contains twenty-two articles of current approaches to the study of Romance linguistics. Well-known researchers present their findings in areas such as of syntax and semantics, phonology,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 287] 2007. viii, 340 pp.
Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology
Edited by Pilar Prieto, Joan Mascaró and Maria-Josep Solé
This volume is a collection of cutting-edge research papers written by well-known researchers in the field of Romance phonetics and phonology. An important goal of this book is to bridge the gap between traditional Romance linguistics — with its long and rich tradition in data collection,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 282] 2007. xvi, 262 pp.
Selves in Two Languages: Bilinguals’ verbal enactments of identity in French and Portuguese
Michèle Koven
Bilinguals often report that they feel like a different person in their two languages. In the words of one bilingual in Koven’s book, “When I speak Portuguese, automatically, I'm in a different world…it's a different color.” Although testimonials like this abound in everyday conversation among… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 34] 2007. xi, 327 pp.
Spanish in Contact: Policy, Social and Linguistic Inquiries
Edited by Kim Potowski and Richard Cameron
This volume, covering a range of topics such as Spanish as a heritage language in the United States, policy issues, pragmatics and language contact, sociolinguistic variation and contact, and Bozal (Creole) Spanish, will serve the interests of linguists, educators, and policy makers alike. It… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 22] 2007. xx, 397 pp.
The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages
Edited by Vincent Torrens and Linda Escobar
This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory. They favour, discuss and sometimes challenge traditional explanations of first… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 41] 2006. viii, 422 pp.
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.
Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and perspectives
Edited by Randall Gess and Deborah Arteaga
This volume contains 17 studies on historical Romance linguistics within a variety of current theoretical frameworks; it includes studies on phonology, morphology and syntax, focusing solely or comparatively on all five ‘major’ Romance languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 274] 2006. viii, 393 pp.
Individuals in Time: Tense, aspect and the individual/stage distinction
María J. Arche
This monograph investigates the temporal properties of those predicates referring to individuals – the so-called individual-level (IL) predicates – in contrast to those known as stage-level (SL) predicates. Many of the traditional tenets attributed to the IL/SL dichotomy are not solidly founded,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 94] 2006. xiv, 281 pp.
Language Variation and Change: Historical and contemporary perspectives
Edited by Clare Mar-Molinero and Miranda Stewart
Special issue of Spanish in Context 3:1 (2006) 168 pp.
The Minimalist Syntax of Defective Domains: Gerunds and infinitives
Acrisio Pires
This book unifies the analysis of certain non-finite domains, focusing on subject licensing, agreement, and Case and control. It proposes a minimalist analysis of English gerunds which allows only a null subject PRO (TP-defective gerunds), a lexical subject (gerunds as complements of perception… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 98] 2006. xiv, 188 pp.
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005
Edited by Chiyo Nishida and Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil
This is the first of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote address delivered by Denis Bouchard on exaptation and linguistic explanation, as well as seventeen contributions by… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 275] 2006. xiv, 282 pp.
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics; Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology. 2 Vols. set. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005
Edited by Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil and Chiyo Nishida
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 275-276] 2006. 525 pp.
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005
Edited by Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil
This is the second of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote addresses delivered by Prof. Jacques Durand on the Phonology of Contemporary French Project and Prof. John Charles Smith… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 276] 2006. x, 213 pp.
Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology
Edited by Fernando Martínez-Gil and Sonia Colina
This outstanding volume offers the first comprehensive collection of optimality-theoretic studies in Spanish phonology. Bringing together most of the best-known researchers in the field, it presents a state-of-the-art overview of research in Spanish phonology within the non-derivational framework… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 99] 2006. viii, 564 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Leiden, 9–11 December 2004
Edited by Jenny Doetjes and Paz González
This volume brings together a selection of papers from the eighteenth ‘Going Romance’ symposium, held at Leiden University, 9–11 December 2004. These papers cover a broad range of topics in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, and acquisition, in a variety of Romance… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 278] 2006. viii, 320 pp.
Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages
Edited by Bert Peeters
This volume is part of a research program which started with the publication, in 1972, of Anna Wierzbicka’s groundbreaking work on Semantic Primitives. The first within the program to focus on a number of typologically similar languages, it proposes a French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian version… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 81] 2006. xvi, 374 pp.
Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES III): Desde el año 1701 hasta el año 1800
Hans-Josef Niederehe
Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the early… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 108] 2005. vi, 474 pp.
C-ORAL-ROM: Integrated Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages
Edited by Emanuela Cresti and Massimo Moneglia
The C-ORAL-ROM book and DVD provide a unique set of comparable corpora of spontaneous speech for the main Romance languages, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The corpora are accompanied by comparative linguistic studies, models and standard linguistic measures of spoken language variability. read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 15] 2005. xviii, 304 pp. (incl. DVD)
Epistemic Modality: Functional properties and the Italian system
Paola Pietrandrea
This volume offers an original theoretical and methodological approach to the hotly debated issue of epistemic modality. The analysis is conducted in a rigorous typological frame developed after a careful consideration of a wealth of cross-linguistic data, and focuses on Italian, a language often… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 74] 2005. xii, 232 pp.
Fossilized Second Language Grammars: The acquisition of grammatical gender
Florencia Franceschina
This monograph is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the mechanisms and causes of successful and unsuccessful adult second language acquisition.Couched within a generative framework, the study explores how a learner’s first language and the age at which they acquire their second… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 38] 2005. xxiv, 288 pp.
Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America
Teun A. van Dijk
This new book extends Teun A. van Dijk’s earlier research on discursive racism to the Latin world. He presents a first inventory of elite discourse and racism in Spain and Latin America by examining discursive reactions in Spain to recent immigration, as well as age-old racism and ethnicism in text… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 14] 2005. xii, 198 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2003, Nijmegen, 20–22 November
Edited by Twan Geerts, Ivo van Ginneken and Haike Jacobs
The annual Going Romance conference is the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. Starting with the thirteenth conference held in 1999, volumes with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 270] 2005. viii, 369 pp.
Speech and Thought Presentation in French: Concepts and strategies
Sophie Marnette
This book analyses and describes Speech and Thought Presentation (S&TP) in French from a broad theoretical perspective, building bridges between linguistic, stylistic and narratological frameworks that have until now been developed separately. It combines the French théorie de l’énonciation and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 133] 2005. xiv, 379 pp.
Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages: Theoretical and applied perspectives
Edited by Dalila Ayoun and M. Rafael Salaberry
This volume presents a state-of-the-art descriptive and explanatory analysis of the second language development of Romance tense-aspect systems. It contains new experimental data from adult French, Catalan, Portuguese learners, and Italian children learners. Standing research questions are… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 29] 2005. x, 318 pp.
Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004
Edited by Randall Gess and Edward J. Rubin
The 20 papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 34th LSRL, held in Salt Lake City, in 2004. The papers deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in Romance Linguistics and include several from the conference parasession, which focused on experimental approaches to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 272] 2005. viii, 367 pp.
The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on functional categories
Edited by Philippe Prévost and Johanne Paradis
This volume is a collection of studies by some of the foremost researchers of French acquisition in the generative framework. It provides a unique perspective on cross-learner comparative research in that each chapter examines the development of one component of the grammar (functional categories)… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 32] 2004. viii, 384 pp.
The Acquisition of Spanish: Morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual L1 acquisition and adult L2 acquisition
Silvina Montrul
This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is organized around key grammatical themes that form the empirical base of research in generative… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 37] 2004. xvi, 413 pp.
Balkan Syntax and Semantics
Edited by Olga Mišeska Tomić
The book deals with some syntactic and semantic aspects of the shared Balkan Sprachbund properties. In a comprehensive introductory chapter, Tomić offers an overview of the Balkan Sprachbund properties. Sobolev, displaying the areal distribution of 65 properties, argues for dialect cartography.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 67] 2004. xvi, 496 pp.
Building Coherence and Cohesion: Task-oriented dialogue in English and Spanish
Maite Taboada
This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other’s contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 129] 2004. xvii, 264 pp.
Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Bloomington, Indiana, April 2003
Edited by Julie Auger, J. Clancy Clements and Barbara Vance
This collection of twenty articles, selected from the 33rd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at Indiana University in 2003, presents current theoretical approaches to a variety of issues in Romance linguistics. Invited speakers Luigi Burzio and José Ignacio Hualde contribute… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 258] 2004. viii, 404 pp.
Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish
Edited by Rosina Márquez Reiter and María Elena Placencia
Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish provides the reader with a representative spectrum of current research in the most dynamic areas of the pragmatics of Spanish. It brings together a collection of academic essays written by well-established as well as emerging voices in Hispanic pragmatics. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 123] 2004. xvi, 381 pp.
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.
The Dynamic Consultation: A discourse analytical study of doctor–patient communication
Marisa Cordella
This book introduces a unique model of medical discourse that identifies the forms of talk – voices – that doctors and patients use during the consultation, and studies the dynamic interaction as it unfolds particularly in follow-up visits. Natural recordings, semi-structured interviews,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 128] 2004. xvi, 254 pp.
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.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002
Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman
The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. Selected papers are published in the Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory volumes. This is the fourth such volume, containing a selection of the papers that have… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 256] 2004. viii, 273 pp.
Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and quantitative perspectives
David Eddington
Unlike most monographs on Spanish phonology and morphology that approach these topics from a structuralist or generativist framework, this volume is written from a less traditional point of view. More specifically, it emphasizes quantitative evidence from sources such as usage-based studies,… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 53] 2004. xvi, 198 pp.
Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus
Laura Callahan
Spanish/English codeswitching in published work represents a claim to the right to participate in the marketplace on a bilingual and not just monolingual basis. This book offers a syntactic and sociolinguistic analysis of the codeswitching in a corpus of thirty texts: novels and short stories… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 27] 2004. viii, 181 pp.
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.
Implicatures in Discourse: The case of Spanish NP anaphora
Sarah E. Blackwell
Implicatures in Discourse examines Spanish conversations and oral narratives in order to seek support for a pragmatic theory of anaphora. Blackwell argues that the use of anaphoric expressions may be considered conversational implicatures that give rise to inferences of coreference and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 105] 2003. xvi, 303 pp.
Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism: Interference and convergence in functional categories
Liliana Sánchez
This book addresses how cross-linguistic interference is represented in the bilingual mind. Examining novel oral production data from older bilingual children representing two Quechua varieties, this research concludes that interference in the feature specification of functional categories leads to… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 35] 2003. x, 189 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001: Selected papers from 'Going Romance', Amsterdam, 6–8 December 2001
Edited by Josep Quer, Jan Schroten, Mauro Scorretti, Petra Sleeman and Els Verheugd-Daatzelaar
The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory published in the series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.Romance Languages and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 245] 2003. viii, 355 pp.
Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition. Selected papers from the 32nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Toronto, April 2002
Edited by Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Yves Roberge
This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 32nd Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, dealing with linguistic theory as applied to the Romance languages, and on empirical studies on the acquisition of Romance, with studies on Romanian, French,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 244] 2003. viii, 388 pp.
A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use: Selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001
Edited by Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López and Richard Cameron
Twenty-one articles from the 31st LSRL investigate cutting-edge issues and interfaces across phonology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, semantics, and syntax in multiple dialects of such Romance languages as Catalan, French, Creole French, and Spanish, both old and modern. Research in Romance… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 238] 2003. xv, 384 pp.
Clitics between Syntax and Lexicon
Birgit Gerlach
As a typical interface phenomenon, clitics have become increasingly important in linguistic theory during the last decade. The present book contributes to the recent discussion and first provides a comprehensive overview of clitic sequencing, clitic placement and clitic doubling in the major… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 51] 2002. xii, 282 pp.
Comparative Historical Dialectology: Italo-Romance clues to Ibero-Romance sound change
Thomas D. Cravens
This brief monograph explores the historical motivations for two sets of phonological changes in some varieties of Romance: restructured voicing of intervocalic /p t k/, and palatalization of initial /l/ and /n/. These developments have been treated repeatedly over the decades, yet neither has… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 231] 2002. xii, 163 pp.
Current Issues in Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ann Arbor, 8–11 April 1999
Edited by Teresa Satterfield, Christina Tortora and Diana Cresti
This book presents an enlightening collection of papers contributing to theoretical discussions across many topics within the study of Romance Languages and Linguistics. The work originates from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held in 1999 at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 220] 2002. viii, 412 pp.
Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French
Kate Beeching
This study aims to investigate politeness in women’s and men’s speech, with a particular focus on the use of c’est-à-dire, enfin, hein and quoi in contemporary spoken French. Politeness is defined as going beyond the notion of the face-threatening act, englobing both everyday ideas of politeness… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 104] 2002. x, 251 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2000: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2000, Utrecht, 30 November–2 December
Edited by Claire Beyssade, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Frank Drijkoningen and Paola Monachesi
This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 2000 'Going Romance' conference, held in Utrecht. The papers discuss current topics in formal syntax in Romance languages. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 232] 2002. viii, 354 pp.
Romance Phonology and Variation: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000
Edited by Caroline R. Wiltshire and Joaquim Camps
This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, focussing on the areas of phonology and language variation. The papers address issues in phonology such as the emergence of the unmarked, representational… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 217] 2002. xi, 238 pp.
The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish Mood
Henk Haverkate
This study provides a consistent description and explanation of the syntax, the semantics and the pragmatics of Spanish mood. A major focus of attention is the central role of the truthfunctional categories of realis, potentialis and irrealis as parameters relevant to mood selection in both… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 96] 2002. vi, 235 pp.
Features and Interfaces in Romance: Essays in honor of Heles Contreras
Edited by Julia Herschensohn, Enrique Mallén and Karen Zagona
This volume brings together new research on theoretical Romance Linguistics; its intended audience is scholars in the field of formal grammar, especially those specializing in Romance languages. It represents the latest work on the structure of Romance languages, with relevant comparisons to other… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 222] 2001. xiv, 302 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1999: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 1999, Leiden, 9–11 December 1999
Edited by Yves D’hulst, Johan Rooryck and Jan Schroten
This volume brings together a selection of articles presented at 'Going Romance' 1999. The articles focus on current syntactic and semantic issues in various Romance languages, including Catalan, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and a number of Northern Italian dialects. A large number of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 221] 2001. viii, 406 pp.
Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000
Edited by Joaquim Camps and Caroline R. Wiltshire
This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, representing the areas of syntax, semantics, their interfaces, and second language acquisition. The topics addressed include movement (both wh- and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 216] 2001. xii, 246 pp.
Social and Stylistic Variation in Spoken French: A comparative approach
Nigel Armstrong
Many of the assumptions of Labovian sociolinguistics are based on results drawn from US and UK English, Latin American Spanish and Canadian French. Sociolinguistic variation in the French of France has been rather little studied compared to these languages. This volume is the first examination and… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 8] 2001. x, 278 pp.
Speaking in Other Voices: An ethnography of Walloon puppet theaters
Joan Gross
Linking actual instances of language use with structures of social power in francophone Belgium, Gross outlines the history and contemporary configuration of rod puppetry in Liège. The analysis of this working class performance art moves between what occurs on and off stage. As puppeteers speak in… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 91] 2001. xxviii, 339 pp.
The Development of Past Tense Morphology in L2 Spanish
M. Rafael Salaberry
This book presents an extended analysis of the development of L2 Spanish past tense morphology among L1 English-speaking learners. The study addresses three major questions: (1) what is the developmental pattern of acquisition of past tense verbal morphology among tutored learners? (2) what are the… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 22] 2000. xii, 210 pp.
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.
Grammaticalization: Studies in Latin and Romance morphosyntax
Jurgen Klausenburger
In this monograph, various aspects of the morphosyntactic evolution of the Romance languages are shown to interact in a theory of grammaticalization. The study argues for the incorporation and subordination of inflectional morphology within a grammaticalization continuum, constituting but a portion… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 193] 2000. xiii, 183 pp.
Grammaticization, Synchronic Variation, and Language Contact: A study of Spanish progressive -ndo constructions
Rena Torres Cacoullos
This study of Old Spanish and present-day Mexico and New Mexico data develops a grammaticization account of variation in progressive constructions. Diachronic changes in cooccurrence patterns show that grammaticization involves reductive change driven by frequency increases. Formal reduction… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 52] 2000. xvi, 252 pp.
The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing: A Prince Edward Island French case study
Ruth King
This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 14 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 209] 2000. xvi, 241 pp.
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.
Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Johan van der Auwera and Patrick Dendale
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 14] 2000. vi, 264 pp.
New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance historical linguistics
Edited by Steven N. Dworkin and Dieter Wanner
This volume contains revised versions of thirteen of the papers presented at the parasession, “New Solutions to Old Problems: Issues in Romance Historical Linguistics”, held as part of the 29th Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages (1999). These studies examine specific problems in Romance… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 210] 2000. xiv, 235 pp.
Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy
Edited by Lori Repetti
These articles provide new explorations into phonological patterns attested in the minor Romance languages (‘dialects’) spoken in Italy. The goal of this book is both theoretical and empirical. First, it aims to introduce non-Italianists to the phonological structures of the Italian dialects,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 212] 2000. x, 301 pp.
Bibliografía Nebrisense: Las obras completas del humanista Antonio de Nebrija desde 1481 hasta nuestros días
Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres and Hans-Josef Niederehe
The Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522) is the author of an impressive body of scientific work which comprises a broad spectrum of humanistic knowledge. While the languages dealt with by Nebrija include not only Latin and Spanish, but the most prominent Romance languages, his… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 90] 1999. vi, 374 pp.
Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES II): Desde el año 1601 hasta el año 1700
Hans-Josef Niederehe
Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza, (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the beginnings… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 91] 1999. vi, 472 pp.
Exploring the Role of Morphology in the Evolution of Spanish
Joel Rini
After a brief survey of the perception of morphological change in the standard works of the Hispanic tradition in the 20th century, the author first attempts to refine concepts such as analogy, leveling, blending, contamination, etc. as they have been applied to Spanish. He then revisits difficult… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 179] 1999. xvi, 187 pp.
Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 28th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVIII), University Park, 16–19 April 1998
Edited by Jean-Marc Authier, Barbara E. Bullock and Lisa A. Reed
This volume presents current research in the formal treatment of linguistic phenomena in the Romance languages. It focuses on a variety of issues in phonology, second language acquisition, semantics, and syntax. Topics in phonological theory include the analysis of geminates, assimilation, rhotics,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 185] 1999. xii, 334 pp.
A French-English Grammar: A contrastive grammar on translational principles
Morris Salkoff
In this contrastive French-English grammar, the comparisons between French structures and their English equivalents are formulated as rules which associate a French schema (of a particular grammatical structure) with its translation into an equivalent English schema. The grammar contains all the… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 22] 1999. xvi, 342 pp.
Grammatical Analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics: Papers in honor of Mario Saltarelli
Edited by Jon A. Franco, Alazne Landa and Juan Martín
This volume contains fifteen articles on current theoretical issues in Basque and Romance linguistics. Even though Basque and Romance languages are typologically different and have different genetic origins, one thousand years of coexistence have shown certain parallelisms in their respective… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 187] 1999. viii, 306 pp.
Historical Dialogue Analysis
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Gerd Fritz and Franz Lebsanft
Historical dialogue analysis is a new branch of historical pragmatics. The papers of this interdisciplinary volume contribute to charting the developing field by presenting a survey of recent research from the different traditions of English, German and Romance language studies. Both the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 66] 1999. viii, 478 pp.
Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax
Edited by Esthela Treviño and José Lema
All of the articles in this volume focus on the interaction of form and meaning. Most of them are developed under the principal thesis of the Minimalist Program. These works show that the theoretical linguistic trend is to discover semantic aspects which are assumed to have visible syntactic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 173] 1999. viii, 309 pp.
Verbal Complement Clauses: A minimalist study of direct perception constructions
Claudia Felser
This monograph examines the syntax of bare infinitival and participial complements of perception verbs in English and other European languages, and investigates the general conditions under which verbal complement clauses are licensed. The introductory chapter is followed by an overview of the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 25] 1999. xiv, 278 pp.
Comparative Studies in Word Order Variation: Adverbs, pronouns, and clause structure in Romance and Germanic
Christopher Laenzlinger
The present book is a typological study in crucial portions of the grammars of French/Romance and German/Germanic. It starts by asking: What do adverbs, pronouns and full noun phrases have in common? This question is tackled, on the one hand, from an empirical perspective by the description of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 20] 1998. x, 371 pp.
The Function of Discourse Particles: A study with special reference to spoken standard French
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
This monograph aims to contribute to linguistic knowledge about the distribution and function of discourse particles, particularly with respect to a small group of particles which are highly frequent in contemporary spoken standard French.The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 (Theory) defines… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 53] 1998. xii, 418 pp.
Romance Linguistics: Theoretical Perspectives. Selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVII), Irvine, 20–22 February, 1997
Edited by Armin Schwegler, Bernard Tranel and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria
This volume contains selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-27), which was held at the University of California, Irvine, on February 20-22, 1997. The 22 papers deal with current issues in linguistic theory as they can be illuminated by the close analysis and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 160] 1998. vi, 349 pp. + index
Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVI), Mexico City, 28–30 March, 1996
Edited by José Lema and Esthela Treviño
From the papers presented at the 26th LSRL, this volume offers a selection of a contributions on phonological issues and on syntax. Most of the grammatical phenomena discussed are treated within the frameworks of the Minimalist Program, Distributed Morphology, or Optimality Theory. It was apparent… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 157] 1998. viii, 380 pp.
The Categories of Grammar: French lui and le
Alan Huffman
This book offers an analysis of the French clitic object pronouns lui and le in the radically functional Columbia school framework, contrasting this framework with sentence-based treatments of case selection. It suggests that features of the sentence such as subject and object relations, normally… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 30] 1997. xiv, 379 pp.
The Cognitive System of the French Verb
John Hewson
This study is based on the writings and teaching of Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960), one of the earliest proponents of what is today called Cognitive Linguistics. It offers (1) a much needed presentation in English of Guillaume’s view of the French system, (2) the clarifications added by his… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 147] 1997. xii, 187 pp.
Dialect Death: The case of Brule Spanish
Charles E. Holloway
The Brule Dwellers of Ascension Parish are descendants of Canary Island immigrants who came to Louisiana in the late 1700s. A few residents in and around the Ascension Parish area still speak an archaic dialect of Spanish which is at the brink of linguistic extinction. Because the Brule dialect is… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 13] 1997. x, 220 pp.
The Translator's Dialogue: Giovanni Pontiero
Edited by Pilar Orero and Juan C. Sager
The Translator’s Dialogue: Giovanni Pontiero is a tribute to an outstanding translator of literary works from Portuguese, Luso-Brasilian, Italian and Spanish into English. The translator introduced authors such as Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira, Clarice Lispector and José Saramago to… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 24] 1997. xiv, 252 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.
Case Suspension and Binary Complement Structure in French
Julia Herschensohn
Adopting the theoretical framework of the minimalist program, this study of syntactic limitations on complement configuration investigates the link between thematic external arguments and case. Using evidence from pronominal, psychological experiencer, and inalienable constructions, it argues that… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 132] 1996. xi, 200 pp.
The Genesis of a Language: The formation and development of Korlai Portuguese
J. Clancy Clements
Korlai Portuguese (KP), a Portuguese-based creole only recently discovered by linguists, originated around 1520 on the west coast of India. Initially isolated from its Hindu and Muslim neighbors by social and religious barriers, the small Korlai community lost virtually all Portuguese contact as… read more[Creole Language Library, 16] 1996. xviii, 281 pp.
Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 25th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXV) Seattle, 2–4 March 1995
Edited by Karen Zagona
This volume presents recent theoretical research on Romance languages, selected from papers presented at the 25th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. It includes studies of individual Romance languages as well as comparative studies both within the Romance family and with non-Romance… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 133] 1996. vi, 330 pp.
Advances in Roumanian Linguistics
Edited by Guglielmo Cinque and Giuliana Giusti
The aim of the book is to collect and make available to the public recent studies on Roumanian in the framework of Generative Grammar. All the studies can be considered as highly advanced from both the empirical and the theoretical point of view. In fact, they deal with many of the phenomena that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 10] 1995. xi, 172 pp.
Contemporary Research in Romance Linguistics: Papers from the XXII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, El Paso/Juárez, February 22–24, 1992
Edited by Jon Amastae, Grant Goodall, M. Montalbetti and M. Phinney
This volume contains 23 papers selected from those presented at the 22nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. The papers address issues in phonology, morphology, syntax/semantics from contemporary theoretical perspectives. In addition, in keeping with the symposium's US-Mexico location and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 123] 1995. viii, 381 pp.
Lexiques-Grammaires comparés en français: Actes du colloque international de Montréal (3–5 juin 1992)
Sous la direction de Jacques Labelle et Christian Leclère
In most French linguistic studies, the object is so-called standard French, a rather woolly and reductive designation. The particularities of national languages such as Belgian and Quebec French are often forgotten or treated as outlandish facts. The first Montreal conference Lexiques grammaires… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 17] 1995. 217 pp.
Linguistic Theory and the Romance Languages
Edited by John Charles Smith and Martin Maiden
This volume contains revised versions of papers given at a conference at the Manoir de Brion, in Normandy. They deal with phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, and cover a wide range of Romance languages, including many lesser-known varieties. The contributors to the volume are committed to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 122] 1995. xiii, 240 pp.
Tendances Récentes en Linguistique Française et Générale: Volume dédié à David Gaatone
Sous la direction de Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot et Lucien Kupferman
The contributors of this book aim to present a broad spectrum of different theoretical approaches in French linguistics. Despite the apparent heterogeneity in the field, a deeper unity in the varous topics emerges demonstrating that French linguistics today is more and more characterized as a… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 20] 1995. xvi, 409 pp.
Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES): Desde los principios hasta el año 1600
Hans-Josef Niederehe
Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología castellana by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza, (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It is the purpose of the present bibliography… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 76] 1994. vi, 457 pp.
Bilingual First Language Acquisition: French and German grammatical development
Edited by Jürgen M. Meisel
The contributions in this volume are based on an analysis of data from bilingual children acquiring French and German simultaneously. The longitudinal studies started at approximately age one year and six months and continued till age six. The papers focus on the development of specific… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 7] 1994. vi, 282 pp.
Kriyol Syntax: The Portuguese-based Creole language of Guinea-Bissau
Alain Kihm
This book describes the Portuguese-based Creole which is widely spoken as a first language in Guinea-Bissau. The study focuses on one variety, 'central Kriyol', and its main aim is to present a complete description of the grammar of the language. The theoretical framework for the syntactic analysis… read more[Creole Language Library, 14] 1994. xii, 310 pp.
Linguistic Studies on Latin: Selected papers from the 6th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (Budapest, 23–27 March 1991)
Edited by József Herman
The volume contains 26 articles (17 in English, 9 in French), selected from the papers presented at the 6th International Colloquim on Latin Linguistics, organized in Budapest. The authors share a common interest in applying to the study of Latin the conceptual framework of contemporary… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 28] 1994. ix, 421 pp.
Linguistic Perspectives on Romance Languages: Selected Papers from the XXI Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Santa Barbara, February 21–24, 1991
Edited by William J. Ashby, Marianne Mithun and Giorgio Perissinotto
This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 1991 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, held in Santa Barbara. In addition, the volume contains revised versions of three of the keynote papers. A welcome aspect of this collection, reflective of the conference itself, is the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 103] 1993. xxii, 404 pp.
Diachronic Studies in Lexicology, Affixation, Phonology: Edita and Inedita 1979–1988. Volume II
Yakov Malkiel
The ten articles collected in this volume are an impressive indication of the range and depth of Malkiel's knowledge of diachronic processes in the Romance languages. In the author's experience, etymological studies of lexis frequently lead one into the areas of phonology and morphology, and the… read more[Not in series, EAI 2] 1992. vi, 312 pp.
Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain: Recherches lexico-sémantiques. Volume 3
Compiled by Igor Mel’čuk
[Not in series, DECFC 3] 1992. 325 pp.
Historical Philology: Greek, Latin, and Romance. Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi II
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp
The present volume mainly contains contributions on the classical language, Greek and Latin. In addition to the historical comparative linguistic aspects of these languages, philological and historical questions are dealt with as well. Consideration of Italic and Romance topics is also included.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 87] 1992. xii, 386 pp.
Romance Languages and Modern Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from the XX Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Ottawa, April 10–14, 1990
Edited by Paul Hirschbühler and E.F.K. Koerner †
The contributions in this volume are selected and revised papers from the 20th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, held in Ottawa in 1990. They reflect the state of Romance linguistics carried out within a broadly defined generative framework. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 91] 1992. viii, 416 pp.
The Semantic Structure of Spanish: Meaning and grammatical form
Larry D. King
In recent years, linguistics has become increasingly more willing to allow some type of representation of 'meaning' in the study of language. However, most approaches deal with sentence or utterance meaning and thereby ignore the meaning of linguistic form. Yet no description of linguistic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 90] 1992. xii, 303 pp.
Theoretical Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XIX, Ohio State University, April 21–23, 1989
Edited by Christiane Laeufer and Terrell A. Morgan
This nineteenth edition of LSRL proceedings contains a selection of papers on variety of Romance idioms and includes current topics in established areas of study. The phonology papers focus mostly on syllabic and higher-level prosodic structure. The morphology section deals primarily with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 74] 1992. viii, 515 pp.
For to Speke Frenche Trewely: The French language in England, 1000–1600. Its status, description and instruction
Douglas A. Kibbee
The first grammatical descriptions of the French language were produced in England, several centuries before the first grammar written in French (but also several centuries after the Norman Conquest). This book describes the status of French in England during the period from the marriage of Emma of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 60] 1991. viii, 268 pp.
New Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XVIII, Urbana-Champaign, April 7–9, 1988
Edited by Dieter Wanner and Douglas A. Kibbee
The twenty papers from the eighteenth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages deal with diverse aspects of the Romance languages and Romance linguistics. They reflect the current state of Romance studies in North America and of the particular outlook among the international group of contributors… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 69] 1991. xviii, 406 pp.
Diachronic Problems in Phonosymbolism: Edita and Inedita, 1979–1988. Volume I
Yakov Malkiel
Phonosymbolism, or sound symbolism (Lautsymbolik), is a vital ingredient of language growth. Many serious scholars, however, have regarded it with embarrassment or indifference. A cautious reintroduction of phonosymbolism as a factor responsible for changes undergone, in varying degrees, by most… read more[Not in series, EAI 1] 1990. vii, 274 pp.
Speech and Sociability at French Urban Marketplaces
Jacqueline Lindenfeld
This study is both particularistic and generalizing. At one level it can be seen as an investigation of French urban marketplaces as systems of communication, with a microscopic examination of verbal interaction and sociability patterns in a specific cultural setting. At another level it… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 7] 1990. viii, 173 pp.
The Speech of the Negros Congos in Panama
John M. Lipski
The negros congos of Panama's Caribbean coast are a unique cultural manifestation of Afro-Hispanic contact. During Carnival season each year, this group reenacts dramatic events which affected black slaves in colonial Panama, performs dances and pantomimes, and enforces a set of ritual laws' and… read more[Creole Language Library, 4] 1989. vii, 159 pp.
Studies in Romance Linguistics: Selected Proceedings from the XVII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
Edited by Carl Kirschner and Janet Ann DeCesaris
The papers collected in this volume reflect the numerous interests in the field of Romance languages and Romance linguistics today. A far-ranging amount of Romance data are presented: French, Italian, and Spanish dialect data are crucial to several authors' arguments, Rumanian is the focus of two… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 60] 1989. ix, 496 pp.
Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain: Recherches lexico-sémantiques. Volume 2
Compiled by Igor Mel’čuk
[Not in series, DECFC 2] 1988. 344 pp.
La phonologie du schwa français
Sous la direction de S. Paul Verluyten
Ce livre présente quatre études sur la phonologie du schwa français. “Sur l’identité phonologique du schwa français dans l’accentuation et dans la syllabation”, par Hans Basbøll; “La syllabification et les regles de changement de syllabe en français”, par Roland Noske; “A propos de l’ajustement de… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 16] 1988. vi, 202 pp.
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.
Sentential Complementation in Spanish: A lexico-grammatical study of three classes of verbs
Carlos Subirats
The aim of the present work is to study the main distributional and transformational properties of verbs with a non-prepositional sentential complement in the two-argument sentence in Spanish. read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 14] 1987. xii, 290 pp.
The Language of Evaluation: A Sociolinguistic Approach to the Story of Pedro el Cruel in Ballad and Chronicle
Louise Mirrer-Singer
This study seeks to demonstrate that throughout centuries of re-creation, linguistic devices have been used to support both the production and the reproduction of the romances. On the basis of this demonstration, it is argued that it is time to recognize these devices as evaluators and to include a… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 20] 1986. xii, 128 pp.
L’Espace et le sens: ‘Germinal’ d'Émile Zola. Essai de sémiotique discursive (Space and Meaning. Emile Zola’s Germinal)
Denis Bertrand
La sémiotique a-t-elle quelque chose à dire sure la littérature en tant que sœur des ‘beaux-arts’? Peut-elle rendre compte des raisons d’une réussite d’écriture? – Intention naïve, dira-t-on, que de vouloir décourvrir, sure la base des seules méthodes structurales, pourquoi une œuvre nous captive.… read more[Actes Sémiotiques, 2] 1985. 213 pp.
The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French
Betsy K. Barnes
Left detachment constructions (LDs) (e.g. un buffet de campagne, c’est un meuble) are examined in a corpus of informal spontaneous conversation between educated native speakers of French. The overwhelming majority of these constructions are shown to have a clearly pragmatic motivation. The author’s… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:3] 1985. viii, 123 pp.
Selected papers from the XIIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance: Languages, Chapel Hill, N.C., 24–26 March 1983
Edited by Larry D. King and Catherine A. Maley
The papers in this volume are a selection from the paper presented at the 13th Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (1983). The languages discussed include Romance in general, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Gascon. The diversity of the topics encompassed by these papers conforms to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 36] 1985. x, 440 pp.
Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain: Recherches lexico-sémantiques. Volume 1
Compiled by Igor Mel’čuk
Sole distribution world-wide excl. CanadaThe Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain (DECFC) is the first dictionary that provides the user with systematic and complete descriptions of each entry word. The DECFC endeavours to realize the age-old dream of all lexicographers… read more[Not in series, DECFC 1] 1984. 172 pp.
Lexique-Grammaire des langues romanes: Actes du 1er colloque européen sur la grammaire et le lexique comparés des langues romanes, Palerme, 1981
Sous la direction de Alain Guillet et Nunzio La Fauci
Une méthodologie commune est la caractéristique principale des travaux qui sont réunis dans ces actes du Premier Colloque Européen sur la Grammaire et le Lexique comparés des langues Romanes (Palerme 1981). La comparaison n’est pas une nouveauté en linguistique Romane; l’originalité des travaux… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 9] 1984. xiii, 319 + 58 pp. Tables.
Papers from the XIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University Park, April 1–3, 1982
Edited by Philip Baldi
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the XII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held in April 1982 at Penn State University. These papers reflect the general state of the art in Romance Linguistics. Some of the studies are theoretical papers that seek to establish… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 26] 1984. xii, 611 pp.
Proto-Romance Morphology: Comparative Romance Grammar, vol. III
Robert A. Hall, Jr.
This volume deals with the reconstructed morphology of Proto-Romance. It is the third in a series by this author. The first volume (1974, Elsevier) deals with the external history of the Romance languages: the conditions under which they developed, were used, and (in some instances) went out of use. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 30] 1984. xii, 304 pp.
Speech Acts, Speakers and Hearers: Reference and referential strategies in Spanish
Henk Haverkate
This study is an inquiry into the pragmatics of speaker and hearer reference. It falls into a theory-based and a description-based part. The former covers three topics: (a) the categories of speaker and hearer as opposed to the category of nonparticipants in the speech act; (b) the interactional… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:4] 1984. xi, 142 pp.
Les verbes de mouvement en français et en espagnol: Etude comparée de leurs infinitives
Béatrice Lamiroy
Ce livre présente une étude comparée des infinitives des verbes de mouvement en français et en espagnol, avec l’intention d’illustrer la valeur heuristique de la pratique comparative en confrontant deux langues sur un point particulier de la syntaxe. read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 11] 1983. xiv, 323 pp.
Productivité morphologique et emprunt
Wiecher Zwanenburg
Le choix de décrire la dérivation déverbale savante du français moderne découle de la considération de quelques problèmes posés par le système dérivationnel du français aussi bien que par la théorie de la morphologie. Dans le chapitre introducteur, l’auteur s'étendre sur les problèmes particuliers… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 10] 1983. x, 199 pp.
The Structure of Complementation
Antonio Carlos Quicoli
The study of complementation has received considerable attention in generative studies. Following Rosenbaum's (1967) pioneering study of the English complement system, there are extensive studies by Lakoff (1965), Ross (1967), Perlmutter (1971) and a large number of publications. More recent… read more[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 3] 1982. xii, 172 pp.
From Linguistics to Literature: Romance Studies offered to Francis M. Rogers
Edited by Bernard H. Bichakjian
Francis M. Rogers, to whom the current volume is in honor of, may be a modest man in principle, but not in his academic pursuits. To call his interests broad in scope is no exaggeration as they cover the fields of linguistics, literature, philology, bibliography, travel narratives and celestial… read more[Not in series, 13] 1981. x, 292 pp. + 6 ills.
Generative Phonology: A Case Study from French
Nigel Love
This study is a discussion of, rather than a contribution to, generative phonology. The central question posed, is: Does linguistic theory provide a basis for choosing between competing grammars — that is, an evaluation procedure for grammars? If so, then what is its form? If not, then how are we… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 4] 1981. viii, 241 pp.
Topic, Antitopic and Verb Agreement in Non-Standard French
Knud Lambrecht
The author describes and explains the syntactic and pragmatic properties of the nominal and pronominal elements in sentences of the types Ces Romains ils sont fous and Ils sont fous, ces Romains, which, in spite of their frequent occurrence, have so far received little attention among linguists and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:6] 1981. vii, 113 pp.
Analyse syntaxique du Français: Grammaire en chaîne
Morris Salkoff
Cet essai prolongue l’esquisse d’analyse distributionelle que l’on trouvera dans Un grammaire en chaîne du français (Salkoff, 1973). Dans ce livre ici, l’auteur presente quelques aspects additionels de la grammaire et du programme associé, necessaire pour analyser un texte scientifique. Le chapitre… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 2] 1980. xvi, 334 pp.
Italic and Romance: Linguistic studies in honor of Ernst Pulgram
Edited by Herbert J. Izzo
The papers in this volume deal with the languages of ancient Italy and the Romance dialects that grew from them. The arrangement of papers in the volume is topical, starting with ancient Italy and moving upward in time and outward in space through general Romance to Italian, French and Provençal,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 18] 1980. xxi, 338 pp.
A Guide to Romance Reference Grammars: The modern standard languages
John C. McKay
This guide provides brief descriptions and evaluations of the best reference grammars and comprehensive works on the syntax of contemporary French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, and Rumanian. read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 6] 1979. xviii, 126 pp.
Theoretical Morphology of the French Verb
James Foley
The analysis of French verbs presented in this monograph is neither a synchronic nor a diachronic description, but rather a theoretical achronic analysis whose goal is the explanation of the historical phonetic development of the French verb in terms of changes in the underlying abstract… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 1] 1979. iv, 292 pp.
XIV Congresso Internationale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza: Napoli, 15–20 Aprile 1974. ATTI
Edited by Alberto Varvaro
These acts of the 1974 Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza (Naples) were co-published by John Benjamins Publishing Company and Gaetano Macchiaroli. The five volumes are subdivided into sections by linguistic sub-fields. Vol. 1 contains the plenary papers and papers from the… read more[Not in series, 9] 1978. vi, 3281 pp. (5 Vols.)
Chronologisches Verzeichnis französischer Grammatiken vom Ende des 14. bis zum Ausgange des 18. Jahrhunderts, nebst Angabe der bisher ermittelten Fundorte derselben
Dargestellt von Edmund Stengel (1845–1935)
This volume (1976) contains a fac simile reprint of the original 1890 edition of Stengel’s Chronologisches Verzeichnis Französischer Grammatiken. In addition, it contains an appendix by Hans-Josef Niederehe which gives a short biography of E.M. Stengel and brings together the additions and… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 8] 1976. x, 240 pp.
In Memoriam Friedrich Diez: Akten des Kolloquiums zum Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Romanistik/Actes du Colloque sur l'Histoire des Etudes Romanes/ Proc
Edited by Hans-Josef Niederehe and Harald Haarmann
The first 'Kolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Romanistik' (Trier 1975) was held to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the death of Friedrich Diez, the founder of Romance philology. The colloquium offered Romanists and historians of linguistics the opportunity for intense discussion,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 9] 1976. viii, 508 pp.