SubjectsLinguistics / Syntax
Book series
Journals
International Journal of Chinese Linguistics
Edited by Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, Ning Yu and Hongming Zhang
ISSN 2213-8706 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8714
Lingvisticæ Investigationes
International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources
Edited by Jorge Baptista, Cédrick Fairon, Natalia Grabar and Corinne Rossari
ISSN 0378-4169 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9927
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
Grammar through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Javier Pérez-Guerra, Yolanda Fernández-Pena and Ana Elina Martínez-Insua
This book brings together cutting-edge research on grammatical variation and change in English, showcasing the state of the art in contemporary corpus linguistics. The studies apply corpus-based and variationist methods to a wide range of grammatical categories (nominal, adjectival, verbal,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 128] 2026. vi, 281 pp. + index
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions
Edited by Sune Gregersen and Kees Hengeveld
Habitual constructions, such as those based on English used to and Spanish soler, are linguistic expressions denoting situations that typically occur. This volume proposes a novel approach to such expressions, arguing that habituality is not a unified semantic category, but rather a family of… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 136] 2026. vii, 389 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
The New Arabic Lexicon and its Words: Root-based and templatic morphosyntax
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
Root syntax, with roots as primitive lexical units, is an influential theme in building the lexicon in linguistic theory, typically in Distributed Morphology, and the generative model of minimal computation. Implementing important fragments of the Arabic lexicon, the book presents a comprehensive… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 21] 2026. xi, 285 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference
Edited by Tania Ionin and Silvina Montrul
This volume contains a representative sample of studies presented at the 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference (GASLA-17). The chapters explore new frontiers, and make connections between second language acquisition, bilingualism, psycholinguistic… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 71] 2026. vi, 389 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics
New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang
Edited by Andrew Simpson
This book brings together some of the most prominent linguists working in the field of East and Southeast Asian syntax to create a special collection of papers which highlight new developments in the analysis of the syntax of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian languages. read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 290] 2026. viii, 489 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology
Edited by Peter Herbeck and Natascha Pomino
Zero elements are used by several theories in morphology and syntax as analytical tool, but the question of whether phonologically empty elements should be structurally present or not has been a controversial issue from the very beginning. In addition to analyses that work with zero, there are also… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 291] 2026. ix, 379 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology | Romance linguistics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Topicality and the Shaping of Grammar: New perspectives from lesser-studied languages
Edited by Enrique L. Palancar, Claudine Chamoreau and Anaïd Donabédian
This volume places topicality at the very heart of grammatical explanation, drawing on richly annotated discourse corpora from lesser-studied languages across the Americas and beyond. Through nine original studies, it demonstrates how aspects of discourse relevance (rather than just abstract… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 137] 2026. vii, 343 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon: Evidence from Japanese verb morphology
Brent de Chene
All linguists recognize that competence in a natural language involves knowledge of a lexicon or dictionary; most assume that it also involves knowledge of a grammatical system. Just where the boundary between the lexicon and the grammar lies, however, is a question on which there is little… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 368] 2025. xvii, 267 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
Over the last decade, Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. Indeed, constructional approaches, including Diasystematic Construction Grammar, not only offer a useful theoretical framework for empirical studies, but also provide a… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 40] 2025. viii, 325 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Multilingualism | Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
The Development of Speaker-Oriented Adverbs in English: Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy?
Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie
The book investigates the development of ‘speaker-oriented adverbs’ (SOAs) such as frankly, surprisingly, and apparently in standard written English. SOAs take propositional scope, i.e. they modify clauses or sentences. It is generally assumed that they have developed from historically prior… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 287] 2025. ix, 188 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries
Edited by Tanja Ackermann and Christian Zimmer
Word classes of a language are usually not homogeneous groups of lexemes that share the same morphological and syntactic properties completely. Rather, lexemes are usually grouped together that have some basic commonalities but may differ in detail, e.g., regarding their inflectional behaviour. In… read moreOther subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell
Edited by María J. Arche, Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache and Hagit Borer
This volume presents a collection of state-of-the-art studies that illustrate recent advances in the understanding of human language, grammar design and linguistic categories. The title of the volume aims at highlighting the mark that the work of Tim Stowell has had on the field of Linguistics… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 288] 2025. xiii, 368 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction
Edited by Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen and Søren Sandager Sørensen
Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction investigates the possibility of writing comprehensive grammars of languages based on analyses of interaction. The volume combines two traditions in language studies that have hitherto been separate: Interactional Linguistics,… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 37] 2025. vi, 440 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Grammar of Interaction: Epistemicity, information management and discourse in language use
Edited by Susana Rodríguez Rosique and Jordi M. Antolí Martínez
This volume deals with the relations between grammar and interaction from different perspectives, with the aim of unraveling the way in which a language — through the different forms of discourse from which it emerges — reflects certain social and community-based schemas; that is, how language… read moreOther subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units
Vassiliki Geka
This book weaves together constructions, imperatives, dialogicity, and discourse units. How can that be? This is precisely the question it sets out to answer by working at the crossroads of Construction Grammar (CxG), Corpus Linguistics (CL), and Interactional Linguistics (IL). Profiting from this… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 39] 2025. xxvi, 240 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Le verbe vouloir dans tous ses états
Edited by Anouch Bourmayan
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:1 (2025) v, 177 pp.
Local Grammar Approaches to Speech Act Studies: Apology in contemporary spoken British English
Hang Su
This book brings together corpus linguistics and pragmatics by extending the emerging corpus analytic framework of local grammar to speech act research, aiming to enrich the toolkit of corpus-based speech act studies. It outlines four directions in which local grammar can be useful for… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 123] 2025. xxii, 224 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
The Making of Multi-Unit Turns: A spring-loaded door
Rod Gardner, Joe Blythe, Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear and Francesco Possemato
The Making of Multi-Unit Turns is the first book-length treatment to comprehensively describe extended turns produced by a single speaker. It draws on multiparty everyday conversations in English, using the methods of Conversation Analysis. It brings together the currently scattered literature on… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 38] 2025. xix, 378 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Gesture Studies | Phonology | Pragmatics
Morphology by Serial Optimization
Edited by Gereon Müller
Harmonic Serialism is a derivational version of Optimality Theory that has widely been pursued for phonology and syntax but so far much less for morphology. The harmonic serialist approach to inflectional morphology underlying the contributions to the present volume is virtually unique in that it… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 289] 2025. v, 348 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Similatives: Semantic sources, pathways, and types of usage
Edited by Anna Kisiel, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems and Dejan Stosic
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:2 (2025) v, 257 pp.
The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky
Edited by Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins
What is the extent to which various grammatical levels – from features through subjecthood through cleft layers – reuse and reemploy certain structure-building operations? In this volume, organized in terms of successively expanding domains, leading contributors report research into the complex… read moreOther subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Competition in Word-Formation
Edited by Alexandra Bagasheva, Akiko Nagano and Vincent Renner
This volume focuses on a number of interrelated issues in the theorizing and interpretation of morphological rivalry, including the differences between a semasiological and an onomasiological approach to competition phenomena in word-formation, the scope of such phenomena (micro-level rivalry… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 284] 2024. vi, 352 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
A Construction Grammar of the English Language: CASA – a Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis
Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann
The present book provides an introduction to the linguistic model of Construction Grammar, offering a full analysis of the grammar of the English language. It covers all levels of morpho-syntactic form-meaning units: including sentence types, tense and aspect, argument structure, phrases, idioms,… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 5] 2024. xv, 315 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | English linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Current Perspectives on Generative SLA - Processing, Influence, and Interfaces: Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference
Edited by Marta Velnić, Anne Dahl and Kjersti Faldet Listhaug
This volume comprises studies and keynote addresses presented at the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference hosted by The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, in Trondheim in 2022. The selection of cutting-edge studies presented covers a wide array of… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 70] 2024. vii, 402 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Elementary Predicates and Related Categories
Ludovico Franco
This book offers a fresh perspective on how natural languages encode grammatical relations, by delving into the interplay between oblique cases, adpositions, serial verbs, and applicatives. This book reveals, through a series of case studies, the pervasive role of the 'inclusion' relator across… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 285] 2024. ix, 217 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Frequency–Grammar Interface: Rules and regularities in first and second languages
Stefano Rastelli
Speakers and learners, based on memory and experience, implicitly know that certain language elements naturally pair together. However, they also understand, through abstract and frequency-independent categories, why some combinations are possible and others are not. The frequency-grammar interface… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 20] 2024. xii, 226 pp.
Other subjects Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
La Référence Floue
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Frédéric Landragin
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 47:2 (2024) vi, 254 pp.
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research
Edited by Margret Selting and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten
This collection of original papers illustrates recent trends and new perspectives for future research in Interactional Linguistics (IL). Since the research program was started around the turn of the century, it has prospered internationally. Recently, however, new developments have opened up new… read moreOther subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Quo Vadis, Construction Grammar?
Edited by Hans C. Boas, Jaakko Leino and Benjamin Lyngfelt
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 16:2 (2024) v, 177 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Recent Advances in Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology
Edited by Johanna Monti, Gloria Corpas Pastor, Ruslan Mitkov and Carlos Manuel Hidalgo-Ternero
The investigation of phraseology through corpus-based and computational approaches holds significant relevance for various professionals, including translators, interpreters, terminologists, lexicographers, language instructors, and learners. Computational Phraseology, and in particular the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 366] 2024. ix, 264 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Translation Studies
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
The Unity of Movement: Evidence from verb movement in Cantonese
Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee
Displacement (of linguistic expressions) is a ubiquitous phenomenon in natural language. In the generative tradition, displacement is modelled in terms of transformation, or more precisely, movement, which establishes dependencies among syntactic constituents in a phrase structure. This book probes… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 283] 2024. xxii, 214 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
Wh-island Effects in Chinese: A formal experimental study
Xu Chen
This book examines three controversial generalizations concerning wh-island effects in Chinese: argument and adjunct asymmetry, subject and object asymmetry, and D-linked and non-D-linked asymmetry. Experiments under the factorial definition of island effects reveal that: (1) both argument and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 282] 2024. xix, 173 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
Advances in Iranian Linguistics II
Edited by Simin Karimi, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui
This volume offers insight into different aspects of an interesting but fairly understudied language family, opens a path to new inquiries, and provides valuable contribution to linguistics, in general, and to Iranian linguistics, in particular. The articles in this volume offer novel analyses of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 361] 2023. vi, 315 pp.
Other subjects Other Indo-European languages | Theoretical linguistics
Auxiliary Selection in Italo-Romance: A Nested-Agree approach
Irene Amato
This book proposes a new solution to the long-standing puzzle of auxiliary selection in Romance languages, in particular Italian. The following questions are addressed: why the perfect auxiliary appears in the two forms be and have within a single language, what drives this distribution, and how… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 281] 2023. xvi, 264 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages
Edited by Evie Coussé, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt and Julia Prentice
This volume presents eight studies of linguistic phenomena in Nordic languages (notably Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) from a construction grammar perspective. The contributions both deepen and widen the focus of construction grammar applied to Nordic languages by dealing with a variety of topics,… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 37] 2023. v, 278 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Constructions in Spanish
Edited by Inga Hennecke and Evelyn Wiesinger
Constructions in Spanish is the first book-length English-language volume in the field of usage-based and Cognitive Construction Grammar dedicated exclusively to Spanish. The contributions investigate a wide range of constructions from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective, cutting across… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 34] 2023. vi, 409 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Differential Object Marking in Romance: Towards microvariation
Edited by Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Alexandru Mardale
Differential marking as applied to direct objects has long been discussed as one of the characterizing traits of many Romance languages. There is, however, wide consensus that a detailed investigation into the nature of this phenomenon raises numerous challenges both at the empirical and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 280] 2023. viii, 350 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Dire et ses marqueurs: approches contrastives
Edited by Laurence Rouanne
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 46:2 (2023) v, 169 pp.
Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective
Edited by Alessandra Barotto and Simone Mattiola
This book aims at investigating discourse phenomena (i.e., linguistic elements and constructions that help to manage the organization, flow, and outcome of communication) from a typological and cross-linguistic perspective. Although it is a well-established idea in functional-typological approaches… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 227] 2023. vi, 439 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
The Ditransitive Alternation in Present-Day German: A corpus-based analysis
Hilde De Vaere
The ditransitive (or “dative”) alternation is a much-studied phenomenon in contemporary linguistics. This monograph is the first to address the alternation in present-day written German from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. As well as providing a corpus-based analysis of extensively… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 6] 2023. xviii, 333 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Ditransitives in Germanic Languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects
Edited by Eva Zehentner, Melanie Röthlisberger and Timothy Colleman
This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past and present. Specifically, the volume includes contributions on a wide variety of Germanic languages, including English, Dutch, and German, but also Danish, Swedish,… read moreOther subjects Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
English Complex Words: Exercises in construction and translation
Piotr Twardzisz
English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages. It offers today’s broadest available coverage of English prefixation, suffixation and compounding. Comprising a treasury of real language… read more[Not in series, 242] 2023. xi, 392 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches
Edited by Kristin Kopf and Thilo Weber
Recent years have seen a growing interest in grammatical variation, a core explanandum of grammatical theory. The present volume explores questions that are fundamental to this line of research: First, the question of whether variation can always and completely be explained by intra- or… read moreOther subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | 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 Semantics | 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Issues in Diachronic Construction Morphology
Edited by Muriel Norde and Graeme Trousdale
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 15:2 (2023) v, 152 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania: Functional and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Marc Allassonnière-Tang and Marcin Kilarski
Linguists have long been interested in systems of nominal classification due to their diverse functions as well as cognitive and cultural correlates. Among others, ongoing research has focused on semantic, functional and morphosyntactic properties of complex systems such as co-occurring gender and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 362] 2023. x, 251 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse
Edited by Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden
This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse’s work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars. Reflecting this wide functionalist lens, the contributions develop ideas central to Neo-Firthian theories of grammar (in particular,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 230] 2023. vii, 305 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Retour(s) sur la cataphore
Edited by Anne Theissen and Annie Kuyumcuyan
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 46:1 (2023) v, 146 pp.
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Serbian Clitics
Jasmina Milićević
Clitics, those “funny little words” like English contracted future tense and pluperfect tense/conditional mood markers (’ll and ’d) or French pronominal objects (le ‘him’, la ‘her’, lui ‘to him/her’, etc.), have long been a source of fascination for linguists. Lacking an inherent stress that… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 229] 2023. xxiii, 166 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Morphology | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Structural Priming in the Grammatical Network
Tobias Ungerer
This book brings together research in cognitive linguistics and experimental psychology to construct a psychologically plausible account of grammar as a mental network. To explore the organisation of this network, the author examines evidence from structural priming, which occurs when speakers’… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 35] 2023. xiii, 236 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Theme in English and German: A corpus-based contrastive analysis of clause openings in original and translated texts
Jonas Freiwald
This book represents a detailed discussion and corpus analysis of Theme in English and German originals and translations. The empirical results are based on thousands of clauses from four different registers, cover a variety of linguistic aspects including multiple Themes, marked Themes,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 112] 2023. xiii, 297 pp.
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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
A0 – The Lexical Status of Adjectives
Edited by Phoevos Panagiotidis and Moreno Mitrović
This volume brings together seven eminently original attempts to answer a sorely neglected question: What are adjectives? Although the positioning of adjectives as well as aspects of their semantics have been investigated in depth, their actual status as a lexical category has generally been… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 17] 2022. v, 295 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of Gender: Crosslinguistic perspectives
Edited by Dalila Ayoun
Gender as a morphosyntactic feature is arguably “an endlessly fascinating linguistic category” (Corbett 2014: 1). One may even say it is among “the most puzzling of the grammatical categories” (Corbett 1991: 1) that has raised probing questions from various theoretical and applied perspectives.… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 63] 2022. xi, 282 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics
Arabic Dislocation
Ali A. Alzayid
Since the early years of generative grammar (Chomsky 1977, inter alia), the phenomenology of dislocation has proved to be a fertile area of research. This, however, has not been the case for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and hence this thorough monograph intends to fill this lacuna. Three aspects… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 271] 2022. xii, 240 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Cantonese GIVE and Double-Object Construction: Grammaticalization and word order change
Andy Chi-on Chin
GIVE is a versatile morpheme in many languages. While there have been extensive studies on the interplay between the syntax and semantics of GIVE in many languages, not much has been done in a similar manner on Cantonese, a member of the Yue dialect group of the Chinese language family. This… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 15] 2022. xiv, 266 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
Collocations as a Language Resource: A functional and cognitive study in English phraseology
Sonja Poulsen
Are collocations problems or solutions to problems? If you take the perspective of the foreign learner, as in traditional phraseology, they are certainly challenging, and they have therefore been categorized as arbitrary, or even defective, deviations from an assumed norm of full compositionality.… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 71] 2022. xvi, 348 pp.
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Development of Tense and Aspect Systems
Edited by Jadranka Gvozdanović
Linguistic construal of time lies at the center of language and language use; it is also one of the cognitive foundations of culture. The focus of the papers in this volume is on historical developments of genetically different aspect and tense systems across continents, with contributions on the… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 123] 2022. v, 202 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Discourse Structuring Markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions for how to do so. The empirical domain is the development of Discourse Structuring… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 33] 2022. xviii, 274 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current issues
Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Evelien Keizer
Despite a significant increase in interest over the last two decades in the English Noun Phrase, there are still many open questions and unexplored issues. The papers collected in this volume contribute to this ongoing research by addressing a range of topics concerning the internal structure, use… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 221] 2022. vii, 433 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
English Sentence Constructions
Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Tim Kassenberg, Merel Keijzer and Gregory J. Poarch
English Sentence Constructions departs from a usage-based theoretical perspective in which all language units -- which we refer to as constructions -- have both a meaning and form, and context is all-important in determining the function and form of these constructions. … read more[Not in series, 240] 2022. 261 pp.
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
From Verbal Periphrases to Complex Predicates
Edited by Mar Garachana Camarero, Sandra Montserrat Buendia and Claus Dieter Pusch
This volume, which can be considered as a follow-up publication to Pusch & Wesch (2003), contains ten studies on verbal periphrases in a wide array of Romance languages, both in a synchronic and in a historic perspective. Thus, this collective volume addresses the Romance verbal periphrastic system… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 31] 2022. vi, 238 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond. Selected proceedings of the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference
Edited by Tania Leal, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli
This volume brings together empirical studies and keynote addresses presented at the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019. The studies selected for the volume reflect how the latest developments in generative syntactic… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 67] 2022. vii, 318 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics
La phraséologie dans les interactions orales et écrites
Edited by Gaétane Dostie and Agnès Tutin
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 45:2 (2022) v, 221 pp.
Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and intersentential phenomena
Edited by Nicholas Catasso, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani
This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information structure and discourse – with a special focus on Germanic and Romance – and their role in language change. The contributions, set within the generative framework, discuss… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 275] 2022. viii, 255 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Historical linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li
Edited by Andrew Simpson
This volume brings together 19 cutting edge studies written by some of the most prominent linguists working on Chinese formal syntax, as a Festschrift volume dedicated to Yen-Hui Audrey Li. The contributions to the volume address a wide range of issues currently developing in the field of Chinese… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 272] 2022. vi, 577 pp.
Other subjects Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications
Edited by Alba E. Ruz, Cristina Fernández-Alcaina and Cristina Lara-Clares
The focus of Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications is on the relevance of paradigms for linguistic description. Paradigmatic organization has traditionally been considered an inherent feature of inflectional morphology, but research in the last decades clearly shows the existence of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 225] 2022. vii, 382 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Particles in German, English, and Beyond
Edited by Remus Gergel, Ingo Reich and Augustin Speyer
Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic properties. After an introductory overview of the complex field, the contributions… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 224] 2022. vi, 382 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions
Edited by Giuliana Giusti, Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro and Daniel Ross
Verbal Pseudo-Coordination (as in English ‘go and get’) has been described for a number of individual languages, but this is the first edited volume to emphasize this topic from a comparative perspective, and in connection to Multiple Agreement Constructions more generally. The chapters include… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 274] 2022. vii, 342 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias
Edited by Guillermo Lorenzo
This is the first generative-oriented volume ever published about Asturian and Asturian Galician, two Romance languages which, along with their intrinsic interest, are crucial to understand the parametric distance between Spanish and Galician/Portuguese. Its chapters offer new insights about old… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 36] 2022. ix, 218 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications
Edited by Katherine Messenger
Syntactic priming is a naturally-occurring psycholinguistic phenomenon that has been used as an experimental manipulation to great effect: over the last 20 years, syntactic priming research with children of different backgrounds has added to our understanding of the mechanisms and stages of… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 31] 2022. viii, 226 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Variation and Grammaticalization of Verbal Constructions
Edited by Dániel Czicza and Gabriele Diewald
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 14:1 (2022) v, 223 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Wh-In Situ Licensing in Questions and Sluicing
Jun Abe
This book addresses the question of how in-situ wh-phrases are licensed from a minimalist perspective in which the basic assumptions about narrow syntax need to be reduced to the bare minimum. I propose that in-situ wh-phrases are licensed by way of either minimal Search or covert internal Merge:… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 277] 2022. viii, 204 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach
Edited by Anne Salazar-Orvig, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland
This book describes the repertoire and uses of referring expressions by French-speaking children and their interlocutors in naturally occurring dialogues at home and at school, in a wide range of communicative situations and activities. Through the lens of an interactionist and dialogical… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 28] 2021. xix, 372 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Pragmatics | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Bermudian English: A sociohistorical and linguistic profile
Nicole Eberle
Bermudian English. A sociohistorical and linguistic profile focuses on a hitherto severely under-researched variety of English. The book traces the origins and development of Bermudian English, so as to situate the variety within the canon of other lesser-known varieties of English, and provides a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G64] 2021. xv, 231 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Conjunctive Markers of Contrast in English and French: From syntax to lexis and discourse
Maïté Dupont
Situated at the interface between corpus linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, this volume focuses on conjunctive markers expressing contrast in English and French. The frequency and placement patterns of the markers are analysed using large corpora of texts from two written registers:… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 99] 2021. xvii, 436 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Constructional Approach(es) to Discourse-Level Phenomena: Theoretical challenges and empirical advances
Edited by Renata Enghels and María Sol Sansiñena
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 13:1 (2021) v, 191 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective
Edited by Fuzhen Si and Luigi Rizzi
This book illustrates recent developments in cartographic studies, seen from a comparative perspective. The different chapters explore various aspects of theoretical and descriptive syntax, bearing on such topics as selection, causativity, binding, light verb constructions, the structure of the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 267] 2021. vi, 328 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
East and West of The Pentacrest: Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky
Edited by Timothy Gupton and Elizabeth Gielau
This book is a collection of contemporary essays and squibs exploring the mental representation of Spanish and other languages in the Romance family. Although largely formal in orientation, they incorporate experimental and corpus data to inform questions of synchronic and diachronic importance. As… read moreOther subjects Romance linguistics | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey N. Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan
The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference grammars. But GSWE is unique in that it gives equal attention to describing… read more[Not in series, 232] 2021. xxxv, 1220 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Ethiopian Languages
Edited by Derib Ado, Almaz Wasse Gelagay and Janne Bondi Johannessen †
The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The Gurage languages, that often present a descriptive and sociolinguistic puzzle to… read moreOther subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | 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 | Semantics
Lexicalising Clausal Syntax: The interaction of syntax, the lexicon and information structure in Hungarian
Tibor Laczkó
The book presents a new perspective on clausal syntax and its interactions with lexical and discourse function information by analysing Hungarian sentences. It also demonstrates ways in which grammar engineering implementations can provide insights into how complex linguistic processes interact. It… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 354] 2021. xiii, 353 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
The Life Cycle of Adpositions
T. Givón
Adpositions are used, universally, to mark the roles of nominal participants in the verbal clause, most commonly indirect object roles. Practically all languages seem to have such markers, which begin their diachronic life as lexical words -- in this case either serial verbs or positional nouns. In… read more[Not in series, 236] 2021. xii, 205 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Lost in Change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions
Edited by Svenja Kranich and Tine Breban
While research on language change has formulated robust empirical generalisations about processes and motivations underlying the emergence and spread of linguistic elements, their decline and loss is less well understood. So far a systematic investigation into the processes and motivations of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 218] 2021. vi, 366 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Martin Hilpert, Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere
This volume explores how Diachronic Construction Grammar can shed new light on changes in a central and well-researched domain of grammar, namely modality. Its main goal is to show how constructional analyses can help us address some of the long-standing questions that have informed discussions of… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 32] 2021. v, 251 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective
Edited by Anne Mucha, Jutta M. Hartmann and Beata Trawiński
Control, typically defined as a specific referential dependency between the null-subject of a non-finite embedded clause and a co-dependent of the matrix predicate, has been subject to extensive research in the last 50 years. While there is a broad consensus that a distinction between Obligatory… read moreOther subjects Generative linguistics | 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 | Semantics | 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Romance Interrogative Syntax: Formal and typological dimensions of variation
Caterina Bonan
This monograph offers an innovative understanding of the mechanisms involved in Romance ‘optional’ wh-in situ. New supporting evidence in favour of Cable’s (2010) Grammar of Q is presented, as well as novel implementations of his original theory. In particular, it is claimed that wh-in situ idioms… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 266] 2021. xiv, 252 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Studies at the Grammar-Discourse Interface: Discourse markers and discourse-related grammatical phenomena
Edited by Alexander Haselow and Sylvie Hancil
This book investigates phenomena at the grammar–discourse interface with a strong focus on discourse markers, whose development and concrete uses in a given language tend to be based on a close interplay of grammatical and discourse-related forces. The topics range from the transition of linguistic… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 219] 2021. vi, 354 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Syntactic Geolectal Variation: Traditional approaches, current challenges and new tools
Edited by Alba Cerrudo, Ángel J. Gallego and Francesc Roca Urgell
This volume brings together studies that combine both traditional and contemporary tools in the study of syntactic geolectal variation, with a special focus on a subset of Iberian varieties. There is an increasing body of research on syntactic micro-variation, but the interaction between… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 34] 2021. vi, 385 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement
Johannes Mursell
In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics or foci clause-initial position. Here, the author looks at a… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 268] 2021. xii, 280 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
A Theory of Distributed Number
Myriam Dali and Eric Mathieu
The objective of this book is to develop a deeper understanding of the form and interpretation of number. Using insights from Generative syntax and Distributed Morphology, we develop a theory of distributed number, arguing that number can be associated with several functional heads and that these… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 269] 2021. xi, 153 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units
Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki
The chapters in this volume focus on how we might understand the concept of ‘unit’ in human languages. It is an analytical notion that has been widely adopted by linguists of various theoretical and applied orientations but has recently been critically examined by both typologically oriented and… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 114] 2021. v, 204 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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 | Semantics
Advances in Iranian Linguistics
Edited by Richard K. Larson, Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian
This volume brings together selected papers from the first North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics, which was organized by the linguistics department at Stony Brook University. Papers were selected to illustrate the range of frameworks, diverse areas of research and how the boundaries of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 351] 2020. vi, 309 pp.
Other subjects Other Indo-European languages | Theoretical linguistics
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference
Edited by Veronika Hegedűs and Irene Vogel
This volume contains selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Budapest, 2017).The contributions address current issues in Hungarian linguistics, including comparisons with other languages (e.g., English, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish).Specifically,… read moreOther subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage
Edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
The volume focuses on body part terms as the vehicle of embodied cognition and conceptualization. It explores the relationship between universal embodiment, language-specific cultural models and linguistic usage practices. The chapters of the volume add to the previous research in a novel way. The… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 12] 2020. vii, 311 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Morphology | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Chapters of Dependency Grammar: A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière
Edited by András Imrényi and Nicolas Mazziotta
Was Tesnière the founding father of dependency grammar or merely a culmination point in its long history? Leaving no doubt that the latter position is correct, Chapters of Dependency Grammar tells the story of how dependency-oriented grammatical description developed from Antiquity up to the early… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 212] 2020. v, 281 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics
Computational Phraseology
Edited by Gloria Corpas Pastor and Jean-Pierre Colson
Whether you wish to deliver on a promise, take a walk down memory lane or even on the wild side, phraseological units (also often referred to as phrasemes or multiword expressions) are present in most communicative situations and in all world’s languages. Phraseology, the study of phraseological… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 24] 2020. xi, 327 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Construction Grammar across Borders
Edited by Tiago Timponi Torrent, Ely Edison da Silva Matos and Natália Sathler Sigiliano
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 12:1 (2020) v, 169 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Emergent Syntax for Conversation: Clausal patterns and the organization of action
Edited by Yael Maschler, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Jan Lindström and Leelo Keevallik
This volume explores how emergent patterns of complex syntax – that is, syntactic structures beyond a simple clause – relate to the local contingencies of action formation in social interaction. It examines both the on-line emergence of clause-combining patterns as they are ‘patched together’ on… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 32] 2020. vi, 343 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical literature & literary studies | Translation Studies
Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language
Edited by Annalisa Baicchi
This volume brings together twelve usage-based studies conducted by leading researchers in language and cognition that explore core issues of figurativeness from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The individual chapters reveal the central function of figurativeness in thought and its impact on… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 9] 2020. vii, 311 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
Fixed Expressions: Building language structure and social action
Edited by Ritva Laury and Tsuyoshi Ono
This volume concerns the structure and use of fixed expressions in a range of typologically, genetically and areally distinct languages. The chapters consider the use contexts of fixed expressions, at the same time taking seriously the need to account for their structural aspects. Formulaicity is… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 315] 2020. v, 238 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 | Semantics | Semiotics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Grammar and Cognition: Dualistic models of language structure and language processing
Edited by Alexander Haselow and Gunther Kaltenböck
This volume brings together linguistic, psychological and neurological research in a discussion of the Cognitive Dualism Hypothesis, whose central idea is that human cognitive activity in general and linguistic cognition in particular cannot reasonably be reduced to a single, monolithic system of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 70] 2020. vii, 358 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Psycholinguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Interfaces in Romance: A constraint-based approach
Edited by Gabriela Bîlbîie
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:1 (2020) v, 168 pp.
Les variations diatopiques dans les expressions figées
Sous la direction de Pedro Mogorrón Huerta, Aude Grezka et Lucía Navarro-Brotons
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:2 (2020) vi, 211 pp.
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Mobilizing Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities
Edited by Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, Emma Betz and Peter Golato
Requesting, recruitment, and other ways of mobilizing others to act have garnered much interest in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. This volume takes a holistic perspective on the practices that we use to get others to act either with us, or for us. It argues for a more explicit… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 33] 2020. vi, 285 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Morphological Complexity within and across Boundaries: In honour of Aslı Göksel
Edited by Aslı Gürer, Dilek Uygun-Gökmen and Balkız Öztürk
This volume brings together a collection of original articles investigating state-of-the-art themes in morphology. The papers in the volume provide an in-depth analysis for spoken and sign languages within morphological word domain, morphosyntax and morphophonology. Bringing data from a variety of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 215] 2020. vi, 421 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Morphologically Derived Adjectives in Spanish
Antonio Fábregas
This is the first book that presents a complete empirical description and theoretical analysis of all major classes of derived adjectives in Spanish, both deverbal and denominal. The reader will find here both a detailed empirical description of the syntactic, morphological and semantic properties… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 30] 2020. xi, 377 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Romance linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Elena Smirnova
This volume brings together ten contributions by leading experts who present their current usage-based research in Diachronic Construction Grammar. All papers contribute to the discussion of how to conceptualize constructional networks best and how to model changes in the constructicon, as for… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 27] 2020. vi, 355 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Past Participle Agreement: A study on the grammaticalization of formal features
Jorge Vega Vilanova
In this book, the traditional definition of ‘grammaticalization’ is challenged in the light of current developments in grammar theory. The main innovation of this approach is the focus on the feature composition of lexical items. From this perspective, the loss of past participle agreement in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 265] 2020. xix, 236 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXII: Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tempe, Arizona, 2018
Edited by Elly van Gelderen
This volume presents a collection of seven peer-reviewed articles on Arabic phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and applied linguistics. The authors address stress assignment, the phenomenon of 'imāla, the place of articulation of the dorsal fricative, the structure of correlatives, the CP… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 9] 2020. v, 174 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Right Peripheral Fragments: Right dislocation and related phenomena in Romance
Javier Fernández-Sánchez
In recent years, a number of authors (De Vries 2009, Truckenbrodt 2015, Ott and de Vries 2016, inter alia) have defended that right dislocations (RD) should be treated as bisentential structures, where the “dislocated” constituent is actually a remnant of a clausal ellipsis operation licensed under… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 258] 2020. ix, 214 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Silently Structured Silent Argument
Yuta Sakamoto
Theoretical linguistics in the generative tradition has payed much attention to issues related to silence ? children know the syntax of silence despite the fact that they do not have direct access to it throughout their language acquisition process. One of the issues that have been hotly discussed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 259] 2020. xiii, 266 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research
Edited by Robert Fuchs and Valentin Werner
The expression of temporal relations, notably through tense and aspect, is central in all processes of communication, but commonly perceived and described as a major hurdle for non-native speakers. While this topic has already received considerable attention in the SLA literature, it features less… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 108] 2020. v, 161 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Typical and Impaired Processing in Morphosyntax
Edited by Vincent Torrens
The present volume presents research on language processing and language disorders. Topics range across typical language processing, child developmental language disorders, adult neurodegenerative disorders and neurological bases of typical or impaired brains. The chapters cover a number of… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 64] 2020. vi, 305 pp.
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 | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages: An emergent unit in interaction
Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson
The ‘NP’ is one of the least controversial grammatical units that linguists work with. The NP is often assumed to be universal, and appears to be robust cross-linguistically (compared to ‘VP’ or even ‘clause’) in that it can be manipulated in argument positions in constructed examples. Furthermore,… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 128] 2020. vi, 366 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Agreement in Language Contact: Gender development in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Florian Dolberg
Gender in English changed dramatically from the elaborate system found in Old English to the very simple he/she/it-alternation in use from (late) Middle English onwards. While either system is well described and understood, the change from one to the other is anything but: more than 120 years of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 208] 2019. xxi, 351 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | 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 Semantics | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Columbia School Linguistics in the 21st Century
Edited by Nancy Stern, Ricardo Otheguy, Wallis Reid and Jaseleen Sackler
This collection is the fifth volume of selected papers to emerge from Columbia School (CS) linguistics conferences. A radically functionalist approach, CS shares with Cognitive linguistics the view that grammar is composed of form-meaning correspondences. CS views language as a symbolic tool whose… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 77] 2019. vii, 311 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian
Gertjan Postma
Pomeranian is the West Germanic language spoken by European emigrants who went from Farther Pomerania (present-day Poland) to Brazil in the period 1857–1887. This language is no longer spoken in cohesive societies in Europe, but the language has survived and is in remarkably good shape on this… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 248] 2019. xxxi, 312 pp.
A Criterial Approach to the Cartography of V2
Giuseppe Samo
This volume provides a mechanism to uncover the extremely rich split-CP of V2 languages, in both root and embedded clauses, on the basis of theoretical arguments and empirical findings. The movement of the inflected verbal head is triggered to agree with the profiled informational value of the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 257] 2019. xi, 215 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
A Dependency Grammar of English: An introduction and beyond
Timothy Osborne
Dependency grammar (DG) is an approach to the syntax of natural languages with a long and venerable tradition, yet awareness of its potential to serve as a basis for principled analyses of natural language syntax is minimal due to the predominance of phrase structure grammar (PSG). This book… read more[Not in series, 224] 2019. ix, 447 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax
Edited by Claudia Claridge and Birte Bös
Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 346] 2019. vi, 312 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Differential objects and datives – a homogeneous class?
Edited by Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Anna Pineda
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 42:1 (2019) v, 131 pp.
Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity
Edited by Albert Álvarez González, Zarina Estrada-Fernández and Claudine Chamoreau
This volume surveys the phenomenon of syntactic complexity in a diversity of languages and from a diversity of theoretical perspectives. The topics include clause combining strategies such as relative, complement, and adverbial clauses, serialization, clausal nominalizations, but also the switch… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 126] 2019. vi, 257 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Interfaces in Grammar
Edited by Jianhua Hu and Haihua Pan
This volume is an important contribution to the theoretical and empirical study of the interactions of grammatical components in Chinese and other languages. With contributions by Edward L. Keenan, Henk van Riemsdijk, Alain Rouveret, and scholars in Chinese Linguistics, this volume investigates the… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 15] 2019. vi, 371 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces
Edited by Silvio Cruschina, Adam Ledgeway and Eva-Maria Remberger
Recent years have seen a growing interest in linguistic phenomena whose formal manifestation and underlying licensing conditions represent the convergence of two or more areas of the grammar, an area of investigation particularly invigorated in recent generative research by developments such as… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 251] 2019. vi, 369 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English
Sofia Rüdiger
Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English presents fundamental research on the use of English by South Korean speakers. Despite the extraordinary and vibrant status of the English language in South Korean society (demonstrated, for example, by the notion of English Fever), research on the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G62] 2019. xvii, 228 pp.
Morphological Variation: Theoretical and empirical perspectives
Edited by Antje Dammel and Oliver Schallert
Morphological variation is a rather young, yet fascinating topic to study in its own right because it offers challenging evidence both for the autonomy of morphology (morphomic processes) as well as for its tight interconnection with other grammatical domains, notably phonology and syntax. Covering… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 207] 2019. v, 345 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics
Nominalization in Languages of the Americas
Edited by Roberto Zariquiey, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck
Recent scholarship has confirmed earlier observations that nominalization plays a crucial role in the formation of complex constructions in the world’s languages. Grammatical nominalizations are one of the most salient and widespread features of languages of the Americas, yet they have not been… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 124] 2019. vii, 662 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Languages of South America | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Noun Phrases in Article-less Languages: Uzbek and beyond
Lola Türker
This book is a theoretically oriented, comparative study of noun phrases and their semantic and morpho-syntactic properties. This is the first study that provides a comprehensive analysis of the nominal structure in Uzbek, and compares it with corresponding structures in other article and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 253] 2019. xiv, 182 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Turkic languages
On the Role of Pragmatics in Construction Grammar
Edited by Rita Finkbeiner
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 11:2 (2019) v, 163 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Prepositions, Case and Verbal Prefixes: The case of Slavic
Petr Biskup
This monograph is concerned with prepositional elements in Slavic languages, prepositions, verbal prefixes and functional elements of prepositional nature. It argues that verbal prefixes are incorporated prepositions projecting their argument structure in the complement of the verbal root and that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 255] 2019. vii, 231 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Generative linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Rhapsodie: A prosodic and syntactic treebank for spoken French
Edited by Anne Lacheret-Dujour, Sylvain Kahane and Paola Pietrandrea
This monograph describes the development of Rhapsodie, a 33,000-word syntactic and prosodic treebank of spoken French created with the aim of modeling the interface between prosody, syntax and discourse in spoken French. Theoretical foundations and methodological choices are presented and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 89] 2019. xv, 396 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Phonology | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Edited by Tania Ionin and Matthew Rispoli
This edited volume contains a representative sample of papers presented at the 7th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA-7) conference. The book features three streams of research (Variation in Input, First Language Acquisition, and Second Language… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 63] 2019. vi, 358 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Asymmetries, Mismatches and Construction Grammar
Edited by Nikos Koutsoukos, Kristel Van Goethem and Hendrik De Smet
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 10:2 (2018) v, 183 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Between Turn and Sequence: Turn-initial particles across languages
Edited by John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
The last two decades have witnessed a remarkable growth of interest in what are variously termed discourse markers or discourse particles. The greatest area of growth has centered on particles that occur in sentence-initial or turn-initial position, and this interest intersects with a long-standing… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 31] 2018. vii, 487 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Category Change from a Constructional Perspective
Edited by Kristel Van Goethem, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé and Gudrun Vanderbauwhede
Category change, broadly defined as the shift from one word class to another, is often studied as part of other changes, such as grammaticalization or lexicalization, but not in its own right. This volume offers a survey of different types of category change and their properties, e.g. abrupt versus… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 20] 2018. vii, 314 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Complement Clauses in Portuguese: Syntax and acquisition
Edited by Ana Lúcia Santos and Anabela Gonçalves
This volume addresses core issues on complement clauses, focusing on Portuguese (European, Brazilian and Mozambican varieties). It contributes to the discussion of complementation, providing an overview of how theoretical syntax and acquisition studies may combine to broaden our knowledge about the… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 17] 2018. vi, 418 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Romance linguistics | 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction
Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González and J. Lachlan Mackenzie
This edited volume showcases new work on discourse analysis by big names in the field and promising early-career researchers. Arising from the latest in the series of IWoDA workshops in Santiago de Compostela, it provides novel insights into both the explicit and the implicit characteristics of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 296] 2018. vi, 304 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
The Emergence of Nominal Expressions in Spanish-English Early Bilinguals: Economy and bilingual first language acquisition
Emma Ticio Quesada
This monograph examines the first syntactic unit in child language by presenting a longitudinal multiple-case study that focuses on the inner structure of nominal expressions in bilingual or monolingual child Spanish. This compilation of case studies offers the first insight on some of the… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 56] 2018. xi, 244 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Explorations in English Historical Syntax
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert and Charlotte Maekelberghe
The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 198] 2018. viii, 312 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond
Edited by Marco García García and Melanie Uth
What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages, and why are there such differing views on such a presumably clear-cut research subject? Bringing together original expert work from a variety of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 201] 2018. viii, 391 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Translation Studies
Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee
Edited by K. Aaron Smith and Dawn Nordquist
The contributions to this volume honor Joan Bybee’s 2005 LSA Presidential address “Grammar is Usage and Usage is Grammar,” as a cumulative articulation of Professor Bybee's long and influential career in linguistics. The volume begins with a functional examination of child language acquisition of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 192] 2018. xxvi, 250 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Germanic Genitives
Edited by Tanja Ackermann, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer
The papers in this volume focus on the dynamics of one specific cell in morphological paradigms – the genitive. The high amount of diachronic and synchronic variation in all Germanic languages makes the genitive a particularly interesting phenomenon since it allows us, for example, to examine… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 193] 2018. vi, 327 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar
Edited by Evie Coussé, Peter Andersson and Joel Olofsson
Grammaticalization research has increasingly highlighted the notion of constructions in the last decade. In the wake of this heightened interest, efforts have been made in grammaticalization research to more precisely articulate the largely pretheoretical notion of construction in the theoretical… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 21] 2018. vi, 315 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in prosody and syntax
Edited by Evangelia Adamou, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove
The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information structure categories. They present data from languages which are rarely, if ever, taken into account in the most prominent approaches in information… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 199] 2018. vi, 450 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
The Locus of Linguistic Variation
Edited by Constantine Lignos, Laurel MacKenzie and Meredith Tamminga
This volume explores how the patterning of surface variation can shed light on the grammatical representation of variable phenomena. The authors explore variation in several domains, addressing intra- and inter-dialectal patterns, using diverse sources of data including corpora of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 97] 2018. x, 193 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition: In honor of Roumyana Slabakova
Edited by Jacee Cho, Michael Iverson, Tiffany Judy, Tania Leal and Elena Shimanskaya
This volume presents a range of studies testing some of the latest models and hypotheses in the field of second/third language acquisition, such as the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008, 2016), the Scalpel Model (Slabakova, 2017), and the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace & Serratrice, 2009) to… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 55] 2018. xv, 311 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology
Edited by Ruslan Mitkov, Johanna Monti, Gloria Corpas Pastor and Violeta Seretan
The correct interpretation of Multiword Units (MWUs) is crucial to many applications in Natural Language Processing but is a challenging and complex task. In recent years, the computational treatment of MWUs has received considerable attention but there is much more to be done before we can claim… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 341] 2018. ix, 259 pp.
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Noun Phrase in English: Past and present
Edited by Alex Ho-Cheong Leung and Wim van der Wurff
Building on a substantial earlier literature, the chapters in this volume further advance knowledge and understanding of properties of the noun phrase in English. The empirical material for the papers includes both historical and present-day data, with the two often shedding light on each other in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 246] 2018. v, 229 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
On Understanding Grammar: Revised edition
T. Givón
In his foreword to the original edition of this classic of functionalism, typology and diachrony, Dwight Bolinger wrote: "I foresee it as one of the truly prizes statements of our current knowledge…a book about understanding done with deep understanding – of language and its place in Nature and in… read more[Not in series, 213] 2018. xxi, 299 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance
Edited by Anna Gavarró
This volume presents eleven papers on the acquisition of Romance, most of them presented at the Romance Turn VIII, held in Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain, in September 2016. Part I of the volume is devoted to passives and related constructions. The results unveil domains in comprehension in which… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 62] 2018. vi, 287 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Questioning Theoretical Primitives in Linguistic Inquiry: Papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy
Edited by Naomi Shin and Daniel Erker
Across the world, professional linguistic inquiry is in full bloom, largely as result of pioneering thinkers who helped rapidly modernize the study of human language in the last century. As the field continues to move forward, further solidifying its position as a conduit of insight into the human… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 76] 2018. vi, 293 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia
Edited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi
Current theoretical approaches to language devote great attention to macro- and micro-variation and show an ever-increasing interest in minority languages. In this respect, few empirical domains are as rich and lively as the Italo-Romance languages, which together with Albanian were the main… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 252] 2018. viii, 395 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Studies in Historical Ibero-Romance Morpho-Syntax
Edited by Miriam Bouzouita, Ioanna Sitaridou and Enrique Pato
This volume features fourteen papers by leading specialists on various aspects of historical morpho-syntax in the Ibero-Romance languages. In these papers, fine-grained analyses are developed to capture the richness of undiscussed or —often— previously unknown data. Comparative across the… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 16] 2018. vi, 340 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Substance-based Grammar – The (Ongoing) Work of John Anderson
Edited by Roger Böhm and Harry van der Hulst
The contributions of this volume centre around the (ongoing) work of John Anderson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and Fellow of the British Academy, who, with detailed studies in phonology, morphology, semantics and syntax as well as careful discussions of historical and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 204] 2018. vii, 443 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman
Edited by Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge
Dedicated to John B. Whitman, this collection of seventeen articles provides a forum for cutting-edge theoretical research on a wide range of linguistic phenomena in a wide variety of Asian languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Austronesian, Indo-Aryan, and Thai. Ranging from syntax and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 250] 2018. xx, 390 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Phonetics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 15: Papers from the 2015 Leiden Conference
Edited by Harry van der Hulst and Anikó Lipták
This volume contains a selection of papers from the 12th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Leiden, 2015). The contributions cover a wide range of topics and their significance in generative theorizing.The papers about morphosyntax focus on the formation of comparative clauses,… read more[Approaches to Hungarian, 15] 2017. x, 255 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte
Edited by Olga Fernández-Soriano, Elena Castroviejo Miró and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez
This book approaches the concept of boundary, central in linguistic theory, and the related notion of phase from the perspective of the interaction between syntax and its interfaces. A primary notion is that phases are the appropriate domains to explain most interface linguistic phenomena and that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 239] 2017. viii, 369 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Choosing a Grammar: Learning paths and ambiguous evidence in the acquisition of syntax
Isaac Gould
This book investigates the role that ambiguous evidence can play in the acquisition of syntax. To illustrate this, the book introduces a probabilistic learning model for syntactic parameters that learns a grammar of best fit to the learner’s evidence. The model is then applied to a range of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 238] 2017. ix, 332 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Constructing Families of Constructions: Analytical perspectives and theoretical challenges
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Alba Luzondo Oyón and Paula Pérez-Sobrino
Within Construction Grammar, this volume moves away from a compartmentalized view of constructions with the aim of providing a more holistic description of grammar. Thus, the book brings together analyses that look at constructional families within the “constructicon” of such languages as English,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 58] 2017. vii, 342 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Conversational structures of Alto Perené (Arawak) of Peru
Elena Mihas
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the research community, the book is a focused exploration of discourse patterns of Alto Perené Arawak, with emphasis on conversational structures. The book’s methodological scaffold is based on proposals and insights from multiple research fields, such as… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 181] 2017. xxi, 343 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Discourse studies | Languages of South America | Pragmatics
Copular Constructions in Lithuanian
Rolandas Mikulskas
The fourth volume in the VARGReB series presents an in-depth investigation of Lithuanian copular constructions from the viewpoint of Cognitive Grammar. Apart from the fundamental problems of the ontology and taxonomy of copular sentences, the author also discusses a number of more specific… read more[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 4] 2017. xv, 280 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Development of Tense/Aspect in Semitic in the Context of Afro-Asiatic Languages
Vit Bubenik
The author applies the comparative method for the reconstruction of earlier aspectual systems in the Afro-Asiatic phylum of languages. Moving ‘upstream’ from the documented systems of Semitic, Berber and Old Cushitic the state of affairs during the common stage of Proto-Semito-Berbero-Cushitic is… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 337] 2017. xx, 228 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
How Grammar Links Concepts: Verb-mediated constructions, attribution, perspectivizing
Friedrich Ungerer
The proposed framework of concept linking combines insights of construction grammar with those of traditional functional descriptions to explain particularly challenging but often neglected areas of English grammar such as negation, modality, adverbials and non-finite constructions. To reach this… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 57] 2017. xiii, 325 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
Imperative Turns at Talk: The design of directives in action
Edited by Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Liisa Raevaara and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
In middle-class Anglo-speaking circles imperatives are considered impolite forms that command another to do something; etiquette manuals recommend avoiding them. The papers in this collection de-construct such lay beliefs. Through the empirical examination of everyday and institutional interaction… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 30] 2017. vi, 435 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Imperatives and Directive Strategies
Edited by Daniël Van Olmen and Simone Heinold
Imperatives and directive strategies have intrigued both formalists and functionalists. They continue to search for the answers to questions like “what are the semantics of the imperative?”, “how is it used (in the world’s languages)?” and “which factors determine the choice between imperatives and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 184] 2017. vi, 324 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Involvement and Attitude in Japanese Discourse: Interactive markers
Naomi Ogi
This book addresses the long discussed issue of Japanese interactive markers (traditionally called sentence-final particles) in a new light, and provides the comprehensive linguistic documentation of the interactional functions of seven interactive markers: ne, na, yo, sa, wa, zo and ze. By… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 272] 2017. xi, 232 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
L3 Syntactic Transfer: Models, new developments and implications
Edited by Tanja Angelovska and Angela Hahn
This book fills an existing gap in the field of third language acquisition (L3A) by bringing together theoretical, empirical, and practical accounts that contribute to informed teaching practices in multilingual classrooms. The volume is organised into three sections that focus on prominent… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 5] 2017. x, 329 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Nominal Compound Acquisition
Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, F. Nihan Ketrez and Marianne Kilani-Schoch
This book offers a systematic study of the emergence and early development of compound nouns in first language acquisition from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. The language sample is both genealogically and typologically diversified, ranging from languages rich in compounds, such as… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 61] 2017. viii, 310 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Morphology | 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Pivotal Constructions in Chinese: Diachronic, synchronic, and constructional perspectives
Rui Peng
This book presents a detailed analysis of the Chinese pivotal constructions (PVCs) and their diachronic developments from a constructionalist perspective, with the focus on the growth of the constructional hierarchies of these constructions and the changes with respect to both the form and meaning… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 8] 2017. xix, 243 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Putting Adpositions in Place: Sortal domains and modifier PPs in Japanese
Kaori Takamine
This monograph explores the grammar of modifier PPs in Japanese, concentrating on their word order. The study argues that (i) modifier PPs are hierarchically arranged and (ii) there is an interesting fine-grained correlation between different PP types and Modal/Aspect functors which indicates that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 240] 2017. xi, 255 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Japanese linguistics | 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Studies in Chinese and Japanese Language Acquisition: In honor of Stephen Crain
Edited by Mineharu Nakayama, Yi-ching Su and Aijun Huang
This book focuses on important methodological and theoretical issues in Chinese and Japanese L1 and L2 acquisition. All contributions discuss experiments using the Truth Value Judgment Task (TVJT), on three syntactic and semantic domains, binding, scope interaction, and wh- and logical expressions.… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 60] 2017. vi, 286 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Language acquisition | Sino-Tibetan languages | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Syntax: An Introduction to Minimalism
Elly van Gelderen
Using a concise and clear style, this book highlights insights from current syntactic theory and minimalism. Chapter 1 starts with the general idea behind generative grammar and should be read from a big picture perspective. Because the book expects no prior syntactic background, its next two… read more[Not in series, 214] 2017. xvi, 159 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Transitivity and Valency: From theory to acquisition
Edited by Georgia Fotiadou and Hélène Vassiliadou
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 40:1 (2017) v, 133 pp.
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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology | Uralic languages
Verb Phrase and Fluid Construction Grammar
Edited by Luc Steels and Katrien Beuls
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 9:2 (2017) v, 162 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade
Edited by Bettelou Los and Pieter de Haan
The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change. As is now becoming increasingly clear, word order variation rarely attracts social values in the way that phonological variants do. Instead, speakers tend to attach discourse or information-structural functions to any word… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 243] 2017. ix, 376 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Argument Realization in Baltic
Edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau
The third volume in the VARGReB series explores different aspects of varying argument realization in Baltic. It presents original studies on differential marking of both core and non-core verbal arguments, on argument structures of nouns and the encoding of nominal arguments, as well as on… read more[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 3] 2016. vii, 560 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
The papers assembled in this volume aim to contribute to our understanding of the human capacity for language: the generative procedure that relates sounds and meanings via syntax. Different hypotheses about the properties of this generative procedure are under discussion, and their connection with… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 235] 2016. xvii, 238 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
A Cognitive Grammar of Japanese Clause Structure
Toshiyuki Kumashiro
This volume represents the first comprehensive work on Japanese clause structure conducted within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. The author proposes schematic conceptual structures for the major constructions in the language and defines Japanese case marking and grammatical relations in purely… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 53] 2016. xxiii, 373 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Japanese linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Constructions across Grammars
Edited by Martin Hilpert and Jan-Ola Östman
Up to now, most research in Construction Grammar has focused on single languages, most notably English. This volume aims to broaden the scope of Construction Grammar towards issues in bi- and multilingualism, second language learning, and generalizations across different languages and language… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 82] 2016. v, 206 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Corpus-based Approaches to Construction Grammar
Edited by Jiyoung Yoon and Stefan Th. Gries
This volume brings together empirical Construction Grammar studies to (i) promote cross-fertilization between researchers interested in constructional approaches on various languages, and (ii) further the growing trend towards empirically rigorous research that takes seriously a commitment not only… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 19] 2016. vi, 268 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Cyclical Change Continued
Edited by Elly van Gelderen
This book presents new data and additional questions regarding the linguistic cycle. The topics discussed are the pronoun, negative, negative existential, analytic-synthetic, distributive, determiner, degree, and future/modal cycles. The papers raise questions about the length of time that cycles… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 227] 2016. viii, 429 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Discourse Reflexivity in Linear Unit Grammar: The case of IMDb message boards
Cameron Smart
Discourse Reflexivity in Linear Unit Grammar: The case of IMDb message boards represents a significant landmark. Not only is it the first in-depth corpus-based study to be based on Linear Unit Grammar, it is also the first study to present a unified model of both Linear Unit Grammar and Linear Unit… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 76] 2016. xvi, 293 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Element Order in Old English and Old High German Translations
Anna Cichosz, Jerzy Gaszewski and Piotr Pęzik
This book is the first comprehensive corpus study of element order in Old English and Old High German, which brings to light numerous differences between these two closely related languages. The study’s innovative approach relies on translated texts, which allows the authors to tackle the problem… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 28] 2016. xvii, 424 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Translation Studies
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Formal Studies in Slovenian Syntax: In honor of Janez Orešnik
Edited by Franc Lanko Marušič and Rok Žaucer
Although in the early days of generative linguistics Slovenian was rarely called on in the development of theoretical models, the attention it gets has subsequently grown, so that by now it has contributed to generative linguistics a fair share of theoretically important data. With 13 chapters that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 236] 2016. vi, 335 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Generative linguistics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 Semantics | 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 Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Intonation Units Revisited: Cesuras in talk-in-interaction
Dagmar Barth-Weingarten
Intonation units have been notoriously difficult to identify in natural talk. Problems include fuzzy boundaries, lack of exhaustivity, and the potential circularity involved when studying their interface with other language-organizational dimensions. This volume advocates a way to resolve such… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 29] 2016. xviii, 318 pp.
Other subjects Phonetics | Phonology | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields
Edited by Meghan E. Armstrong, Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell
Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields is a volume of empirical research papers incorporating recent theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary advances in the field of intonation, as they relate to the Ibero-Romance languages. The volume brings… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 6] 2016. xxi, 389 pp.
Other subjects Phonetics | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters: Studies in honour of Juana M. Liceras
Edited by Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Elena Valenzuela and Cristina Martínez Sanz
The chapters in this volume take different approaches to the exploration of language acquisition processes in various populations (monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition, L2 acquisition) and address issues in syntax, morphology, pragmatics, language processing and interface phenomena.… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 51] 2016. vi, 305 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Lexical plurals and beyond
Edited by Peter Lauwers and Marie Lammert
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 39:2 (2016) v, 201 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Microparameters in the Grammar of Basque
Edited by Beatriz Fernández and Jon Ortiz de Urbina
This book is an endeavor to present and analyze some standard topics in the grammar of Basque from a micro-comparative perspective. From case and agreement to word order and the left periphery, and including an incursion into determiners, the book combines fine-grained theoretical analyses with… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 13] 2016. vi, 302 pp.
Other subjects Basque linguistics | Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Modal Meaning in Construction Grammar
Edited by Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 8:1 (2016) vi, 129 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Passive Constructions in Lithuanian: Selected works of Emma Geniušienė
Edited by Anna Kibort and Nijolė Maskaliūnienė
This unique volume comprises a monograph and a set of articles by renowned typologist Emma Geniušienė which all focus on the topic of morphologically passive constructions in Lithuanian. It is the first translation into English of the author’s original work from the 1970s. It offers a rich treasury… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 179] 2016. xx, 313 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Quantifying Expressions in the History of German: Syntactic reanalysis and morphological change
Dorian Roehrs and Christopher D. Sapp
This study describes the 1200-year history of German quantifying expressions like nîoman anderro > niemand anderer ‘nobody else’, analyzing the morpho-syntactic developments within the generative framework. The quantifiers examined arose from various lexical sources/categories (nouns, adjectives,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 230] 2016. xvii, 299 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | 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 | Semantics | 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications
Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż
The leitmotif, but not exclusive theme, of the present volume is Ronald Langacker’s (1987) thesis that “lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a continuum of symbolic units serving to structure conceptual content for expressive purposes”. The concept of the lexicogrammar continuum contrasts… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 54] 2016. vii, 284 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Morphology | Pragmatics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation
Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese, Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni
The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation. They all share the assumption that within the language faculty the variation space is hierarchically constrained and that minimal changes in the set of property values defining each language give rise to diverse outputs… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 234] 2016. vii, 376 pp.
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 | Semantics | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of Inflection in Q’anjob’al Maya
Pedro Mateo Pedro
Most studies on the acquisition of verbal inflection have examined languages with a single verb suffix. This book offers a study on the acquisition of verb inflections in Q’anjob’al Maya. Q’anjob’al has separate inflections for aspect, subject and object agreement, and status suffixes. The subject… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 14] 2015. xiii, 144 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Languages of North America | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of Italian: Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition
Adriana Belletti and Maria Teresa Guasti
A major contribution to the study of language acquisition and language development inspired by theoretical linguistics has been made by research on the acquisition of Italian syntax. This book offers an updated overview of results from theory-driven experimental and corpus-based research on the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 57] 2015. xiv, 326 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 14: Papers from the 2013 Piliscsaba Conference
Edited by Katalin É. Kiss, Balázs Surányi and Éva Dékány
This volume of papers selected from the 11th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian addresses current topics in Hungarian linguistics, focusing on their theoretical implications.The papers in syntax investigate the complement zone of nouns, the syntax of case assigning adpositions,… read more[Approaches to Hungarian, 14] 2015. v, 296 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives
Florent Perek
The argument structure of verbs, defined as the part of grammar that deals with how participants in verbal events are expressed in clauses, is a classical topic in linguistics that has received considerable attention in the literature. This book investigates argument structure in English from a… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 17] 2015. x, 246 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Corpus linguistics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer and Spike Gildea
Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 18] 2015. xi, 263 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Diachrony of Grammar
T. Givón
The case-studies assembled in these two volumes span a lifetime of research into the diachrony of grammar. That is, into the rise and fall of syntactic constructions and their attendant grammatical morphology. While focused squarely on the data, the studies are nonetheless cast in an explicit… read more[Not in series, 192] 2015. 928 pp. (Hb in 2 vols.)
Other subjects Evolution of language | Historical linguistics
Discourse-oriented Syntax
Edited by Josef Bayer, Roland Hinterhölzl and Andreas Trotzke
Until recently, little attention has been paid within syntax to components of discourse meaning that go beyond information structure and fall into the domain of non-at-issue meaning operating at the level of illocutionary force. To approach this domain, many of the contributions of this volume deal… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 226] 2015. v, 253 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Generative linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Elements of Structural Syntax
Lucien Tesnière
This volume appears now finally in English, sixty years after the death of its author, Lucien Tesnière. It has been translated from the French original into German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian, and now at long last into English as well. The volume contains a comprehensive approach to the syntax… read moreOther subjects History of linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu
Claire Lefebvre
This book is about the functional categories of three Caribbean creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian Creole and Papiamentu with two specific goals. The first one is to evaluate the respective contribution of the source languages to the functional categories of these three creoles. The second is to evaluate… read more[Creole Language Library, 50] 2015. xvii, 386 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics
A Grammar of Mandarin
Jeroen Wiedenhof
A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth. Crammed with examples from everyday conversations, it aims to let the language speak for itself. The book opens with an overview of the language situation and a thorough… read more[Not in series, 197] 2015. xxv, 477 pp.
Other subjects Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
Head Movement in Syntax
Rosmin Mathew
Head Movement in Syntax argues that verb movement is a narrow syntactic phenomenon that can affect locality constraints. The altered locality domains are detectable from the way certain phrasal elements such as a phrase containing a Wh are forced to undergo movement. The basic idea explored in the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 224] 2015. xi, 190 pp.
Other subjects Dravidian languages | Generative linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The In-Situ Approach to Sluicing
Jun Abe
It has been standardly claimed since Merchant (2001) that island violations can be repaired by simply deleting the categories that induce such violations, as witnessed by sluicing, an ellipsis construction that deletes TP with a remnant wh-phrase. This book aims to argue that such “repair by… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 222] 2015. viii, 168 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology | Uralic languages
New Directions in Grammaticalization Research
Edited by Andrew D.M. Smith, Graeme Trousdale and Richard Waltereit
The articles in this volume examine a number of critical issues in grammaticalization studies, including the relationship between grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, subjectification and intersubjectification, and grammaticalization and language contact. The contributions consider data from… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 166] 2015. xv, 302 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change
Edited by Hendrik De Smet, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde
In much writing on language change, there is a tacit assumption that change operates on a single source construction to produce an innovative target construction. This volume challenges this assumption, by showing that many changes involve interactions between multiple source constructions. In… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 79] 2015. v, 227 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
On the Interaction of Constructions with Register and Genre
Edited by Kerstin Fischer and Kiki Nikiforidou
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 7:2 (2015) v, 243 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Perspectives on Historical Syntax
Edited by Carlotta Viti
This volume discusses topics of historical syntax from different theoretical perspectives, ranging from Indo-European studies to generative grammar, functionalism, and typology. It examines mechanisms of syntactic change such as reanalysis, analogy, grammaticalization, independent drift, and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 169] 2015. vi, 346 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development
Edited by Leonid Kulikov and Nikolaos Lavidas
Although for some scholars the very possibility of syntactic reconstruction remains dubious, numerous studies have appeared reconstructing a variety of basic elements of Proto-Indo-European syntax based on evidence available particularly from ancient and/or archaic Indo-European languages. The… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 75] 2015. v, 158 pp.
Other subjects Historical 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Jeannette Schaeffer and Petra Sleeman
The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. This volume assembles a selection of the papers that were presented at the 27th edition of Going Romance, which was organized by the University of Amsterdam in… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 8] 2015. xi, 280 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Romance Linguistics 2012: Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Cedar City, Utah, 20-22 April 2012
Edited by Jason Smith and Tabea Ihsane
This volume contains a selection of nineteen peer-reviewed papers from the 42nd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, in 2012. The contributions cover a wide range of current topics in the areas of phonetics, phonology, syntax,… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 7] 2015. xii, 304 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Signs and Structures: Formal Approaches to Sign Language Syntax
Edited by Paweł Rutkowski
As sign language linguistics has become an important and prodigious field of research in the last few decades, it comes as no surprise that the repertoire of methodological approaches to the study of the communication of the Deaf has also expanded considerably. While earlier work on sign languages… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 71] 2015. v, 143 pp.
Other subjects Signed languages | Theoretical linguistics
Spanish Phraseology: Varieties and variations
Edited by Pedro Mogorrón Huerta and Xavier Blanco
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 38:2 (2015) v, 159 pp.
Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti
Edited by Elisa Di Domenico, Cornelia Hamann and Simona Matteini
The volume contains 18 contributions from senior and junior scholars covering core issues within the theoretical investigation of the architecture and the mechanisms of the faculty of language, with particular emphasis on the computational component. They all pursue a comparative approach,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 223] 2015. xxvi, 421 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language
Edited by Kristine Bentzen, Henrik Rosenkvist and Janne Bondi Johannessen †
Övdalian is spoken in central Sweden by about 2000 speakers. Traditionally categorized as a dialect of Swedish, it has not received much international attention. However, Övdalian is typologically closer to Faroese or Icelandic than it is to Swedish, and since it has been spoken in relative… read moreOther subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Syntax of Multiple-que Sentences in Spanish: Along the left periphery
Julio Villa-García
Complementizers offer a window into the architecture of the left-periphery and further our understanding of the demarcation of the boundaries between the C(omplementizer) and T(ense) domains. Using the articulated left-periphery as a laboratory and Spanish constructions featuring more than one… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2] 2015. xv, 274 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Time and Emergence in Grammar: Dislocation, topicalization and hanging topic in French talk-in-interaction
Simona Pekarek Doehler, Elwys De Stefani and Anne-Sylvie Horlacher
This monograph examines how language contributes to the social coordination of actions in talk-in-interaction. Focusing on a set of frequently used constructions in French (left-dislocation, right-dislocation, topicalization, and hanging topic), the study provides an empirically rich contribution… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 28] 2015. x, 275 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics
Edited by Johanneke Caspers, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten
Above and Beyond the Segments presents a unique collection of experimental linguistic and phonetic research. Mainly, it deals with the experimental approach to prosodic, and more specifically melodic, aspects of speech. But it also treats segmental phonetics and phonology, second language… read more[Not in series, 189] 2014. xii, 363 pp.
Other subjects Phonetics | Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
Adjectives in Germanic and Romance
Edited by Petra Sleeman, Freek Van de Velde and Harry Perridon
Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate syntactic and morphological category, the syntax, morphology, and interpretation of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 212] 2014. vii, 286 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Advances in the Syntax of DPs: Structure, agreement, and case
Edited by Anna Bondaruk, Gréte Dalmi and Alexander Grosu
The contributions in this volume are devoted to various aspects of the internal and external syntax of DPs in a wide variety of languages belonging to the Slavic, Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Semitic and Germanic language families. In particular, the papers address questions related to the internal and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 217] 2014. xvii, 320 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Bavarian Syntax: Contributions to the theory of syntax
Edited by Günther Grewendorf and Helmut Weiß
Dialect syntax has proven to be an invaluable data source for theoretical syntax, and theoretical syntax has provided useful analytical tools for uncovering fascinating grammatical properties of dialects. In the 1980s, the assumption that there must be more than one structural position in the left… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 220] 2014. vi, 339 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics
Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives
Edited by Laura Visapää, Jyrki Kalliokoski and Helena Sorva
Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives is a collection of articles that approaches linguistic subordination as a semantico-grammatical and pragmatic phenomenon. The volume brings together cognitive, interactional and typological perspectives, and is… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 249] 2014. viii, 288 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology | Uralic languages
Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns
Edited by Kristin Davidse, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte
The studies in this volume approach English grammatical patterns in novel ways by interrogating corpora, focusing on patterns in the verb phrase (tense, aspect and modality), the noun phrase (intensification and focus marking), complementation structures and clause combining. Some studies… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 63] 2014. viii, 358 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics
Cross-linguistic Investigations of Nominalization Patterns
Edited by Ileana Paul
The chapters in this volume address current topics in the morphology, syntax, and semantics of nominalizations, drawing on a range of typologically and geographically diverse languages. Nominalizations represent a long-standing puzzle to linguists: How is a noun, such as destruction, related to the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 210] 2014. xiii, 217 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Dependency Linguistics: Recent advances in linguistic theory using dependency structures
Edited by Kim Gerdes, Eva Hajičová and Leo Wanner
This volume offers the reader a unique possibility to obtain a concise introduction to dependency linguistics and to learn about the current state of the art in the field. It unites the revised and extended versions of the linguistically-oriented papers to the First International Conference on… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 215] 2014. xi, 355 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
The Diachrony of Negation
Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti
Despite intensive research, negation remains elusive. Its expression across languages, its underlying cognitive mechanisms, its development across time, and related phenomena, such as negative polarity and negative concord, leave many unresolved issues of both a definitional and a substantive… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 160] 2014. v, 258 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Discourse Segmentation in Romance Languages
Edited by Salvador Pons Bordería
This volume gathers together for the first time contributions from the most relevant approaches in discourse segmentation developed in the last fifteen years in Romance languages. All these approaches share the assumption that discourses (either oral or written) can be fully divided into units and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 250] 2014. v, 276 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Educated Fiji English: Lexico-grammar and variety status
Lena Zipp
This volume contains a comprehensive corpus-based study of prepositional constructions in written Fiji English. It explores the endo- and exonormative dynamics of norm-giving and norm-developing varieties and contributes to our understanding of structural nativization and variety formation in a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G47] 2014. xvii, 230 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax
Hiroki Narita
Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax puts forward a novel theory of syntax that rigidly adheres to the principle of Minimal Computation, in which a number of traditional but extraneous stipulations such as referential indices and representational labels/projections are eliminated. It… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 218] 2014. xii, 268 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm
Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli
This volume brings together articles by some major figures in various linguistics domains — phonology, morphology and syntax — aiming at explaining the form of linguistic items by exploring the structures that underlie them.The book is divided in 5 parts: vowels, syllables, templates,… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 12] 2014. vii, 377 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics | Morphology | Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
Frames, constructions, and computation
Edited by Lars Borin, Gerard de Melo, Karin Friberg Heppin and Tiago Timponi Torrent
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 6:1 (2014) v, 135 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic
Edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau
This is the first of three volumes dealing with clausal architecture, grammatical relations, case-marking and the syntax–semantics interface in Baltic. It focuses on the grammatical relations of subject and object and the viability of these notions in languages like Lithuanian and Latvian, which… read more[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 1] 2014. vii, 370 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Grammaticalization – Theory and Data
Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Ekkehard König
Since the 1980s theories and studies of grammaticalization have provided a major source of inspiration for the description and explanation of language change, giving rise to many publications and conferences. This collection presents original, empirical studies that explore various facets of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 162] 2014. viii, 293 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Idiomatic Constructions in Italian: A Lexicon-Grammar approach
Simonetta Vietri
This study is devoted to the analysis of Italian idioms with either ordinary or support verbs (also called light verbs). The research focuses on the exhaustive description of idioms, and is based on their systematic classification according to the principles of the Lexicon-Grammar methodology… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 31] 2014. vi, 259 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Kristin Bech and Kristine Gunn Eide
The contributions of this volume offer new perspectives on the relation between syntax and information structure in the history of Germanic and Romance languages, focusing on English, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. In… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 213] 2014. vii, 421 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Intersubjectivity and Intersubjectification in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical and descriptive advances
Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde
Recent years saw a growing interest in the study of subjectivity, as the linguistic expression of speaker involvement. Intersubjectivity, defined by Traugott as "the linguistic expression of a speaker/writer's attention to the hearer/reader", on the other hand, has so far received little explicit… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 65] 2014. vi, 161 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Terminology
The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia)
Maïa Ponsonnet
The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia) is the first extensive study of the linguistic encoding of emotions in an Australian language, and further, in an endangered, non-European language. Based on first-hand data collected using innovative methods, the monograph describes and… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 4] 2014. xxvii, 466 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics
Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Andreas Dufter and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta
Since the advent of syntactic cartography, left sentence peripheries have begun to take center stage in linguistic research. Following the lead of Rizzi (1997), much work on left peripheries has been focused on Italian, whereas other Romance languages have attracted somewhat less attention. This… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 214] 2014. viii, 423 pp.
The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages
Edited by Pritha Chandra and Richa Srishti
The present collection offers fresh perspectives on the lexicon-syntax interface, drawing on novel data from South Asian languages like Bangla, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, Kannada, Malayalam, Manipuri, Punjabi, and Telugu. It covers different phenomena like adjectives, nominal phrases, ditransitives,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 209] 2014. vii, 275 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces
Edited by Peter Kosta, Steven L. Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork and Lilia Schürcks
The Minimalist Program is just that, a “program”. It is a challenge for syntacticians to reexamine the constructs of their models and ask what is minimally needed in order to accomplish the essential task of syntax – interfacing between form and meaning. This volume pushes Minimalism to its… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 11] 2014. vi, 423 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Morphology and its interfaces: Syntax, semantics and the lexicon
Edited by Dany Amiot, Delphine Tribout, Natalia Grabar, Cédric Patin and Fayssal Tayalati
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 37:2 (2014) vi, 168 pp.
Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs
Artemis Alexiadou
This book is a research monograph that investigates the crosslinguistic distribution of multiple determiners. In some languages, noun phrases permit or even seem to require a double or multiple realization of definite/indefinite markers in certain modification environments. The book develops tools… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 211] 2014. xi, 134 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Non-Nuclear Cases
Edited by Nicole Delbecque, Karen Lahousse and Willy Van Langendonck
In contrast with the central arguments of the event structure, which have been extensively studied, much less attention has been given to non-arguments. To bridge this gap, the present volume focuses on prepositional and adverbial phrases expressing instrumental, causal, spatial, temporal roles and… read more[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 6] 2014. xii, 328 pp.
Other subjects 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Old Northumbrian Verbal Morphosyntax and the (Northern) Subject Rule
Marcelle Cole
This volume provides both a quantitative statistical and qualitative analysis of Late Northumbrian verbal morphosyntax as recorded in the Old English interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels. It focuses in particular on the attestation of the subject type and adjacency constraints that… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 25] 2014. xvii, 286 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Paradigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Walter Bisang
This book is concerned with comparing morphological paradigms between languages in order to establish areal and genealogical relationships. The languages in focus are the Transeurasian languages: Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages. World-eminent experts in diachronic… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 161] 2014. xix, 345 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology
Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context: Studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht
Edited by Stacey Katz Bourns and Lindsy L. Myers
In this tribute to Knud Lambrecht, a pioneer of Information Structure, a diverse group of scholars examines the intersection of syntax, discourse, pragmatics, and semantics. The six chapters in the first section of the volume consider issues of grammar with new theoretical and applied insights,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 244] 2014. xv, 244 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Reflections on Constructions across Grammars
Edited by Martin Hilpert and Jan-Ola Östman
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 6:2 (2014) v, 201 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Requesting in Social Interaction
Edited by Paul Drew and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
There has been a remarkable revival of interest in how we conduct social actions in interaction – particularly in requesting, where recent research into video-recorded face-to-face interaction has taken our understanding in novel directions. This collection brings together some of the latest,… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 26] 2014. x, 371 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Francisco Gonzálvez-García
The chapters in this book show how the different flavors of Construction Grammar provide illuminating insights into the syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse-functional properties of specific phenomena in Romance languages such as (Castilian) Spanish, French, Romanian, and Latin from a… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 15] 2014. x, 316 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies
Edited by Tommaso Raso and Heliana Mello
The authors of this book share a common interest in the following topics: the importance of corpora compilation for the empirical study of human language; the importance of pragmatic categories such as emotion, attitude, illocution and information structure in linguistic theory; and a passionate… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 61] 2014. vii, 498 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Phonology | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Structuring the Argument: Multidisciplinary research on verb argument structure
Edited by Asaf Bachrach, Isabelle Roy and Linnaea Stockall
While the argument structure of verbs has long been a central issue in linguistic research of all varieties and continues to be a vexed area of research across a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches, the inter-disciplinary perspective and dialogue remain largely under explored. This… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 10] 2014. vii, 205 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Symmetry Breaking in Syntax and the Lexicon
Leah S. Bauke
This book is a research monograph that explores the implications of the strongest minimalist thesis from an antisymmetric perspective. Three empirical domains are investigated: nominal root compounds in German and English, nominal gerunds in English and their German counterparts, and small clauses… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 216] 2014. xi, 304 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language
Edited by Kaori Kabata and Tsuyoshi Ono
This volume brings together papers that take usage-based approaches to study the nature of human language, with a focus on the grammar of Japanese. The 12 chapters provide a rich array of data and methodologies, with topics ranging from phonology, modality, and grammatical morphemes, to sentential… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 156] 2014. ix, 308 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Weak Referentiality
Edited by Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts
This volume brings together studies in the domain of weak referentiality, the phenomenon that a definite or indefinite noun phrase lacks its usual referential force. Several papers investigate syntactic or semantic properties of indefinite noun phrases, such as modality, number neutrality, narrow… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 219] 2014. xii, 390 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Word Classes: Nature, typology and representations
Edited by Raffaele Simone and Francesca Masini
The universal and typological status of the notion of word class — closely related to part-of-speech systems, morphology, syntax and the lexicon-syntax interface — continues to be of major linguistic theoretical interest. The papers included in this volume offer a fresh look at the variety of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 332] 2014. vii, 293 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Word Formation in South American Languages
Edited by Swintha Danielsen, Katja Hannss and Fernando Zúñiga
This volume focuses on word formation processes in smaller and so far underrepresented indigenous languages of South America. The data for the analyses have been mainly collected in the field by the authors. The several language families described here, among them Arawakan, Takanan, and Guaycuruan,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 163] 2014. v, 228 pp.
Other subjects Languages of South America | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of Ergativity
Edited by Edith L. Bavin and Sabine Stoll
Ergativity is one of the main challenges both for linguistic and acquisition theories. This book is unique, taking a cross-linguistic approach to the acquisition of ergativity in a large variety of typologically distinct languages. The chapters cover languages from different families and from… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 9] 2013. v, 341 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of the German Case System by Foreign Language Learners
Kristof Baten
This is the first book on the acquisition of the German case system by foreign language learners. It explores how learners in their interlanguage progress from the total absence to the presence of a case system. This development is characterized by an evolvement from marking the argument’s position… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 2] 2013. xvii, 304 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Adverbes et compléments adverbiaux / Adverbs and adverbial complements
Edited by Jan Radimský and Ignazio Mauro Mirto
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 36:2 (2013) v, 149 pp.
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 13: Papers from the 2011 Lund conference
Edited by Johan Brandtler, Valéria Molnár and Christer Platzack
This volume brings together ten papers presented at the 10th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Lund, 2011). The papers cover a broad field of issues in Hungarian relating to phonetics, phonology, semantics, syntax and pragmatics, such as vowel harmony, particle verb… read more[Approaches to Hungarian, 13] 2013. v, 254 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Autour des verbes: Constructions et interprétations
Sous la direction de Kozué Ogata
Le présent recueil rassemble douze études consacrées à des problèmes de syntaxe verbale et à certains faits fondamentaux de lexique et de grammaire. Au-delà de la diversité des approches, l'originalité de l'ouvrage tient au fait que les contributions concernent plusieurs phénomènes peu ou pas… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 29] 2013. x, 252 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Casebook in Functional Discourse Grammar
Edited by J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Hella Olbertz
This book provides ten case studies in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), a typologically-oriented theory of the organization of natural languages that has risen to prominence in recent years. The authors, all committed practitioners of FDG, include Kees Hengeveld, the intellectual father of the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 137] 2013. ix, 313 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Challenging Clitics
Edited by Christine Meklenborg Salvesen and Hans Petter Helland
Challenging Clitics deals with multiple sides of cliticisation from different theoretical frameworks and with data from a number of different languages. Unlike many other books on clitics where clitics are considered from a mere syntactical point of view, this book also discusses the acquisition of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 206] 2013. vii, 315 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Chinese Grammar at Work
Shuanfan Huang
Chinese Grammar at Work adopts a cognitive-functional approach and uses a corpus-based methodology to examine how Chinese syntax emerges from natural discourse context and what the evolving grammar at work looks like. In this volume the author weaves together an array of fresh perspectives on… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 1] 2013. xii, 458 pp.
Other subjects Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
The Clause Structure of Wolof: Insights into the Left Periphery
Harold Torrence
This volume investigates the clausal syntax of Wolof, an understudied Atlantic language of Senegal. The goals of the work are descriptive, analytical, and comparative, with a focus on the structure of the left periphery and left peripheral phenomena. The book includes detailed examination of the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 198] 2013. xiii, 289 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Other African languages | Theoretical linguistics
Cleft Structures
Edited by Katharina Hartmann and Tonjes Veenstra
The phenomenon of clefts is beyond doubt a golden oldie. It has captivated linguists of different disciplines for decades. The fascination arises from the unique syntax of clefts in interaction with their pragmatic and semantic interpretation. Clefts structure sentences according to the information… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 208] 2013. viii, 348 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Culture, Interaction and Person Reference in an Australian Language: An ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication
Murray Garde
The study of person reference stands at the cross-roads of linguistics, anthropology and psychology. As one aspect of an ethnography of communication, this book deals with a single problem — how one knows who is being talked about in conversation — from a rich and varied ethnographic perspective.… read more[Culture and Language Use, 11] 2013. xx, 274 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Australian languages | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition: The Multiple Constraints Hypothesis
Anke Lenzing
Shortlisted for the Christopher Brumfit Award in Applied Linguistics.The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition focuses on the acquisition process of early L2 learners. It is based on the following key hypothesis: the initial mental grammatical system of L2… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 3] 2013. xx, 280 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects
Edited by Ilja A. Seržant and Leonid Kulikov
This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal mechanisms and triggers for various changes that non-canonical subjects undergo, ranging from semantic motivations to purely structural… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 140] 2013. xxv, 364 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs
Edited by Folke Josephson and Ingmar Söhrman
This volume applies a diachronic perspective to the verb and mainly deals with typological change affecting tense, aspect, mood and modality in a variety of Indo-European languages (Latin, Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Hittite, and Semitic) and the non-Indo-European Turkic,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 134] 2013. viii, 443 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: Categorization and description
Edited by Liesbeth Degand, Bert Cornillie and Paola Pietrandrea
Discourse markers and modal particles are fuzzy linguistic categories that are difficult to describe. The contributions in this volume go beyond this statement. They discuss the intersection between modal particles and discourse markers and examine whether or not it is possible to draw a line… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 234] 2013. v, 239 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams
Edited by Misha Becker, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman
The articles of this collection cover a wide range of formal syntactic and semantic phenomena. The focus is on a broad array of developmental syntactic phenomena, including topics in Argument Structure and Clause-Internal Syntax, the DP Domain and Learning Theory. In total, the contents of the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 54] 2013. vi, 358 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Grammaticalization and First Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic perspectives
Edited by Dominique Bassano-Bonhommo and Maya Hickmann †
Grammaticalization and lexicalization are at the heart of first language acquisition. Understanding how these processes begin and evolve is a major challenge for current theories and has implications for applications in teaching or clinical contexts. This volume examines the relative weight of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 50] 2013. v, 187 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Information Structure and Agreement
Edited by Victoria Camacho-Taboada, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González and Mariano Reyes-Tejedor
This collection consists of thirteen contributions focusing on the latest trends of information structure and agreement, couched in the most current developments of Minimalism, Cartography, and Optimality. Some chapters focus on the syntax of information structure in relation with the position… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 197] 2013. vi, 376 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Linking Constructions into Functional Linguistics: The role of constructions in grammar
Edited by Brian Nolan and Elke Diedrichsen
There is a growing awareness of the significance of constructions in grammar in the world’s languages. To date there has not been a single volume that addresses the issues of constructions within a functional Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) account. The book is a collection of articles that will… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 145] 2013. xix, 335 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Metaphors in Learner English
Susan Nacey
This volume presents results from a corpus-based investigation into the metaphorical production of foreign language learners, comparing texts written by Norwegian (L2) learners of English with those written by British (L1) students. Three types of questions are addressed. The first has empirically… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 2] 2013. xi, 279 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognitive linguistics | English linguistics | Multilingualism
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond
Edited by Johannes Kabatek and Albert Wall
This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determination. Combining insights from different theoretical backgrounds and extending the empirical coverage of bare noun phenomena, the ten… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 141] 2013. v, 334 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Patterns in Contrast
Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling
Combining the fields of phraseology and contrastive analysis, this book describes how patterns, defined as recurrent word-combinations with semantic unity, behave cross-linguistically. As the contrastive approach adopted in the book relies on translations and a bidirectional corpus model, the first… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 58] 2013. xiv, 257 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase
Edited by Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Giurgea
Based on recent research in formal linguistics, this volume provides a thorough description of the whole system of Romanian Noun Phrases, understood in an extended sense, that is, in addition to nouns, pronouns and determiners, it examines all the adnominal phrases: genitive-marked DPs, adjectives,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 207] 2013. xxviii, 900 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Syntactic Variation and Verb Second: A German dialect in Northern Italy
Federica Cognola
This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Mòcheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy. Basing her study on detailed new data collected during extensive fieldwork, and focusing on finite verb movement; on multiple access to the left periphery;… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 201] 2013. xii, 325 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Syntax of Tuki: A cartographic approach
Edmond Biloa
This monograph conducts a syntactic study of Tuki, a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon, from a cartographic perspective. The following domains are meticulously explored: The Complementizer Domain, the Inflectional Domain and the Verbal Domain. This study reveals that there is a relative phrase… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 203] 2013. xxv, 611 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Other African languages | Theoretical linguistics
A Syntax of the Nivkh Language: The Amur dialect
Vladimir P. Nedjalkov and Galina A. Otaina
This volume, originally published in Russian in 2012, is one of the few larger works on Nivkh (Gilyak), an underinvestigated endangered Paleosiberian language-isolate, that have appeared lately. It is a descriptive grammar based on extensive language data and supplemented with the authors’… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 139] 2013. xxx, 396 pp.
Other subjects Linguistics of isolated languages
The Syntax–Prosody Interface: A cartographic perspective with evidence from Italian
Giuliano Bocci
This book presents an experimental and theoretical investigation of the interplay between information structure, word order alternations, and prosody in Italian. Left/right dislocations, focus fronting, and other reordering phenomena are analyzed, taking into account their morphosyntactic and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 204] 2013. ix, 213 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Phonology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Understanding Interfaces: Second language acquisition and first language attrition of Spanish subject realization and word order variation
Laura Domínguez
By combining theoretical analysis and empirical investigation, this monograph investigates the status of interfaces in Minimalist linguistic theory, second language acquisition and native language attrition. Two major questions are currently under debate: (1) what exactly makes a linguistic… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 55] 2013. xx, 267 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Units of Talk – Units of Action
Edited by Beatrice Szczepek Reed and Geoffrey Raymond
In this volume leading academics in Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis consider the notion of units for the study of language and interaction. Amongst the issues being explored are the role and relevance of traditionally accepted linguistic units for the analysis of naturally… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 25] 2013. vi, 378 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Ute Texts
Compiled and edited by T. Givón
This second volume of our Ute trilogy contains a collection of Ute oral texts. Ute oral literature reflects the life experience of a small-scale hunting-and-gathering Society of Intimates and its tight connection to the local terrain, flora and fauna that supported the hunter-gatherer life. Ute… read more[Culture and Language Use, 7] 2013. xvi, 333 pp.
Other subjects Language documentation | Languages of North America | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Clefts and their Relatives
Matthew Reeve
Cleft constructions have long presented an analytical challenge for syntactic theory. This monograph argues that clefts and related constructions cannot be analysed in a straightforwardly compositional manner. Instead, it proposes that the locality conditions on modification (for example by a… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 185] 2012. xiii, 223 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative: With special reference to Japanese imperatives
Hidemitsu Takahashi
This volume offers the first comprehensive description of English imperatives made from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. It proposes a new way of explaining the meaning and function of the imperative independently of illocutionary act classifications, which allows for quantifying the strength of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 35] 2012. xvii, 242 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art
Edited by Peter Ackema, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest for syntactic theory… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 191] 2012. xvi, 418 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Constructions in French
Edited by Myriam Bouveret and Dominique Legallois
The book Constructions in French is the first collected volume to focus on French syntax from a constructionist perspective. It has been written with two kinds of readers in mind: for readers interested in the relationship between the French linguistic tradition and cognitive linguistics, and for… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 13] 2012. vi, 287 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Defective Copy Theory of Movement: Evidence from wh-constructions in Cape Verdean Creole
Nélia Alexandre
Within the framework of Chomsky’s Principles and Parameters Theory and the Minimalist Program, this work presents a detailed discussion of the different types of wh-question formation and relativization strategies in Cape Verdean Creole (Santiago variety), especially focusing on wh-movement of PPs.… read more[Creole Language Library, 41] 2012. xvi, 249 pp.
Other subjects Creole studies | Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
In light of recent generative minimalism, and comparative parametric theory of language variation, the book investigates key features and parameters of Arabic grammar. Part I addresses morpho-syntactic and semantic interfaces in temporality, aspectuality, and actionality, including the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 182] 2012. xx, 358 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Latin Embedded Clauses: The left periphery
Lieven Danckaert
This monograph is one of the first studies that approaches Latin syntax from a formal perspective, combining detailed corpus-based description with formal theoretical analysis. The empirical focus is word order in embedded clauses, with special attention to clauses in which one or more constituents… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 184] 2012. xviii, 368 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons
Edited by Lobke Aelbrecht, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye
Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons takes the study of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) into the 21st century, without neglecting the origins of the topic. It brings together work by both established and up-and-coming scholars, who present analyses for a wide range of MCP, from a variety of languages,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 190] 2012. vi, 433 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Make Peace and Take Victory: Support verb constructions in Old English in comparison with Old Irish
Patricia Ronan
This corpus-based study examines the use of support verb constructions in Old English and Old Irish. It determines in how far these constructions can be seen as a means to offer semantic specification of existing verbal expressions. The study further investigates whether support verb constructions… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 24] 2012. xiv, 251 pp.
Other subjects Celtic languages | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith and Anne Zribi-Hertz
This is a new contribution to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Reiteration is meant to denote any situation where the same form occurs (at least) twice within the boundaries of some linguistic domain. By including two case studies bearing on Hebrew and… read more[Creole Language Library, 43] 2012. vii, 287 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Of Grammar, Words, and Verses: In honor of Carlos Piera
Edited by Esther Torrego
This book offers new work by some major figures in the field of linguistics, addressing old debates from the perspective of current explanatory grammatical theory. These include paradigmatic relations among words, and agreeing adjectives and their grammatical source. Covering a broad range of… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 8] 2012. xi, 272 pp.
Other subjects 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Optimizing Adverb Positions
Eva Engels
Adverb positions vary within a single language as well as across diverse languages. Based on the study of adverbs in English, French and German, this monograph shows that the distribution of adverbs is influenced by various factors at distinct levels of linguistic representation – comprising… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 181] 2012. xiv, 347 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Passive in Japanese: A cartographic minimalist approach
Tomoko Ishizuka
This book describes and analyzes the passive voice system in Japanese within the framework of generative grammar. By unifying different types of passives conventionally distinguished within the literature, the book advances a simple minimalist account where various passive characteristics emerge… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 192] 2012. xv, 249 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives
Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller and Ingrid van Alphen
Research on quotation has yielded a rich and diverse knowledge-base. Scientific interest has been sparked particularly by the recent emergence of new quotative forms in typologically related and unrelated languages (i.e. English be like, Hebrew kazé, Japanese mitai-na).The present collection gives… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 15] 2012. xxx, 296 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Typology
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview
Edited by Bernard Comrie and Zarina Estrada-Fernández
Patterns of relative clause formation tend to vary according to the typological properties of a language. Highly polysynthetic languages tend to have fully nominalized relative clauses and no relative pronouns, while other typologically diverse languages tend to have relative clauses which are… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 102] 2012. xiii, 307 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Languages of South America | Typology
Relative Clauses in Time and Space: A case study in the methods of diachronic typology
Rachel Hendery
This book presents a comprehensive survey of historically attested relative clause constructions from a diachronic typological perspective. Systematic integration of historical data and a typological approach demonstrates how typology and historical linguistics can each benefit from attention to… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 101] 2012. xii, 281 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
SMS Communication: A linguistic approach
Edited by Louise-Amélie Cougnon and Cédrick Fairon
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 35:2 (2012) viii, 261 pp.
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew
Ron Kuzar
Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew offers an innovative perspective on sentential syntax, in which sentence patterns are introduced as constructions within the general framework of Construction Grammar. Drawing on naturally occurring data collected from the Internet, the study challenges the… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 12] 2012. xvii, 254 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Germanic linguistics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Syntax of Spoken Indian English
Claudia Lange
This book offers an in-depth analysis of several features of spoken Indian English that are generally considered as ‘typical’, but have never before been studied empirically. Drawing on authentic spoken data from the International Corpus of English, Indian component, the book focuses on the domain… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G45] 2012. xv, 265 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on interfaces
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
The theoretical proposals brought forward in this book as well as the results from the reported experimental studies present genuine contributions to the biolinguistic program. The papers contribute to our understanding of the properties of the computations and the representations derived by the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 194] 2012. vi, 367 pp
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Psycholinguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, typology and function
Edited by Evan Kidd
Explaining the acquisition and processing of relative clauses has long challenged psycholinguistics researchers. The current volume presents a collection of chapters that consider the acquisition of relative clauses with a particular focus on function, typology, and language processing. A diverse… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 8] 2011. viii, 244 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Adjective Complementation: An empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses
Ilka Mindt
This is the first empirical study to focus on adjectives complemented by that-clauses. The in-depth analysis of more than 50,000 cases taken from the British National Corpus gives comprehensive insights into hitherto neglected relations of lexis and grammar. The result of this corpus-driven study… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 42] 2011. vii, 238 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Advances in Frame Semantics
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 3:1 (2011) v, 154 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
Adverbials and the Phase Model
Petr Biskup
This monograph addresses two issues, phases and adverbials. It proposes that there is a correlation between the phase structure, the tripartite quantificational structure and the information structure of the sentence. This correlation plays an important role not only in referential and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 177] 2011. ix, 235 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 12: Papers from the 2009 Debrecen Conference
Edited by Tibor Laczkó and Catherine O. Ringen
This volume contains eight papers, all presented at the 9th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (University of Debrecen, 2009), addressing a great variety of topics in the syntax, morphology, phonology, and semantics of Hungarian, and also offering discussion of related phenomena… read more[Approaches to Hungarian, 12] 2011. x, 242 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Bidirectional Optimality Theory
Edited by Anton Benz and Jason Mattausch
Bidirectional Optimality Theory (BiOT) emerged at the turn of the millennium as a fusion of Radical Pragmatics and Optimality Theoretic Semantics. It stirred a wealth of new research in the pragmatics‑semantics interface and heavily influenced e.g. the development of evolutionary and game theoretic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 180] 2011. v, 279 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Case-Marking in Contact: The development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol
Felicity Meakins
Until recently, mixed languages were considered an oddity of contact linguistics, with debates about whether or not they actually existed stifling much descriptive work or discussion of their origins. These debates have shifted from questioning their existence to a focus on their formation, and… read more[Creole Language Library, 39] 2011. xxi, 311 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Causatives in Minimalism
Mercedes Tubino-Blanco
This monograph studies issues of current minimalist concern, such as whether differences in the expression of argument and syntactic structure can all be attributed to the parameterization of specific functional heads. In particular, this book studies in-depth the extent to which variation in the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 179] 2011. xx, 294 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Complex Predicates: The syntax-morphology interface
Leila Lomashvili
Complex predicates present different levels of complexity at the syntactic and morphological levels crosslinguistically. The focus of this book is a subset of these constructions (causative and applicative) in three polysynthetic languages of the South Caucasian language family, in which the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 174] 2011. xi, 190 pp.
Other subjects Caucasian languages | Generative linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Connecting Grammaticalisation
Jens Nørgård-Sørensen, Lars Heltoft and Lene Schøsler
This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. What unites morphology, topology (word… read moreOther subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Constraints on Displacement: A phase-based approach
Gereon Müller
This monograph sets out to derive the effects of standard constraints on displacement like the Minimal Link Condition (MLC) and the Condition on Extraction Domain (CED) from more basic principles in a minimalist approach. Assuming that movement via phase edges is possible only in the presence of… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 7] 2011. x, 339 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Development of Grammar: Language acquisition and diachronic change. In honour of Jürgen M. Meisel
Edited by Esther Rinke and Tanja Kupisch
This volume focuses on different aspects of language development. The contributions are concerned with similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition, the acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories, cross-linguistic influence in bilingual first language… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 11] 2011. viii, 414 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
The Japanese Sentence-Final Particles in Talk-in-Interaction
Hideki Saigo
The Japanese sentence-final particles, ne, yo and yone have proved notoriously difficult to explain and are especially challenging for second language users. This book investigates the role of the particles in talk-in-interaction with the aim of providing a comprehensive understanding that accounts… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 205] 2011. xiv, 281 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence
Edited by Bob de Jonge and Yishai Tobin
This volume further elaborates the empirical tradition of Columbia School (CS) Linguistics by offering diverse empirical analyses for a wide variety of languages. These studies open a much needed debate advocating the necessity of the independent validation of linguistic hypotheses. This research… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 64] 2011. vi, 299 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics
Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives
Edited by Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona
Research on nominalization, a process that gives rise to referring expressions, has always played a central role in linguistic investigations. Over the years there has also been growing evidence that nominalization constructions often extend to non-referential domains. They participate in… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 96] 2011. xvii, 796 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and change
Edited by Petra Sleeman and Harry Perridon
One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likely that each 'average European' language developed a definite article all by itself, without any influence from neighbouring languages. It… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 171] 2011. vii, 283 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu: The syntax of discourse-driven movement
Emily Manetta
This research monograph is an investigation of wh-movement and wh-expletive constructions in the Indic languages Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu. It advances a novel theory of the periphery, or the clausal positions that mediate A-bar movement. In particular, a detailed study of wh-expletives and… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 4] 2011. ix, 160 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XXII–XXIII: College Park, Maryland, 2008 and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2009
Edited by Ellen Broselow and Hamid Ouali
The present volume presents cutting-edge research on Arabic linguistics. It features a set of papers which continue a long tradition of seeking new explanations for familiar or previously undiscovered structural patterns. While the papers illustrate a range of approaches, from formalist to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 317] 2011. xxvi, 295 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock
Edited by Etsuyo Yuasa, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals
This book presents papers in honor of Jerry Sadock’s rich legacy in pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar. Highlights of the pragmatics section include Larry Horn on almost, barely, and assertoric inertia; William Lycan on Sadock’s resolution of the Performadox with truth1 and truth2; and Jay Atlas on… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 176] 2011. xxv, 339 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar
Marco Schilk
This book contains the first in-depth corpus-based description of structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface in Indian English, the largest institutionalized second-language variety of English world-wide. For a set of three ditransitive verbs give, send and offer –collocational… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 46] 2011. xiii, 182 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Studies on German-Language Islands
Edited by Michael T. Putnam
The contributions in this volume present cutting-edge theoretical and structural analyses of issues surrounding German-language islands, or Sprachinseln, throughout the world. The individual topics of study in this volume focus on various aspects of these German-language islands such as (but not… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 123] 2011. xii, 477 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki
The articles in this volume examine the notion of clausal subordination based on English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Japanese conversational data. Some of the articles approach ‘subordination’ in terms of social action, taking into account what participants are doing with their talk,… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 24] 2011. viii, 244 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Subordination in Native South American Languages
Edited by Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken
In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 97] 2011. viii, 315 pp.
Other subjects Languages of South America | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Syntax of the Be-Possessive: Parametric variation and surface diversities
Hakyung Jung
This book is the first attempt to provide a unified account of the be-possessive syntax and its extension to the modal and the perfect constructions in Russian/North Russian within a generative framework. Apparently diverse constructions are construed as deriving from the have/be parameter, which… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 172] 2011. xiii, 269 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Typology of Asian Englishes
Edited by Lisa Lim and Nikolas Gisborne
When considering the structure of New Englishes which have evolved in – multilingual, mostly post-colonial – contexts of Asia (thus, Asian Englishes), the significant factors to be considered are: 1) the variety/ies of the English lexifier that entered the local context; 2) the nature of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 33] 2011. vii, 120 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Typology
Ute Reference Grammar
T. Givón
Ute is a Uto-Aztecan language of the northernmost (Numic) branch, currently spoken on three reservations in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Like many other native languages of Northern America, Ute is severely endangered. This book is part of the effort toward its preservation. Typologically,… read more[Culture and Language Use, 3] 2011. xxiii, 441 pp.
Other subjects Language documentation | Languages of North America | Theoretical linguistics
The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German
Christopher D. Sapp
This research monograph is an empirical and theoretical study of clause-final verbal complexes in the history of German. The book presents corpus studies of Middle High German and Early New High German and surveys of contemporary varieties of German. These investigations of the verbal complex… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 173] 2011. ix, 225 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Appositive Relative Clauses in English: Discourse functions and competing structures
Rudy Loock
This book sheds new light on Appositive Relative Clauses (ARCs), a structure that is generally studied from a merely syntactic point of view, in opposition to Determinative (or Restrictive) Relative Clauses (DRCs). In this volume, ARCs are examined from a discourse/pragmatic point of view,… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 22] 2010. xiii, 232 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Aspect in Grammatical Variation
Edited by James A. Walker
The articles in this edited volume represent a range of approaches to studying the role of verbal aspect in grammatical variation. Issues addressed include: defining the variable context; operationalizing aspectual distinctions as factors conditioning linguistic variation; and the appropriate… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 6] 2010. vi, 150 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics
Edited by Raphael Mercado, Eric Potsdam and Lisa deMena Travis
The Austronesian language family is the largest language family in the world, yet its members are relatively little studied, particularly from a formal perspective. Interestingly, because these languages exhibit typologically unusual properties, they pose important challenges to linguistic theory.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 167] 2010. vii, 379 pp.
Other subjects Austronesian languages | Phonology | 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Chomskyan (R)evolutions
Edited by Douglas A. Kibbee
It is not unusual for contemporary linguists to claim that “Modern Linguistics began in 1957” (with the publication of Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures). Some of the essays in Chomskyan (R)evolutions examine the sources, the nature and the extent of the theoretical changes Chomsky introduced in… read moreOther subjects Generative linguistics | History of 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Clitics in Greek: A minimalist account of proclisis and enclisis
Marios Mavrogiorgos
This monograph investigates the morpho-syntactic and other properties of clitic pronouns in Greek and offers a grammar of proclisis and enclisis in light of Chomsky’s (1995, 2001a, 2005) Minimalist Program. It explores the nature of clitics as syntactic topicalizers which are probed by structurally… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 160] 2010. x, 294 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Other Indo-European languages | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose
Olga Spevak
Latin is a language with variable (so-called 'free') word order. Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose (Caesar, Cicero, and Sallust) presents the first systematic description of its constituent order from a pragmatic point of view. Apart from general characteristics of Latin constituent order,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 117] 2010. xv, 318 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Continuity and Change in Grammar
Edited by Anne Breitbarth, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis
One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the causes of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ‘actuation problem’: why is it that changes occurring in a given language at a certain time cannot be reliably predicted to recur in other… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 159] 2010. viii, 359 pp.
Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar
Edited by Hans C. Boas
The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 10] 2010. vii, 244 pp.
Other subjects 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding
Edited by Sergio Scalise and Irene Vogel
The study of compounds is currently at the center of attention in many areas of both theoretical and applied linguistics. This volume brings together contributions by experts involved in a wide range of such areas, based on a large number of diverse languages – spoken and signed. The fact that… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 311] 2010. viii, 382 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Edges, Heads, and Projections: Interface properties
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Virginia Hill
This collection deals with central issues in the syntax of clauses and their interfaces with the conceptual-intentional system. The book targets the syntactic properties that have an impact on the interpretation of discourse and temporal dependencies, functional fields including CP, pragmatic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 156] 2010. vii, 265 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | 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 | Semantics
Ergativity in Amazonia
Edited by Spike Gildea and Francesc Queixalós
This volume presents a typological/theoretical introduction plus eight papers about ergative alignment in 16 Amazonian languages. All are written by linguists with years of fieldwork and comparative experience in the region, all describe details of the synchronic systems, and several also provide… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 89] 2010. v, 319 pp.
Other subjects Languages of South America | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars
Edited by Michael T. Putnam
The Minimalist Program has advanced a research program that builds the design of human language from conceptual necessity. Seminal proposals by Frampton & Gutmann (1999, 2000, 2002) introduced the notion that an ideal syntactic theory should be ‘crash-proof’. Such a version of the Minimalist… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 3] 2010. xii, 301 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Extraction Asymmetries: Experimental evidence from German
Tanja Kiziak
This monograph addresses divergent views in the linguistic literature on whether German displays the that-trace effect and other subject/object asymmetries commonly found for long extractions in English and other languages. Using newly developed rating methodologies, the author exposes consistent… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 163] 2010. xvi, 273 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders
Edited by Nino Amiridze, Boyd Davis and Margaret Maclagan
Fillers are items that speakers insert in spontaneous speech as a repair strategy. Types of fillers include hesitation markers and placeholders. Both are used to fill pauses that arise during planning problems or in lexical retrieval failure. However, while hesitation markers may not bear any… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 93] 2010. vii, 224 pp.
Other subjects 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research
Edited by An Van linden, Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Kristin Davidse
This collective volume focuses on the crucial role of formal evidence in recognizing and explaining instances of grammaticalization. It addresses the hitherto neglected issue of system-internal factors steering grammaticalization and also revisits formal recognition criteria such as Lehmann and… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 94] 2010. viii, 344 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
French Syntax in Contrast
Edited by Karen Lahousse, Béatrice Lamiroy and Kristel Van Goethem
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 33:2 (2010) vi, 170 pp.
Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale
This volume, which emerged from a workshop at the New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 conference held at KU Leuven in July 2008, contains a collection of papers which investigate the relationship between synchronic gradience and the apparent gradualness of linguistic change, largely from the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 90] 2010. ix, 306 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Grammar and interaction: New directions in constructional research
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 2:2 (2010) v, 151 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
Grammaticalization: Current views and issues
Edited by Katerina Stathi, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König
This volume contains a selection of papers on grammaticalization from a broad perspective. Some of the papers focus on basic concepts in grammaticalization research such as the concept of 'grammar' as the endpoint of grammaticalization processes, erosion, (uni)directionality, the relation between… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 119] 2010. vii, 379 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Grimm Language: Grammar, Gender and Genuineness in the Fairy Tales
Orrin W. Robinson
Grimm Language addresses a number of issues in the Grimms’ fairy tales from a (Germanic) linguist’s point of view. In sections dealing with the Grimms’ use of regional dialect material, various grammatical constructions, and specific nouns and adjectives in their Children’s and Household Tales, the… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 10] 2010. xi, 190 pp.
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Minimalist Interfaces: Evidence from Indonesian and Javanese
Yosuke Sato
This monograph explores the interface between syntax and its related components through in-depth investigation of a sizable portion of the grammar of Indonesian and Javanese. It can be read on two levels. Theoretically, it proposes the minimalist interface thesis that syntax-external linguistic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 155] 2010. xiii, 159 pp.
Other subjects Austronesian languages | Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus: Minimalist inquiries in the Quechua periphery
Liliana Sánchez
This book presents an innovative analysis that relates informational structure, syntax and morphology in Quechua. It provides a minimalist account of the relationship between focus, topic, evidentiality and other left-peripheral features and sentence-internal constituents marked with suffixes that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 169] 2010. xiii, 242 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Languages of South America | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Movement Theory of Control
Edited by Norbert Hornstein and Maria Polinsky
Natural languages offer many examples of “displacement,” i.e. constructions in which a non-local expression is critical for some grammatical end. Two central examples include phenomena such as raising and passive on the one hand, and control on the other. Though each phenomenon is an example of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 154] 2010. vii, 330 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Parts of Speech: Empirical and theoretical advances
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau
Parts of Speech are a central aspect of linguistic theory and analysis. Though a long-established tradition in Western linguistics and philosophy has assumed the validity of Parts of Speech in the study of language, there are still many questions left unanswered. For example, should Parts of Speech… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 25] 2010. vi, 291 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Phase Theory
Ángel J. Gallego
This book provides a detailed and up to date review of the framework of phases (Chomsky 2000 and subsequent work). It explores the interaction between the narrow syntactic computation and the external systems from a minimalist perspective. As has sometimes been noted, Phase Theory is the current… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 152] 2010. xii, 365 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Sentential Form and Prosodic Structure of Catalan
Ingo Feldhausen
This monograph presents an experimental and theoretical inquiry into the role of sentential form and variation in the prosodic structure of Catalan. The empirical section examines intonational phrasing across sentence forms, including SVO structures with either nominal or sentential objects and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 168] 2010. xiii, 285 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Phonology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics
South Slavic Discourse Particles
Edited by Mirjana N. Dedaić and Mirjana Mišković-Luković
Discourse particles, discourse markers and pragmatic markers refer to phenomena that linguists have begun to probe only since the mid-1980s. Long-ignored in traditional linguistics and textbook grammars, and still relegated to marginal status in South Slavic, these linguistic phenomena have emerged… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 197] 2010. ix, 166 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster
Edited by Jan-Wouter Zwart and Mark de Vries
"Structure is at the rock-bottom of all explanatory sciences" (Jan Koster). Forty years ago, the hypothesis that underlying the bewildering variety of syntactic phenomena are general and unified structural patterns of unexpected beauty and simplicity gave rise to major advancements in the study of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 164] 2010. xxiii, 395 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Studies in West Frisian Grammar
Selected papers by Germen J. de Haan
In this volume, Germen de Haan gives a multi-faceted view of the syntax, sociolinguistics, and phonology of West-Frisian. The author discusses distinct aspects of the syntax of verbs in Frisian: finiteness and Verb Second, embedded root phenomena, the verbal complex, verbal complementation, and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 161] 2010. x, 384 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis
Lobke Aelbrecht
This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch. The author makes two main claims: The head selecting the ellipsis site is checked against the head licensing ellipsis in order for ellipsis to occur,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 149] 2010. xii, 230 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation
Susann Fischer
This book presents a new perspective on the interaction between word-order and grammaticalisation by investigating the changes that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have undergone in Romance (Catalan, French, Spanish) as compared to Germanic (English, Icelandic). It discusses a great deal of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 157] 2010. ix, 200 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of French: The development of inflectional morphology and syntax in L1 acquisition, bilingualism, and L2 acquisition
Philippe Prévost
This book presents a thorough description of morphosyntactic knowledge developed by learners of French in four different learning situations — first language (L1) acquisition, second (L2) language acquisition, bilingualism, and acquisition by children with Specific Language Impairment — within the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 51] 2009. xx, 458 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of Word Order: Micro-cues, information structure, and economy
Marit Westergaard
Within a new model of language acquisition, this book discusses verb second (V2) word order in situations where there is variation in the input. While traditional generative accounts consider V2 to be a parameter, this study shows that, in many languages, this word order is dependent on fine… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 145] 2009. xii, 245 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Actes du «27e colloque international sur le lexique et la grammaire» (L'Aquila, 10-13 septembre 2008). Première partie
Sous la direction de Michele De Gioia
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 32:2 (2009) vi, 160 pp.
Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 21st and 22nd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Stuttgart. The contributions provide insightful discussions of several topics of current interest for… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 141] 2009. xv, 395 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 11: Papers from the 2007 New York Conference
Edited by Marcel den Dikken and Robert M. Vago
This volume brings together ten papers, all presented at the 8th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (New York City, 2007), addressing a wide range of topics in the morphology, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, and syntax of Hungarian, with discussion of related facts… read more[Approaches to Hungarian, 11] 2009. ix, 280 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond
Edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins and Adam Smith
This anthology brings together fresh corpus-based research by international scholars. It contrasts southern and northern hemisphere usage on variable elements of morphology and syntax. The nineteen invited papers include topics such as irregular verb parts, pronouns, modal and quasimodal verbs, the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G39] 2009. x, 406 pp.
Complex Processes in New Languages
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Norval Smith
In recent years, there has been a new interest in evaluating ‘complex’ structures in languages. The implications of such studies are varied, e.g., the distinction between supposedly more complex and less complex languages, how complexity relates to human knowledge of language, and the role of the… read more[Creole Language Library, 35] 2009. vii, 409 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics
Contexts and Constructions
Edited by Alexander Bergs and Gabriele Diewald
This collection of original articles focuses on the function, role, and structure of linguistic and extralinguistic “context(s)” in relation to the notion of “constructions” and in construction grammar. It thus takes up and brings together two equally complex concepts of linguistics, which both… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 9] 2009. v, 247 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Correlatives Cross-Linguistically
Edited by Anikó Lipták
This volume brings together recent work in generative syntax on correlative relative constructions. Greatly expanding on the Hindi-oriented scope of previous studies, it describes and analyzes correlative constructions in a range of languages, such as Basque, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Sanskrit,… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 1] 2009. vii, 375 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Cyclical Change
Edited by Elly van Gelderen
Linguistic Cycles are ever present in language change and involve a phrase or word that gradually disappears and is replaced by a new linguistic item. The most well-known cycles involve negatives, where an initial single negative, such as not, is reinforced by another negative, such as no thing,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 146] 2009. viii, 329 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Determiners: Universals and variation
Edited by Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul and Martina Wiltschko
This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrelated languages. It seeks to answer the core question of modern linguistic theory: Which properties of languages are universal and which are… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 147] 2009. vii, 247 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface
Edited by Ute Römer-Barron and Rainer Schulze
This volume showcases studies that recognize and provide evidence for the inseparability of lexis and grammar. The contributors explore in what ways these two areas, often treated separately in linguistic theory and description, form an organic whole. The papers in Section I (Setting the Scene)… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 35] 2009. vi, 321 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Lexicography | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Formulaic Language: Volume 1: Distribution and historical change, Volume 2: Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations. 2 vols. set
Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley
This two volume collection on formulaic language is among the first ones in the field. The authors of the present book represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed are similarly diverse, including languages such as Arabic, Japanese,… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 82-83] 2009. 724 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Lexicography | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Formulaic Language: Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations
Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley
This book is the second of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first in the field. The authors of the papers in this volume represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed come from a… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 83] 2009. xxiv, 361 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Formulaic Language: Volume 1. Distribution and historical change
Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley
This book is the first of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first ones in the field. The book draws attention to the ritualized, repetitive side of language, which to some estimates make up over 50% of spoken and written text. While in the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 82] 2009. xxiv, 315 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, ontogeny, neuro-cognition, evolution
T. Givón
Complex hierarchic syntax is a hallmark of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the evolutionary apex of the uniquely - human language faculty - evolutionary yet mysteriously immune to Darwinian… read more[Not in series, 146] 2009. xviii, 366 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics
Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English: The syntax–pragmatics interface in second language acquisition
Marcus Callies
This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 186] 2009. xviii, 293 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Language acquisition | Pragmatics
The Language of Outsourced Call Centers: A corpus-based study of cross-cultural interaction
Eric Friginal
The Language of Outsourced Call Centers is the first book to explore a large-scale corpus representing the typical kinds of interactions and communicative tasks in outsourced call centers located in the Philippines and serving American customers. The specific goals of this book are to conduct a… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 34] 2009. xxii, 319 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Minimal Answers: Ellipsis, syntax and discourse in the acquisition of European Portuguese
Ana Lúcia Santos
This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the acquisition of the syntax-discourse interface. It provides evidence that children acquiring European Portuguese have a very early ability to spontaneously produce VP ellipsis as answers to yes-no questions. It is also argued that the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 48] 2009. xv, 296 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax
Edited by Jairo Nunes
This collection of papers discusses some of the major syntactic properties of Brazilian Portuguese from a minimalist perspective. The volume focuses on movement and empty category issues and brings new empirical material on a variety of topics (null subjects and finite control, possessive and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 142] 2009. vi, 243 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Motivated Syntax of Arbitrary Signs: Cognitive constraints on Spanish clitic clustering
Erica C. García
This detailed study challenges the claim that syntax is arbitrary and autonomous, as well as the assumption that Spanish clitic clusters constitute grammaticalized units. Diverse--apparently unrelated--restrictions on clitic clustering in both simplex VP's and Accusative cum Infinitive structures… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 61] 2009. xv, 335 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond
Edited by Norbert Cyffer, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer
This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a great diversity of negation patterns, the following… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 87] 2009. vi, 368 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Representational Deficits in SLA: Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins
Edited by Neal Snape, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung and Michael Sharwood Smith
The main focus of this collection is to explore the question of “representational deficits” in second language acquisition, currently a much-debated topic. The volume is intended as a tribute to Roger Hawkins, a leading scholar in generative second language acquisition, whose research has been… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 47] 2009. xxv, 250 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006
Edited by Danièle Torck and W. Leo Wetzels
The annual conference series ‘Going Romance’ has developed into a major European discussion forum where ideas about language and linguistics and about Romance languages in particular are put in an interactive perspective, giving room to both universality and Romance-internal variation. The current… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 303] 2009. viii, 262 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Romance Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15–18 March 2007
Edited by Pascual José Masullo, Erin O'Rourke and Chia-Hui Huang
The present volume includes a selection of twenty-one peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 37th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. The papers cover a range of topics in morphology, syntax, phonology and language acquisition. A… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 304] 2009. vii, 361 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Second Language Acquisition of Articles: Empirical findings and theoretical implications
Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo and Roger Hawkins
The studies in this collection address a topic that has recently become the focus of considerable interest in second language acquisition (SLA) research: the acquisition of articles. Languages appear to vary in whether they have articles (English, German, Norwegian do, but Chinese, Japanese,… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 49] 2009. ix, 272 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution
Edited by T. Givón and Masayoshi Shibatani
Complex hierarchic syntax is considered one of the hallmarks of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the apex of the uniquely-human language faculty – evolutionary but somehow immune to adaptive… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 85] 2009. vi, 553 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Towards a Derivational Syntax: Survive-minimalism
Edited by Michael T. Putnam
This volume explores recent advancements in the Minimalist Program that adopt Stroik’s (1999, 2009) Survive Principle as the principle means of accounting for displacement phenomena in earlier versions of generative theory. These contributions bring to light many advantages and challenges that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 144] 2009. x, 269 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
A Typology of Purpose Clauses
Karsten Schmidtke-Bode
This book presents the first comprehensive typology of purpose clause constructions in the world’s languages. Based on a stratified variety sample of 80 languages, it uncovers the unity and diversity of the morphosyntactic means by which purposive relations are coded, and discusses the status of… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 88] 2009. xii, 229 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Variations on Polysynthesis: The Eskaleut languages
Edited by Marc-Antoine Mahieu and Nicole Tersis
This work is comprised of a set of papers focussing on the extreme polysynthetic nature of the Eskaleut languages which are spoken over the vast area stretching from Far Eastern Siberia, on through the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and Canada, as far as Greenland. The aim of the book is to situate the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 86] 2009. ix, 312 pp.
Other subjects Languages of North America | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen and Wiebke Ramm
The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination – or… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 98] 2008. vi, 359 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | 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 | Semantics | 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 Semantics | 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 Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Bantu–Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure
Edited by Cécile De Cat and Katherine Demuth
This landmark volume is the first work specifically designed to explore the extent to which striking surface morpho-syntactic similarities between Bantu and Romance languages actually represent similar syntactic structures. In particular, it explores the timely and much debated issues of verbal… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 131] 2008. xix, 355 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Other African languages | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Case and Grammatical Relations: Studies in honor of Bernard Comrie
Edited by Greville G. Corbett and Michael Noonan
The papers in this volume can be grouped into two broad, overlapping classes: those dealing primarily with case and those dealing primarily with grammatical relations. With regard to case, topics include descriptions of the case systems of two Caucasian languages, the problems of determining how… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 81] 2008. ix, 290 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages
Edited by Dalina Kallulli and Liliane Tasmowski
This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 130] 2008. ix, 442 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics
Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem, Gabi Danon and Susan Rothstein
This volume presents a collection of specially commissioned papers devoted to analyzing the linguistics of Modern Hebrew from a number of perspectives. Various aspects of Modern Hebrew grammar are discussed including the structure of the lexicon, grammatical features and inflectional morphology, as… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 134] 2008. vii, 393 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective
Edited by Belma Haznedar and Elena Gavruseva
This volume presents recent generative research on the nature of grammars of child second language (L2) acquirers -- a learner population whose exposure to an L2 occurs between the ages of 4 to 8. The main goal is to define child L2 acquisition in relation to other types of acquisition such as… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 46] 2008. vi, 363 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Emergence of Order in Syntax
Jordi Fortuny
The syntactic component of the faculty of language is argued to be a rewiring of a few independently motivated components: features, the conjunction of a successive operation of union-formation (‘Merge’) and of derivational records (‘nests’), and principles of analysis. Since nests linearize… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 119] 2008. viii, 211 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics
Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics: Volume 1: An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Automata, Volume 2: Applications in Linguistic Theory, Volume 3: Psycholinguistic Applications
Willem J.M. Levelt
Almost four decades have passed since Formal Grammars first appeared in 1974. At that time it was still possible to rather comprehensively review for (psycho)linguists the relevant literature on the theory of formal languages and automata, on their applications in linguistic theory and in the… read more[Not in series, 144] 2008. viii, 585 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Germanic Future Constructions: A usage-based approach to language change
Martin Hilpert
This study offers a Construction Grammar approach to the historical development and modern usage of future constructions in English, German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish. On the basis of corpus data, constructions such as English be going to or German werden are analyzed as symbolic units that convey… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 7] 2008. ix, 205 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Grammar and Interaction: Pivots in German conversation
Emma Betz
This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of the structure and communicative use of syntactic pivot constructions in German. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis, this work shows that pivots emerge in interaction in response to local communicative needs.Exclusively found in… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 21] 2008. xiii, 208 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
The Grammar of Repetition: Nupe grammar at the syntax–phonology interface
Jason Kandybowicz
Displacement is a fundamental property of grammar. Typically, when an occurrence moves it is pronounced in only one environment. This was previously viewed as a primitive/irreducible property of grammar. Recent work, however, suggests that it follows from principled interactions between the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 136] 2008. xiii, 168 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Other African languages | Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers
Edited by Thórhallur Eythórsson
This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The overall theme of the volume is ‘internal factors in grammatical change.’ The papers focus on… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 113] 2008. vi, 441 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Historical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Interaction of Morphology and Syntax: Case studies in Afroasiatic
Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay
The present volume deals with hitherto unexplored issues on the interaction of morphology and syntax. These selected and invited papers mainly concern Cushitic and Chadic languages, the least-described members of the Afroasiatic family. Three papers in the volume explore one or more typological… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 75] 2008. v, 234 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Morphology | Typology
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Limits of Syntactic Variation
Edited by Theresa Biberauer
Against the background of the past half century’s typological and generative work on comparative syntax, this volume brings together 16 papers considering what we have learned and may still be able to learn about the nature and extent of syntactic variation. More specifically, it offers a… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 132] 2008. vii, 521 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Locative Alternation: A lexical-constructional approach
Seizi Iwata
The aim of the present volume is two-fold: to give a coherent account of the locative alternation in English, and to develop a constructional theory that overcomes a number of problems in earlier constructional accounts. The lexical-constructional account proposed here is characterized by two main… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 6] 2008. xiv, 239 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | 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 | Semantics | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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 | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XXI: Provo, Utah, March 2007
Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson
This volume contains a selection of reviewed and revised papers from the twenty-first Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, which was held on March 2–3, 2007, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The papers in this volume deal with a variety of topics in Arabic linguistics with a notable… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 301] 2008. x, 206 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Theoretical linguistics
Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction
Edited by Gisella Ferraresi and Maria Goldbach
This is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in the field of syntactic reconstruction. It treats a range of topics which are representative of current debates in historical syntax. The novelty and merit of the present book is, the editors believe, that, in contrast to most previous work on… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 302] 2008. xvii, 219 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Productivity: Evidence from Case and Argument Structure in Icelandic
Jóhanna Barðdal
Productivity of argument structure constructions is a new emerging field within cognitive-functional linguistics. The term productivity as used in linguistic research contains at least three subconcepts: ‘extensibility’, ‘regularity’, and ‘generality’. The focus in this study of case and argument… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 8] 2008. xiii, 209 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives
Edited by María José López-Couso and Elena Seoane
This volume and its companion one Theoretical and empirical issues in grammaticalization offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held in Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. From the rich programme of the conference (over 120… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 76] 2008. x, 355 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Rethinking Grammaticalization. New perspectives & Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization
Edited by María José López-Couso and Elena Seoane
These two volumes offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held in Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. From the rich programme of the conference (over 120 papers), the twelve contributions included in this volume were carefully… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 76-77] 2008. 742 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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 Semantics | 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Syntax of Jamaican Creole: A cartographic perspective
Stephanie Durrleman
This book offers an in-depth study of the overall syntax of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole, the first since Bailey (1966). The author, a Jamaican linguist, meticulously examines distributional and interpretative properties of functional morphology in Jamaican Creole (JC) from a cartographic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 127] 2008. xii, 190 pp.
Other subjects Creole studies | Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization
Edited by Elena Seoane and María José López-Couso
This volume and its companion oneRethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held at the University of Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. The overall aim of the book is to enrich our… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 77] 2008. x, 367 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Verbal Prepositions and Argument Structure: Path, place and possession in Norwegian
Mai Ellin Tungseth
This book investigates different types of verb-PP combinations and examines the types of meanings which arise when the argument structure of the PP fuses with the verbal argument structure. Focussing mainly on data from Norwegian, the book investigates three different empirical domains of PP-VP… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 121] 2008. ix, 187 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Adverb Licensing and Clause Structure in English
Dagmar Haumann
This monograph provides an in-depth investigation of the structural integration and the licensing of adverbs in relation to clause structure, with special emphasis on the structural implementation of the relation between the position and interpretation of adverbs. The book substantiates the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 105] 2007. ix, 435 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics
Argument Structure
Edited by Eric J. Reuland, Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Giorgos Spathas
Recent developments in the generative tradition have created new interest in matters of argument structure and argument projection, giving prominence to the discussion on the role of lexical entries. Particularly, the more traditional lexicalist view that encodes argument structure information on… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 108] 2007. xviii, 243 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics
Beyond Coherence: The syntax of opacity in German
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
The overarching theme of this volume is one of the central concerns of syntactic theory: How local is syntax, and what are the measures of syntactic locality? It is argued here that movement and anaphoric relations are governed by a unified concept of locality: the phase. On an empirical level,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 114] 2007. viii, 206 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Cognitive English Grammar
Günter Radden and René Dirven †
Cognitive English Grammar is designed to be used as a textbook in courses of English and general linguistics. It introduces the reader to cognitive linguistic theory and shows that Cognitive Grammar helps us to gain a better understanding of the grammar of English. The notions of motivation and… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 2] 2007. xiv, 374 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics
The Copy Theory of Movement
Edited by Norbert Corver and Jairo Nunes
This volume brings together papers which address issues regarding the copy theory of movement. According to this theory, a trace is a copy of the moved element that is deleted in the phonological component but is available for interpretation at L(ogical) F(orm). Thus far, the bulk of the research… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 107] 2007. vi, 388 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Experiential Constructions in Yucatec Maya: A typologically based analysis of a functional domain in a Mayan language
Elisabeth Verhoeven
This book combines a fieldwork-based language-specific analysis with a typological investigation. It offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the form and semantics of experiencer constructions in Yucatec, the Mayan language of the Yucatecan peninsula in Mexico. Since the linguistic… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 87] 2007. xiv, 380 pp.
Other subjects Typology
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing
Edited by Christopher S. Butler, Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López
This book, a tribute to Angela Downing, consists of twenty papers taking a broadly functional perspective on language, with topics ranging from the general (grammar as an evolutionary product, text comprehension, integrative linguistics) to particular aspects of the grammars of languages… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 85] 2007. xxx, 481 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
The Grammar–Pragmatics Interface: Essays in honor of Jeanette K. Gundel
Edited by Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski
This collection of papers celebrates the work of Jeanette K. Gundel, who has contributed to the field of the grammar-pragmatics interface through her publications on the syntactic realization of topic and comment and the cognitive status of referring expressions, as well as by inspiring colleagues… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 155] 2007. viii, 345 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies in honour of Frits Beukema
Edited by Wim van der Wurff
This volume contains ten articles exploring a wide range of issues in the analysis of the imperative clause from a generative perspective. The language data investigated in detail in the articles come from Dutch, English, German, (old) Scandinavian, Spanish, and South Slavic; there is further… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 103] 2007. viii, 352 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Insistent Images
Edited by Elżbieta Tabakowska, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer
Insistent Images presents a number of new departures dealing with iconicity on the conceptual and the structural levels. On the level of structure, the interface between different aspects of iconicity, lexical meaning and grammar is discussed in reference to both spoken and signed languages. Novel… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 5] 2007. xiii, 361 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages: Essays in honour of K. A. Jayaseelan
Edited by Josef Bayer, Tanmoy Bhattacharya and M.T. Hany Babu
The South Asian languages, mainly Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, have become a focus of interest in the formal study of language as a natural consequence of the research program of the Principle and Parameters approach and an enforced interest in exploring the parametrical space of human language. The… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 102] 2007. x, 282 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Locality and Information Structure: A cartographic approach to Japanese
Yoshio Endo
This monograph presents a systematic exploration of Japanese syntax within the cartographic approach, paying special attention to the locality effects induced by discourse-based features such as topic and focus. Although the main focus is on Japanese syntax, implications of the analyses developed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 116] 2007. x, 235 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form: Scrambling in the Germanic languages
Gema Chocano
‘Scrambling’, the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic ‘Object Shift’. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 109] 2007. x, 333 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Typology
Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach
Edited by Marlyse Baptista and Jacqueline Guéron
This volume offers a thorough examination of the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse properties of noun phrases in a wide variety of creole (and non-creole) languages including Cape Verdean Creole, Santome, Papiamentu, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Mindanao Chabacano, Réunionnais Creole, Lesser… read more[Creole Language Library, 31] 2007. x, 494 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics
Parentheticals
Edited by Nicole Dehé and Yordanka Kavalova
This volume offers a unique collection of articles investigating the often neglected phenomenon of parentheticals, which are commonly seen as expressions interrupting the linear structure of a host utterance, but lacking a structural relation to it. The book provides an up-to-date introduction to… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 106] 2007. xii, 314 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Perspectives on Grammar Writing
Edited by Thomas E. Payne and David J. Weber
With over half the languages of the world currently in danger of extinction within a century, the need for high quality grammatical descriptions is more urgent than ever. Potential grammar writers, however, often find themselves paralyzed by the daunting task of describing a language. The papers in… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 11] 2007. viii, 218 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation. In honor of Joseph E. Emonds
Edited by Simin Karimi, Vida Samiian and Wendy K. Wilkins
The present collection includes papers that address a wide range of syntactic phenomena. In some, the authors discuss such major syntactic properties as clausal architecture, syntactic labels and derivation, and the nature of features and their role with respect to movement, agreement, and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 101] 2007. vi, 424 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics
Saami Linguistics
Edited by Ida Toivonen and Diane Nelson
The papers in this volume describe and analyze an array of intriguing linguistic phenomena as they occur in the Saami languages, ranging from etymological nativization of loanwords to the formation of deadjectival and denominal verbs. Saami displays a number of characteristics that are unusual from… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 288] 2007. viii, 321 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
Scrambling and the Survive Principle
Michael T. Putnam
Languages with free word orders pose daunting challenges to linguistic theory because they raise questions about the nature of grammatical strings. Ross, who coined the term Scrambling to refer to the relatively ‘free’ word orders found in Germanic languages (among others) notes that “… the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 115] 2007. x, 216 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Split Auxiliary Systems: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Raúl Aranovich
The alternation between the auxiliaries BE and HAVE, which this collection examines, is often discussed in connection with generative analyses of split intransitivity. But this book's purpose is to place the phenomenon in a broader context. Well-known facts in the Romance and Germanic language… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 69] 2007. vii, 277 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Studies on Old High German Syntax: Left sentence periphery, verb placement and verb-second
Katrin Axel-Tober
This monograph is the first book-length study on Old High German syntax from a generative perspective in twenty years. It provides an in-depth exploration of the Old High German pre-verb-second grammar by answering the following questions: To what extent did generalized verb movement exist in Old… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 112] 2007. xii, 364 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Typology
What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness
Edited by Martina Penke and Anette Rosenbach
What counts as evidence in linguistics? This question is addressed by the contributions to the present volume (originally published as a Special Issue of Studies in Language 28:3 (2004). Focusing on the innateness debate, what is illustrated is how formal and functional approaches to linguistics… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 7] 2007. x, 297 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages
Edited by Vincent Torrens and Linda Escobar
This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory. They favour, discuss and sometimes challenge traditional explanations of first… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 41] 2006. viii, 422 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Agreement Systems
Edited by Cedric Boeckx
Agreement plays a central role in modern generative grammar. The present collection brings together contributions from experts on various aspects of agreement systems in the world’s languages in an attempt to formulate formal and substantive universals in this domain. All the papers contained here… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 92] 2006. ix, 346 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Deriving Coordinate Symmetries: A phase-based approach integrating Select, Merge, Copy and Match
John R. te Velde
This monograph proposes a minimalist, phase-based approach to the derivation of coordinate structures, utilizing the operations Copy and Match to account for both the symmetries and asymmetries of coordination. Data are drawn primarily from English, German and Dutch. The basic assumptions are that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 89] 2006. x, 385 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Emotive Communication in Japanese
Edited by Satoko Suzuki
It has become well recognized that affective dimensions of language constitute an integral part of the linguistic system. Japanese provides a prime example of the significance of emotivity as it has grammaticalized a wide variety of expressions to communicate affective information. The collected… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 151] 2006. x, 234 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages
John Hewson and Vit Bubenik
In the historical development of many languages of the IE phylum the loss of inflectional morphology led to the development of a configurational syntax, where syntactic position marked syntactic role. The first of these configurations was the adposition (preposition or postposition), which… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 280] 2006. xxx, 419 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Typology
Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, space and person in Finnish
Edited by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Lyle Campbell
The papers of this volume investigate how grammar codes the subjective viewpoint of human language users, that is, how grammar reflects human conceptualization. Some of the articles deal with spatial relations and locations. They discuss how basic attributes of human conceptualization are encoded… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 277] 2006. x, 280 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
Hindi
Yamuna Kachru
This book presents the structure of Hindi keeping in view the sociolinguistic context of language use. It includes descriptions of sounds, devices of word formation, rules of phrase and sentence construction and conventions of language use in spoken and written texts incorporating the insights… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 12] 2006. xxi, 309 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Other Indo-European languages | Phonology
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Minimalist Essays
Edited by Cedric Boeckx
The Minimalism Program is many things to many researchers, and there are by now many alternative versions of it. Central to all is the fundamental question: to what extent is the human language faculty an optimal solution to minimal design specifications. Taken as a whole, the volume outlines the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 91] 2006. xvi, 399 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Minimalist Syntax of Defective Domains: Gerunds and infinitives
Acrisio Pires
This book unifies the analysis of certain non-finite domains, focusing on subject licensing, agreement, and Case and control. It proposes a minimalist analysis of English gerunds which allows only a null subject PRO (TP-defective gerunds), a lexical subject (gerunds as complements of perception… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 98] 2006. xiv, 188 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | 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 | Semantics | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Prosody and Syntax: Cross-linguistic perspectives
Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Ivan Fónagy and Tsunekazu Moriguchi
This collection of papers is the third volume of the series “Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics” (UBLI), a product of the 21st Century COE Program of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). Prosody, as used in this text, appears in units larger than segments and generally refers to the… read more[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 3] 2006. v, 383 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
Request Sequences: The intersection of grammar, interaction and social context
Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm
This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of instances of requests in everyday German conversation. Using the framework of CA, the study systematically analyzes the grammatical and syntactical structure of the request-turn and its response and of the conversational exchanges before and… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 19] 2006. x, 125 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Studies on Agreement
Edited by João Costa and Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva
The status of agreement is a core issue in current morphological and syntactic theory. The collection of papers in this volume focuses on important issues, such as the nature of the relation between syntax and morphology in determining agreement relations; whether and which syntactic configurations… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 86] 2006. vi, 285 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary perspectives
Edited by Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles-Suárez and Ellen Barton
This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the volume… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 93] 2006. x, 372 pp
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Voice and Grammatical Relations: In Honor of Masayoshi Shibatani
Edited by Tasaku Tsunoda and Taro Kageyama
This volume presents thirteen original papers dealing with various aspects of two related areas of research of major concern to linguists of all theoretical persuasions: voice and grammatical relations. The papers are written from typological, functional, and cognitive perspectives, and contain a… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 65] 2006. xviii, 342 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Advances in Greek Generative Syntax: In honor of Dimitra Theophanopoulou-Kontou
Edited by Melita Stavrou and Arhonto Terzi
This collection of original research focuses on various lesser studied aspects of Greek syntax. The articles combine a sound empirical coverage within current developments of generative theory and cover a wide spectrum of areas. The syntax of sentential structure is dealt with by two articles, one… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 76] 2005. viii, 366 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Other Indo-European languages | 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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics
Case, Referentiality and Phrase Structure
Balkız Öztürk
This book proposes that the two “independent” conditions on argumenthood, namely, case and referentiality, are strongly correlated and have to be associated with each other in syntax as syntactic features. It shows that languages exhibit variation in the way this association is implemented in their… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 77] 2005. viii, 268 pp.
Other subjects Altaic languages | Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Clausal Architecture and Subject Positions: Impersonal constructions in the Germanic languages
Sabine Mohr
This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 88] 2005. viii, 207 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Clitic and Affix Combinations: Theoretical perspectives
Edited by Lorie Heggie and Francisco Ordóñez
In this volume, the relationship between clitics and affixes and their combinatorial properties has led to a serious discussion of the interface between syntax, morphology, semantics, and phonology that draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., HPSG , Optimality Theory, Minimalism).… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 74] 2005. viii, 390 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Compliments and Compliment Responses: Grammatical structure and sequential organization
Andrea Golato
This book analyzes compliments and compliment responses in naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in German. Using Conversation Analytic methodology, it views complimenting and responding to compliments as social actions which are co-produced and negotiated among interactants. This study is the… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 15] 2005. xi, 248 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in English
Heidi Quinn
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Modern English pronoun case. The author examines case trends in a wide range of syntactic constructions and concludes that case variation is confined to strong pronoun contexts. Data from a survey of 90 speakers provide new insights into the distributional… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 82] 2005. xii, 409 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages
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 | Semantics | Typology
Fossilized Second Language Grammars: The acquisition of grammatical gender
Florencia Franceschina
This monograph is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the mechanisms and causes of successful and unsuccessful adult second language acquisition.Couched within a generative framework, the study explores how a learner’s first language and the age at which they acquire their second… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 38] 2005. xxiv, 288 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Morphology | Romance linguistics
The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories
Edited by Marcel den Dikken and Christina Tortora
This volume brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the syntax of function words and functional categories in the Germanic languages. The works offered in this volume derive specifically from comparative studies of Germanic; at the same time they all bear directly on… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 78] 2005. vii, 292 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Grammar and Inference in Conversation: Identifying clause structure in spoken Javanese
Michael C. Ewing
This study analyzes how morphosyntactic structures and information flow characteristics are used by interlocutors in producing and understanding clauses in conversational Javanese, focusing on the Cirebon variety of the language. While some clauses display grammatical mechanisms used to code their… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 18] 2005. x, 276 pp.
Other subjects Austronesian languages | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Infinitival Syntax: Infinitivus Pro Participio as a repair strategy
Tanja Schmid
This monograph offers a new analysis of West Germanic ‘Infinitivus Pro Participio’ (IPP) constructions, within the framework of Optimality Theory. IPP constructions have long been problematic for syntactic theory, because a bare infinitive is preferred over the expected past participle. The book… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 79] 2005. xiv, 251 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | 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 | Semantics | 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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Morphology and its demarcations: Selected papers from the 11th Morphology meeting, Vienna, February 2004
Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Franz Rainer
The papers in this volume derive from the International Morphology Meeting (Vienna 2004) and were selected because they address the main topic of the conference: external and internal demarcations of morphology. The external demarcation between syntax and morphology is dealt with in the papers by… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 264] 2005. xiv, 317 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Order of Prepositional Phrases in the Structure of the Clause
Walter Schweikert
For a long time prepositions seemed to enjoy a clandestine status in linguistic research. This has changed with a novel path of inquiry into the inner structure of complex prepositional expressions. In a unique approach to the examination of the outer syntax of prepositions the author uses… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 83] 2005. xii, 337 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Outside-In — Inside-Out
Edited by Costantino Maeder, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky
This fourth volume of the Iconicity series is like its predecessors devoted to the study of iconicity in language and literature in all its forms. Many of the papers turn the notion of iconicity ‘inside-out’, some suggesting that ‘less-is-more’; others focus on the cognitive factors ‘inside’ the… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 4] 2005. x, 427 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy: A corpus-driven approach to English progressive forms, functions, contexts and didactics
Ute Römer-Barron
This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in 'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from the largest… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 18] 2005. xiv + 328 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Rise of Agreement: A formal approach to the syntax and grammaticalization of verbal inflection
Eric Fuß
This book investigates the historical paths leading from pronouns to markers of verbal agreement and proposes a unified formal account of this grammaticalization process. In opposition to beliefs widely held in the literature, it is argued that new agreement formatives can be coined in a multitude… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 81] 2005. xii, 336 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Role of Agreement in Non-Finite Predication
Gréte Dalmi
This comparative syntactic study claims that agreement is the most central functional category responsible for licensing predication in finite, non-finite and small clauses alike. Intriguing syntactic phenomena like Icelandic infinitival predicates taking non-nominative (quirky) subjects;… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 90] 2005. xvi, 222 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Syntax and Lexis in Conversation: Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction
Edited by Auli Hakulinen and Margret Selting
This volume is a collection of current work at the interface of linguistics and conversation analysis. The focus is on linguistic items in their action contexts: syntactic structures and lexical items in data from natural conversations in six European languages: Danish, English, Finnish, German,… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 17] 2005. viii, 406 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Phonology | Pragmatics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics
Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004
Edited by Randall Gess and Edward J. Rubin
The 20 papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 34th LSRL, held in Salt Lake City, in 2004. The papers deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in Romance Linguistics and include several from the conference parasession, which focused on experimental approaches to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 272] 2005. viii, 367 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Phonology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
UG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
This book explores the interaction of the grammar with the external systems, conceptual-intentional and sensori-motor. The papers in the Language section include configurational analyses of the interface properties of depictives, clitic clusters, imperatives, conditionals, clefts, as well as… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 75] 2005. xviii, 398 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages
Edited by Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley and Sheila Dooley
This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 73] 2005. xiv, 431 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on functional categories
Edited by Philippe Prévost and Johanne Paradis
This volume is a collection of studies by some of the foremost researchers of French acquisition in the generative framework. It provides a unique perspective on cross-learner comparative research in that each chapter examines the development of one component of the grammar (functional categories)… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 32] 2004. viii, 384 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Romance linguistics
The Acquisition of Spanish: Morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual L1 acquisition and adult L2 acquisition
Silvina Montrul
This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is organized around key grammatical themes that form the empirical base of research in generative… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 37] 2004. xvi, 413 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Morphology | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics
The Acquisition of Swedish Grammar
Edited by Gunlög Josefsson, Christer Platzack and Gisela Håkansson
This book provides a number of studies of different aspects of Swedish child language. Some of the thematic chapters present original, unpublished data: on the acquisition of tense, on the range and frequency of different word order patterns in early child Swedish, related to the input, meaning the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 33] 2004. vi, 313 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Categorization in the History of English
Edited by Christian Kay and Jeremy J. Smith
The papers in this volume are linked by a common concern, which is at the centre of current linguistic enquiry: how do we classify and categorize linguistic data, and how does this process add to our understanding of linguistic change? The scene is set by Aitchison’s paper on the development of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 261] 2004. viii, 268 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Functional Constraints in Grammar: On the unergative–unaccusative distinction
Susumu Kuno and Ken-ichi Takami
This book examines in detail the acceptability status of sentences in the following five English constructions, and elucidates the syntactic, semantic, and functional requirements that the constructions must satisfy in order to be appropriately used: There-Construction, (One’s) Way Construction,… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 1] 2004. ix, 242 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Grammaticalization as Economy
Elly van Gelderen
This book provides much detail on the changes involving the grammaticalization of personal and relative pronouns, topicalized nominals, complementizers, adverbs, prepositions, modals, perception verbs, and aspectual markers. It accounts for these changes in terms of two structural economy… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 71] 2004. xv, 318 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Memory-Based Parsing
Sandra Kübler
Memory-Based Learning (MBL), one of the most influential machine learning paradigms, has been applied with great success to a variety of NLP tasks. This monograph describes the application of MBL to robust parsing. Robust parsing using MBL can provide added functionality for key NLP applications,… read more[Natural Language Processing, 7] 2004. viii, 294 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Natural language processing
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 | Semantics
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology
Edited by Christian Kay, Simon Horobin and Jeremy J. Smith
This is the first of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The second is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (2): Lexis and Transmission. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 251] 2004. x, 262 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology
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 Semantics | 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 Semantics | 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Recontextualizing Context: Grammaticality meets appropriateness
Anita Fetzer
In the humanities and social sciences, context is one of those terms which is frequently used and frequently referred to, but hardly made explicit.This book proposes a model for describing the multifaceted connectedness between language and language use, and between cognitive context, linguistic… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 121] 2004. x, 272 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Verb Clusters: A study of Hungarian, German and Dutch
Edited by Katalin É. Kiss and Henk van Riemsdijk
Many languages have constructions in which verbs cluster. But few languages have verb clusters as rich and complex as Continental West Germanic and Hungarian. Furthermore the precise ordering properties and the variation in the cluster patterns are remarkably similar in Hungarian and Germanic. This… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 69] 2004. vi, 514 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
The Acquisition of the DP in Modern Greek
Theodoros Marinis
This book offers new data on the acquisition of functional categories in early child speech. Based on longitudinal corpora of five children acquiring Modern Greek as their first language, it describes the development of single DPs consisting of definite and indefinite articles, complex DPs that… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 31] 2003. xiv, 261 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Other Indo-European languages | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics
Bilingual Sentence Processing: Relative clause attachment in English and Spanish
Eva M. Fernández
The cross-linguistic differences documented in studies of relative clause attachment offer an invaluable opportunity to examine a particular aspect of bilingual sentence processing: Do bilinguals process their two languages as if they were monolingual speakers of each? This volume provides a review… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 29] 2003. xx, 294 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics
Dependent-Head Synthesis in Nivkh: A contribution to a typology of polysynthesis
Johanna Mattissen
Dependent-Head Synthesis in Nivkh has been awarded a prize of the Offermann-Hergarten Donation at the University of Cologne in 2004. The endowments are granted for outstanding innovative and comprehensibly documented research.This book offers an innovative approach to three interlaced topics: A… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 57] 2003. x, 350 pp.
Other subjects Linguistics of isolated languages | Morphology | Typology
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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics
Islands and Chains: Resumption as stranding
Cedric Boeckx
The present work provides a detailed analysis of chain formation and locality conditions imposed on it within the Minimalist Program. It does so by analyzing resumptive strategies in great detail. This study claims that resumptive pronouns and their antecedents are first merged as constituents, and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 63] 2003. xii, 224 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Joint Utterance Construction in Japanese Conversation
Makoto Hayashi
This book focuses on how participants in Japanese conversation negotiate and achieve joint courses of action within a single turn at talk. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis as a central framework, this book describes in detail the structures and procedures used by Japanese speakers to… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 12] 2003. xii, 249 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Semantics
Multiple Wh-Fronting
Edited by Cedric Boeckx and Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Typological differences in the formation of multiple Wh-questions are well-known. One option is fronting all Wh-phrases to the sentence periphery. The contributions to this volume all explore this option from a number of perspectives. Topics covered include finer investigations of the “classic”… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 64] 2003. ix, 289 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as architecture for function
Edited by John W. Du Bois, Lorraine E. Kumpf and William J. Ashby
Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure. In his original publication on Preferred Argument Structure, Du Bois (1987) demonstrated the power of this perspective by using it to explain the origins of ergativity and… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 14] 2003. ix, 458 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Prolific Domains: On the Anti-Locality of movement dependencies
Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Standard conceptions of Locality aim to establish that a dependency between two positions may not span too long a distance. This book explores the opposite conception, Anti-Locality: Don’t move too close. The model of clause structure, syntactic computation, and locality concerns Kleanthes Grohmann… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 66] 2003. xv, 369 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001: Selected papers from 'Going Romance', Amsterdam, 6–8 December 2001
Edited by Josep Quer, Jan Schroten, Mauro Scorretti, Petra Sleeman and Els Verheugd-Daatzelaar
The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory published in the series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.Romance Languages and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 245] 2003. viii, 355 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Searching for Structure: The problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation
Robert Englebretson
This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversational… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 13] 2003. x, 205 pp.
Other subjects Austronesian languages | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Small Phrase Layers: A study of Finnish Manner Adverbials
Satu Manninen
This monograph examines the structure and properties of Finnish manner adverbials. The central idea is that, instead of AdvPs, DPs, APs, PPs, NumPs and InfinitivalPs, manner adverbials have the form of either kPs or pPs, and they are licensed as unique specifiers of a manner-related small vP.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 65] 2003. xii, 275 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
Verb Constructions in German and Dutch
Edited by Pieter A.M. Seuren and Gerard Kempen
German and Dutch verb constructions show a rich array of syntactic phenomena that have so far been underexposed in the literature, despite the fact that they have proved to be a source of substantial problems in theoretical grammar. The cross-linguistic study of verb constructions and … read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 242] 2003. vi, 314 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Michael Noonan
The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson’s career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are… read more[Not in series, 110] 2002. viii, 363 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics
Dimensions of Movement: From features to remnants
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Sjef Barbiers and Hans-Martin Gärtner
This volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative research into the properties of phrasal and feature movement, which explore these key syntactic phenomena from different angles and across languages. The papers advance or build on models of movement which capitalize either on… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 48] 2002. vi, 345 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000. Volume 1
Edited by Teresa Fanego, Javier Pérez-Guerra and María José López-Couso
This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present twelve papers were carefully selected to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 223] 2002. ix, 297 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology
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 | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
From OV to VO in Early Middle English
Carola Trips
This monograph answers the question of why English changed from an OV to a VO language on the assumption that this change is due to intensive language contact with Scandinavian. It shows for the first time that the English language was much more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than assumed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 60] 2002. xiv, 359 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation
Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani
This volume presents fifteen original papers dealing with various aspects of causative constructions ranging from morphology to semantics with emphasis on language data from Central and South America. Informed by a better understanding of how different constructions are positioned both… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 48] 2002. xviii, 551 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Generative linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
An Introduction to the Grammar of English: Syntactic arguments and socio-historical background
Elly van Gelderen
This Introduction provides a lively and clearly written textbook. It introduces basic concepts of grammar in a format which inspires the reader to use linguistic arguments. The style of the book is engaging and examples from poetry, jokes, and puns illustrate grammatical concepts.The focus is on… read more[Not in series, 111] 2002. xxiv, 200 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus: Morpho-syntactic variability of second person pronouns
Ulrich Busse
This study investigates the morpho-syntactic variability of the second person pronouns in the Shakespeare Corpus, seeking to elucidate the factors that underlie their choice. The major part of the work is devoted to analyzing the variation between you and thou, but it also includes chapters that… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 106] 2002. xiv, 344 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | 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.
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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics
Point of View and Grammar: Structural patterns of subjectivity in American English conversation
Joanne Scheibman
This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject, tense, and verb type are those… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 11] 2002. xiv, 187 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics | Typology
Pronouns, Clitics and Empty Nouns: ‘Pronominality’ and licensing in syntax
Phoevos Panagiotidis
Two issues little discussed in the generative literature are the internal structure of pronouns and what it is in Syntax that triggers pronominal reference. This monograph treats these two topics in detail and investigates whether pronominal (strong, weak and clitic pronouns) and related elliptical… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 46] 2002. x, 214 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2000: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2000, Utrecht, 30 November–2 December
Edited by Claire Beyssade, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Frank Drijkoningen and Paola Monachesi
This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 2000 'Going Romance' conference, held in Utrecht. The papers discuss current topics in formal syntax in Romance languages. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 232] 2002. viii, 354 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics
Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000: Volume 1. English Historical Syntax and Morphology; Volume 2. Sounds, Words, Texts and Change. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso, Javier Pérez-Guerra, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane
These volumes offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela.From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the twelve papers in Volume 1 were carefully selected… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 223-224] 2002. x, 306 pp. & x, 310 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology
The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole: The Sotavento varieties
Marlyse Baptista
This book offers an in-depth treatment of a variety of morpho-syntactic issues in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) both from a descriptive and theoretical perspective. The investigated topics include the determiner system, Tense, Mood, Aspect markers and pronominal paradigms. The study of TMA markers… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 54] 2002. xxii, 294 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Other subjects Creole studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Generative linguistics
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 | Semantics
Theoretical Approaches to Universals
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou
The present volume has its origin in the GLOW conference on Universals hosted in Berlin in March 1999. The papers in this volume are concerned both with formal as well as with substantive universals. All the contributions attempt to identify universal properties of the language faculty, as well as… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 49] 2002. viii, 319 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
200 Years of Syntax: A critical survey
Giorgio Graffi
This book argues convincingly against the widespread opinion that very few syntactic studies were carried out before the 1950s. Relying on the detailed analysis of a large amount of original sources, it shows that syntactic matters were in fact carefully investigated throughout both the 19th… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 98] 2001. xiv, 551 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Ambiguity
Sous la direction de Éric Laporte
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 24:1 (2001) iv, 146 pp.
Other subjects Natural language processing | Semantics
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.
Empty Categories in Sentence Processing
Sam Featherston
This book reports a research program into one of the most controversial questions in the syntax — processing interface: The behavior of the parser at gap positions. While the work done is largely experimental, the results are analyzed both for their relevance to sentence processing and for their… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 43] 2001. xvi, 277 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Psycholinguistics
Features and Interfaces in Romance: Essays in honor of Heles Contreras
Edited by Julia Herschensohn, Enrique Mallén and Karen Zagona
This volume brings together new research on theoretical Romance Linguistics; its intended audience is scholars in the field of formal grammar, especially those specializing in Romance languages. It represents the latest work on the structure of Romance languages, with relevant comparisons to other… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 222] 2001. xiv, 302 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Functional Structure in Nominals: Nominalization and ergativity
Artemis Alexiadou
This monograph offers an in depth investigation of nominalization processes across languages e.g. Greek, Germanic, Romance, Hebrew, Slavic. Adopting and extending the view that category formation does not involve any lexical operation (recently put forth within the framework of Distributed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 42] 2001. x, 231 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Grammatical Relations in Change
Edited by Jan Terje Faarlund
The eleven selected contributions making up this volume deal with grammatical relations, their coding and behavioral properties, and the change that these properties have undergone in different languages. The focus of this collection is on the changing properties of subjects and objects, although… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 56] 2001. viii, 326 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
Hausa
Philip J. Jaggar
Hausa is a major world language, spoken as a mother tongue by more than 30 million people in northern Nigeria and southern parts of Niger, in addition to diaspora communities of traders, Muslim scholars and immigrants in urban areas of West Africa, e.g. southern Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo, and the… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 7] 2001. xxxiv, 754 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Ideophones
Edited by F.K. Erhard Voeltz and Christa Kilian-Hatz
The present volume represents a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Ideophones held in January 1999 in St. Augustin, Germany. They center around the following hypotheses: Ideophones are universal; and constitute a grammatical category in all languages of the world;… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 44] 2001. x, 436 pp.
Other subjects Phonology
The Minimalist Parameter: Selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21–23 March 1997
Edited by Galina M. Alexandrova and Olga Arnaudova
In view of its exploratory nature, Chomsky's 'minimalist' model has undergone multiple changes, triggering in response numerous proposals that are consistent with the tendencies that it follows or anticipates, and numerous proposals that offer alternatives to it. A good illustration of the variety… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 192] 2001. x, 360 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
The Motivated Sign
Edited by Olga Fischer and Max Nänny
This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999), offers a selection of papers given at the second international symposium on iconicity (Amsterdam 1999). In the light of semiotic, linguistic and literary theory the studies gathered here investigate how iconicity works on all levels of language,… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 2] 2001. xiv, 387 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | 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.
Particle Verbs and Local Domains
Jochen Zeller
This book offers a new account of particle verbs in German and Dutch by looking at the conditions under which a non-morphological structure may exhibit “word-like” properties. It shows that although particles are represented as phrasal complements of their verbs, they lack the functional structure… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 41] 2001. xii, 323 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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 | Semantics
Präteritumschwund und Diskursgrammatik: Präteritumschwund in gesamteuropäischen Bezügen: areale Ausbreitung, heterogene Entstehung, Parsing sowie diskursgrammatische Grundlagen und Zusammenhänge
Werner Abraham und C. Jac Conradie
This work demonstrates that what is commonly called preterite decay in Upper German (PS; cf. German Präteritumschwund) is in fact a phenomenon common to a great number of European languages, all of which are in areal con-tact. However, the conclusion that this is a phenomenon arising under areal… read more[Not in series, 103] 2001. xiv, 148 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Studies in Interactional Linguistics
Edited by Margret Selting and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Current interactional linguistic research appears to be crystallizing around systematic themes, which are all represented in this collection of papers. In the first section, where the relation between language and interaction is viewed from the perspective of language structure, several articles… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 10] 2001. viii, 438 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Syntax: An Introduction. Volume I
T. Givón
This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and… read more[Not in series, SYN 1] 2001. xviii, 500 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Syntax: An Introduction. Volume II
T. Givón
This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and… read more[Not in series, SYN 2] 2001. x, 406 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Syntax: An introduction. 2 Volumes (set)
T. Givón
This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and… read more[Not in series, SYN S] 2001. xviii, 500 pp. & x, 406 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Syntax in the Making: The emergence of syntactic units in Finnish conversation
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
Research on the interplay between language structure and language use has shown that grammar is shaped, maintained, and modified by language use. In this view, then, grammar is not seen as existing apart from language use, but rather as a set of recurrent, grammaticized patterns of discourse. This… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 9] 2001. xiv, 175 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Uralic languages
The Theme–Topic Interface: Evidence from English
María de los Ángeles Gómez González
The Theme-Topic Interface (TTI) gives a useful catalogue of approaches to the concept Theme in the analysis of Natural Language. The book is written with both theoretical and descriptive goals and aims to synthesize andrevise current approaches to pragmatic functions. In addition, TTI explains that… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 71] 2001. xxiv, 434 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
The Verb in Turkish
Edited by Eser Erguvanlı Taylan
This book is a collection of articles on the properties of the verb in Turkish as the core element of clause structure, by linguists from different parts of the world. Articles present the most recent analyses on the Turkish language carried out in various theoretical orientations within the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 44] 2001. xvii, 267 pp.
Other subjects Altaic languages | Generative linguistics
The Acquisition of Direct Object Scrambling and Clitic Placement: Syntax and pragmatics
Jeannette Schaeffer
This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the “real time acquisition” of grammar in First Language Acquisition Theory. It combines detailed and quantitative observations of object placement in Dutch and Italian child language with an analysis that makes use of the Modularity… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 22] 2000. xii, 187 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Pragmatics
Arguments and Case: Explaining Burzio’s Generalization
Edited by Eric J. Reuland
The ideas presented by the contributions in this volume originated in a workshop on Burzio’s generalization. Burzio’s Generalization (BG) states that a verb which does not assign an external theta-role to its subject does not assign structural accusative Case to an object and conversely. It… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 34] 2000. xii, 255 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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 Semantics
Clitic Phenomena in European Languages
Edited by Frits Beukema and Marcel den Dikken
This book is concerned with a number of central issues in the theory of clitics, a topic that has become much debated in recent years. Mainly written within a recent generative framework, its contrastive approach discusses these issues against the background of a number of European languages, among… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 30] 2000. x, 320 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997
Edited by Ad Foolen and Frederike van der Leek
This volume contains selected papers from the 5th ICLC, Amsterdam 1997. The papers present cognitive analyses of a variety of constructions (phrasal verbs, prepositional phrases, transitivity, accusative versus dative objects, possessives, gerunds, passives, causatives, conditionals), in a variety… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 178] 2000. xvi, 338 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
The Derivation of VO and OV
Edited by Peter Svenonius
The Derivation of VO and OV takes a new look at the relationship between head-final or OV structures and head-initial or VO ones, in light of recent work by Richard Kayne and others. The various papers in the volume take different positions with respect to whether one type of structure is derived… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 31] 2000. vi, 370 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course
Marjolijn H. Verspoor and Kim Sauter
English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course is designed as a 10-week course for students of English Language and Literature, Linguistics, or other language related fields. In 10 weeks the student will be proficient in English analysis at sentence, clause and phrase level and have a solid… read more[Not in series, 100] 2000. 237 pp.
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic 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 | Semantics | Typology
Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase. with a Foreword by Frans Plank (Universität Konstanz)
Edited by Viktor Elšík and Yaron Matras
This is the first typologically-oriented collection on Romani that is devoted to a particular thematic domain — that of noun phrase grammar. The approach taken is unique in that it places this typologically hybrid language in the centre of a general linguistic, universal discussion of the relevant… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 211] 2000. x, 245 pp.
Other subjects Other Indo-European languages
Grammaticalization: Studies in Latin and Romance morphosyntax
Jurgen Klausenburger
In this monograph, various aspects of the morphosyntactic evolution of the Romance languages are shown to interact in a theory of grammaticalization. The study argues for the incorporation and subordination of inflectional morphology within a grammaticalization continuum, constituting but a portion… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 193] 2000. xiii, 183 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Romance linguistics
Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar
David Lebeaux
Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar attempts to re-think the ideal organization of the grammar, given its need to be learned. The book proposes a fundamental connection between the form of the adult grammar and the sequence of grammars which the child adopts in first language… read more[Not in series, 97] 2000. xxx, 277 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition
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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics | 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.
Research in Afroasiatic Grammar: Papers from the Third conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis, 1996
Edited by Jacqueline Lecarme, Jean Lowenstamm and Ur Shlonsky
This volume presents a selection of papers from the 3rd Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1996. The languages discussed include (varieties of) Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, Chaha, Wolof, and Old Egyptian. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 202] 2000. vi, 386 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics | Morphology
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 | Semantics
Sign Language in Indo-Pakistan: A description of a signed language
Ulrike Zeshan
To find a suitable framework for the description of a previously undocumented language is all the more challenging in the case of a signed language. In this book, for the first time, an indigenous Asian sign language used in deaf communities in India and Pakistan is described on all linguistically… read more[Not in series, 101] 2000. xii, 178 pp.
Other subjects Signed languages
Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time
Edited by Rosanna Sornicola, Erich Poppe and Ariel Shisha-Halevy
The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories. The interest in this theme has been revamped by contemporary research in typology with its emphasis on correlation or ‘harmonies’ of structures of word-order as… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 213] 2000. xxxii, 323 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
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 | Semantics
The Syntax of Relative Clauses
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Paul Law, André Meinunger and Chris Wilder
This book presents a cross-section of recent generative research into the syntax of relative clauses constructions. Most of the papers collected here react in some way to Kayne’s (1994) proposal to handle relative clauses in terms of determiner complementation and raising of the relativized nominal. read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 32] 2000. vi, 395 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Wh-Movement and the Theory of Feature-Checking
Andrew Simpson
Wh-movement and the theory of feature-checking argues that cross-linguistic variation in wh-constructions reduces to the availability of different lexical instantiations of a +wh C0 both across languages and within a single language, and the way in which such lexical elements are syntactically… read more[Not in series, 98] 2000. xii, 244 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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 | Semantics
Word Order Change in Icelandic: From OV to VO
Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patterns. In this volume, the author both examines the various VP-word order patterns from a descriptive and statistical point of view and provides… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 35] 2000. xiv, 385 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Word Order in Hungarian: The syntax of Ā-positions
Genoveva Puskás
Hungarian word-order is characterized by large scale preposing of constituents to sentence-initial positions. This study examines systematically the elements which occur in the left periphery. Focal, wh- and negative operators which have scope over the whole sentence must appear in the left… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 33] 2000. xvi, 396 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Uralic languages
Word Order, Agreement and Pronominalization in Standard and Palestinian Arabic
Mohammad A. Mohammad
The two related issues of word order, and subject-verb agreement have occupied center stage in the study of Arabic syntax since the time of Sibawayhi in the eighth century. This book is a contribution to both of these areas. It is grounded within the generative grammar framework in one of its most… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 181] 2000. xvi, 189 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics
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 | Semantics
Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax
Edited by Lunella Mereu
The volume collects a selection of papers presented at a European Colloquium held at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in October 1997. It focuses on phenomena at the boundary between morphology and syntax, and provides analyses for data from the fields of both inflectional and derivational… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 180] 1999. viii, 312 pp.
Other subjects Morphology
The Clause in English: In honour of Rodney Huddleston
Edited by Peter Collins and David Lee
The focus in this volume is on grammatical aspects of the clause in English, presenting a fine balance between theoretically- and descriptively-oriented approaches. Some authors investigate the status and properties of ‘minor’ or ‘fringe’ constructions, including ‘deictic-presentationals’;… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 45] 1999. xxii, 327 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English
Edited by Laurel J. Brinton and Minoji Akimoto
The focus of this carefully selected volume concerns the existence, frequency, and form of composite/complex predicates (the “take a look” construction) in earlier periods of the English language, an area of scholarship which has been virtually neglected. The various contributions seek to… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 47] 1999. xiv, 283 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Control in Grammar and Pragmatics: A cross-linguistic study
Rudolf Růžička
The claim that “…pronominals have phonological features only where they must, for some reason”, is strongly supported by the occurrence of the null pronoun PRO as coined and introduced by Noam Chomsky. How reference of PRO is determined is the main subject of control theory, the subsystem of core… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 27] 1999. x, 206 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Crossing Boundaries: Advances in the theory of Central and Eastern European languages
Edited by István Kenesei
The book contains eleven articles on theoretical problems in Albanian, Hungarian, Polish, (Old) Russian, Romanian, and the South Slavic languages of Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian. They cover topics such as clitics, head and phrasal movement, the structure of the DP, and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 182] 1999. viii, 302 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Generative linguistics | Uralic languages
The Development of Second Language Grammars: A generative approach
Edited by Elaine C. Klein and Gita Martohardjono
This volume is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in generative studies of second language (L2) acquisition bringing together an unusually broad range of interests and inquiry. Selected papers report on controlled experimental studies within specific areas of research investigating the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 18] 1999. vi, 428 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition
External Possession
Edited by Doris L. Payne and Immanuel Barshi
External Possession Constructions (EPCs) are found in nearly all parts of the world and across widely divergent language families. The data-rich papers in this first-ever volume on EPCs document their typological variability, explore diachronic reasons for variations, and investigate their… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 39] 1999. ix, 573 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Typology
Form Miming Meaning
Edited by Max Nänny and Olga Fischer
The recent past has seen an increasing interest in iconicity especially among linguists. This collection puts the interdisciplinary study of iconic dimensions (comprising what has been termed ‘imagic iconicity’, as well as ‘diagrammatic iconicity’, i.e. iconicity of a more abstract and less… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 1] 1999. xxxvi, 443 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semiotics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 28th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVIII), University Park, 16–19 April 1998
Edited by Jean-Marc Authier, Barbara E. Bullock and Lisa A. Reed
This volume presents current research in the formal treatment of linguistic phenomena in the Romance languages. It focuses on a variety of issues in phonology, second language acquisition, semantics, and syntax. Topics in phonological theory include the analysis of geminates, assimilation, rhotics,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 185] 1999. xii, 334 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Phonology | Romance linguistics
A French-English Grammar: A contrastive grammar on translational principles
Morris Salkoff
In this contrastive French-English grammar, the comparisons between French structures and their English equivalents are formulated as rules which associate a French schema (of a particular grammatical structure) with its translation into an equivalent English schema. The grammar contains all the… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 22] 1999. xvi, 342 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Romance linguistics | Translation Studies
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers
Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley
The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches – functionalists and formalists – in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 41] 1999. vi, 514 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Phonology
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume II: Case studies
Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley
The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 42] 1999. vi, 407 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Phonology
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley
The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 41-42] 1999. vi, 486 pp. & vi, 407 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Phonology
Issues in Morphosyntax
Peter Ackema
Of particular interest to morphologists and syntacticians Issues in Morphosyntax aims to contribute to the discussion on the question whether there exists a separate morphological module in the grammar, distinct from the other modules, with special focus on the connection of morphology with syntax.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 26] 1999. viii, 310 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology
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 | Semantics
Morphology-Driven Syntax: A theory of V to I raising and pro-drop
Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher
This book argues that syntactic parameters are set in a principled fashion on the basis of overt functional morphology. The main focus of the book is on the different positions of the finite verb in the Germanic SVO languages. In addition, other syntactic phenomena (null subjects, transitive… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 15] 1999. viii, 296 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology
Negotiating Agreement and Disagreement in Japanese: Connective expressions and turn construction
Junko Mori
On the basis of the meticulous transcription/observation process of Conversation Analysis, this book observes recurrent patterns in sequences where Japanese speakers negotiate agreement and disagreement. It contributes to the growing body of research on interaction and grammar by examining how… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 8] 1999. xii, 240 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
The Prominence of Tense, Aspect and Mood
D.N.S. Bhat
The book puts forth an exciting hypothesis for the typologist. Its major claim is that languages can generally be regarded as belonging to a tense-prominent, aspect-prominent or mood-prominent language type. This grouping can be based upon the relative prominence that languages attach to one or the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 49] 1999. xii, 198 pp.
Other subjects 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 | Semantics
Translating the Elusive: Marked word order and subjectivity in English-German translation
Monika S. Schmid
This work presents an in-depth analysis of text- and speaker-based meaning of non-canonical word order in English and ways to preserve this in English-German translation. Among the sentence structures under discussion are subject-verb inversion, Left Dislocation, Topicalization as well as wh-cleft… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 36] 1999. xii, 174 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Translation Studies
Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation: A Study in Grammar and Interaction
Hiroko Tanaka
This book explores the interpretation of grammar and turn-taking in Japanese talk-in-interaction from the perspective of conversation analysis. It pays special attention to the projectability patterns of turns in Japanese in comparison to English. Through qualitative and quantitative methods, it is… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 56] 1999. xiv, 242 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
An Annotated Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English
Manfred Görlach †
In the 19th century, education became accessible to much wider circles of society in a great number and variety of schools and the teaching of grammar came to be obligatory from 1870/72 with the advent of general education. Whereas these general trends of the 19th century are well-known to scholars… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 26] 1998. ix, 395 pp.
Other subjects Bibliographies in linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | History of 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 | Semantics | Typology
The Dative: Volume 2: Theoretical and contrastive studies
Edited by Willy Van Langendonck and William Van Belle
This book is the second part of a two-volume reader on the ‘Dative’. In the first part, which appeared in 1996, eleven papers were presented providing a syntactic and semantic description of the category ‘Dative’ in eleven languages. The aim of this second part is to discuss several aspects of the… read more[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 3] 1998. xvi, 296 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics
A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan (Apabhraṃśa)
Vit Bubenik
This monograph aims to close the gap in our knowledge of the nature and pace of grammatical change during the formative period of today’s Indo-Aryan languages. During the 6th-12th c. the gradual erosion of the synthetic morphology of Old Indo-Aryan resulted ultimately in the remodelling of its… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 165] 1998. xxiv, 265 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Other Indo-European languages
Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English
Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward
This work provides a comprehensive discourse-functional account of three classes of noncanonical constituent placement in English – preposing, postposing, and argument reversal – and shows how their interaction is accounted for in a principled and predictive way. In doing so, it details the variety… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 40] 1998. xiv, 314 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
The Limits of Grammaticalization
Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paul J. Hopper
The earliest use of the term “grammaticalization” was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in “he keeps bees”) become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in “he keeps looking at me”). Changes of this kind, which involve semantic fading and a… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 37] 1998. vi, 307 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax: Word formation in Swedish
Gunlög Josefsson
In Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax the author combines a detailed description of the morphological structure of words in Swedish with a daring new approach to theoretical morphology, based on the Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995) (as developed for syntactic structure). The X-bar theoretic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 19] 1998. ix, 199 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Morphology
New Zealand English Grammar – Fact or Fiction?: A corpus-based study in morphosyntactic variation
Marianne Hundt
New Zealand English (NZE) is one of the younger post-colonial varieties of English. It is therefore not surprising that previous research focused on lexical and phonological aspects of NZE and practically neglected grammatical peculiarities. New Zealand English Grammar — Fact or Fiction? presents a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G23] 1998. xvi, 212 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XI: Atlanta, Georgia, 1997
Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun, Mushira Eid and Niloofar Haeri
The papers in this volume address core areas in contemporary Arabic linguistics: syntax, phonology, and variation studies. The papers in the syntax sections address different topics from the perspective of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995) and subsequent work. The topics in this section are… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 167] 1998. viii, 231 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Discourse studies | Generative linguistics | Phonology | Pragmatics
Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the Determiner Phrase
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Chris Wilder
This volume presents a cross-section of current research on the internal syntax of ‘Determiner Phrases` (DPs), with special emphasis on the analysis of DPs modified by genitival, adjectival and other non-finite attributes. Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the DP illustrates clearly the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 22] 1998. vi, 388 pp
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Adverb Placement: A case study in antisymmetric syntax
Artemis Alexiadou
This monograph investigates a number of central issues in the Syntax of Adverbs with special reference to Greek in the light of Kayne's (1994) Antisymmetry Hypothesis. It examines the conditions on the placement of the various adverb types, their licensing requirements, and their relation to… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 18] 1997. x, 256 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Other Indo-European languages
Clitics, Pronouns and Movement
Edited by James R. Black and Virginia Motapanyane
The introduction to this volume by Anders Holmberg provides a reflection on movement in the light of recent developments in Minimalist theory. His discussion of the theories of category versus feature movement in terms of displacement and copying, provides the background for 12 papers dealing with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 140] 1997. 375 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Demonstratives in Interaction: The emergence of a definite article in Finnish
Ritva Laury
This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative se is currently emerging as a definite article in spoken Finnish. This book describes… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 7] 1997. viii, 294 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Uralic languages
Government and Codeswitching: Explaining American Finnish
Helena Halmari
Bilingual codeswitching is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, which calls for explanations on several different linguistic levels. This volume focuses on one such level: the level of syntax. An explanation for the regularities and consistencies in the codeswitching patterns of American Finns in… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 12] 1997. xvi, 276 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Multilingualism
Grammatical Relations: A functionalist perspective
Edited by T. Givón
This volume presents a functional perspective on grammatical relations (GRs) without neglecting their structural correlates. Ever since the 1970s, the discussion of RGs by functionally-oriented linguists has focused primarily on their functional aspects, such as reference, cognitive accessibility… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 35] 1997. viii, 350 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
Inversion in Modern English: Form and function
Heidrun Dorgeloh
The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences. It treats inversion as a speaker-based decision for reordering within a fairly rigid word order system and identifies the meaning of the construction… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 6] 1997. x, 236 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | 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 | Semantics
Materials on Left Dislocation
Edited by Elena Anagnostopoulou, Henk van Riemsdijk and Frans Zwarts
Materials on Left Dislocation consists of two parts. Part I contains a selection of the main texts on which our present understanding of the Left Dislocation construction is based. For various reasons most of these texts had never been published, or are published in obsolete places. These articles,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 14] 1997. viii, 349 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics | 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 Semantics | 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 Semantics
Reconnecting Language: Morphology and Syntax in Functional Perspectives
Edited by Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Kristin Davidse and Dirk Noël
Although the contributors to this book do not belong to one particular ‘school’ of linguistic theory, they all share an interest in the external functions of language in society and in the relationship between these functions and internal linguistic phenomena. In this sense they all take a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 154] 1997. xiii, 339 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Morphology
Rightward Movement
Edited by Dorothee Beermann, David LeBlanc and Henk van Riemsdijk
Symmetries and asymmetries have always played an important role in linguistic theorizing. From the early works on potentially universal properties of transformational processes, differences between rightward and leftward movement processes were noted and constituted a challenge to theories of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 17] 1997. vi, 410 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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 | Semantics
Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Tracy Alan Hall
The articles of the present volume consist of generative analyses dealing with several current topics of discussion and debate in syntactic theory, such as clitics, word order, scrambling, directionality, movement. The data in the volume are drawn from a number of typologically diverse languages (e. read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 13] 1997. viii, 252 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Aspects of Argument Structure Acquisition in Inuktitut
Shanley E.M. Allen
This book discusses the first language acquisition of three morphosyntactic mechanisms of transitivity alternation in arctic Quebec Inuktitut. Data derive from naturalistic longitudinal spontaneous speech samples collected over a nine-month period from four Inuit children. Both basic and advanced… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 13] 1996. xvi, 248 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Languages of North America
Case Suspension and Binary Complement Structure in French
Julia Herschensohn
Adopting the theoretical framework of the minimalist program, this study of syntactic limitations on complement configuration investigates the link between thematic external arguments and case. Using evidence from pronominal, psychological experiencer, and inalienable constructions, it argues that… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 132] 1996. xi, 200 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics
Classification Syntaxique des Constructions Adjectivales en Coréen
Jeesun Nam
The purpose of this study is the systematic description of a set of data called Adjectives in Korean, which reduces to a minimum theoretical preoccupations and abstract formalisations with no practical applications. The framework of our research is the Lexicon-grammar, whose fundamental idea is… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 21] 1996. xxvi, 560 pp.
Other subjects Linguistics of isolated languages
The Dative: Volume 1: Descriptive studies
Edited by William Van Belle and Willy Van Langendonck
Since antiquity, scholars have been fascinated by the phenomena of case. The explanation for this fascination is, as Hjelmslev already pointed out over fifty years ago, the fact that he who can unravel the meaning of case-relations, has the key to language structure as a whole.For over three years,… read more[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 2] 1996. xviii, 455 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Translation Studies
Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons
Edited by Harald Clahsen
Against the background of the proliferation of the various subdisciplines of language acquisition research over the past decades, this volume aims to enhance the existing but somewhat fragile links between language acquisition and theoretical linguistics. With regard to previous research, the book… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 14] 1996. xxvii, 499 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition
Grammaticalization of the Complex Sentence: A case study in Chadic
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
The general objective of the study is systematic examination of the processes involved in the formation and evolution of complex sentence constructions in a group of genetically related languages. The Chadic language group, at about 140 languages, constitutes the largest and most diversified branch… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 32] 1996. xviii, 501 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Morphology
Korean
Suk-Jin Chang
Spoken by nearly 70 million people not only within the Korean Peninsula but also in five continents, Korean is one of a dozen major languages of the world. Yet outside Korea it is not as much studied as it should be, nor has it acquired commensurate international recognition. With its difficult… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 4] 1996. xviii, 252 pp.
Other subjects Altaic languages | Morphology
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 | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation
Edited by James R. Black and Virginia Motapanyane
Richard Kayne’s introduction to this volume stresses that comparative work on the syntax of very closely related languages and dialects is a research tool promising to provide both a broad understanding of parameters at their finest-grained and an approach to the question of the minimal units of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 139] 1996. xviii, 269 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Minimal Ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework
Edited by Werner Abraham, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson and Jan-Wouter Zwart
The articles in this volume are inspired by the Minimalist Program first outlined in Chomsky’s MIT Fall term class lectures of 1991 and in his seminal paper “A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory”. The articles seek to develop further some key idea in the Minimalist Program, sometimes in ways… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 12] 1996. xii, 364 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Theoretical Linguistics and Grammatical Description: Papers in honour of Hans-Heinrich Lieb
Edited by Robin Sackmann and Monika Budde
This volume presents a collection of 23 papers by renowned linguists on current research in the field of theoretical linguistics. The book focuses on linguistic theory and metatheory, and on fundamental concepts and assumptions of modern linguistics. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 138] 1996. x, 375 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Units in Mandarin Conversation: Prosody, discourse, and grammar
Hongyin Tao
This book provides a new way of studying grammar. The basic thrust of the book is to investigate grammar based on a prosodic unit, the intonation unit (IU), in spontaneous speech. The author challenges the dominant practice in the study of syntax, which has been to focus on the unit of the… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 5] 1996. xvi, 226 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages
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 | Semantics
The Explanation of Linguistic Causes: Az-Zağğāğī's Theory of Grammar. Introduction, translation, commentary
Kees Versteegh
The ultimate aim of every linguistic tradition is to go beyond the purely descriptive level and seek an explanation for linguistic phenomena. Traditions differ, however, with regard to the class of linguistic phenomena they wish to explain and the framework in which they define their explanation.… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 75] 1995. xvi, 310 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | History of linguistics
Functionalism and Grammar
T. Givón
This book is Prof. Givón's long-awaited critical examination of the fundamental theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the functionalist approach to grammar. It challenges functionalists to take their own medicine and establish non-circular empirical definitions of both 'function' and… read more[Not in series, 74] 1995. xvii, 486 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Modality in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Suzanne Fleischman
This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 32] 1995. viii, 575 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Typology
On Extraction and Extraposition in German
Edited by Uli Lutz and Jürgen Pafel
Extraction has traditionally been one of the main topics in generative grammar, and it retains this status in current variants of the theory. German provides a good testing ground for traditional as well as current theories of extraction. The nine contributions to this volume document the recent… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 11] 1995. xii, 315 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics
On Subject and Theme: A discourse functional perspective
Edited by Ruqaiya Hasan † and Peter H. Fries
The ten papers in this volume focus on Subject and Theme. Theme began its life as a semantic notion in the work of Vilém Mathesius, while Subject has traditionally been seen as just a syntactic entity. More recently two related perspectives on these concepts have attracted linguists' attention: the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 118] 1995. xlvi, 414 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Word Order in Discourse
Edited by Pamela A. Downing and Michael Noonan
This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar.… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 30] 1995. x, 595 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Bilingual First Language Acquisition: French and German grammatical development
Edited by Jürgen M. Meisel
The contributions in this volume are based on an analysis of data from bilingual children acquiring French and German simultaneously. The longitudinal studies started at approximately age one year and six months and continued till age six. The papers focus on the development of specific… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 7] 1994. vi, 282 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Clitics: A comprehensive bibliography 1892–1991
Joel A. Nevis, Brian D. Joseph, Dieter Wanner and Arnold M. Zwicky
This bibliography provides an alphabetical listing of over 1500 articles, books, and dissertations that treat in some way the topic of clitics and related matters, e.g. affixes, words, word order, movement, sandhi, etc. The beginning point for the bibliographic entries is 1892, taking Jacob… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 22] 1994. xxxviii, 274 pp.
Other subjects Bibliographies in linguistics | Morphology
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 | Semantics | Typology
Kriyol Syntax: The Portuguese-based Creole language of Guinea-Bissau
Alain Kihm
This book describes the Portuguese-based Creole which is widely spoken as a first language in Guinea-Bissau. The study focuses on one variety, 'central Kriyol', and its main aim is to present a complete description of the grammar of the language. The theoretical framework for the syntactic analysis… read more[Creole Language Library, 14] 1994. xii, 310 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Romance linguistics
Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar
Edited by Teun Hoekstra and Bonnie D. Schwartz
This is a collection of essays on the native and non-native acquisition of syntax within the Principles and Parameters framework. In line with current methodology in the study of adult grammars, language acquisition is studied here from a comparative perspective. The unifying theme is the issue of… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 8] 1994. xii, 401 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
On the History of Grammar among the Arabs
Ignaz Goldziher
This essay was written in 1878 by I. Goldziher, who is considered one of the founders and greatest masters of Islamic studies in Europe. He examines the origin and early history of Arabic grammar and some features of its later development with special regard to the cultural historical apsects of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 73] 1994. xx, 153 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | History of 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 | Semantics
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 | Semantics | Typology
Universal Grammar in Child Second Language Acquisition: Null subjects and morphological uniformity
Usha Lakshmanan
This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG). Specifically, the book focuses on null-subjects in the developing grammars of children acquiring English as a second language. The book provides evidence from the longitudinal… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 10] 1994. x, 162 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Morphology
Complex Verb Formation
D. Gary Miller
This investigation of complex verb formation seeks to identify and clarify the way(s) in which a base verb becomes 'complex'. The author carefully considers both the syntactic and the morphological side of this question, and in doing so brings a wealth of data from very diverse languages to bear on… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 95] 1993. xx, 381 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
English Grammar: A function-based introduction. Volume I
T. Givón
The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and… read more[Not in series, ENGRAM 1] 1993. xxii, 318 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics
English Grammar: A function-based introduction. Volume II
T. Givón
The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and… read more[Not in series, ENGRAM 2] 1993. xv, 363 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics
English Grammar: A function-based introduction. 2 Volumes (set)
T. Givón
The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional: Grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and… read more[Not in series, ENGRAM S] 1993. xxii, 318 pp. & xvi, 363 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages: Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
Edited by Francis Byrne and Donald Winford
The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level… read more[Creole Language Library, 12] 1993. xvi, 329 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions
Carol Lord
This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 26] 1993. x, 273 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Knowledge of Reflexives in a Second Language
Margaret Thomas
This study addresses the debate about whether adult language learners have access to the principles and parameters of universal grammar in constructing the grammar of a second language. The data are based on two related experiments. The first examines the interpretation of English reflexive… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 6] 1993. x, 234 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition
The Middle Voice
Suzanne Kemmer
This book approaches the middle voice from the perspective of typology and language universals research. The principal aim is to provide a typologically valid characterization of the category of middle voice in terms of which it can be incorporated in a cognitively-based theory of human language.… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 23] 1993. xii, 300 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Prepositions in Old and Middle English: A study of prepositional syntax and the semantics of At, In and On in some Old and Middle English texts
Tom Lundskær-Nielsen
The present book covers various aspects of prepositional syntax between c. 900-1400, including case relations and the range of prepositional complements; it also examines word order, both within the PP and at clause level, and it explores changes in clausal word order. Furthermore, it provides a… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 9] 1993. x, 206 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Principles and Prediction: The analysis of natural language. Papers in honor of Gerald Sanders
Edited by Mushira Eid and Gregory Iverson
The volume is divided into four sections: typology, syntax, discourse and phonology. Two of the typology papers study the structure and organization of category systems (Joseph Greenberg, Linda Schwartz); the third discusses language typology and universals from the perspective of language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 98] 1993. xix, 382 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Phonology | Pragmatics | Typology
The Rise of Functional Categories
Elly van Gelderen
In recent years, word order has come to be seen, within a Government Binding/Minimalist framework, as determined by functional as well as lexical categories. Within this framework, functional categories are often seen as present in every language without evidence being available in that language.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 9] 1993. x, 224 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Studies in Functional Stylistics
Edited by Jan Chloupek and Jiří Nekvapil
The 15 contributions in the present collection can be divided roughly into three groups: (1) Papers directly following up functional stylistics and the theory of language culture, elaborated in the classical period of the Prague Linguistic School. (2) Papers concerning the problems of style in a… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 36] 1993. 293 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | History of linguistics | Pragmatics | Semiotics
Syntactic Change in Germanic: Aspects of language change in Germanic with particular reference to Middle Dutch
Kate Burridge
This study examines certain features of Dutch syntax between approximately 1300 and 1650. Of central importance are the overall developments in the word order patterning and the various changes they entail elsewhere in the grammar, such as in the negative construction. After an introductory chapter… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 89] 1993. xii, 287 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Varieties of Questions in English Conversation
Elizabeth G. Weber
This book examines relations which hold between morphosyntactic form and communicative function in discourse by examining form-function correlations of noninterrogative questions in ordinary English conversation. So-called nontypical declarative and nonclausal questions are identified functionally.… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 3] 1993. x, 252 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Advances in Role and Reference Grammar
Edited by Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
This volume presents research on major issues in syntactic theory within Role and Reference Grammar. This theory was first presented in detail in Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar [FSUG], and these papers represent both expansions and applications of the theory to a wide range of phenomena.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 82] 1992. xiii, 569 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Aspects of a Cognitive-Pragmatic Theory of Language: On cognition, functionalism, and grammar
Jan Nuyts
This book is about a theory of language that combines two observations (1) that language is based on an extensive cognitive infrastructure (cognitivism) and (2) that it is functional for its user (functionalism). These observations are regarded as two dimensions of one phenomenon that both need to… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 20] 1992. xii, 399 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Generative linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Deixis, Grammar, and Culture
Revere D. Perkins
Many linguists have believed that there is no connection between culture and language structures. This study reviews some of the literature supporting vocabulary connections, hypotheses for other connections, and critical views of this type of hypothesis. Precisely such a connection is developed… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 24] 1992. x, 245 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
English Text: System and structure
J.R. Martin
This book is a comprehensive introduction to text forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use. It has been designed to complement functional grammars of English, building on the generation of discourse analysis… read more[Not in series, 59] 1992. xiv, 620 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Grammars and Grammaticality
Michael B. Kac
At the outset, the goal of generative grammar was the explication of an intuitive concept grammaticality (Chomsky 1957:13). But psychological goals have become primary, referred to as “linguistic competence”, “language faculty”, or, more recently, “I-language”. Kac argues for the validity of the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 78] 1992. x, 259 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Grammatical Number in English Nouns: An empirical and theoretical account
Mark A. Wickens
Apart from the coverage given to it in the grammars, number in English nouns has received relatively little attention, especially in the area of theoretical considerations. Guided by the principles of psychomechanics, Hirtle (1982a) put forth a fairly elaborate theory of number in English nouns.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 76] 1992. xvi, 321 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility
Edited by Doris L. Payne
For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a “basic” order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the “basic” order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages.… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 22] 1992. viii, 320 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Predication
Edited by Johan De Caluwé, André Hantson and Willy Vandeweghe
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 7] 1992. 195 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Studies out in Left Field: Defamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley on his 33rd or 34th birthday. Reprint of the original edition
Edited by Arnold M. Zwicky, Peter H. Salus, Robert I. Binnick and Anthony L. Vanek
Transformational Grammar’s Underground Classic!Back in Print in the Nick of Time!(Just as the photocopies were getting too fuzzy to read!)Here is the complete and unexpurgated version of the legendary lost classic of porno- and scatolinguistic theory. Included are the seminal writings of Quang Phuc… read more[Not in series, 63] 1992. xxiv, 200 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics
The Syntax of Norwegian Passive Constructions
Tor A. Åfarli
This book provides an analysis of the passive phenomenon in general and of Norwegian passive constructions in particular. Related topics such as English passive constructions and Norwegian ergative constructions are also examined. The analysis is carried out within a Government and Binding… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 7] 1992. xii, 177 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Theoretical Syntax 1980–1990: An annotated and classified bibliography
Rosemarie Whitney Ostler
This volume is intended to be used by practicing scholars as well as students. It represents all major and some of the minor trends that have evolved during the past decade. Book titles from all available sources have been included, as well as periodical articles from the major journals, whenever… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 21] 1992. viii, 192 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine
The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 19:1] 1991. xii, 360 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine
The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 19:2] 1991. xii, 558 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700–1800 (DENG)
Bertil Sundby, Anne Kari Bjørge and Kari E. Haugland
Eighteenth-century English grammarians plead eloquently for purity, precision and perspicuity, but their method of teaching largely amounts to citing examples of impurity, imprecision and lack of clarity from contemporary writings. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed systematic… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 63] 1991. x, 486 pp.
Other subjects Dictionaries | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | History of linguistics
Discourse Particles: Descriptive and theoretical investigations on the logical, syntactic and pragmatic properties of discourse particles in German
Edited by Werner Abraham
This book is about particles in the narrower sense of the word as opposed to the broader meaning covering all uninflected words of a language. In the narrower meaning of the linguistic term particles can be distinguished between logical, or scalar particles and modal, or pragmatic particles. The… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 12] 1991. viii, 338 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
English Traditional Grammars: An international perspective
Edited by Gerhard Leitner
Until recently grammars of English have received surprisingly little scholarly attention, while a lot of research is done on dictionaries. It appears, however, that learners of English shy away from modern grammars and prefer to consult dictionaries or traditional reference grammars instead. This… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 62] 1991. x, 392 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | History of linguistics
Linguistic Theory and Grammatical Description: Nine Current Approaches
Edited by Flip G. Droste and John E. Joseph
This volume presents nine of today's grammatical theories with a view to comparing their starting points and their methods. The particular features and properties of each theory are discussed in this book, as well as the major conceptual differences and methodological obstacles each has overcome… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 75] 1991. vii, 355 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation. Proceedings of the Second International Roman Jakobson Conference, New York University, Nov. 5–8, 1985
Edited by Linda R. Waugh and Stephen Rudy
The papers in this volume reflect the renewed interest in the semantics of grammatical categories and the issues of invariance and variation in grammar. In particular, this collection presents the current understanding of invariance of grammar with respect to the synchronic and diachronic analyses… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 49] 1991. x, 540 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Perspectives on Aspect and Aktionsart
Edited by Carl Vetters and Willy Vandeweghe
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 6] 1991. 182 pp.
Other subjects Semantics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Serial Verbs: Grammatical, Comparative and Cognitive Approaches
Edited by Claire Lefebvre
The papers in this volume offer several analyses of verb serialization written within various theoretical frameworks: grammatical, comparative and cognitive/functional. They cover a wide range of language families. All authors address two basic questions about verb serialization: First, what is the… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 8] 1991. viii, 210 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Typology
Syntax: A functional-typological introduction. Volume II
T. Givón
The long-awaited second volume of the two-volume work on syntax from a functional-typological perspective. Grammar is viewed as a non-arbitrary language-processing device, to be understood in terms of the various substantive parameters relevant to language: Communicative function, cognitive… read more[Not in series, 50] 1991. xxvi, 554 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Approaches to Grammaticalization: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine
The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 19:S] 1990. xii, 360 pp. + xii, 560 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Early Arabic Grammatical Theory: Heterogeneity and standardization
Jonathan Owens
The Arabic grammatical tradition is remarkable for having organized a large amount of descriptive material within a sophisticated formal framework. The present study seeks to elucidate the early development of this system from a theory-internal perspective; it is mainly concerned with the… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 53] 1990. xvi, 294 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | History of linguistics
Layers and Levels of Representation in Language Theory: A functional view
Edited by Jan Nuyts, A. Machtelt Bolkestein and Co Vet
Rather than simply a record of proceedings (3rd International Conference on Functional Grammar, Amsterdam, June 1988), this volume contains revised and expanded papers from the conference and other papers inspired by the lively discussion there. The volume focuses on the nature of the structures… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 13] 1990. xii, 348 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Semantics | 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 | Semantics
Scrambling and Barriers
Edited by Günther Grewendorf and Wolfgang Sternefeld
The articles in this volume deal with various phenomena which have been covered traditionally by the term scrambling. The analyses presented here refer to the most recent developments in generative grammar (the so-called Barriers-framework developed in Chomsky 1986). Some of the topics discussed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 5] 1990. vi, 442 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Studies in the History of Arabic Grammar II: Proceedings of the second symposium on the history of Arabic grammar, Nijmegen, 27 April–1 May, 1987
Edited by Kees Versteegh and Michael G. Carter
This volume presents papers given at the second Symposium on the History of Arabic Grammar (Nijmegen, 1987). The subject has many aspects and invites many different approaches, which might roughly be categorized into three main groupings, viz. treatments of individual grammarians, examinations of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 56] 1990. x, 320 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | History of linguistics
Syntactic Phrase Structure Phenomena in Noun Phrases and Sentences
Edited by Christa Bhatt, Elisabeth Löbel and Claudia Maria Schmidt
The main topic of this volume is the phrase structural analysis of noun phrases and sentences. This analysis is based on recent ideas within the Government and Binding framework and makes crucial use of such modules as Theta assignment, Binding Theory, Case assignment, as well as different… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 6] 1989. ix, 187 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
Lydia White
This book explores the relationship between linguistic universals and second language acquisition. Although no knowledge of generative grammar is presupposed, the theoretical framework underlying the work is the principles and parameters approach to Universal Grammar (UG), as realized in Chomsky's… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 1] 1989. xii, 198 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Categorial Grammar
Edited by Wojciech Buszkowski, Witold Marciszewski and Johan van Benthem
This book is devoted to the mathematical foundations of categorial grammar including type-theoretic foundations of mathematics, grammatical categories and other topics related to categorial grammar and to philosophical and linguistic applications of this framework. The volume consists of three… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 25] 1988. viii, 365 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
Edited by Peter Austin
Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena. The present volume presents descriptions of complex sentence phenomena in ten Australian languages and provides important new material… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 15] 1988. vii, 289 pp.
Other subjects Australian languages | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Foundations of Grammar: An introduction to medieval Arabic grammatical theory
Jonathan Owens
The Arabic grammatical tradition is one of the great traditions in the history of linguistics, yet it is also one that is comparatively unknown to modern western linguistics. The purpose of the present book is to provide an introduction to this grammatical tradition not merely by summarizing it,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 45] 1988. xii, 371 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | History of linguistics | Medieval linguistics
Normale und gestörte Kindersprache
Harald Clahsen
Clahsen geht es in seinem neuen Buch um eine prazise empirische Theorie des kindlichen Spracherwerbs. Er argumentiert fur einige zentrale Bestandteile einer solchen Theorie, die groîenteils im Kontext linguistischer Theoriebildung stehen. Fur diesen Zweck werden vergleichende… read more[Not in series, 33] 1988. ix, 340 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Language disorders & speech pathology | Morphology | Psycholinguistics
Passive and Voice
Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani
This volume brings together 18 original papers dealing with voice-related phenomena.The languages dealt with represent both typological and geographic diversity, ranging from accusative-type languages to ergative-type and Philippine-type languages, and from Australia to Africa and Siberia. The… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 16] 1988. xi, 706 pp.
Other subjects Typology
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 Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Typology of Resultative Constructions: Translated from the original Russian edition (1983)
Edited by Vladimir P. Nedjalkov
This volume, originally published in Russian, combines data from a wide range of languages, meticulously analyzed, with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus capable of isolating the most important syntactic and semantic parameters and of drawing those generalizations that are most significant from… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 12] 1988. xx, 573 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Coherence and Grounding in Discourse: Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984
Russell S. Tomlin
This volume seeks to expand our understanding of the relation holding between discourse relations, cognitive units, and linguistic coding. The twenty contributions in this collection explore one or more of the following themes: How point of view, or the salience of information in discourse, affects… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 11] 1987. viii, 512 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Discourse and Word Order
Olga T. Yokoyama
Integrating various aspects of human communication traditionally treated in a number of separate disciplines, Olga T. Yokoyama develops a universal model of the smallest unit of informational discourse, and uncovers the regularities that govern the intentional verbal transfer of knowledge from one… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 6] 1987. xii, 361 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Grammatical Relations in a Radical Creole: Verb Complementation in Saramaccan
Francis Byrne
With English and Portuguese as parent languages; the significant lexical retention of African languages; and the relative isolation of its speakers, Saramaccan has always stood out among Creole languages. Yet despite its obvious interest Saramaccan received little in the way of scholarly study.… read more[Creole Language Library, 3] 1987. xiv, 293 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies
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 | Semantics
The Syntax of Serial Verbs: An investigation into serialisation in Sranan and other languages
Mark Sebba
This monograph is about the chains of verbs commonly found in Creole Languages, West African languages, in particular the Kwa sub-group of Niger-Congo, Chinese and certain other languages and have acquired the name of 'serial verbs' in the literature. As a case study, the serial constructions of… read more[Creole Language Library, 2] 1987. xv, 226 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies
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 | Semantics
Sentence Adverbials in a Functional Description
Eva Koktová
The author presents empirical arguments in favor of a joint syntactico-semantic treatment, within the framework of a functional generative description, of a range of adverbial expressions which should be viewed as belonging to a single, lexically heterogeneous but functionally homogeneous, class… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:2] 1986. viii, 96 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Strategies and Structures: The processing of relative clauses
Gary D. Prideaux and Will Baker
In this monograph, the nature of processing strategies is explored in some detail, with an attempt to cut through the maze of often contradictory and confused proposals concerning the nature and form of various strategies. Once a preliminary conception of the nature of cognitive strategies and a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 46] 1986. ix, 197 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Typology
Surface Syntax of English: A formal model within the meaning-text framework
Igor Mel’čuk and Nikolaj V. Pertsov
This book is the first attempt to describe the syntax of Contemporary English exclusively in terms of dependencies (most American works on the subject being in terms of phrase structure, or constituency). The three main features of it are: (1) a fully formal presentation, (2) a reasonably complete… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 13] 1986. xv, 526 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics
Dépendance et niveaux de représentation en syntaxe
Jean-Roger Vergnaud
Dans cette étude, nous développons une approche formelle de quelques problèmes de linguistique. Les questions que nous considérons se rattachent plus spécialement à la théorie des dépendances et à celle des niveaux de représentation, ainsi qu'à la relation entre ces théories: une théorie formelle… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 13] 1985. xvi, 372 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983
Edited by John Haiman †
The papers in this volume all explore one kind of functional explanation for various aspects of linguistic form – iconicity: linguistic forms are frequently the way they are because they resemble the conceptual structures they are used to convey, or, linguistic structures resemble each other… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 6] 1985. vi, 402 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French
Betsy K. Barnes
Left detachment constructions (LDs) (e.g. un buffet de campagne, c’est un meuble) are examined in a corpus of informal spontaneous conversation between educated native speakers of French. The overwhelming majority of these constructions are shown to have a clearly pragmatic motivation. The author’s… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:3] 1985. viii, 123 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
Syntaxe des verbes de mouvement en coréen contemporain
Chai-Song Hong
Ce travail est une description syntaxique des constructions des verbes de mouvement (Vmt) en coréen contemporain. L’objectif immédiat est the caractériser syntaxiquement les phrases acceptant un Vmt et de décrire leurs propriétés formelles. Dans cette optique, on doit: construire sur la base de… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 12] 1985. xv, 309 pp.
Other subjects Altaic languages | Linguistics of isolated languages
Theoretical Aspects of Passivization in the Framework of Applicative Grammar
Jean-Pierre Desclés, Zlatka Guentchéva and Sebastian Shaumyan
Passivization is explained by using the formalism of combinatory logic. The agented passive is derived from the agentless as follows: a term denoting an agent is transposed into a predicate modifier and applied to the passive predicate of the agentless construction. The passive predicate consists… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:1] 1985. viii, 115 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | 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 | Semantics
Interrogativity: A colloquium on the grammar, typology and pragmatics of questions in seven diverse languages, Cleveland, Ohio, October 5th 1981-May 3rd 1982
Edited by William Chisholm, Louis T. Milic and John A.C. Greppin
This is a comparative study on the subject of interrogativity, presenting broad and narrow attributes on this subject in diverse languages: Russian, Mandarin, Georgian, Bengali, Bantu, Japanese, West Greenlandic and Ute. Each contribution presents, first the basic facts about the language in… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 4] 1984. v, 302 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Typology
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Semiotics
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 | Semantics
Syntax: A functional-typological introduction. Volume I
T. Givón
[Not in series, 17] 1984. xx, 464 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 Semantics
Les verbes de mouvement en français et en espagnol: Etude comparée de leurs infinitives
Béatrice Lamiroy
Ce livre présente une étude comparée des infinitives des verbes de mouvement en français et en espagnol, avec l’intention d’illustrer la valeur heuristique de la pratique comparative en confrontant deux langues sur un point particulier de la syntaxe. read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 11] 1983. xiv, 323 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Romance linguistics
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 | Semantics
On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermania: Papers from the 3rd Groningen Grammar Talks (3e Groninger Grammatikgespräche), Groningen, January 1981
Edited by Werner Abraham
It has often been noted that Dutch (and Frisian) reflects a particular stage of development between German and English. Phonologically, syntactically and morphologically, Dutch and German are closely related languages. Yet, there remain sufficient morphosyntactic differences in terms of language… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 3] 1983. vi, 242 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Word Order Typology and Comparative Constructions
Paul Kent Andersen
This monograph, discussing various aspects involved with a typology of word order, strives to take a next step towards a better understanding of the profound unity underlying languages. The volume is divided into five sections: 1) Word order typology; 2) A critical analysis of word order typology;… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 25] 1983. xvii, 245 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Typology
Approaches to Syntax
Jean-Pierre Paillet and André Dugas
This volume is an enhanced version of the English translation from the French original edition 'Principes d'analyse syntaxique' (Québec, 1973). It provides a survey of theoretical approaches to syntax, including traditional grammars, structuralism, functionalism, and formal approaches. read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 5] 1982. viii, 282 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
The Communicative Perspective in the Sentence: A study of Latin word order
Dirk G.J. Panhuis
This monograph fills a gap in our understanding of a so-called free word order language. Thus far many observations have been made on Latin word order, particularly within the noun phrase. Yet a more systematic investigation with respect to the order of the sentence consituents was still lacking,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 11] 1982. viii, 178 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Semantics
The Structure of Complementation
Antonio Carlos Quicoli
The study of complementation has received considerable attention in generative studies. Following Rosenbaum's (1967) pioneering study of the English complement system, there are extensive studies by Lakoff (1965), Ross (1967), Perlmutter (1971) and a large number of publications. More recent… read more[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 3] 1982. xii, 172 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Apollonius Dyscolus: The Syntax of Apollonius Dyscolus
Translated and with commentary by Fred W. Householder
Apollonius Dyscolus was the first formal syntactician in Graeco-Roman linguistics. He considered the nature of language to be logical and rule-governed, and assumed an underlying structure for all levels of language. It might be said that from the work of his predecessors, he extracted syntax. This… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 23] 1981. vi, 281 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | History of linguistics
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 Semantics
Prepositions: An analytical bibliography
Claude Guimier
The aim of the present bibliography is to provide a single and reasonably comprehensive list of books and articles which deal with problems related to prepositions in natural languages. If most of publications listed consider syntax or semantics, they also take into account morphological,… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 8] 1981. viii, 244 pp.
Other subjects Bibliographies in linguistics
Topic, Antitopic and Verb Agreement in Non-Standard French
Knud Lambrecht
The author describes and explains the syntactic and pragmatic properties of the nominal and pronominal elements in sentences of the types Ces Romains ils sont fous and Ils sont fous, ces Romains, which, in spite of their frequent occurrence, have so far received little attention among linguists and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:6] 1981. vii, 113 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
Analyse syntaxique du Français: Grammaire en chaîne
Morris Salkoff
Cet essai prolongue l’esquisse d’analyse distributionelle que l’on trouvera dans Un grammaire en chaîne du français (Salkoff, 1973). Dans ce livre ici, l’auteur presente quelques aspects additionels de la grammaire et du programme associé, necessaire pour analyser un texte scientifique. Le chapitre… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 2] 1980. xvi, 334 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications
Edited by Gary D. Prideaux, Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker
Linguistics has suffered from the lack of interaction between theoretical and experimental activities. In order to carry out experimental studies in language it is, of course, necessary to have a descriptive system for the stimuli, and formal linguistics has provided a plethora of alternative… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 3] 1980. vi, 321 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The History of Grammar in the Middle Ages: Collected Papers. With a select bibliography, and indices
Richard William Hunt (1908–1979)
This volume brings together a number of papers written by R. W. Hunt (1908-1979) on the history of grammar in the Middle Ages. The importance of these papers lies almost as much in the spark of scholarly investigation that they have inspired, as in their contribution to original research. The first… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 5] 1980. xxxvi, 214 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Medieval linguistics
Linguistic Reconstruction and Indo-European Syntax: Proceedings of the Colloquium of the 'Indogermanische Gesellschaft'. University of Pavia, 6–7 September 1979
Edited by Paolo Ramat
The aim of the colloquium, from which this volume derives, was to bring together approaches from general linguistics and language reconstruction, to show how these can benefit from eachother. Although the focus was on Indo-European languages, other language families were present in the discussion,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 19] 1980. viii, 263 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Anaphora in Generative Grammar
Thomas Wasow
Intuitively, it is clear why languages have anaphoric relations: anaphora reduces redundancy, thereby shortening (and hence simplifying) sentences. In order for this simplification to be possible, however, it is necessary that the speaker of a language be able to identify correctly the elements… read more[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 2] 1979. x, 181 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | 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 | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Linear Order and Generative Theory
Edited by Jürgen M. Meisel and Martin D. Pam
The term ‘word order studies’ designates an area of syntax which has become an increasingly central theme in linguistic research. Since, in at least a narrow sense, syntax is the study of how meaningful elements are put together to form sentences, a preoccupation with word order would seem inherent… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 7] 1979. ix, 512 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Prolegomena to a Grammar of Basque
Terence H. Wilbur
The purpose of this study is to apply experimentally the principles of recent grammatical theories to the facts of the Basque language. This study aims to test out those principles, and endeavours to discover the best form for a grammar of Basque. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 8] 1979. x, 188 pp.
Other subjects Basque linguistics
The Order of Words in the Ancient Languages compared with that of the Modern Languages
Henri Weil (1818–1909)
New edition of a pioneering work on word order, which originally appeared in French in 1844 (3rd ed., 1879), with an index. read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 14] 1978. xxxix, 114 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | History of 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 Semantics | 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 | Semantics