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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

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 369] 2025. vi, 305 pp.+ index
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives

Edited by Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga

[Typological Studies in Language, 135] 2025. vii, 333 pp. + index
Other subjects Linguistics of isolated languages | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press

Edited by Claudia Claridge

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 105] 2025. vii, 248 pp. + index
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Our People’s Language: Variation and change in the Lánnang-uè of the Manila Lannangs

Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales

[Contact Language Library, 62] 2025. xiv, 454 pp. + index
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
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Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings

Edited by Bertus van Rooy and Haidee Kotze

[Contact Language Library, 60] 2024. vi, 293 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
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The Development of Aspirated Fricatives in Gothic: A contact-linguistic perspective

Seiichi Suzuki

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 9] 2024. xix, 155 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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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

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 367] 2024. vi, 368 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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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
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Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History

Elisabeth M. de Boer

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 365] 2024. viii, 130 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches

Edited by Ilaria Fiorentini and Chiara Zanchi

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 347] 2024. vi, 286 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
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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.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages | Dravidian languages | Japanese linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics | Turkic languages | Typology | Uralic languages
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Classifiers

Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 3:2 (2022) v, 227 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages | Dravidian languages | Japanese linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics | Turkic languages | Typology | Uralic languages
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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
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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.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Contact Linguistics | Evolution of language | Language acquisition | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology