SubjectsLinguistics / Semantics
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Journals
International Journal of Chinese Linguistics
Edited by Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, Ning Yu and Hongming Zhang
ISSN 2213-8706 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8714
The Mental Lexicon
Edited by Harald Baayen, Melanie J. Bell, Jessica Nieder and Vito Pirrelli
ISSN 1871-1340 | E‑ISSN 1871‑1375
Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface
Edited by Marco Coniglio, Kalle Müller and Markus Steinbach
Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface offers a comprehensive investigation of two word classes that play a crucial role at the interfaces and have posed challenges for linguistic theory. Drawing on a broad typological range, including Germanic, Romance, Basque, and Heritage Greek,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 292] 2026. vi, 384 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Contrasting English and Polish Emotion Clusters
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Paul A. Wilson
Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals. This book delves into this very topic, analysing similarities and contrasts between Polish and English grouping and categorising emotions.The book combines a… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 80] 2026. xx, 379 pp. + index
Other subjects Cognition and language | 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 Historical linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Silent Instruments: Syntax, semantics, and acquisition of the instrumental role in Italian
Alice Suozzi
This book offers the first systematic investigation of the instrumental role across syntax, semantics, and language acquisition. Focusing primarily on Italian within a comparative perspective, the book addresses a long-standing puzzle: why Instruments can be syntactically omitted even when they… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 293] 2026. xiv, 217 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach
Edited by Rita Brdar Szabó and Mario Brdar
The last two decades have seen a series of publications focused on time. So, why another book? It now appears that a kairos moment has arrived to reconsider from a more holistic point of view the manifold ways in which we think about time and talk about it. The book is divided into four major… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 81] 2026. viii, 477 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
This is the Thing: A cognitive/typological investigation into the concept of ‘thinghood’
Michael Fortescue
This monograph investigates for the first time words like ‘thing’ of maximal semantic generality across languages. Not all languages have exact equivalents of English ‘thing’ – in some, for instance, the nearest equivalent is an interrogative stem (‘what?’). Few languages extend their ‘thing’ words… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 79] 2026. ix, 220 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective
Edited by Kiki Nikiforidou and Mirjam Fried
The volume is of direct interest to scholars, from senior academics to PhD students, interested in linguistically relevant phonetic and gestural information and in the relationship between multimodal communication and grammar. It contains important work in a relatively new, dynamic and exploratory… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 38] 2025. vi, 317 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective
Edited by Pilar Barbosa and Cristina Flores
The volume Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective brings together theoretical and empirical contributions on missing object constructions, revealing a nuanced and multifaceted phenomenon that poses challenges to current theories of null objects. The selected papers… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 19] 2025. v, 206 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | 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 Historical linguistics | Phonology | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Possibility and Necessity: Concepts and expressions of modality
Edited by Jean Albrespit, Christelle Lacassain and Tracey Simpson
Researchers in the fields of logic, philosophy and linguistics have for many years been pondering over the elusive nature of modality and grappled with ways of capturing it. This book provides a broad overview of issues relevant to the study of modality and reflects the diversity of theoretical… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 237] 2025. vi, 370 pp.
Other subjects 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 | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Second Language Acquisition of English Tense, Aspect and Modality
Dalila Ayoun
After a comprehensive description of the French and English tense, aspect, mood/modality (TAM) systems in Chapter 1, an overview of key theoretical perspective and applied perspectives from the morpheme-order studies to examples of internal and external interfaces in monolingual child acquisition… read more[Not in series, 243] 2025. xi, 244 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Language acquisition | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Semantic-Pragmatic Change from Intersubjective to Textual Meanings
Edited by Giulio Scivoletto and Ryo Takamura
This is the first comprehensive volume to explore the tendency from ‘intersubjective’ to ‘textual’ functions in semantic-pragmatic change. It challenges the influential hypothesis based on the pioneering works by Traugott, i.e. the unidirectionality of change from objective to subjective and then… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 353] 2025. vi, 288 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Vagueness as an Implicitating Persuasive Strategy
Giorgia Mannaioli
The book presents an integrated model of vagueness as an implicit and persuasive strategy, pervasive in everyday language use and public discourse. It considers three macro-dimensions of the phenomenon: linguistic-theoretical, psychological, and social-discursive. It shows how vagueness can be… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 350] 2025. ix, 272 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Semantics: A cultural-historical perspective
Vladimir Glebkin
The book presents two fundamental theories that characterize the cultural-historical perspective in cognitive semantics: the Four-Level Theory of Cognitive Development (FLTCD) and the Sociocultural Theory of Lexical Complexes (STLC) as well as their application to the analysis of specific material.… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 15] 2024. v, 242 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Fine-grained Structure of the Lexical Area: Gender, appreciatives and nominal suffixes in Spanish
Antonio Fábregas
This is the first book that presents a complete description and analysis of the Spanish suffixes that alter the grammatical behaviour of nouns and adjectives without changing their grammatical category, supporting a fine-grained decomposition of the syntactic area where these word classes are… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 39] 2024. xiii, 394 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis
Andrew Goatly
This book investigates the interaction between new English lexis and metaphor/metonymy – figures meticulously defined and contrasted in terms of similarity/contiguity. It advances three main hypotheses: (i) derived lexis is more likely to be figurative in meaning and usage than the bases from which… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 78] 2024. xvii, 348 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Predication in African Languages
Edited by James Essegbey and Enoch O. Aboh
This book discusses patterns of predication and their grammatical and semantic implications in a variety of African languages. It covers several prominent topics about predication in the languages, including locative predication, expressions of tense, aspect, and mood in relation to verbal… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 235] 2024. xi, 344 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Other African languages | Syntax | 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 | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art
Edited by Sadia Belkhir
The volume presents an innovative set of researches featuring theoretical and practical discussions of the proverb in cognition and culture. To date, there seems to be a need for state-of-the-art research into this subject matter. This volume aims at responding to this need. The chapters… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 16] 2024. xvi, 351 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Representation and Processing of Morphologically Complex Words
Edited by Lori Buchanan and Roberto G. de Almeida
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 19:2 (2024) v, 151 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Revisiting Modality: A corpus-based study of epistemic adverbs in Galician
Vítor Míguez
This book presents the first in-depth investigation of modality in Galician linguistics, offering a theoretical discussion of modal categories and a fine-grained description of epistemic adverbs. The first half of the monograph deconstructs the most relevant approaches to modal categories and shows… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 40] 2024. xvii, 234 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Space, Time, World
Michael Fortescue
Although major cognitively based studies of SPACE and TIME in language have appeared in terms of “Frames of Reference”, these do not extend to a wide selection of the world’s languages, nor do they combine SPACE and TIME in the overarching concept of WORLD, which has its own corresponding frames of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 77] 2024. viii, 223 pp
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 Historical linguistics | Phonology | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Words in the World
Edited by Laura Teddiman, Lori Buchanan and Hamad Al-Azary
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 19:1 (2024) vi, 188 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
A Constructional Account of Verb-Forming Suffixation
Jacqueline Laws
The range of meanings expressed by derivatives formed by the attachment of the four principal verb-forming suffixes - ate, - en, - ify and - ize has been the subject of extensive analysis for over two decades. From a descriptive perspective, the research reported in this volume constitutes the most… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 36] 2023. xxiv, 393 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions
Edited by Laure Sarda and Ludovica Lena
This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas. It addresses (i) a variety of constructions related to ‘prototypical’ existentials (including the have-possessive… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 76] 2023. x, 352 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
General Phraseology: Theory and Practice
Igor Mel’čuk
This book presents a 100% novel approach to phraseology: A language-universal deductive calculus of all theoretically possible phraseological expressions (= phrasemes) is proposed, implemented in 51 rigorously defined notions. Nine major classes of phrasemes are established and illustrated: lexemic… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 36] 2023. xiv, 281 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Granularity in the Verbalization of Events and Objects: A cross-linguistic study
Katerina Stathi
The study departs from the observation that in expressing ideas, some languages encode more details than others. It investigates whether languages encode events and/or objects at a coarse-grained (e.g., put, glass) as opposed to a fine-grained (e.g., lay, wine glass) level systematically. The level… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 233] 2023. xviii, 536 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution: Language and cognitive effects
Edited by Georgia Fotiadou and Ianthi Maria Tsimpli
Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution: Language and cognitive effects explores anaphora resolution from different perspectives, and investigates various aspects of the phenomenon, as contributions include research protocols that combine old and new experimental methodologies as well as… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 18] 2023. vi, 246 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses: Synchronic and Diachronic Insights
Edited by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Constanze Fleczoreck
This collection presents novel insights into the micro- and macro-variation of causal clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic setting the scene and nine chapters based on data from Dutch, German, English, Icelandic, Chinese, and Japanese. Topics… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 231] 2023. vii, 353 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Reference: From conventions to pragmatics
Edited by Laure Gardelle, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin
This volume provides an innovative approach to the referential process thanks to its focus on the relationship between conventions and discourse pragmatics. It brings together a cross-section of current research on referential conventions and pragmatic strategies, in a number of different fields… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 228] 2023. vi, 349 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Responding to Polar Questions across Languages and Contexts
Edited by Galina B. Bolden, John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
This book is about one of the most fundamental action sequences found across human societies and socio-cultural contexts: polar questions and their responses. Question–answer sequences are among the most basic building blocks for sequences of action in interaction and are ubiquitous among the… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 35] 2023. vii, 383 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Revisiting Sentence Adverbials and Relevance
Irina T. Pandarova
This book offers a fresh take on several long-standing issues relating to the (non-)truth-conditional interpretation of epistemic, evidential, hearsay and attitudinal sentence adverbials. Drawing on a wealth of data from English and German, it shows for the first time that all four adverbial… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 334] 2023. ix, 254 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory
Gerard J. Steen
If thinking can be fast or slow, metaphorical thinking can be fast and slow too. But metaphorical thinking does not occur as often and in the ways that many metaphor scholars today think. Slow metaphorical thinking does mean, however, that we can exert more control over metaphor than has previously… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 26] 2023. xv, 355 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
The Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect in Discourse
Lukas Müller
This monograph presents a theoretical and empirical study of the Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect (PP). The innovative claim is that the two tense forms operate in the field of tension between temporal quantification and temporal reference. Based on this approach, it presents the first… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 279] 2023. xviii, 276 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Verb and Context: The impact of shared knowledge on TAME categories
Edited by Susana Rodríguez Rosique and Jordi M. Antolí Martínez
This volume approaches the interaction of evidentiality with some other related categories, such as modality and mirativity, from an innovative angle: its connection to informational configuration. The aim of this book is to analyze the impact of shared knowledge on TAME categories as well as to… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 34] 2023. xviii, 398 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig
This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events across areally, genetically, and typologically diverse languages of the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 134] 2022. viii, 437 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks
Maria Brenda and Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska
A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks is devoted to the issue of the relation between language and thought approached from the perspective of spatial relations encoded by four equivalent spatial prepositions – English to, German zu, Polish do and Russian к.… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 74] 2022. xiii, 242 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Construction Grammar across Borders
Edited by Tiago Timponi Torrent, Ely Edison da Silva Matos and Natália Sathler Sigiliano
Since its foundation in the 1980's, Construction Grammar has been crossing the traditionally imposed borders. From superimposed levels of analysis to the lexicon-grammar continuum, the constructionist approach to language has been built by, quoting Charles Fillmore, "the insistence on seeing… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 122] 2022. v, 174 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Discourse Particles: Syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and historical aspects
Edited by Xabier Artiagoitia, Arantzazu Elordieta and Sergio Monforte
Discourse particles have often been treated as a phenomenon restricted to Germanic languages (Abraham 2020) and they still raise questions about their nature as an independent category. This book reveals that this phenomenon exists in other languages as well, and provides evidence for their nature… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 276] 2022. vi, 258 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Generative linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Explorations of morphological structure in distributional space
Edited by Melanie J. Bell, Juhani Järvikivi and Vito Pirrelli
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
From Pseudo-relatives to Causative Constructions: Scandinavian languages as a case study
Mara Frascarelli and Giorgia Di Lorenzo
This volume proposes a novel structural analysis for causative constructions, offering a solution for the long-standing mono/bi-clausal dualism. Causatives are claimed to instantiate a ‘complex object’ construction, insofar as the causee is not only the subject of the lexical verb, but also a… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 278] 2022. vii, 133 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Middle Voice and Connected Constructions in Ibero-Romance: A variationist and dialectal account
Carlota de Benito Moreno
The reflexive constructions that are the focus of this book are the constructions broadly described with the term “middle”: i.e., those that can appear in all persons, and in which the reflexive marker (RM) cannot be understood as a full referential pronoun. One goal of this study is to provide a… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 29] 2022. ix, 375 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description: Deixis, asymmetries, constructions
Edited by Laure Sarda and Benjamin Fagard
The idea of this book on "Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description" comes from the observation that, over the last 30 years, much attention has been devoted to the manner/path divide in relation to the distinction between Verb-Framed and Satellite-Framed languages. This mainstream focus has… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 72] 2022. vii, 279 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Pejorative Suffixes and Combining Forms in English
José A. Sánchez Fajardo
The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the concept of linguistic pejoration, and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms, such as -ie, -o, -ard, -holic, -rrhea, -itis, -porn, -ish, in the formation of English pejoratives. The examination of the inner structure of the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 222] 2022. xvi, 229 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
The Typology of Physical Qualities
Edited by Ekaterina Rakhilina, Tatiana Reznikova and Daria Ryzhova
What is it like? – This is often the first question we ask about any object, and it is typically answered with adjectives: old, smooth, pointed, narrow, etc. Characteristics of things around us is a fundamental aspect of how we conceptualize the physical world, regardless of when or where we live –… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 133] 2022. vi, 339 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
When Data Challenges Theory: Unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure
Edited by Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob
This volume offers a critical appraisal of the tension between theory and empirical evidence in research on information structure. The relevance of ‘unexpected’ data taken into account in the last decades, such as the well-known case of non-focalizing cleft sentences in Germanic and Romance, has… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 273] 2022. vi, 307 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions
Edited by Katarzyna Janic and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the morpho-syntactic and semantic aspects of the antipassive construction from synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. The nineteen contributions assembled in this volume address a wide range of aspects pertinent to the antipassive… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 130] 2021. vii, 645 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Beyond Meaning
Edited by Elly Ifantidou, Louis de Saussure and Tim Wharton
Despite the fact that they are often crucial to our understanding, the vague, ineffable elements of language use and communication have received much less attention from linguists than the more concrete, effable ones. This has left a range of important questions unanswered. How might we account for… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 324] 2021. vi, 200 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work
Edited by Caterina Mauri, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria
This book addresses the topic of linguistic categorization from a novel perspective. While most of the early research has focused on how linguistic systems reflect some pre-existing ways of categorizing experience, the contributions included in this volume seek to understand how linguistic… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 220] 2021. vi, 467 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Give Constructions across Languages
Edited by Myriam Bouveret
This cognitive contrastive study of ten languages (Chinese, Dalabon, English, French, Spanish, Romanian, Kurdish, Khmer, Polish, Tibetan) focuses on the concept of giving from six main points of view, namely argument structure, lexical semantics and event structure, role marking in the three… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 29] 2021. viii, 246 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Japanese Mood and Modality in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and Application
Edited by Ken-Ichi Kadooka
This book is a cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary exploration of modality within systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Drawing upon the broad SFL notion of modality that refers to the intermediate degrees between the positive and negative poles, the individual papers probe into the modality… read more[Not in series, 234] 2021. v, 179 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Syntax
Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology
Edited by Luca Alfieri, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat
Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 132] 2021. vi, 424 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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 Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction
Edited by Emma Betz, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
OKAY has been termed ‘a spectacular expression’ and ‘America’s greatest invention.’ This volume offers an in-depth empirical study of the uses that have resulted from its global spread. Focusing on actions and interactional practices, it investigates OKAY in a variety of settings in 13 languages.… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 34] 2021. vii, 440 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Perfect Volume: Papers on the perfect
Edited by Kristin Melum Eide and Marc Fryd
Drawing on the data and history from a wide range of languages, from Atayal to Zapotec, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field of tense and aspect research resulting in 18 contributions on the perfect and some of its close relatives (e.g. iamitives). Different approaches… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 217] 2021. vii, 485 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Polylogues on The Mental Lexicon: An exploration of fundamental issues and directions
Edited by Gary Libben †, Gonia Jarema and Victor Kuperman
From its beginnings, the study of the mental lexicon has been at the crossroads of research and scholarship. This volume presents a polylogue--a textual conversation of many voices. It is designed to capture the excitement within the field and generate a deeper understanding of key issues and… read more[Not in series, 238] 2021. viii, 229 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Morphology | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries
Edited by Daniël Van Olmen and Jolanta Šinkūnienė
The relation between pragmatic markers and the peripheries of clauses, utterances and/or turns has been a topic of linguistic interest for the last few decades. Many issues continue to be debated, however, such as “how should the notion of periphery be defined?”, “to what extent do pragmatic… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 325] 2021. vi, 452 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking
Edited by Alexandru Mardale and Silvina Montrul
Differential Object marking (DOM), a linguistic phenomenon in which a direct object is morphologically marked for semantic and pragmatic reasons, has attracted the attention of several subfields of linguistics in the past few years. DOM has evolved diachronically in many languages, whereas it has… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 26] 2020. vi, 369 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Morphology | Syntax
Beyond Emotions in Language: Psychological verbs at the interfaces
Edited by Bożena Rozwadowska and Anna Bondaruk
This book sheds new light on the puzzle of psychological predicates in a cross-linguistic perspective by looking at them from a variety of angles at the interfaces between event structure, lexical and viewpoint aspect, syntax and information structure. The individual chapters focus on Polish and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 263] 2020. xiii, 325 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics: 20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais
Edited by Roberta Pires De Oliveira, Ina Emmel and Sandra Quarezemin
This book opens with Angelika Kratzer and Luigi Rizzi talking about contemporary issues, such as non-recursiveness of focus and the semantics of topics. The chapters climb down the spine from the left periphery to DP: the value of subjunctive across the history of German, expressive expressions in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 260] 2020. ix, 216 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions
Edited by Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi
Human languages exhibit fascinating commonalities and variations in the ways they describe motion events. In this volume, the contributors present their research results concerning motion event descriptions in the languages that they investigate. The volume features new proposals based on a broad… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 69] 2020. vii, 324 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
English Resultatives: A force-recipient account
Seizi Iwata
The objective of this book is to develop a force-recipient account of English resultatives. Within this approach the post-verbal NP is a recipient of a verbal force, whether it is a subcategorized object or not, and the verbal force being exerted onto the post-verbal NP is responsible for bringing… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 26] 2020. xx, 549 pp.
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Expression of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Albert Camus’s L'Étranger and Its Translations / L'Étranger de Camus et ses traductions : questions de temps, d'aspect, de modalité et d'évidentialité (TAME): An empirical study / Etude empirique
Edited by Eric Corre, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao
This book deals with the linguistic treatment of tense-aspect-modal-evidential (TAME) expressions in translations of the French novel L’Étranger by Albert Camus into sixteen languages. It is strongly empirical in spirit, and uses the method of contrastive linguistics and multilingual comparison… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 35] 2020. ix, 388 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical literature & literary studies | Translation Studies
Follow the Signs: Archetypes of consciousness embodied in the signs of language
Rodney B. Sangster
In this his latest book, Sangster presents a comprehensive theory that takes the cognitive view of language in a promising new direction, based upon how linguistic signs relate to one another at different levels of consciousness. At the rational level, where signs are necessarily experienced in… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 79] 2020. xiii, 175 pp.
Other subjects Consciousness research | Evolution of language | Semiotics | Syntax
Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft verbs in English and German
Ryan Dux
While verb classes are a mainstay of linguistic research, the field lacks consensus on precisely what constitutes a verb class. This book presents a novel approach to verb classes, employing a bottom-up, corpus-based methodology and combining key insights from Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar,… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 28] 2020. x, 320 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles
Edited by Pierre-Yves Modicom and Olivier Duplâtre
The articles collected in this volume offer new perspectives into the relevance of notions such as topic, antitopic, contrastive topic, focus, verum focus and theticity for the analysis of the syntax and semantics of modal particles, sentence-final particles and other medial, sentential and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 213] 2020. vi, 304 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction
Marie-Claude L'Homme
Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction explores the interconnections between lexical semantics and terminology. More specifically, it shows how principles borrowed from lexico-semantic frameworks and methodologies derived from them can help understand terms and describe them in… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 20] 2020. xxi, 263 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Terminology
Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science
Edited by Friederike Moltmann
The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns that is generally taken to have semantic content. This content is generally taken to reflect a conceptual, cognitive, or ontological distinction and relates to philosophical and cognitive notions of unity, identity, and… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 16] 2020. v, 227 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Middle Voice in Baltic
Axel Holvoet
The fifth volume in the VARGReB series is a monograph presenting a collection of studies on middle-voice grams in Baltic, that is, on a widely ramified family of constructions with different syntactic and semantic properties but sharing a morphological marker of reflexive origin. Though the… read more[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 5] 2020. xvii, 250 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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 Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Norwegian Verb Particles
Leiv Inge Aa
This book aims to explain the syntax and semantics of Norwegian verb particles. While particles have been claimed to be distributed optionally to the left (as LPrt) or right (as RPrt) of an associated DP in the linguistic literature, the dialectologically oriented literature has shown for a long… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 4] 2020. ix, 184 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic 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 Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, co-text, and context
Edited by Pascal Hohaus and Rainer Schulze
Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions – Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessity and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 216] 2020. vi, 344 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Semantics and Psychology of Complex Words
Edited by Christina L. Gagné and Thomas L. Spalding
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 15:1 (2020) v, 160 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Stative Inquiries: Causes, results, experiences, and locations
Alfredo García-Pardo
This monograph studies stative predicates from a neo-constructionist perspective and integrates them in a comprehensive theory of event and argument structure. It focuses on two sets of stative verbs: govern-type verbs and object experiencer psychological verbs. For govern-verbs, it shows how… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 264] 2020. xiv, 258 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Syntactic and Semantic Variation in Copular Sentences: Insights from Classical Hebrew
Daniel J. Wilson
This book presents a novel account of syntactic and semantic variation in copular and existential sentences in Classical Hebrew. Like many languages, the system of Classical Hebrew copular sentences is quite complex, containing zero, pronominal, and verbal forms as well as eventive and inchoative… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 261] 2020. xvi, 159 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Thetics and Categoricals
Edited by Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa
Thetics and Categoricals do not belong to the categories of German grammar. Thetics were introduced in logic as impersonal and broad focus constructions. They left profound and extensive traces in the logic of the late 19th century. For the class of thetic propositions, the criterion of textual… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 262] 2020. vii, 390 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
Where Words Get their Meaning: Cognitive processing and distributional modelling of word meaning in first and second language
Marianna Bolognesi
Words are not just labels for conceptual categories. Words construct conceptual categories, frame situations and influence behavior. Where do they get their meaning? This book describes how words acquire their meaning. The author argues that mechanisms based on associations, pattern detection, and… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 23] 2020. xi, 208 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics
Argument Selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations
Edited by Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Balthasar Bickel
Capitalizing on the by now widely accepted idea of the construction-specific and language-specific nature of grammatical relations, the editors of the volume developed a modern framework for systematically capturing all sorts of variations in grammatical relations. The central concepts of this… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 123] 2019. vi, 536 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Causation and Reasoning Constructions
Masaru Kanetani
Causation and reasoning are different but related types of relationships. Both causal relations and reasoning processes may be expressed with one and the same connective word in some languages: English speakers use because and Japanese speakers use kara. How then are causation and reasoning… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 25] 2019. xi, 196 pp.
Other subjects 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 | Historical linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Encoding Motion Events in Mandarin Chinese: A cognitive functional study
Jingxia Lin
This book is a corpus-based description and discussion of how Modern Mandarin Chinese encodes motion events, with a focus on how the distribution of verbal motion morphemes is closely associated with the meanings they lexicalize. The book is not only the first work that proposes a finer-grained… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 11] 2019. xvii, 209 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Morphology | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives
Edited by Kimi Akita and Prashant Pardeshi
This volume explores new frontiers in the linguistic study of iconic lexemes known as ideophones, mimetics, and expressives. A large part of the literature on this long-neglected word class has been dedicated to the description of its sound symbolism, marked morphophonology, and grammatical status… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 16] 2019. ix, 325 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
Metaphor and National Identity: Alternative conceptualization of the Treaty of Trianon
Orsolya Putz
Due to the Treaty of Trianon – which was signed at the end of World War 1 in 1920 – Hungary lost two thirds of its former territory, as well as the inhabitants of these areas. The book aims to reveal why the treaty still plays a role in Hungarian national identity construction, by studying the… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 11] 2019. xvii, 276 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Pragmatics
Negation and Speculation Detection
Noa P. Cruz Díaz and Manuel J. Maña López
Negation and speculation detection is an emerging topic that has attracted the attention of many researchers, and there is clearly a lack of relevant textbooks and survey texts. This book aims to define negation and speculation from a natural language processing perspective, to explain the need for… read more[Natural Language Processing, 13] 2019. ix, 95 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Computational & corpus linguistics | Syntax
Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: Syntax, semantics, discourse
Xiaoling He
As a distinctive syntactic structure in Mandarin Chinese, the Patient-Subject Construction (PSC) is one of the most interesting but least well-understood structures in the language. This book offers a comprehensive account of the history, structure, meaning and use of the PSC. Unlike previous… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 12] 2019. xi, 204 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Perception Metaphors
Edited by Laura J. Speed, Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque and Asifa Majid
Metaphor allows us to think and talk about one thing in terms of another, ratcheting up our cognitive and expressive capacity. It gives us concrete terms for abstract phenomena, for example, ideas become things we can grasp or let go of. Perceptual experience—characterised as physical and… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 19] 2019. vii, 382 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Psychology | Theoretical linguistics
Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia
Edited by Lars Johanson, Lidia Federica Mazzitelli and Irina Nevskaya
This volume is a collection of articles dealing with the linguistic category of possession and its expression in languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia (Uralic, Turkic, Indo-European and Caucasian), with a few excursions into other parts of the world. Some papers engage in… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 206] 2019. vi, 405 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Reference Point and Case: A Cognitive Grammar exploration of Korean
Chongwon Park
This monograph answers the rarely discussed questions of why complicated grammatical case phenomena exist in Korean and what the connection is between the case forms and their functions. The author argues that the case forms in Korean reflect patterns of the human cognitive process. While this… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 68] 2019. xx, 264 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Representing Wine – Sensory Perceptions, Communication and Cultures
Rosario Caballero, Ernesto Suárez-Toste and Carita Paradis
Wine culture is a complex phenomenon of increasing importance in modern society, and it combines the joys of wine appreciation with the frustrations of trying to verbally communicate sensory impressions. While wine appreciation is traditionally characterized as joyously convivial in its social… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 21] 2019. xii, 234 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Semiotics
Semantic Plurality: English collective nouns and other ways of denoting pluralities of entities
Laure Gardelle
This monograph proposes a comparative approach to all the ways of denoting ‘more than one’ entity, from collective and aggregate nouns (with the first-ever typology), to count plurals, partly substantivised adjectives and conjoined NPs. This semantic feature approach to plurality, which cuts across… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 349] 2019. x, 215 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French: Descriptive, experimental and formal studies on motion expression
Edited by Michel Aurnague and Dejan Stosic
Research on the semantics of spatial markers in French is known mainly through Vandeloise’s (1986, 1991) work on static prepositions. However, interest in the expression of space in French goes back to the mid-1970s and focused first on verbs denoting changes in space, whose syntactic properties… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 66] 2019. ix, 396 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Typology of Pluractional Constructions in the Languages of the World
Simone Mattiola
The aim of this book is to give the first large-scale typological investigation of pluractionality in the languages of the world. Pluractionality is defined as the morphological modification of the verb to express a plurality of situations that can additionally involve a plurality of participants… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 125] 2019. xxiv, 237 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
What is a verb? – Linguistic, psycholinguistic and developmental perspectives on verbs in Germanic and Semitic languages
Edited by Eva Smolka and Dorit Ravid
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 14:2 (2019) v, 164 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Aspectuality across Languages: Event construal in speech and gesture
Edited by Alan Cienki and Olga K. Iriskhanova
The book provides a nuanced, multimodal perspective on how people express events via certain grammatical forms of verbs in speech and certain qualities of movement in manual gestures. The volume is the outcome of an international project that involved three teams: one each from France, Germany, and… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 62] 2018. xviii, 221 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Gesture Studies | 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 Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Conceptual Metonymy: Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues
Edited by Olga Blanco Carrión, Antonio Barcelona and Rossella Pannain
The volume addresses a number of closely connected methodological, descriptive, and theoretical issues in the study of metonymy, and includes a series of case studies broadening our knowledge of the functioning of metonymy. As regards the methodological and descriptive issues, the book exhibits a… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 60] 2018. ix, 325 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
Conceptual Semantics: A micro-modular approach
Urpo Nikanne
In this book, the micro-modular approach known as Tiernet within Conceptual Semantics is introduced. Constructions make up an important part in the approach, but in this approach constructions are considered to be exceptions, licensed links between micro-modules, one of the kinds of symbolic… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 23] 2018. xvi, 281 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Constructicography: Constructicon development across languages
Edited by Benjamin Lyngfelt, Lars Borin, Kyoko Ohara and Tiago Timponi Torrent
In constructionist theory, a constructicon is an inventory of constructions making up the full set of linguistic units in a language. In applied practice, it is a set of construction descriptions – a “dictionary of constructions”. The development of constructicons in the latter sense typically… read moreOther subjects Lexicography | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Egophoricity
Edited by Simeon Floyd, Elisabeth Norcliffe and Lila San Roque
Egophoricity refers to the grammaticalised encoding of personal knowledge or involvement of a conscious self in a represented event or situation. Most typically, a marker that is egophoric is found with first person subjects in declarative sentences and with second person subjects in interrogative… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 118] 2018. vii, 505 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Evidence for Evidentiality
Edited by Ad Foolen, Helen de Hoop and Gijs Mulder
Statements are always under the threat of the potential counter-question How do you know? To pre-empt this question, language users often indicate what kind of access they had to the communicated content: Their own perception, inference from other information, ‘hearsay’, etc. Such expressions,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 61] 2018. vii, 313 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Fraseología, Diatopía y Traducción / Phraseology, Diatopic Variation and Translation
Edited by Pedro Mogorrón Huerta and Antonio Albaladejo-Martínez
In all languages, humans frequently use linguistic combinations called phraseological units (PUs) in communicative acts. These PUs are characterized by their institutionalized fixation and, in many cases, by their opacity. Traditionally, the work on phraseology has placed the emphasis on the total… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 17] 2018. vi, 354 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Syntax | Translation Studies
The Grammatical Realization of Polarity Contrast: Theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches
Edited by Christine Dimroth and Stefan Sudhoff
The polarity of a sentence is crucial for its meaning. It is thus hardly surprising that languages have developed devices to highlight this meaning component and to contrast statements with negative and positive polarity in discourse. Research on this issue has started from languages like German… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 249] 2018. v, 291 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives
Helen Bromhead
The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an exciting and increasingly explored area. This ground-breaking book contributes to the linguistic examination of both cross-cultural variation and unifying elements in geographical categorization. The study focuses on the… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 9] 2018. xii, 227 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language
Lexical meaning as a testable hypothesis: The case of English look, see, seem and appear
Nadav Sabar
This book offers an original treatment of the lexical form look. The work is innovative in that it establishes that the Columbia School conception of an invariant meaning – hitherto found primarily in grammar – is equally operative in core vocabulary items like look and see. The upshot is that… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 75] 2018. xv, 144 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Mental Models across Languages: The visual representation of baldness terms in German, English, and Japanese
Pawel Sickinger
This book presents a study that triangulates the meanings of expressions across English, German and Japanese via their perception-based conceptual representations. In an online experiment, native speakers of the three languages were asked to design visual representations of expressions referring to… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 63] 2018. xv, 328 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
MetaNet
Edited by Miriam R.L. Petruck
The papers in this collection document the work of the first research project on metaphor that incorporates the findings of Frame Semantics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and Construction Grammar with Corpus Linguistics techniques for the analysis of linguistic expressions of metaphor in very large… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 100] 2018. vi, 198 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Negation and Negative Concord: The view from Creoles
Edited by Viviane Déprez and Fabiola Henri
While universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language, generally… read more[Contact Language Library, 55] 2018. x, 327 pp.
Other subjects Creole studies | Syntax | 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 Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages
Edited by Simon E. Overall, Rosa Vallejos and Spike Gildea
This volume explores typological variation within nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages. Using abundant data, generally from original and extensive fieldwork on under-described languages, it presents a far more detailed picture of nonverbal predication constructions than previously published… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 122] 2018. vi, 407 pp.
Other subjects Languages of South America | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Norwegian Discourse Ellipsis: Clausal architecture and licensing conditions
Mari Nygård
This book develops a grammar model which accounts for discourse ellipses in spoken Norwegian. This is a previously unexplored area, which has also been sparsely investigated internationally. The model takes an exoskeletal view, where lexical items are inserted late and where syntactic structure is… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 2] 2018. xii, 245 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Poetics of Time – Metaphors and Blends in Language and Literature
Anna Piata
How does the concept of time, elusive and inconceivable as it may be, lend itself to verbal creativity? Is it possible to trace something like a “poetics of time”? This book embarks on this endeavor initiated by the assumption that verbal creativity can shed some new light on our understanding of… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 3] 2018. xviii, 206 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Semantics in Language Acquisition
Edited by Kristen Syrett and Sudha Arunachalam
This volume presents the state of the art of recent research on the acquisition of semantics. Covering topics ranging from infants' initial acquisition of word meaning to the more sophisticated mapping between structure and meaning in the syntax-semantics interface, and the relation between logical… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 24] 2018. vi, 391 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality: Crosslinguistic perspectives
Edited by Dalila Ayoun, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari
After an introductory chapter that provides an overview to theoretical issues in tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, this volume presents a variety of original contributions that are firmly empirically-grounded based on elicited or corpus data, while adopting different theoretical frameworks. read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 197] 2018. viii, 366 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance
Edited by Martin Hummel and Salvador Valera
Within the current discussion on grammatical interfaces, the word-classes of adjective and adverb are of particular interest because they appear to be separated or joined in manifold ways at the level of word-class or syntax, with morphology playing a prominent role, especially in Romance. The… read moreOther subjects Morphology | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Advances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts
Edited by Kristy Beers Fägersten and Karyn Stapleton
Any behavior that arouses, as swearing does, controversy, disagreement, disdain, shock, and indignation as often as it imbues passion, sincerity, intimacy, solidarity, and jocularity should be an obvious target of in-depth scholarship. Rigorous, scholarly investigation of the practice of swearing… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 282] 2017. vi, 266 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Argument Realisation in Complex Predicates and Complex Events: Verb-verb constructions at the syntax-semantic interface
Edited by Brian Nolan and Elke Diedrichsen
This book offers a comprehensive investigative study of argument realisation in complex predicates and complex events at the syntax-semantic interface across a wide variety of the world’s languages, ranging over languages such as German, Irish, Sicilian and Italian, Lithuanian, Estonian and other… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 180] 2017. vi, 456 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: An integral approach
Albert Wall
Over the last three decades, Brazilian Portuguese bare nominals have turned into a hot topic in the cross-linguistic study of nominal syntax and semantics. This contribution is the first comprehensive, book-length treatment of the issue, covering both the long-standing discussion about the adequate… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 245] 2017. xv, 322 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Bilingualism: A framework for understanding the mental lexicon
Edited by Maya Libben, Mira Goral and Gary Libben †
In the world today, bilingualism is more common than monolingualism. Thus, the default mental lexicon may in fact be the bilingual lexicon. More than ever, social and technological innovation have created a situation in which lexical knowledge may change dramatically throughout an individual’s… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 6] 2017. xvii, 252 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency
Edited by Lars Hellan, Andrej L. Malchukov and Michela Cennamo
In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives. This book comprises articles investigating valency phenomena on a contrastive basis within Romance, Germanic and Slavic, and also in Basque and in the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 237] 2017. vii, 476 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Crossroads Semantics: Computation, experiment and grammar
Edited by Hilke Reckman, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Maarten Hijzelendoorn and Rint Sybesma
As language is a multifaceted phenomenon, the study of language, as long as it is geared at providing a comprehensive picture of it, cannot be restricted to one component or one approach. This applies to the many different components of language as well, including semantics.If we want to fully… read more[Not in series, 210] 2017. viii, 329 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Cultural Linguistics: Cultural conceptualisations and language
Farzad Sharifian †
This ground-breaking book marks a milestone in the history of the newly developed field of Cultural Linguistics, a multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations. The most authoritative book in the field to date, it outlines the… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 8] 2017. xvii, 171 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Discourse studies | 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.
Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives
Edited by Maria Napoli and Miriam Ravetto
This book is the first collective volume specifically devoted to the multifaceted phenomenon of intensification, which has been traditionally regarded as related to the expression of degree, scaling a quality downwards or upwards. In spite of the large amount of studies on intensifiers, there is… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 189] 2017. vii, 394 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Focus on Additivity: Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages
Edited by Anna-Maria De Cesare and Cecilia Andorno
The present volume is centered on the notional domain of additivity. Many linguistic phenomena are based on additivity (i.e. are incremental) and additive relations are a mechanism that underlies a wide array of text types. Specifically, the present volume is centered on the class of function words… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 278] 2017. vi, 334 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches
Edited by Valentina Vapnarsky and Edy Veneziano
This book presents a collection of chapters on the nature, flexibility and acquisition of lexical categories. These long-debated issues are looked at anew by exploring the hypothesis of lexical polycategoriality –according to which lexical forms are not fully, or univocally, specified for lexical… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 182] 2017. xiii, 479 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Morphology | Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Motion and Space across Languages: Theory and applications
Edited by Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective. The chapters present cutting-edge research covering central topics such as the status of semantic components in motion event… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 59] 2017. xiv, 460 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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 Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Negation and Contact: With special focus on Singapore English
Edited by Debra Ziegeler and Zhiming Bao
The study of negation across languages has left no stone unturned with respect to a range of frequently-researched areas, such as negative raising, negative concord, and the behavior of quantifiers under negative scope. Past research has chiefly focused on the category of negation from a… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 183] 2017. vii, 208 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries
Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells
This volume presents a cross-linguistic investigation of clausal noun-modifying constructions in genetically varied languages of Eurasia. Contrary to a common premise that, in any language, adnominal clauses that share some features of relative clauses constitute a structurally distinct… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 116] 2017. vi, 381 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
On the Syntax of Missing Objects: A study with special reference to English, Polish, and Hungarian
Marta Ruda
Focusing on objects, this book aims at contributing to the on-going inquiry into modelling structures with missing arguments. In addition to offering detailed discussion and analyses of a unique combination of three very different systems (English, Polish, and Hungarian), a larger goal here is to… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 244] 2017. xvii, 195 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: New perspectives
Edited by Chiara Fedriani and Andrea Sansó
This book offers new perspectives into the description of the form, meaning and function of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles in a number of different languages, along with new methods for identifying their ‘prototypical’ instances in situated language contexts, often based… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 186] 2017. ix, 492 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Pragmatics of Negation: Negative meanings, uses and discursive functions
Edited by Malin Roitman
Negation is one of the most discussed phenomena within linguistics, on all language levels though it never seems to be exhausted. This operator establishes complex sentence structures and constantly challenges – from a cognitive, syntactical, semantic and morphologic viewpoint – presuppositions on… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 283] 2017. ix, 270 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Robert Brandom's Normative Inferentialism
Giacomo Turbanti
The philosophy of language of Robert Brandom is based on a theoretical structure composed of three main elements: the normative analysis of linguistic practices, the inferential characterization of conceptual contents and the expressive articulation of the relations between the former two.… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 280] 2017. xi, 245 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Similative and Equative Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Yvonne Treis and Martine Vanhove
While comparative constructions have been extensively studied in the past decades, the expression of equality and similarity has so far attracted little attention in the typological literature. The fifteen contributions assembled in this volume study similative and equative constructions in… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 117] 2017. vi, 437 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure
Viviana Masia
The book tackles the sociobiological bases of Information Structure (IS) inquiring both its evidential and neurobiological underpinnings in human communication. Its purpose is to delve into the epistemic and neurocognitive rationales behind the realization of informational hierarchies in a sentence. read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 9] 2017. xxi, 193 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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 Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Story of Zero
T. Givón
The zero coding of referents or other clausal constituents is one of the most natural, communicatively and cognitively-transparent grammatical devices in human language. Together with its functional equivalent, obligatory pronominal agreement, zero is both extremely widespread cross-linguistically… read more[Not in series, 204] 2017. xv, 414 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Substance and Value of Italian Si
Joseph Davis
This book offers an original treatment of the Italian clitic si. Sharply separating encoded grammar from inference in discourse, it proposes a unitary meaning for si, including impersonals, passives, and reflexives. Si signals third-person participancy but makes no distinctions of number, gender,… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 74] 2017. xiii, 257 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Tense-Aspect-Modality in a Second Language: Contemporary perspectives
Edited by Martin Howard and Pascale Leclercq
Situated within the long-established domain of temporality research in Second Language Acquisition, this book aims to provide an update on recent research directions in the field through a range of papers which explore relatively new territory. Those areas include the expression of modality and… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 50] 2017. vi, 257 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State
Edited by Casper de Groot
This volume is the first book length study into the essive, a relatively unknown case marker like English ‘as (a child)’. It focuses on the distribution of the essive in contemporary Uralic languages with special attention to the opposition between permanent and impermanent state. The volume… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 119] 2017. xix, 555 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology | Uralic languages
Verb Valency Changes: Theoretical and typological perspectives
Edited by Albert Álvarez González and Ia Navarro
This volume surveys a variety of verb valency change phenomena among diverse languages and from diverse theoretical viewpoints. It offers typological studies comparing languages in topics like applicative polysemy, complex predicate formation and locative alternation, but also works describing the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 120] 2017. xv, 310 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Advances in Research on Semantic Roles
Edited by Seppo Kittilä and Fernando Zúñiga
Especially in functional-typological linguistics, semantic roles have been studied thoroughly, because they constitute a good starting point for any study on argument marking due to their semantically defined nature. However, the very concept of semantic roles is far from being without problems,… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 88] 2016. v, 219 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Aspectuality and Temporality: Descriptive and theoretical issues
Edited by Zlatka Guentchéva
This volume brings together a collection of articles exploring tense and aspect phenomena in a variety of non-related languages: Indo-European (Albanian, Bulgarian, Armenian, English, Norwegian, Hindi), Hamito-Semitic (Berber, Zenaga Berber, Arabic varieties, Neo-Aramaic), African (Wolof, Langi),… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 172] 2016. xi, 740 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Atypical predicate-argument relations
Edited by Thierry Ruchot and Pascale Van Praet
This book deals with atypical predicate-argument relations. Although the relations between predicates, especially verbal, and their arguments have been long studied, most studies are concerned with typical telic verbs in the past tense, indicative mood, active voice, with all arguments expressed.… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 33] 2016. x, 289 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Bare Argument Ellipsis and Focus
Andreas Konietzko
This monograph explores the syntax and information structure of bare argument ellipsis. The study concentrates on stripping, which is identified as a subtype of bare argument ellipsis typically associated with focus sensitive particles or negation. This monograph presents a unified account of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 233] 2016. xi, 182 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Conceptualizations of Time
Edited by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
As time cannot be observed directly, it must be analyzed in terms of mental categories, which manifest themselves on various linguistic levels. In this interdisciplinary volume, novel approaches to time are proposed that consider temporality without time, on the one hand, and the coding of time in… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 52] 2016. xxi, 325 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Contrastive Pragmatics and Translation: Evaluation, epistemic modality and communicative styles in English and German
Svenja Kranich
This book provides the first comprehensive account of English-German pragmatic contrasts in written discourse and their effects on English-German translations. The novel and multi-dimensional corpus-based studies of business communication and popular science writing presented in this book combine… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 261] 2016. xiv, 204 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Translation Studies
Embodiment in Latin Semantics
Edited by William Michael Short
Embodiment in Latin Semantics introduces theories of embodied meaning developed in the cognitive sciences to the study of Latin semantics. Bringing together contributions from an international group of scholars, the volume demonstrates the pervasive role that embodied cognitive structures and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 174] 2016. v, 271 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Finiteness Matters: On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages
Edited by Kristin Melum Eide
"Although standardly recognized by linguists of many diverse theoretical persuasions, finiteness continues to figure among [...] the most poorly understood concepts of linguistic theory”. This was eloquently stated by Ledgeway (2000, 2007) and remains true even today. The present volume thus aims… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 231] 2016. vi, 346 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Finiteness and Nominalization
Edited by Claudine Chamoreau and Zarina Estrada-Fernández
This volume addresses the relation between finiteness and nominalization, which is far more complex than the simple opposition finite-nonfinite. The contributions analyze finiteness cross-linguistically from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, focusing on a number of topics that has not… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 113] 2016. vii, 380 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Focus-related Operations at the Right Edge in Spanish: Subjects and Ellipsis
Iván Ortega-Santos
Syntactic movement is a pervasive phenomenon in natural language and, as such, has played a key role in syntactic theorizing. Nonetheless, an understanding of the mechanism that allows a constituent to appear to the right of its base-generated position has remained elusive. This groundbreaking… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 7] 2016. xii, 204 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins
Edited by Julie Abbou and Fabienne H. Baider
This volume aims to demonstrate that the centre/periphery tension allows for a theory of gender understood as a power relationship with implications for a political analysis of language structures, language uses and linguistic resistances. All of the 12 chapters included in this volume work on… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 264] 2016. vi, 411 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Theoretical 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 Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms: Syntactic properties and interpretative effects
Edited by Werner Frey, André Meinunger and Kerstin Schwabe
This book deals with sentential proforms and their relationship to their associated clauses. Sentential proforms are highly interesting from the point of view of grammatical theory, since their occurrence is determined not only by syntax, but also by prosody and semantics. The present volume… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 232] 2016. v, 278 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Insubordination
Edited by Nicholas Evans and Honoré Watanabe
The phenomenon of insubordination can be defined diachronically as the recruitment of main clause structures from subordinate structures, or synchronically as the independent use of constructions exhibiting characteristics of subordinate clauses. Long marginalised as uncomfortable exceptions,… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 115] 2016. xii, 435 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Interrogative Strategies: An areal typology of the languages of China
Tianhua Luo
This book deals with how to ask questions in the languages of China. The syntactic, morphological, and lexical forms for distinguishing interrogatives take centre stage; intonation is also dealt with, but more peripherally than question particles, disjunctive and negative constructions, and word… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 5] 2016. xiii, 252 pp.
Other subjects Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Linguistic Perspectives on Morphological Processing
Edited by Harald Clahsen, Vera Heyer and Jana Reifegerste
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 11:2 (2016) v, 168 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Memes of Translation: The spread of ideas in translation theory. Revised edition
Andrew Chesterman
This revised edition of Memes of Translation includes updates that relate the book's themes to more recent research in Translation Studies. The book contributes to the debate about whether it is worth seeking a coherent theory of translation, by proposing an approach based on norms, strategies and… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 123] 2016. xii, 225 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
Morphological Metatheory
Edited by Daniel Siddiqi and Heidi Harley
The field of morphology is particularly heterogeneous. Investigators differ on key points at every level of theory. These divisions are not minor issues about technical implementation, but rather are foundational issues that mold the underlying anatomy of any theory. The field has developed very… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 229] 2016. xiii, 547 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
New Questions for the Next Decade
Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben † and Victor Kuperman
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 11:3 (2016) v, 165 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Outside the Clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents
Edited by Gunther Kaltenböck, Evelien Keizer and Arne Lohmann
This volume brings together a number of articles on the form and function of extra-clausal constituents, a group of linguistic elements which have puzzled linguists by defying analysis in terms of ordinary sentence grammar. Given their high frequency and communicative importance, these elements… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 178] 2016. vi, 450 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Phonology | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Pejoration
Edited by Rita Finkbeiner, Jörg Meibauer and Heike Wiese
Though “pejoration” is an important notion for linguistic analysis and theory, there is still a lack of theoretical understanding and sound descriptive analysis. In this timely collection, the phenomenon of pejoration is studied from a number of angles. It contains studies from phonology,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 228] 2016. vii, 357 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Relevance Theory: Recent developments, current challenges and future directions
Edited by Manuel Padilla Cruz
How hearers arrive at intended meaning, which elements encode processing instructions in certain languages, how procedural meaning and prosody interact, how diverse types of utterances are interpreted, how epistemic vigilance mechanisms work, which linguistic elements assist those mechanisms, how a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 268] 2016. vi, 327 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Role of Functions in Syntax: A unified approach to language theory, description, and typology
Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay
The main aim of this book is to address a fundamental question in linguistics, namely why languages are similar and why they are different. The study proposes that languages are fundamentally similar when they encode the same meanings in their grammatical systems and that languages are different… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 111] 2016. xvi, 308 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Semantic Structure in English
Jim Feist
Syntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a structure in the meaning that is expressed in the syntax and phonology. Some writers use the phrase “semantic structure”, but are referring to conceptual… read moreOther subjects English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Switch Reference 2.0
Edited by Rik van Gijn and Jeremy Hammond
Switch reference is a grammatical process that marks a referential relationship between arguments of two (or more) verbs. Typically it has been characterized as an inflection pattern on the verb itself, encoding identity or non-identity between subject arguments separately from traditional person… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 114] 2016. vi, 503 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Third Person References: Forms and functions in two spoken genres of Spanish
Jenny Dumont
This volume, a case study on the grammar of third person references in two genres of spoken Ecuadorian Spanish, examines from a discourse-analytic perspective how genre affects linguistic patterns and how researchers can look for and interpret genre effects. This marks a timely contribution to… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 71] 2016. ix, 179 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Functional linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
À la recherche de la prédication: Autour des syntagmes prépositionnels
Sous la direction de Christiane Marque-Pucheu, Fryni Kakoyianni-Doa, Peter A. Machonis et Harald Ulland
Une thématique commune, le statut prédicatif de certains syntagmes prépositionnels dans différentes langues, fédère les dix études rassemblées dans le présent recueil qui tire son originalité du sujet lui-même. À ce jour, en effet, rares sont les études qui ont abordé la nature prédicative du… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 32] 2016. xiii, 200 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
“Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Zhengdao Ye
In the fast-growing fields of happiness studies and pain research, which have attracted scholars from diverse disciplines including psychology, philosophy, medicine, and economics, this volume provides a much-needed cross-linguistic perspective. It centres on the question of how much ways of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 84] 2016. vi, 145 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Acquisition of Reference
Edited by Ludovica Serratrice and Shanley E.M. Allen
Referring to entities is one of the key functions of language; learning to understand and use the relevant referential expressions is one of children’s major linguistic achievements. The 13 chapters of this volume bring together a wealth of information on the acquisition of referential processes in… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 15] 2015. vi, 339 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of the Present
Edited by Dalila Ayoun
This is the first edited volume that tackles the acquisition of the present (tense, aspect, temporality), an under-researched area, particularly compared to the acquisition of past temporality. The first two chapters focus on the L1 acquisition of English from the perspective of the Aspect… read more[Not in series, 196] 2015. xvi, 347 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | 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 Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Beyond Aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages
Edited by Doris L. Payne and Shahar Shirtz
Certain grammatical elements help hearers know how propositions are conceptually related: Does a given proposition advance the foregrounded event line, or not? Initiate versus continue an event chain? Indicate that one proposition belongs to a different "mental space" from the previous one? Provide… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 109] 2015. vii, 321 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Case in Russian: A sign-oriented approach
Alexandra Beytenbrat
This volume presents an analysis of Russian case from a sign-oriented perspective. The study was inspired by William Diver’s analysis of Latin case and follows the spirit of the Columbia School of linguistics. The fundamental premise that underlies this volume is that language is a communicative… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 70] 2015. xiii, 182 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Causation, Permission, and Transfer: Argument realisation in GET, TAKE, PUT, GIVE and LET verbs
Edited by Brian Nolan, Gudrun Rawoens and Elke Diedrichsen
This book offers a comprehensive investigative study of the argument realisation of the concepts of causative purpose, permit, let/allow and transfer in a broad cross-linguistic typologically diverse mix of languages with GIVE, GET, TAKE, PUT, and LET verbs. This volume stands as the first… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 167] 2015. vi, 499 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Demonstratives and Possessives with Attitude: An intersubjectively-oriented empirical study
Magdalena Rybarczyk
Linking grammatical analyses with ideas about a shareable reality, this book investigates some fascinating ways in which nominal reference is exploited to meet interpersonal and rhetorical goals. It focuses on the use of demonstrative and possessive determiners in Polish discourse and proposes that… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 51] 2015. xxii, 226 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Impersonals and other Agent Defocusing Constructions in French
Michel Achard
This book investigates French impersonals as a functional category. Any structure whose agent is defocused and whose predicate describes a situation stable enough to be generally available should be considered impersonal. In addition to il impersonals, the category also includes demonstrative… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 50] 2015. ix, 372 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Lexical Input Processing and Vocabulary Learning
Joe Barcroft
This book focuses on theory, research, and practice related to lexical input processing (lex-IP), an exciting field exploring how learners allocate their limited processing resources when exposed to words and lexical phrases in the input. Unit 1 specifies parameters of lex-IP research among other… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 43] 2015. xi, 194 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Psycholinguistics
The Linguistics of Temperature
Edited by Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
The volume is the first comprehensive typological study of the conceptualisation of temperature in languages as reflected in their systems of central temperature terms (hot, cold, to freeze, etc.). The key issues addressed here include questions such as how languages categorize the temperature… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 107] 2015. xii, 934 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Negation in Uralic Languages
Edited by Matti Miestamo, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy
The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. As in no other major language family before, a comprehensive typological questionnaire provides the basis for the chapters documenting… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 108] 2015. ix, 667 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology | Uralic languages
New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar
Edited by Isabel Pérez-Jiménez, Manuel Leonetti and Silvia Gumiel-Molina
This is the first book entirely and exclusively devoted to the grammar of the two copular verbs ser and estar, certainly one of the most intriguing features of Spanish grammar. Although the topic has long attracted the interest of scholars, it had never given rise to a collection of papers that… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 5] 2015. vi, 326 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Phonological and Phonetic Considerations of Lexical Processing
Edited by Gonia Jarema and Gary Libben †
The human ability to understand and produce spoken words is fascinating in its complexity. People often vary in how they pronounce a word. They may need to recognize words spoken with an accent quite different from their own. And, in order to understand a word of a second or foreign language, they… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 80] 2015. ix, 233 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Phonetics | Phonology | Psycholinguistics
The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin
This volume presents new research on the pragmatics of personal pronouns. Whereas personal pronouns used to have a reputation of poor substitutes for full NP’s, recent research shows that personal pronouns are a fundamental, if not universal, category, whose pragmatics is central to their… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 171] 2015. vi, 337 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Rethinking Syntactocentrism: Architectural issues and case studies at the syntax-pragmatics interface
Andreas Trotzke
The term ‘syntactocentrism’ has been used to criticize the claim that syntax, as regarded in generative linguistics, plays the central role in modeling the mental architecture of the human language faculty. This research monograph explores the conjecture that many of the objections to the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 225] 2015. vi, 147 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 3
Igor Mel’čuk
This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language can be described as a mechanism for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms, or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a transition… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 168] 2015. xx, 546 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Semantics of Chinese Music: Analysing selected Chinese musical concepts
Adrian Tien
Music is a widely enjoyed human experience. It is, therefore, natural that we have wanted to describe, document, analyse and, somehow, grasp it in language. This book surveys a representative selection of musical concepts in Chinese language, i.e. words that describe, or refer to, aspects of… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 5] 2015. xv, 303 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Semiotics | Sino-Tibetan languages
The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes
Robert B. Dewell
The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken in this area of German grammar. Using an extensive collection of naturally occurring data, the author proposes an image-schematic interpretation for each of the productive prefixes be-, ver-, er-, ent-, zer-, um-,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 49] 2015. xiii, 284 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Sensory Adjectives in the Discourse of Food: A frame-semantic approach to language and perception
Catherine Diederich
Sensory Adjectives in the Discourse of Food presents a frame-based analysis of sensory descriptors. This book investigates the identification and usefulness of conceptual frames in three respects: First, an analysis of scientific language use shows that a semantic interpretation of the adjectives… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 16] 2015. xiv, 220 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical
Edited by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Tuomas Huumo
This volume analyzes constructions with non-canonical subjects in individual languages and cross-linguistically, drawing on insights from cognitive and discourse-functional linguistics. Prototypical subjects have often been characterized in terms of their semantic, syntactic and discourse features,… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 16] 2015. viii, 324 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Temporality in Interaction
Edited by Arnulf Deppermann and Susanne Günthner
Time is a constitutive element of everyday interaction: all verbal interaction is produced and interpreted in time. However, it is only recently that research in linguistics has started to take the temporality of linguistic production and reception in interaction into account by studying the… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 27] 2015. vi, 342 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Verb Classes and Aspect
Edited by Elisa Barrajón López, José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Susana Rodríguez Rosique
This volume offers a variety of perspectives on two of the main topics situated at the crossroads between lexical semantics and syntax, namely: (a) aspect and its correspondence with syntactic structure; and (b) the delimitation of syntactic structures from verb classes. Almost from Aristotle’s… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 9] 2015. xviii, 446 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic
Edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau
The second volume in the VARGReB series deals with voice in the wider sense, encompassing both alternations that preserve semantic valency, with passives as the most typical instance, and valency-changing devices such as the causative. Regarding the former, special attention is given to… read more[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 2] 2015. vii, 402 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Bridging the Methodological Divide: Linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to formulaic language
Edited by Stefanie Wulff and Debra Titone
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:3 (2014) v, 126 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages: Set (6 Volumes)
This is a series of 6 books dealing with case phenomena in different languages, both Indo- and non-Indo-European, instigated by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, and resulting from work by a team of specialists at the University of Leuven. It is the first time such a large-scale investigation into case has… read more[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, S] 2014. ca. 2510 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between
Edited by Sibilla Cantarini, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss
The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 165] 2014. x, 365 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Cognitive Modeling: A linguistic perspective
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Alicia Galera Masegosa
This monograph studies cognitive operations on cognitive models across levels and domains of meaning construction. It explores in what way the same set of cognitive operations, either in isolation or in combination, account for meaning representation whether obtained on the basis of inferential… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 45] 2014. ix, 250 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Constructing Collectivity: 'We' across languages and contexts
Edited by Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to first person non-singular reference (‘we’). Its aim is to explore the interplay between the grammatical means that a language offers for accomplishing collective self-reference and the socio-pragmatic – broadly speaking – functions of ‘we’.… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 239] 2014. x, 355 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax
Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy
Edited by Dylan Glynn and Justyna A. Robinson
This volume seeks to advance and popularise the use of corpus-driven quantitative methods in the study of semantics. The first part presents state-of-the-art research in polysemy and synonymy from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. The second part presents and explains in a didactic manner each of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 43] 2014. viii, 545 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Syntax
Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs
Edited by Klaus Robering
The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and the treatment of time and aspect. The… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 152] 2014. viii, 373 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Evidentiality in Interaction
Edited by Janis B. Nuckolls and Lev Michael
In recent decades, linguists have significantly advanced our understanding of the grammatical properties of evidentials, but their social and interactional properties and uses have received less attention. This volume, originally published as a special issue of Pragmatics and Society (issue 3:2,… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 63] 2014. v, 199 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Frames of Understanding in Text and Discourse: Theoretical foundations and descriptive applications
Alexander Ziem
How do words mean? What is the nature of meaning? How can we grasp a word’s meaning? The frame-semantic approach developed in this book offers some well-founded answers to such long-standing, but still controversial issues. Following Charles Fillmore’s definition of frames as both organizers of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 48] 2014. xii, 428 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences
Edited by Rik van Gijn, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio
This volume is dedicated to exploring the crossroads where complex sentences and information management – more specifically information structure and reference tracking – come together. Complex sentences are a highly relevant but understudied domain for studying notions of IS and RT. On the one… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 105] 2014. vi, 409 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Language Processing and Grammars: The role of functionally oriented computational models
Edited by Brian Nolan and Carlos Periñán-Pascual
There is a growing awareness of the significance and value that modelling using information technology can bring to the functionally oriented linguistic enterprise. This encompasses a spectrum of areas as diverse as concept modelling, language processing and grammar modelling, conversational… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 150] 2014. vi, 396 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Functional linguistics | Syntax | Terminology
Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar
Edited by Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham
The volume aims at a universal definition of modality or “illocutionary/speaker’s perspective force” that is strong enough to capture the entire range of different subtypes and varieties of modalities in different languages. The central idea is that modality is all-pervasive in language. This… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 149] 2014. vi, 511 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Morphology and Meaning: Selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012
Edited by Franz Rainer, Francesco Gardani, Hans Christian Luschützky and Wolfgang U. Dressler
The problem of form and meaning in morphology has produced an impressive amount of scholarly work over the last hundred years. Nevertheless, many issues continue to be in need of clarification. The present volume assembles 18 selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 327] 2014. viii, 350 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Noun Valency
Edited by Olga Spevak
Despite a recent spate of publications, the valency of nouns is a topic that still remains in the shadow of the valency of verbs. This volume aims to contribute to the discussion of noun valency not only from a theoretical point of view, as is often the case, but also from an empirical one by… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 158] 2014. xvi, 213 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Number – Constructions and Semantics: Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania
Edited by Anne Storch and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approaches from descriptive linguistics, anthropological linguistics, socio-historical studies, areal linguistics, and social anthropology. The… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 151] 2014. xv, 366 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Perspectives on Semantic Roles
Edited by Silvia Luraghi and Heiko Narrog
Semantic roles have continued to intrigue linguists for more than four decades now, starting with determining their kind and number, with their morphological expression, and with their interaction with argument structure and syntax. The focus in this volume is on typological and historical issues.… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 106] 2014. vi, 336 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Pragmatic Competence and Relevance
Elly Ifantidou
This book probes into under-researched issues in L2 pragmatics. Firstly, pragmatic competence, pragmatic awareness and metapragmatic awareness are re-defined and clearly distinguished on theoretical grounds. Secondly, pragmatic competence and its manifestations are evaluated on empirical grounds by… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 245] 2014. x, 228 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Qualitative-Quantitative Analyses of Dutch and Afrikaans Grammar and Lexicon
Robert S. Kirsner
Sharing certain assumptions but differing in theory and practice, both Columbia School linguistics (CS) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) have increasingly supported their analyses with quantitative evidence. Citation of individual sentences, in isolation or in context, has been supplemented with counts… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 67] 2014. xi, 239 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon
Patrick J. Duffley
This monograph is part of a growing research agenda in which semantics and pragmatics not only complement the grammar, but replace it. The analysis is based on the assumption that human language is not primarily about form, but about form-meaning pairings. This runs counter to the autonomous-syntax… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 251] 2014. x, 246 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Semantic Considerations of Lexical Processing
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:1 (2014) iii, 140 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Words & Constructions: Language complexity in linguistics and psychology
Edited by Juhani Järvikivi, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matti Laine
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:2 (2014) v, 230 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Advances in Frame Semantics
Edited by Mirjam Fried and Kiki Nikiforidou
This volume presents some of the latest research in Frame Semantics, including work in computational lexicography as developed within the FrameNet project. Using varied material from English, Italian, and Japanese, the contributions collectively expand the theoretical, conceptual, and computational… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 58] 2013. v, 209 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | 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 Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Deixis and Pronouns in Romance Languages
Edited by Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Jan Lindschouw
This volume proposes a new way to address the classical question concerning the relation between language, cognition, and culture from the perspective of two basic systems: deixis and the pronominal system. It investigates the linguistic structuring of basic concepts of person, place and time in… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 136] 2013. vi, 289 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Frames and Constructions in Metaphoric Language
Karen Sullivan
Frames and constructions in metaphoric language shows how linguistic metaphor piggybacks on certain patterns of constructional meaning that have already been identified and studied in non-metaphoric language. Recognition of these shared semantic structures, and comparison of their roles in… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 14] 2013. vii, 184 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Genitive
Edited by Anne Carlier and Jean-Christophe Verstraete
This volume, the fifth in the series Case and Grammatical Relations across Languages, is devoted to genitive constructions in a range of Indo-European languages (Russian, French, Romanian, German and Swedish), as well as Finnish, Bantu languages and Northern Akhvakh (Northeast Caucasian).… read more[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 5] 2013. vii, 356 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Meta-informative Centering in Utterances: Between Semantics and Pragmatics
Edited by André Włodarczyk and Hélène Włodarczyk
The notion of information has nowadays become crucial both in our daily life and in many branches of science and technology. In language studies, this notion was used as a technical term for the first time about at least fifty years ago. It is argued, however, that "Old" and "New", used… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 143] 2013. xvii, 306 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Metaphor and Metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications
Edited by Francisco Gonzálvez-García, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández
The contributions in this volume go beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor complementing it in a number of relevant ways. Some of the papers argue for a more dynamic, interdisciplinary approach to metaphor looking into it from semiotic, psychological and socio-cultural perspectives. Other… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 56] 2013. vi, 318 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Modelling Language
Sylviane Cardey
In response to the need for reliable results from natural language processing, this book presents an original way of decomposing a language(s) in a microscopic manner by means of intra/inter‑language norms and divergences, going progressively from languages as systems to the linguistic,… read more[Natural Language Processing, 10] 2013. xi, 194 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession
Edited by Kersti Börjars, David Denison and Alan K. Scott
The analysis of constructions denoting possession (particularly, but not exclusively, in English) has long presented a challenge to morpho-syntactic theory and has been a topic of debate for some time. The papers presented here afford thought-provoking insights into the morphosyntactic nature of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 199] 2013. xii, 341 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Neural Correlates of Lexical Processing
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 8:2 (2013) v, 152 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Nominal Classification: A history of its study from the classical period to the present
Marcin Kilarski
This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics. Based on an analysis of over 200 genetically and typologically diverse languages, the author shows that these seemingly arbitrary and redundant categories play in… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 121] 2013. xiv, 405 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Morphology | Syntax
Non-Canonical Passives
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer
This volume contains a selection of papers dealing with constructions that have a passive-like interpretation but do not seem to share all the properties with canonical passives. The fifteen chapters of this volume raise important questions concerning the proper characterization of the universal… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 205] 2013. vi, 361 pp
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Phonological and Phonetic considerations of Lexical Processing
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 8:3 (2013) iii, 213 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Prosody and Iconicity
Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Daniel Hirst
The contributions to this volume focus on the interrelation between prosody and iconicity and shed new light on the topic by enlarging the number of parameters traditionally considered, and by confronting various theoretical backgrounds. The parameters taken into account include socio-linguistic… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 13] 2013. xv, 252 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective
Edited by Gert Webelhuth, Manfred Sailer and Heike Walker
This book represents the state of the art on rightward movement in one thematically coherent volume. It documents the growing importance of the combination of empirical and theoretical work in linguistic analysis. Several contributions argue that rightward movement is a means of reducing… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 200] 2013. viii, 476 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Second Language Acquisition of French Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality
Dalila Ayoun
Temporal-aspectual systems have a great potential of informing our understanding of the developing competence of second language learners. So far, the vast majority of empirical studies investigating L2 acquisition have largely focused on past temporality, neglecting the acquisition of the… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 10] 2013. xiii, 252 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 2
Igor Mel’čuk
This book presents an innovative approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language is a mechanism for the expression of linguistic meanings as particular surface forms (texts). Semantics is that system of rules that ensures a transition from a Semantic Representation of the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 135] 2013. xvi, 400 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology
Edited by Pirkko Suihkonen, Bernard Comrie and Valery Solovyev
This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of grammatical relations and argument structure in the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia (LENCA). Topics covered with respect to individual languages are: split-intransitivity (Basque), causativization (Agul),… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 126] 2012. xv, 406 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Causality and Connectives: From Grice to relevance
Valandis Bardzokas
The book explores finely-grained distinctions in causal meaning, mostly from a relevance-theoretic perspective. To increase the challenge of this double task, i.e. a thorough as well as satisfactory account of cause and a detailed assessment of the theoretical model employed to this end, the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 216] 2012. xii, 206 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Empiricism and the Foundations of Psychology
John-Michael Kuczynski
Intended for philosophically minded psychologists and psychologically minded philosophers, this book identifies the ways that psychology has hobbled itself by adhering too strictly to empiricism, this being the doctrine that all knowledge is observation-based. In the first part of this two-part… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 87] 2012. viii, 477 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology
The Evaluability Hypothesis: The syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of polarity item licensing
Johan Brandtler
Although the field of polarity is well researched, this monograph offers a new take on polarity sensitivity that both challenges and incorporates previous theories. Based primarily on Swedish data, it presents new solutions to long-standing problems, such as the non-complementary distribution of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 183] 2012. xiii, 199 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective
Edited by Anetta Kopecka and Bhuvana Narasimhan
Events of putting things in places, and removing them from places, are fundamental activities of human experience. But do speakers of different languages construe such events in the same way when describing them? This volume investigates placement and removal event descriptions from 18 areally,… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 100] 2012. xv, 371 pp.
Other subjects Typology
Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque: Syntax and semantics
Edited by Urtzi Etxeberria, Ricardo Etxepare and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria
This collective volume on nominal expressions in Basque, a language isolate with no known relatives, comprises original papers on the syntactic structure and the interpretation of both Noun Phrases and nominalization constructions – a traditionally neglected aspect of Basque linguistics. The minute… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 187] 2012. vii, 466 pp.
Other subjects Basque linguistics | Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
On the Compositional Nature of States
E. Matthew Husband
This monograph pursues a structural analogy between the availability of an existential interpretation in states and the telicity of events. Focusing on evidence from both verbal and adjectival predicates, it argues that quantization forms the basis of a unified theory of aktionsart and provides a… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 188] 2012. xv, 170 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
On the Grammar of Optative Constructions
Patrick G. Grosz
This monograph is one of the first theoretical studies of optatives. Optative constructions express desire without an overt lexical item that means ‘desire’. The author specifically investigates optatives with the syntax of embedded clauses that contain prototypical particles such as ‘only’. He… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 193] 2012. xi, 346 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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 Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 1
Igor Mel’čuk
This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, beginning with the idea that language can be described as a system for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a correct… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 129] 2012. xxi, 436 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity
Edited by Luna Filipović and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt
This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A number of authors discuss expression of dynamic spatial relations cross-linguistically in a vast range of typologically different languages… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 36] 2012. xv, 492 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition
Edited by Luna Filipović and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt
This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 37] 2012. xiii, 363 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Space in Tense: The interaction of tense, aspect, evidentiality and speech acts in Korean
Kyung-Sook Chung
This monograph explores the tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality of Korean, which has a rich verbal inflectional system, and proposes novel treatments within the framework of compositional semantics. One of the major contributions is the demonstration that Korean has two types of deictic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 189] 2012. xvii, 292 pp.
Other subjects Linguistics of isolated languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Syntax, Semantics and Acquisition of Multiple Interrogatives: Who wants what?
Lydia Grebenyova
Multiple interrogatives, questions with multiple wh-phrases (e.g. Who bought what?), have long presented analytical challenges for linguistic theory. This monograph presents a new theoretical and experimental study of this construction. The theoretical findings concern the interaction between… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 195] 2012. xviii, 191 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
What is a Context?: Linguistic approaches and challenges
Edited by Rita Finkbeiner, Jörg Meibauer and Petra B. Schumacher
Context is a core notion of linguistic theory. However, while there are numerous attempts at explaining single aspects of the notion of context, these attempts are rather diverse and do not easily converge to a unified theory of context. The present multi-faceted collection of papers reconsiders… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 196] 2012. vii, 253 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Arabic Verb: Form and meaning in the vowel-lengthening patterns
Warwick Danks
The Arabic verbal system is, for most grammarians, the keystone of the language. Notable for the regularity of its patterns, it presents the linguist with an unparalleled opportunity to explore the Saussurean notion of the indivisible sign: form and meaning. Whilst Arabic forms are well-documented,… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 63] 2011. xviii, 281 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles
Edited by Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski
The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike previous studies, these… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 99] 2011. vi, 354 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality
Edited by Adeline Patard and Frank Brisard
This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 29] 2011. ix, 319 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Colouring Meaning: Collocation and connotation in figurative language
Gill Philip
Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 43] 2011. xiii, 232 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Cultural Conceptualisations and Language: Theoretical framework and applications
Farzad Sharifian †
This book presents a multidisciplinary theoretical model of cultural conceptualisations and language. Viewing language as firmly grounded in cultural cognition, the model draws on analytical tools and theoretical advancements in several disciplines, including cognitive linguistics, cognitive… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 1] 2011. xvii, 238 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics
Edited by Jörg Meibauer and Markus Steinbach
In recent years, a lively debate ensued on an old issue, namely the proper distinction between semantics and pragmatics against the background of the classical Gricean distinction between ‘what is said’ and ‘what is implicated’. From a linguist’s point of view, however, there has always been a… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 175] 2011. x, 240 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Andrej L. Malchukov and Anna Siewierska
This volume offers a much needed typological perspective on impersonal constructions, which are here viewed broadly as constructions lacking a referential subject. The contributions to this volume deal with all types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 124] 2011. ix, 641 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
The Meaning of Particle / Prefix Constructions in German
Robert B. Dewell
This is really two books in one: a valuable reference resource, and a groundbreaking case study that represents a new approach to constructional semantics. It presents a detailed descriptive survey, using extensive examples collected from the Internet, of German verb constructions in which the… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 34] 2011. xiii, 336 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part II)
Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben † and Chris Westbury
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 6:1 (2011) v, 196 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden
Language structure and use are largely shaped by cognitive processes such as categorizing, framing, inferencing, associative (metonymic), and analogical (metaphorical) thinking, and – mediated through cognition – by bodily experience, emotion, perception, action, social/communicative interaction,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 27] 2011. vii, 306 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Syntax
Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics
Edited by Marina Sbisà, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
The ten volumes of 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 cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational,… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 10] 2011. xv, 318 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Pragmatics
Reciprocals and Semantic Typology
Edited by Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid
Reciprocals are an increasingly hot topic in linguistic research. This reflects the intersection of several factors: the semantic and syntactic complexity of reciprocal constructions, their centrality to some key points of linguistic theorizing (such as Binding Conditions on anaphors within… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 98] 2011. viii, 349 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Resumptive Pronouns at the Interfaces
Edited by Alain Rouveret
This book brings together contributions which address a wide range of issues regarding resumption, gathering evidence from a great variety of languages including Welsh, Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, French, Vata, Hebrew, Jordanian and Palestinian Arabic. The topics covered include the… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 5] 2011. viii, 429 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Spanish Word Formation and Lexical Creation
Edited by José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Susana Rodríguez Rosique
This volume contributes a wider approach to word formation processes and sheds light on some unsolved issues. While the formal relationships established between the different constituents of a complex word have been analyzed in great depth, the semantic links have received little dedication. In… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 1] 2011. xvi, 485 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Morphology | Romance linguistics
Syntactic Effects of Conjunctivist Semantics: Unifying movement and adjunction
Tim Hunter
This book explores the syntactic and semantic properties of movement and adjunction in natural language. A precise formulation of minimalist syntax is proposed, guided by an independently motivated hypothesis about the composition of neo-Davidsonian logical forms, in which there is no atomic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 170] 2011. xi, 185 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System: A case study of Mauritian creole
Diana Guillemin
Within the framework of Chomsky’s Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns,… read more[Creole Language Library, 38] 2011. xviii, 310 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Adjectives: Formal analyses in syntax and semantics
Edited by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Ora Matushansky
Adjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs. The present volume brings together studies in the syntax and semantics of adjectives. Four of the contributions investigate the syntax of adjectives in a variety of languages (English, French, Mandarin… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 153] 2010. vii, 335 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Maia Duguine, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga
The topic of this collection is argument structure. The fourteen chapters in this book are divided into four parts: Semantic and Syntactic Properties of Event Structure; A Cartographic View on Argument Structure; Syntactic Heads Involved in Argument Structure; and Argument Structure in Language… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 158] 2010. vi, 348 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies
Edited by Fernando Zúñiga and Seppo Kittilä
Benefactives are constructions used to express that a state of affairs holds to someone’s advantage. The same construction sometimes also serves as a malefactive, whose meanings are generally not a simple mirror image of the benefactive. Benefactive constructions cover a wide range of phenomena:… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 92] 2010. x, 440 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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 | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy: Syntax and pragmatics
Edited by Isabelle Bril
This collective volume explores clause-linkage strategies in a cross-linguistic perspective with greater emphasis on subordination. Part I presents some theoretical reassessment of syntactic terminologies and distinctive criteria for subordination, as well as typological methods based on sets of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 121] 2010. viii, 632 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Information Structure
Edited by Carsten Breul and Edward Göbbel
This volume presents original comparative and contrastive research into various aspects of information structure (topic, focus, contrastivity, givenness, anaphoricity) as well as into forms and structures whose realisation depends on information-structural factors (clefts, dislocations, reflexives,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 165] 2010. xii, 306 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Corpus, Cognition and Causative Constructions
Gaëtanelle Gilquin
English causative constructions with cause, get, have and make are often mistakenly presented as (quasi-)synonymous and more or less interchangeable. This book demonstrates the value of corpus linguistics in identifying the syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic features that are distinctive… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 39] 2010. xvii, 326 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Corpus linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
English Prepositions Explained: Revised edition
Seth Lindstromberg
This completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998, covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time – with the focus being on short prepositions such as at, by, in, and on. Its target… read more[Not in series, 157] 2010. xiii, 273 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax
Expressing Opinions in French and Australian English Discourse: A semantic and interactional analysis
Kerry Mullan
Based on the analysis of conversations between French and Australian English speakers discussing various topics, including their experiences as non-native speakers in France or Australia, this book combines subjective personal testimonies with an objective linguistic analysis of the expression of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 200] 2010. xvii, 282 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
The Expression of Information Structure: A documentation of its diversity across Africa
Edited by Ines Fiedler and Anne Schwarz
This book analyzes the different patterns found across subsaharan Africa to express information structure. Based on languages from all four African language phyla, it documents the great diversity of linguistic means used to encode information-structural phenomena and is therefore highly relevant… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 91] 2010. xii, 383 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Focus Particles in German: Syntax, prosody, and information structure
Stefan Sudhoff
This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and links their syntactic, semantic, and information structural properties to their prosodic characteristics. The study also shows that focus particles present… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 151] 2010. xiii, 335 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Lexical Meaning in Dialogic Language Use
Sebastian Feller
Lexical Meaning in Dialogic Language Use addresses a number of central issues in the field of lexical semantics. Starting off from an action-theoretical view of communication meaning is defined as something that speakers do in dialogic language use. Meaning as ‘meaning-in-use’ opens up a new… read more[Dialogue Studies, 9] 2010. vii, 184 pp.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Lexical-Semantic Relations: Theoretical and practical perspectives
Edited by Petra Storjohann
This collection of articles sketches the complexity of the subject of lexical-semantic relations and addresses semantic, lexicographic and computational issues on an array of meaning relations in different languages. It brings together a variety of linguistic studies on the contextualised… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 28] 2010. viii, 188 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Theoretical linguistics
The Linguistics Enterprise: From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics
Edited by Martin B.H. Everaert, Tom Lentz, Hannah N.M. De Mulder, Øystein Nilsen and Arjen Zondervan
Linguistics investigates the systems underlying language, speech, and language use. Linguists seek to develop an understanding of the rules and laws that govern the structure and use of particular languages and the manner in which these interact with internal systems and processes (interpretation,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 150] 2010. ix, 379 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part I)
Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben † and Chris Westbury
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 5:3 (2010) v, 188 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Modality and Subordinators
Jackie Nordström
This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It argues that general subordinators (or complementizers) denote propositional modality (otherwise expressed by moods such as the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 116] 2010. xvii, 341 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Mood in the Languages of Europe
Edited by Björn Rothstein and Rolf Thieroff
This book is the first comprehensive survey of mood in the languages of Europe. It gives readers access to a collection of data on mood. Each article presents the mood system of a specific European language in a way that readers not familiar with this language are able to understand and to… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 120] 2010. xvi, 647 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion
Edited by Victoria Hasko and Renee Perelmutter
This volume unifies a wide breadth of interdisciplinary studies examining the expression of motion in Slavic languages. The contributors to the volume have joined in the discussion of Slavic motion talk from diachronic, typological, comparative, cognitive, and acquisitional perspectives with a… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 115] 2010. x, 392 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Probing Semantic Relations: Exploration and identification in specialized texts
Edited by Alain Auger and Caroline Barrière
Semantic relations are at the core of any representational system, and are keys to enable the next generation of information processing systems with semantic and reasoning capabilities. Acquisition, description, and formalization of semantic relations are fundamentals in computer-based systems… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 23] 2010. ix, 156 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Terminology
The Processing of Events
Oliver Bott
Synthesizing ideas from event semantics and psycholinguistics, this monograph provides a new perspective on the processing of linguistic aspect and aspectual coercion. Confronting alternative semantic accounts with experimental evidence, the author develops a comprehensive model of online aspectual… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 162] 2010. xvii, 383 pp.
Other subjects Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World
Edited by Graham Low, Zazie Todd, Alice Deignan and Lynne Cameron
It has become increasingly clear that metaphor needs to be explored in terms of the social and discourse context in which it is used, especially where the aim is to address real-world problems. The notion of 'real world' metaphor research has been developed to describe this important area of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 26] 2010. xii, 385 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition
Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: An ethnolinguistic study
Svenja Völkel
This interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between culture, language and cognition based on the aspects of social structure, space and possession in Tonga, Polynesia. Grounded on extensive field research, Völkel explores the subject from an anthropological as well as from a… read more[Culture and Language Use, 2] 2010. xv, 272 pp.
Soliloquy in Japanese and English
Yoko Hasegawa
Language is recognized as an instrument of communication and thought. Under the shadow of prevailing investigation of language as a communicative means, its function as a tool for thinking has long been neglected in empirical research, vis-à-vis philosophical discussions. Language manifests itself… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 202] 2010. ix, 230 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax
Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing
Edited by Patrick Brandt and Marco García García
What happens when a canonically transitive form meets a canonically transitive meaning, and what happens when this doesn’t happen? How do dyadic forms relate to monadic ones, and what are the entailments of the operations that the grammar uses to relate one to the other? Collecting original expert… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 166] 2010. vii, 308 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Verbs of Implicit Negation and their Complements in the History of English
Yoko Iyeiri
For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The principal focus of this book concerns various shifts of complements which verbs of implicit negation (e.g. forbid, forbear, avoid, prohibit, and prevent) have experienced in the history of English.… read more[Not in series, 155] 2010. xv, 223 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Words and their meaning: A deep delve from surface distribution intounderlying neural representation
Edited by Merle Horne and Mikael Roll
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 5:2 (2010) v, 118 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Aspect and the Categorization of States: The case of ser and estar in Spanish
David Brian Roby
In this work, the Spanish copulae ser and estar are argued to be aspectual morphemes. Their binary opposition reflects the universal aspectual values [±Perfective], which are the same ones overtly expressed by the preterite and imperfect past tense forms in Spanish. It can therefore be shown that… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 114] 2009. xiii, 191 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Coding Participant Marking: Construction types in twelve African languages
Edited by Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Whereas Africa as a typological area is often associated with extensive verb morphology and verb serialization, this collection of studies shows that there is tremendous typological diversity at the clausal level. Verb serialization in the Khoisan area contrasts with extensive case-marking in… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 110] 2009. xvi, 389 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Other African languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality
Edited by Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov
In recent years, we have witnessed, on the one hand, an increased interest in cross-linguistic data in formal semantic studies, and, on the other hand, an increased concern for semantic issues in language typology. However, only few studies combine semantic and typological research for a particular… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 148] 2009. vii, 406 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Deconstructing Constructions
Edited by Christopher S. Butler and Javier Martín Arista
This collection of papers brings together contributions from experts in functional linguistics and in Construction Grammar approaches, with the aim of exploring the concept of construction from different angles and trying to arrive at a better understanding of what a construction is, and what roles… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 107] 2009. xx, 306 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Demonstratives and Definite Articles as Nominal Auxiliaries
Dorian Roehrs
Written in the cartographic tradition, this monograph is concerned with the inner structure and derivation of noun phrases. It proposes that demonstratives and definite articles are similar to auxiliaries in the clause. Referencing mostly Germanic languages, the book argues that determiners are… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 140] 2009. xii, 196 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Dependency in Linguistic Description
Edited by Alain Polguère and Igor Mel’čuk
The book covers three major topics crucial for contemporary syntactic research. Firstly, it offers a sketch of a general theory of dependency in natural language. Different types of linguistic dependencies are distinguished (semantic, syntactic, and morphological), the criteria for their… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 111] 2009. xxii, 281 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations
Glyn Hicks
The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations resolves a conspicuous problem for Minimalist theory, the apparently representational nature of the binding conditions. Hicks adduces a broad variety of evidence against the binding conditions applying at LF and builds upon the insights of recent proposals by… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 139] 2009. xii, 309 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Focus and Background in Romance Languages
Edited by Andreas Dufter and Daniel Jacob
Focus–background structure has taken center stage in much current theorizing about sentence prosody, syntax, and semantics. However, both the inventory of focus expressions found cross-linguistically and the interpretive consequences associated with each of these continue to be insufficiently… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 112] 2009. vii, 362 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
From Body to Meaning in Culture: Papers on cognitive semantic studies of Chinese
Ning Yu
From the perspective of Cognitive Semantics and Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this collection of papers looks at the relationship between language, body, culture, and cognition. In particular, it looks into the embodied nature of human language and cognition as arising from and situated in the… read more[Not in series, 149] 2009. xvi, 310 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
Grammar as Processor: A Distributed Morphology account of spontaneous speech errors
Roland Pfau
Spontaneous speech errors provide valuable evidence not only for the processes that mediate between a communicative intention and the articulation of an utterance but also for the types of grammatical entities that are manipulated during production. This study proposes an analysis of speech errors… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 137] 2009. xiii, 372 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology | Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics
Edited by Frank Brisard, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
The ten volumes of 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 other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, cultural, social, variational, interactional,… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 5] 2009. xiii, 308 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax
Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg and Antonio Barcelona
Figurative language has been regarded traditionally as situated outside the realm of grammar. However, with the advent of Cognitive Linguistics, metonymy and metaphor are now recognized as being not only ornamental rhetorical tropes but fundamental figures of thought that shape, to a considerable… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 25] 2009. xiii, 423 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Modality in Japanese: The layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of functional categories
Heiko Narrog
Hierarchical clause structure is an important feature of most theories of grammar. While it has been an indispensable part of formal syntactic theories, functional theories have more recently discovered for themselves a ‘layered structure of the clause’. A major focus of the current discussion on… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 109] 2009. xxii, 277 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Named Entities: Recognition, classification and use
Edited by Satoshi Sekine and Elisabete Ranchhod
Named Entities provides critical information for many NLP applications. Named Entity recognition and classification (NERC) in text is recognized as one of the important sub-tasks of Information Extraction (IE). The seven papers in this volume cover various interesting and informative aspects of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 19] 2009. v, 168 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Structure of Stative Verbs
Antonia Rothmayr
This book explores the nature of stative verbs, their eventuality structure, and the patterns of argument realization. The study shows that there is no single class of stative verbs. Rather, several distinct groups of verbs are found: Verbs that undergo a systematic stative/eventive ambiguity;… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 143] 2009. xv, 216 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Time and Again: Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics. In honor of D. Terence Langendoen
Edited by William D. Lewis, Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley and Scott O. Farrar
This volume is a collection of papers that highlights some recurring themes that have surfaced in the generative tradition in linguistics over the past 40 years. The volume is more than a historical take on a theoretical tradition; rather, it is also a "compass" pointing to exciting new empirical… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 135] 2009. xiv, 265 pp.
Other subjects Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Words, Grammar, Text: Revisiting the work of John Sinclair
Edited by Rosamund Moon
John Sinclair’s work is widely known and has had a far-reaching influence, particularly in the areas of corpus linguistics, lexis, phraseology, lexicography, grammar, and discourse analysis. This collection of papers, written by former colleagues at Birmingham University, looks at some key writings… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 18] 2009. viii, 124 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Adpositions: Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives
Edited by Dennis Kurzon and Silvia Adler
This book is a collection of articles which deal with adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what is traditionally treated in studies from a European and Semitic orientation – prepositions, but it presents studies on postpositions, too.… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 74] 2008. viii, 307 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages
Edited by Felix K. Ameka and Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu
This book explores the thesis that in the Kwa languages of West Africa, aspect and modality are more central to the grammar of the verb than tense. Where tense marking has emerged it is invariably in the expression of the future, and therefore concerned with the impending actualization or… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 100] 2008. ix, 335 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Aspect in Burmese: Meaning and function
Nicoletta Romeo
The book presents an overview of the aspectual system of Burmese, and it focuses on the analysis and description of the meaning and function of some aspectual markers which are among the most commonly used in the language. The analysis highlights a few important facts. Firstly, these markers, which… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 96] 2008. xv, 289 pp.
Other subjects Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Asymmetric Events
Edited by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
The book introduces the concept of asymmetric events, an important concept in language and cognition, which, for the first time in linguistic literature, is identified in a more systematic way and analyzed in a number of different languages, including typologically or genetically unrelated ones.… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 11] 2008. xii, 287 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Constraints in Discourse
Edited by Anton Benz and Peter Kühnlein
It is a commonplace to say that the meaning of text is more than the conjunction of the meaning of its constituents. But what are the rules governing its interpretation, and what are the constraints that define well-formed discourse? Answers to these questions can be given from various perspectives. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 172] 2008. vii, 292 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Corpus-based Analyses of the Problem–Solution Pattern: A phraseological approach
Lynne Flowerdew
This book reports research on the Problem-Solution rhetorical pattern, which has to date received very little attention in corpus-based studies. Insights from genre analysis and systemic-functional grammar are also applied to the analysis of the Problem-Solution pattern, thus moving towards a more… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 29] 2008. xi, 179 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Cross-Linguistic Semantics
Edited by Cliff Goddard
Cross-linguistic semantics – investigating how languages package and express meanings differently – is central to the linguistic quest to understand the nature of human language. This set of studies explores and demonstrates cross-linguistic semantics as practised in the natural semantic… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 102] 2008. xvi, 356 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions
Edited by Ritva Laury
The study of clause combining has been advanced lately by increasing interest in the study of actual language use in a typologically diverse set of languages. A number of received understandings have been challenged, among these the idea of clause combinations as being divisible into subordination… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 80] 2008. xiv, 253 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages
Edited by Ilana Mushin and Brett Baker
Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages is the first major survey to address the issue of the effects of information packaging on Australian languages, widely known for nonconfigurationality. The papers are based on individual fieldwork and describe a wide range of Australian languages of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 104] 2008. x, 239 pp.
Other subjects Australian languages | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Emotion words in the monolingual and bilingual lexicon
Edited by Jeanette Altarriba, Aneta Pavlenko and Norman Segalowitz
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 3:1 (2008) 156 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
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 | Historical linguistics | 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 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 | Historical linguistics | Lexicography | Morphology | 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 | Historical linguistics | Lexicography | Pragmatics
Essays on Nominal Determination: From morphology to discourse management
Edited by Henrik Høeg Müller and Alex Klinge
This volume brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that nominal determination and reference assignment play in the complicated interplay between thought, language and communication. The articles can be divided roughly into five… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 99] 2008. xviii, 369 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical 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 Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
History of German Negation
Agnes Jäger
This book represents the first comprehensive overview over the history of negation in German. It addresses both the development of the negation particles as well as the diachrony of indefinites in the scope of negation and the phenomenon of Negative Concord. Being based on a corpus study of several… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 118] 2008. ix, 350 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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 Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface
Edited by Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface presents on-going research in Role and Reference Grammar in a number of critical areas of linguistic theory: verb semantics and argument structure, the nature of syntactic categories and syntactic representation, prosody and syntax,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 105] 2008. xxiv, 484 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
L2 Vocabulary: The interface between learning and representation
Edited by Joe Barcroft and Gretchen L. Sunderman
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 3:3 (2008) 177 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
The Layered DP: Form and meaning of French indefinites
Tabea Ihsane
This book examines argumental un-NPs and du/des-NPs in French: nominals with the indefinite article and with the so-called ‘partitive article’ respectively. The main aim is to account for the different interpretations of these indefinites and to determine how interpretation and structure are… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 124] 2008. ix, 260 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Left Periphery: The interaction of syntax, pragmatics and prosody in Czech
Anne Sturgeon
This study of the interaction of syntax, pragmatics, and prosody in left peripheral positions focuses on two left dislocation constructions in Czech, Hanging Topic Left Dislocation and Contrastive Left Dislocation. The structure of the left periphery is delineated through a thorough description and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 129] 2008. xi, 143 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Generative linguistics | Phonology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Limiting the Iconic: From the metatheoretical foundations to the creative possibilities of iconicity in language
Ludovic De Cuypere
Iconicity has become a popular notion in contemporary linguistic research. This book is the first to present a synthesis of the vast amount of scholarship on linguistic iconicity which has been produced in the previous decades, ranging from iconicity in phonology and morpho-syntax to the role of… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 6] 2008. xiii, 286 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Philosophy | Semiotics | Theoretical linguistics
Modality, Aspect and Negation in Persian
Azita H. Taleghani
This monograph presents a morpho-syntactic investigation on modality, aspect, and negation by concentrating on Persian, and is designed to contribute to theoretical linguistics and the study of Iranian languages. The analysis is based on the Minimalist program. This research challenges the idea… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 128] 2008. ix, 183 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Other Indo-European languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions
Edited by Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss
The main topics pursued in this volume are based on empirical insights derived from Germanic: logical and typological dispositions about aspect-modality links. These are probed in a variety of non-related languages. The logically establishable links are the following: Modal verbs are aspect… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 79] 2008. xxiv, 422 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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 Historical linguistics | Philosophy | 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 | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
The Perfect Time Span: On the present perfect in German, Swedish and English
Björn Rothstein
This book is the first book-length study on the Swedish present perfect. It provides an in-depth exploration of the present perfect in English, German and Swedish. It is claimed that only a discourse-based ExtendedNow-approach fully accounts for the present perfect. The main claim is that the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 125] 2008. xi, 171 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Semantics of Generics in Dutch and Related Languages
Albert Oosterhof
This monograph is a comprehensive study of the various ways in which genericity can be expressed in Dutch, dialects of Dutch, and languages related to Dutch. On the basis of empirical (corpus- and questionnaire-based) data, a wide range of topics are discussed which have been addressed in the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 122] 2008. xviii, 286 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Split Possession: An areal-linguistic study of the alienability correlation and related phenomena in the languages of Europe
Thomas Stolz, Sonja Kettler, Cornelia Stroh and Aina Urdze
This book is a functional-typological study of possession splits in European languages. It shows that genetically and structurally diverse languages such as Icelandic, Welsh, and Maltese display possessive systems which are sensitive to semantically based distinctions reminiscent of the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 101] 2008. x, 546 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages
Edited by Edward J. Vajda
Across North Asia, complex sentence formation patterns display an unusually high prevalence of suffixed relational morphemes used to convey subordination. Suffixal subordinators occur in a variety of genetic groupings, most notably Samoyedic, Turkic, and Tungusic, but also in some of the region’s… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 300] 2008. xii, 218 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Syntactic Nature of Inner Aspect: A minimalist perspective
Jonathan E. MacDonald
This book explores the syntactic nature of inner aspect from a minimalist perspective. It begins with the new observation that there are two independent properties at play in English inner aspect: the object-to-event mapping and event structure. From a discussion of English statives and Russian, it… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 133] 2008. xv, 241 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P
Edited by Anna Asbury, Jakub Dotlačil, Berit Gehrke and Rick Nouwen
The category P belongs to a less studied area in theoretical linguistics, which has only recently attracted considerable attention. This volume brings together pioneering work on adpositions in spatial relations from different theoretical and cross-linguistic perspectives. The common theme in these… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 120] 2008. vi, 416 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives: External arguments in change-of-state contexts
Florian Schäfer
This book develops an approach to the causative alternation that assumes syntactic event decomposition and a configurational theta theory. It is couched within the framework of the Minimalist Program and, especially, within Distributed Morphology. Central to the work is the syntax and semantics of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 126] 2008. xi, 324 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect
Edited by Susan Rothstein
The papers in this volume investigate the semantics of aspect from both a theoretical and a crosslinguistic point of view, in a wide range of languages from a number of different language families. The papers are all informed by the belief that a thorough exposure to the expression of aspect… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 110] 2008. viii, 453 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Unique Focus: Languages without multiple wh-questions
Marina Stoyanova
This monograph focuses on an interesting typological property shared by four languages: the ungrammaticality of multiple wh-questions in Irish, Berber, Italian and Somali. It contains a broad discussion of data related to the grammar of wh-questions, a comparative analysis of wh-constructions in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 123] 2008. xi, 184 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Anaphors in Text: Cognitive, formal and applied approaches to anaphoric reference
Edited by Monika Schwarz-Friesel, Manfred Consten and Mareile Knees
This volume contains a careful selection of papers concerned with actual research questions on anaphoric reference, a subject of current interest with various linguistic subdisciplines. This is reflected in this book as it methodically covers broadly invested approaches from cognitive,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 86] 2007. xvi, 282 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Applicatives: Structure and interpretation from a minimalist perspective
Youngmi Jeong
Applicatives is concerned with the syntax of constructions that contain arguments that transcend the traditional subject-object characterization, and how the syntax of such constructions yields the interpretive effects that previous research has identified. At the empirical level this volume… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 104] 2007. vii, 144 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax
Aspects of Meaning Construction
Edited by Günter Radden, Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Thomas Berg and Peter Siemund
Meaning does not reside in linguistic units but is constructed in the minds of the language users. Meaning construction is an on-line mental activity whereby speech participants create meanings on the basis of underspecified linguistic units. The construction of meaning is guided by cognitive… read more[Not in series, 136] 2007. x, 289 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Syntax
Bilingual Lexicography from a Communicative Perspective
Heming Yong and Jing Peng
This stimulating new book, as the premier work introducing bilingual lexicography from a communicative perspective, is launched to represent original thinking and innovative theorization in the field of bilingual lexicography. It treats the bilingual dictionary as a system of intercultural… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 9] 2007. x, 229 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Multilingualism | Terminology | Translation Studies
The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition
Edited by Michel Aurnague, Maya Hickmann † and Laure Vieu
Despite a growing interest for space in language, most research has focused on spatial markers specifying the static or dynamic relationships among entities (verbs, prepositions, postpositions, case markings…). Little attention has been paid to the very properties of spatial entities, their status… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 20] 2007. viii, 371 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind: A defense of content-internalism and semantic externalism
John-Michael Kuczynski
What is it to have a concept? What is it to make an inference? What is it to be rational? On the basis of recent developments in semantics, a number of authors have embraced answers to these questions that have radically counterintuitive consequences, for example:One can rationally accept… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 69] 2007. x, 524 pp.
Other subjects Consciousness research | Philosophy
Conceptual Structure in Lexical Items: The lexicalisation of communication concepts in English, German and Dutch
Kristel Proost
This volume deals with the occurrence of lexical gaps in the domain of linguistic action verbs. Though these constitute a considerable proportion of the verb inventory of many languages, not all concepts of verbal communication may be expressed by lexical items in any particular one of them.… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 168] 2007. xii, 304 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Lexicography | Pragmatics
Connectives as Discourse Landmarks
Edited by Agnès Celle and Ruth Huart
This set of eleven articles, by linguists from four different European countries and a variety of theoretical backgrounds, takes a new look at the discourse functions of a number of English connectives, from simple coordinators (and, but) to phrases of varying complexity (after all, the fact is… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 161] 2007. viii, 212 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax
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 | Historical linguistics | Syntax
Coreference, Modality, and Focus: Studies on the syntax–semantics interface
Edited by Luis Eguren and Olga Fernández-Soriano
This volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVIth Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. All the papers deal with current issues within the generative framework, mostly paying attention to phenomena pertaining to the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 111] 2007. xii, 239 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Expressing the Same by the Different: The subjunctive vs the indicative in French
Igor Dreer
This volume offers an alternative, sign-oriented analysis of the distribution of the French Indicative and Subjunctive. It rejects both government and functions, attributed to both moods, and shows that the distribution of the Indicative and the Subjunctive is motivated by their invariant meanings.… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 59] 2007. xxx, 272 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
La négation dans les langues romanes
Sous la direction de Franck Floricic
Negation has always been and still is a central topic in typological studies and theoretical research. Its centrality shows itself in the fact that it is not restricted to a given linguistic field but compasses the whole domain of linguistic studies. Very often, works on negation are brought about… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 26] 2007. xii, 229 pp
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective
Edited by Mengistu Amberber
This book offers, for the first time, a detailed comparative study of how speakers of different languages express memory concepts. While there is a robust body of psycholinguistic research that bears on how memory and language are related, there is no comparative study of how speakers themselves… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 21] 2007. xii, 284 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics
Mental States: Volume 1: Evolution, function, nature
Edited by Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos
Collecting the work of linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, archaeologists, artificial intelligence researchers and philosophers this volume presents a richly varied picture of the nature and function of mental states. Starting from questions about the cognitive capacities of the early… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 92] 2007. xii, 304 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language
Mental States: Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure
Edited by Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos
The contributions to this volume focus on what language and language use reveals about cognitive structure and underlying cognitive categories. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays from linguists and psychologists within this volume investigate the insights conceptual categorization can give… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 93] 2007. x, 362 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Mental States: Volume 1: Evolution, function, nature; Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure (set)
Edited by Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos
Volume I: Collecting the work of linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, artificial intelligence researchers and philosophers this volume presents a richly varied picture of the nature and function of mental states. Volume II: The contributions to this volume focus on what language and language… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 92-93] 2007. xii, 304 pp. & x, 362 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language
Motion, Transfer and Transformation: The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal
Loretta O’Connor
Typologies are critical tools for linguists, but typologies, like grammars, are known to leak. This book addresses the question of typological overlap from the perspective of a single language. In Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, a language of southern Mexico, change events are expressed with three types… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 95] 2007. xiv, 251 pp.
Other subjects Linguistics of isolated languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Typology
On Information Structure, Meaning and Form: Generalizations across languages
Edited by Kerstin Schwabe and Susanne Winkler
This collection of articles offers a new and compelling perspective on the interface connecting syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatics. At the core of this volume is the hypothesis that information structure represents the common interface of these grammatical components. Information structure… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 100] 2007. vii, 570 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Prototypical Transitivity
Åshild Næss
This book presents a functional analysis of a notion which has gained considerable importance in cognitive and functional linguistics over the last couple of decades, namely 'prototypical transitivity'. It discusses what prototypical transitivity is, why it should exist, and how it should be… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 72] 2007. x, 240 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Reciprocal Constructions
Edited by Vladimir P. Nedjalkov
This monograph constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of reciprocal constructions and related phenomena in the world’s languages. Reciprocal constructions (of the type The two boys hit each other, The poets admire each other’s poems) have often been the subject of language-particular… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 71] 2007. xxiii, 2219 pp. (5 vols.)
Reduced Parenthetical Clauses as Mitigators: A corpus study of spoken French, Italian and Spanish
Stefan Schneider
While parentheticals attract constant attention, they very rarely constitute the main subject of monographs. This book provides a comprehensive account of reduced parenthetical clauses (RPCs) in three Romance languages. Typical French RPCs are je crois, disons, je dirais, je pense, je sais pas, and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 27] 2007. xiv, 237 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Phonology | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Syntax
Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning–Text Theory: In honour of Igor Mel'čuk
Edited by Leo Wanner
The Meaning Text Theory (MTT) is a lexicon-centred and dependency-based theory for the description of language using a holistic model that incorporates semantics, syntax, morphology and lexis. This volume, prepared on the occasion of Igor Mel'čuk’s 70th birthday, offers a cross-section of the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 84] 2007. xviii, 377 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Lexicography | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Talking about Motion: A crosslinguistic investigation of lexicalization patterns
Luna Filipović
This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English, with contrasting examples from Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Albanian. Talmy’s typology (1985) provides the backdrop for the analysis and the focus is on intratypological differences that… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 91] 2007. x, 182 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Typology
Washing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology
Andrew Goatly
Contemporary metaphor theory has recently begun to address the relation between metaphor, culture and ideology. In this wide-ranging book, Andrew Goatly, using lexical data from his database Metalude, investigates how conceptual metaphor themes construct our thinking and social behaviour in fields… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 23] 2007. xvii, 431 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology
Agency and Impersonality: Their Linguistic and Cultural Manifestations
Mutsumi Yamamoto
In this monograph the author probes the fundamental nature of the concept of agency and its importance to human language and cognition. Whereas previous studies focused on grammatical manifestations this original work addresses such issues as the strong relationship between agency and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 78] 2006. x, 152 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Case, Valency and Transitivity
Edited by Leonid Kulikov, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart
The three concepts of case, valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 77] 2006. xx, 503 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Creative Compounding in English: The Semantics of Metaphorical and Metonymical Noun-Noun Combinations
Réka Benczes
Metaphorical and metonymical compounds – novel and lexicalised ones alike – are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an expression such as land fishing in order to speak about metal detecting, the referent will be immediately understood even if the hearer had not… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 19] 2006. xvi, 206 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Datives and Other Cases: Between argument structure and event structure
Edited by Daniel Hole, André Meinunger and Werner Abraham
This volume provides a state-of-the-art account of research into datives and other morphological cases. The contributors, among them leading scholars in the field, present fresh insights into traditional issues such as the dichotomy between lexical and structural case, and open up fascinating new… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 75] 2006. viii, 385 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Deixis and Alignment: Inverse systems in indigenous languages of the Americas
Fernando Zúñiga
This book proposes a notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered). This third stance put forward here takes both grammar and pragmatic functions into… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 70] 2006. xii, 309 pp.
Other subjects Languages of North America | Languages of South America | Morphology | Syntax | Typology
Demoting the Agent: Passive, middle and other voice phenomena
Edited by Benjamin Lyngfelt and Torgrim Solstad
Passives, middles, and other voice phenomena are issues at the core of modern linguistic research. This volume brings together different perspectives on voice different theoretical viewpoints, different languages, and different kinds of voice phenomena. The eleven articles each make a valuable… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 96] 2006. x, 333 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn
Edited by Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward
One of the most lively and contentious issues in contemporary linguistic theory concerns the elusive boundary between semantics and pragmatics, and Professor Laurence R. Horn of Yale University has been at the center of that debate ever since his groundbreaking 1972 UCLA dissertation. This volume… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 80] 2006. xii, 350 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Idiomatic Creativity: A cognitive-linguistic model of idiom-representation and idiom-variation in English
Andreas Langlotz
This book revisits the theoretical and psycholinguistic controversies centred around the intriguing nature of idioms and proposes a more systematic cognitive-linguistic model of their grammatical status and use. Whenever speakers vary idioms in actual discourse, they open a linguistic window into… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 17] 2006. xi, 325 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Lexicography
Individuals in Time: Tense, aspect and the individual/stage distinction
María J. Arche
This monograph investigates the temporal properties of those predicates referring to individuals – the so-called individual-level (IL) predicates – in contrast to those known as stage-level (SL) predicates. Many of the traditional tenets attributed to the IL/SL dichotomy are not solidly founded,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 94] 2006. xiv, 281 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Non-definiteness and Plurality
Edited by Svetlana Vogeleer and Liliane Tasmowski
This collection of studies by leading scholars in the field focuses on the semantics of non-definite (bare and indefinite) plural NPs. The contributions in the first part concentrate on bare plurals and their cross-linguistic counterparts. They discuss applicability of the notion of ‘semantic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 95] 2006. vi, 358 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Passivization and Typology: Form and function
Edited by Werner Abraham and Larisa Leisiö
Is the passive a unified universal phenomenon? The claim derived from this volume is that the passive, if not universal, has become unified according to function. Language as a means of communication needs the passive, or passive-like constructions, and sooner or later develops them based on other… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 68] 2006. x, 553 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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 Historical linguistics | Lexicography | 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 | Historical linguistics | Lexicography | Theoretical linguistics
Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages
Edited by Bert Peeters
This volume is part of a research program which started with the publication, in 1972, of Anna Wierzbicka’s groundbreaking work on Semantic Primitives. The first within the program to focus on a number of typologically similar languages, it proposes a French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian version… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 81] 2006. xvi, 374 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Space in Languages: Linguistic Systems and Cognitive Categories
Edited by Maya Hickmann † and Stéphane Robert
Space is presently the focus of much research and debate across disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy. One strong feature of this collection is to bring together theoretical and empirical contributions from these varied scientific traditions, with the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 66] 2006. x, 361 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Typology
Suppletion in Verb Paradigms: Bits and pieces of the puzzle
Ljuba N. Veselinova
This book examines stem change in verb paradigms, as in English go 'go.PRESENT' vs. went 'go.PAST', a phenomenon referred to as suppletion in current linguistic theory. The work is based on a broad sample of 193 languages, and examines this long neglected phenomenon from a typological perspective.… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 67] 2006. xviii, 236 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Typology
Three-Participant Constructions in English: A functional-cognitive approach to caused relations
An Laffut
This study aims to give a systematic and comprehensive description of the constructions involved in three important types of alternation: the locative alternation, which is by far the most researched of the three, the image impression alternation and the material/product alternation. The author… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 79] 2006. ix, 268 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Anaphora Processing: Linguistic, cognitive and computational modelling
Edited by António Branco, Tony McEnery and Ruslan Mitkov
Anaphora processing is a central topic in the study of natural language and has long been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines. The correct interpretation of anaphora has also become increasingly important for real-world natural language processing applications, including machine… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 263] 2005. x, 449 pp.
Other subjects Natural language processing | Psycholinguistics | Syntax
Beyond Rhetorical Questions: Assertive questions in everyday interaction
Irene Koshik
This book uses Conversation Analysis methodology to analyze rhetorical and other questions that are designed to convey assertions, rather than seek new information. It shows how these question sequences unfold interactionally in naturally-occurring talk in a variety of settings, e.g., friends… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 16] 2005. x, 183 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax
Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy
Edited by Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
The Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy (METBIB) is an online bibliography which brings together references to publications on metaphor, metonymy, and other figurative language, starting from 1990. It covers monographs, journal articles, book series, dissertations, theses, proceedings, working… read more[Online Resources Collection, MetBib] 2005. ca. 10.000 records
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Clusivity: Typology and case studies of the inclusive–exclusive distinction
Edited by Elena Filimonova
This book presents a collection of papers on clusivity, a newly coined term for the inclusive–exclusive distinction. Clusivity is a widespread feature familiar from descriptive grammars and frequently figuring in typological schemes and diachronic scenarios. However, no comprehensive exploration of… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 63] 2005. xii, 436 pp.
Other subjects Typology
Construction Grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Mirjam Fried
The notion ‘construction’ has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general. This volume extends the traditional domain of Construction Grammar (CxG) in several directions, all with a cognitive basis. Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, discourse… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 3] 2005. viii, 325 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Context as Other Minds: The Pragmatics of Sociality, Cognition and Communication
T. Givón
Givon's new book re-casts pragmatics, and most conspicuously the pragmatics of sociality and communication, in neuro-cognitive, bio-adaptive, evolutionary terms. The fact that context, the core notion of pragmatics, is a framing operation undertaken on the fly through judgements of relevance, has… read more[Not in series, 130] 2005. xvi, 283 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Syntax
Copular Clauses: Specification, predication and equation
Line Mikkelsen
This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 85] 2005. viii, 210 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Dramatized Discourse: The Mandarin Chinese ba-construction
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
Language is a symbolic system of meanings evoked by linguistic forms. The choice of forms in communication is non-arbitrary. Rather, speakers pick those forms whose meanings best convey their discourse intention. The meaning of the Mandarin ba-construction, argues Jing-Schmidt, is discourse… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 56] 2005. xxii, 337 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax
English General Nouns: A corpus theoretical approach
Michaela Mahlberg
This book proposes an innovative approach to general nouns. General nouns are defined as high-frequency nouns that are characterised by their textual functions. Although the concept is motivated by Halliday & Hasan (1976), the corpus theoretical approach adopted in the present study is… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 20] 2005. x, 206 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Epistemic Modality: Functional properties and the Italian system
Paola Pietrandrea
This volume offers an original theoretical and methodological approach to the hotly debated issue of epistemic modality. The analysis is conducted in a rigorous typological frame developed after a careful consideration of a wealth of cross-linguistic data, and focuses on Italian, a language often… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 74] 2005. xii, 232 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Syntax | Typology
Grammatical Constructions: Back to the roots
Edited by Mirjam Fried and Hans C. Boas
This volume brings into focus the conceptual roots of the notion ‘grammatical construction’ as the theoretical entity that constitutes the backbone of Construction Grammar, a unique grammatical model in which grammatical constructions have the status of elementary building blocks of human language.… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 4] 2005. viii, 246 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Language and Meaning: The structural creation of reality
Christopher Beedham
This book illustrates the structuralist idea that language creates the reality we perceive. The data presented in this volume focus on the problematic issues of the passive construction and irregular (strong) verbs, with examples taken primarily from English with separate subsections on German and… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 55] 2005. xiv, 225 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Les Périphrases Verbales
Sous la direction de Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot et Nicole Le Querler
This comprehensive volume contains twenty-six out of thirty three papers that were presented at the International Conference on "Les Périphrases Verbales". The conference took place at the University of Caen-Basse-Normandie from June 25th to June 28th 2003, and was co-organized by the Crisco umr… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 25] 2005. viii, 521 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Meaning Predictability in Word Formation: Novel, context-free naming units
Pavol Štekauer
This book aims to contribute to a growing interest amongst psycholinguists and morphologists in the mechanisms of meaning predictability. It presents a brand-new model of the meaning-prediction of novel, context-free naming units, relating the wordformation and wordinterpretation processes. Unlike… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 54] 2005. xxii, 288 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Memory and Understanding: Concept formation in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu
Renate Bartsch
This book treats memory and understanding on two levels, on the phenomenological level of experience, on which a theory of dynamic conceptual semantics is built, and on the neuro-connectionist level, which supports the capacities of concept formation, remembering, and understanding. A… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 63] 2005. x, 158 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Consciousness research | Neuropsychology | Philosophy | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics
Alice Deignan
Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. This book is addressed at readers from diverse academic backgrounds who are interested in ways of researching metaphor from different… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 6] 2005. x, 236 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
Negotiation of Contingent Talk: The Japanese interactional particles ne and sa
Emi Morita
Observing naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in Japanese, this book examines how Japanese speakers segment their talk into relevant interactional units and use particles such as ne and sa to accomplish local pragmatic work. The study provides a conversation analytic, action-oriented account… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 137] 2005. xvi, 240 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
Nominal Phrases from a Scandinavian Perspective
Marit Julien
This monograph presents a new model of the internal syntax of nominal phrases. The model is mainly based on Scandinavian, since with the wide range of variation that Scandinavian displays in the nominal domain, despite the close genetic relationship between the different varieties, Scandinavian is… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 87] 2005. xv, 348 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Quantifier Scope in German
Jürgen Pafel
This book presents a comprehensive account of quantifier scope in German. The author investigates scope behavior of ordinary quantifiers and negative, adverbial, interrogative, relative and particle quantifiers. The areas which are dealt with include: relative scope in simple sentences, absolute… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 84] 2005. xvi, 312 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Syntax–Discourse Interface: Representing and interpreting dependency
Petra B. Schumacher
This book combines theoretical and experimental aspects of the establishment of dependency. It provides an account of dependency relations by focusing on the representation and interpretation of referentially dependent elements, particularly regular reflexives, logophors, and pronouns. First, the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 80] 2005. xii, 259 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Generative linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Talk and Practical Epistemology: The social life of knowledge in a Caribbean community
Jack Sidnell
Drawing on the methods of conversation analysis and ethnography, this book sets out to examine the epistemological practices of Indo-Guyanese villagers as these are revealed in their talk and daily conduct. Based on over eighty-five hours of conversation recorded during twelve months of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 142] 2005. xvi, 255 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Philosophy | Pragmatics
Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages: Theoretical and applied perspectives
Edited by Dalila Ayoun and M. Rafael Salaberry
This volume presents a state-of-the-art descriptive and explanatory analysis of the second language development of Romance tense-aspect systems. It contains new experimental data from adult French, Catalan, Portuguese learners, and Italian children learners. Standing research questions are… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 29] 2005. x, 318 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Romance linguistics | Syntax
Adverbials: The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure
Edited by Jennifer R. Austin, Stefan Engelberg and Gisa Rauh
Adverbials have become an important testing ground for research on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The articles selected for this volume present recent research on this topic. Among the issues addressed are the occurrence of adverbials in various domains of the sentence… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 70] 2004. ix, 343 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study
Richard Xiao † and Tony McEnery
Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory. This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the linguistic devices that Mandarin Chinese employs to express aspectual meanings. The work presented here is the first corpus-based account of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 73] 2004. x, 305 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Balkan Syntax and Semantics
Edited by Olga Mišeska Tomić
The book deals with some syntactic and semantic aspects of the shared Balkan Sprachbund properties. In a comprehensive introductory chapter, Tomić offers an overview of the Balkan Sprachbund properties. Sobolev, displaying the areal distribution of 65 properties, argues for dialect cartography.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 67] 2004. xvi, 496 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Building Blocks of Meaning: Ideas for a philosophical grammar
Michele Prandi
The shaping of complex meanings depends on punctual and relational coding and inferencing. Coding is viewed as a vector which can run either from expression to content or from concepts to (linguistic) forms to mark independent conceptual relations. While coding relies on systematic resources… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 13] 2004. xviii, 520 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Philosophy | Semiotics
Cognitive Semantics and Scientific Knowledge: Case studies in the cognitive science of science
András Kertész
The book focuses on the question of how and to what extent cognitive semantic approaches can contribute to the new field of the cognitive science of science. The argumentation is based on a series of instructive case studies which are intended to test the prospects and limits of the metascientific… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 4] 2004. viii, 259 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Philosophy | Pragmatics
The Composition of Meaning: From lexeme to discourse
Edited by Alice G.B. ter Meulen and Werner Abraham
In the modular design of generative theory the syntax–semantics interface has accounted all along for meanings at the level of Logical Form. The syntax–pragmatics interface, on the other hand, is the result of what one may call the ‘pragmatic turn’ in the linguistic theory, where content is… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 255] 2004. vi, 230 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Generative linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective
Edited by Mirjam Fried and Jan-Ola Östman
This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980’s by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 2] 2004. vi, 209 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Coordinating Constructions
Edited by Martin Haspelmath
This is the first book on coordinating constructions that adopts a broad cross-linguistic perspective. Coordination has been studied intensively in English and other major European languages, but we are only beginning to understand the range of variation that is found world-wide. This volume… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 58] 2004. xcv, 576 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Focus Structure in Generative Grammar: An integrated syntactic, semantic and intonational approach
Carsten Breul
The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is realized. This claim is discussed in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 68] 2004. x, 430 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Generative linguistics | Phonetics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity
Östen Dahl
This book studies linguistic complexity and the processes by which it arises and is maintained, focusing not so much on what one can say in a language as how it is said. Complexity is not seen as synonymous with “difficulty” but as an objective property of a system – a measure of the amount of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 71] 2004. x, 333 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Language Typology: A functional perspective
Edited by Alice Caffarel-Cayron, J.R. Martin and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
This book is intended as a systemic functional contribution to language typology both for those who would like to understand and describe particular languages against the background of generalizations about a wide range of languages and also for those who would like to develop typological accounts… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 253] 2004. xiv, 702 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Lexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire / Syntax, Lexis & Lexicon-Grammar: Papers in honour of Maurice Gross
Edited by Christian Leclère, Éric Laporte, Mireille Piot and Max Silberztein
Maurice Gross, who died in December 2001, was a pioneer and leading thinker in the field of modern linguistics. Long before computers could facilitate large-scale, lexically-based language study, he and his team began building an exhaustive, empirically-based inventory of the "lexicon-grammar" of… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 24] 2004. xxii, 659 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Natural language processing | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Historical linguistics | Lexicography | Phonology
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 | Historical linguistics | Lexicography | Morphology | Phonology | Syntax
Non-nominative Subjects: Volume 1 and 2 (set)
Edited by Peri Bhaskararao and Karumuri V. Subbarao
These two volumes on Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) present the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis. A significant feature of these volumes is that authors with different theoretical… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 60-61] 2004. 668 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Non-nominative Subjects: Volume 1
Edited by Peri Bhaskararao and Karumuri V. Subbarao
Volume 1 of Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) presents the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis. A significant feature of these volumes is that authors with different theoretical… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 60] 2004. xii, 325 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Non-nominative Subjects: Volume 2
Edited by Peri Bhaskararao and Karumuri V. Subbarao
Volume 2 of Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) presents the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis. A significant feature of these volumes is that authors with different theoretical… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 61] 2004. xii, 317 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Phrasal Constructions and Resultativeness in English: A sign-oriented analysis
Marina Gorlach
Eat up the apple or Eat the apple up? Is there any difference in the messages each of these alternative forms sends? If there isn’t, why bother to keep both? On the other hand, is there any semantic similarity between eat the apple up and break the glass to pieces? This study takes a fresh look at… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 52] 2004. ix, 150 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese: Text and Cognition
Yi’an Wu
As a subject of universal appeal, spatial demonstratives have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplines. What marks the present study as distinct is that it is an English-Chinese comparative study set in a cognitive-linguistic framework and that the methodology features a parallel… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 126] 2004. xviii, 234 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages
The Structure of Time: Language, meaning and temporal cognition
Vyvyan Evans
One of the most enigmatic aspects of experience concerns time. Since pre-Socratic times scholars have speculated about the nature of time, asking questions such as: What is time? Where does it come from? Where does it go? The central proposal of The Structure of Time is that time, at base,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 12] 2004. x, 286 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Philosophy
Asymmetry in Grammar: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Volume I, Syntax and Semantics of Asymmetry in Grammar brings to fore the centrality of asymmetry in DP, VP and CP. A finer grained articulation of the DP is proposed, and further functional projections for restrictive relatives, as well as a refined analyses of case identification and presumptive… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 57-58] 2003. vi, 405 pp. & vi, 309 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Morphology | Phonology | Syntax
Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 1: Syntax and semantics
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Asymmetry in Grammar: Syntax and Semantics brings to fore the centrality of asymmetry in DP, VP and CP. A finer grained articulation of the DP is proposed, and further functional projections for restrictive relatives, as well as a refined analyses of case identification and presumptive pronouns.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 57] 2003. vi, 405 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax
Deictic Conceptualisation of Space, Time and Person
Edited by Friedrich Lenz
This volume is a collection of articles which present the results of investigations into the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of deictic expressions in several languages. Special emphasis is placed on contrastive studies that take cognitive and cultural context into account. Both the empirical and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 112] 2003. xiv, 279 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Ellipsis and Reference Tracking in Japanese
Shigeko Nariyama
In many East Asian languages, despite the prevalent occurrence of implicit reference, reference management is largely achieved without recourse to familiar agreement features. For this reason, recovering ellipted reference has been a perplexing problem in the analysis of these languages.This book… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 66] 2003. xvi, 400 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax
Epistemic Stance in English Conversation: A description of its interactional functions, with a focus on I think
Elise Kärkkäinen
This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 115] 2003. xii, 213 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
From NP to DP: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Martine Coene and Yves D’hulst
Volume 1: This is the first of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp. The papers address issues in the syntax and semantics of the noun phrase, in particular the so-called DP-hypothesis… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 55-56] 2003. vi, 362 pp. & x, 295 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax
From NP to DP: Volume 1: The syntax and semantics of noun phrases
Edited by Martine Coene and Yves D’hulst
This is the first of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp. The papers address issues in the syntax and semantics of the noun phrase, in particular the so-called DP-hypothesis which… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 55] 2003. vi, 359 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax
From NP to DP: Volume 2: The expression of possession in noun phrases
Edited by Martine Coene and Yves D’hulst
This is the second of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the special workshop of the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp. Reflecting the stage of current research with respect to the expression of possession in the noun… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 56] 2003. ix, 291 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax
Implicatures in Discourse: The case of Spanish NP anaphora
Sarah E. Blackwell
Implicatures in Discourse examines Spanish conversations and oral narratives in order to seek support for a pragmatic theory of anaphora. Blackwell argues that the use of anaphoric expressions may be considered conversational implicatures that give rise to inferences of coreference and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 105] 2003. xvi, 303 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
Information Structure and the Dynamics of Language Acquisition
Edited by Christine Dimroth and Marianne Starren
The papers in this volume focus on the impact of information structure on language acquisition, thereby taking different linguistic approaches into account. They start from an empirical point of view, and examine data from natural first and second language acquisition, which cover a wide range of… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 26] 2003. vi, 361 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Syntax
The Interfaces: Deriving and interpreting omitted structures
Edited by Kerstin Schwabe and Susanne Winkler
The Interfaces: Deriving and Interpreting Omitted Structures is a collection of never-before-published papers that explore the nature of the interfaces of syntax with semantics, phonology, and discourse. The papers investigate the various ways in which elliptical structures are related to these… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 61] 2003. vi, 403 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax
The Lexicon–Syntax Interface in Second Language Acquisition
Edited by Roeland van Hout, Aafke Hulk, Folkert Kuiken and Richard J. Towell
Second language acquisition has to integrate the totality of the SLA process, which includes both the learning of the core syntax of a language and the learning of the lexical items that have to be incorporated into that syntax. But these two domains involve different kinds of learning. Syntax is… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 30] 2003. viii, 234 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Syntax
Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 1
Edited by Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner
These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 99] 2003. xii, 388 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Pragmatics
Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 2
Edited by Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner
These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 100] 2003. viii, 496 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Pragmatics
Meaning Through Language Contrast: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner
These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 99-100] 2003. xii, 388 pp. & viii, 496 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | 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 Historical linguistics | Other Indo-European languages
Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium
Edited by Peter Kühnlein, Hannes Rieser and Henk Zeevat
The formal treatment of the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue became possible through a series of breakthroughs in foundational methodology. There is broad consensus on a couple of issues, like the fact that some variety of dynamic theory is necessary to capture certain characteristics of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 114] 2003. xii, 400 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
A Practical Guide to Lexicography
Edited by Piet van Sterkenburg
This is a state-of-the-art Guide to the fascinating world of the lexicon and its description in various types of dictionaries.A team of experts brings together a solid Introduction to Lexicography and leads you through decision-making processes step-by-step to compile and design dictionaries for… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 6] 2003. xii, 460 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Terminology
Studies in Evidentiality
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon
In a number of languages, the speaker must specify the evidence for every statement whether seen, or heard, or inferred from indirect evidence, or learnt from someone else. This grammatical category, referring to information source, is called ‘evidentiality’. Evidentiality systems differ in how… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 54] 2003. xiv, 349 pp.
Other subjects Typology
The Body in Description of Emotion: Cross-linguistic studies
Edited by N.J. Enfield and Anna Wierzbicka
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 10:1/2 (2002) vi, 369 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Pragmatics
Degrees of Explicitness: Information structure and the packaging of Bulgarian subjects and objects
John Leafgren
This book explores factors relevant in the choices speakers and writers make in regard to explicitness of reference to the subjects and objects in their utterances. Bulgarian is a particularly felicitous target language for this type of study, since it possesses a rich inventory of available… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 102] 2002. xii, 252 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax
The Dynamics of Terminology: A descriptive theory of term formation and terminological growth
Kyo Kageura
The discovery of rules for the systematicity and dynamics of terminology creations is essential for a sound basis of a theory of terminology. This quest provides the driving force for The Dynamics of Terminology in which Dr. Kageura demonstrates the interaction of these two factors on a specific… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 5] 2002. viii, 322 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Natural language processing | Terminology
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 Historical linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Exploring Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural Language Database Interfaces
Ion Androutsopoulos
Advances in temporal databases make it increasingly easier to store time-dependent information, creating a need for facilities that will help end-users access this information. In the context of natural language interaction, significant effort has been devoted to interfaces that allow database… read more[Natural Language Processing, 6] 2002. x, 306 pp.
Other subjects Natural language processing
The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st century. Volume 1: Philosophy of science, syntax and semantics
Edited by Bruce E. Nevin
Zellig Harris opened many lines of research in language, information, and culture, from generative grammar to informatics, from mathematics to language pedagogy. An international array of scholars here describe further developments and relate this work to that of others. Volume 1 begins with a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 228] 2002. xxxv, 323 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st century. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Bruce E. Nevin and Stephen B. Johnson
Zellig Harris opened many lines of research in language, information, and culture. In these two volumes an international array of scholars describe Harris’s work, further developments, and relate this work to that of others.Volume 1 focuses on the importance of Harris’s work in the philosophy of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 228-229] 2002. xxxvi, 323 pp. & xx, 312 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | History of linguistics | Natural language processing | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, computational and experimental issues
Edited by Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson
Lexical effects on language processing are currently a major focus of attention in studies of sentence comprehension. This thematic collection provides a uniquely multi-faceted and integrated viewpoint on key aspects of lexicalist theories, drawing from the fields of theoretical linguistics,… read more[Natural Language Processing, 4] 2002. viii, 363 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Natural language processing | Psycholinguistics
Lexical Template Morphology: Change of state and the verbal prefixes in German
B. Roger Maylor
While there have been many attempts in the literature to account for the semantics and syntax of individual German(ic)prefixes, this is the first time that the prefixes have been analysed in a unified way and a framework established that is capable of relating the prefixes to each other and to… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 58] 2002. x, 273 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches
Edited by Bengt Altenberg and Sylviane Granger
This volume takes stock of current research in contrastive lexical studies. It reflects the growing interest in corpus-based approaches to the study of lexis, in particular the use of multilingual corpora, shared by researchers working in widely differing fields — contrastive linguistics,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 7] 2002. x, 339 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Lexicography | Translation Studies
Linguistic Emotivity: Centrality of place, the topic-comment dynamic, and an ideology of pathos in Japanese discourse
Senko K. Maynard
Linguistic Emotivity explores expressive and emotive meanings in Japanese from the perspective of the Place of Negotiation theory. The Place of Negotiation theory provides a framework for understanding how linguistic signs function in the place of communication (in cognitive, emotive, and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 97] 2002. xiv, 481 pp.
Other subjects Altaic languages | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying
Edited by John Newman
This volume explores properties of ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ verbs, reflecting three of the most salient postures associated with humans. An introductory chapter by the Editor provides an overview of directions for research into posture verbs. These directions are then explored in detail in a… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 51] 2002. xii, 409 pp.
Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings. Volume 1
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka
This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal grammar is constituted by the inherent grammatical properties of some 60 empirically established semantic primes, which appear… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 60] 2002. xvi, 337 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka
This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal grammar is constituted by the inherent grammatical properties of some 60 empirically established semantic primes, which appear… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 60-61] 2002. xvi, 337 pp. & xvi, 337 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings. Volume 2
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka
This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal grammar is constituted by the inherent grammatical properties of some 60 empirically established semantic primes, which appear… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 61] 2002. xvi, 334 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Middle Voice: A comparative study in the syntax-semantics interface of German
Markus Steinbach
This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages. It integrates the interpretation of non-argument reflexives into a modified version of recent… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 50] 2002. xii, 337 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax
The Nominative & Accusative and their counterparts
Edited by Kristin Davidse and Béatrice Lamiroy
This volume is devoted to the central cases relating to the basic oppositions between subject-object and agent-patient, viz. nominative and accusative, as well as their counterparts such as ergative and absolutive. It aims at contributing to the typological investigation of these cases by providing… read more[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 4] 2002. x, 363 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Particle Verbs in English: Syntax, information structure and intonation
Nicole Dehé
This book offers a new account of the transitive particle verb construction in English. The main emphasis is on the alternation between the two word orders possible in English (continuous: hand in the manuscript vs. discontinuous: hand the manuscript in). The central aim is to show that the choice… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 59] 2002. xii, 302 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Phonetics | Syntax
Particles
Edited by Ton van der Wouden, Ad Foolen and Piet Van de Craen
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 16] 2002. iv, 208 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax
Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context
Edited by Susanne Feigenbaum and Dennis Kurzon
The growing interest in prepositions is reflected by this impressive collection of papers from leading scholars of various fields. The selected contributions of Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context focus on the local and temporal semantics of prepositions in relation to… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 50] 2002. vi, 304 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax
Pronouns – Grammar and Representation
Edited by Horst J. Simon and Heike Wiese
The contributions of this thematic collection center around the typology of pronominal paradigms, the generation of syntactic and semantic representations for constructions containing pronouns, and the neurological underpinnings for linguistic distinctions that are relevant for the production and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 52] 2002. xii, 294 pp.
Other subjects Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Typology
The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish Mood
Henk Haverkate
This study provides a consistent description and explanation of the syntax, the semantics and the pragmatics of Spanish mood. A major focus of attention is the central role of the truthfunctional categories of realis, potentialis and irrealis as parameters relevant to mood selection in both… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 96] 2002. vi, 235 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Syntax
Ambiguity
Sous la direction de Éric Laporte
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 24:1 (2001) iv, 146 pp.
Other subjects Natural language processing | Syntax
Communicative Organization in Natural Language: The semantic-communicative structure of sentences
Igor Mel’čuk
The book defines the concept of Semantic-Communicative Structure [= Sem-CommS]-a formal object that is imposed on the starting Semantic Structure [= SemS] of a sentence (under text synthesis) in order to turn the selected meaning into a linguistic message. The Sem-CommS is a system of eight… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 57] 2001. xii, 393 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Natural language processing | Pragmatics
Dimensions of Possession
Edited by Irène Baron, Michael Herslund and Finn Sørensen
Few linguistic concepts are more elusive than ‘possession’. The present collection of articles, selected from an international workshop held in Copenhagen in May 1998, confronts the subject from several angles (lexicon; the semantics of possession and the verb HAVE; the syntax of genitives and… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 47] 2001. vi, 335 pp.
Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization: A cognitive-pragmatic perspective
Jan Nuyts
The relationship between language and conceptualization remains one of the major puzzles in language research. This monograph addresses this issue by means of an in depth corpus based and experimental investigation of the major types of expressions of epistemic modality in Dutch, German and English. read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 5] 2001. xx, 428 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: Narrative Retelling
Ilana Mushin
This book explores the discourse pragmatics of reportive evidentiality in Macedonian, Japanese and English through an empirical study of evidential strategies in narrative retelling. The patterns of evidential use (and non-use) found in these languages are attributed to contextual, cultural and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 87] 2001. xviii, 240 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
Evidentials and Relevance
Elly Ifantidou
This book uses Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory to show how evidential expressions can be analysed in a unified semantic/pragmatic framework. The first part surveys general linguistic work on evidentials, presents speech-act theory and examines Grice’s theory of meaning and communication with… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 86] 2001. xii, 225 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R.M.W. Dixon and Masayuki Onishi
In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object. But there are languages in which a small set of verbs mark their subjects or their objects in an unusual way. For example, most verbs may mark their subject with nominative case, but one small set of verbs may have… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 46] 2001. xii, 364 pp.
Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items
Edited by Jack Hoeksema, Hotze Rullmann, Víctor Sánchez-Valencia and Ton van der Wouden
Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items contains a selection of papers on the semantics, acquisition and licensing behavior of negation. Negation, being one of the prevalent features of any human language, has many facets of interest to linguists, psychologists and philosophers alike. In recent… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 40] 2001. xii, 368 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax
Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse: A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer
Edited by István Kenesei and Robert M. Harnish
Professor Ferenc Kiefer of the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was instrumental in bringing early transformational grammar to Europe. His extensive work contributes substantially to making a connection between the grammatical theory and other areas of linguistics. The 17… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 90] 2001. xxii, 348 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens and Britta E. Zawada
In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.e., related meanings of words form categories centering around a prototype and bearing family resemblance relations to one another. Under this polysemy = categorization view, the scope of investigation has been gradually… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 177] 2001. xxvii, 296 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Recent Advances in Computational Terminology
Edited by Didier Bourigault, Christian Jacquemin and Marie-Claude L'Homme
This first collection of selected articles from researchers in automatic analysis, storage, and use of terminology, and specialists in applied linguistics, computational linguistics, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence offers new insights on computational terminology. The recent… read more[Natural Language Processing, 2] 2001. xviii, 379 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Lexicography | Terminology
Responding in Conversation: A study of response particles in Finnish
Marja-Leena Sorjonen
This book concerns particles that are used as responses in conversations. It provides much needed methodological tools for analyzing the use of response particles in languages, while its particular focus is Finnish. The book focuses on two Finnish particles, nii(n) and joo, which in some of their… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 70] 2001. x, 330 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Uralic languages
Telicity in the Second Language
Roumyana Slabakova
The author combines a syntax-theoretical treatment of telicity marking and an empirical study of the second language acquisition of English telicity marking by native speakers of Bulgarian, a Slavic language. It is argued that Vendlers lexical classes of verbs (states, activities, accomplishments… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 26] 2001. xii, 235 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition
Between Grammar and Lexicon
Edited by Ellen Contini-Morava and Yishai Tobin
This volume has its origins in a theme session entitled: “Lexical and Grammatical Classification: Same or Different?” from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. It includes theme session presentations, additional papers from that conference, and several invited contributions.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 183] 2000. xxxii, 365 pp.
Other subjects Syntax
Bridging and Relevance
Tomoko Matsui
While it has long been taken for granted that context or background information plays a crucial role in reference assignment, there have been very few serious attempts to investigate exactly how they are used. This study provides an answer to the question through an extensive analysis of cases of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 76] 2000. xii, 247 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Corpus-based and Computational Approaches to Discourse Anaphora
Edited by Simon Philip Botley and Tony McEnery
Discourse anaphora is a challenging linguistic phenomenon that has given rise to research in fields as diverse as linguistics, computational linguistics and cognitive science. Because of the diversity of approaches these fields bring to the anaphora problem, the editors of this volume argue that… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 3] 2000. vi, 257 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Essays on Definition
Juan C. Sager
This collection of essays on definitions, from Plato and Aristotle to modern times, assembles interesting, sometimes less widely known and controversial texts. They examine the subject from the point of view of philosophy which is essential for a theory of terminology seeking to establish the… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 4] 2000. viii, 257 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Philosophy | Terminology
Events and Predication: A new approach to syntactic processing in English and Spanish
Montserrat Sanz
Studies on the syntactic consequences of event type in languages have shown that Aktionsart plays a role in Universal Grammar. This book contributes to the exploration of the syntax/semantics interface by presenting a thorough comparison of event and predicate types in English and Spanish. The… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 207] 2000. xiv, 219 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Romance linguistics
Evidence for Linguistic Relativity
Edited by Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven †
This volume has arisen from the 26th International LAUD Symposium on “Humboldt and Whorf Revisited. Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis”. While contrasting two or more languages, the papers in this volume either provide empirical evidence confirming hypotheses… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 198] 2000. xxii, 240 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Forms and functions: Volume 1: Reflexives; Volume 2: Reciprocals. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Traci Walker
Volume 1: The importance of reflexive markers in the study of language structure cannot be underestimated: they participate in the coding of the argument structure of a clause; in the coding of semantic relations between arguments and verbs; in the coding of the relationship between arguments; in… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 40-41] 2000. xiv, 286 pp. & xii, 201 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Typology
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 | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | 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 | Historical linguistics | Uralic languages
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 | Historical linguistics | Morphology
Lexical Specification and Insertion
Edited by Peter Coopmans, Martin B.H. Everaert and Jane Grimshaw
The papers in this volume address the general question what type of lexical specifications we need in a generative grammar and by what principles this information is projected onto syntactic configurations, or to put it differently, how lexical insertion is executed. Many of the contributions focus… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 197] 2000. xviii, 467 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax
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 | Historical linguistics | Lexicography
The Light Verb Construction in Japanese: The role of the verbal noun
Tadao Miyamoto
This study deals with the so-called Light Verb Construction in Japanese, which consists of the verb “suru” do and an accusative (“o”) marked verbal noun (VN). There have been unresolved debates on the role of “suru”: whether “suru” in “VN-o suru” functions as a light or heavy verb. The previous… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 29] 2000. xiv, 232 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Japanese linguistics
Meaning and Cognition: A multidisciplinary approach
Edited by Liliana Albertazzi
The aim of this book is to present significant aspects of cognitive grammar by adopting an interdisciplinary approach. The book provides an interplay of contributions by some exponents of cognitive grammar (Langacker, Croft, Wood, Geeraerts, Kövecses, Wildgen), and philosophers of language… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 2] 2000. vi, 270 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Philosophy
Metarepresentation: A relevance-theory approach
Eun-Ju Noh
Eun-Ju Noh’s book provides a close look at linguistic metarepresentation showing how beliefs, utterances, and propositions are represented and how they are inferred. The author explains how metarepresentation works in various types of uses: quotations, negation, echo questions, and conditionals in… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 69] 2000. xii, 242 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Middle Voice in Modern Greek: Meaning and function of an inflectional category
Linda Joyce Manney
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the inflectional middle category in Modern Greek. Against the theoretical backdrop of cognitive linguistics, it is argued that a wide range of seemingly disparate middle structures in Modern Greek comprise a complex semantic network, and that this network… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 48] 2000. xiii, 276 pp.
Other subjects Other Indo-European languages | Syntax
Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Johan van der Auwera and Patrick Dendale
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 14] 2000. vi, 264 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax
Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude
Edited by Gisle Andersen and Thorstein Fretheim
In interactive discourse we not only express propositions, but we also express different attitudes to them. That is, we communicate how our mind entertains those propositions that we express. A speaker is able to express an attitude of belief, desire, hope, doubt, fear, regret or pretence that a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 79] 2000. viii, 269 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Typology
Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition
Sophia Marmaridou
This book provides a good overview of philosophical and cognitive approaches to language use and meaning. A synthesis of such approaches leads to a dynamic concept of pragmatic meaning which is on the one hand grounded in cognition and motivated by linguistic and cultural convention and, on the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 72] 2000. xii, 322 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Pragmatics
Reciprocals: Forms and functions. Volume 2
Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Traci Walker
The theoretical issues addressed in the present volume are semantic and cognitive properties of reciprocal events, syntactic properties of reciprocals, and the relationship of reciprocals to other grammatical categories. Several papers discuss the history of reciprocal constructions, offering… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 41] 2000. xii, 201 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Typology
Reflexives: Forms and functions. Volume 1
Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Traci Walker
The importance of reflexive markers in the study of language structure cannot be underestimated: they participate in the coding of the argument structure of a clause; in the coding of semantic relations between arguments and verbs; in the coding of the relationship between arguments; in the coding… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 40] 2000. xiv, 286 pp.
Right Node Raising and Gapping: Interface conditions on prosodic deletion
Katharina Hartmann
This book investigates two elliptical coordinations in German, Right Node Raising and Gapping. Ellipsis in both constructions is claimed to be the result of a phonological process which is conditioned by prosodic and focus semantic constraints. It is convincingly argued that Right Node Raising… read more[Not in series, 106] 2000. xiv, 190 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Phonology | Syntax
Syntactic Aspects of Topic and Comment
André Meinunger
The book focuses on the syntactic behavior of argument noun phrases depending on their discourse status. The main language of consideration is German, but it is shown that the observations can be carried over to other languages. The claim is that discourse-new arguments remain inside the VP where… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 38] 2000. xii, 245 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax
Towards New Ways of Terminology Description: The sociocognitive approach
Rita Temmerman
Based on an empirical study of categorisation and lexicalisation processes in a corpus of scientific publications on the life sciences, Rita Temmerman questions the validity of traditional terminology theory. Her findings are that the traditional approach impedes a pragmatic and realistic… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 3] 2000. xv, 258 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Lexicography | Terminology
Wh-Scope Marking
Edited by Uli Lutz, Gereon Müller and Arnim von Stechow
This volume is the first comprehensive overview of the syntax and semantics of wh-scope marking. Wh-scope marking constructions have recently received a lot of attention; their very existence and their intricate properties have important consequences for syntax, semantics, and the syntax–semantics… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 37] 2000. vi, 483 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax
Analyse Lexicale et Syntaxique: Le système INTEX
Edited by Cédrick Fairon
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 22:1/2 (1999) v, 449 pp.
Other subjects Natural language processing | Syntax
Cognitive Semantics: Meaning and cognition
Edited by Jens Allwood and Peter Gärdenfors
Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic traditions. Cognitive semantics, the latest of the major trends which have dominated the century, attempts to do this by focusing on meaning… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 55] 1999. x, 201 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Issues in Mathematical Linguistics: Workshop on Mathematical Linguistics, State College, PA, April 1998
Edited by Carlos Martín-Vide
This brief collection of refereed papers approaches several technical as well as methodological aspects of the mathematical formalization of natural language, particularly in syntax and in semantics. Such kind of investigation is a prerequisite for the computational processing of language and is… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 47] 1999. xii, 214 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Natural language processing
Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning: Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995
Edited by Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Kee Dong Lee and Eve Sweetser
The basic tenet of cognitive linguistics is that every linguistic expression is a construal relation. The first section of this volume focuses on issues of such construal and presentation of information, including figure-ground relations, image-schematic structures, and the role of syntactic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 150] 1999. xii, 454 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Pragmatics | Syntax
Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997
Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Gerard J. Steen
This book contains a selection of refereed and revised papers originally presented at the 5th ICLC. After an introduction by the editors, the book opens with a long-needed chapter on historical precedents for the Cognitive Linguistic theory of metaphor. Two chapters demonstrate the method of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 175] 1999. viii, 226 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax
Edited by Esthela Treviño and José Lema
All of the articles in this volume focus on the interaction of form and meaning. Most of them are developed under the principal thesis of the Minimalist Program. These works show that the theoretical linguistic trend is to discover semantic aspects which are assumed to have visible syntactic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 173] 1999. viii, 309 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics
Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity: Essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov
Edited by Werner Abraham and Leonid Kulikov
This collection presents typological work on tense, aspect, and epistemic modality in a variety of languages and against the background of different schools of thinking, among which the St. Petersburg Typological School developed and so masterfully implemented by the Petersburg linguist, Vladimir… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 50] 1999. xxxiv, 359 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics
Edited by Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova and Lars Hellan
This collection of articles presents a variety of approaches to central phenomena in South Slavic syntax and semantics, with an informal introduction by the editors on South Slavic clause structure. Phenomena addressed (treated partly on a language specific basis, partly comparative) include: the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 172] 1999. xxviii, 263 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Generative linguistics | Syntax
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 | Historical linguistics
Coding the Hypothetical: A comparative typology of Russian and Macedonian conditionals
Jane F. Hacking
Conditionals encode speculation. They convey how events could have been different in the past or present, or might be different in the future if particular conditions had been or will be met. While all languages afford the means to speculate or hypothesize about possible events, the ways in which… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 38] 1998. vi, 156 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Syntax | Typology
The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: A perspective from Chinese
Ning Yu
This comparative study of Chinese and English metaphor contributes to the search for metaphoric universals by placing the contemporary theory of metaphor in a broad cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. The author explores to what degree abstract reasoning is metaphorical and which… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 1] 1998. x, 278 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Sino-Tibetan languages
Contrastive Lexical Semantics
Edited by Edda Weigand
Contrastive lexical semantics was the main topic of an International Workshop at the University of Münster in May, 1997. It was addressed from different perspectives, from the pragmatic perspective of a corpus-oriented approach as well as from the model-oriented perspective of sign theoretic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 171] 1998. x, 270 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Lexicography
Current Issues in Relevance Theory
Edited by Villy Rouchota and Andreas H. Jucker
The eleven original papers collected in this volume address themselves to some of the central issues in the relevance theoretic research programme since the 1995 publication of the second edition of Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance. Communication and Cognition.Several papers investigate the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 58] 1998. xii, 368 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
English Prepositions Explained
Seth Lindstromberg
English Prepositions Explained has been written both for non-native and native speakers of English and is intended for: teachers of English; translators; materials writers; advanced students of English; frequent users of English generally.English Prepositions Explained furnishes information about… read more[Not in series, 88] 1998. xii, 309 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax
The Function of Discourse Particles: A study with special reference to spoken standard French
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
This monograph aims to contribute to linguistic knowledge about the distribution and function of discourse particles, particularly with respect to a small group of particles which are highly frequent in contemporary spoken standard French.The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 (Theory) defines… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 53] 1998. xii, 418 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
Functional Grammar and Verbal Interaction
Edited by Mike Hannay and A. Machtelt Bolkestein
Functional Grammar (FG) as set out by Simon Dik is the ambitious combination of a functionalist approach to the study of language with a consistent formalization of the underlying structures which it recognizes as relevant. The present volume represents the attempts made within the FG framework to… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 44] 1998. xii, 308 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity: Causative constructions in English
Maarten Lemmens
Fusing insights from cognitive grammar, systemic-functional grammar and Government & Binding, the present work elaborates and refines Davidse’s view that the English grammar of lexical causatives is governed by the transitive and ergative paradigms, two distinct models of causation (Davidse 1991,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 166] 1998. xii, 268 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics
The Linguistics of Giving
Edited by John Newman
In this collection of papers twelve linguists explore a range of interesting properties of ‘give’ verbs. The volume offers an in-depth look at many morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of ‘give’ verbs, including both literal and figurative senses, across languages. Topics include: an… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 36] 1998. xv, 384 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Typology
Mathematical and Computational Analysis of Natural Language: Selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Linguistics (ICML ’96), Tarragona, 1996
Edited by Carlos Martín-Vide
In the last decade, computational linguistics has produced a revival of the interest in the mathematical study of the various levels of human language. This volume contains a selection of recent research papers approaching mathematical and computational topics in natural languages, with a special… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 45] 1998. xviii, 391 pp.
Other subjects Natural language processing | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
An Onomasiological Theory of English Word-Formation
Pavol Štekauer
Pavol Štekauer presents an original approach to the intricate problems of English word-formation. The emphasis is on the process of coining new naming units (words). This is described by an onomasiological model, which takes as its point of departure the naming needs of a speech community, and… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 46] 1998. x, 192 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology
Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical Dependency
Anastasia Giannakidou
Polarity phenomena have been known to linguists since Klimas seminal work on English negation. In this monograph Giannakidou presents a novel theory of polarity which avoids the empirical and conceptual problems of previous approaches by introducing a notion wider than negation and downward… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 23] 1998. xvi, 282 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Relevance Theory: Applications and implications
Edited by Robyn Carston and Seiji Uchida
This collection of papers arises from a meeting of relevance theorists held in Osaka, May 29-30, 1993. Speakers at the conference included both of the originators of the theory, Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, the editors of this volume and several other Japanese linguists and pragmatists, all of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 37] 1998. x, 300 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
The Structure of the Lexicon in Functional Grammar
Edited by Hella Olbertz, Kees Hengeveld and Jesús Sánchez García
The papers collected in this volume concern five different aspects of the role of the lexicon in the theory of Functional Grammar such as developed by Simon C. Dik and his co-workers. The volume starts off with an eminently practical section on the Functional-Lexematic Model, a lexicological and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 43] 1998. xii, 312 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
Tense and Aspect: The contextual processing of semantic indeterminacy
Edited by Svetlana Vogeleer, Walter De Mulder and Ilse Depraetere
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 12] 1998. x, 226 pp.
The Categories of Grammar: French lui and le
Alan Huffman
This book offers an analysis of the French clitic object pronouns lui and le in the radically functional Columbia school framework, contrasting this framework with sentence-based treatments of case selection. It suggests that features of the sentence such as subject and object relations, normally… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 30] 1997. xiv, 379 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Emergence of Semantics in Four Linguistic Traditions: Hebrew, Sanskrit, Greek, Arabic
Wout J. van Bekkum, Jan Houben, Ineke Sluiter and Kees Versteegh
The aim of this study is a comparative analysis of the role of semantics in the linguistic theory of four grammatical traditions, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic. If one compares the organization of linguistic theory in various grammatical traditions, it soon turns out that there are marked… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 82] 1997. ix, 322 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics
Genre, Frames and Writing in Research Settings
Brian Paltridge
This book presents a perspective on genre based on what it is that leads users of a language to recognise a communicative event as an instance of a particular genre. Key notions in this perspective are those of prototype, inheritance, and intertextuality; that is, the extent to which a text is… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 45] 1997. x, 192 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Locative Alternation in German: Its structure and acquisition
Ursula Brinkmann
This monograph deals with the locative alternation in German, a change in the argument structure of verbs like spray and load. Like most argument structure changes, the alternation is both productive and constrained: new forms may be derived, but not from all candidate verbs. This raises a… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 15] 1997. x, 289 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Syntax
Memes of Translation: The spread of ideas in translation theory
Andrew Chesterman
Memes of Translation is a search for coherence in translation theory based on the notion of Memes: ideas that spread, develop and replicate, like genes. The author explores a wide range of ideas on translation, mapping the “meme pool” of translation theory with chapters on translation history,… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 22] 1997. vii, 219 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
Negation and Polarity: Syntax and semantics. Selected papers from the colloquium Negation: Syntax and Semantics. Ottawa, 11–13 May 1995
Edited by Danielle Forget, Paul Hirschbühler, France Martineau and María Luisa Rivero
In the last decade, there has been a revival of interest regarding negation and polarity, with much cross-fertilization between semantic and syntactic approaches. The papers in the present volume address key issues regarding the syntax and semantics of negation and polarity, including both… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 155] 1997. viii, 367 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax
Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia
Edited by Mark Harvey and Nicholas Reid
This volume aims to extend both the range of analyses and the database on nominal classification systems. Previous analyses of nominal classification systems have focussed on two areas: the semantics of the classification system and the role of the system in discourse. In many nominal… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 37] 1997. x, 296 pp.
Other subjects Australian languages | Discourse studies | Morphology | Pragmatics
Noun-Modifying Constructions in Japanese: A frame semantic approach
Yoshiko Matsumoto
This study examines the clausal noun-modifying construction (NMC) in Japanese, a much-discussed construction that embraces what have usually been called relative clause and noun complement constructions. Drawing upon a broad range of naturally-occurring NMCs, including types that fall outside the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 35] 1997. x, 211 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
On Conditionals Again
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and René Dirven †
The volume brings together a selection of papers from a symposium on Conditionality held in the University of Duisburg on 25-26 March 1994.Ten years after the Stanford symposium, the Proceedings of which were edited by Traugott et al. (1986), the area of conditionality is revisited in a synthesis… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 143] 1997. viii, 418 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Recent Trends in Meaning–Text Theory
Edited by Leo Wanner
The present volume contains articles of well-known representatives of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) and other related linguistic theories.Founded by I. Mel’cuk and A. Zholkovsky in the sixties in Moscow, MTT soon became known in the West as a “prominent outsider” theory. The picture changed since… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 39] 1997. xx, 202 pp.
Other subjects Syntax
Scope and Specificity
Feng-hsi Liu
Scope and Specificity is an investigation of quantifier scope interaction in natural language, with special reference to English and Chinese. In particular, it is concerned with semantic properties of NPs. Quantifier scope plays an important role in current theories of syntax and semantics.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 16] 1997. viii, 187 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax
The Semantics of Aspect and Modality: Evidence from English and Biblical Hebrew
Galia Hatav
“The semantics of aspect and modality” will be of interest both to linguists working on temporality, as a general phenomenon in language, and Hebraists investigating the semantics of the verbal forms in biblical Hebrew.Tense, aspect and modality are among the most challenging discussed areas of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 34] 1997. x, 224 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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Typology
Coherence and Anaphora
Edited by Walter De Mulder and Liliane Tasmowski
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.The… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 10] 1996. viii, 217 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Discourse and Meaning: Papers in honor of Eva Hajičová
Edited by Barbara H. Partee and Petr Sgall
A collection of papers in honor of Eva Hajičová, who represents the continuation of the Prague School tradition in the methodological context of formal and computational linguistics. Her broadly acknowledged contribution to syntax, topic-focus studies, discourse analysis and natural language… read more[Not in series, 78] 1996. xiv, 430 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Translation Studies
Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics: In honor of Charles J. Fillmore
Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani and Sandra A. Thompson
This volume reflects the influence of Chuck Fillmore’s ground-breaking work in the fields of semantics and pragmatics. The papers in the volume pay tribute to his pioneering research into the deepest realms of the nature of ‘meaning’. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 32] 1996. x, 332 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
The Grammar of Possession: Inalienability, incorporation and possessor ascension in Guaraní
Maura Velázquez-Castillo
The Grammar of Possession: Inalienability, incorporation and possessor ascension in Guaraní, is an exhaustive study of linguistic structures in Paraguayan Guaraní which are directly or indirectly associated with the semantic domain of inalienability. Constructions analyzed in the book include… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 33] 1996. xvi, 274 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Languages of South America
Learnability and the Lexicon: Theories and second language acquisition research
Alan Juffs
This book provides a critical review of recent theories of semantics-syntax correspondences and makes new proposals for constraints on semantic structure relevant to syntax. Data from several languages are presented which suggest that semantic structure in root morphemes is subject to parametric… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 12] 1996. xi, 277 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax
Numeral Classifier Systems: The Case of Japanese
Pamela A. Downing
Numeral Classifier Systems considers the functional significance of the Japanese numeral system, its conclusions based on a corpus of 500 uses of classifier constructions drawn from oral and written Japanese texts.Interestingly, although the Japanese system appears to conform at least superficially… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 4] 1996. xx, 336 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics
Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis
Edited by Edna Andrews and Yishai Tobin
This volume contains papers presented at a symposium in honor of Cornelis H. van Schooneveld and invited papers on the topics of invariance, markedness, distinctive feature theory and deixis. It is not a Festschrift in the usual sense of the word, but more of a collection of articles which… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 43] 1996. xxviii, 432 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Semiotics | Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of Temporality in a Second Language
Rainer Dietrich, Wolfgang Klein and Colette Noyau
This is the second volume of the SiBil series to present results from the European Science Foundation's project 'Second language acquisition by adult immigrants'. It deals specifically with the acquisition of temporality in five European languages: Dutch, English, French, German and Swedish,… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 7] 1995. xii, 288 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Syntax
Lexical Knowledge in the Organization of Language
Edited by Urs Egli, Peter E. Pause, Christoph Schwarze, Arnim von Stechow and Götz Wienold
This book contains a selection of the papers given at an international conference at the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 1991. All contributions relate to the assumption that lexical knowledge plays a central role in the organization of language, inasmuch as the components or modules of grammar… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 114] 1995. xiv, 367 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography
The Adjectival Category: Criteria for differentiation and identification
D.N.S. Bhat
This monograph sets out (i) to establish criteria for differentiating adjectives from other word-classes for languages in which they form a distinct category, and (ii) to establish criteria for determining their (non-)identity with words from other categories for languages in which they do not. As… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 24] 1994. xiii, 295 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations: A comprehensive bibliography
Petra Campe
This is the first of a series of 6 books dealing with case phenomena in different languages, both Indo- and non-Indo-European, resulting from work by a team of 20 specialists at the University of Leuven. It is the first time such a large-scale investigation into case has been undertaken, and a… read more[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 1] 1994. vii, 644 pp.
Other subjects Bibliographies in linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Continuity in Linguistic Semantics
Edited by Catherine Fuchs and Bernard Victorri
Until recently, most linguistic theories as well as theories of cognition have avoided use of the notion of continuity. At the moment, however, several linguistic trends, sharing a preoccupation with semantico-cognitive problems (e.g. cognitive grammars, 'psychomechanics', 'enunciative theories'),… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 19] 1994. iv, 255 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
The Grammar of Space
Soteria Svorou
A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language. The discussion of the similarities and differences among languages in the encoding… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 25] 1994. xiv, 290 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Typology
Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Analysis: A contrastive study of sign systems in English and Hebrew
Yishai Tobin
This volume provides a new kind of contrastive analysis of two unrelated languages English and Hebrew based on the semiotic concepts of invariance, markedness and distinctive feature theory. It concentrates on linguistic forms and constructions which are remarkably different in each language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 111] 1994. xxii, 406 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Comparative linguistics | English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semiotics
Process, Image, and Meaning: A realistic model of the meaning of sentences and narrative texts
Wolfgang Wildgen
The general topic of this book is the development of a “realistic” model of meaning; it has to account for the ecological basis of meaning in perception, action, and interaction, and is realistic in the sense of “scientific realism”, i.e. it is based on the most successful paradigm of modern… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 31] 1994. xii, 281 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Semantic and Lexical Universals: Theory and empirical findings
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka
This set of papers represents a unique collection; it is the first attempt ever to empirically test a hypothetical set of semantic and lexical universals across a number of genetically and typologically diverse languages. In fact the word 'collection' is not fully appropriate in this case, since… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 25] 1994. viii, 510 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
The Syntax of Sentence and Text: A Festschrift for František Daneš
Edited by Svĕtla Čmejrková and František Štícha
This is a collection of papers inspired by the work of František Daneš and is published in honour of his 75th birthday. Daneš' international contribution to the development of Prague School functionalism, the theory of functional sentence perspective, discourse studies and semantics is reflected in… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 42] 1994. 398 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax
Typological Studies in Negation
Edited by Peter Kahrel and René van den Berg
This collection of articles offers descriptions of the negation system in 16 languages. As not much is known about negation systems in non-European languages, the first aim of the volume is to provide data on various aspects on negation; for all articles these data were collected on the basis of… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 29] 1994. x, 385 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Typology
The Bilingual Lexicon
Edited by Robert Schreuder and Bert Weltens
In the study of bilingualism, the lexical level of language is of prime importance because, in practical terms, vocabulary acquisition is an essential prerequisite for the development of skill in language use; from a theoretical point of view, the mental lexicon, as a bridge between form and… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 6] 1993. viii, 307 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics
Current Advances in Semantic Theory
Edited by Maxim I. Stamenov
This volume contains selected contributions to the interdisciplinary symposium on 'Models of Meaning' held in Varna, September 25-28, 1988, under the auspices of the Institute of the Bulgarian Language of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The aim of the meeting was to broaden the horizons of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 73] 1992. xi, 565 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Fundamentals of Story Logic: Introduction to Greimassian semiotics
Therese Budniakiewicz
Drawing largely on Propp's and Greimas' work on the narrative, this book is aimed at consolidating and extending their views through a series of concrete applications. The volume offers a critical examination of narrative structure in terms of its two basic syntactic units or sets of operations,… read more[Semiotic Crossroads, 5] 1992. xiv, 230 pp.
The Semantic Structure of Spanish: Meaning and grammatical form
Larry D. King
In recent years, linguistics has become increasingly more willing to allow some type of representation of 'meaning' in the study of language. However, most approaches deal with sentence or utterance meaning and thereby ignore the meaning of linguistic form. Yet no description of linguistic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 90] 1992. xii, 303 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830–1930: From etymology to contextuality
Brigitte Nerlich
It is widely believed by historians of linguistics that the 19th-century was largely devoted to historical and comparative studies, with the main emphasis on the discovery of soundlaws. Syntax is typically portrayed as a mere sideline of these studies, while semantics is seldom even mentioned. If… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 59] 1992. xi, 359 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics
Functional Grammar: A Field Approach
Alexander V. Bondarko
Every grammar has to a greater or lesser extent a functional aspect. In this book, Bondarko provides a comprehensive discourse on the theoretical foundations of grammar, concentrating on functional-semantic fields, with emphasis on the diversity of their structural types. Criteria for… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 35] 1991. viii, 207 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Perspectives on Aspect and Aktionsart
Edited by Carl Vetters and Willy Vandeweghe
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 6] 1991. 182 pp.
Other subjects Syntax
Pragmatics at Issue: Selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17–22, 1987. Volume 1
Edited by Jef Verschueren
This volume comprises the first part of selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference in Antwerp, August 1987. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 6:1] 1991. viii, 314 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Other subjects Historical linguistics
Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings: The Vietnamese system of person reference
Hy V. Luong
This is a theoretically oriented study of the pragmatics of Vietnamese person reference (kinship terms, personal pronouns, naming set and status terms). Drawing upon linguistic data from a radically different non-Western society and the seminal insights of Volosinov, Bakhtin, and Leach, it offers a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 11] 1990. x, 213 pp.
Other subjects Austro-Asian languages | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
L'Algèbre des signes: Essai de sémiotique scientifique d'après C.S. Peirce
Robert Marty
La classification des signes de C.S. Peirce en icones, indices et symboles est universellement reconnue. Est-ce le resultat d'une heureuse rencontre ou la preuve de la pertinence du système de pensée qui l'a produite? Est-ce l'absence d'une présentation scientifique de la sémiotique de Peirce qui… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 24] 1990. xviii, 409 pp.
Meaning and Lexicography
Edited by Jerzy Tomaszczyk and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
While lexicology, lexical semantics, and lexicography all share an interest in lexical items, they often tend to be regarded as three separate albeit interrelated fields. Indeed, the extent to which the interrelationship is recognized and taken into account in lexicographic practice is the moot… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 28] 1990. xxv, 340 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography
Metaphor II: A classified bibliography of publications from 1985 to 1990
Compiled by Jean-Pierre van Noppen and Edith Hols
Metaphor, though not now the scholarly “mania” it once was, remains a topic of great interest in many disciplines albeit with interesting shifts in emphasis. Warren Shibles' Metaphor: An Annotated Bibliography and History (Bloomington, Ind. 1971) recorded the initial interest. Then Metaphor: A… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 20] 1990. iv, 350 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Theoretical linguistics
Nonsentential Constituents: A theory of grammatical structure and pragmatic interpretation
Ellen Barton
Linguists traditionally have assumed that full sentence sources truncated by ellipsis rules account for the grammatical structure as well as the semantic interpretation of fragments like B below: A: What happened in 1974? B: A scandal in the White House. A sentential structure dominated by the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 2] 1990. xviii, 251 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems
Edited by John Victor Singler
More than any other area of the grammar, tense-mood-aspect (TMA) has provided evidence to fuel the ongoing debates about creole genesis and about the relevance of pidgin and creole phenomena to language theory more generally. This volume advances the debate in two ways. First, it makes available in… read more[Creole Language Library, 6] 1990. xvi, 240 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Syntax
Verbal Aspect in Discourse
Edited by Nils B. Thelin
In the light of growing insights into the universal temporal-semantic nature of aspectual distinctions, today's aspectology has broadened its attention from restrictedly event-defining functions of aspect on the sentence level towards its primary perspectival functions on the discourse/situation… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 5] 1990. xvi, 490 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Aspect and Meaning in Slavic and Indic
Ranjit Chatterjee
Three features set this book apart from other recent publications on aspect. First, it looks closely at the language family, Slavic, that has been the main source of assumptions and data about aspect. Second, it looks upon the object of linguistic study, natural language, from an angle shared by… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 51] 1989. xxiii, 137 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Other Indo-European languages | Philosophy
Event Structure
Jan van Voorst
This study establishes a relation between the semantics of the subject and the direct object-NP and aspect. The notion of event is central. Events have a beginning and an end. This means in temporal terms that events have a point in time at which they begin and a point in time at which they end. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 59] 1988. x, 181 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Semantics of Grammar
Anna Wierzbicka
“The semantics of grammar” presents a radically semantic approach to syntax and morphology. It offers a methodology which makes it possible to demonstrate, on an empirical basis, that syntax is neither “autonomous” nor “arbitrary”, but that it follows from “semantics”. It is shown that every… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 18] 1988. x, 617 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Emotive Signs in Language and Semantic Functioning of Derived Nouns in Russian
Bronislava Volkova
This monograph is intended as a contribution to the integral description of language and verbal communication. Chapter I and Chapters VII and VIII are concerned with general problems of emotivity and expressivity in language as such and on all linguistic levels. These chapters describe emotivity… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 24] 1987. xi, 270 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Functional linguistics
Informal Fallacies
Douglas N. Walton
The basic question of this monograph is: how should we go about judging arguments to be reasonable or unreasonable? Our concern will be with argument in a broad sense, with realistic arguments in natural language. The basic object will be to engage in a normative study of determining what factors,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 4] 1987. x, 338 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
The Semantics of Form in Arabic: In the mirror of European languages
David Justice
Justice's first aim in this volume is to demystify the Arabic language, which is widely perceived as difficult to learn, and has been characterised as ambiguous and confusingly polysemous. The central concern of this three-dimensional portrait of Classical Arabic is a version of the Sapir-Whorf… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 15] 1987. iv, 417 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Theoretical linguistics
Sentential Complementation in Spanish: A lexico-grammatical study of three classes of verbs
Carlos Subirats
The aim of the present work is to study the main distributional and transformational properties of verbs with a non-prepositional sentential complement in the two-argument sentence in Spanish. read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 14] 1987. xii, 290 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Syntax
Complementation: Its Meaning and Forms
Evelyn N. Ransom
This book presents a stage in the evolution of a theory of modality meanings and forms. It covers exclusively complements. There are two questions that this book addresses. Can one find a small, finite set of meanings which systematically underlies the enormous variety of meanings found in… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 10] 1986. xii, 226 pp.
From Logic to Rhetoric: Translated from the French original edition, Paris, 1982
Michel Meyer
What is language, and how has it been conceived since Frege? How did the development of thought about language lead to a renewed interest in rhetoric in the twentieth century and ultimately to the ‘problematological synthesis’? These are the main questions treated in this book. A constant… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:3] 1986. ix, 147 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Pragmatics | Syntax
Language and Discourse: Test and Protest. A Festschrift for Petr Sgall
Edited by Jacob L. Mey
The present volume was brought together on the occasion of Petr Sgall’s 60th birthday. It bears testimony to the multifarious and variegated character of his background and activities. It is to be hoped that this kind of variety will contribute – as Petr Sgall strives to do – to a broader and… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 19] 1986. xiii, 611 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Metaphors of Anger, Pride and Love: A lexical approach to the structure of concepts
Zoltán Kövecses
This study is an attempt to uncover the structure of three emotion concepts: anger, pride and love. The results indicate that the conceptual structure associated with these emotions consists of four parts: (1) a system of metaphors, (2) a system of metonymies, (3) a system of related concepts, and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:8] 1986. vii, 147 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Studies in Turkish Linguistics
Edited by Dan I. Slobin and Karl Zimmer
Turkish is a member of the Turkic family of languages, which extends over a vast area in southern and eastern Siberia and adjacent portions of Iran, Afganistan, and China. Turkic, in turn, belongs to the Altaic family of languages. This book deals with the morphological and syntactic, semantic and… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 8] 1986. vi, 300 pp.
Other subjects Altaic languages | Language acquisition | Syntax | Typology
Topic, Focus and Configurationality: Papers from the 6th Groningen Grammar Talks, Groningen, 1984
Edited by Werner Abraham and Sjaak de Meij
Some fundamental questions regarding sentence structure in linguistics concern whether all languages, at some level of abstraction, have the same structure, and what are the basic categories with which to describe sentence structure. The contributors of this volume are specialized in two quite… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 4] 1986. v, 349 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Contributions to Functional Syntax, Semantics and Language Comprehension
Edited by Petr Sgall
This volume presents a rather complete survey of the research activities of the Prague group of algebraic linguistics. Some of the papers included bear witness to the fact that algebraic linguistics, or the formal description of language, is not the only domain in which the Prague group is active.… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 16] 1985. 379 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Syntax
Language and Logic: A speculative and condition-theoretic study
Johan van der Auwera
In this volume Van der Auwera attempts to clarify the idea that language reflects both mind and reality and to elucidate the reflection idea by turning it into the cornerstone of a linguistic theory of meaning. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 2] 1985. xiv, 256 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Philosophy | Pragmatics
Metaphor: A Bibliography of post-1970 publications
Compiled by Jean-Pierre van Noppen
The aim of the present bibliography is to provide the student of metaphor with an up-to-date and comprehensive (albeit not exhaustive) overview of recent publications dealing with various aspects of metaphor in a variety of disciplines. Where the emphasis is primarily on specific works “about”… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 17] 1985. x, 497 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Theoretical linguistics
De la Syntaxe à la Pragmatique: Actes du Colloque de Rennes, Université de Haute-Bretagne
Sous la direction de Pierre Attal et Claude Muller
Les textes ici rassemblées donnent un tableau fidèle de l’état actuel et l’orientation des recherches linguistiques. Non que toutes les écoles, chapelles, églises et sectes y soient représentées: un seul volume n’y suffirait pas. Mais les principaux courants y sont, et pas seulement dans les… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 8] 1984. iv, 389 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax
Lexique-Grammaire des langues romanes: Actes du 1er colloque européen sur la grammaire et le lexique comparés des langues romanes, Palerme, 1981
Sous la direction de Alain Guillet et Nunzio La Fauci
Une méthodologie commune est la caractéristique principale des travaux qui sont réunis dans ces actes du Premier Colloque Européen sur la Grammaire et le Lexique comparés des langues Romanes (Palerme 1981). La comparaison n’est pas une nouveauté en linguistique Romane; l’originalité des travaux… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 9] 1984. xiii, 319 + 58 pp. Tables.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing
Roger Van de Velde
This book shows that in reading verbal texts human reasoning is responsible for the recognition and construction of different forms of organization. On the one hand, it spells out in what ways human thinking succeeds in recognizing the surface form of grammatical organization which is… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:2] 1984. vii, 100 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Language disorders & speech pathology | Pragmatics | Syntax
The Semantics of Coordination
Ewald Lang
This study is an attempt to explain coordinate conjoining as a rule-governed process of establishing specific semantic relations within and between sentences. Coordination is thus conceived of both as a basic device of linguistic complex formation and as a rather fundamental principle underlying… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 9] 1984. 300 pp.
Under the Tumtum Tree: From nonsense to sense, a study in non-automatic comprehension
Marlene Dolitsky
Any informal discussion of a piece of nonsense literature produces highly varying interpretations which retain, however, a common core. It seemed, then, that nonsense would be a fertile base in the study of nonautomatic comprehension, i.e. comprehension where the word-meaning relations do not seem… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:1] 1984. vii, 118 pp.
Other subjects Syntax
Non-declarative Sentences
Richard Zuber
Non-declarative sentences such as interrogatives, imperatives and exclamations are analyzed together as a single class. The author gives a general characterization of all three types and shows that there are no other types of non-declarative sentences. Definitions are offered for the notions of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:2] 1983. ix, 123 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax
Switch Reference and Universal Grammar: Proceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981
Edited by John Haiman † and Pamela Munro
Canonical switch-reference is an inflectional category of the verb, which indicates whether or not its subject is identical with the subject of some other verb. Switch-reference may be analyzed from a structural or a functional point of view. Functionally, switch-reference is a device for… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 2] 1983. xv, 337 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Understatements and Hedges in English
Axel Hübler
The goal of this monograph is a comprehensive analysis of understatements and other forms of non-direct speech (hedges) in modern English. It is based on a multi-level approach, including philosophical, cultural, and socio-psychological arguments. The main part consists of an investigation of the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:6] 1983. ix, 192 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Argumentation: Approaches to theory formation. Containing the contributions to the Groningen Conference on the Theory of Argumentation, October 1978
Edited by E.M. Barth and J.L. Martens
The contributions in the first part ‘Re-modelling logic’ of this volume take account of formal logic in the theory of ‘rational’ argumentation. Part two contains papers that distinguish the various dialogue games for logics in terms of ‘rights’ and ‘obligations’ of the players. The authors… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 8] 1982. xviii, 333 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Catastrophe Theoretic Semantics: An elaboration and application of René Thom's theory
Wolfgang Wildgen
René Thom, the famous French mathematician and founder of catastrophe theory, considered linguistics an exemplary field for the application of his general morphology. It is surprising that physicists, chemists, biologists, psychologists and sociologists are all engaged in the field of catastrophe… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:5] 1982. iv, 124 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Here and There: Cross-linguistic Studies on Deixis and Demonstration
Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Wolfgang Klein
Deixis – the rooting of utterances in the speech situation – is one of the most salient universals of natural language. The ways in which different languages link utterances to pragmatic factors such as speech time, speech place, and speech participants show a rich variation. This makes deixis a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:2-3] 1982. vi, 298 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax
A History of Semantics
W. Terrence Gordon
In this monograph the author outlines, for the first time in the history of linguistics, the development of the study of 'meaning', from the pioneering work of Christian Karl Reisig (1792-1829), Friedrich Haase (1808-1867), Ferdinand Heerdegen (1845-1930), Arsène Darmesteter (1846-88) and Michel… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 30] 1982. viii, 284 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics
The Scene of Linguistic Action and its Perspectivization by SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL
René Dirven †, Louis Goossens, Yvan Putseys and Emma Vorlat
The four papers presented in this volume are corpus-based investigations into the meaning of the verbs speak, talk, say and tell. More specifically they want to explore how the scene of linguistic action has been put into perspective by these four high-frequency verbs. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:6] 1982. vi, 186 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Tense-Aspect: Between semantics & pragmatics
Edited by Paul J. Hopper
The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker’s reported experience. They are universal categories both in terms of the semantic-functional domain they cover as well as in terms… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 1] 1982. ix, 350 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Typology
Topical Relevance in Argumentation
Douglas N. Walton
It is a longstanding if not altogether coherent tradition of logic and rhetorical studies that an argument can be incorrect or fallacious in virtue of some proposition in it being “irrelevant”. This monograph clarifies that tradition. Non-classical propositional calculi, including relevance logics… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:8] 1982. viii, 81 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Essai sur les modalités tensives
Claude Zilberberg
The four studies grouped under the title Essai sur les modalités tensives touch upon several questions of semiotics presently debated in the theoretical framework proposed by A.J. Greimas. They are mainly concerned with the passages between meaning and form, and with the convertibilités between the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:8] 1981. xii, 154 pp. + 4 fold. tables.
Other subjects Pragmatics
The Inheritance of Presupposition
John Dinsmore
This work presents a procedural account of the so-called ‘projection problem’ for presupposition. It is assumed that presuppositions embedded in complex sentences are subject to no projection rules or ad-hoc conditions whatever, but are in fact satisfied in appropriate contexts in a completely… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:1] 1981. vi, 98 pp.
Other subjects Syntax
Semiotic Principles in Semantic Theory
Neal R. Norrick
This study represents a contribution to the theory of meaning in natural language. It proposes a semantic theory containing a set of regular relational principles. These principles enable semantic theory to describe connections from the lexical reading of a word to its figurative contextual… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 20] 1981. xiii, 252 pp.
Other subjects Semiotics | Theoretical linguistics
The True and the False: The Domain of the Pragmatic
Charles Travis
Pragmatics often begins by supposing that specifying and describing truth bearers is a proper task for semantics. The main thrust of the present work is to show why truth and truth bearers lie essentially beyond the descriptive reach of semantics, and to outline a theory of truth bearers as a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:2] 1981. vi, 165 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
What Do We Talk About When We Talk?: Speculative grammar and the semantics and pragmatics of focus
Johan van der Auwera
This monograph deals with the aboutness of language. First, the sense in which language is about or reflects both reality and a mental picture of reality is turned into a cornerstone of a reflectionist or Speculative Grammarian semantics and pragmatics. Second, the Speculative Grammar… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:3] 1981. vi, 122 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Meaning Detachment
Benoît de Cornulier
This essay concerns meaning detachment and (self-)interpreting utterances. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:7] 1980. v, 124 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
On Speech Act Verbs
Jef Verschueren
This essay concerns the analysis of speech act verbs. It offers a range of ideas which form theoretical preliminaries to the analysis of this phenomenon. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:4] 1980. viii, 83 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
A Pragmatic Logic for Commands
Melvin Joseph Adler
The purpose of this essay is to both discuss commands as a species of speech act and to discuss commands within the broader framework of how they are used and reacted to. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:3] 1980. viii, 131 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Talk and Taxonomy: A methodological comparison of ethnosemantics and ethnomethodology with reference to terms for Canadian doctors
Peter Eglin
The thesis of this essay is that social or cultural competence consists more of an interpretive or methodological ability to use language in the service of interaction than of a substantive knowledge of collections of cultural categories and of the semantic relations between the terms naming those… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:8] 1980. x, 125 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The (w)hole of the doughnut: Syntax and its boundaries
S.-Y. Kuroda
From the author’s preface: "I once facetiously stated: 'Syntax is to semantics as the hole of the doughnut is to the whole of the doughnut.' Semantics without syntax, thus, is like a doughnut without a hole. This was in the heyday of generative semantics, and having heard that my major interest was… read more[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 1] 1979. ix, 256 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Be and Equational Sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic
Mohamed Sami Anwar
The volume attempts to deal with equational sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and their remote structure. In this unique monograph Mohamed Sami Anwar oes to show that equational sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic are derived from underlying sentences that have transitive or intransitive… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 2] 1979. vi, 128 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Valence, Semantic Case, and Grammatical Relations: Workshop studies prepared for the 12th International Congress of Linguists, Vienna, August 29th to September 3rd, 1977
Edited by Werner Abraham
The papers in this volume have been grouped in three thematic parts: Valence which plays a key concept in the syntactic classification of verbs and adjectives, provides a necessary link for decoding and encoding grammatical relations, and is an important requisite for the evaluation of formal… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 1] 1978. xiv, 729 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
'Quaestiones Alberti de Modis significandi': A critical edition
Pseudo-Albertus Magnus
This book provides a critical edition, translation and commentary of the British Museum Incunabulum C.21.C.52 and the Cambridge Incunabulum 5.J.3.7. of the Quaestiones Alberti. Although the British Museum catalogue ascribes the incunabulum to Albertus Magnus, the authorship is debated.The format of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 15] 1977. xxxvii, 191 pp.
Other subjects Medieval linguistics | Medieval philosophy | Theoretical linguistics
Adverbs and Comparatives: An analytical bibliography
Conrad Sabourin
There are indications that interest in the study of adverbs has been growing steadily in recent years, largely due to the so-called Chomskyan revolution in linguistics which put much emphasis on the study of syntax, but probably also because of the position these adverbs and other particles take… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 2] 1977. vii, 208 pp.
Other subjects Bibliographies in linguistics | Syntax