SubjectsLinguistics / Historical linguistics
Journals
ISSN 2215-1354 | E‑ISSN 2215‑1362
Asian Languages and Linguistics
Edited by Danqing Liu, Ailan Fu and Gong Cheng
ISSN 2665-9336 | E‑ISSN 2665‑9344
ISSN 0176-4225 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9714
Evolutionary Linguistic Theory
Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese and Eric Fuß
ISSN 2589-1588 | E‑ISSN 2589‑1596
International Journal of Chinese Linguistics
Edited by Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, Ning Yu and Hongming Zhang
ISSN 2213-8706 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8714
Journal of Historical Linguistics
General Editor: Silvia Luraghi and Guglielmo Inglese
ISSN 2210-2116 | E‑ISSN 2210‑2124
ISSN 0108-8416 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9715
Book series
Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics
Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Terttu Nevalainen
ISSN 2214-1057
Studies in Germanic Linguistics
Edited by Michael T. Putnam, Laura Catharine Smith, David Natvig and Hanna Fischer
ISSN 2452-2120
At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Anna Rogos-Hebda and Heli Tissari
This volume explores the synergy between historical and cognitive linguistics, demonstrating how the two can jointly shed light on patterns of language change. Focusing on figurative language, particularly metaphor and metonymy, it features a range of case studies that zoom in on the emergence and… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 21] 2026. vii, 288 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Development of the Chinese Cleft Construction: A diachronic constructional approach
Fangqiong Zhan
This book explores the development of the Chinese cleft construction through the lens of Diachronic Construction Grammar. Focusing on shi as an invariant copula, it examines the VP de cleft, the V de O cleft, and the bare shi cleft, showing how each signals contrastive and specificational meaning.… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 41] 2026. xviii, 207 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies
Edited by Rossella Latorraca, Rita Calabrese, Jacqueline Aiello and Dirk Geeraerts
Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies provides a comprehensive examination of the intricate interplay between language and knowledge, viewing words not as mere vessels but as dynamic agents that sculpt our understanding of the world.… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 25] 2026. vi, 333 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Terminology
Names and Naming
Edited by Philipp Krämer, Eeva Sippola and Rachel Selbach
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 41:1 (2026) v, 172 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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
Diachrony of Tone
Edited by Sandra Auderset, Rikker Dockum and Ryan Gehrmann
Special issue of Diachronica 42:3/4 (2025) v, 259 pp.
The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries
Edited by Tanja Ackermann and Christian Zimmer
Word classes of a language are usually not homogeneous groups of lexemes that share the same morphological and syntactic properties completely. Rather, lexemes are usually grouped together that have some basic commonalities but may differ in detail, e.g., regarding their inflectional behaviour. In… read moreOther subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Dialect on Air: Bahamian Creole in historical radio broadcasts
Diana Wengler
Despite the increasing interest in diachronic linguistic studies, such research remains particularly scarce for creole varieties, largely due to the limited availability of historical data on non-standard languages. This book addresses this gap by introducing a soap opera from the early 1970s as a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G71] 2025. xvii, 198 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries
Edited by Christopher Joby and Nicoline van der Sijs
Whilst the Dutch language cannot be considered a world language in the manner of English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French, the fact that speakers of Dutch have sailed to the four corners of the earth means that it cannot be overlooked in language-contact studies. This volume brings together scholars… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 55] 2025. vi, 584 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
From and Towards Demonstratives: Grammaticalization processes and beyond
Edited by Veronica Orqueda and Berta González Saavedra
Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 15:2 (2025) v, 190 pp.
Germanic Interrelations: Studies in memory of Hans Frede Nielsen
Edited by Stephen Laker, Carla Falluomini, Steffen Krogh, Robert Nedoma and Michael Schulte
This volume celebrates Hans Frede Nielsen’s contribution to the field of Germanic studies and his work as founding editor of the journal and book series North-Western European Language Evolution. Twenty peer-reviewed articles explore a broad range of topics involving North and West Germanic… read moreOther subjects Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022
Edited by Holly Kennard, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden
This book offers a peer-reviewed selection of the best and most original contributions to the twenty-fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. They faithfully reflect the spirit of the Conference in that they all display a shared passion for the diachronic study of language but also… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 369] 2025. vi, 310 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga
Language isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates, including a… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 135] 2025. vii, 339 pp.
Other subjects Linguistics of isolated languages | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Modality in the Architecture of Language
Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese and Manuela Caterina Moroni
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 7:1/2 (2025) v, 207 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Multilingualism and Language Contact in Asia-Pacific
Edited by Shobha Satyanath
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 11:1/2 (2025) vi, 222 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press
Edited by Claudia Claridge
This volume extends research on ideology in the news into the historical sphere, spanning discourse from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The chapters investigate the ideological representation and assessment of political events across three continents, such as uprisings,… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 105] 2025. vii, 250 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Old Germanic Languages and Latin/Early Romance in Contact
Edited by Carla Falluomini
Special issue of NOWELE 78:1 (2025) v, 120 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Our People’s Language: Variation and change in the Lánnang-uè of the Manila Lannangs. (Dân láng-e uè: Mga Manilá Lánnáng-e Lánnang-uè-e pagka-varỳ kâp pagka-pièn)
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
This book pioneers the study of Lánnang-uè, deeply embedded in Manila’s Lannang community’s culture. It approaches Lánnang-uè not just as a language but as a vibrant social practice, highlighting its variability and complex social meanings (e.g., identity-marking). Over six years and with more than… read more[Contact Language Library, 62] 2025. xiv, 461 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Perspectives on Chinese Language Acquisition
Edited by Henghua Su
Special issue of International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 12:2 (2025) v, 170 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Pragmatics | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Progressive Revisited: Historical and Quantitative Studies in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Alessandro Carlucci and Jerzy Nykiel
This volume consists of corpus-based analyses of progressive aspect constructions in Germanic and Romance. By adopting a variety of methodologies and theoretical frameworks, these studies provide valuable insights into the development, grammaticalization and use of various progressive structures… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 236] 2025. xi, 356 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Proper Names
Edited by Chia-Jung Pan and Yang Huang
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 6:1 (2025) v, 252 pp.
Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel
Edited by B. Richard Page and Michael T. Putnam
This volume pays homage to the legacy of William D. Keel and the significant impact of his research on German in contact settings from myriad perspectives and traditions. It includes structural and sociolinguistic studies focusing on varieties of German spoken throughout the world, including… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 10] 2025. vi, 275 pp.
Australian Contact Languages
Edited by Carmel O'Shannessy, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:1 (2024) vi, 311 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings
Edited by Bertus van Rooy and Haidee Kotze
Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings explores an innovative proposal: that linguistic similarities identified in different forms of contact-influenced varieties of language use (including translation, native and non-native varieties of… read more[Contact Language Library, 60] 2024. vi, 293 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Corpus-Pragmatic Studies of Democratization in Public Discourses: New perspectives, methods and materials
Edited by Turo Hiltunen, Turo Vartiainen and Jenni Räikkönen
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 25:2 (2024) vi, 177 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Demystifying New Methods in Historical Linguistics
Edited by Erich Round
Special issue of Diachronica 41:3 (2024) v, 137 pp.
The Development of Aspirated Fricatives in Gothic: A contact-linguistic perspective
Seiichi Suzuki
This book presents three major hypotheses concerning the development of fricatives in Gothic. First, Gothic introduced aspiration or a phonological feature [spread glottis] to the fricative system. Second, this acquisition of aspirated fricatives should be explained as a contact-induced change.… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 9] 2024. xix, 155 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Evolution of Expletives: Theoretical and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Eric Fuß and Benjamin L. Sluckin
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 6:1/2 (2024) v, 243 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019
Edited by Bethwyn Evans, Maria Kristina Gallego and Luisa Miceli
This volume comprises a selection of papers that were presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24), which took place at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra from 1-5 July, 2019. The volume’s aim is to reflect the breadth of research presented at… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 367] 2024. vi, 368 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Keys to the History of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography. Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL
Edited by Thijs Porck, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon
This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The contributions deal with various aspects of English language across time and geographical space, shedding light on both long-term… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 363] 2024. vii, 235 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives
Edited by Israel Sanz-Sánchez
This volume connects the latest research on language acquisition across the lifespan with the explanation of language change in specific sociohistorical settings. This conversation benefits from recent advances in two areas: on the one hand, the study of how learners of various ages and in various… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 14] 2024. x, 336 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: A corpus-based study of grammatical change
Xinyue Yao
This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and British English. Drawing on neo-Gricean pragmatics, it proposes a novel and principled analysis of the verb forms’ context-independent meanings… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 114] 2024. xvii, 235 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Thematic issue: Historical Linguistics of Sign Languages
Special issue of Diachronica 41:2 (2024) v, 158 pp.
The Unit of Processing in Chinese
Edited by Tianlin Wang
Special issue of International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 11:1 (2024) v, 149 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Pragmatics | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types. Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL
Edited by Luisella Caon, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck
This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The chapters deal with aspects of language use throughout the history of English, including efforts to prescribe and regulate… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 364] 2024. viii, 253 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History
Elisabeth M. de Boer
This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tōkyō Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the Kyōto-type dialects have… read moreOther subjects Japanese linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches
Edited by Ilaria Fiorentini and Chiara Zanchi
This book aims to address a gap in the existing literature on the relationship between vagueness and ambiguity, as well as on their differences and similarities, both in synchrony and diachrony, and taking into consideration their relation to language use. The book is divided into two parts, which… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 347] 2024. vi, 286 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Desired Language: Languages as objects of national ideology
Edited by Francesc Feliu
National linguistic ideology has been at the base of most historical processes that –whether they are complete or not – have brought us to the current reality: a world of languages that represent, with greater or lesser exactitude, the diversity – and convergences – of human groups. Various of… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 35] 2023. vi, 294 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Different Slants on Grammaticalization
Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Vittorio Tantucci
This volume on grammaticalization focuses on new theoretical and methodological challenges underpinning language change. It provides new approaches and insights deepening our understanding of the cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural mechanisms that trigger the formation and the change of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 232] 2023. vi, 284 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Ethnolinguistic contact across the Indo-Myanmar-Southwestern China mountains
Edited by Alexander R. Coupe, Randy J. LaPolla and Hideo Sawada
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 4:2 (2023) v, 218 pp.
Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches
Edited by Kristin Kopf and Thilo Weber
Recent years have seen a growing interest in grammatical variation, a core explanandum of grammatical theory. The present volume explores questions that are fundamental to this line of research: First, the question of whether variation can always and completely be explained by intra- or… read moreOther subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Language Contact with Chinese
Edited by Zhiming Bao
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1 (2023) vi, 206 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania: Functional and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Marc Allassonnière-Tang and Marcin Kilarski
Linguists have long been interested in systems of nominal classification due to their diverse functions as well as cognitive and cultural correlates. Among others, ongoing research has focused on semantic, functional and morphosyntactic properties of complex systems such as co-occurring gender and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 362] 2023. x, 251 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Phonology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Politeness in and across Historical Europe
Edited by Annick Paternoster, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1 (2023) vi, 216 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Sociophonetics of Dublin English: Phonetic realisation and sociopragmatic variation
Marion Schulte
The Sociophonetics of Dublin English shows how social inequalities and language are connected by the stances speakers take in interaction. It is based on an instrumental phonetic analysis of recorded interviews and broadcasting data and a detailed qualitative account of the same data as well as the… read moreOther subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Phonetics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Urban Panamanian English
Catherine Laliberté
Urban Panamanian English presents the first detailed account of the English used by the descendants of the Afro-Caribbean builders of the Panama Canal. It offers an up-to-date sociolinguistic account of the Panamanian West Indian community of Panama City and Colón, including empirical coverage of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G70] 2023. ix, 225 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
What can metacognition teach us about the evolution of communication?
Edited by Joëlle Proust
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 5:1 (2023) v, 101 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Autism, Language, Communication and Cognition
Edited by Stephanie Durrleman
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 4:1 (2022) v, 151 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Cantonese GIVE and Double-Object Construction: Grammaticalization and word order change
Andy Chi-on Chin
GIVE is a versatile morpheme in many languages. While there have been extensive studies on the interplay between the syntax and semantics of GIVE in many languages, not much has been done in a similar manner on Cantonese, a member of the Yue dialect group of the Chinese language family. This… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 15] 2022. xiv, 266 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Classifiers
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 3:2 (2022) v, 227 pp.
Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse
Edited by Turo Hiltunen and Irma Taavitsainen
The original studies in this volume provide new insights into the history of medical discourse across centuries in both professional and lay texts. The central themes deal with changes in medical writing in various societal and cultural contexts in search for best practices in corpus pragmatics for… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330] 2022. vii, 322 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda: A multifactorial analysis of linguistic features
Christopher D. Sapp
This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda , perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age. This study compares the anonymous Eddic poems to dated skaldic poems with respect to five phenomena that develop diachronically in early… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 5] 2022. xii, 246 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Germanic literature & literary studies | Theoretical linguistics
Development of Tense and Aspect Systems
Edited by Jadranka Gvozdanović
Linguistic construal of time lies at the center of language and language use; it is also one of the cognitive foundations of culture. The focus of the papers in this volume is on historical developments of genetically different aspect and tense systems across continents, with contributions on the… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 123] 2022. v, 202 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Discourse Structuring Markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions for how to do so. The empirical domain is the development of Discourse Structuring… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 33] 2022. xviii, 274 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Earlier North American Englishes
Edited by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers
Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twenty-first century. To throw light on the linguistics of North American Englishes and their socio-historical contexts, this volume brings together research from various traditions,… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G66] 2022. viii, 261 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact. Papers from the XXth ICEHL
Edited by Bettelou Los, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux
This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. It showcases a wide variety of historical linguistic approaches, including ‘big data’ analyses of large corpora,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 359] 2022. vi, 185 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning. Papers from the XXth ICEHL
Edited by Bettelou Los, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale
This volume contains a set of articles based on papers selected from those delivered at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018). It focuses on cutting-edge research in the history of English, while reflecting the diversity that exists in the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 358] 2022. viii, 349 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology
Edited by Matthias Eitelmann and Dagmar Haumann
Taking extra-vagans literally (Lat. ‘wandering outside, out of bounds’), this volume comprises nine case studies on extravagant morphology ranging from pattern-extending derivational processes via theory-challenging compounding processes to interface-straddling morphosyntactic phenomena. As a… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 223] 2022. v, 258 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and intersentential phenomena
Edited by Nicholas Catasso, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani
This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information structure and discourse – with a special focus on Germanic and Romance – and their role in language change. The contributions, set within the generative framework, discuss… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 275] 2022. viii, 255 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Reconstructing Non-Standard Languages: A socially-anchored approach
Lenore A. Grenoble and Jessica Kantarovich
Focusing on language contact involving Russian, and the linguistic varieties that emerged from that contact in different social settings, this book analyzes issues and methodologies in reconstructing both the linguistic effects of language contact and the social contexts of usage. In-depth analyses… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 52] 2022. xv, 354 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Contact Linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
What’s so standard about standards? Variationist principles and debates
Edited by Jonathan R. Kasstan
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 8:2 (2022) v, 135 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Approaches to Variation in Creole Studies
Edited by Isabelle Léglise, Bettina Migge and Nicolas Quint
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 36:1 (2021) v, 219 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Bermudian English: A sociohistorical and linguistic profile
Nicole Eberle
Bermudian English. A sociohistorical and linguistic profile focuses on a hitherto severely under-researched variety of English. The book traces the origins and development of Bermudian English, so as to situate the variety within the canon of other lesser-known varieties of English, and provides a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G64] 2021. xv, 231 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
Biological Evolution: More than a metaphor for grammar change
Edited by Maria Rita Manzini
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 3:1 (2021) v, 121 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Diachronic Dimensions of Alignment Typology
Edited by Eystein Dahl
Special issue of Diachronica 38:3 (2021) v, 199 pp.
Early history of the North Sea Germanic languages
Edited by Stephen Laker and Hans Frede Nielsen †
Special issue of NOWELE 74:1 (2021) v, 151 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Formal Language Theory and its Relevance for Linguistic Analysis
Edited by Diego Gabriel Krivochen
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 3:2 (2021) v, 134 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Historical Germanic morphosyntax
Edited by Stephen Laker and John Ole Askedal
Special issue of NOWELE 74:2 (2021) v, 155 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Historical Pragmatics today: Articles in honour of Andreas H. Jucker
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Jonathan Culpeper
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 22:2 (2021) v, 143 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
History, Discourse, and Policy in Modern Turkey
Alper Çakmak
Through critical discourse analysis (CDA) and the discourse-historical approach (DHA), this book probes into political discourse imbued with historical legacies, with particular focus on explicating the structure and function of AKP stories and its relationship with Turkish politics. It offers an… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 95] 2021. xvi, 212 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
Edited by Diana Forker and Lenore A. Grenoble
The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact. This is the first book that bundles… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 50] 2021. vi, 386 pp.
Language Variation – European Perspectives VIII: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019
Edited by Hans Van de Velde, Nanna Haug Hilton and Remco Knooihuizen
This volume contains a selection of papers from the 10th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), which was organized by the Fryske Akademy and held in Leeuwarden/Ljouwert (the Netherlands) in June 2019. The editors have selected thirteen papers on a wide range of… read moreOther subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
The Life Cycle of Adpositions
T. Givón
Adpositions are used, universally, to mark the roles of nominal participants in the verbal clause, most commonly indirect object roles. Practically all languages seem to have such markers, which begin their diachronic life as lexical words -- in this case either serial verbs or positional nouns. In… read more[Not in series, 236] 2021. xii, 205 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Lost in Change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions
Edited by Svenja Kranich and Tine Breban
While research on language change has formulated robust empirical generalisations about processes and motivations underlying the emergence and spread of linguistic elements, their decline and loss is less well understood. So far a systematic investigation into the processes and motivations of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 218] 2021. vi, 366 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Martin Hilpert, Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere
This volume explores how Diachronic Construction Grammar can shed new light on changes in a central and well-researched domain of grammar, namely modality. Its main goal is to show how constructional analyses can help us address some of the long-standing questions that have informed discussions of… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 32] 2021. v, 251 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Mysterious Address Term anata 'you' in Japanese
Yoko Yonezawa
The use of the second person singular pronoun anata ‘you’ in modern Japanese has long been regarded as mysterious and problematic, generating contradictory nuances such as polite, impolite, intimate, and distancing. Treated as a troublesome pronoun, scholars have searched for a semantically loaded… read more[Topics in Address Research, 4] 2021. xv, 208 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Pre-Historical Language Contact in Peruvian Amazonia: A dynamic approach to Shawi (Kawapanan)
Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia
South America was populated relatively recently, probably around 15,000 years ago. Yet, instead of finding a relatively small number of language families, we find some 118 genealogical units. So far, the historical processes that underlie the current picture are not yet fully understood. This book… read more[Contact Language Library, 58] 2021. xvii, 211 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Contact Linguistics | Languages of South America
Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan
Edited by Anna Ghimenton, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot
This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition. Favoured by the current scientific context where interdisciplinarity is particularly encouraged, the chapters bring to light the complementarity between the social and cognitive… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 26] 2021. vi, 319 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Sociopragmatics of Stance: Community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trials
Peter J. Grund
Anchored in historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, this book weaves together a powerful narrative of the significance of stance marking in the history of English. Focusing on the community of practice that developed during the witch trials in Salem… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 329] 2021. ix, 246 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Time in Languages, Languages in Time
Edited by Anna Čermáková, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik
This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Swedish, all of which are contrasted with English. While the amount of published research on temporal relations in general is considerable,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 101] 2021. vi, 307 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Cécile B. Vigouroux
Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene aims to celebrate Mufwene’s ground-breaking contribution to linguistics in the past four decades. The title also encapsulates his approach to language as both systemic and socio-cultural practices, and the role of… read more[Contact Language Library, 59] 2021. xiv, 330 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia
Edited by Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and Abigail C. Cohn
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:2 (2021) v, 132 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Variation in the Pacific: Part II
Edited by Eri Kashima and Miriam Meyerhoff
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:1 (2021) v, 82 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts aims at exploring scientific writing in late Modern English. This volume is the fourth of its kind devoted to the analysis of the relations between language and different scientific disciplines from 1700 to 1900. Here,… read more[Not in series, 237] 2021. xv, 310 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | English linguistics | Pragmatics
Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating
Edited by David Gil and Antoinette Schapper
Many Austronesian languages exhibit isolating word structure. This volume offers a series of investigations into these languages, which are found in an "isolating crescent" extending from Mainland Southeast Asia through the Indonesian archipelago and into western New Guinea. Some of the languages… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 129] 2020. ix, 510 pp.
Other subjects Austronesian languages | Linguistics of isolated languages | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English
Edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola
This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be it from Old English to the present, or a shorter time span in the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 96] 2020. xii, 305 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Development of tense and aspect systems
Edited by Jadranka Gvozdanović
Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 10:2 (2020) v, 193 pp.
Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics
Edited by Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti
Over the last few decades, the widespread diffusion of digital technology has increased availability of primary textual sources, radically changing the everyday life of scholars in the humanities, who are now able to access, query and process a wealth of empirical evidence in ways not possible… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 113] 2020. v, 154 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Drawing Attention to Metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities
Edited by Camilla Di Biase-Dyson and Markus Egg
The communicative act of drawing attention to metaphor is a relatively recent topic in metaphor studies and one that has remained contentious from a cognitive perspective. This book brings philologists of ancient languages together with metaphor experts from several modalities to interrogate… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 5] 2020. v, 265 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English
Edited by Matti Peikola and Birte Bös
This volume explores the complex relations of texts and their contextualising elements, drawing particularly on the notions of paratext, metadiscourse and framing. It aims at developing a more comprehensive historical understanding of these phenomena, covering a wide time span, from Old English to… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 317] 2020. vii, 313 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Emergent Syntax for Conversation: Clausal patterns and the organization of action
Edited by Yael Maschler, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Jan Lindström and Leelo Keevallik
This volume explores how emergent patterns of complex syntax – that is, syntactic structures beyond a simple clause – relate to the local contingencies of action formation in social interaction. It examines both the on-line emergence of clause-combining patterns as they are ‘patched together’ on… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 32] 2020. vi, 343 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Historical Linguistics: A cognitive grammar introduction
Margaret E. Winters
This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics. Secondly, unlike many such textbooks, this one is based in the… read more[Not in series, 227] 2020. xvii, 241 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics
Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017
Edited by Bridget Drinka
The collected articles in this volume address an array of cutting-edge issues in the field of historical linguistics, including new theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies for studying language through a diachronic lens. The articles focus on the following themes: I. Case & Argument… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 350] 2020. xi, 495 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Intermediate Language Varieties: Koinai and regional standards in Europe
Edited by Massimo Cerruti and Stavroula Tsiplakou
The papers in this volume address the interplay of factors underlying the formation of intermediate varieties in the ‘dialect-standard’ landscape of present-day Europe. Research is presented on varieties of several different languages (Norwegian, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek), on speech… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 24] 2020. vi, 258 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Late Modern English: Novel encounters
Edited by Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg
The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, spelling and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 214] 2020. vii, 359 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Lexical Issues in the Architecture of the Language Faculty
Edited by Andrea Padovan
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:1 (2020) v, 111 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Macro and micro-social variation in Asia-Pacific sign languages
Edited by Nick Palfreyman
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 6:1 (2020) v, 150 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
This volume traces the multifaceted concept of manners in the history of English from the late medieval through the early and late modern periods right up to the present day. It focuses in particular on transgressions of manners and norms of behaviour as an analytical tool to shed light on the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 312] 2020. viii, 298 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | English literature & literary studies | Pragmatics
The NP-strategy for Expressing Reciprocity: Typology, history, syntax and semantics
Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the syntax and semantics of a single linguistic phenomenon – the NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity – in synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. It challenges the assumption common in the typological, syntactic, and semantic… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 127] 2020. xv, 291 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Elena Smirnova
This volume brings together ten contributions by leading experts who present their current usage-based research in Diachronic Construction Grammar. All papers contribute to the discussion of how to conceptualize constructional networks best and how to model changes in the constructicon, as for… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 27] 2020. vi, 355 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond
Edited by Robert Crellin and Thomas Jügel
This volume provides a detailed investigation of perfects from all the branches of the Indo-European language family, in some cases representing the first ever comprehensive description. Thorough philological examinations result in empirically well-founded analyses illustrated with over 940… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 352] 2020. xiv, 686 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents
Edited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs
English local documents – leases, wills, accounts, letters and the like – provide a unique resource for historical sociolinguistics. Abundant from the early fifteenth century, they represent the language and concerns of people from a wide range of social, institutional and geographical backgrounds.… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 11] 2020. ix, 310 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change
Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 21:2 (2020) v, 182 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Runic Inscriptions and the Early History of the Germanic Languages
Edited by Robert Nedoma and Hans Frede Nielsen †
Special issue of NOWELE 73:1 (2020) v, 192 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages
Edited by Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff
Special issue of Language Ecology 4:1 (2020) v, 130 pp.
Tracking Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary, Cross-Theoretical Enterprise
Edited by Livio Gaeta
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:2 (2020) v, 103 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Variation in the Pacific: Part I
Edited by Eri Kashima and Miriam Meyerhoff
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 6:2 (2020) v, 128 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö
Edited by Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson
This volume provides a diachronic and synchronic overview of linguistic variability and change in involved, speech-related and spoken texts in English. While previous works on the topic have focused on more limited time periods, this book covers data from the 16th century up to the present day. The… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 97] 2020. xiii, 348 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads
Edited by Renata Szczepaniak and Johanna Flick
This volume focuses on the grammaticalization of the definite article in German. It contains eight empirically-based papers which examine individual stages of the grammaticalization path from its beginnings as a demonstrative to the definite article and beyond. Focusing on cognitive, pragmatic,… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 23] 2020. vi, 253 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
Agreement in Language Contact: Gender development in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Florian Dolberg
Gender in English changed dramatically from the elaborate system found in Old English to the very simple he/she/it-alternation in use from (late) Middle English onwards. While either system is well described and understood, the change from one to the other is anything but: more than 120 years of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 208] 2019. xxi, 351 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Carthaginian North: Semitic influence on early Germanic: A linguistic and cultural study
Robert Mailhammer and Theo Vennemann
This book presents a new and innovative theory on the origin of the Germanic languages. This theory presents solutions to four pivotal problems in the history of Germanic with critical implications for cultural history: the origin of the Germanic writing system (the Runic alphabet), the genesis of… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 32] 2019. xiii, 268 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Germanic linguistics
A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian
Gertjan Postma
Pomeranian is the West Germanic language spoken by European emigrants who went from Farther Pomerania (present-day Poland) to Brazil in the period 1857–1887. This language is no longer spoken in cohesive societies in Europe, but the language has survived and is in remarkably good shape on this… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 248] 2019. xxxi, 312 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse
Edited by Teresa Fanego and Paula Rodríguez-Puente
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the research carried out over the past thirty years in the vast field of legal discourse. The focus is on how such research has been influenced and shaped by developments in corpus linguistics and register analysis, and by the emergence from the mid… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 91] 2019. vii, 294 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Determinants of Diachronic Stability
Edited by Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn
While much of the literature has focused on explaining diachronic variation and change, the fact that sometimes change does not seem to happen has received much less attention. The current volume unites ten contributions that look for the determinants of diachronic stability, mainly in the areas of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 254] 2019. vi, 294 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax
Edited by Claudia Claridge and Birte Bös
Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 346] 2019. vi, 312 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Diachrony of Personal Pronouns in Japanese: A functional and cross-linguistic perspective
Osamu Ishiyama
Personal pronouns in Japanese form a heterogeneous category. This book investigates their historical development from a functional perspective. It shows that while nouns give rise to personal pronouns through semanticization of pragmatic inferences, the use of non-nominal forms such as… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 344] 2019. ix, 173 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Documentary Linguistics: Working with Communities
Edited by Sumittra Suraratdecha and Toshihide Nakayama
Special issue of Language Ecology 3:2 (2019) v, 122 pp.
Exploring (im)politeness in ancient languages
Edited by Kim Ridealgh
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 20:2 (2019) v, 144 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015
Edited by Michela Cennamo and Claudia Fabrizio
The collection of articles presented in this volume addresses a number of general theoretical, methodological and empirical issues in the field of Historical Linguistics, in different levels of analysis and on different themes: (i) phonology, (ii) morphology, (iii) morphosyntax, (iv) syntax, (v)… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 348] 2019. viii, 639 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.
Other subjects Language policy | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world
Edited by Raymond Hickey
The current volume presents a number of chapters which look at informal vernacular letters, written mostly by emigrants to the former colonies of Britain, who settled at these locations in the past few centuries, with a focus on letters from the nineteenth century. Such documents often show… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 10] 2019. x, 289 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew
Edited by Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube
The emergence of Modern Hebrew as a spoken language constitutes a unique event in modern history: a language which for generations only existed in the written mode underwent a process popularly called “revival”, acquiring native speakers and becoming a language spoken for everyday use. Despite the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 256] 2019. ix, 390 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Contact Linguistics
Language Planning as Nation Building: Ideology, policy and implementation in the Netherlands, 1750–1850
Gijsbert Rutten
The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst these international events, the case of Dutch in the Netherlands offers… read moreOther subjects Germanic linguistics | History of linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language Variation - European Perspectives VII: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga, June 2017
Edited by Juan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Francisco Díaz Montesinos, Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz and Matilde Vida-Castro
This volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), which was held at the University of Malaga (Spain), from June 6 to 9, 2017. The volume includes plenaries by Manuel Almeida (“Language hybridism: On the origin of… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 22] 2019. ix, 248 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century. Including the LMEMT Corpus
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Turo Hiltunen
The eighteenth century in medicine is a fallow period lying between the innovations of the Royal Society (1662–) with its new ways of doing science and the nineteenth-century achievements of clinical and laboratory medicine. The period deserves more attention, as the seeds of some modern… read more[Not in series, 221] 2019. xix, 432 pp., incl. CD-RoM
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Nominalization in Languages of the Americas
Edited by Roberto Zariquiey, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck
Recent scholarship has confirmed earlier observations that nominalization plays a crucial role in the formation of complex constructions in the world’s languages. Grammatical nominalizations are one of the most salient and widespread features of languages of the Americas, yet they have not been… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 124] 2019. vii, 662 pp.
Other subjects Languages of North America | Languages of South America | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Norms and Conventions in the History of English
Edited by Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge
This volume explores changing norms and conventions in the English language, as displayed in a broad range of historical data from more than five centuries. The contributions discuss the interplay of sociocultural conditions, specific discourse traditions and structural aspects of language, paying… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 347] 2019. v, 215 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Northumbrian Old English glosses
Edited by Elly van Gelderen
Special issue of NOWELE 72:2 (2019) v, 154 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change: Studies in honor of Henning Andersen
Edited by Lars Heltoft, Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler
This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 345] 2019. ix, 419 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Edited by Annick Paternoster and Susan Fitzmaurice
This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the ‘long’ nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth century heralds a significant transition in the meanings and realisations of politeness, between the Ancien Régime and the contemporary period, with the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] 2019. vii, 288 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English
Edited by Sandra Jansen and Lucia Siebers
The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the existing literature by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective of aspects of change in English from around 1700 until the present… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 21] 2019. vii, 263 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Regional Chinese in Contact
Edited by James A. Walker
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 5:1 (2019) v, 108 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes: Sex and sophistry in the Old Testament - A new English translation
T. Givón
This book is a new English translation of the two shortest, most controversial and perhaps most vibrant books in the Hebrew Old Testament – Song of Songs (Song of Solomon) and Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). The two books slipped into the Jewish – and eventually Christian – Canon by a series of… read more[Not in series, 222] 2019. ix, 159 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Translation Studies
Understanding language genealogy: Alternatives to the tree model
Edited by Siva Kalyan, Alexandre François and Harald Hammarström
Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 9:1 (2019) v, 176 pp.
Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco
This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900. It pays particular attention to English History writing in late Modern English as compiled in the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), a newly released sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus of… read more[Not in series, 225] 2019. vii, 278 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Advances in Gothic Philology and Linguistics
Edited by Alexandra Holsting and Hans Frede Nielsen †
Special issue of NOWELE 71:2 (2018) v, 145 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Arabic in Contact
Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco
The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations, it explores both contact-induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. read moreOther subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Contact Linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Category Change from a Constructional Perspective
Edited by Kristel Van Goethem, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé and Gudrun Vanderbauwhede
Category change, broadly defined as the shift from one word class to another, is often studied as part of other changes, such as grammaticalization or lexicalization, but not in its own right. This volume offers a survey of different types of category change and their properties, e.g. abrupt versus… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 20] 2018. vii, 314 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Changing Structures: Studies in constructions and complementation
Edited by Mark Kaunisto, Mikko Höglund and Paul Rickman
This book is a collection of eleven research articles which altogether serve as a contribution to the study of verb complementation and other constructions, an area of investigation which bridges observations on the spectrum of lexico-grammar, syntax, and semantics. In terms of methodological… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 195] 2018. vii, 236 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages
R.D. Fulk
Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German, along… read moreOther subjects Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
The last three decades have seen the emergence of Construction Grammar as a major research paradigm in linguistics. At the same time, very few researchers have taken a constructionist perspective on language contact phenomena. This volume brings together, for the first time, a broad range of… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 24] 2018. vi, 316 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change
Edited by Richard J. Whitt
This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 85] 2018. viii, 337 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Diachronic Treebanks
Edited by Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti
Special issue of Diachronica 35:3 (2018) v, 153 pp.
The Diachrony of Classification Systems
Edited by William B. McGregor and Søren Wichmann
Classification is a popular topic in typological, descriptive and theoretical linguistics. This volume is the first to deal specifically with the diachrony of linguistic systems of classification. It comprises original papers that examine the ways in which linguistic classification systems arise,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 342] 2018. xi, 362 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Dialogues in Diachrony: Celebrating Historical Corpora of Speech-related Texts
Edited by Merja Kytö and Terry Walker
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19:2 (2018) v, 141 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Directional Particles in Cantonese: Form, function, and grammaticalization
Winnie Chor
This book is the first on Cantonese that deals with the grammaticalization phenomenon systematically. Focusing on a group of twelve directional particles, this book tracks their grammaticalization pathways from full-fledged directional verbs, to directional particles indicating meanings relating to… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 9] 2018. xvii, 239 pp.
Other subjects Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
The Evolution of Argument Coding Patterns in South American Languages
Edited by Antoine Guillaume and Spike Gildea
Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 8:1 (2018) v, 167 pp.
Explorations in English Historical Syntax
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert and Charlotte Maekelberghe
The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 198] 2018. viii, 312 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax
Germanic Genitives
Edited by Tanja Ackermann, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer
The papers in this volume focus on the dynamics of one specific cell in morphological paradigms – the genitive. The high amount of diachronic and synchronic variation in all Germanic languages makes the genitive a particularly interesting phenomenon since it allows us, for example, to examine… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 193] 2018. vi, 327 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar
Edited by Evie Coussé, Peter Andersson and Joel Olofsson
Grammaticalization research has increasingly highlighted the notion of constructions in the last decade. In the wake of this heightened interest, efforts have been made in grammaticalization research to more precisely articulate the largely pretheoretical notion of construction in the theoretical… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 21] 2018. vi, 315 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Historical Pragmatics of Controversies: Case studies from 1600 to 1800
Gerd Fritz, Thomas Gloning and Juliane Glüer
The book gives an introduction to the new research field of Historical Pragmatics of Controversies and provides seven case studies (from 1609 to 1796) on controversies in the fields of astronomy/astrology, medicine, chemistry, philosophy, and theology. The protagonists of these controversies… read more[Controversies, 14] 2018. vii, 346 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Language of Empire, Language of Power
Edited by Kees Versteegh
Special issue of Language Ecology 2:1/2 (2018) v, 146 pp.
New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change
Edited by Sylvie Hancil, Tine Breban and José Vicente Lozano
The chapters in this volume present a state of the art of grammaticalization research in the 2010s. They are concerned with the application of new models, such as constructionalization, the ongoing debate about the status and modelling of the development of discourse markers, and reveal a renewed… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 202] 2018. vi, 433 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers
Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Na'ama Pat-El and Stephen Mark Carey
Interest in non-canonically case-marked subjects has been unceasing since the groundbreaking work of Andrews and Masica in the late 70’s who were the first to document the existence of syntactic subjects in another morphological case than the nominative. Their research was focused on Icelandic and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 200] 2018. vi, 280 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus… read moreOther subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 moreOther subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants
Edited by Antje Dammel, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck
With most studies on grammatical variation concentrating on the synchronic level, a systematic investigation of long-term grammatical variation within the context of language change, i.e. from a predominantly diachronic perspective, has largely remained a desideratum. The present volume fills this… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 203] 2018. v, 302 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic
Elżbieta Adamczyk
The book is a comprehensive corpus study of analogical developments in the nominal morphology of four Northern West Germanic languages: Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon and Old Low Franconian. It examines the patterns of reorganisation of the nominal paradigms, focusing on the analogical… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 31] 2018. xxvii, 572 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English
Edited by Peter Petré, Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D'hoedt
The chapters collected in this volume examine how the sociohistorical and cultural context may influence structural features of lexis and text types. Each paper pays particular attention to social ‘labels’ and attitudes (conservative, religious, ideological, endearing, or other), thereby focusing… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 343] 2018. viii, 258 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
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.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Morphology | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony
Edited by Sonia Cristofaro and Fernando Zúñiga
Typological hierarchies are widely perceived as one of the most important results of research on language universals and linguistic diversity. Explanations for typological hierarchies, however, are usually based on the synchronic properties of the patterns described by individual hierarchies, not… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 121] 2018. vi, 434 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Untersuchungen zu den Gründungsdokumenten der färöischen Rechtschreibung: Ein Beitrag zur nordischen Schriftgeschichte
Christer Lindqvist
Die färöische Gegenwartsorthographie ging nicht wie die moderne Rechtschreibung vieler Sprachen aus einer jahrhundertelangen Schrifttradition hervor, sondern wurde im Wesentlichen im 19. Jh. neu erschaffen. Ihre Gründungsdokumente bestehen aus vier färöischen Zaubersprüchen, die in einer bis Mitte… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 29] 2018. xx, 312 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Writing and literacy
Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches
Edited by Peter Bakker, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva Sippola
This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles and other contact varieties, and between creoles and lexifier… read moreOther subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics
The Dawn of Dutch: Language contact in the Western Low Countries before 1200
Michiel de Vaan
The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even… read moreOther subjects Contact Linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Development of Tense/Aspect in Semitic in the Context of Afro-Asiatic Languages
Vit Bubenik
The author applies the comparative method for the reconstruction of earlier aspectual systems in the Afro-Asiatic phylum of languages. Moving ‘upstream’ from the documented systems of Semitic, Berber and Old Cushitic the state of affairs during the common stage of Proto-Semito-Berbero-Cushitic is… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 337] 2017. xx, 228 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse
Edited by Minna Palander-Collin, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen
The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For example, audience engagement is by no means an invention of the digital age. This collection highlights major topics that range from newspaper genres like… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 6] 2017. vii, 301 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE
Alexandra D'Arcy
Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 187] 2017. xx, 235 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics
Edited by Tanja Säily, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer
This volume explores potential paths in historical sociolinguistics, with a particular focus on the inter-related areas of methodological innovations, hitherto un- or under-explored textual resources, and theoretical advancements and challenges. The individual chapters cover Dutch, Finnish and… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 7] 2017. vii, 331 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Historical (socio)pragmatics at present
Edited by Matylda Włodarczyk and Irma Taavitsainen
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18:2 (2017) v, 180 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond
Edited by Karen Dakin, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein
Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. This volume presents and analyzes fresh empirical data… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 185] 2017. xv, 433 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler
Edited by Cecelia Cutler, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer
Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas brings together the original research of nineteen leading scholars on language contact and pidgin/creole genesis. In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the role of historical, cultural and demographic factors in… read more[Creole Language Library, 53] 2017. vii, 369 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev
Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world’s major language families owe their dispersal to the adoption of… read moreOther subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Evolution of language | Theoretical linguistics
Language Variation - European Perspectives VI: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015
Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller and Beat Siebenhaar
Language Variation - European Perspectives VI showcases a selection of papers from the 8th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe which was held in Leipzig in 2015. The volume includes plenaries by Miriam Meyerhoff and Steffen Klaere (“The large and the small of it: Big issues… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 19] 2017. xvi, 237 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Language and Slavery: A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles
Jacques Arends
This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little… read moreOther subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Mots de liaison et d'intégration: Prépositions, conjonctions et connecteurs
Sous la direction de Thierry Ponchon, Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot et Annie Bertin
Les unités linguistiques ayant pour fonction (paradoxale) de signifier une relation entre d’autres unités de discours, suscitent, depuis l’Antiquité, un intérêt toujours renouvelé. Défi pour le grammairien, dont ils subvertissent les « parties du discours », ces « mots-outils », que l’on peut… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 34] 2017. ix, 246 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Pivotal Constructions in Chinese: Diachronic, synchronic, and constructional perspectives
Rui Peng
This book presents a detailed analysis of the Chinese pivotal constructions (PVCs) and their diachronic developments from a constructionalist perspective, with the focus on the growth of the constructional hierarchies of these constructions and the changes with respect to both the form and meaning… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 8] 2017. xix, 243 pp.
Other subjects Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek
Edited by Camille Denizot and Olga Spevak
Pragmatics forms nowadays an integral part of the description not only of modern languages but also of ancient languages such as Latin and Ancient Greek. This book explores various pragmatic phenomena in these two languages, which are accessible through corpora consisting of a broad range of text… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 190] 2017. xvi, 309 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
The Rise and Development of Evidential and Epistemic Markers
Edited by Silvio Cruschina and Eva-Maria Remberger
Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 7:1/2 (2017) vi, 274 pp.
Space in Diachrony
Edited by Silvia Luraghi, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi
Space is a fundamental dimension of human life and is pervasive in human experience. Research on space has highlighted the possible asymmetrical nature of spatial relations. Differences in the encoding of goals and sources of motion are a case in point, and cross-linguistic coding tendencies show… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 188] 2017. xvii, 373 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade
Edited by Bettelou Los and Pieter de Haan
The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change. As is now becoming increasingly clear, word order variation rarely attracts social values in the way that phonological variants do. Instead, speakers tend to attach discourse or information-structural functions to any word… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 243] 2017. ix, 376 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
'The Conditioned and the Unconditioned': Late Modern English texts on philosophy. incl. CD-rom: A Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Gonzalo Camiña, Inés Lareo and Begoña Crespo
This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT), together with a number of pilot studies that demonstrate how the corpus can be used to investigate English philosophy writing in the eighteenth and… read more[Not in series, 198] 2016. xi, 182 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Constructing Languages: Norms, myths and emotions
Edited by Francesc Feliu and Josep M. Nadal
As language historians we believe that the subject of our study is neither natural languages nor idiolects which speakers have always been able to develop individually (loosely what Chomsky calls L-i), but rather the social constructions of reference shared by all speakers (basically what Chomsky… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 13] 2016. vii, 416 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Cyclical Change Continued
Edited by Elly van Gelderen
This book presents new data and additional questions regarding the linguistic cycle. The topics discussed are the pronoun, negative, negative existential, analytic-synthetic, distributive, determiner, degree, and future/modal cycles. The papers raise questions about the length of time that cycles… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 227] 2016. viii, 429 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Element Order in Old English and Old High German Translations
Anna Cichosz, Jerzy Gaszewski and Piotr Pęzik
This book is the first comprehensive corpus study of element order in Old English and Old High German, which brings to light numerous differences between these two closely related languages. The study’s innovative approach relies on translated texts, which allows the authors to tackle the problem… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 28] 2016. xvii, 424 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Translation Studies
Exaptation and Language Change
Edited by Muriel Norde and Freek Van de Velde
This volume is the first collection of papers that is exclusively dedicated to the concept of exaptation, a notion from evolutionary biology that was famously introduced into linguistics by Roger Lass in 1990. The past quarter-century has seen a heated debate on the properties of linguistic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 336] 2016. viii, 411 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Grammarians, Skalds and Rune Carvers I
Edited by Robert Nedoma and Michael Schulte
Special issue of NOWELE 69:1 (2016) v, 112 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Grammarians, Skalds and Rune Carvers II
Edited by Michael Schulte and Robert Nedoma
Special issue of NOWELE 69:2 (2016) v, 123 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective
Edited by Eystein Dahl and Krzysztof Stroński
This volume presents a state-of-the-art survey of synchronic and diachronic dimensions of Ergativity in the Indo-Aryan language family. It contains an introduction drawing on the most important recent typological and theoretical contributions to this field, plus seven papers about the origin,… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 112] 2016. v, 267 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country
Edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Diane Hafner
This volume offers a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic, anthropological, archaeological and historical work focused on Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, in Australia’s northeast. The volume also honours Bruce Rigsby, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Queensland,… read more[Culture and Language Use, 18] 2016. x, 492 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun
Edited by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Dagostino
This unique collection of articles in honor of Marianne Mithun represents the very latest in research on language contact and language change in the Indigenous languages of the Americas. The book aims to provide new theoretical and empirical insights into how and why languages change, especially… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 173] 2016. viii, 416 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Languages of North America | Languages of South America | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Language policy | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson
Edited by Anita Auer, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova
Linguistics and Literary History systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies. It brings together stylistics, literary theory and diachronic linguistics in order to explore their interaction at various methodological, descriptive… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 25] 2016. vi, 216 pp.
A Middle English Syntax: Parts of speech
Tauno F. Mustanoja
For a good orientation into the history of English grammar, several books are indispensable. One of those is Mustanoja’s A Middle English Syntax. However, for a long time this work was not readily available; the present edition changes that. This is a fac simile reprint from the 1960 publication… read more[Not in series, 207] 2016. ix, 702 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
New Approaches to English Linguistics: Building bridges
Edited by Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja and Sarah Chevalier
This book aims at providing a cross-section of current developments in English linguistics, by tracing recent approaches to corpus linguistics and statistical methodology, by introducing new inter- and multidisciplinary refinements to empirical methodology, and by documenting the on-going emphasis… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 177] 2016. vi, 326 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Periphery – Diachronic and Cross-Linguistic Approaches
Edited by Yuko Higashiizumi, Noriko O. Onodera and Sung-Ock S. Sohn
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 17:2 (2016) v, 175 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Quantifying Expressions in the History of German: Syntactic reanalysis and morphological change
Dorian Roehrs and Christopher D. Sapp
This study describes the 1200-year history of German quantifying expressions like nîoman anderro > niemand anderer ‘nobody else’, analyzing the morpho-syntactic developments within the generative framework. The quantifiers examined arose from various lexical sources/categories (nouns, adjectives,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 230] 2016. xvii, 299 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation
Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese, Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni
The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation. They all share the assumption that within the language faculty the variation space is hierarchically constrained and that minimal changes in the set of property values defining each language give rise to diverse outputs… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 234] 2016. vii, 376 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Adverbs: Functional and diachronic aspects
Edited by Karin Pittner, Daniela Elsner and Fabian Barteld
Adverbs as a word class are notoriously difficult to define. The volume deals with the delimitation of this category, its internal structure, the morphological make-up of adverbs and their positions in syntactic structures. A closer look at diachronic developments sheds light on the characteristics… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 170] 2015. v, 275 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse
Edited by Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl
This volume explores the dynamics of genre conventions in historical English news discourse. The contributions cover a wide spectrum of news writing and publication formats: from corantos to modern tabloids, from prototypical hard news stories and crime reports to more specialised genres such as… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 5] 2015. xiv, 254 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer and Spike Gildea
Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 18] 2015. xi, 263 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Diachrony of Grammar
T. Givón
The case-studies assembled in these two volumes span a lifetime of research into the diachrony of grammar. That is, into the rise and fall of syntactic constructions and their attendant grammatical morphology. While focused squarely on the data, the studies are nonetheless cast in an explicit… read more[Not in series, 192] 2015. 928 pp. (Hb in 2 vols.)
Other subjects Evolution of language | Syntax
The Diachrony of Infinitival Patterns: Their origin, development and loss
Edited by Ulrike Demske and Łukasz Jędrzejowski
Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 5:1 (2015) v, 174 pp.
Early Germanic Languages in Contact
Edited by John Ole Askedal and Hans Frede Nielsen †
This volume contains revised and, in some cases, extended versions of twelve of the fourteen lectures read at the conference on “Early Germanic Languages in Contact” held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense on 22-23 August 2013 – with a paper and a review article added at the end on… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 27] 2015. x, 304 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change
Edited by Janne Bondi Johannessen † and Joseph C. Salmons
This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The… read moreOther subjects Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Grammatical Change in English World-Wide
Edited by Peter Collins
The contributions to this volume apply and extend the techniques of corpus linguistics and diachronic linguistics to the challenge of describing and explaining grammatical change in varieties of English world-wide. The book is divided into two parts, with ten chapters on ‘Inner Circle’ varieties… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 67] 2015. vi, 488 pp.
Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013
Edited by Dag T.T. Haug
The International Conference on Historical Linguistics is the main conference for specialists in language change, and the 2013 conference in Oslo drew more than 300 participants, with 182 papers presented in the general session. The 16 papers selected for inclusion in this volume from the general… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 334] 2015. ix, 327 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Edited by Paula Prescod
This collection is a pioneer study of linguistic phenomena in St Vincent and the Grenadines, written by scholars who are both respected in their field of research and connected to the linguistic realities in the geographic area under investigation. This book covers the subfields of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G51] 2015. xv, 191 pp.
Language Variation - European Perspectives V: Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim, June 2013
Edited by Eivind Torgersen, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland
Language Variation – European Perspectives V is based on papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), which was held in Trondheim, Norway from 26 to 28 June 2013. The 17 papers included in the book explore phonetic and phonological variation… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 17] 2015. xiii, 240 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language and Material Culture
Allison Paige Burkette
This innovative and provocative work introduces complexity theory and its application to both the study of language and the study of material culture. The book begins with a wide-ranging theoretical background, covering the areas of dialect geography, the anthropological study of material culture,… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 38] 2015. xvii, 192 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | English linguistics | Lexicography | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
Edited by Dirk Delabastita and Ton Hoenselaars
No literary tradition in early modern Europe was as obsessed with the interaction between the native tongue and its dialectal variants, or with ‘foreign’ languages and the phenomenon of ‘translation’, as English Renaissance drama. Originally published as a themed issue of English Text Construction … read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 73] 2015. viii, 215 pp.
New Directions in Grammaticalization Research
Edited by Andrew D.M. Smith, Graeme Trousdale and Richard Waltereit
The articles in this volume examine a number of critical issues in grammaticalization studies, including the relationship between grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, subjectification and intersubjectification, and grammaticalization and language contact. The contributions consider data from… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 166] 2015. xv, 302 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Norn im keltischen Kontext
Christer Lindqvist
Auch die Britischen Inseln waren von der wikingerzeitlichen Expansion ab dem 8. Jh. betroffen. Nördlich und westlich des dänischen Danelag in England entstanden norwegische Siedlungen auf den Shetland- und Orkneyinseln, in Nordschottland, auf den Hebriden, an der schottischen und nordenglischen… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 26] 2015. xxii, 261 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Germanic linguistics
On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change
Edited by Hendrik De Smet, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde
In much writing on language change, there is a tacit assumption that change operates on a single source construction to produce an innovative target construction. This volume challenges this assumption, by showing that many changes involve interactions between multiple source constructions. In… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 79] 2015. v, 227 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Perspectives on Historical Syntax
Edited by Carlotta Viti
This volume discusses topics of historical syntax from different theoretical perspectives, ranging from Indo-European studies to generative grammar, functionalism, and typology. It examines mechanisms of syntactic change such as reanalysis, analogy, grammaticalization, independent drift, and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 169] 2015. vi, 346 pp.
Other subjects Syntax
Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development
Edited by Leonid Kulikov and Nikolaos Lavidas
Although for some scholars the very possibility of syntactic reconstruction remains dubious, numerous studies have appeared reconstructing a variety of basic elements of Proto-Indo-European syntax based on evidence available particularly from ancient and/or archaic Indo-European languages. The… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 75] 2015. v, 158 pp.
Other subjects Syntax
South Pacific Englishes: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan English and Cook Islands English
Carolin Biewer
Second-language varieties of English in the South Pacific have received scant attention, until now. This monograph offers the first book-length analysis of the sociolinguistics and morphosyntax of three representatives of South Pacific L2 English in comparison – two of which have never been… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G52] 2015. xvi, 351 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English
Edited by Marina Dossena
The volume presents an innovative approach to studies in Late Modern English by giving attention to variation and change in varieties of English on both sides of the Atlantic. As new corpora become available, scholarly interests broaden their horizons to encompass varieties, the history of which… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 4] 2015. vii, 221 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | History of linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology
Edited by Natalie Operstein and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein
Zapotec languages present a wide range of lexical, morphological, phonological, and syntactic means of indicating valence changes. Despite their significant theoretical interest, detailed descriptions of valence-changing phenomena in Zapotec are rare, comparative studies are practically… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 110] 2015. xiii, 385 pp.
Other subjects Languages of North America | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles
Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:2 (2014) v, 253 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Beyond ‘Khoisan’: Historical relations in the Kalahari Basin
Edited by Tom Güldemann and Anne-Maria Fehn
Greenberg’s (1954) concept of a ‘Khoisan’ language family, while heartily embraced by non-specialists, has been harshly criticized by linguists working on these languages. Evidence for Greenberg's hypothesis has proved to be seriously insufficient and little progress has been made in the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 330] 2014. xii, 331 pp.
Other subjects Other African languages | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Phonology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Colour Studies: A broad spectrum
Edited by Wendy Anderson, Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough and Christian Kay
This volume presents some of the latest research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines. Many are represented here, including anthropology, archaeology, the fine arts, linguistics, onomastics, philosophy, psychology and vision science. The chapters have been… read more[Not in series, 191] 2014. xiv, 417 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language
Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English
Edited by Simone E. Pfenninger, Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier
The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change, (socio)linguistic research on variation, and contact linguistics. Drawing on a range of recently-developed methodological innovations, such… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 159] 2014. vi, 326 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen
Diachronic corpus pragmatics extends the pragmatic perspective to developments in the history of various languages and uses corpus-linguistic methods to trace them. The chapters in this volume focus on linguistic elements at several levels, from individual words to phrases, clauses and entire… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 243] 2014. viii, 335 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
The Diachrony of Negation
Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti
Despite intensive research, negation remains elusive. Its expression across languages, its underlying cognitive mechanisms, its development across time, and related phenomena, such as negative polarity and negative concord, leave many unresolved issues of both a definitional and a substantive… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 160] 2014. v, 258 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond
Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch
This two-part volume provides a collection of 27 linguistic studies and contributions that shed light on the evolution of different Englishes world-wide (varieties, learner Englishes, dialects, creoles) from a broad spectrum of different perspectives, including both synchronic and diachronic… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G49] 2014. xviii, 513 pp.
Grammatical Variation and Change in Jersey English
Anna Rosen
Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on a specially compiled corpus of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G48] 2014. xii, 237 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Grammaticalization – Theory and Data
Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Ekkehard König
Since the 1980s theories and studies of grammaticalization have provided a major source of inspiration for the description and explanation of language change, giving rise to many publications and conferences. This collection presents original, empirical studies that explore various facets of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 162] 2014. viii, 293 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
A History of the English Language: Revised edition
Elly van Gelderen
The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most suggestions brought up by users and reviewers have been incorporated, for instance, a… read more[Not in series, 183] 2014. xx, 338 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Language Contact, Inherited Similarity and Social Difference: The story of linguistic interaction in the Maya lowlands
Danny Law
This book offers a study of long-term, intensive language contact between more than a dozen Mayan languages spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Southern Mexico and Belize. It details the massive restructuring of syntactic and semantic organization, the calquing of grammatical patterns, and the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 328] 2014. xi, 206 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Contact Linguistics | Languages of North America
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Letters as Loot: A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch
Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal
The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of letters focussing on a unique collection of Dutch private letters from… read moreOther subjects Germanic linguistics | History of linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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
Other subjects Morphology | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective
Edited by Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche
Historical sociolinguistics has successfully challenged the traditional focus on standardization in linguistic historiography. Extensive research on newly uncovered textual resources has shown the widespread variation in the written language of the past that was previously hidden or neglected. The… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 3] 2014. viii, 334 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Old Northumbrian Verbal Morphosyntax and the (Northern) Subject Rule
Marcelle Cole
This volume provides both a quantitative statistical and qualitative analysis of Late Northumbrian verbal morphosyntax as recorded in the Old English interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels. It focuses in particular on the attestation of the subject type and adjacency constraints that… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 25] 2014. xvii, 286 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Paradigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Walter Bisang
This book is concerned with comparing morphological paradigms between languages in order to establish areal and genealogical relationships. The languages in focus are the Transeurasian languages: Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages. World-eminent experts in diachronic… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 161] 2014. xix, 345 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax
Political Argumentation in the United States: Historical and contemporary studies. Selected essays by David Zarefsky
David Zarefsky
In the United States, political argumentation occurs in institutionalized settings and the broader public forum, in efforts to resolve conflict and efforts to foster it, in settings with time limits and controversies that extend over centuries. From the ratification of the U.S. Constitution to the… read more[Argumentation in Context, 7] 2014. x, 386 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Popular News Discourse: American and British newspapers 1833-1988
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 15:2 (2014) v, 172 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Sociolinguistics of Grammar
Edited by Tor A. Åfarli and Brit Mæhlum
The aim of this book is to investigate and attain new insights on how and to what extent the wider sociolinguistic context of language use and contact impinges on formal grammatical structures. The papers contained in the book approach this important problem from various points of view by focusing… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 154] 2014. v, 260 pp.
Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl
Convergence, i.e. the increase of inter-systemic similarities, is usually considered the default development in language contact situations. This volume focuses on the other logical possibilities of diachronic development, namely stability and divergence – two well-attested, but under-researched… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 16] 2014. vi, 298 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Nikolas Gisborne and Willem B. Hollmann
Cognitive linguistics has an honourable tradition of paying respect to naturally occurring language data and there have been fruitful interactions between corpus data and aspects of linguistic structure and meaning. More recently, dialect data and sociolinguistic data collection methods/theoretical… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 67] 2014. v, 262 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Unity and Diversity in West Germanic, III
Edited by Hans Frede Nielsen † and Patrick V. Stiles
Special issue of NOWELE 67:1 (2014) v, 129 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change
Edited by Evie Coussé and Ferdinand von Mengden
Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has always been recognized in this framework, but has never received central attention. It is the main aim of this book to fill this gap. Once we recognize that usage… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 69] 2014. v, 275 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers
Edited by Elly van Gelderen, Jóhanna Barðdal and Michela Cennamo
The present volume is centered around five linguistic themes: argument structure and encoding strategies; argument structure and verb classes; unexpressed arguments; split intransitivity; and existential and presentational constructions. The articles also cover a variety of typologically different… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 131] 2013. viii, 578 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Communities of Practice in the History of English
Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk and Andreas H. Jucker
Languages change and they keep changing as a result of communicative interactions and practices in the context of communities of language users. The articles in this volume showcase a range of such communities and their practices as loci of language change in the history of English. The notion of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 235] 2013. vii, 291 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories
Edited by Gabriele Diewald, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer
This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories, even though they… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 138] 2013. vi, 318 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis
Edited by Hilde Hasselgård, Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling
A hallmark of corpus linguistics is the study of patterns of language use. The studies presented in this volume all use corpora to investigate patterns of lexis from various perspectives. The first section, “Sequence and Order”, presents theoretical and practical aspects of the linguist’s task of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 57] 2013. viii, 299 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology
Edited by Parth Bhatt and Tonjes Veenstra
It is generally assumed that Creole languages form a separate category from the rest of the world’s languages. The papers in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars in the field of Creole studies, seek to explore more deeply this commonly held assumption by comparing the… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 57] 2013. v, 279 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects
Edited by Ilja A. Seržant and Leonid Kulikov
This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal mechanisms and triggers for various changes that non-canonical subjects undergo, ranging from semantic motivations to purely structural… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 140] 2013. xxv, 364 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs
Edited by Folke Josephson and Ingmar Söhrman
This volume applies a diachronic perspective to the verb and mainly deals with typological change affecting tense, aspect, mood and modality in a variety of Indo-European languages (Latin, Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Hittite, and Semitic) and the non-Indo-European Turkic,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 134] 2013. viii, 443 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey
Edited by Tim Thornes, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop and Joana Jansen
Contributions from both well-known practitioners and new voices in the areas of language typology, historical linguistics, and function-based approaches to language description define this volume, as does its foci in two major geographical areas — southeast Asia and northwestern North America. All… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 103] 2013. xviii, 294 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
German Colour Terms: A study in their historical evolution from earliest times to the present
William Jervis Jones
This monograph provides, for the first time, a comprehensive historical analysis of German colour words from early beginnings to the present, based on data obtained from over one thousand texts.Part 1 reviews previous work in colour linguistics. Part 2 describes and documents the formation of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 119] 2013. xiv, 663 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | History of linguistics | Lexicography
Historical Linguistics 2011: Selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011
Edited by Ritsuko Kikusawa and Lawrence A. Reid
This volume of selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Osaka, Japan, July 2011) presents a set of stimulating and ground-breaking studies on a wide range of languages and language families. As the scope of studies that can be characterized as ‘Historical… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 326] 2013. ix, 337 pp.
In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque
Edited by Terje Lohndal
This volume in honor of Jan Terje Faarlund covers the areas in which he has contributed to linguistic theorizing, ranging from in-depth studies of Norwegian and Scandinavian grammar both synchronically and diachronically, to work on the Indian language Chiapas Zoque. The book is organized… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 202] 2013. vi, 361 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Languages of South America | Theoretical linguistics
Insular Toponymies: Place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island
Joshua Nash
How do people name places on islands? Is toponymy in small island communities affected by degrees of connection to larger neighbours such as a mainland? Are island (contact) languages and mainland languages different in how they are used in naming places? How can we conceptualise the human-human… read more[Culture and Language Use, 9] 2013. xiv, 302 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Lexicography | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Investigation of the Origin of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language: New edition of the 1993 English translation by Niels Ege
Rasmus Rask (1787–1832)
This edition constitutes a reprint of Niels Ege’s English translation of Rasmus Rask’s prize essay of 1818, which appeared as volume XXVI in the Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague in 1993. The prize essay was published in Danish in 1818. In contrast to other works by Rask, notably his… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 18] 2013. *lv , xii, 289 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | History of linguistics
Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols
Edited by Balthasar Bickel, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake
What is the range of diversity in linguistic types, what are the geographical distributions for the attested types, and what explanations, based on shared history or universals, can account for these distributions? This collection of articles by prominent scholars in typology seeks to address these… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 104] 2013. viii, 512 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
The Macregol Gospels or The Rushworth Gospels: Edition of the Latin text with the Old English interlinear gloss transcribed from Oxford Bodleian Library, MS Auctarium D. 2. 19
Edited by Kenichi Tamoto
This work is composed of two parts. The first or introductory part, contains a palaeographical discussion about Bodleian Library, MS Auctarium D.2.19, that is to say, the MacRegol Gospels or the Rushworth Gospels, edited by Kenichi Tamoto, and which forms the second and main part of this book. The… read more[Not in series, 180] 2013. cxxxix, 339 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho
Uncovering the meaning of individual words or entire texts is a complex process that needs to take into consideration the multiple interactions of linguistic organization including orthography, morphology, syntax and, ultimately, pragmatics. The papers in this volume pay close attention to these… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 148] 2013. vii, 348 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Metaphor across Time and Conceptual Space: The interplay of embodiment and cultural models
James J. Mischler, III
Contemporary linguistic forms are partially the product of their historical antecedents, and the same is true for cognitive conceptualization. The book presents the results of several diachronic corpus studies of conceptual metaphor in a longitudinal and empirical “mixed methods” design, employing… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 3] 2013. xv, 237 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
New Perspectives on the Origins of Language
Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen
The question of how language emerged is one of the most fascinating and difficult problems in science. In recent years, a strong resurgence of interest in the emergence of language from an evolutionary perspective has been helped by the convergence of approaches, methods, and ideas from several… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 144] 2013. xvi, 582 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language | Theoretical linguistics
On Language Diversity and Relationship from Bibliander to Adelung
George J. Metcalf
From the Renaissance onwards, European scholars began to collect and study the various languages of the Old and the New Worlds. The recognition of language diversity encouraged them to explain how differences between languages emerged, why languages kept changing, and in what language families they… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 120] 2013. viii, 181 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | History of linguistics
Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development
Guest-edited by Leonid Kulikov and Nikolaos Lavidas
Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 3:1 (2013) v, 152 pp.
The Regularity of the 'Irregular' Verbs and Nouns in English
Elena Even-Simkin and Yishai Tobin
This volume presents an in-depth study of the so-called irregular Past Tense (sing/sang) and Noun Plural (foot/feet) forms with Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in English demonstrating that they possess both a fixed phonological and semantic regularity. The innovative sign-oriented analysis and… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 66] 2013. xvii, 273 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Phonology | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Shared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Hubert Cuyckens
This book offers fresh perspectives on “shared grammaticalization”, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammaticalization process in common. While contact-induced grammaticalization has generated great interest in recent years, far less attention has been paid… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 132] 2013. xv, 360 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
The Structure of Discourse-Pragmatic Variation
Heike Pichler
Everyday language use overflows with discourse-pragmatic features. Their frequency, form and function can vary greatly across social groups and change dramatically over time. And yet these features have not figured prominently in studies of language variation and change. The Structure of… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 13] 2013. xxi, 276 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface
Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli
The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and linguistic variation. What has traditionally been treated as a dichotomy is now seen rather in terms of a dynamic interface. The contributions… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 133] 2013. xi, 450 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents
Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Gijsbert Rutten
The study of ego-documents figures as a prominent theme in cutting-edge research in the Humanities. Focusing on private letters, diaries and autobiography, this volume covers a wide range of different languages and historical periods, from the sixteenth century to World War I. The volume stands out… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 1] 2013. vii, 279 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | History of linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Unity and Diversity in West Germanic, I
Edited by Hans Frede Nielsen † and Patrick V. Stiles
Special issue of NOWELE 66:1 (2013) v, 128 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Unity and Diversity in West Germanic, II
Edited by Hans Frede Nielsen † and Patrick V. Stiles
Special issue of NOWELE 66:2 (2013) v, 126 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from corpus linguistics
Edited by Julia Bamford, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani
This book focuses on aspects of variation and change in language use in spoken and written discourse on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive insights, and new methods of utilising small specialized corpora for the description of language variation and change. The sixteen… read more[Dialogue Studies, 21] 2013. xiii, 290 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events
Edited by Juliana Goschler and Anatol Stefanowitsch
The linguistic typology of motion event encoding is one of the central topics in Cognitive Linguistics. A vast body of typological, contrastive, and psycholinguistic research has shown the potential, but also the limitations of the original distinction between verb-framed and satellite-framed… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 41] 2013. x, 251 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Women's Epistolary Utterance: A study of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611
Graham T. Williams
Located at the intersection of historical pragmatics, letters and manuscript studies, this book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611. It investigates multiple ways in which socio-culturally and socio-familially contextualized reading of particular… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 233] 2013. ix, 266 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Pragmatics
Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles
Edited by Nicholas Faraclas
This book is a ‘must read’ for those who are looking for fresh perspectives on the process of creolization of language. Focusing on peoples whose agency has too often been rendered invisible in colonial and neo-colonial history and on voices which have too often been silenced in linguistic accounts… read more[Creole Language Library, 45] 2012. xiii, 246 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Astronomy ‘playne and simple’: The writing of science between 1700 and 1900. Including CD-Rom: A Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA)
Edited by Isabel Moskowich and Begoña Crespo
This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA), together with a number of pilot studies using these texts showing how the corpus can be used to investigate English Astronomy writing between 1700… read more[Not in series, 173] 2012. xi, 240 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art
Edited by Peter Ackema, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest for syntactic theory… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 191] 2012. xvi, 418 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change
Edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler
Much theorizing in language change research is made without taking into account dialect data. Yet, dialects seem to be superior data to build a theory of linguistic change on, since dialects are relatively free of standardization and therefore more tolerant of variant competition in grammar. In… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 128] 2012. vi, 297 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Discourse Markers in Early Modern English
Ursula Lutzky
This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three corpora (A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 227] 2012. ix, 293 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008. Volume II: Words, texts and genres
Edited by Hans Sauer and Gaby Waxenberger
The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al. 2010). Nine concentrate on the development of the English vocabulary and six on historical text linguistics, including the development of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 324] 2012. xviii, 271 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010
Edited by Irén Hegedűs and Alexandra Fodor
The volume brings together seventeen peer-reviewed, revised papers originally presented at the 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), held in August 2010 at the University of Pécs, Hungary. This selection aims to show how theoretical and empirical approaches can… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 325] 2012. viii, 386 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
From Space to Time: A cognitive analysis of the Cora locative system and its temporal extensions
Eugene H. Casad
Eugene Casad’s posthumous monograph is an in-depth study of the TIME IS SPACE metaphor in Cora – an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the state of Nayarit, Mexico – within the framework of Ronald Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar. The author provides an introduction to Cora speakers and their history, and… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 39] 2012. xxvii, 263 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Languages of North America | Theoretical linguistics
Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections
Edited by Kristin Davidse, Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems and Tanja Mortelmans
This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification. It addresses topical issues relating to the motivations, sources, defining features,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 130] 2012. viii, 342 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Historical Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, 10-14 August 2009
Edited by Ans M.C. van Kemenade and Nynke de Haas
The International Conference on Historical Linguistics has always been a forum that reflects the general state of the art in the field, and the 2009 edition, held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, fully allows the conclusion that the field has been thriving over the years. The studies presented in this… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 320] 2012. xxi, 404 pp.
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.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Initiation of Sound Change: Perception, production, and social factors
Edited by Maria-Josep Solé and Daniel Recasens
The origins of sound change is one of the oldest and most challenging questions in the study of language. The goal of this volume is to examine current approaches to sound change from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including articulatory variation and modeling, speech… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 323] 2012. x, 250 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics
Edited by Ulrich Busse and Axel Hübler
The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to, i.e. historical metapragmatics. More particularly, the collected papers apply a meta-communicative approach to historical texts by focusing on lexis that either directly or… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 220] 2012. vii, 292 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Language Contact and Development around the North Sea
Edited by Merja Stenroos, Martti Mäkinen and Inge Særheim
This volume brings together eleven studies on the history of language and writing in the North Sea area, with focus on contacts and interchanges through time. Its range spans from the investigation of pre-Germanic place-names to present-day Shetland; the materials studied include glosses, legal and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 321] 2012. xvi, 235 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe
Edited by Marina Dossena and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in correspondence both as a literary genre and as cultural practice, and several studies have appeared, mainly spanning the centuries between Early and Late Modern times. However, it is between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the roots… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 218] 2012. vii, 254 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Make Peace and Take Victory: Support verb constructions in Old English in comparison with Old Irish
Patricia Ronan
This corpus-based study examines the use of support verb constructions in Old English and Old Irish. It determines in how far these constructions can be seen as a means to offer semantic specification of existing verbal expressions. The study further investigates whether support verb constructions… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 24] 2012. xiv, 251 pp.
Other subjects Celtic languages | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax
Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A multi-dimensional approach
Edited by Manfred Markus, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson
This book brings together a variety of approaches to English corpus linguistics and shows how corpus methodologies can contribute to the linking of diachronic and synchronic studies. The articles in this volume investigate historical changes in the English language as well as specific aspects of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 50] 2012. viii, 287 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh
Edited by Søren Wichmann and Anthony P. Grant
Quantitative methods in linguistics, which the protean American structuralist linguist Morris Swadesh introduced in the 1950s, have become increasingly popular and have opened the world of languages to interdisciplinary approaches. The papers collected here are the work not only of descriptive and… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 46] 2012. x, 182 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.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview
Edited by Bernard Comrie and Zarina Estrada-Fernández
Patterns of relative clause formation tend to vary according to the typological properties of a language. Highly polysynthetic languages tend to have fully nominalized relative clauses and no relative pronouns, while other typologically diverse languages tend to have relative clauses which are… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 102] 2012. xiii, 307 pp.
Other subjects Languages of North America | Languages of South America | Syntax | Typology
Relative Clauses in Time and Space: A case study in the methods of diachronic typology
Rachel Hendery
This book presents a comprehensive survey of historically attested relative clause constructions from a diachronic typological perspective. Systematic integration of historical data and a typological approach demonstrates how typology and historical linguistics can each benefit from attention to… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 101] 2012. xii, 281 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Roots of Afrikaans: Selected writings of Hans den Besten
Edited by Ton van der Wouden
Hans den Besten (1948-2010) made numerous contributions to Afrikaans linguistics over a period of nearly three decades. His writings helped shift the perspective on the roots of Afrikaans beyond Dutch to the structure and vocabulary of Khoekhoe, to Portuguese Creole, and to Malay varieties. This… read more[Creole Language Library, 44] 2012. vii, 458 pp.
Other subjects Creole studies | Germanic linguistics
Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European History
Edited by Matthias Hüning, Ulrike Vogl and Olivier Moliner
This volume explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. It argues that, over the centuries, the pursuit of linguistic homogeneity has become a central aspect of the mindset of Europeans. In its extreme form, it became manifest in the principle of 'one language, one state, one… read more[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 1] 2012. ix, 339 pp.
Other subjects Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Transmission of Anglo-Norman: Language history and language acquisition
Richard P. Ingham
This investigation contributes to issues in the study of second language transmission by considering the well-documented historical case of Anglo-Norman. Within a few generations of the establishment of this variety, its phonology diverged sharply from that of continental French, yet core syntactic… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 9] 2012. xii, 179 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness: Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures
Edited by Marcel Bax and Dániel Z. Kádár
Exploring a largely uncharted territory of cultural history and linguistic ethnography, Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness offers in-depth analyses and perceptive interpretations of the conveyance of social-relational meaning in times (long) past and across historical cultures.A collection of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 41] 2012. vi, 283 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An introduction. Second edition
Robert S.P. Beekes
This book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through Armenian and Albanian) and a… read more[Not in series, 172] 2011. xxiv, 415 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
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.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Connecting Grammaticalisation
Jens Nørgård-Sørensen, Lars Heltoft and Lene Schøsler
This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. What unites morphology, topology (word… read moreOther subjects Functional linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics
Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Makoto Minegishi and Wolfgang Viereck
Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony. They recognize that synchrony can be motivated regionally (diatopic variation), sociolinguistically (diastratic variation), or stylistically (diaphasic variation). But,… read more[Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 3] 2011. vi, 293 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Creoles and Typology
Edited by Parth Bhatt and Tonjes Veenstra
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:1 (2011) v, 233 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Development of Grammar: Language acquisition and diachronic change. In honour of Jürgen M. Meisel
Edited by Esther Rinke and Tanja Kupisch
This volume focuses on different aspects of language development. The contributions are concerned with similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition, the acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories, cross-linguistic influence in bilingual first language… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 11] 2011. viii, 414 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their… read more[Not in series, 161] 2011. xviii, 421 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Contact Linguistics | Other African languages
Historical Sociopragmatics
Edited by Jonathan Culpeper
Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:2 (2009), this is the first book to map out historical sociopragmatics, a multidisciplinary field located within historical pragmatics, but overlapping with socially-oriented fields, such as sociolinguistics and critical… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 31] 2011. vii, 135 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociology
Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations
Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden
The studies in Language Change in Contact Languages showcase the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understanding of phenomena such as relexification, transfer, reanalysis, grammaticalization, prosodic variation and the development of prosodic systems. Four of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 36] 2011. v, 241 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Typology
Loanwords in Japanese
Mark Irwin
Loanwords in Japanese is the first monograph in a Western language to offer a systematic and coherent overview of the vast number of words borrowed into Japanese since the mid-16th century. Its publication is timely given the fact that the loanword stratum’s recent exponential growth has given rise… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 125] 2011. xix, 276 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Morphology | Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives
Edited by Svenja Kranich, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House
This volume presents discourse production in multilingual contexts as a specific type of language contact situation. Translation may be seen as the prototypical type of multilingual discourse production, other types would include parallel text production in different languages (e.g. for websites)… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 12] 2011. viii, 312 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies
NOWELE Volume 62/63 (October 2011): Language and literacy in early Scandinavia and beyond
Edited by Michael Schulte and Robert Nedoma
Special issue of NOWELE 62/63 (2011) 441 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
New Directions in Colour Studies
Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough, Christian Kay and David R. Simmons
Colour studies attracts an increasingly wide range of scholars from across the academic world. Contributions to the present volume offer a broad perspective on the field, ranging from studies of individual languages through papers on art, architecture and heraldry to psychological examinations of… read more[Not in series, 167] 2011. xii, 462 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language
Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives
Edited by Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona
Research on nominalization, a process that gives rise to referring expressions, has always played a central role in linguistic investigations. Over the years there has also been growing evidence that nominalization constructions often extend to non-referential domains. They participate in… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 96] 2011. xvii, 796 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar
Marco Schilk
This book contains the first in-depth corpus-based description of structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface in Indian English, the largest institutionalized second-language variety of English world-wide. For a set of three ditransitive verbs give, send and offer –collocational… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 46] 2011. xiii, 182 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
Studies on German-Language Islands
Edited by Michael T. Putnam
The contributions in this volume present cutting-edge theoretical and structural analyses of issues surrounding German-language islands, or Sprachinseln, throughout the world. The individual topics of study in this volume focus on various aspects of these German-language islands such as (but not… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 123] 2011. xii, 477 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED)
Merja Kytö, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker
Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England examines various aspects of the witness depositions comprising An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED) on the accompanying CD-ROM.ETED combines modern corpus linguistic methodology and editorial theory, and makes available… read more[Not in series, 162] 2011. xxi, 360 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)
The Typology of Asian Englishes
Edited by Lisa Lim and Nikolas Gisborne
When considering the structure of New Englishes which have evolved in – multilingual, mostly post-colonial – contexts of Asia (thus, Asian Englishes), the significant factors to be considered are: 1) the variety/ies of the English lexifier that entered the local context; 2) the nature of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 33] 2011. vii, 120 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | English linguistics | Syntax | Typology
Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness
Edited by Marcel Bax and Dániel Z. Kádár
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12:1/2 (2011) vi, 313 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German
Christopher D. Sapp
This research monograph is an empirical and theoretical study of clause-final verbal complexes in the history of German. The book presents corpus studies of Middle High German and Early New High German and surveys of contemporary varieties of German. These investigations of the verbal complex… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 173] 2011. ix, 225 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Chain of Being and Having in Slavic
Steven J. Clancy
The complex diachronic and synchronic status of the concepts be and have can be understood only with consideration of their full range of constructions and functions. Data from modern Slavic languages (Russian, Czech, Polish, Bulgarian) provides a window into zero copulas, non-verbal have… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 122] 2010. xvii, 297 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta
The corpus Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT) is the second component of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (CEEM), a three-part series of historical corpora of medical writing from 1375-1800. EMEMT contains a two-million word representative sample of the entire field of English… read more[Not in series, 160] 2010. xv, 370 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Pragmatics
English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008.. Volume I: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions
Edited by Ursula Lenker, Judith Huber and Robert Mailhammer
The fourteen studies selected for this volume – all of them peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics 2008 (23–30 August) at the University of Munich – investigate syntactic variation and change in the history of English from… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 314] 2010. vii, 281 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research
Edited by An Van linden, Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Kristin Davidse
This collective volume focuses on the crucial role of formal evidence in recognizing and explaining instances of grammaticalization. It addresses the hitherto neglected issue of system-internal factors steering grammaticalization and also revisits formal recognition criteria such as Lehmann and… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 94] 2010. viii, 344 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale
This volume, which emerged from a workshop at the New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 conference held at KU Leuven in July 2008, contains a collection of papers which investigate the relationship between synchronic gradience and the apparent gradualness of linguistic change, largely from the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 90] 2010. ix, 306 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Grammaticalization: Current views and issues
Edited by Katerina Stathi, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König
This volume contains a selection of papers on grammaticalization from a broad perspective. Some of the papers focus on basic concepts in grammaticalization research such as the concept of 'grammar' as the endpoint of grammaticalization processes, erosion, (uni)directionality, the relation between… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 119] 2010. vii, 379 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Grimm Language: Grammar, Gender and Genuineness in the Fairy Tales
Orrin W. Robinson
Grimm Language addresses a number of issues in the Grimms’ fairy tales from a (Germanic) linguist’s point of view. In sections dealing with the Grimms’ use of regional dialect material, various grammatical constructions, and specific nouns and adjectives in their Children’s and Household Tales, the… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 10] 2010. xi, 190 pp.
Language Contact: New perspectives
Edited by Muriel Norde, Bob de Jonge and Cornelius Hasselblatt
The study of languages in contact is an ever-relevant topic in linguistics, especially at present times when increasing globalization leads to a number of new contact situations. This volume features ten papers on various aspects of language contact by leading specialists in the field. In these… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 28] 2010. vii, 225 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
NOWELE Volume 58/59 (June 2010): The Gothic Language
Edited by Hans Frede Nielsen † and Flemming Talbo Stubkjær
Special issue of NOWELE 58/59 (2010) 459 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions
Edited by John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts and Tomonori Matsushita
For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co.The general aim of the Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals is investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages, such as… read more[The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals, 2] 2010. vii, 225 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Pidgins and Creoles in Asian Contexts
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 25:1 (2010) v, 199 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh
Edited by Søren Wichmann and Anthony P. Grant
Special issue of Diachronica 27:2 (2010) v, 168 pp.
Representations and Othering in Discourse: The construction of Turkey in the EU context
Beyza Ç. Tekin
This volume examines the construction of Turkey's possible European Union accession in French political discourse. In today's France, heated debates regarding Turkey's EU membership are turning into an essential part of European identity formation. Once again, the 'Turkish Other' functions as a… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 39] 2010. xi, 268 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English
Edited by Päivi Pahta, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin
This volume presents a ground-breaking overview of the interconnections between socio-cultural reality and language practices, by looking at the different ways in which social roles are performed, maintained, adopted and assigned through linguistic means. The introductory chapter discusses and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 195] 2010. viii, 241 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives
Edited by Mirjam Fried, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
The ten volumes of the Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, cultural,… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 6] 2010. x, 275 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation
Susann Fischer
This book presents a new perspective on the interaction between word-order and grammaticalisation by investigating the changes that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have undergone in Romance (Catalan, French, Spanish) as compared to Germanic (English, Icelandic). It discusses a great deal of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 157] 2010. ix, 200 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Contemporary Indian English: Variation and change
Andreas Sedlatschek
Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change offers the first comprehensive description of Indian English and its emerging regional standard in a corpus-linguistic framework. Drawing on a wealth of authentic spoken and written data from India (including the Kolhapur Corpus and the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G38] 2009. xix, 363 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Juliane House
This book deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations. It provides insights into the various forms of language contact and the conditions under which bilingual speakers master their every-day life in bilingual communities.… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 8] 2009. viii, 241 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Cyclical Change
Edited by Elly van Gelderen
Linguistic Cycles are ever present in language change and involve a phrase or word that gradually disappears and is replaced by a new linguistic item. The most well-known cycles involve negatives, where an initial single negative, such as not, is reinforced by another negative, such as no thing,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 146] 2009. viii, 329 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker
In Early Modern Britain, new publication channels were developed and new textual genres established themselves. News discourse became increasingly more important and reached wider audiences, with pamphlets as the first real mass media. Newspapers appeared, first on a weekly and then on a daily… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 187] 2009. vii, 227 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Formulaic Language: Volume 1. Distribution and historical change
Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley
This book is the first of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first ones in the field. The book draws attention to the ritualized, repetitive side of language, which to some estimates make up over 50% of spoken and written text. While in the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 82] 2009. xxiv, 315 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals
Edited by John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts, Tomonori Matsushita and Hiroshi Hasegawa
For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals has as its general aim the investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages,… read more[The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals, 1] 2009. v, 213 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends
Edited by Rachel Selbach, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg
Is creolization an abrupt or a gradual process? In this volume leading scholars provide both comparative and case studies that outline their working definitions and their views on the particular or average time depth, or key processes necessary for contact language formation, providing a… read more[Creole Language Library, 34] 2009. x, 392 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages: Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European Linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007
Edited by Vit Bubenik, John Hewson and Sarah Rose
The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 305] 2009. xx, 262 pp.
Other subjects Other Indo-European languages
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.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007
Edited by Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis and Etleva Vocaj
For more than three decades, the International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) has been characterized by diversity, both in terms of the theoretical frameworks used by its researchers and the wide variety of languages that are analyzed. ICHL 18, which took place at the Université du… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 308] 2009. x, 311 pp.
Historical Sociopragmatics
Edited by Jonathan Culpeper
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:2 (2009) 145 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Instructional Writing in English: Studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen
Edited by Matti Peikola, Janne Skaffari and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 189] 2009. xiii, 240 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Pragmatics
Interactive Dialogue Sequences in Middle English Drama
Gabriella Mazzon
This book looks at mediaeval English drama using the theoretical frameworks of historical sociopragmatics and dialogue analysis. It focuses on the collection of cycle plays known as the N.Town Plays, preserved in a manuscript from the fifteenth century. The book examines various linguistic markers… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 185] 2009. ix, 228 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary
Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.
This is the first text book to offer a comprehensive approach to Old Frisian. Part One begins with a succinct survey of the history of the Frisians during the Middle Ages, their society and literary culture. Next follow chapters on the phonology, morphology, word formation and syntax of Old Frisian. read more[Not in series, 147] 2009. xii, 237 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800)
Edited by Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin
The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research. The volume contains nine studies and an introductory essay which discuss linguistic and social variation and change over four centuries. Each study… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 183] 2009. vii, 312 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
More Support for More-Support: The role of processing constraints on the choice between synthetic and analytic comparative forms
Britta Mondorf
This book provides the most comprehensive account so far of novel and hitherto unexplained factors operative in the choice between synthetic (prouder) and analytic (more proud ) comparatives. It argues that the underlying motivation in using the analytic variant is to mitigate processing demands –… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 4] 2009. xi, 222 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Morphology | Psycholinguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case
Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal and Shobhana L. Chelliah
The aim of this volume is to bring non-syntactic factors in the development of case into the eye of the research field, by illustrating the integral role of pragmatics, semantics, and discourse structure in the historical development of morphologically marked case systems. The articles represent… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 108] 2009. xx, 432 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Morphology | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages
Edited by James N. Stanford and Dennis R. Preston
Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics.… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 25] 2009. vii, 519 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Constructional Reorganization
Edited by Jaakko Leino
The present volume consists of several novel and different applications of the Construction Grammar framework to areas such as language change, variation, and the internal organization of grammar. The book is a collection of articles which bring together the framework of Construction Grammar and… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 5] 2008. vi, 155 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Diachrony of Complex Predication
Edited by Claire Bowern
Special issue of Diachronica 25:2 (2008) 147 pp.
The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen
Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the ‘life cycle’ of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range from electronic corpora to the internet. In the spirit of the 1968 Weinreich, Labov and Herzog classic, the fifteen contributions divide… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 2] 2008. viii, 339 pp.
English Adjective Comparison: A historical perspective
Victorina González-Díaz
The present work contributes to a better understanding of the English system of degree by means of a study of a number of aspects in the evolution of adjective comparison that have so far either been considered controversial or not been accounted for at all. As will be shown, the diachronic aspects… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 299] 2008. xix, 252 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English
Edited by Marina Dossena, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti
The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, lexis and semantics, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on geo-historical… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 297] 2008. xiii, 197 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21-25 August 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology & Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change & Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English (3 vols. set)
Edited by Marina Dossena, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti
These three volumes contain selections of revised papers, originally presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Bergamo 2006). The volumes focus, respectively, on syntax and morphology, lexis and semantics, and geo-historical variation. The papers,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295-297] 2008. ca. 760 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Lexicography | Morphology | Semantics | Syntax
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change
Edited by Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena
The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, and dialectology, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on semantics, pragmatics… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 296] 2008. xiii, 264 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Lexicography | Pragmatics | Semantics
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology
Edited by Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena and Richard Dury
The papers selected for this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). At that important event, alongside studies of phonology, lexis, semantics and dialectology (presented in two companion volumes in this series), many… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295] 2008. xiv, 259 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a typology of lexical semantic associations
Edited by Martine Vanhove
This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered together field linguists, semanticists, cognitivists, typologists, and an NLP specialist. These cross-linguistic studies concern semantic shifts at large, both synchronic and diachronic: the outcome of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 106] 2008. xiii, 404 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers
Edited by Thórhallur Eythórsson
This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The overall theme of the volume is ‘internal factors in grammatical change.’ The papers focus on… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 113] 2008. vi, 441 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax
In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology. In honor of Harold Crane Fleming
Edited by John D. Bengtson
Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of… read more[Not in series, 145] 2008. xxiv, 476 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Anthropology | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses
Edited by Folke Josephson and Ingmar Söhrman
The focus of this volume is the interdependence of diachrony and synchrony in the investigation of syntactic structure. A diverse set of modern and ancient languages is investigated from this perspective, including Hittite, the Classical languages, Old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 103] 2008. viii, 350 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Language Change and Variation in Gibraltar
David Levey
While much has been written about Gibraltar from historical and political perspectives, sociolinguistic aspects have been largely overlooked. This book describes the influences which have shaped the colony’s linguistic development since the British occupation in 1704, and the relationship between… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 23] 2008. xxii, 192 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language Contact and Contact Languages
Edited by Peter Siemund and Noemi Kintana
This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented newcomers. It has two principal aims: to analyze language contact from different perspectives – notably those of language typology,… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 7] 2008. x, 358 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch
Edited by Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli
This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] 2008. x, 364 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
NOWELE Volume 54/55 (October 2008): Early and Pre-Historic Language Development in North-Western Europe
Special issue of NOWELE 54/55 (2008) 352 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Naturalness and Iconicity in Language
Edited by Klaas Willems and Ludovic De Cuypere
Iconicity and naturalness remain controversial concepts in recent linguistic research. The present volume aims to scrutinize unresolved issues of iconicity and naturalness in language. The studies discuss topics such as naturalism in the philosophy of language and the epistemology of linguistics,… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 7] 2008. ix, 249 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Semantics | Semiotics | Theoretical linguistics
New-Dialect Formation in Canada: Evidence from the English modal auxiliaries
Stefan Dollinger
This book details the development of eleven modal auxiliaries in late 18th- and 19th-century Canadian English in a framework of new-dialect formation. The study assesses features of the modal auxiliaries, tracing influences to British and American input varieties, parallel developments, or Canadian… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 97] 2008. xxii, 355 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction
Edited by Gisella Ferraresi and Maria Goldbach
This is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in the field of syntactic reconstruction. It treats a range of topics which are representative of current debates in historical syntax. The novelty and merit of the present book is, the editors believe, that, in contrast to most previous work on… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 302] 2008. xvii, 219 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Productivity: Evidence from Case and Argument Structure in Icelandic
Jóhanna Barðdal
Productivity of argument structure constructions is a new emerging field within cognitive-functional linguistics. The term productivity as used in linguistic research contains at least three subconcepts: ‘extensibility’, ‘regularity’, and ‘generality’. The focus in this study of case and argument… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 8] 2008. xiii, 209 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects
Edited by Bjarke Frellesvig and John Whitman
Proto-Japanese is the reconstructed language stage from which all later varieties of Japanese, including Ryukyuan, descend. It has been studied both as an end in itself (as the genetic code of the Japanese language) and as part of endeavors to clarify the genetic affiliation of Japanese. Based on… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 294] 2008. vii, 229 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives
Edited by María José López-Couso and Elena Seoane
This volume and its companion one Theoretical and empirical issues in grammaticalization offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held in Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. From the rich programme of the conference (over 120… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 76] 2008. x, 355 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Rethinking Grammaticalization. New perspectives & Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization
Edited by María José López-Couso and Elena Seoane
These two volumes offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held in Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. From the rich programme of the conference (over 120 papers), the twelve contributions included in this volume were carefully… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 76-77] 2008. 742 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates
Edited by Susanne Maria Michaelis
This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual historical circumstances under which the pidgin and creole languages arose. The contributions deal with different areas of language… read more[Creole Language Library, 33] 2008. xvii, 425 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Speech Acts in the History of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did they negotiate them in case of uncertainty? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this volume in innovative case studies… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 176] 2008. viii, 318 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
St Helenian English: Origins, evolution and variation
Daniel Schreier
This volume provides the first-ever sociolinguistic analysis of English on the island of St Helena, the oldest variety of English in the Southern Hemisphere. It is based on a concise synchronic profile of the variety (describing its segmental phonology and morphosyntax) and an evaluation of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G37] 2008. xv, 312 pp.
Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization
Edited by Elena Seoane and María José López-Couso
This volume and its companion oneRethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held at the University of Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. The overall aim of the book is to enrich our… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 77] 2008. x, 367 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Beiträge zur Morphologie: Germanisch, Baltisch, Ostseefinnisch
Herausgegeben von Hans Fix
Der vorliegende Band, der auf ein interdisziplinäres Symposion Morphologische Probleme in den Sprachen der Ostseeanrainer im September 2005 am Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald zurückgeht, enthält Beiträge von Norbert Endres (Greifswald), Frank Heidermanns (Köln), Arend Quak (Amsterdam),… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 23] 2007. viii, 484 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Uralic languages
Connectives in the History of English
Edited by Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin
Clausal connection is one of the key building blocks of language and thus a field where a wide range of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and cognitive phenomena meet. The availability of large databases as well as considerable advances in corpus-linguistic methods have strengthened the interest in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 283] 2007. viii, 318 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective
Edited by Paolo Ramat and Elisa Roma
This volume is a collection of 12 papers which originated from a research project on ‘Europe and the Mediterranean from a linguistic point of view: history and prospects’. The papers deal with specific morphosyntactic aspects of language structure and evolution. The comparative perspective is… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 88] 2007. xxvi, 364 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Typology
Historical Changes in Japanese: Subjectivity and intersubjectivity
Edited by Noriko O. Onodera and Ryoko Suzuki
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8:2 (2007) 176 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005
Edited by Joseph C. Salmons and Shannon Dubenion-Smith
This volume contains 22 revised papers originally presented at the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held August 2005 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The papers cover a broad range of languages, including well-studied languages of Europe but also Aramaic, Zoque and Uto-Aztecan,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 284] 2007. viii, 413 pp.
Irregularities in Modern English: Second edition revised by Erik Hansen
Hans Frede Nielsen † and Erik W. Hansen
This book, which appeared first in a Danish version in 1980 and subsequently in an English translation in 1986, reverses the history of the English language: it takes present-day English ‘irregularities’ in grammar and spelling as its point of departure, providing historical explanations only to… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 2] 2007. xii, 382 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley
Edited by Jeff Siegel, John Lynch and Diana Eades
This volume in memory of Terry Crowley covers a wide range of languages: Australian, Oceanic, Pidgins and Creoles, and varieties of English. Part I, Linguistic Description and Typology, includes chapters on topics such as complex predicates and verb serialization, noun incorporation, possessive… read more[Creole Language Library, 30] 2007. xv, 514 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Languages of Australasia and the Pacific
Letter Writing
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
The contributions in this book discuss letter-writing from 1400 to 1800, and the material studied ranges from the late medieval Paston Letters and the correspondence between Sweden and the German Hanse to Early Modern English family letters and correspondence in natural history between England and… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 1] 2007. viii, 160 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence
Edited by Elisabeth Stark, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham
The following theoretical-empirical points on the DP are discussed: Article and its referential-anaphoric properties by Abraham (Determiners in Centering Theory); Bartra (On bare NPs in Old Spanish and Catalan); identification of all functional nominal categories by Stvan (Bare singular count… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 89] 2007. viii, 370 pp.
The Nonverbal Shift in Early Modern English Conversation
Axel Hübler
This is the first historical investigation on the nonverbal component of conversation. In the courtly society of 16th and 17th century England, it is argued that a drift appeared toward an increased use of prosodic means of expression at the expense of gestural means. Direct evidence is provided by… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 154] 2007. x, 281 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Norse-derived Vocabulary in late Old English Texts: Wulfstan's works, a case story
Sara M. Pons-Sanz
This book focuses on the Norse-derived vocabulary in the works of Archbishop Wulfstan II of York (d. 1023). A considerable advantage derives from studying Wulfstan's compositions because, unlike most Old English texts, they are closely dateable and, to a certain extent, localizable. Thus, they… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 22] 2007. xviii, 318 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Studies on Old High German Syntax: Left sentence periphery, verb placement and verb-second
Katrin Axel-Tober
This monograph is the first book-length study on Old High German syntax from a generative perspective in twenty years. It provides an in-depth exploration of the Old High German pre-verb-second grammar by answering the following questions: To what extent did generalized verb movement exist in Old… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 112] 2007. xii, 364 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Substrate Influence in Creole Formation
Edited by Bettina Migge and Norval Smith
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:1 (2007) 200 pp.
Other subjects Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages
Edited by Magnus Huber and Viveka Velupillai
This collection of selected conference papers from three SPCL meetings brings together a cross-fertilization of approaches to the study of contact languages. The articles are grouped into three coherent sections dealing with, respectively, phonetics and phonology, including Optimality Theory;… read more[Creole Language Library, 32] 2007. xii, 370 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics
Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues: Trials, Depositions, and Drama Comedy
Terry Walker
This book is a corpus-based study examining thou and you in three speech-related genres from 1560–1760, a crucial period in the history of second person singular pronouns, spanning the time from when you became dominant to when thou became all but obsolete. The study embraces the fields of corpus… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 158] 2007. xx, 339 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
The Chinese Rime Tables: Linguistic philosophy and historical-comparative phonology
Edited by David Prager Branner
This book, the first in its field in a Western language, examines China’s native phonological tool with regard to reconstruction, theory, and linguistic philosophy.After an introductory essay on the nature of the tables and the history of their interpretation, the book concentrates on three areas:… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 271] 2006. viii, 358 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
Competing Models of Linguistic Change: Evolution and beyond
Edited by Ole Nedergaard Thomsen
The articles of this volume are centered around two competing views on language change originally presented at the 2003 International Conference on Historical Linguistics in the two important plenary papers by Henning Andersen and William Croft. The latter proposes an evolutionary model of language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 279] 2006. vi, 344 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages
John Hewson and Vit Bubenik
In the historical development of many languages of the IE phylum the loss of inflectional morphology led to the development of a configurational syntax, where syntactic position marked syntactic role. The first of these configurations was the adposition (preposition or postposition), which… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 280] 2006. xxx, 419 pp.
Historical Courtroom Discourse
Edited by Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 7:2 (2006) 160 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
A History of the English Language
Elly van Gelderen
THIS INFORMATION REFERS TO AN OLD EDITION. This exceptionally clear text focuses on internal changes in the English language. It outlines the history of English from pre-Old English times to the present. Not only does it present the traditional morphological descriptions of the various stages of… read more[Not in series, 135] 2006. xviii, 334 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
History, Society and Variation: In honor of Albert Valdman
Edited by J. Clancy Clements, Thomas A. Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen and Kevin J. Rottet
This volume presents a collection of new articles by sixteen specialists in the field of pidgin and creole studies, assembled in honor of the world-renowned creolist, Albert Valdman. The articles, written from a variety of theoretical perspectives, are organized thematically in three sections: on… read more[Creole Language Library, 28] 2006. vi, 304 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Interfaces with English Aspect: Diachronic and empirical studies
Debra Ziegeler
The field of verbal aspect has been a focus for the derivation of a multiplicity of theoretical approaches ranging over decades of linguistic research. From the point of view of recent studies, though, there has been relatively little emphasis on the nature of the interaction of aspect with other… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 82] 2006. xvi, 325 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at ‘Heartland’ English
Edited by Thomas E. Murray and Beth Lee Simon
This volume explores the linguistic complexities and critical issues of the Midland dialect area of the USA, and contains a unique data-based set of investigations of the Midlands dialect. The authors demonstrate that the large central part of the United States known colloquially as the Heartland,… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G36] 2006. xii, 320 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and culture & Volume II. Psychological aspects (set)
Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Christian Kay and Nicola Pitchford
These two volumes offer a fascinating glimpse into the current avenues of research into colour. The majority of the papers originated in a 2004 conference held in Glasgow, U.K.; some additional invited papers are included. The contributions to both books represent reviews of state-of-the-art colour… read more[Not in series, PICS S] 2006. xii, 223 pp. & xiv, 237 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and culture
Edited by Carole P. Biggam and Christian Kay
Along with its companion volume, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the current avenues of research into colour, a phenomenon which daily affects all our lives in often surprising ways. The majority of the papers originated in a 2004 conference entitled ‘Progress in Colour Studies’ which… read more[Not in series, PICS 1] 2006. xii, 223 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Lexicography | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Structure and Variation in Language Contact
Edited by Ana Deumert and Stephanie Durrleman
This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions reflect – from various perspectives and using different types of data – on the interplay between structure and variation in contact… read more[Creole Language Library, 29] 2006. viii, 376 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies
Types of Variation: Diachronic, dialectal and typological interfaces
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen
This volume interfaces three fields of linguistics rarely discussed in the same context. Its underlying theme is linguistic variation, and the ways in which historical linguists and dialectologists may learn from insights offered by typology, and vice versa. The aim of the contributions is to raise… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 76] 2006. viii, 378 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Variation and Reconstruction
Edited by Thomas D. Cravens
The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected. The articles in the present volume consider this relationship from a number of different angles, with a number of different focuses. Several of the papers discuss evidence… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 268] 2006. viii, 223 pp.
Vocative Constructions in the Language of Shakespeare
Beatrix Busse
This study investigates the functions, meanings, and varieties of forms of address in Shakespeare’s dramatic work. New categories of Shakespearean vocatives are developed and the grammar of vocatives is investigated in, above, and below the clause, following morpho-syntactic, semantic,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 150] 2006. xviii, 525 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Written Reliquaries: The resonance of orality in medieval English texts
Leslie K. Arnovick
Written Reliquaries: The resonance of orality in medieval English texts establishes the linguistic component of orality and oral tradition. The relics it examines are traces of spoken performance, artifacts of linguistic and cultural processes. Seven case studies animate verbal acts of making… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 153] 2006. xii, 292 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Creole Language in Creole Literatures
Edited by Susanne Mühleisen
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 20:1 (2005) 232 pp.
Other subjects Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Dialects Across Borders: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002
Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Marjatta Palander and Esa Penttilä
Nonstandard varieties of languages have recently become an object of new interest in scholarly research. This is very much due to the advances in the methods used in data collection and analysis, as well as the emergence of new language-theoretical frameworks. The articles in this volume stem from… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 273] 2005. xii, 291 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in English
Heidi Quinn
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Modern English pronoun case. The author examines case trends in a wide range of syntactic constructions and concludes that case variation is confined to strong pronoun contexts. Data from a survey of 90 speakers provide new insights into the distributional… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 82] 2005. xii, 409 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Dublin English: Evolution and change
Raymond Hickey
The present book describes the English language in all its facets as spoken in present-day Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland. It covers the entire range of its history since the first arrival of English there several hundred years ago. Apart from the evolution of English in the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G35] 2005. x, 270 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers
Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Corinne Rossari
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:2 (2005) 179 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
From Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154–1776
Hans Frede Nielsen †
From Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154–1776 is the second volume of a set of three offering a comprehensive survey of what by the author is seen as the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and America. read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 21] 2005. xx, 300 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003
Edited by Michael Fortescue, Eva Skafte Jensen, Jens Erik Mogensen and Lene Schøsler
This volume consists of 19 papers presented at the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which was held in August 2003 in Copenhagen and drew the largest number of participants and the widest array of languages that this important biannual conference has ever had. As with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 257] 2005. x, 319 pp.
Middle English Medical Texts
Compiled by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Martti Mäkinen
Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT) is an electronic corpus including 86 texts and 495,322 words from three traditions of medical writing (surgical treatises, specialized texts, and remedy books) from 1375 to 1500, and an appendix of recipes from c. 1330. MEMT provides a new research resource for… read more[Not in series, 131] 2005. CD-ROM
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
NOWELE Volume 46/47 (June 2005): Papers on Scandinavian and Germanic Language and Culture
Special issue of NOWELE 46/47 (2005) 273 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past
Edited by Janne Skaffari, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita Wårvik
This volume presents a variety of pragmatic and discourse analytical approaches to a wide range of linguistic data and historical texts, including data from English, French, Irish, Latin, and Spanish. This diversity of research questions and methods is a feature of the field of historical… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 134] 2005. x, 418 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Questions and Answers in the English Courtroom (1640–1760): A sociopragmatic analysis
Dawn Archer
This book belongs to the rapidly growing field of historical pragmatics. More specifically, it aims to lend definition to the area of historical sociopragmatics. It seeks to enhance our understanding of the language of the historical courtroom by documenting changes to the discursive roles of the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 135] 2005. xiv, 374 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Rise of Agreement: A formal approach to the syntax and grammaticalization of verbal inflection
Eric Fuß
This book investigates the historical paths leading from pronouns to markers of verbal agreement and proposes a unified formal account of this grammaticalization process. In opposition to beliefs widely held in the literature, it is argued that new agreement formatives can be coined in a multitude… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 81] 2005. xii, 336 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method
Edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch
This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages ‘different’ in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can subgrouping be… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 249] 2004. xii, 377 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Other subjects Australian languages | Electronic/Multimedia Products
Categorization in the History of English
Edited by Christian Kay and Jeremy J. Smith
The papers in this volume are linked by a common concern, which is at the centre of current linguistic enquiry: how do we classify and categorize linguistic data, and how does this process add to our understanding of linguistic change? The scene is set by Aitchison’s paper on the development of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 261] 2004. viii, 268 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax
Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English
Edited by Hans Lindquist and Christian Mair
Grammaticalization is an important concept in general and typological linguistics and a prominent type of explanation in historical linguistics. For historical corpus linguists, grammaticalization theory provides a frame of orientation in their effort to analyze and systematize a fast-accumulating… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 13] 2004. xiv, 264 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications
Edited by Geneviève Escure and Armin Schwegler
This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of… read more[Creole Language Library, 27] 2004. x, 355 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar
Edited by Eric Fuß and Carola Trips
This volume emphasizes a new line of thinking in generative grammar which acknowledges that certain synchronic properties of languages can only be fully understood if diachronic data is taken into consideration. The central topics addressed in this collection of papers are (1) a critical assessment… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 72] 2004. viii, 228 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Grammaticalization as Economy
Elly van Gelderen
This book provides much detail on the changes involving the grammaticalization of personal and relative pronouns, topicalized nominals, complementizers, adverbs, prepositions, modals, perception verbs, and aspectual markers. It accounts for these changes in terms of two structural economy… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 71] 2004. xv, 318 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Claire Lefebvre
The content of this book is concerned with various issues at stake in Creole studies that are also of interest for general linguistics. These include the general issue of Creole genesis and of the accelerated linguistic change that characterizes the emergence of these languages as compared to… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 70] 2004. xvi, 358 pp.
Other subjects Creole studies
Japanese Discourse Markers: Synchronic and diachronic discourse analysis
Noriko O. Onodera
This book is one of the pioneering historical pragmatic studies of Japanese. It closely illustrates the usage and contributions of some Japanese discourse markers, and reveals their developmental history. The section on Synchronic Analysis explores the previously uninvestigated functions of some… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 132] 2004. xiv, 253 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
Language Standardization and Language Change: The dynamics of Cape Dutch
Ana Deumert
Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or ‘Cape Dutch’ as it was then called) are… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 19] 2004. xx, 361 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia
Edited by Edward J. Vajda
The twelve articles in this volume describe Yeniseic, Samoyedic and Siberian Turkic languages as a linguistic complex of great interest to typologists, grammarians, diachronic and synchronic linguists, as well as cultural anthropologists. The articles demonstrate how interdependent the disparate… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 262] 2004. x, 275 pp.
Other subjects Altaic languages | Balto-Slavic linguistics
Letter Writing
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5:2 (2004) iv, 181 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume II: Lexis and Transmission
Edited by Christian Kay, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon
This is the second of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The first is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (1): Syntax and Morphology. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 252] 2004. xii, 271 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Lexicography | Phonology | Semantics
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology Volume II: Lexis and Transmission
Edited by Christian Kay
Together these two volumes provide an overview of many of the issues that are currently engaging practitioners in the field of English historical linguistics. In the first volume, the primary concern is with the historical grammar of English. Some papers take a broad overview of the subject,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 251-252] 2004. 559 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Lexicography | Morphology | Phonology | Semantics | Syntax
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology
Edited by Christian Kay, Simon Horobin and Jeremy J. Smith
This is the first of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The second is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (2): Lexis and Transmission. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 251] 2004. x, 262 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Syntax
Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics: In honor of William R. Schmalstieg
Edited by Philip Baldi and Pietro U. Dini
This collection of twenty-nine research papers is dedicated to the eminent Balticist, Slavicist and Indo-Europeanist, William R. Schmalstieg in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains contributions by specialists of mainly Baltic and Indo-European linguistics which are reflective… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 254] 2004. xlvi, 302 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics
Studies in Stemmatology II
Edited by Pieter van Reenen, August den Hollander and Margot van Mulken
Stemmatology is the discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts. The object of this volume is the evaluation of the most recent methods and techniques in the field of stemmatology, as well as the development… read more[Not in series, 125] 2004. xii, 312 pp.
Other subjects Medieval literature & literary studies
Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization
Edited by Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon
The basic idea behind this volume is to probe the nature of grammaticalization. Its contributions focus on the following questions: (i) In how far can grammaticalization be considered a universal diachronic process or mechanism of change and in how far is it conditioned by synchronic factors? (ii)… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 59] 2004. viii, 406 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Gisella Ferraresi
This volume gives an up-to-date account of various situations of language contact and multilingualism in Europe especially from a historical point of view. Its ten contributions present newly collected data from different parts of the continent seen through diverse theoretical perspectives. They… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 2] 2003. viii, 289 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Creole Formation as Language Contact: The case of the Suriname Creoles
Bettina Migge
The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20 years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the processes and mechanisms that… read more[Creole Language Library, 25] 2003. xii, 151 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson
Edited by Dee Ann Holisky and Kevin Tuite
This volume is a collection of seventeen papers, on languages of all three indigenous Caucasian families as well as other languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Several papers are concerned with diachronic questions, either within individual families, or at deeper time depths. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 246] 2003. xxviii, 426 pp.
Other subjects Altaic languages | Balto-Slavic linguistics | Caucasian languages | Theoretical linguistics
Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker
Address term systems and their diachronic developments are discussed in a wide range of European languages in this volume. Most chapters focus on pronominal systems, and in particular on the criteria that govern the choices between a more intimate and a more distant or polite pronoun, as for… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 107] 2003. vii, 441 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to modern
Edited by Risto Hiltunen and Janne Skaffari
Covering nearly one thousand years, this volume explores medieval and modern English texts from fresh perspectives. Within the relatively new field of historical discourse linguistics, the synchronic analysis of large textual units and consideration of text-external features in relation to… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 119] 2003. viii, 243 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present
Edited by Ana Deumert and Wim Vandenbussche
This volume presents a comparative, socio-historical study of the Germanic standard languages (Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Low German, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish as well as the Caribbean and Pacific Creole languages). Each of the 16… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 18] 2003. vi, 480 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Grammaticalisation: Le cas des prépositions locatives
Sous la direction de Michèle Goyens et Walter De Mulder
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 25:2 (2003) iv, 185 pp.
Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13–17 August 2001
Edited by Barry J. Blake and Kate Burridge
This is a selection of papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held in Melbourne 13-17 August 2001, hosted by the Linguistics Program at La Trobe University. The papers range from the general theoretical to the study of particular languages and embrace most areas of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 237] 2003. ix, 442 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Language Contacts in Prehistory: Studies in Stratigraphy. Papers from the Workshop on Linguistic Stratigraphy and Prehistory at the Fifteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 17 August 2001
Edited by Henning Andersen
Every language includes layers of lexical and grammatical elements that entered it at different times in the more or less distant past. Hence, for periods preceding our earliest historical documentation, linguistic stratigraphy — the systematic study of such layers — may yield information about the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 239] 2003. viii, 292 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics
The Making of a Mixed Language: The case of Ma’a/Mbugu
Maarten Mous
The Mbugu (or Ma'á) language (Tanzania) is one of the few genuine mixed languages, reputedly combining Bantu grammar with Cushitic vocabulary. In fact the people speak two languages: one mixed and one closely related to the Bantu language Pare. This book is the first comprehensive description of… read more[Creole Language Library, 26] 2003. xx, 322 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Media and Language Change
Edited by Susan C. Herring
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4:1 (2003) iv, 159 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases: The expression of semantic roles in Ancient Greek
Silvia Luraghi
Prepositions and cases constitute a fruitful field of research for semantics. The historical development of their meaning can shed light on the relations among the semantic roles of participants and on the organization of conceptual space. Ancient Greek allows an in-depth study of such development.… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 67] 2003. xii, 366 pp.
Other subjects Other Indo-European languages | Semantics
Ritual Language Behaviour
Edited by Marcel Bax
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4:2 (2003) iv, 185 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Skandinavisch-schottische Sprachbeziehungen im Mittelalter: Der altnordische lehneinfluss
Susanne Kries
Die Untersuchung stellt den ersten Versuch einer detaillierten Analyse der skandinavischen Lehnwörter im älteren Schottisch und im Mittelschottischen dar. Einzelne Kapitel widmen sich den unterschiedlichen semantischen Feldern, wobei sprachliche wie außersprachliche Bedingungen für die Entlehnung… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 20] 2003. xii, 500 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Bio-Linguistics: The Santa Barbara lectures
T. Givón
Is human language an evolutionary adaptation? Is linguistics a natural science? These questions have bedeviled philosophers, philologists and linguists from Plato through Chomsky. Prof. Givón suggests that the answers fall naturally within an integrated study of living organisms.In this new work,… read more[Not in series, 113] 2002. xviii, 383 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language | Functional linguistics | Typology
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.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Phonology | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000. Volume 1
Edited by Teresa Fanego, Javier Pérez-Guerra and María José López-Couso
This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present twelve papers were carefully selected to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 223] 2002. ix, 297 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Syntax
The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar: The formation of the resultative construction and its effects
Yuzhi Shi
This book investigates historical motivations for the emergence of the resultative construction in Chinese from the following four aspects: (a) disyllabification, (b)adjacent context, (c) semantic integrity, and (d) frequency of co-occurence of a pair of verb and resultative. The author also… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 59] 2002. xiv, 262 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English: A pragmatic approach
Susan Fitzmaurice
This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 95] 2002. viii, 263 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
From OV to VO in Early Middle English
Carola Trips
This monograph answers the question of why English changed from an OV to a VO language on the assumption that this change is due to intensive language contact with Scandinavian. It shows for the first time that the English language was much more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than assumed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 60] 2002. xiv, 359 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax
Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus: Morpho-syntactic variability of second person pronouns
Ulrich Busse
This study investigates the morpho-syntactic variability of the second person pronouns in the Shakespeare Corpus, seeking to elucidate the factors that underlie their choice. The major part of the work is devoted to analyzing the variation between you and thou, but it also includes chapters that… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 106] 2002. xiv, 344 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Pragmatics | Syntax
New Reflections on Grammaticalization
Edited by Ilse Wischer and Gabriele Diewald
The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues and raise a number of new questions that indicate the future direction of grammaticalization studies. The volume focuses on issues such as grammaticalization and lexicalization; the unidirectionality… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 49] 2002. xiv, 435 pp.
Other subjects Typology
Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000: Volume 1. English Historical Syntax and Morphology; Volume 2. Sounds, Words, Texts and Change. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso, Javier Pérez-Guerra, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane
These volumes offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela.From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the twelve papers in Volume 1 were carefully selected… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 223-224] 2002. x, 306 pp. & x, 310 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Syntax
Semitic and Indo-European: Volume II: Comparative morphology, syntax and phonetics
Saul Levin
This is a sequel to the author's Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies (1995). That volume provided the key examples of morphological correspondences between the Semitic and the Indo-European languages. In this sequel, the author analyzes correspondences of structure, either within a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 226] 2002. xviii, 592 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Comparative linguistics
Semitic and Indo-European: 2 Volumes (set)
Saul Levin
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 129+226] 2002. xxii, 514 pp. & xviii, 592 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Comparative linguistics
Sounds, Words, Texts and Change: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000. Volume 2
Edited by Teresa Fanego, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane
This volume and its companion one (English Historical Syntax and Morphology, CILT 223) offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 224] 2002. ix, 301 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
A Source Book for Irish English
Raymond Hickey
The current book intends to provide a flexible and comprehensive bibliographical tool to those scholars working or interested in Irish English. A whole range of references (approx. 2,500) relating to Irish English in all its aspects are gathered together here and in the majority of cases… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 27] 2002. xii, 541 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Standardization: Studies from the Germanic languages
Edited by Andrew R. Linn and Nicola McLelland
This volume presents fourteen case studies of standardization processes in eleven different Germanic languages. Together, the contributions confront problematic issues in standardization which will be of interest to sociolinguists, as well as to historical linguists from all language disciplines.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 235] 2002. xii, 258 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Actualization: Linguistic Change in Progress. Papers from a workshop held at the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, B.C., 14 August 1999
Edited by Henning Andersen
This collection of papers consolidates the observation that linguistic change typically is actualized step by step: any structural innovation being introduced, accepted, and generalized, over time, in one grammatical environment after another, in a progression that can be understood by reference to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 219] 2001. vii, 250 pp.
Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 2: Grammar and Typology
Edited by Östen Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European —Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 55] 2001. xx, 423 pp.
Other subjects Typology
Creolization and Contact
Edited by Norval Smith and Tonjes Veenstra
This volume contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at “The Amsterdam Workshop on Language Contact and Creolization.” These studies apply the concept of relexification to creoles as well as other contact languages; highlight the relevance of strategies of… read more[Creole Language Library, 23] 2001. vi, 323 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Paul J. Hopper
A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 45] 2001. vii, 492 pp.
Other subjects Psycholinguistics | Typology
Grammatical Relations in Change
Edited by Jan Terje Faarlund
The eleven selected contributions making up this volume deal with grammatical relations, their coding and behavioral properties, and the change that these properties have undergone in different languages. The focus of this collection is on the changing properties of subjects and objects, although… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 56] 2001. viii, 326 pp.
Other subjects Syntax
Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999
Edited by Laurel J. Brinton
This is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held August 9-13, 1999, at the University of British Columbia. From the rich program and the many papers given during this conference, the present twenty-three papers were carefully selected to display… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 215] 2001. xii, 389 pp.
Präteritumschwund und Diskursgrammatik: Präteritumschwund in gesamteuropäischen Bezügen: areale Ausbreitung, heterogene Entstehung, Parsing sowie diskursgrammatische Grundlagen und Zusammenhänge
Werner Abraham und C. Jac Conradie
This work demonstrates that what is commonly called preterite decay in Upper German (PS; cf. German Präteritumschwund) is in fact a phenomenon common to a great number of European languages, all of which are in areal con-tact. However, the conclusion that this is a phenomenon arising under areal… read more[Not in series, 103] 2001. xiv, 148 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Syntax
Reanimated Voices: Speech reporting in a historical-pragmatic perspective
Daniel E. Collins
Reanimated Voices addresses three activities: reporters evoking speech events; interpreters (re)constituting those speech events; and historical pragmaticians eavesdropping in time on the reporters and interpreters. Can one reconstruct aspects of pragmatic competence on the basis of written texts… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 85] 2001. xx, 380 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English
Edited by Sonja L. Lanehart
This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally. It explores the relationship between AAE and other varieties of English (namely Southern… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G27] 2001. xviii, 371 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Whose German?: The ach/ich alternation and related phenomena in ‘standard’ and ‘colloquial’
Orrin W. Robinson
The author addresses a number of issues in German and general phonology, using a specific problem in German phonology (the ach/ich alternation) as a springboard. These issues include especially the naturalness, or lack thereof, of the prescriptive standard in German, and the importance of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 208] 2001. xi, 169 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Phonology | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages
Edited by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh and Edgar W. Schneider
Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of “creole languages” itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical grounds? Can creolization be understood as a graded process, possibly resulting in different… read more[Creole Language Library, 22] 2000. iv, 492 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Diachronic Pragmatics: Seven case studies in English illocutionary development
Leslie K. Arnovick
The purpose of Diachronic Pragmatics is to exemplify historical pragmatics in its twofold sense of constituting both a subject matter and a methodology. This book demonstrates how diachronic pragmatics, with its complementary diachronic function-to-form mapping and diachronic form-to-function… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 68] 2000. xii, 191 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Diachronica 1984–1998: Index to Volumes I–XV
Compiled by David J. Holsinger
Since its start in 1984 the journal Diachronica has provided a forum for the presentation and discussion of information about all aspects of language change in any and all languages of the globe. This index covers the first 15 volumes, including articles, discussion notes, review articles, reviews… read more[Diachronica, 17:IND] 2000. vi, 66 pp.
English Media Texts – Past and Present: Language and textual structure
Edited by Friedrich Ungerer
This book is among the first to combine a historical view of media texts with a critical look at their textual diversity today. The thirteen chapters cover corpora of early news-papers and pamphlets, present-day news stories and commentaries, TV talk shows and commercials as well as internet… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 80] 2000. xiv, 286 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition: Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb
Edited by David G. Lockwood, Peter H. Fries and James E. Copeland
This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors range from cognitive approaches including Stratificational grammar to more socially oriented ones including Systemic Functional linguistics.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 163] 2000. xxxiv, 656 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Functional linguistics | History of linguistics
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.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Greek and Indo-European Etymology in Action: Proto-Indo-European *aǵ-
Raimo Anttila
This study resurrects the genre of Wortstudien contributions or lexilogus treatments, the core of historical lexical semantics. Such studies used to be quite popular, and interest in lexical matters is again rising. The word family around the Indo-European root *aǵ- ‘drive’ is placed against its… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 200] 2000. xii, 314 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Uralic languages
Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages.. Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995
Edited by John Charles Smith and Delia Bentley
This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance, Slavonic, Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European. A second volume, edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, contains papers on Germanic.read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 161] 2000. xii, 438 pp.
A History of English Reflexive Pronouns: Person, Self, and Interpretability
Elly van Gelderen
This book brings together a number of seemingly distinct phenomena in the history of English: the introduction of special reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself), the loss of verbal agreement and pro-drop, and the disappearance of morphological Case. It provides vast numbers of examples from Old and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 39] 2000. xiv, 277 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Semantics
Hypothetical Modality: Grammaticalisation in an L2 dialect
Debra Ziegeler
This book marks a new development in the field of grammaticalisation studies, in that it extends the field of grammaticalisation studies from relatively homogeneous languages to those possessing well-established and institutionalised second language varieties. In Hypothetical Modality, special… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 51] 2000. xx, 287 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles
Edited by John H. McWhorter
This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly… read more[Creole Language Library, 21] 2000. vii, 503 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language History: An introduction
Andrew L. Sihler
This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as prime subject or as background information, it should help students understand the assumptions and reasoning that underlie the contents of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 191] 2000. xvi, 298 pp.
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.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998
Edited by Julie Coleman and Christian Kay
The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic change and lexical innovation, interpreted within a sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. Many of the papers draw on the remarkable… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 194] 2000. xiv, 249 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Lexicography | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
New Zealand English
Edited by Allan Bell and Koenraad Kuiper
New Zealand English is currently one of the most researched varieties of English world-wide. This book presents an up-to-date account of all the major aspects of New Zealand English by leading scholars as well as younger specialists in each of the major fields of enquiry. The book is authoritative… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G25] 2000. 368 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English
Edited by Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein
There is a continual growth of interest among linguists of all-theoretical denominations in grammaticalization, a concept central to many linguistic (change) theories. However, the discussion of grammaticalization processes has often suffered from a shortage of concrete empirical studies from one… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 53] 2000. x, 391 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization
Edited by Spike Gildea
Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both. The methods and goals of each group seem largely distinct: comparative linguists have by and large avoided reconstructing grammar, while… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 43] 2000. xiv, 267 pp.
Other subjects Typology
Sound Mutations: The morphophonology of Chaha
Degif Petros Banksira
This monograph, which evolved from the first linguistic dissertation to be written on Chaha (an Ethiopian Semitic language), is also the first book to deal exclusively with the phonology and morphology of the language. It is an exhaustive description and analysis, by a native speaker, of the sound… read more[Not in series, 93] 2000. xxxii, 332 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Morphology | Phonology
Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time
Edited by Rosanna Sornicola, Erich Poppe and Ariel Shisha-Halevy
The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories. The interest in this theme has been revamped by contemporary research in typology with its emphasis on correlation or ‘harmonies’ of structures of word-order as… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 213] 2000. xxxii, 323 pp.
Other subjects Syntax
Textual Parameters in Older Languages
Edited by Susan C. Herring, Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler
Textual Parameters in Older Languages takes a contemporary approach to the inherent limitations of using older texts as data for linguistic analysis, drawing on methods of text analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to supplement traditional historical and philological methods. The focus of the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 195] 2000. x, 448 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
Word Order Change in Icelandic: From OV to VO
Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patterns. In this volume, the author both examines the various VP-word order patterns from a descriptive and statistical point of view and provides… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 35] 2000. xiv, 385 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax
Chinese Dialect Classification: A comparative approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu
Richard VanNess Simmons
This volume is an investigation and classification of dialects along the Wu and Jiang-Hwai Mandarin border in China's eastern Yangtze Valley. It is the first monograph-length study to critically question the traditional single criterion of initial voicing for the classification of Wu dialects and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 188] 1999. xviii, 317 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Sino-Tibetan languages
Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English
Edited by Laurel J. Brinton and Minoji Akimoto
The focus of this carefully selected volume concerns the existence, frequency, and form of composite/complex predicates (the “take a look” construction) in earlier periods of the English language, an area of scholarship which has been virtually neglected. The various contributions seek to… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 47] 1999. xiv, 283 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax
Demonstratives: Form, function and grammaticalization
Holger Diessel
All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 42] 1999. xii, 205 pp.
Other subjects Typology
The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner. Volume 1: Historiographical perspectives
Edited by Sheila Embleton, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe
Although it is widely thought that structural linguistics began abruptly with the publication of Saussure's 'revolutionary' Course in General Linguistics, the work of E. F. K. Koerner has demonstrated that Saussure, for all his originality, remained true to the basic tenets of his 19th-century… read more[Not in series, EMLS 1] 1999. lvi, 310 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner. Volume 2: Methodological perspectives and applications
Edited by Sheila Embleton, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe
Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of… read more[Not in series, EMLS 2] 1999. lvi, 335 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Morphology | Romance linguistics
External Possession
Edited by Doris L. Payne and Immanuel Barshi
External Possession Constructions (EPCs) are found in nearly all parts of the world and across widely divergent language families. The data-rich papers in this first-ever volume on EPCs document their typological variability, explore diachronic reasons for variations, and investigate their… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 39] 1999. ix, 573 pp.
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
The Roots of Old Chinese
Laurent Sagart
The phonology, morphology and lexicon of late Zhou Chinese are examined in this volume. It is argued that a proper understanding of Old Chinese morphology is essential in correctly reconstructing the phonology. Based on evidence from word-families, modern dialects and related words in neighboring… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 184] 1999. xi, 255 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Sino-Tibetan languages
Sociocultural Perspectives on Language Change in Diaspora: Soviet immigrants in the United States
David R. Andrews
This book is a sociolinguistic examination of the Russian speech of the American “Third Wave”, the migration from the Soviet Union which began in the early 1970s under the policy of détente. Within the framework of bilingualism and language contact studies, it examines developments in emigré… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 5] 1999. xviii, 182 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Adverbs of Degree in Dutch and Related Languages
Henny Klein
Adverbs of degree form an intriguing part of the lexicon: numerous, multiform and everchanging. They also show a great variety in distribution. In this study, the characteristics of adverbs of degree are investigated from a semantic point of view. The main focus is on Dutch, but previous studies… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 21] 1998. x, 232 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Semantics
The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154
Hans Frede Nielsen †
In conjunction with two other volumes, which are scheduled to appear later, The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154 aims at giving a comprehensive survey of what by the author is seen as the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 19] 1998. xiv, 234 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 2: Germanic linguistics. Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995
Edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen
The Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which is the major forum for the presentation of work in progress in the field of diachronic linguistics, took place at the University of Manchester in August 1995. The quality and breadth of the abstracts submitted for the general… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 162] 1998. x, 365 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Historical Linguistics 1997: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997
Edited by Monika S. Schmid, Jennifer R. Austin and Dieter Stein
This volume presents a selection from the papers given at the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. It offers a window on the current state of the art in historical linguistics: the papers cover a wide range of different languages, different language families, and different… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 164] 1998. x, 409 pp.
A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan (Apabhraṃśa)
Vit Bubenik
This monograph aims to close the gap in our knowledge of the nature and pace of grammatical change during the formative period of today’s Indo-Aryan languages. During the 6th-12th c. the gradual erosion of the synthetic morphology of Old Indo-Aryan resulted ultimately in the remodelling of its… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 165] 1998. xxiv, 265 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Other Indo-European languages | Syntax
Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence
Edited by Joseph C. Salmons and Brian D. Joseph
The “Nostratic” hypothesis — positing a common linguistic ancestor for a wide range of language families including Indo-European, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic — has produced one of the most enduring and often intense controversies in linguistics. Overwhelmingly, though, both supporters of the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 142] 1998. vi, 293 pp.
The Virtues of Language: History in language, linguistics and texts. Papers in memory of Thomas Frank
Edited by Dieter Stein and Rosanna Sornicola
The volume contains 13 specially written specialist articles on a wide range of subjects within the ambit of the history of the English language and prominent literary uses of it. In uniting linguistic and literary pursuits in a single volume, it follows the noble Neapolitan scholars research… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 87] 1998. viii, 232 pp.
Other subjects English literature & literary studies | History of linguistics
The “Broken” Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic: Allomorphy and analogy in non-concatenative morphology
Robert R. Ratcliffe
The formal aspects of non-concatenative morphology have received considerable attention in recent years, but the diachronic dimensions of such systems have been little explored. The current work applies a modern methodological and theoretical framework to a classic problem in Arabic and Semitic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 168] 1998. xii, 261 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Morphology
Demonstratives in Interaction: The emergence of a definite article in Finnish
Ritva Laury
This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative se is currently emerging as a definite article in spoken Finnish. This book describes… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 7] 1997. viii, 294 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Uralic languages
Friesische Studien III: Beiträge des Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie vom 11.–12. April 1996
Herausgegeben von Volkert F. Faltings, Alastair Walker und Ommo Wilts
Der vorliegende Band Friesische Studien III enthält die Referate von sechs Sprachwissenschaftlern aus den Niederlanden und Deutschland anläßlich des dritten Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie, das vom 11.–12. April 1996 in Alkersum auf Föhr stattfand. Die Beiträge befassen sich mit den… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 18] 1997. viii, 205 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
NOWELE Volume 31/32 (November 1997): Germanic Studies
Edited by Kurt Gustav Goblirsch, Martha Berryman Mayou and Marvin Taylor
Special issue of NOWELE 31/32 (1997) x, 528 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Problems in Organizing the Configuration of a Language Family: Edita and Inedita, 1979–1988. Volume III. Taken from program
Yakov Malkiel
Taken from the program. read more[Not in series, EAI 3] 1997. ca. 250 pp.
Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony
John Hewson and Vit Bubenik
This monograph presents a general picture of the evolution of IE verbal systems within a coherent cognitive framework. The work encompasses all the language families of the IE phylum, from prehistory to present day languages.Inspired by the ideas of Roman Jakobson and Gustave Guillaume the authors… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 145] 1997. xii, 403 pp.
The Typology and Dialectology of Romani
Edited by Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov
Contributions to this collection focus on the unity and diversity of the language of the Roma (Gypsies), the only Indic language spoken exclusively in Europe. Properties discussed include the distinct inflectional and derivational patterns applied to Asian and European lexical layers, the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 156] 1997. xxxii, 223 pp.
Other subjects Other Indo-European languages | Typology
Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory
Edited by Frans Hinskens, Roeland van Hout and W. Leo Wetzels
There is a growing awareness that a fruitful cooperation between the (diachronic and synchronic) study of language variation and change and work in phonological theory is both possible and desirable. The study of language variation and change would benefit from this kind of cooperation on the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 146] 1997. x, 314 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
A Concise Grammar of the Old Frisian Dialect of the First Riustring Manuscript
Dirk Boutkan
The language of the First Riustring Manuscript, dating from ca. 1300 AD, represents the most archaic stage of Old Frisian. The mainly legal texts are famous for their historical value. However, a grammatical treatise of this important codex is still lacking. This book is meant to meet this need. It… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 16] 1996. iv, 203 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Medieval literature & literary studies
English Historical Linguistics 1994: Papers from the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (8 ICEHL, Edinburgh, 19–23 September 1994)
Edited by Derek Britton
This volume offers a selection of 19 papers from those read at the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics in Edinburgh. Many of the writers are established authorities in the field, but there are also significant contributions from a younger generation of scholars. The… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 135] 1996. viii, 403 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Germanic Linguistics: Syntactic and diachronic
Edited by Rosina L. Lippi-Green and Joseph C. Salmons
This volume contains ten revised and expanded papers selected from the dozens presented at the last Michigan-Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, five contributions each from syntax (by Werner Abraham, Sarah Fagan, Isabella Barbier, John te Velde, and Ruth Lanouette) and historical linguistics… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 137] 1996. viii, 192 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
NOWELE Volume 28/29 (August 1996): A Frisian and Germanic Miscellany
Edited by Adeline Petersen and Hans Frede Nielsen †
Special issue of NOWELE 28/29 (1996) xlii, 597 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Nordfriesische Grabhügelnamen mit anthroponymem Erstglied: Zur form und flexion älterer nordfriesischer rufnamen
Volkert F. Faltings
Die vorliegende Monographie behandelt die nordfriesischen Grabhügelnamen und die darin enthaltenen Anthroponyme. Die sprachgeschichtliche Analyse des Namenmaterials stützt sich dabei auf ein vielschichtiges Quellenmaterial, wobei ein spezielles Augenmerk den morphologischen Merkmalen gilt.… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 14] 1996. vi, 186 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Old English Legal Language: The lexical field of theft
Jürg R. Schwyter
This corpus-based study examines the lexical field of theft in the Anglo-Saxon law-codes and documents containing reports of lawsuits (charters, writs, and some chapters of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle). The individual Old English lexemes are analysed not only in terms of their meaning, collocation… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 15] 1996. iv, 197 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Forensic & legal linguistics | Germanic linguistics
The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages: Proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloqium, Odense University, November 1994
Edited by Hans Frede Nielsen † and Lene Schøsler
The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages is the proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloquium held at Odense University, November 1994 read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 17] 1996. xi, 318 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Studies in Stemmatology
Edited by Pieter van Reenen and Margot van Mulken
This volume contains ten papers selected from among those presented at the annual Free University Stemmatological Colloquia 1990-93. Current issues in (automated) stemmatology, paleography and codicology are addressed from contemporary theoretical perspectives. All papers focus on new directions in… read more[Not in series, 79] 1996. xvi, 311 pp.
Other subjects Medieval literature & literary studies
Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An introduction
Robert S.P. Beekes
The book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, the first to appear in English. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through… read more[Not in series, 72] 1995. xxii, 376 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
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.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Drei Studien zum Germanischen in alter und neuer Zeit
Herausgegeben von John Ole Askedal, Harald Bjorvand und Ottar Grønvik
Der vorliegende Band ist ein Ergebnis der Arbeit im Bereich der vergleichen den germanischen Sprachwissenschaft am Germanistischen Institut der Universität Oslo. Im Beitrag von Harald Bjorvand wird gezeigt, daß die Zahl der maskulinen Verbalnomina mit i-Stamm bildung aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 13] 1995. vi, 146 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Friesische Studien II: Beiträge des Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie vom 7.–8. April 1994
Herausgegeben von Volkert F. Faltings, Alastair Walker und Ommo Wilts
Der vorliegende Band Friesische Studien II enthält die Referate von Wissenschaftlern unterschiedlicher Fachrichtungen aus Dänemark, Deutschland, Großbritannien und den Niederlanden anläßlich des zweiten Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie, das vom 7.–8. April 1994 in Alkersum auf der… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 12] 1995. vi, 221 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993
Edited by Henning Andersen
This volume contains a selection of 34 of the 96 papers presented at ICHL 1993, including several of the contributions to the workshop on Parameters and Typology organized jointly by Henning Andersen and David W. Lightfoot. Major topics represented are grammaticalization and functional renewal… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 124] 1995. x, 460 pp.
Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker
Until very recently, pragmatics has been restricted to the analysis of contemporary spoken language while historical linguistics has studied historical texts and language change in a decontextualized way. This has now radically changed and scholars from around the world are trying to build a new… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 35] 1995. xv, 623 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
History of Linguistics 1993: Papers from the Sixth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VI), Washington DC, 9–14 August 1993
Edited by Kurt R. Jankowsky
The 32 papers of this volume were selected from 78 papers read at ICHoLS VI, were contributed by linguists from 16 countries of Europe, Asia, and the Americas. They are presented in six sections:1. General Concerns 2. Oriental Linguistics and Related Issues 3. From the Early Middle Ages to the End… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 78] 1995. xx, 380 pp.
Modality in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Suzanne Fleischman
This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 32] 1995. viii, 575 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Typology
Semitic and Indo-European: Volume I: The Principal Etymologies. With observations on Afro-Asiatic
Saul Levin
This volume presents the key examples of morphological correspondences between Indo-European and Semitic languages, afforded by nouns, verbal roots, pronouns, prepositions, and numerals. Its focus is on shared morphology embodied in the cognate vocabulary.The facts that are brought out in this… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 129] 1995. xxii, 514 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Towards a History of the Basque Language
Edited by José Ignacio Hualde, Joseba A. Lakarra and R.L. Trask
Questions related to the origin and history of the Basque language spark considerable interest, since it is the only surviving pre-Indo-European language in western Europe. However, until now, there was no readily available source in English providing answers to these questions or giving an… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 131] 1995. v, 365 pp.
Other subjects Basque linguistics
Writings in General Linguistics: On Sound Alternation (1881) and Outline of Linguistic Science (1883)
Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851–1887)
This volume brings together the most important general linguistic writings by Mikołay Kruszewski (1851-1887), whom Roman Jakobson described as “one of the greatest theoreticians of language among the world linguists of the late nineteenth century”. Apart from reissuing a revised version of the late… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 11] 1995. xl, 188 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Phonology
Zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache: New edition
Wilhelm Scherer (1841–1886)
Wilhelm Scherer (1841-1886) has gained wide recognition for his extraordinary accomplishments in linguistics as well as in literary studies.His first and most important contribution to the development of linguistic science was his monumental work of 508 pages Zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache,… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 16] 1995. lxii, 492 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | History of linguistics
Consonant Strength in Upper German Dialects
Kurt Gustav Goblirsch
The present study examines the problem of fortis and lenis in approximately 150 dialects of southern Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, Alsace, and the German-speaking minorities in Italy, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The Upper German dialects are of particular… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 10] 1994. vi, 127 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Phonology | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
English Historical Linguistics 1992: Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22–26 September 1992
Edited by Francisco Fernández, Miguel Fuster Márquez and Juan Jose Calvo
This volume brings together a selection of 28 out of the 76 papers read at ICHEL-7 in Valencia. The book opens with a general section, in which Richard Hogg examines the relationship between linguistics and philology, Enrique Bernárdez analyzes syntactic change from the point of view of catastrophe… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 113] 1994. viii, 388 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Language Ideology and Language Change in Early Modern German: A sociolinguistic study of the consonantal system of Nuremberg
Rosina L. Lippi-Green
This quantitative study, based on a computerized corpus of texts written by five men in early 16th-century Nuremberg, employs multivariate GLM statistical procedures to analyze the way linguistic, social and stylistic factors work individually and in interaction to influence variation observed in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 119] 1994. xiv, 150 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Perspectives on Grammaticalization
Edited by William Pagliuca
This is the second of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UWM linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in 1990. It focuses on the evolution of grammatical form and meaning from lexical material, which has reinvigorated historical analysis and theory and led to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 109] 1994. xx, 306 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Studies in Language Origins: Volume 3
Edited by Jan Wind, Abraham Jonker, Robin Allott and Leonard Rolfe
This collection brings together the best papers presented at recent meetings of the Language Origins Society. The volume reflects the diversity of approaches from many disciplines that are used to unravel the mystery of the origin of language: linguistics, anatomy, physiology, paleoanthropology,… read more[Not in series, LOS 3] 1994. xx, 344 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
The Unaccented Vowels of Proto-Norse
Martin Syrett
The Unaccented Vowels of Proto-Norse attempts to analyse the unaccented vowel system attested in the proto-Norse period, as partially attested in the older runic inscriptions in the elder futhark. Each chapter in turn assesses the evidence for unaccented syllables of a particular category, whether… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 11] 1994. 323 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Phonology
Comparative-Historical Linguistics: Indo-European and Finno-Ugric. Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi III
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp
This volume offers an important contribution to the comparative historical study of languages. Most of the articles deal with topics concerning the Indo-European proto-language as well as the individual languages descended from it. Essays in Finno-Ugric philology complete the volume. The book is… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 97] 1993. xii, 566 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Uralic languages
From Indo-European to Latin: The evolution of a morphosyntactic type
Helena Kurzová
This study aims to describe the typological characteristics of the original Indo-European structure, called the derivative-flectional stage (or (sub)type), and to trace its developments to the paradigmatically organized structure of the individual Indo-European languages, called the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 104] 1993. xiv, 259 pp.
Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions
Carol Lord
This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 26] 1993. x, 273 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, New Brunswick, 14–18 August 1989
Edited by Henk Aertsen and Robert J. Jeffers
The present volume contains revised versions of selected papers from the general sessions of ICHL 9. The 34 papers cover topics from the full range of contemporary historical linguistic scholarship. The papers address issues of language change in a large variety of languages and language families,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 106] 1993. xviii, 538 pp.
Historical Linguistics 1991: Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991
Edited by Jaap van Marle
This volume contains 22 of the 95 papers presented during ICHL 10. The articles included here clearly reflect the on-going interest in the general mechanisms of language change, the close relationship between present-day historical linguistics and linguistic theory, and the renewed interest in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 107] 1993. xviii, 395 pp.
NOWELE Volume 21/22 (April 1993): Twenty-Eight Papers Presented to Hans Bekker-Nielsen on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, 28 april 1993
Special issue of NOWELE 21/22 (1993) xiii, 453 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Pragmatics and Classical Sanskrit: A pilot study in linguistic politeness
Lieve Van de Walle
This book explores the possibilities and limitations of pragmatic research in classical Sanskrit concentrating on linguistic politeness. The four case studies it comprises are in essence empirical, and try to accurately describe a fairly limited number of interactions between an also limited number… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 28] 1993. xii, 454 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Other Indo-European languages | Pragmatics
Prepositions in Old and Middle English: A study of prepositional syntax and the semantics of At, In and On in some Old and Middle English texts
Tom Lundskær-Nielsen
The present book covers various aspects of prepositional syntax between c. 900-1400, including case relations and the range of prepositional complements; it also examines word order, both within the PP and at clause level, and it explores changes in clausal word order. Furthermore, it provides a… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 9] 1993. x, 206 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax
Progress in Language: With special reference to English. New edition
Otto Jespersen (1860–1943)
Progress in Language, first published in 1894, dates from fairly early in Otto Jespersen's (1860-1943) academic career; it already contains many of the essentials of his argument against the prevailing mode of 19th-century linguistic thought which he maintained until the end of his life. As James D. read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 17] 1993. xviii, 382 pp. (printed 2-up)
The Rise of Functional Categories
Elly van Gelderen
In recent years, word order has come to be seen, within a Government Binding/Minimalist framework, as determined by functional as well as lexical categories. Within this framework, functional categories are often seen as present in every language without evidence being available in that language.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 9] 1993. x, 224 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Syntactic Change in Germanic: Aspects of language change in Germanic with particular reference to Middle Dutch
Kate Burridge
This study examines certain features of Dutch syntax between approximately 1300 and 1650. Of central importance are the overall developments in the word order patterning and the various changes they entail elsewhere in the grammar, such as in the negative construction. After an introductory chapter… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 89] 1993. xii, 287 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax
A Bibliographical Guide to Old Frisian Studies
Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.
This bibliography aims serve the demands and wishes of students of Old Frisian for its own sake as well as for those who want to use Old Frisian for comparative purposes. Although it concentrates on language and literature, titles have also been included which deal with more or less peripheral… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 6] 1992. xvi, 197 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
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.
Other subjects Lexicography | Morphology | Phonology | Romance linguistics
Explanation in Historical Linguistics
Edited by Garry W. Davis and Gregory Iverson
This is the first of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UVM Linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in April 1990. The contributions in this volume investigate the general question of what constitutes an explanation of diachronic change, and illustrate their… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 84] 1992. xiv, 238 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Friesische Studien I: Beiträge des Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie vom 10.–11. Oktober 1991
Herausgegeben von Volkert F. Faltings, Alastair Walker und Ommo Wilts
Der vorliegende Band Friesische Studien I enthält die Referate von sechs Sprachwissenschaftlern und -wissenschaftlerinnen aus den Niederlanden und Deutschland anläßlich des Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie, das vom 10.-11. Oktober 1991 in Alkersum auf der nordfriesischen Insel Föhr… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 8] 1992. viii, 203 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
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.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Romance linguistics
A History of Indo-European Verb Morphology
Kenneth Shields
This book explores the origin and evolution of important grammatical categories of the Indo-European verb, including the markers of person, tense, number, aspect, and mood. Its central thesis is that many of these markers can be traced to original deictic particles which were incorporated into… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 88] 1992. viii, 160 pp.
Other subjects Morphology
Prehistory, History and Historiography of Language, Speech, and Linguistic Theory: Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi I
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi
This collection of papers deals primarily with topics in general linguistics, including history of linguistic science. The volume is divided in 5 parts: I. Origin and Prehistory of Language, II. Historiography of Linguistics, III. Phonology and Phonetic Change, IV. Morphology and Syntax, and V.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 64] 1992. x, 407 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics
Recent Developments in Germanic Linguistics
Edited by Rosina L. Lippi-Green
These are selected papers from the Second Annual Michigan/Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable held in April of 1991 at Ann Arbor. Topics include the evolution of the gender system, the delineation of the relative clause in historical texts, and language as a political tool in the new Europe.read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 93] 1992. xii, 163 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Altniederländischen
Herausgegeben von Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. und Arend Quak
Unter den Übersichten über die ältesten germanischen Sprachen vermißt man oft das Altniederländische. Es wird ihm höchstens ein sehr bescheidener Platz unter der Bezeichnung 'Altnieder fränkisch' eingeräumt. Als Folge der namentlich deutschen historischen Sprachforschung des 19. Jahrhunderts… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 7] 1992. iv, 123 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Phonology
Language Typology 1988: Typological Models in the Service of Reconstruction
Edited by Winfred P. Lehmann and Helen-Jo Jakusz Hewitt
This is the third volume of papers yielded from the annual Linguistic Typology symposia inaugurated by the International Research and Exchange Board. The volume deals with an area of linguistics in which scholars of the USSR have made notable contributions and makes available to the West at least… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 81] 1991. vi, 182 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Studies in Brythonic Word Order
Edited by James Fife and Erich Poppe
While Celtic languages are nominally VSO in basic word order, the languages of the Brythonic branch have exhibited striking synchronic and historical variations from the prototype. This volume comprises the very latest research in word order in Welsh, reton and Cornish from nine of the leading… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 83] 1991. x, 360 pp.
Other subjects Celtic languages
Studies in Language Origins: Volume 2
Edited by Walburga von Raffler-Engel, Jan Wind and Abraham Jonker
The question of language origin has fascinated people for years. The contributions in the present book stem primarely from the papers presented at the Third International Meeting of the Language Origins Society (LOS) held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, June 1988. The contributors… read more[Not in series, LOS 2] 1991. xxi, 348 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
Studies in the Historical Phonology of Asian Languages
Edited by William G. Boltz and Michael C. Shapiro
This volume owes its genesis to a series of lectures on various aspects of the historical phonology of Asian languages, sponsored by the Asian Linguistics Colloquium of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature of the University of Washington, in Seattle. The volume includes papers on both… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 77] 1991. viii, 249 pp.
Other subjects Phonology
Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. Festschrift for T. Arwyn Watkins
Edited by Martin J. Ball, James Fife, Erich Poppe and Jenny Rowland
This collection of papers on the Brythonic languages of the Celtic group is divided into four parts: Welsh linguistics, Breton and Cornish linguistics, literary linguistics, and historical linguistics. This has resulted in a book providing a thorough and comprehensive coverage of this branch of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 68] 1990. xxiv, 470 pp.
Other subjects Celtic languages
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.
Other subjects Phonology | Romance linguistics
Other subjects Semantics
Historical Linguistics 1987: Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, August 30-September 4, 1987
Edited by Henning Andersen and E.F.K. Koerner †
The volume contains 37 papers originally presented at the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Lille, France. The papers bring historical data to bear on issues in theoretical linguistics, both descriptive and diachronic or deal with specific questions in the history of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 66] 1990. xii, 577 pp.
Language Typology 1987: Systematic Balance in Language. Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Berkeley, 1–3 Dec 1987
Edited by Winfred P. Lehmann
These papers from the 1987 Typology Symposium — a follow-up to the 1985 meeting in Moscow — deal with the relevance of typology for historical linguistics. Its application in understanding phonological and grammatical change is examined for a variety of languages. Its relevance for application of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 67] 1990. x, 212 pp.
Other subjects Typology
Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism: Proceedings of the international conference, Rome, 25–28 September 1986
Edited by Tullio De Mauro † and Lia Formigari
Both Leibniz and Humboldt are scholars in whose work we find a passionate interest in the history and development of languages combined with a strong theoretical commitment. Linking their names to linguistic comparativism draws attention to the contribution these scholars have made to the history… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 49] 1990. vii, 329 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | History of linguistics | Philosophy
Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Edited by Sylvia M. Adamson, Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright
This volume is a collection of articles based on papers presented at the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics at Cambridge in 1987. It draws together important state-of-the-art' studies in the syntax, phonology, morphology and semantics of Old, Middle and Modern English by… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 65] 1990. xxviii, 583 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Studies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday
Edited by William A. Croft, Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning
Joseph H. Greenberg is a towering figure in late twentieth century linguistics. His major contributions in the field have been in the area of typology and universals, virtually launched by his paper on word order universals, and in diachronic linguistics. The major thrust of Greenberg's work in the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 20] 1990. xxxiv, 243 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Hellenistic and Roman Greece as a Sociolinguistic Area
Vit Bubenik
This study concentrates on the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the history of Greek language. It focuses on the gradual contamination of classical dialects by the Hellenistic Koine, their disappearance, the range of intraregional variation, and the process of Koinization from the angle of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 57] 1989. xv, 331 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Historical and Comparative Linguistics
Raimo Anttila
In any course of historical and comparative linguistics there will be students of different language backgrounds, different levels of linguistic training, and different theoretical orientation. This textbook attempts to mitigate the problems raised by this heterogeneity in a number of ways. Since… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 6] 1989. xv, 462 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
Studies in Language Origins: Volume 1
Edited by Jan Wind, Edward G. Pulleyblank, Éric de Grolier and Bernard H. Bichakjian
The question of language origin has fascinated people for years. Traditionally, humanists like linguists and philosophers attempted to solve it with limited success. In the last decades, however, the sciences have begun to study the same question seemingly with more success. This book is the result… read more[Not in series, LOS 1] 1989. xxii, 332 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
Distributions spatiales et temporelles, constellations des manuscrits/Spatial and Temporal Distributions, Manuscript Constellations: Etudes de variation linguistiques offertes à Anthonij Dees à l'occasion de son 60ème anniversaire / Studies in language variation offered to Anthonij Dees on the occasion of his 60th birthday
Sous la direction de Pieter van Reenen et Karin van Reenen-Stein
Throughout the years the extent of the contributions by A. Dees to the renewal of philology, has become progressively more evident. In his Etudes sur l'evolution des demonstratifs en ancien et en moyen français (1971) Dees has developed a framework within which language evolution in the past can be… read more[Not in series, 37] 1988. xxii, 277 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Fucus: A Semitic/Afrasian Gathering in Remembrance of Albert Ehrman
Edited by Yoël L. Arbeitman
This is a memorial volume for Albert Ehrman. The contributions of this Gedenkschrift testify to his scholarly excellence in the field of Judaic-Semitic lexicography and etymology, and do full justice to the richness and thought inspiring qualities of his publications. Besides the papers in honour… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 58] 1988. xvi, 530 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Phonological Reconstruction
Edited by Marc Dominicy and Juliette Dror
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 3] 1988. 183 pp.
Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy
Richard L. Morris
Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy examines the past 100 years of runic scholarship to show that previous investigations on the origin of the runes have been hampered by a series of ad hoc postulates, the greatest being that the runes cannot have come into existence before the birth of Christ. If… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 4] 1988. xii, 177 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Writing and literacy
Det Gamle Shetlandske Sprog: George Low's ordliste fra 1774
Laurits Rendboe
Da den unge skotske teolog George Low blev sendt til Shetland i 1774 for at indsamle stof til en beskrivelse af disse øer, lykkedes det ham bl.a. at optegne en lille liste med hverdagsudtryk fra den gamle nordiske dialekt, der nedstammede direkte fra de oprindelige beboeres norrøne sprog, der var… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 3] 1987. xiv, 129 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Explanation and Linguistic Change
Edited by Willem F. Koopman, Frederike van der Leek, Olga Fischer and Roger Eaton
This volume presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Amsterdam in 1985, on the nature, even possibility, of explanation in Historical Linguistics: why changes take place and others do not, and why they occur at a particular time and place. The workshop, and this volume, aim to explore questions… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 45] 1987. viii, 300 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics
Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat, Onofrio Carruba and Giuliano Bernini
These papers, deriving from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) in Pavia in 1984, provide an overview of the current status of research in this field. They clearly show that new issues are emerging in the theory of linguistic change which tend to incorporate… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 48] 1987. xvi, 672 pp.
Tibeto-Burman Tonology: A Comparative Analysis
Alfons Weidert
This monograph lays the foundation for a prosodological theory of Tibeto-Burman languages within a comparative and reconstructional framework. It is primarily based on data collections of mostly unknown languages on which the author worked for more than 10 years on several projects. This… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 54] 1987. xvii, 512 pp.
Other subjects Phonetics | Phonology | Sino-Tibetan languages
Diversity and Diachrony
David Sankoff
This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the 12th Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), held in Montréal in 1983. It is divided into three sections: 1. Varieties of English and their history; 2. Change and variation in Romance; 3. Functions and discourse. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 53] 1986. xii, 430 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Language Typology 1985: Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Moscow, 9–13 Dec. 1985
Edited by Winfred P. Lehmann
This volume presents revised versions of papers originally presented at the Colloquium in Linguistic Typology, held in Moscow in 1985. The organizers and participants of the colloquium considered it of great importance to come to terms on primary principles, in order to be able to build on previous… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 47] 1986. viii, 209 pp.
Other subjects Typology
Alfred den Store, Danmarks geografi: En undersøgelse af fire afsnit i Den gamle engelske Orosius
Ove Jørgensen
I denne bog foretager forfatteren en undersøgelse af de fire afsnit i kong Alfreds The Old English Orosius, hvori gammelt dansk område beskrives.Efter en forskningsoversigt imødegås de forestillinger, som flere tidligere forskere har dannet sig om, at kong Alfred – navnlig i Skandinavien – har… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 1] 1985. x, 166 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Medieval literature & literary studies
The Laws of Indo-European
N.E. Collinge
This book collects all the named laws of Indo-European, presents each in its original form and rationale and then provides an evaluation of all major attacks, revisions and exploitations, along with a full bibliography and index. Complete – thorough – exhaustive. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 35] 1985. xvii, 308 pp.
Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985
Edited by Roger Eaton, Olga Fischer, Willem F. Koopman and Frederike van der Leek
These papers are a selection from papers presented at the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Amsterdam, 1985). Most studies deal with some aspect of an earlier stage of English, though present day varieties of English are also under investigation. Many of the papers… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 41] 1985. xvii, 341 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 22–26 August 1983
Edited by Jacek Fisiak
This volume presents a selection of papers from the 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in 1983, in Poznań, Poland. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 34] 1985. xxiii, 622 pp.
Das Germanische und die Rekonstruktion der Indogermanischen Grundsprache: Akten des Freiburger Kolloquiums der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Freiburg, 26–27 Februar 1981.. Proceedings of the Colloquium of the Indogermanische Gesellschhaft, Freiburg, 26–27 February 1981
Herausgegeben von Jürgen Untermann und Bela Brogyanyi
Es war kein Zufall, daß das achte Fachkolloquium der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft (1981) in Freiburg im Breisgau stattfand, – es war, wie dieser Band, dem Kollegen, Freund und Lehrer Oswald Szemerényi gewidmet, der das letzte Jahr seiner Amtszeit als Hochschullehrer angetreten hatte. Eher… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 22] 1984. xvii, 237 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Foundations for a Science of Language
Gustave Guillaume (1883–1960)
This volume presents, for the first time in English, a representative view of Gustave Guillaume's thought. The texts, drawn mainly from his manuscript notes for lectures at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, were selected as far as possible for their accessibility, as requiring no prior… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 31] 1984. xxiv, 175 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Morphology | Romance linguistics
Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic
Allan R. Bomhard
This book represents the culmination of the author’s work to date – it incorporates and updates previous articles and adds much new material. This book is not – nor was it ever intended to be – a comparative grammar of either the Indo-European or the Afroasiatic language families. It is, rather, a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 27] 1984. xi, 356 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
Grammatical Proof of the Affinity of the Hungarian Language with Languages of Fennic Origin (Göttingen: Dieterich, 1799)
Sámuel Gyarmathi (1751–1830)
Sámuel Gyarmathi’s Affinitas linguae hungaricae cum linguis fennicae originis grammatice demonstrata (Göttingen 1799) was received as a distinguished work of scholarship in its own days, and its historical importance has been fully recognized ever since. This volume provides an English translation… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 15] 1983. xl, 327 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
History of Semiotics
Edited by Achim Eschbach and Jürgen Trabant
This volume brings together a collection of papers on the general theoretical and methodological problems in the historiography of semiotics. It is not a history in the conventional sense, even though the main periods and figures in the development of semiotics are given due prominence.… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 7] 1983. xvi, 386 pp.
Latin Linguistics and Linguistic Theory: Proceedings of the 1st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 1981
Edited by Harm Pinkster
The articles of this collection on Latin linguistics are representative of the kind of research that is currently carried out in the field of linguistics. Most deal with syntax or sentence structure, but they vary with respect to their emphasis on theory or description. They also vary with respect… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 12] 1983. xviii, 307 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Eine strukturelle Analyse der Hagia Triada-Tafeln: Ein Beitrag zul Linear A-Forschung
Louk C. Meijer
[Publications of the Henri Frankfort Foundation, 8] 1982. viii, 151 pp.
Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981
Edited by Anders Ahlqvist
This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in Galway, April 6–10 1981. These papers provide an overview of work in the field of historical linguistics, covering a wide variety of topics and languages. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 21] 1982. xxix, 527 pp.
Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Hamburg, August 22–26 1977
Edited by J. Peter Maher, Allan R. Bomhard and E.F.K. Koerner †
The papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 3rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), held in 1977 at the University of Hamburg. These selected papers deal with a wide variety of issues, some from a more general-theoretical perspective, some deriving… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 13] 1982. xvi, 434 pp.
Perspectives on Historical Linguistics: Papers from a conference held at the meeting of the Language Theory Division, Modern Language Assn., San Francisco, 27–30 December 1979
Edited by Winfred P. Lehmann and Yakov Malkiel
This volume presents seven extensive essays by specialists in their respective fields of historical linguistics. The first essay after the Introduction states the principles presented in Directions for Historical Linguistics (1968) and assesses the progress made since then towards constructing a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 24] 1982. xii, 379 pp.
Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics, in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. (2 volumes)
Edited by Yoël L. Arbeitman and Allan R. Bomhard
The volume starts with a -- posthumous -- paper by Alexander Kerns, written by Benjamins Schwartz, on the Indo-European tense system. This is followed by a rich array of papers on the reconstruction of older languages, ranging from Indo-European and Afroasiatic to Cretan. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 16] 1981. xvi, 557, viii, 581 pp.
Linguistic Reconstruction and Indo-European Syntax: Proceedings of the Colloquium of the 'Indogermanische Gesellschaft'. University of Pavia, 6–7 September 1979
Edited by Paolo Ramat
The aim of the colloquium, from which this volume derives, was to bring together approaches from general linguistics and language reconstruction, to show how these can benefit from eachother. Although the focus was on Indo-European languages, other language families were present in the discussion,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 19] 1980. viii, 263 pp.
Other subjects Syntax
Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Stanford, March 26–30 1979
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Rebecca Labrum and Susan C. Shepherd
The studies in this volume are revised versions of a selection from the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at Stanford University on 26–30 March 1979. Papers at this conference, and in this volume, treat aspects of all current topics in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 14] 1980. x, 437 pp.
Anatomy of the Verb: The Gothic Verb as a Model for a Unified Theory of Aspect, Actional Types, and Verbal Velocity. (Part I: Theory; Part II: Application)
Albert L. Lloyd
The continuing debate over the existence or non-existence of formal verbal aspect in Gothic triggered the author to write this monograph whose aim is to provide a completely new foundation for a theory of aspect and related features. Gothic, with its limited corpus, representing a translation of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 4] 1979. x, 351 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Studies in Diachronic, Synchronic, and Typological Linguistics: Festschrift for Oswald Szemérenyi on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi
This two-volume collection of papers was brought together in honor of Oswald Szemerényi on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The volumes contain 70 papers, most of which deal with Indo-European (historical) linguistics. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 11] 1979. xiv, 487, x, 506 pp. (2 vols.)
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Zur 'Heliand' metrik: Das Verhältnis von Rhythmus und Satzgewicht im Altsächsischen
Ingeborg Hinderschiedt
Die Heliandmetrik ist eine Metrik im Altsachsischen. In dieser Studie wird versucht eine Analyse, Beschreibung und Auswertung nach der formalen Kriterien zu beschreiben. Wichtig ist vor allem das Verhältnis von Rhythmus und Satzgewicht. read more[German Language and Literature Monographs, 8] 1979. vi, 143 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Phonetics
The Order of Words in the Ancient Languages compared with that of the Modern Languages
Henri Weil (1818–1909)
New edition of a pioneering work on word order, which originally appeared in French in 1844 (3rd ed., 1879), with an index. read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 14] 1978. xxxix, 114 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Syntax
'Über den Umlaut: Zwei Abhandlungen' (Carlsruhe, 1843) and 'Über den Ablaut' (Carlsruhe, 1844)
Adolf Holtzmann (1810–1870)
Über den Umlaut (1843) and Über den Ablaut (1844) grew out of a review of Grimm’s Deutsche Grammatik by Holtzmann, in which he also made an excursus into Bopp’s theory of vowel gradation in Sanskrit. Holtzmann was the first to observe the correlation of guṇa and accent. At the same time he noted… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 12] 1977. xxix, 48, and 81 pp.
Other subjects Phonology
Germanic and its Dialects: A grammar of Proto-Germanic. Volume III: Bibliography and Indices
Compiled by Thomas Markey, R.L. Kyes and Paul T. Roberge
Germanists have long lamented the lack of comprehensive bibliographies of past and present literature, particularly in the areas of Frisian, Old English, Old High German, and, most notably, Old Saxon. The compilers of this bibliography deem it crucial to fill this lacuna before embarking on two… read more[Not in series, 7] 1977. 525 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
The Lautgesetz-Controversy: A documentation (1885–86). New edition
Essay(s) by Georg Curtius (1820–85), Berthold Delbrück (1842–1922), Karl Brugmann (1849–1919), Hugo Schuchardt (1842–1927), Hermann Collitz (1855–1945), Hermann Osthoff (1847–1909) and Otto Jespersen (1860–1943)
The essays reproduced in this volume represent the major and characteristic documents in that flood of literature that was produced during the neogrammarian controversy. At that time, the entire community of linguists came face to face with the most profound problems of its theory and practice; it… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 9] 1977. 587 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics
Papers on Language Theory and History: Volume I: Creation and Tradition in Language
J. Peter Maher
Interest in word-meaning is on the increase among mainstream linguists again after a half-century of neglect. During this interval progress in phonology and syntax was great, but further progress in these sub-disciplines will remain blocked until it is recognized that the prime functional unit of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 3] 1977. xx, 171 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics: Festschrift for Winfred P. Lehmann
Edited by Paul J. Hopper
This volume of articles was prepared in honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The papers are presented in two sections: I. Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, and II. Studies in Historical Linguistics. The volume contains contributions by R.M.W. Dixon, Ralph M. Goodman,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 4] 1977. x, 502 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier: Ein Beitrag zur Begründung der Altertumskunde (Heidelberg, 1808). New edition
Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829)
This volume presents a fac simile edition of Friedrich Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier. Ein Beitrag zur Begründung der Altertumskunde (Heidelberg, 1808). It is preceded by an introductory article by Sebastiano Timpanaro ‘Friedrich Schlegel and the beginnings of Indo-European… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 1] 1977. lvii, 172 + 22pp. (i.e., 2pp.of orig.txt reprod.)
Other subjects History of linguistics
Cultivated Plants and Domesticated Animals in their Migration from Asia to Europe: Historico-linguistic studies (London, 1885)
Victor Hehn (1813–1890)
New edition, prepared with a bio-bibliographical account of Hehn and a survay of the research into Indo-European prehistory by James P. Mallory. It was Hehn who for the first time combined the tools of comparative linguistics and the direct historical approach in order to discover the origins of… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 7] 1976. lxxv, 523 pp.
A Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue
Rasmus Rask (1787–1832)
This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask’s Anvising till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket (1818). This re-edition, with an added bio-bibliography of Rask, should enable the linguist of today to obtain a fairly rounded picture of this… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 2] 1976. lx, viii, 273 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic Languages, shewing the original identity of their grammatical structure: New edition
Franz Bopp (1791–1867)
The publication in 1816 of Bopp’s Über das Conjugationssystem can be considered the beginning of a systematic comparison of Indo-European languages, and thus as having led too the development of the study of language as a science, distinct from philology. The Analytical Comparison (1820) represents… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 3] 1974. xxxviii, 68 pp. 2nd corrected edition, 1989
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Comparative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Other Indo-European languages
Einleitung in die Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (1884–1890) together with Zur Literatur der Sprachenkunde Europas (Leipzig, 1887)
August Friedrich Pott (1802–87)
This volume contains August Friedrich Pott's Einleitung in de Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, which appeared between 1884 and 1890 in F. Techmer's Internationale Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Leipzig). In addition, the volume contains Pott's Zur Literatur der Sprachenkunde Europas… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 10] 1974. xlvi, 502 pp. Small-4to.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Introduction to the Study of Language: A critical survey of the history and methods of comparative philology of Indo-European languages (Leipzig, 1882). New edition
Berthold Delbrück (1842–1922)
This volume contains a fac simile edition of the 1882 English translation of Delbrück’s Einleitung in das Sprachstudium. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Methodik der vergleichenden Sprachforschung (Leipzig 1880), together with a Foreword and a Selected Bibliography.
read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 8] 1974. xix, 148 pp. 2nd corrected edition, 1989.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | History of linguistics
The Study of Indo-European Vocalism in the 19th century: From the beginnings to Whitney and Scherer. A critical-historical account
Wilbur A. Benware
In the 19th century research on the Indo-European languages was to a large degree coterminus with the development of linguistics itself. The most notable accomplishments, as related in every history of linguistics, took place in the area of phonology. The present study examines one aspect of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 3] 1974. xii, 126 pp. 2nd. printing 1995.
Other subjects Phonology
Die türkische Sprache in Ungarn im siebzehnten Jahrhundert
Jenö U. Németh
[Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica, 13] 1970. 281 pp., 90 ills.
Other subjects Altaic languages | Uralic languages