SubjectsLinguistics / Theoretical linguistics
Book series
ISSN 1878-7916
Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research
Edited by Nanon Labrie and Ninke Stukker
ISSN 1566-7774
IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature
Studies, Editions and Translations
Edited by Vicent Martines
ISSN 2211-5412
Language Faculty and Beyond
Internal and External Variation in Linguistics
Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Pierre Pica
ISSN 1877-6531
Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe
Edited by Petr Sgall and Eva Hajičová
ISSN 0165-7712
Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa
Edited by Jorge Baptista, Cédrick Fairon, Natalia Grabar and Corinne Rossari
ISSN 0165-7569
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague N.S.
Edited by Eva Hajičová and Petr Sgall
ISSN 1383-7583
Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching
Edited by Manfred Pienemann, Bruno Di Biase and Jörg-U. Keßler
ISSN 2210-6480
Studies in Germanic Linguistics
Edited by Michael T. Putnam, Laura Catharine Smith, David Natvig and Hanna Fischer
ISSN 2452-2120
Studies in Language and Social Interaction
Edited by Sandra A. Thompson and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
ISSN 1879-3983
Typological Studies in Language
Edited by Sonia Cristofaro and Jean-Christophe Verstraete
ISSN 0167-7373
Yearbooks
Linguistics in the Netherlands
AVT Publications
Editorial Board: Hans Broekhuis, Marcel den Dikken, Janet Grijzenhout, Paula Fikkert, Helen de Hoop, Henk van Riemsdijk, Jeroen van de Weijer and Wim van der Wurff
ISSN 0929-7332 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9919
Journals
Arabic Linguistics
Edited by Enam Al-Wer, Lina Choueiri and Uri Horesh
ISSN 2950-1806 | E‑ISSN 2950‑1792
Asia-Pacific Language Variation
Edited by Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and Rebecca Lurie Starr
ISSN 2215-1354 | E‑ISSN 2215‑1362
Asian Languages and Linguistics
Edited by Danqing Liu, Ailan Fu and Gong Cheng
ISSN 2665-9336 | E‑ISSN 2665‑9344
ISSN 1810-7478 | E‑ISSN 2589‑5230
Functions of Language
Edited by J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Elena Smirnova and Sumin Zhao
ISSN 0929-998X | E‑ISSN 1569‑9765
Interactional Linguistics
Edited by Ilana Mushin and Simona Pekarek Doehler
ISSN 2666-4224 | E‑ISSN 2666‑4232
International Journal of Chinese Linguistics
Edited by Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, Ning Yu and Hongming Zhang
ISSN 2213-8706 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8714
Journal of Uralic Linguistics
Edited by Anders Holmberg and Balázs Surányi
ISSN 2772-3720 | E‑ISSN 2772‑3739
Language, Context and Text
The Social Semiotics Forum
Edited by Xingwei Miao and Akila Sellami Baklouti
ISSN 2589-7233 | E‑ISSN 2589‑7241
Languages in Contrast
International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics
Edited by Kristel Van Goethem and Gudrun Vanderbauwhede
ISSN 1387-6759 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9897
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Edited by Holger Hopp and Tanja Kupisch
ISSN 1879-9264 | E‑ISSN 1879‑9272
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
Nota Bene
Journal for Linguistics in Belgium and The Netherlands
Edited by Steven Schoonjans and Helen de Hoop
ISSN 2950-189X | E‑ISSN 2950‑1881
Sign Language & Linguistics
Edited by Roland Pfau and Pamela Perniss
ISSN 1387-9316 | E‑ISSN 1569‑996X
Studies in Language
General Editor: Katharina Haude and Nicole Kruspe
ISSN 0378-4177 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9978
Acquisition of Korean: The state of the art
Edited by Soonja Choi
In chapters encompassing phonology, reading and writing, the lexicon, morphology, syntax, and semantics, Acquisition of Korean: The state of the art offers a comprehensive overview of research in each area, along with cutting-edge original studies. Designed to document, support, and inspire… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 36] 2026. vii, 505 pp. + index
Other subjects Koreanic languages | Language acquisition
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 | Syntax
At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Anna Rogos-Hebda and Heli Tissari
This volume explores the synergy between historical and cognitive linguistics, demonstrating how the two can jointly shed light on patterns of language change. Focusing on figurative language, particularly metaphor and metonymy, it features a range of case studies that zoom in on the emergence and… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 21] 2026. vii, 288 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Historical linguistics
Contrasting English and Polish Emotion Clusters
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Paul A. Wilson
Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals. This book delves into this very topic, analysing similarities and contrasts between Polish and English grouping and categorising emotions.The book combines a… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 80] 2026. xx, 379 pp. + index
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics
Cross-linguistic Register Variation
Edited by Sylvi Rørvik and Marlén Izquierdo
A current trend in contrastive corpus linguistics is to take register variation as a point of departure for identifying similarities and differences across languages. This volume looks back at central previous contributions in this area, and adds to our store of knowledge in the form of nine… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 125] 2026. v, 267 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Translation Studies
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 | Syntax
The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations
Edited by Sonja Riesberg, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig
The documentarist turn, i.e., the growing impact of documentary concepts and practices within general linguistics, has increased awareness of the empirical foundations of our discipline, accompanied by an appreciation of the value of observable linguistic behaviour. Today, there exist… read more
Epistemological issue: What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation
Edited by Matthew T. Carlson and Jorge González Alonso
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:1 (2026) v, 100 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
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.
A Linguistic Comparison of Chinese and English: Structural, functional, and typological perspectives
Chao Li
The book examines similarities and differences between Chinese and English from structural, functional, and typological perspectives. The linguistic comparison undertaken covers various aspects of the two languages, including, for example, typological features, the phonological system, the writing… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 239] 2026. xv, 399 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Pardon my French?: Dutch–French language contact in the Netherlands (1500–1900)
Gijsbert Rutten, Andreas Krogull, Brenda Assendelft and Jill Puttaert
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Dutch–French contact situation in the Early and Late Modern period, when the Dutch language and culture supposedly underwent frenchification in various spheres of life. Bringing together empirical approaches based on a wide range of datasets,… read more
Silent Instruments: Syntax, semantics, and acquisition of the instrumental role in Italian
Alice Suozzi
This book offers the first systematic investigation of the instrumental role across syntax, semantics, and language acquisition. Focusing primarily on Italian within a comparative perspective, the book addresses a long-standing puzzle: why Instruments can be syntactically omitted even when they… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 293] 2026. xiv, 217 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
Speaking of Writing Romani: Language attitudes, text editing, and variability
Melanie Schippling
As a traditionally oral language spoken in areas with a literacy-based culture, Romani provides a unique case for the study of orality and literacy. In a mixed-methods approach, this work investigates attitudes of Romani speakers towards the modalities, their communicative functions and use, and… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 56] 2026. xix, 432 pp.
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 | Syntax
This is the Thing: A cognitive/typological investigation into the concept of ‘thinghood’
Michael Fortescue
This monograph investigates for the first time words like ‘thing’ of maximal semantic generality across languages. Not all languages have exact equivalents of English ‘thing’ – in some, for instance, the nearest equivalent is an interrogative stem (‘what?’). Few languages extend their ‘thing’ words… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 79] 2026. ix, 220 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Typology
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 Syntax
Turn-Taking in Second Language Acquisition: The role of prosody in turn-end prediction
Emilia Nottbeck
This volume investigates to what extent second language learners of English anticipate the end of a speaker’s turn during turn-taking and what role prosodic cues play in this process. Drawing on two reaction-time experiments that partially replicate earlier turn-taking studies, it compares native… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 10] 2026. xv, 246 pp. + index
Other subjects Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Phonetics | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics
Advanced Quantitative Methods in Bi-/Multilingualism
Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, George Pontikas and Ian Cunnings
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:4 (2025) v, 175 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Approaches to Hungarian 19
Edited by Edgar Onea and Balázs Surányi
Special issue of Journal of Uralic Linguistics 4:1 (2025) v, 143 pp.
Other subjects Uralic languages
Areal Effects on Argument-Coding Patterns
Edited by Daria Alfimova, Kirill Kozhanov and Sergey Say
Special issue of Studies in Language 49:4 (2025) v, 201 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
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 | Syntax
COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures
Edited by Xu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses
The COVID-19 pandemic set off a maelstrom of social, cultural, and political changes—as well as some surprising linguistic ones. This volume explores these dramatic changes through the lens of Cognitive Linguistics, analysing noteworthy examples of pandemic discourse to reveal correspondences and… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] 2025. vi, 344 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
Cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English
Anna Finzel
The study presented in this book explores the cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English, drawing on the research fields of Cultural Linguistics, Cognitive Sociolinguistics and World Englishes. With the help of different methodologies and empirical data in the form… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 17] 2025. xxi, 229 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Dialect on Air: Bahamian Creole in historical radio broadcasts
Diana Wengler
Despite the increasing interest in diachronic linguistic studies, such research remains particularly scarce for creole varieties, largely due to the limited availability of historical data on non-standard languages. This book addresses this gap by introducing a soap opera from the early 1970s as a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G71] 2025. xvii, 198 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries
Edited by Christopher Joby and Nicoline van der Sijs
Whilst the Dutch language cannot be considered a world language in the manner of English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French, the fact that speakers of Dutch have sailed to the four corners of the earth means that it cannot be overlooked in language-contact studies. This volume brings together scholars… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 55] 2025. vi, 584 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”
Edited by Yoko Fujii, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft and Kishiko Ueno
Emancipatory Pragmatics represents a unique contribution to the field of pragmatics. Most research in the field has focused on English and other Western languages, but the study of Japanese and other non-Western languages, as is done in this volume, has led to a broader understanding of language… read moreOther subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Epistemological issue: Translanguaging
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:1 (2025) vi, 116 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Eyes on Text: Eye movements in reading and language processing
Cengiz Acartürk
Eyes on Text presents a contemporary overview of research on eye movements in reading and language processing by spinning around the heptagon of cognitive science, which consists of linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, artificial intelligence, education in its corners. The book… read more[Natural Language Processing, 16] 2025. xiii, 342 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Writing and literacy
First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages
Edited by Minna Kirjavainen, Ágnes Lukács and Virve-Anneli Vihman
This book is the first comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the first language acquisition of four Finno-Ugric languages: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, and North Saami. Ten chapters review research on phonological, lexical, and grammatical development, bringing the research within the… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 33] 2025. vii, 349 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Uralic languages
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 | Syntax
Germanic Interrelations: Studies in memory of Hans Frede Nielsen
Edited by Stephen Laker, Carla Falluomini, Steffen Krogh, Robert Nedoma and Michael Schulte
This volume celebrates Hans Frede Nielsen’s contribution to the field of Germanic studies and his work as founding editor of the journal and book series North-Western European Language Evolution. Twenty peer-reviewed articles explore a broad range of topics involving North and West Germanic… read moreOther subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
The Grammar of Canonical and Non-canonical Wh-constructions
Edited by C.-T. James Huang
Special issue of Concentric 51:2 (2025) v, 172 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics
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 | Syntax
Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022
Edited by Holly Kennard, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden
This book offers a peer-reviewed selection of the best and most original contributions to the twenty-fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. They faithfully reflect the spirit of the Conference in that they all display a shared passion for the diachronic study of language but also… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 369] 2025. vi, 310 pp.
Other subjects Historical 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 | Syntax
Instructing Bodies
Edited by Leelo Keevallik, Emily Hofstetter and Jan Lindström
Special issue of Interactional Linguistics 5:1/2 (2025) v, 228 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Edited by Mark Amengual and Amanda Dalola
The study of Romance linguistics has long been a vibrant and dynamic field, enriched by diverse theoretical perspectives and a range of methodological innovations. This volume gathers contributions from leading scholars and emerging voices in the field to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 45] 2025. vi, 331 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga
Language isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates, including a… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 135] 2025. vii, 339 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Linguistics of isolated languages | Typology
Italo-Romance Heritage Languages: Multiple approaches
Edited by Eugenio Goria and Margherita Di Salvo
This volume brings together research on Italian and Italo-Romance varieties spoken as heritage languages across the world, with contributions from different fields of linguistics and from diverse regions (the Americas, Australia, Europe). It offers a timely update on the state of the art, combining… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 68] 2025. vi, 302 pp.
Other subjects Multilingualism | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Le verbe vouloir dans tous ses états
Edited by Anouch Bourmayan
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:1 (2025) v, 177 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Mathematical Modelling in Linguistics and Text Analysis: Theory and applications
Edited by Adam Pawłowski, Sheila Embleton, Jan Mačutek and Aris Xanthos
This book is a panorama of contemporary quantitative linguistics, as developed over decades. It highlights the main topics of QL: statistical laws of language, taxonomy of linguistic phenomena, authorial attribution, quantitative analysis of syntax (e.g., dependency grammar), measurement of text… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 370] 2025. vi, 241 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics
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 | Syntax
Multilingualism and Language Contact in Asia-Pacific
Edited by Shobha Satyanath
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 11:1/2 (2025) vi, 222 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole: Standardization, grammar and language use
Edited by Muhsina Alleesaib and Julie Lefort
In the South-West Indian Ocean, Mauritius and Reunion are part of a group of islands where French-based Creoles are spoken. In spite of their geographical proximity, Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole are strikingly different in their morphosyntax. The first part of this volume describes some… read more[Contact Language Library, 61] 2025. vi, 326 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Romance 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 | Syntax
Our People’s Language: Variation and change in the Lánnang-uè of the Manila Lannangs. (Dân láng-e uè: Mga Manilá Lánnáng-e Lánnang-uè-e pagka-varỳ kâp pagka-pièn)
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
This book pioneers the study of Lánnang-uè, deeply embedded in Manila’s Lannang community’s culture. It approaches Lánnang-uè not just as a language but as a vibrant social practice, highlighting its variability and complex social meanings (e.g., identity-marking). Over six years and with more than… read more[Contact Language Library, 62] 2025. xiv, 461 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXV: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Washington, D.C., 2022
Edited by Ahmad Al-Qassas
This volume contains nine chapters that cover a wide range of topics in Arabic linguistic research. The papers are organized into four parts; these are phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, and decolonizing linguistics. Drawing on a wide range of Arabic varieties, articles in… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 14] 2025. vii, 219 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
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 | Syntax
Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards
Edited by Philipp Meer and Ryan Durgasingh
This edited collection engages with the contentious debate surrounding standard varieties and their distribution. For the past three decades, these arguments have coalesced around two camps: pluricentricity (the idea that standard varieties are intimately associated with nation states, with more… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 32] 2025. viii, 197 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
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 | Syntax
Proper Names
Edited by Chia-Jung Pan and Yang Huang
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 6:1 (2025) v, 252 pp.
The Quality of Quantity, the Quantity of Quality
Edited by Steven Schoonjans
Published with support from the University Foundation / de Universitaire Stichting van België / la Fondation Universitiaire de Belgique
read moreSpecial issue of Nota Bene 2:1 (2025) v, 225 pp.
Research at the Intersection of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics: Studies in honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin
Edited by Megan Solon, Matthew Kanwit and Aarnes Gudmestad
This volume honors the scholarly legacy of Kimberly L. Geeslin. Geeslin’s pioneering work on variation in the Spanish copula system united and extended research in the fields of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Geeslin laid the foundation for a growing subfield of investigation… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 43] 2025. ix, 370 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
SFL Appliability, Visibility and Accessibility
Edited by Claudia E. Stoian, Jorge Arús-Hita and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
Special issue of Language, Context and Text 7:2 (2025) v, 297 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Functional linguistics | Semiotics
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 | Syntax
Second Language Cognitive Task Complexity: A research synthesis
Shoko Sasayama, Aleksandra Malicka and John M. Norris
This book addresses the topic of cognitive task complexity as it has been investigated in second language (L2) task-based research. This interest is premised on the notion that communication tasks may differ systematically in the types and amounts of cognitive complexity they present to L2… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 18] 2025. xi, 295 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Selected Papers from the 37th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
Edited by Reem Khamis and Mira Goral
Special issue of Arabic Linguistics 1:2 (2025) v, 135 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
Spanish Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century: Current trends and methodologies
Edited by Cecilia Montes-Alcalá and Miguel García
This volume features the latest advancements in Spanish sociolinguistics, drawing from the 10th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS10). Organized into three sections, its nine chapters explore crucial issues in bilingualism and sociolinguistic variation (morpho-syntactic, phonetic,… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 42] 2025. xi, 241 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Today’s Innovations, Tomorrow’s Conventions: Usage-based approaches to incipient developments in English
Edited by David Lorenz and David Tizón-Couto
Special issue of Functions of Language 32:1 (2025) v, 161 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Variation in Language Acquisition: Unity in diversity
Edited by Laura Rosseel and Eline Zenner
This volume, resulting from the fifth edition of the conference series Variation in Language Acquisition (ViLA), brings together research at the intersection of language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Work within the ViLA tradition explores how learners—from preschoolers to adult second-language… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 34] 2025. vi, 262 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel
Edited by B. Richard Page and Michael T. Putnam
This volume pays homage to the legacy of William D. Keel and the significant impact of his research on German in contact settings from myriad perspectives and traditions. It includes structural and sociolinguistic studies focusing on varieties of German spoken throughout the world, including… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 10] 2025. vi, 275 pp.
What makes a Figure: Rethinking figurativity
Edited by Herbert L. Colston
This volume presents works seeking to re-think the very nature and scope of figurativity, calling into attention some of the received tenets in accounts of figurativity, both as a holistic category and for individual types and families of figures, but also attempting to expand upon the current… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 19] 2025. vi, 322 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics
World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies
Edited by Peter Siemund, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl
World Englishes coexist and interact with local languages in multilingual ecologies. Multilingual speakers use the languages in their ecologies for different functions, with different interlocutors, and at different proficiency levels. Attitudinal responses to the languages vary. Speaker groups are… read moreOther subjects English linguistics | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
(Inter)subjectivity across registers of Estonian: Special issue of the Journal of Uralic Linguistics 3:2 (2024)
Edited by Helle Metslang, Tiit Hennoste and Külli Habicht
Special issue of Journal of Uralic Linguistics 3:2 (2024) v, 178 pp.
Other subjects Uralic languages
Beyond Disfluency: The interplay of speech, gesture, and interaction
Loulou Kosmala
This book pioneers a tridimensional approach to (dis)fluency, evaluating fluency across three different dimensions, mainly speech, gesture, and interaction. Drawing from an extensive video dataset covering different languages and speech genres in French and English, the present research goes beyond… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 11] 2024. xii, 264 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Gesture Studies | Interaction Studies | Psycholinguistics
Challenges in Corpus Linguistics: Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis
Edited by Mark Kaunisto and Marco Schilk
This book contributes to the discussion of challenges faced in different areas of corpus linguistics, namely the compilation, annotation, and analysis of linguistic corpora. In a field of growing corpus sizes and expanding possibilities of gathering data, some old issues persist, while at the same… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 118] 2024. vii, 172 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Computational & corpus linguistics | Corpus linguistics
Cognitive Semantics: A cultural-historical perspective
Vladimir Glebkin
The book presents two fundamental theories that characterize the cultural-historical perspective in cognitive semantics: the Four-Level Theory of Cognitive Development (FLTCD) and the Sociocultural Theory of Lexical Complexes (STLC) as well as their application to the analysis of specific material.… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 15] 2024. v, 242 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics
Comparing Crosslinguistic Complexity
Edited by Jenny Ström Herold and Magnus Levin
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 24:1 (2024) v, 163 pp.
Other subjects Comparative 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 | Syntax
Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings
Edited by Bertus van Rooy and Haidee Kotze
Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings explores an innovative proposal: that linguistic similarities identified in different forms of contact-influenced varieties of language use (including translation, native and non-native varieties of… read more[Contact Language Library, 60] 2024. vi, 293 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
The Continuity of Linguistic Change: Selected papers in honour of Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda
Edited by Matilde Vida-Castro and Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz
The Continuity of Linguistic Change presents a collection of selected papers in honour of Professor Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda. The essays revolve around the study of linguistic variation and the mechanisms and processes associated with linguistic change, a field to which Villena-Ponsoda has… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 31] 2024. ix, 194 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative
Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao
Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. Using a corpus approach, speech, writing, and thought presentation in 21st-century present-tense narrative is compared with 20th-century past-tense… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 43] 2024. xx, 269 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Narrative Studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics
Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer
This volume illustrates new trends in corpus linguistics and shows how corpus approaches can be used to investigate new datasets and emerging areas in linguistics and related fields. It addresses innovative research questions, for example how prosodic analyses can increase the accuracy of syntactic… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 119] 2024. vi, 265 pp.
Other subjects Corpus 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 | Syntax
The Development of Aspirated Fricatives in Gothic: A contact-linguistic perspective
Seiichi Suzuki
This book presents three major hypotheses concerning the development of fricatives in Gothic. First, Gothic introduced aspiration or a phonological feature [spread glottis] to the fricative system. Second, this acquisition of aspirated fricatives should be explained as a contact-induced change.… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 9] 2024. xix, 155 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical 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 | Syntax
English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers: A contrastive interlanguage analysis across intonational dimensions
Karin McClellan
Discover the intricate dynamics of L2 prosody with this pioneering study, which examines how advanced learners from Czech, German, and Spanish backgrounds engage with British and American English intonation. By employing a multidimensional approach - spanning phonetic, phonological,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 120] 2024. xix, 296 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Phonology
Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1 (2024) vi, 114 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Evidentiality, Modality and Grammaticalization
Edited by Eric Mélac
Special issue of Studies in Language 48:3 (2024) v, 240 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
Evolution and Revolution in Language and Linguistics
Edited by Janine Berns, Marie Steffens and Esther Baiwir
Published with support from the University Foundation / de Universitaire Stichting van België / la Fondation Universitiaire de Belgique
read moreSpecial issue of Nota Bene 1:1 (2024) v, 114 pp.
The Fine-grained Structure of the Lexical Area: Gender, appreciatives and nominal suffixes in Spanish
Antonio Fábregas
This is the first book that presents a complete description and analysis of the Spanish suffixes that alter the grammatical behaviour of nouns and adjectives without changing their grammatical category, supporting a fine-grained decomposition of the syntactic area where these word classes are… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 39] 2024. xiii, 394 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Romance linguistics | Semantics
Frequency, Dispersion, Association, and Keyness: Revising and tupleizing corpus-linguistic measures
Stefan Th. Gries
This book is an attempt to revisit the main specifically corpus-linguistic statistics/measures the field has been relying on for decades: frequency, dispersion, association, and keyness. The book first discusses the purpose of these measures and how they have been measured. Then, the book makes… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 115] 2024. vii, 321 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Corpus 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 | Syntax
The Functions of Evidentiality
Edited by Eric Mélac and Pascale Leclercq
Special issue of Functions of Language 31:1 (2024) v, 114 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019
Edited by Bethwyn Evans, Maria Kristina Gallego and Luisa Miceli
This volume comprises a selection of papers that were presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24), which took place at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra from 1-5 July, 2019. The volume’s aim is to reflect the breadth of research presented at… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 367] 2024. vi, 368 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
Intonation in Language Contact: The case of Spanish in Catalonia
Jonas Grünke
The intense language contact between Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia has led to cross-linguistic influence at all linguistic levels, but its effect on the prosody of these languages has received little attention to date. Based on semi-spontaneous and read speech data from 31 Catalan–Spanish… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 286] 2024. ix, 427 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Phonology | Romance linguistics
Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell
Edited by Jennifer Hendriks and B. Richard Page
This volume celebrates Robert B. Howell's wide-ranging contribution as a scholar, mentor, collaborator, and colleague in the field of Germanic linguistics. In addition to investigating present-day or past varieties of Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Flemish, German, and Pennsylvania Dutch, each of the… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 8] 2024. vi, 327 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Keys to the History of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography. Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL
Edited by Thijs Porck, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon
This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The contributions deal with various aspects of English language across time and geographical space, shedding light on both long-term… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 363] 2024. vii, 235 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
La Référence Floue
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Frédéric Landragin
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 47:2 (2024) vi, 254 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
Language Acquisition in Romance Languages
Edited by Vicenç Torrens
The research presented in this volume covers first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language heritage and language impairment. Papers in this collection use a variety of experimental methods, such as eye-tracking, elicitation tasks, production tasks administered off-line and… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 18] 2024. viii, 308 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics | Romance linguistics
Lectures on Language Theory 1942–1943
Louis Hjelmslev
The present book is the English translation of Louis Hjelmslev’s lectures on glossematics, the theory of language developed in the forties by him and Hans Jørgen Uldall, and taught at the University of Copenhagen in 1942-43, thoroughly taken down in shorthand by his student Harry Wett Frederiksen.… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 132] 2024. viii, 234 pp.
Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives
Edited by Israel Sanz-Sánchez
This volume connects the latest research on language acquisition across the lifespan with the explanation of language change in specific sociohistorical settings. This conversation benefits from recent advances in two areas: on the one hand, the study of how learners of various ages and in various… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 14] 2024. x, 336 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Linguistic Constructions
Edited by Beata Trawiński, Marc Kupietz and Kristel Proost
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 24:2 (2024) v, 160 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2024
Edited by Marco Bril and Kristel Doreleijers
Special issue of Nota Bene 1:2 (2024) vi, 237 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 | Syntax
Moving towards Peace, Compassion and Empathy through Semiotic Enquiry: Special issue of the Journal Language, Context and Text 6:1 (2024)
Edited by Elizabeth A. Thomson, Awni Etaywe, Ingrid Wijeyewardene and Penny Wheeler
Special issue of Language, Context and Text 6:1 (2024) vi, 225 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Functional linguistics | Semiotics
Multifaceted Multilingualism
Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann
This volume collects research on language, cognition, and communication in multilingualism. Apart from theoretical concerns including grammatical description, language-specific analyses, and modeling of multilingualism, different fields of study and research interests center around three core… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 66] 2024. x, 434 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity
Edited by Elena Babatsouli
The volume espouses an ecosystemic standpoint on multilingual acquisition and learning, viewing language development and use as both ontogenesis and phylogenesis. Multilingualism is inclusively used to refer to sociolinguistic diversity and pluralism. Whether speech, writing, gesture, or body… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 67] 2024. ix, 645 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Language disorders & speech pathology | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition: Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll
Edited by Lindsay Hracs
Emphasizing the necessity for theory-driven language acquisition research, the studies in this collection aim to formalize the kinds of information available to first and second language learners, as well as to shed light on how that information is used to solve a variety of learning problems. The… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 69] 2024. viii, 275 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: A corpus-based study of grammatical change
Xinyue Yao
This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and British English. Drawing on neo-Gricean pragmatics, it proposes a novel and principled analysis of the verb forms’ context-independent meanings… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 114] 2024. xvii, 235 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Semantics
Processing in Bilingual Children
Edited by Chantal van Dijk, Jasmijn E. Bosch and Sharon Unsworth
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:4 (2024) v, 174 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | Translation Studies
Recent Developments in Hispanic Linguistics: Studies in structure, variation, and bilingualism
Edited by Michael Gradoville and Sean McKinnon
This book brings together eleven peer-reviewed chapters of cutting-edge research produced by both established and rising scholars in the field. Given that this volume is inspired by papers from the 25th iteration of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, the editors track the development of the field… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 41] 2024. xvi, 296 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
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 | Syntax
Space, Time, World
Michael Fortescue
Although major cognitively based studies of SPACE and TIME in language have appeared in terms of “Frames of Reference”, these do not extend to a wide selection of the world’s languages, nor do they combine SPACE and TIME in the overarching concept of WORLD, which has its own corresponding frames of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 77] 2024. viii, 223 pp
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics
Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions
Edited by Martin Gill, Aino Malmivirta and Brita Wårvik
This volume aims to stretch the boundaries of text and discourse linguistics, exploring organization and structuring in discourse across a variety of communication forms, from written to spoken to visual, in old and new media. It presents a collection of case studies ranging in focus from the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 345] 2024. ix, 207 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Textbook English: A multi-dimensional approach
Elen Le Foll
This book provides a systematic, empirical account of the language typically presented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks, based on a large corpus of EFL textbooks used in secondary schools. A modified version of the Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) framework serves to examine… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 116] 2024. xix, 294 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types. Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL
Edited by Luisella Caon, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck
This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The chapters deal with aspects of language use throughout the history of English, including efforts to prescribe and regulate… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 364] 2024. viii, 253 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History
Elisabeth M. de Boer
This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tōkyō Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the Kyōto-type dialects have… read moreOther subjects Historical linguistics | Japanese linguistics
Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches
Edited by Ilaria Fiorentini and Chiara Zanchi
This book aims to address a gap in the existing literature on the relationship between vagueness and ambiguity, as well as on their differences and similarities, both in synchrony and diachrony, and taking into consideration their relation to language use. The book is divided into two parts, which… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 347] 2024. vi, 286 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Variation in University Student Writing: A communicative text type approach
Larissa Goulart
This book provides a comprehensive description of the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing, considering both assignment type and discipline. Drawing on a corpus of more than 900 undergraduate student assignments from four disciplinary groups (Arts and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 117] 2024. xviii, 239 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Language Learning: The need for attention
Ulf Schütze
It is intriguing and challenging to learn a language by diving into the worlds of Virtual Reality (3-D environments, avatars, games) and Artificial Intelligence (chatbots, agents). What are the issues and benefits of these technological innovations? Taking readers on a journey through the brain,… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 19] 2024. xv, 146 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Ella Wehrmeyer
This collected volume showcases cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of sign language corpus linguistics in various sign language contexts across the globe. Each chapter provides a detailed account of particular national corpora and methodological considerations in their… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 108] 2023. xxii, 389 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Signed languages
Approaches to Hungarian 18: Special issue of the Journal of Uralic Linguistics 2:1 (2023)
Edited by Donka F. Farkas, Gábor Alberti and Balázs Surányi
Special issue of Journal of Uralic Linguistics 2:1 (2023) v, 153 pp.
Other subjects Uralic languages
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 | Syntax
Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 37 (2023): Tangible Traces of Language Ideologies
Edited by Esther Baiwir, Janine Berns and Marie Steffens
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 37] 2023. v, 143 pp.
Bilingualism through the Prism of Psycholinguistics: In honour of Albert Costa
Edited by Mikel Santesteban, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia and Cristina Baus
Professor Albert Costa (1970-2018) was one of the most influential scholars in the fields of psycholinguistics and bilingualism. This book provides a faithful look at the most relevant lines of research in which he worked during his academic career. Written by some of his close collaborators and… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 17] 2023. vi, 297 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
A Constructional Account of Verb-Forming Suffixation
Jacqueline Laws
The range of meanings expressed by derivatives formed by the attachment of the four principal verb-forming suffixes - ate, - en, - ify and - ize has been the subject of extensive analysis for over two decades. From a descriptive perspective, the research reported in this volume constitutes the most… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 36] 2023. xxiv, 393 pp.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches
Edited by Matthias Klumm, Anita Fetzer and Evelien Keizer
Special issue of Functions of Language 30:1 (2023) v, 135 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Converging paradigms in contrastive and translation studies: Crosslinguistic corpus perspectives
Edited by Silvia Bernardini and Adriano Ferraresi
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 23:2 (2023) v, 155 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis: The diverse applications of DocuScope
Edited by David West Brown and Danielle Zawodny Wetzel
Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis explores applications of rhetorically informed approaches to corpus research. Bringing together contributions from scholars in a variety of fields, it takes up questions of how theories and traditions in rhetorical analysis can be integrated with… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 109] 2023. vii, 292 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
Corpus Dialectology
Edited by Elissa Pustka, Carmen Quijada Van den Berghe and Verena Weiland
Corpus Dialectology combines the fields of corpus linguistics and dialectological mapping. It concerns documentation of linguistic variation and mapping of linguistic spaces and boundaries, while ascribing renewed importance to the methodology and the material itself, especially data processing and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 110] 2023. vi, 220 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Cross-language Influences in Bilingual Processing and Second Language Acquisition
Edited by Irina Elgort, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia and Marc Brysbaert
A great majority of people around the world know more than one language. So, how does knowing one language affect the learning and use of additional languages? The question of cross-language influences is the focus of this book. Do bilinguals hear, understand, and produce language and meaning… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 16] 2023. vi, 321 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective
Edited by Qiongpeng Luo, Zhiguo Xie and Xiao Li
Other subjects Altaic languages | Austro-Asian languages | Austronesian languages | Sino-Tibetan languages
Desired Language: Languages as objects of national ideology
Edited by Francesc Feliu
National linguistic ideology has been at the base of most historical processes that –whether they are complete or not – have brought us to the current reality: a world of languages that represent, with greater or lesser exactitude, the diversity – and convergences – of human groups. Various of… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 35] 2023. vi, 294 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | History of linguistics | Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Developmental Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and methodological implications
Silvia Silleresi
This book presents the current state of knowledge and recent advances on three topics in research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): the (debated) existence of profiles of abilities, the role of bilingualism, and the impact of interactive technologies. It includes six chapters that cover: a review… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 68] 2023. xxi, 265 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Language disorders & speech pathology | Psycholinguistics
Different Slants on Grammaticalization
Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Vittorio Tantucci
This volume on grammaticalization focuses on new theoretical and methodological challenges underpinning language change. It provides new approaches and insights deepening our understanding of the cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural mechanisms that trigger the formation and the change of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 232] 2023. vi, 284 pp.
Other subjects Historical 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 | Syntax
Dire et ses marqueurs: approches contrastives
Edited by Laurence Rouanne
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 46:2 (2023) v, 169 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1 (2023) vi, 132 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Ethnolinguistic contact across the Indo-Myanmar-Southwestern China mountains
Edited by Alexander R. Coupe, Randy J. LaPolla and Hideo Sawada
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 4:2 (2023) v, 218 pp.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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.
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.
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 | Syntax
Innovative Approaches to Research in Hispanic Linguistics: Regional, diachronic, and learner profile variation
Edited by Sara Fernández Cuenca, Tiffany Judy and Lauren Miller
This volume presents research from across the subdisciplines of Hispanic Linguistics in an attempt to showcase how new research methods, together with a renewed focus on language variation, have advanced our field. This volume is divided into three sections of original research, with the first… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 38] 2023. x, 250 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
The Korean language and multilingual communities in Australasia and beyond
Edited by Seong-Chul Shin
Special issue of Korean Linguistics 19:2 (2023) v, 83 pp.
Other subjects Linguistics of isolated languages
L3 Development After the Initial State
Edited by Megan M. Brown-Bousfield, Suzanne Flynn and Éva Fernández-Berkes
To date, the field of L3 acquisition research has had a heavy focus on the initial state of the L3 grammar. While this initial state research is critical to understanding L3 acquisition as a whole, in order for an explanatory understanding of language acquisition in the multilingual mind, the field… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 65] 2023. vi, 275 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism
A Life with Poetry: The development of poetic literacy
Joan Peskin and David I. Hanauer
This volume examines the development of poetic literacy including the specific processes used by expert poetry readers and professional poets. In doing so it provides a much needed synthesis of research findings across diverse domains such as human development, the scientific study of literature,… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 41] 2023. x, 194 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical literature & literary studies | Writing and literacy
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023
Edited by Sterre Leufkens and Marco Bril
Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles presenting current linguistic research in the Netherlands and Belgium. This volume is based on the 54th annual conference of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands (on February 3, 2023). For this volume, 14… read more
Mapping “Language" in Education: Special issue of the Journal Language, Context and Text 5:2 (2023)
Special issue of Language, Context and Text 5:2 (2023) v, 166 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Functional linguistics | Semiotics
Meaning in Interaction: Studies in memory of Jack Bilmes
Edited by Arnulf Deppermann and Elwys De Stefani
Special issue of Interactional Linguistics 3:1/2 (2023) v, 177 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
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.
Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown
Politeness and impoliteness are not just expressed by words. People communicate polite and impolite attitudes towards each other through their intonation, tone of voice, their facial expressions, their gestures, the positioning of their bodies towards each other, and so on. This volume brings… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 333] 2023. vii, 360 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Gesture Studies | Pragmatics
New Englishes, New Methods
Edited by Guyanne Wilson and Michael Westphal
There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions in this volume critically explore the gamut of familiar and unfamiliar methods applied in data collection and analysis in order to… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G68] 2023. viii, 276 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania: Functional and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Marc Allassonnière-Tang and Marcin Kilarski
Linguists have long been interested in systems of nominal classification due to their diverse functions as well as cognitive and cultural correlates. Among others, ongoing research has focused on semantic, functional and morphosyntactic properties of complex systems such as co-occurring gender and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 362] 2023. x, 251 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax
On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader
William J. Ashby
This scholarly edition invites us to reconsider our assumptions about the French language, by showcasing the oeuvre of one of the pioneers of diachronic Spoken French corpus linguistics, William J. Ashby, and the ground-breaking findings to come out of his influential Tours corpora (1976 & 1995),… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 226] 2023. xiv, 534 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Historical linguistics | Phonology | Romance linguistics
Patterns and Representation in Arabic Place Assimilation
Islam Youssef
This book is a phonological investigation of place assimilation phenomena in two major Arabic dialects: Cairene Egyptian and Baghdadi Iraqi. The studied phenomena involve interactions between consonants (various types of local assimilation), between vowels (monophthongization), or between… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 13] 2023. xii, 230 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Phonetics
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, 2020
Edited by Mahmoud Azaz
This volume brings together eleven peer-reviewed articles on Arabic linguistics. The contributions fall under three areas of linguistics: Phonology and phonetics; syntax and semantics; and language acquisition, language contact, and diglossia. They reflect some various perspectives and emphases.… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 12] 2023. vii, 286 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Processability and Language Acquisition in the Asia-Pacific Region
Edited by Satomi Kawaguchi, Bruno Di Biase and Yumiko Yamaguchi
This PALART volume makes an original addition to the Series as it opens a stimulating window on the Asia-Pacific region of the world by bringing together a great deal of empirical and theoretical new work in Second Language Acquisition within the Processability Theory (PT) framework. Readers will… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 9] 2023. vii, 309 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Retour(s) sur la cataphore
Edited by Anne Theissen and Annie Kuyumcuyan
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 46:1 (2023) v, 146 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Saipanese English: Local and global sociolinguistic trends
Dominique B. Hess
In this volume, the emergence of English in Saipan is examined in the complex context of its colonial past. The focus lies on the influence of the American era on the linguistic outcomes in Saipan. Sociolinguistic interviews with indigenous Chamorros and Saipan Carolinians were analyzed using… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G69] 2023. xx, 249 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory
Gerard J. Steen
If thinking can be fast or slow, metaphorical thinking can be fast and slow too. But metaphorical thinking does not occur as often and in the ways that many metaphor scholars today think. Slow metaphorical thinking does mean, however, that we can exert more control over metaphor than has previously… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 26] 2023. xv, 355 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Structural similarity across domains in third language acquisition
Edited by Nadine Kolb, Natalia Mitrofanova and Marit Westergaard
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:5 (2023) v, 136 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax
Understanding Language and Cognition through Bilingualism: In honor of Ellen Bialystok
Edited by Gigi Luk, John A.E. Anderson and John G. Grundy
Bilingualism is a ubiquitous global phenomenon. Beyond being a language experience, bilingualism also entails a social experience, and it interacts with development and learning, with cognitive and neural consequences across the lifespan. The authors of this volume are world renowned experts across… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 64] 2023. vi, 394 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Urban Panamanian English
Catherine Laliberté
Urban Panamanian English presents the first detailed account of the English used by the descendants of the Afro-Caribbean builders of the Panama Canal. It offers an up-to-date sociolinguistic account of the Panamanian West Indian community of Panama City and Colón, including empirical coverage of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G70] 2023. ix, 225 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Analogy and Contrast in Language: Perspectives from Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Karolina Krawczak, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Marcin Grygiel
Within cognitive and functional approaches to language structure and grammaticality, analogy and contrast represent two fundamental human cognitive capacities, which, up to now, have mostly been examined separately. This volume seeks to bridge that gap and in doing so it brings together… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 73] 2022. xi, 442 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics
Approaches to Hungarian 17: Special issue of the Journal on Uralic Linguistics 1:2 (2022)
Edited by Tamás Halm, Elizabeth Coppock and Balázs Surányi
Special issue of Journal of Uralic Linguistics 1:2 (2022) v, 130 pp.
Other subjects Uralic languages
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 | Syntax
Bilingualism, Language Development and Processing across the Lifespan
Julia Herschensohn
How does knowledge of a first or second language develop, and how is that knowledge used in real time comprehension and production of one or two languages? Language development and processing are the central topics that this book explores, initially in terms of first language(s) and then in terms… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 15] 2022. xxi, 292 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics: New approaches to variability and change
Edited by Susanne Flach and Martin Hilpert
This volume presents a snapshot of the current state of the art of research in English corpus linguistics. It contains selected papers from the 40th ICAME conference in 2019 and features contributions from experts in synchronic, diachronic, and contrastive linguistics, as well as in… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 105] 2022. vi, 321 pp.
Other subjects Corpus 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 | Syntax
Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig
This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events across areally, genetically, and typologically diverse languages of the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 134] 2022. viii, 437 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Typology
Classifiers
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 3:2 (2022) v, 227 pp.
A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks
Maria Brenda and Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska
A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks is devoted to the issue of the relation between language and thought approached from the perspective of spatial relations encoded by four equivalent spatial prepositions – English to, German zu, Polish do and Russian к.… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 74] 2022. xiii, 242 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Lexicography | Syntax
Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Learner Corpus Research
Edited by Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska and Sandra Götz
This volume illustrates the high potential of learner corpus investigations for research into the CAF triad by presenting eleven original learner corpus-based studies which are set within solid theoretical frameworks, examine learner corpora with state-of-the-art analytical techniques and yield… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 104] 2022. vi, 327 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism
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 | Syntax
Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda: A multifactorial analysis of linguistic features
Christopher D. Sapp
This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda , perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age. This study compares the anonymous Eddic poems to dated skaldic poems with respect to five phenomena that develop diachronically in early… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 5] 2022. xii, 246 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Germanic literature & literary studies | Historical 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Discourse-pragmatic perspectives on interrogatives
Edited by Malte Rosemeyer
Special issue of Functions of Language 29:1 (2022) v, 141 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond
Edited by Herbert L. Colston, Teenie Matlock and Gerard J. Steen
The last half century witnessed an upheaval in scientific investigation of human meaning-making and meaning-sharing. Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond, is offered as a snapshot of the status of this multidisciplinary endeavor—a peak under the umbrella of what Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics,… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 9] 2022. vii, 359 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies
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 | Syntax
Epistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1 (2022) vi, 102 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community
Sabine Fiedler and Cyril Robert Brosch
This book addresses a fascinating topic – a constructed language that has turned from a project into a fully-fledged language used by some of its speakers on a daily basis. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book provides rare and profound insights into the use of Esperanto in a large number of… read moreOther subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Evolution of Pronunciation Teaching and Research: 25 years of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness
Edited by John M. Levis, Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro
Inspired by Murray Munro and Tracey Derwing’s 1995 seminal study of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, this book revisits the insights of their original research and presents subsequent studies extending this work to new ways of understanding second language speech. By rejecting… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 121] 2022. v, 234 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Language teaching | Phonetics | Phonology
Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology
Edited by Matthias Eitelmann and Dagmar Haumann
Taking extra-vagans literally (Lat. ‘wandering outside, out of bounds’), this volume comprises nine case studies on extravagant morphology ranging from pattern-extending derivational processes via theory-challenging compounding processes to interface-straddling morphosyntactic phenomena. As a… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 223] 2022. v, 258 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Figurative Thought and Language in Action
Edited by Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar Szabó
The contents of the volume prove the vitality of cognitive linguistic studies of figuration when combined with new research methodologies, in tandem with other disciplines, and also when applied to an ever broader range of topics. Individual chapters are concerned not only with some fundamental… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 16] 2022. vi, 287 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Figurativity and Human Ecology
Edited by Alexandra Bagasheva, Bozhil Hristov and Nelly Tincheva
Figurativity has attracted scholars’ attention for thousands of years and yet there are still open questions concerning its nature. Figurativity and Human Ecology endorses a view of figurativity as ubiquitous in human reasoning and language, and as a key example of how a human organism and its… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 17] 2022. vi, 307 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Figuring out Figuration: A cognitive linguistic account
María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
This book combines explanatory breadth with analytical delicacy. It offers a comprehensive study of a broad array of traditional figures of speech by systematizing linguistic evidence of the cognitive processes underlying them. Such processes are explicitly linked to different communicative… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 14] 2022. ix, 296 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
From West to North Frisia: A Journey along the North Sea Coast. Frisian studies in honour of Jarich Hoekstra
Edited by Alastair Walker, Eric Hoekstra, Goffe Jensma, Wendy Vanselow, Willem Visser and Christoph Winter
This volume contains 25 articles covering a wide array of subjects, reflecting the breadth of scholarship of one of today’s leading experts in the field of Frisian Studies. The articles, written mostly in English and German, encompass a temporal range from Old Frisian to Modern Frisian and a… read moreOther subjects Germanic 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 | Syntax
Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems
Edited by Sara Lenninger, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska
This volume investigates iconicity as to both comprehension and production of meaning in language, gesture, pictures, art and literature. It highlights iconic processes in meaning-making and interpretation across different semiotic systems at structurally, historically and pragmatically different… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18] 2022. x, 411 pp.
Other subjects Semiotics | Semiotics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Introducing Chinese Linguistics: A handbook for Chinese language teachers and learners
Hang Zhang and Lan Zhang
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of Chinese linguistics, including the core components of phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, writing system, and social cultural aspects of the language. It also discusses key features of Chinese language acquisition in… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 16] 2022. xx, 283 pp.
Other subjects Sino-Tibetan languages
Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics
Klaus-Uwe Panther
This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive linguistic approach to language and language use with insights from contemporary pragmatics, the ultimate aim being to advance a unified model of cognitive… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 4] 2022. xxiii, 283 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Konkani
Ramesh Vaman Dhongde
Konkani is a modern Indo-Aryan language and a state language of the Indian state Goa. Until recently, it was considered a dialect of Marathi, but it is now considered an independent language. Konkani has several varieties, including the Manglore variety spoken in the south of Goa, the Gawdi variety… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 21] 2022. xxix, 355 pp.
Other subjects Other Indo-European languages
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
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 | Syntax
The Language of Food in Japanese: Cognitive perspectives and beyond
Edited by Kiyoko Toratani
Many studies on the language of food examine English or adopt discourse analysis. This volume makes a fresh attempt to analyze Japanese, focusing on non-discursive units. It offers state-of-the-art data-oriented studies, including methods of analysis in line with Cognitive Linguistics. It… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 25] 2022. x, 347 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Japanese linguistics
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022
Edited by Jorrig Vogels and Sterre Leufkens
Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles presenting current linguistic research in the Netherlands.This volume is based on the 53rd annual conference of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands (online, on February 4, 2022). For this volume, 14… read more
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 | Syntax
Modeling Irony: A cognitive-pragmatic account
Inés Lozano-Palacio and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
This book adopts a broad cognitive-pragmatic perspective on irony which sees ironic meaning as the result of complex inferential activity arising from conflicting conceptual scenarios. This view of irony is the basis for an analytically productive integrative account capable of bridging gaps among… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 12] 2022. ix, 173 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Paremias: Estudio lingüístico contrastivo francés-español
Lucía Navarro-Brotons
La importancia del estudio de la fraseología en general, y de la paremiología en particular, viene avalada tanto por el interés que han suscitado las unidades fraseológicas desde la Antigüedad como porque los investigadores del tema ponen de manifiesto que se trata de la piedra angular del lexicón… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 33] 2022. xxii, 176 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Romance 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 Syntax
Pejorative Suffixes and Combining Forms in English
José A. Sánchez Fajardo
The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the concept of linguistic pejoration, and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms, such as -ie, -o, -ard, -holic, -rrhea, -itis, -porn, -ish, in the formation of English pejoratives. The examination of the inner structure of the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 222] 2022. xvi, 229 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII: Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 2019
Edited by Abdel-Khalig Ali and Atiqa Hachimi
This volume features eight peer-reviewed chapters based on papers presented at the 33rd Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Toronto in 2019. The chapters are divided into four sections: sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology, syntax, and first language acquisition.… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 11] 2022. xvi, 201 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018
Edited by Gabriela Alboiu and Ruth King
This volume brings together selected papers from the 48th annual Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, held at York University in Toronto, Canada, in April 2018. It presents original research on a wide variety of Romance languages both past (Latin, Old Catalan, Old Iberian Romance, Old… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 360] 2022. vii, 275 pp.
Other subjects Romance 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 | Syntax
Second Language Acquisition Theory: The legacy of Professor Michael H. Long
Edited by Alessandro G. Benati and John W. Schwieter
Professor Michael H. Long (1945-2021) was one of the most influential scholars in the field of second language acquisition. This volume presents a set of chapters that honour some of his key contributions in language teaching and learning. Following a bibliometric analysis of the impact of his… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 14] 2022. xxiv, 276 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism
The Semiotic Diversity of Language: The Case of Signed Languages
Edited by Alysson Lepeut and Inez Beukeleers
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 36] 2022. v, 248 pp.
Signed and spoken language contrastive research: A multimodal approach
Edited by Sílvia Gabarró-López and Laurence Meurant
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 22:2 (2022) v, 192 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English: Records of communities and people
Olga Timofeeva
This is the first extensive study of Old English to utilise the insights and methodologies of sociolinguistics. Building on previous philological and historical work, it takes into account the sociology and social dialectology of Old English and offers a description of its speech communities… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 13] 2022. xv, 204 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
Sound–Emotion Interaction in Poetry: Rhythm, Phonemes, Voice Quality
Reuven Tsur † and Chen Gafni
This book is a collection of studies providing a unique view on two central aspects of poetry: sounds and emotive qualities, with emphasis on their interactions. The book addresses various theoretical and methodological issues related to topics like sound symbolism, poetic prosody, and voice… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 39] 2022. xv, 448 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Phonetics | Phonology | Semiotics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Storytelling: How organization of narratives is (not) affected by linguistic skills
Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:4 (2022) v, 164 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese
Edited by Lian-Hee Wee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang
Other subjects Altaic languages | Austro-Asian languages | Austronesian languages | Sino-Tibetan languages
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 | Syntax
The Typology of Physical Qualities
Edited by Ekaterina Rakhilina, Tatiana Reznikova and Daria Ryzhova
What is it like? – This is often the first question we ask about any object, and it is typically answered with adjectives: old, smooth, pointed, narrow, etc. Characteristics of things around us is a fundamental aspect of how we conceptualize the physical world, regardless of when or where we live –… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 133] 2022. vi, 339 pp.
Understanding L2 Proficiency: Theoretical and meta-analytic investigations
Edited by Eun Hee Jeon and Yo In'nami
This edited volume is a collection of theoretical and empirical overviews of second language (L2) proficiency based on four skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Each skill is reviewed in terms of how it has been conceptualized, measured, and studied over the years in relation to… read moreOther subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism
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 | Syntax
Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives
Edited by Robert Bayley, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li
Variationist work in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) began in the mid 1970s and steadily progressed during the 1980s. Much of it was reviewed along with newer approaches in Bayley and Preston 1996 (B&P), heavily devoted to VARBRUL analyses that exposed the variability in developing interlanguages… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 28] 2022. xx, 365 pp.
Other subjects Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
What’s so standard about standards? Variationist principles and debates
Edited by Jonathan R. Kasstan
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 8:2 (2022) v, 135 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
When Corpus Linguistics meets acquisition of Korean: Implications on the use of Korean corpora for developmental research on Korean
Edited by Gyu-Ho Shin
Other subjects Linguistics of isolated languages
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 | Syntax
The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Insights from Murrinhpatha
William Forshaw
Many theories of language acquisition struggle to account for the morphological complexity and diversity of the world’s languages. This book examines the acquisition of complex morphology of Murrinhpatha, a polysynthetic language of Northern Australia. It considers semi-naturalistic data from five… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 30] 2021. xvi, 171 pp.
Other subjects Australian languages | Language acquisition | Morphology
The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Veronika Mattes, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler
This book offers the first systematic study of the early phases in the acquisition of derivational morphology from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. It presents ten empirical longitudinal studies in genealogically and typologically diverse languages (Indo-European, Finno-Ugric,… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 66] 2021. ix, 307 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Morphology
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 | Syntax
All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces
Edited by Sedigheh Moradi, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller and Andrija Petrovic
This book provides a view of where the field of morphology has been and where it is today within a particular theoretical framework, gathering up new and representative work in morphology by both eminent and emerging scholars, and touching on a very wide range of topics, approaches, and theoretical… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 353] 2021. vii, 439 pp.
Other subjects Morphology
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.
Aspects of Latin American Spanish Dialectology: In honor of Terrell A. Morgan
Edited by Manuel Díaz-Campos and Sandro Sessarego
This book focuses on contemporary sociolinguistic approaches to Spanish dialectology. Each of the authors draws on key issues of contemporary sociolinguistics, combining theoretical approaches with empirical data collection. Overall, these chapters address topics concerning language variation and… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 32] 2021. vi, 292 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Bi-/Multilingualism and the Declining Brain
Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:4 (2021) v, 158 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact. This volume builds on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the volume Constructions in Contact (2018) and extends its methodology and… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 30] 2021. vii, 437 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Multilingualism
Context in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theoretical developments and directions
Edited by Wendy L. Bowcher and Tom Bartlett
Special issue of Functions of Language 28:3 (2021) v, 125 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes: A constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning
Samantha Laporte
This book takes an integrated approach to the fields of Corpus Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and World Englishes through a thorough constructional and corpus-based examination of the patterning of the versatile high-frequency verb make in British English and New Englishes. It contributes to… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 100] 2021. xxii, 395 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication
Edited by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda
The studies in the present volume illustrate the current state-of-the-art in the corpus-based approach in cognitive linguistics, which seeks to motivate linguistic phenomena through the combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. By focusing on language use in different contexts from a… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 119] 2021. v, 157 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Corpus linguistics
Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation
Edited by Elena Seoane and Douglas Biber
As the first collective volume to focus exclusively on corpus-based approaches to register variation, this book provides an exhaustive account of the range and depth of possibilities that the domain of register variation in English has to offer. It illustrates register variation analysis in… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 103] 2021. xi, 341 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
Current Perspectives on Codeswitching
Edited by Emma Vanden Wyngaerd, Renata Enghels, Mena B. Lafkioui and Marie Steffens
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 35] 2021. v, 213 pp.
Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition: A language processing perspective
Bronwen Patricia Dyson
Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition makes a cutting-edge contribution to knowledge about how second language learners develop their second language. Drawing comprehensively on Processability Theory’s theoretical understanding that individual variation dynamically interacts with ordered… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 8] 2021. xv, 274 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:1 (2021) vi, 129 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Experimental Arabic Linguistics
Edited by Dimitrios Ntelitheos and Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung
This volume is the first systematic attempt to survey current progress in the relatively new field of Experimental Arabic Linguistics. While experimental work on Arabic linguistics has appeared sporadically in several venues in the past, the chapters in this book provide a more coherent picture of… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 10] 2021. vii, 249 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
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.
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 | Syntax
Input Processing and Processing Instruction: The acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic
Alessandro G. Benati
Input Processing is a theoretical framework on which the pedagogical paradigm called Processing Instruction is predicated. In this book, new data on the acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic are presented and analyzed within this framework. Each study in the book explores how input… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 11] 2021. xv, 185 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance
Edited by Larisa Avram, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu
This volume includes fourteen papers on the acquisition of Romance languages, eleven of which were presented at the Romance Turn 9, held in Bucharest in September 2018. The studies offer new insights into central issues in the literature, such as syntactic complexity in both typical and impaired… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 65] 2021. vi, 380 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics
Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
Edited by Diana Forker and Lenore A. Grenoble
The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact. This is the first book that bundles… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 50] 2021. vi, 386 pp.
Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in action across Europe
Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes K. Grohmann
COST Action IS0804 “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment” aimed to profile bilingual specific language impairment (biSLI) by establishing a network for research on the linguistic and cognitive abilities of bilingual children with SLI across… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 29] 2021. vi, 333 pp.
Other subjects Language disorders & speech pathology | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Language Variation – European Perspectives VIII: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019
Edited by Hans Van de Velde, Nanna Haug Hilton and Remco Knooihuizen
This volume contains a selection of papers from the 10th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), which was organized by the Fryske Akademy and held in Leeuwarden/Ljouwert (the Netherlands) in June 2019. The editors have selected thirteen papers on a wide range of… read moreOther subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language and Text: Data, models, information and applications
Edited by Adam Pawłowski, Jan Mačutek, Sheila Embleton and George Mikros
Specialists in quantitative linguistics the world over have recourse to a solid and universal methodology. These days, their methods and mathematical models must also respond to new communication phenomena and the flood of data produced daily. While various disciplines (computer science, media… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 356] 2021. vi, 280 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology
Edited by Luca Alfieri, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat
Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 132] 2021. vi, 424 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Typology
Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World
Edited by Patricia Gubitosi and Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia
Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World is the first book dedicated to languages in the urban space of the Spanish-speaking world filling a gap in the extensive research that highlights the richness and complexity of Spanish Linguistic Landscapes. This book provides scholars with an… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 35] 2021. xi, 395 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2021
Edited by Mark Dingemanse, Eva van Lier and Jorrig Vogels
This volume of Linguistics in the Netherlands contains 10 articles on topics representing the breadth of Dutch linguistics, along with a Foreword by the editors honouring the memory of Pieter Muysken (1950-2021). read more
The Linguistics of Olfaction: Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity
Edited by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Przemysław Staniewski
This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfactory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic and fourteen chapters based on philological… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 131] 2021. xiii, 481 pp.
Other subjects 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 | Syntax
Metroethnicity, Naming and Mocknolect: New horizons in Japanese sociolinguistics
John C. Maher
Language is a social space, an aesthetic, a form of play and communication, a geographical reference, a jouissance, a producer of numerous social and personal identities. This book takes up salient issues of sociolinguistics with a specific focus on Japan: language and gender (the married name… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 49] 2021. xiii, 239 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
The Mysterious Address Term anata 'you' in Japanese
Yoko Yonezawa
The use of the second person singular pronoun anata ‘you’ in modern Japanese has long been regarded as mysterious and problematic, generating contradictory nuances such as polite, impolite, intimate, and distancing. Treated as a troublesome pronoun, scholars have searched for a semantically loaded… read more[Topics in Address Research, 4] 2021. xv, 208 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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.
Polylogues on The Mental Lexicon: An exploration of fundamental issues and directions
Edited by Gary Libben †, Gonia Jarema and Victor Kuperman
From its beginnings, the study of the mental lexicon has been at the crossroads of research and scholarship. This volume presents a polylogue--a textual conversation of many voices. It is designed to capture the excitement within the field and generate a deeper understanding of key issues and… read more[Not in series, 238] 2021. viii, 229 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Morphology | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
Postverbal negation
Edited by Olga Krasnoukhova, Johan van der Auwera and Mily Crevels
Special issue of Studies in Language 45:3 (2021) v, 208 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
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 | Syntax
Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning
Edited by Edith Kaan and Theres Grüter
There is ample evidence that language users, including second-language (L2) users, can predict upcoming information during listening and reading. Yet it is still unclear when, how, and why language users engage in prediction, and what the relation is between prediction and learning. This volume… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 12] 2021. xiii, 234 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children
Edited by Leigh B. Fernandez, Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz and Shanley E.M. Allen
How do production and comprehension processes interact in the bilingual brain during language interaction? Most experimental and theoretical research in psycholinguistics to date has focused on investigating the mechanisms that underlie language production and language comprehension separately.… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 117] 2021. vi, 272 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest
Edited by Alexandru Nicolae and Adina Dragomirescu
This volume contains a selection of 18 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 31st edition of Going Romance. Phenomena found in Romance languages (European Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian), in Romance dialects (Cosentino, Salentino, southern Calabrese, Neapolitan, and Trevigiano), and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 355] 2021. vi, 377 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 32, Utrecht
Edited by Frank Drijkoningen, Sergio Baauw and Luisa Meroni
This volume contains a peer reviewed selection of invited contributions, papers and posters that were presented at the 2018 venue of Going Romance (XXXII) in Utrecht (a four day program that included two thematic workshops).The papers all discuss data and formalized analyses of one or more Romance… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 357] 2021. vi, 320 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Source-Goal (a)symmetries across languages
Edited by Anetta Kopecka and Marine Vuillermet
Special issue of Studies in Language 45:1 (2021) v, 275 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Time in Languages, Languages in Time
Edited by Anna Čermáková, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik
This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Swedish, all of which are contrasted with English. While the amount of published research on temporal relations in general is considerable,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 101] 2021. vi, 307 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Historical linguistics
Urban Matters: Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics
Edited by Arne Ziegler, Stefanie Edler and Georg Oberdorfer
The city as a complex socio-cultural structure plays a central role, economically, administratively as well as culturally. Factors such as higher population density, a more expansive infrastructure, and larger social and cultural diversity compared to rural areas have a substantial impact on urban… read moreOther subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax | Typology
Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Cécile B. Vigouroux
Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene aims to celebrate Mufwene’s ground-breaking contribution to linguistics in the past four decades. The title also encapsulates his approach to language as both systemic and socio-cultural practices, and the role of… read more[Contact Language Library, 59] 2021. xiv, 330 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia
Edited by Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and Abigail C. Cohn
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:2 (2021) v, 132 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Variation in the Pacific: Part II
Edited by Eri Kashima and Miriam Meyerhoff
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:1 (2021) v, 82 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken
Edited by Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh
Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of… read more[Contact Language Library, 57] 2020. ix, 400 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution
Edited by Stephen Fafulas
Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution explores the unique origins, linguistic features, and geo-political situation of the Spanish that has emerged in the Amazon. While this region boasts much linguistic diversity, many of the indigenous languages found within its limits are now being… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 23] 2020. viii, 303 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax | Uralic languages
Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating
Edited by David Gil and Antoinette Schapper
Many Austronesian languages exhibit isolating word structure. This volume offers a series of investigations into these languages, which are found in an "isolating crescent" extending from Mainland Southeast Asia through the Indonesian archipelago and into western New Guinea. Some of the languages… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 129] 2020. ix, 510 pp.
Other subjects Austronesian languages | Historical linguistics | Linguistics of isolated languages | Typology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | Typology
Child Bilingualism and Second Language Learning: Multidisciplinary perspectives
Edited by Fangfang Li, Karen E. Pollock and Robbin Gibb
This book focuses exclusively on child bilinguals or children exposed to a second language in various learning contexts. Through the presentation of research on how children learn the sound systems or lexicon in two languages and via different routes, the book aims to paint a comprehensive picture… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 10] 2020. vii, 306 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism
The Complementary Contribution of Comparable and Parallel Corpora to Crosslinguistic Studies
Edited by Sylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 20:2 (2020) v, 147 pp.
Other subjects Comparative 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Corpus Approaches to Social Media
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Daria Dayter
From Twitter to Reddit, Facebook, and WhatsApp – social media is a part of modern everyday life. Studying the language used on social media platforms presents great opportunities as well as challenges to corpus linguists. The contributions in Corpus Approaches to Social Media address technical,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 98] 2020. vi, 210 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn
Edited by Caroline F. Rowland, Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey
In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children integrate information from multiple sources in the environment, (b) build linguistic representations at a number of different levels, and (c)… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 27] 2020. ix, 330 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Language disorders & speech pathology | Psycholinguistics
Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Edited by Diego Pascual y Cabo and Idoia Elola
Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics is a 15-chapter compilation written by both established and emerging scholars representing a wide array of theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives. Each chapter presents original and significant… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 27] 2020. vi, 344 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics
Edited by Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti
Over the last few decades, the widespread diffusion of digital technology has increased availability of primary textual sources, radically changing the everyday life of scholars in the humanities, who are now able to access, query and process a wealth of empirical evidence in ways not possible… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 113] 2020. v, 154 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Historical 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft verbs in English and German
Ryan Dux
While verb classes are a mainstay of linguistic research, the field lacks consensus on precisely what constitutes a verb class. This book presents a novel approach to verb classes, employing a bottom-up, corpus-based methodology and combining key insights from Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar,… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 28] 2020. x, 320 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives
Edited by Luis A. Ortiz López, Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Melvin González-Rivera
This volume comprises cutting edge research on language contact and change. The chapters present a wide scope of settings in which Spanish is in contact with other languages, such as Catalan, English, and Quechua; a large breadth of geographical areas (e.g., United States, Puerto Rico, Colombia,… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 22] 2020. vii, 336 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Hispanic Linguistics: Current issues and new directions
Edited by Alfonso Morales-Front, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz
This volume addresses a wide range of phenomena including intonation, restructuring, clitic climbing, aspectual structure, subject focus marking, code-switching, lenition, loanwords, and heritage learning that are central in Hispanic linguistics today. The authors approach these issues from a… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 26] 2020. vi, 344 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017
Edited by Bridget Drinka
The collected articles in this volume address an array of cutting-edge issues in the field of historical linguistics, including new theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies for studying language through a diachronic lens. The articles focus on the following themes: I. Case & Argument… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 350] 2020. xi, 495 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach
Edited by Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso
What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] 2020. xi, 440 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Phonetics | Phonology
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 | Syntax
Interfaces in Romance: A constraint-based approach
Edited by Gabriela Bîlbîie
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:1 (2020) v, 168 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
Language Processing in Advanced Learners of English: A multi-method approach to collocation based on corpus linguistic and experimental data
Marco Schilk
The production and processing of collocations and formulaic language is a field of growing interest in corpus linguistics and experimental psycholinguistics. In the past this fascinating field at the interface of grammar and the lexicon has been mainly studied based on English native speakers,… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 9] 2020. xvii, 293 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language
Edited by Karina Veronica Molsing, Cristina Becker Lopes Perna and Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños
This book includes a selection of theoretical and practical accounts of the acquisition of Portuguese from a broad range of linguistic perspectives. This collection is particularly appealing in the broad academic sphere of language acquisition due to the fact that there has yet to be one entirely… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 24] 2020. x, 300 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2020
Edited by Elena Tribushinina and Mark Dingemanse
Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles presenting current linguistic research in the Netherlands.This volume is based on the 51st annual conference of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands (Utrecht on January 31, 2020). At this meeting, 70… read more
Lost in Transmission: The role of attrition and input in heritage language development
Edited by Bernhard Brehmer and Jeanine Treffers-Daller
Heritage speakers are a fascinating group of bilinguals with a unique profile. Living abroad as immigrants of the second generation, they speak the language of their own speech community (the heritage language) at home, and the societally dominant language in most other domains. What exactly they… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 59] 2020. vii, 276 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism
Macro and micro-social variation in Asia-Pacific sign languages
Edited by Nick Palfreyman
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 6:1 (2020) v, 150 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
Mental representations in receptive multilingualism
Edited by Bonnie C. Holmes and Michael T. Putnam
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:3 (2020) v, 132 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Notes from the field on perspective-indexing constructions: Irregular shifts and perspective persistence
Edited by Stef Spronck, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens and María Sol Sansiñena
Special issue of Functions of Language 27:1 (2020) v, 112 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Operationalizing Iconicity
Edited by Pamela Perniss, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The Iconicity in Language and Literature series has long been dedicated to the recognition and understanding of the pervasiveness of iconicity in language in its many forms and functions. The present volume, divided into four sections, brings together and unifies different perspectives on iconicity. read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 17] 2020. xii, 331 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16: Selected papers from the 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Newark, Delaware
Edited by Irene Vogel
The chapters in this book represent the theme of “bridges” – bridging research approaches and directions across languages, methodologies and disciplines. Alongside descriptive and theoretical studies, the contributions present experimental studies addressing issues in syntax, phonetics-phonology… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 16] 2020. vi, 278 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Sign Language in Papua New Guinea: A primary sign language from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province
Adam Kendon †
This book presents in revised form and as a single monograph three papers on a sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea. Originally published in 1980, for more than twenty years these papers remained the only report of a sign language from that part of the world. The detailed… read more[Not in series, 226] 2020. xvii, 201 pp.
Other subjects Signed languages
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 | Syntax
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain
Edited by Rajiv Rao
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain brings together scholars working on a wide range of aspects of the Spanish sound system and how their coexistence with another language in speech communities across the Hispanophone world influences their… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 28] 2020. x, 452 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Phonetics | Phonology | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Special Issue in Memory of Irit Meir
Edited by Diane Lillo-Martin, Wendy Sandler, Marie Coppola and Rose Stamp
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 23:1/2 (2020) vi, 285 pp.
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | Signed languages
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 | Syntax
Studies in Turkish as a Heritage Language
Edited by Fatih Bayram
Heritage language bilingualism refers to contexts where a minority language spoken at home is (one of) the first native language(s) of an individual who grows up and typically becomes dominant in the societal majority language. Heritage language bilinguals often wind up with grammatical systems… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 60] 2020. xiv, 287 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Turkic languages
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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.
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Language disorders & speech pathology | Morphology | Psycholinguistics | Syntax
Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development: Essays in honour of Bencie Woll
Edited by Gary Morgan
The study of childhood deafness offers researchers many interesting insights into the role of experience and sensory inputs for the development of language and cognition. This volume provides a state of the art look at these questions and how they are being applied in the areas of clinical and… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 25] 2020. xv, 214 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Signed languages
Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax
Edited by Ruth A. Berman
The goal of the volume is to shed fresh light on Modern Hebrew from perspectives aimed at readers interested in the domains of general linguistics, typology, and Semitic studies. Starting with chapters that provide background information on the evolution and sociolinguistic setting of the language,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 210] 2020. xviii, 682 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Variation and Evolution: Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking world
Edited by Sandro Sessarego, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli
This book is a collection of original studies analyzing how different internal and external factors affect Spanish language variation and evolution across a number of (socio)linguistic scenarios. Its primary goal is to expand our understanding of how native and non-native varieties of Spanish… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 29] 2020. viii, 277 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Variation in the Pacific: Part I
Edited by Eri Kashima and Miriam Meyerhoff
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 6:2 (2020) v, 128 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research
Edited by Timothy Colleman, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 34] 2020. vii, 382 pp.
Where Words Get their Meaning: Cognitive processing and distributional modelling of word meaning in first and second language
Marianna Bolognesi
Words are not just labels for conceptual categories. Words construct conceptual categories, frame situations and influence behavior. Where do they get their meaning? This book describes how words acquire their meaning. The author argues that mechanisms based on associations, pattern detection, and… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 23] 2020. xi, 208 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Multilingualism | Semantics
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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.
Biscriptuality: Writing skills among German-Russian adolescents
Irina Usanova
In the context of constantly increasing linguistic diversity in many parts of the world, opportunities and challenges arise for the acquisition of literacy skills. The successful development of literacy skills becomes a crucial prerequisite for educational attainment determining future career… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 8] 2019. xvi, 257 pp.
Other subjects Multilingualism | Writing and literacy
Case Studies in Fluid Construction Grammar: The verb phrase
Edited by Luc Steels and Katrien Beuls
Construction grammar enjoys great popularity among empirical linguists, typologists, psycholinguists, and language educators, because it puts meaning and function of language at the forefront of linguistic analysis. This book shows that construction grammar gives us also a powerful new way to… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 106] 2019. v, 150 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics
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.
Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese
Edited by Dingfang Shu, Hui Zhang and Lifei Zhang
Bringing together contributions from a group of prominent researchers, within a cognitive-linguistic framework, this volume sheds light on linguistic structures and usages characteristic of the Chinese language, including noun-verb inclusion, the conceptual spatialization of actions, existential… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 67] 2019. xv, 313 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages
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 Syntax
A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian
Gertjan Postma
Pomeranian is the West Germanic language spoken by European emigrants who went from Farther Pomerania (present-day Poland) to Brazil in the period 1857–1887. This language is no longer spoken in cohesive societies in Europe, but the language has survived and is in remarkably good shape on this… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 248] 2019. xxxi, 312 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
The Determinants of Diachronic Stability
Edited by Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn
While much of the literature has focused on explaining diachronic variation and change, the fact that sometimes change does not seem to happen has received much less attention. The current volume unites ten contributions that look for the determinants of diachronic stability, mainly in the areas of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 254] 2019. vi, 294 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Typology
Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax
Edited by Claudia Claridge and Birte Bös
Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 346] 2019. vi, 312 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax
Diachrony of Personal Pronouns in Japanese: A functional and cross-linguistic perspective
Osamu Ishiyama
Personal pronouns in Japanese form a heterogeneous category. This book investigates their historical development from a functional perspective. It shows that while nouns give rise to personal pronouns through semanticization of pragmatic inferences, the use of non-nominal forms such as… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 344] 2019. ix, 173 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
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.
Encoding Motion Events in Mandarin Chinese: A cognitive functional study
Jingxia Lin
This book is a corpus-based description and discussion of how Modern Mandarin Chinese encodes motion events, with a focus on how the distribution of verbal motion morphemes is closely associated with the meanings they lexicalize. The book is not only the first work that proposes a finer-grained… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 11] 2019. xvii, 209 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Morphology | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Epistemological issue with keynote article “Prosodic effects on L2 grammars”
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:6 (2019) iv, 132 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives
Edited by Kimi Akita and Prashant Pardeshi
This volume explores new frontiers in the linguistic study of iconic lexemes known as ideophones, mimetics, and expressives. A large part of the literature on this long-neglected word class has been dedicated to the description of its sound symbolism, marked morphophonology, and grammatical status… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 16] 2019. ix, 325 pp.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics
Edited by Nigel Duffield, Trang Phan and Tue Trinh
This volume was originally inspired by a 2017 conference to honour the scholar and linguist Cao Xuân Hạo, whose landmark work – in many diverse areas of language study – established a bridge between traditional Vietnamese scholarship and contemporary theories of grammatical organisation. The book… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 211] 2019. vii, 304 pp.
Other subjects Austro-Asian languages
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 | Syntax
The Internal Context of Bilingual Processing
John Truscott and Michael Sharwood Smith
This book offers a broad-based account of bilingual processing, drawing on research findings and current thinking from various domains across cognitive science. The theoretical approach adopted is the Modular Cognition Framework in which language processing is characterized as an interaction… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 8] 2019. xv, 327 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Consciousness research | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
Language Variation - European Perspectives VII: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga, June 2017
Edited by Juan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Francisco Díaz Montesinos, Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz and Matilde Vida-Castro
This volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), which was held at the University of Malaga (Spain), from June 6 to 9, 2017. The volume includes plenaries by Manuel Almeida (“Language hybridism: On the origin of… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 22] 2019. ix, 248 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Latin influence on the syntax of the languages of Europe
Edited by Bert Cornillie and Bridget Drinka
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 33] 2019. v, 250 pp.
Learner Corpora and Language Teaching
Edited by Sandra Götz and Joybrato Mukherjee
While native corpora and corpus linguistic tools and methods have been used and applied for quite some time in the development of learning and teaching materials, learner corpora are only just beginning to impact the field of language teaching, testing and assessment. This volume helps to close… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 92] 2019. vi, 267 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Lexicalization patterns in color naming: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Ida Raffaelli, Daniela Katunar and Barbara Kerovec
The volume presents sixteen chapters focused on lexicalization patterns used in color naming in a variety of languages. Although previous studies have dealt with categorization and perceptual salience of color terms, few studies have been consistently conducted in order to investigate phonological,… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 78] 2019. vi, 429 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Phonology
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2019
Edited by Janine Berns and Elena Tribushinina
The 50th annual conference of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 2nd, 2019. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year’s meeting, 72 papers were presented, of which 16 were submitted in writing. read more
Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world
Edited by Susan Nacey, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse
This volume explores linguistic metaphor identification in a wide variety of languages and language families. The book is an essential read for anyone interested in researching language and metaphor, from students to experienced scholars. Its primary goals are to discuss the challenges involved in… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 22] 2019. vi, 330 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language
Edited by Marianna Bolognesi, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot
This book describes methods, risks, and challenges involved in the construction of metaphor and metonymy digital repositories. The first part of this volume showcases established and new projects around the world in which metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified. The second part… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 8] 2019. x, 263 pp.
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.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | Typology
Normativity in Language and Linguistics
Edited by Aleksi Mäkilähde, Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen
This volume sets out to discuss the role of norms and normativity in both language and linguistics from a multiplicity of perspectives. These concepts are centrally important to the philosophy and methodology of linguistics, and their role and nature need to be investigated in detail. The chapters… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 209] 2019. vii, 272 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Philosophy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax | Turkic languages
On mood and speech function and the ‘why’ of text analysis: In honour of Margaret Berry
Edited by Lise Fontaine, Miriam Taverniers and Kristin Davidse
Special issue of Functions of Language 26:1 (2019) vi, 135 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: Syntax, semantics, discourse
Xiaoling He
As a distinctive syntactic structure in Mandarin Chinese, the Patient-Subject Construction (PSC) is one of the most interesting but least well-understood structures in the language. This book offers a comprehensive account of the history, structure, meaning and use of the PSC. Unlike previous… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 12] 2019. xi, 204 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax
Perception Metaphors
Edited by Laura J. Speed, Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque and Asifa Majid
Metaphor allows us to think and talk about one thing in terms of another, ratcheting up our cognitive and expressive capacity. It gives us concrete terms for abstract phenomena, for example, ideas become things we can grasp or let go of. Perceptual experience—characterised as physical and… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 19] 2019. vii, 382 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Psychology | Semantics
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXX: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics, Stony Brook, New York, 2016 and Norman, Oklahoma, 2017
Edited by Amel Khalfaoui and Matthew A. Tucker
This volume contains selected papers from the Thirtieth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics that was held at Stony Brook University in 2016, as well as two articles that are based on papers presented at the Thirty-First Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Oklahoma… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 7] 2019. vii, 220 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017
Edited by Amel Khalfaoui and Youssef A. Haddad
This volume brings together ten peer-reviewed articles on Arabic linguistics. The articles are distributed over three parts: phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics and pragmatics, and language acquisition. Including data from North African, Levantine, and Gulf varieties of Arabic, as well as… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 8] 2019. xiii, 264 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change: Studies in honor of Henning Andersen
Edited by Lars Heltoft, Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler
This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 345] 2019. ix, 419 pp.
Other subjects Historical 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children
Edited by Maialen Iraola Azpiroz, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:4/5 (2019) vi, 263 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
Regional Chinese in Contact
Edited by James A. Walker
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 5:1 (2019) v, 108 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Representation and Processing in Bilingual Morphology
Edited by Jennifer R. Austin
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:1 (2019) v, 162 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt
Edited by Ingo Feldhausen, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt and Mareike Neuhaus
In 2016, the Going Romance conference series celebrated its 30th edition and the Goethe University of Frankfurt (Germany) had the honor of organizing this.The edited volume at hand presents a selection of 17 peer-reviewed articles, based on papers that were presented at this occasion. The volume… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 15] 2019. vii, 358 pp.
Other subjects 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 | Syntax
The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French: Descriptive, experimental and formal studies on motion expression
Edited by Michel Aurnague and Dejan Stosic
Research on the semantics of spatial markers in French is known mainly through Vandeloise’s (1986, 1991) work on static prepositions. However, interest in the expression of space in French goes back to the mid-1970s and focused first on verbs denoting changes in space, whose syntactic properties… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 66] 2019. ix, 396 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Romance linguistics | Semantics
Sensory Linguistics: Language, perception and metaphor
Bodo Winter
One of the most fundamental capacities of language is the ability to express what speakers see, hear, feel, taste, and smell. Sensory Linguistics is the interdisciplinary study of how language relates to the senses. This book deals with such foundational questions as: Which semiotic strategies do… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 20] 2019. xiv, 289 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Psycholinguistics
Sound, Form, and Meaning of Chinese Dialects
Edited by Ik-sang Eom
Other subjects Altaic languages | Austro-Asian languages | Austronesian languages | Sino-Tibetan languages
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 | Syntax
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.
Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units
Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki
Special issue of Studies in Language 43:2 (2019) vi, 253 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
Widening Contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and issues
Edited by Anke Lenzing, Howard Nicholas and Jana Roos
This book explores relationships between Processability Theory approaches and other approaches to SLA. It is distinctive in two ways. It offers PT-insiders a way to see connections between their familiar traditions and theories with other ways of working. Parallel to this it offers readers who work… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 7] 2019. ix, 404 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
The interface of semantics & etymology, morpho-syntax, and pragmatics in Chinese
Edited by Jeeyoung Peck
Other subjects Altaic languages | Austro-Asian languages | Austronesian languages | Sino-Tibetan languages
Afroasiatic: Data and perspectives
Edited by Mauro Tosco
The articles in the present volume offer an updated view of the breadth of theoretical and empirical research being carried on in the different subgroups of the Afroasiatic phylum. They are written by leading specialists and are representative of widely different perspectives and interests, from… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 339] 2018. vi, 288 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk and Jukka Tyrkkö
The use of corpora has conventionally been envisioned as being either corpus-based or corpus-driven. While the formal definition of the latter term has been widely accepted since it was established by Tognini-Bonelli (2001), it is often applied to studies that do not, in fact, fullfil the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 82] 2018. vii, 313 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Corpus linguistics
Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology
Edited by Ana M. Piquer-Píriz and Rafael Alejo-González
In recent years, Cognitive Linguistics (CL) has established itself not only as a solid theoretical approach but also as an important source from which different applications to other fields have emerged. In this volume we identify some of the current, most relevant topics in applied CL-oriented… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 99] 2018. vi, 230 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Bilingual Cognition and Language: The state of the science across its subfields
Edited by David Miller, Fatih Bayram, Jason Rothman and Ludovica Serratrice
This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series. Over the last 25 years the study of bilingualism has received a tremendous amount of attention from linguists, psychologists, cognitive… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 54] 2018. vi, 403 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Code-switching – Experimental Answers to Theoretical Questions: In honor of Kay González-Vilbazo
Edited by Luis López
This volume compiles eight original chapters dedicated to different topics within bilingual grammar and processing with special focus on code-switching. Three main features unify the contributions to this volume. First, they focus on making a contribution to our understanding of the human language… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 19] 2018. vii, 270 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics
A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages
R.D. Fulk
Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German, along… read moreOther subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical 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 | Syntax
Conceptual Metonymy: Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues
Edited by Olga Blanco Carrión, Antonio Barcelona and Rossella Pannain
The volume addresses a number of closely connected methodological, descriptive, and theoretical issues in the study of metonymy, and includes a series of case studies broadening our knowledge of the functioning of metonymy. As regards the methodological and descriptive issues, the book exhibits a… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 60] 2018. ix, 325 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics
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.
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 | Syntax
Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
The last three decades have seen the emergence of Construction Grammar as a major research paradigm in linguistics. At the same time, very few researchers have taken a constructionist perspective on language contact phenomena. This volume brings together, for the first time, a broad range of… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 24] 2018. vi, 316 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015
Edited by Jonathan E. MacDonald
Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics offers a panorama of current research into multiple varieties of Spanish from several different regions (Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, Costa Rica, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras), Catalan, Brazilian Portuguese, as well as varieties in… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 15] 2018. ix, 376 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
The Corpus Linguistics Discourse: In honour of Wolfgang Teubert
Edited by Anna Čermáková and Michaela Mahlberg
With an ever-growing body of corpus linguistic tools, resources and applications, it becomes increasingly important to reflect critically on the underlying assumptions that corpus linguistics is based on. Focusing on meaning and methods, this book tackles fundamental concepts and approaches that… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 87] 2018. vi, 261 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics
The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition
Edited by Pilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert
Prosodic development is increasingly recognized as a fundamental stepping stone in first language acquisition. Prosodic sensitivity starts developing very early, with newborns becoming attuned to the prosodic properties of the ambient language, and it continues to develop during childhood until… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 23] 2018. vi, 368 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Phonology | Psycholinguistics
Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change
Edited by Richard J. Whitt
This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 85] 2018. viii, 337 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Diachrony of Classification Systems
Edited by William B. McGregor and Søren Wichmann
Classification is a popular topic in typological, descriptive and theoretical linguistics. This volume is the first to deal specifically with the diachrony of linguistic systems of classification. It comprises original papers that examine the ways in which linguistic classification systems arise,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 342] 2018. xi, 362 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Typology
Directional Particles in Cantonese: Form, function, and grammaticalization
Winnie Chor
This book is the first on Cantonese that deals with the grammaticalization phenomenon systematically. Focusing on a group of twelve directional particles, this book tracks their grammaticalization pathways from full-fledged directional verbs, to directional particles indicating meanings relating to… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 9] 2018. xvii, 239 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Discourse Markers and (Dis)fluency: Forms and functions across languages and registers
Ludivine Crible
Spoken language is characterized by the occurrence of linguistic devices such as discourse markers (e.g. so, well, you know, I mean) and other so-called “disfluent” phenomena, which reflect the temporal nature of the cognitive mechanisms underlying speech production and comprehension. The purpose… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 286] 2018. xvi, 252 pp.
Other subjects Dictionaries | 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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6 (2018) iv, 145 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Essays on Linguistic Realism
Edited by Christina Behme and Martin Neef
This book contains new articles by leading philosophers and linguists discussing a promising philosophical framework distinct from currently dominant ones: Linguistic Realism. As opposed to Nominalism and Chomskyian Conceptualism, this approach distinguishes between use of language, knowledge of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 196] 2018. xiii, 300 pp.
Event Structure Metaphors through the Body: Translation from English to American Sign Language
Daniel R. Roush
How do the experiences of people who have different bodies (deaf versus hearing) shape their thoughts and metaphors? Do different linguistic modes of expression (signed versus spoken) have a shaping force as well? This book investigates the metaphorical production of culturally-Deaf translators who… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 4] 2018. xv, 224 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Signed languages | Translation Studies
Evidence for Evidentiality
Edited by Ad Foolen, Helen de Hoop and Gijs Mulder
Statements are always under the threat of the potential counter-question How do you know? To pre-empt this question, language users often indicate what kind of access they had to the communicated content: Their own perception, inference from other information, ‘hearsay’, etc. Such expressions,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 61] 2018. vii, 313 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
Extending the notion of near-synonymy: Studies in morphological, syntactic and pragmatic equivalence
Edited by Renata Enghels
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 18:1 (2018) v, 153 pp.
Other subjects Comparative 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Germanic Genitives
Edited by Tanja Ackermann, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer
The papers in this volume focus on the dynamics of one specific cell in morphological paradigms – the genitive. The high amount of diachronic and synchronic variation in all Germanic languages makes the genitive a particularly interesting phenomenon since it allows us, for example, to examine… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 193] 2018. vi, 327 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
Impersonal human reference in Sign Languages
Edited by Gemma Barberà and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 21:2 (2018) v, 216 pp.
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | Signed languages
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.
Interpersonal Meaning: Systemic Functional Linguistics perspectives
Edited by J.R. Martin
Special issue of Functions of Language 25:1 (2018) v, 204 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change: Spanish across space and time
Edited by Jeremy King and Sandro Sessarego
This collection of original contributions dealing with Hispanic contact linguistics covers an array of Spanish dialects distributed across North, South, and Central America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Bosporus. It deals with both native and non-native varieties of the language,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 340] 2018. vi, 336 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics
Lexical meaning as a testable hypothesis: The case of English look, see, seem and appear
Nadav Sabar
This book offers an original treatment of the lexical form look. The work is innovative in that it establishes that the Columbia School conception of an invariant meaning – hitherto found primarily in grammar – is equally operative in core vocabulary items like look and see. The upshot is that… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 75] 2018. xv, 144 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Semantics
Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages
Edited by Annika Hübl and Markus Steinbach
In recent years, the focus of linguistic research has shifted from sentence to larger units such as text and discourse and accordingly from syntax to semantics and pragmatics. This has led to the development and application of corresponding discourse semantic and pragmatic theories such as, for… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 247] 2018. xii, 311 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Signed languages
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2018
Edited by Bert Le Bruyn and Janine Berns
The 49th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 3rd, 2018. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 65 papers were presented, of which 19 were submitted in writing.… read more
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Mental Models across Languages: The visual representation of baldness terms in German, English, and Japanese
Pawel Sickinger
This book presents a study that triangulates the meanings of expressions across English, German and Japanese via their perception-based conceptual representations. In an online experiment, native speakers of the three languages were asked to design visual representations of expressions referring to… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 63] 2018. xv, 328 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics
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 | Syntax
Methodologies for intra-sentential code-switching research
Edited by Amaia Munarriz-Ibarrola, M. Carmen Parafita Couto and Emma Vanden Wyngaerd
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:1 (2018) v, 161 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Morphology and emotions across the world's languages
Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet and Marine Vuillermet
Special issue of Studies in Language 42:1 (2018) v, 295 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Natural language processing | Syntax | Translation Studies
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 | Syntax
New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change
Edited by Sylvie Hancil, Tine Breban and José Vicente Lozano
The chapters in this volume present a state of the art of grammaticalization research in the 2010s. They are concerned with the application of new models, such as constructionalization, the ongoing debate about the status and modelling of the development of discourse markers, and reveal a renewed… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 202] 2018. vi, 433 pp.
Other subjects Historical 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 | Syntax
Non-prototypical clefts
Edited by Lena Karssenberg, Karen Lahousse, Béatrice Lamiroy, Stefania Marzo and Ana Drobnjakovic
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 32] 2018. v, 169 pp.
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish: Explorations across genres
Edited by Carolina Figueras Bates and Adrián Cabedo
Evidentiality in communication is better investigated in delimited and recognizable contexts where the multiple levels of meaning in interactional practices are manifested. Taking this viewpoint, the present volume explores the interrelations between evidentials and textual genre in Spanish.… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 290] 2018. vi, 254 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil
Edited by Laura Álvarez López, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese. Authored by specialists on varieties of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil, the eleven chapters and the… read moreOther subjects Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Pragmatic Transfer and Development: Evidence from EFL learners in China
Wei Li
Email has become a ubiquitous medium of communication. It is used amongst people from the same speech community, but also between people from different language and cultural backgrounds. When people communicate, they tend to follow rules of speaking in their native language, termed by scholars as… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 287] 2018. xv, 268 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages
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 Syntax
Recent Developments in Functional Discourse Grammar
Edited by Evelien Keizer and Hella Olbertz
This volume presents a collection of papers using the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) to analyse and explain a number of specific constructions or phenomena (external possessor contructions and binominal constructions, negation, modification, modality, polysynthesis and transparency)… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 205] 2018. ix, 283 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants
Edited by Antje Dammel, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck
With most studies on grammatical variation concentrating on the synchronic level, a systematic investigation of long-term grammatical variation within the context of language change, i.e. from a predominantly diachronic perspective, has largely remained a desideratum. The present volume fills this… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 203] 2018. v, 302 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic
Elżbieta Adamczyk
The book is a comprehensive corpus study of analogical developments in the nominal morphology of four Northern West Germanic languages: Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon and Old Low Franconian. It examines the patterns of reorganisation of the nominal paradigms, focusing on the analogical… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 31] 2018. xxvii, 572 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology
Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes
Edited by Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte
At a time when the paradigm gap (Sridhar & Sridhar 1986) between the EFL and ESL research areas is attracting much scholarly attention, the contributions in the current volume explore this gap from the perspective of linguistic innovations across the two different types of non-native Englishes. In… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 98] 2018. vi, 223 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 13: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 29, Nijmegen
Edited by Janine Berns, Haike Jacobs and Dominique Nouveau
In the three decades of its existence, the annual Going Romance conference has turned out to be the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current theoretical ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 13] 2018. vi, 340 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14: Selected papers from the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Stony Brook, NY
Edited by Lori Repetti and Francisco Ordóñez
This book contains a peer-reviewed selection of papers presented at the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 46) that took place in April 2016 at Stony Brook University (SUNY), New York. The most current research and debates on bilingualism, historical linguistics, morphology,… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 14] 2018. vii, 345 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Semantics in Language Acquisition
Edited by Kristen Syrett and Sudha Arunachalam
This volume presents the state of the art of recent research on the acquisition of semantics. Covering topics ranging from infants' initial acquisition of word meaning to the more sophisticated mapping between structure and meaning in the syntax-semantics interface, and the relation between logical… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 24] 2018. vi, 391 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Semantics
Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners
Edited by Maya Hickmann †, Edy Veneziano and Harriet Jisa
Developmental research has long focused on regularities in language acquisition, minimizing factors that might be responsible for variation. Although researchers are now increasingly concerned with one or another of these factors, this volume brings together research on three different sources of… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 22] 2018. x, 444 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
Speaking in a Second Language
Edited by Maria Rosa Alonso Alonso
For millions of individuals all over the world, speaking in a second language is a daily activity. It is therefore important that research in applied linguistics should contribute empirically to the study of second language spoken interaction. The aim of this volume is to make such a contribution… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 17] 2018. xii, 243 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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.
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.
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 | Syntax
Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony
Edited by Sonia Cristofaro and Fernando Zúñiga
Typological hierarchies are widely perceived as one of the most important results of research on language universals and linguistic diversity. Explanations for typological hierarchies, however, are usually based on the synchronic properties of the patterns described by individual hierarchies, not… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 121] 2018. vi, 434 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Typology
Visual Metaphor: Structure and process
Edited by Gerard J. Steen
Metaphor has recently been reconceptualised as a fundamental part of the human conceptual system. It can hence be expressed in language but also in other modalities and media of communication, including gesture and body language, sound and music, and film and visuals. In spite of this theoretical… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 18] 2018. vii, 198 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Psycholinguistics
Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation
Edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Matthias Katerbow
The study of how linguistic variation is acquired is considered a nascent field in both psycho- and sociolinguistics. Within that research context, this book aims at two objectives. First, it wants to help bridging the gap between researchers working on acquisition from different theoretical… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 20] 2017. vi, 347 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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.
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 | Syntax
Beyond Markedness in Formal Phonology
Edited by Bridget D. Samuels
In recent years, an increasing number of linguists have re-examined the question of whether markedness has explanatory power, or whether it is a phenomenon that begs explanation itself. This volume brings together a collection of articles with a broad range of critical viewpoints on the notion of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 241] 2017. xii, 237 pp.
Other subjects Phonology
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 | Syntax
Cameroon Pidgin English: A comprehensive grammar
Miriam Ayafor and Melanie Green
Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) is an English-lexified Atlantic expanded pidgin/creole spoken in some form by an estimated 50% of Cameroon’s population, primarily in the anglophone west regions, but also in urban centres throughout the country. Primarily a spoken language, CPE enjoys a vigorous oral… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 20] 2017. xxi, 314 pp.
Other subjects Creole studies | English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
Complexity Theory and Language Development: In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman
Edited by Lourdes Ortega and ZhaoHong Han
This volume is both a state-of-the-art display of current thinking on second language development as a complex system. It is also a tribute to Diane Larsen-Freeman for her decades of intellectual leadership in the academic disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition. The… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 48] 2017. xv, 234 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches
Edited by Peter Bakker, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva Sippola
This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles and other contact varieties, and between creoles and lexifier… read moreOther subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics
Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre
Edited by Thomas Egan and Hildegunn Dirdal
Contrastive Linguistics is an expanding field, as witnessed by the publication in recent years of an increasing number of monographs, collected volumes and journal articles. The present volume, which comprises an introduction and ten chapters dealing with lexical contrasts between English and other… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 191] 2017. vii, 298 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics
Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk
Edited by Elma Blom, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer
This book presents a current state-of-affairs regarding the study of cross-linguistic influence in bilingualism. Taking Hulk and Müller’s (2000) and Müller and Hulk’s (2001) hypotheses on cross-linguistic influence as a starting point, the book exemplifies the shift from the original focus on… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 52] 2017. vi, 358 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism
Crossroads Semantics: Computation, experiment and grammar
Edited by Hilke Reckman, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Maarten Hijzelendoorn and Rint Sybesma
As language is a multifaceted phenomenon, the study of language, as long as it is geared at providing a comprehensive picture of it, cannot be restricted to one component or one approach. This applies to the many different components of language as well, including semantics.If we want to fully… read more[Not in series, 210] 2017. viii, 329 pp.
Other subjects Semantics
Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation
Edited by Ludovic De Cuypere, Clara Vanderschueren and Gert de Sutter
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 31] 2017. vi, 325 pp.
The Dawn of Dutch: Language contact in the Western Low Countries before 1200
Michiel de Vaan
The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even… read moreOther subjects Contact Linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical 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 | Syntax
Dimensions of Iconicity
Edited by Angelika Zirker, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity. While some contributions examine the phonic dimensions of iconicity that are based on empirical, diachronic and theoretical work, others explore the function of similarity from a cognitive point of view. The section on multimodal… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 15] 2017. xiv, 351 pp.
Other subjects Semiotics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Enabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff
Edited by Geoffrey Raymond, Gene H. Lerner and John Heritage
This collection offers a multifaceted view of the life, research and impact of Emanuel A. Schegloff, the co-originator, with Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson, of Conversation Analysis (or CA), and its leading contemporary authority. The first section introduces Schegloff’s life and work, and, using… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 273] 2017. vi, 359 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Epistemological issue with keynote article “The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development” by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:6 (2017) iv, 140 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Evidentiality Revisited: Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives
Edited by Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Gerda Haßler and Marta Carretero
Evidentiality Revisited focuses on semantic-pragmatic based frameworks for the study of evidentials and evidential strategies in European languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish). The book also presents discourse-pragmatic studies, with… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 271] 2017. vi, 320 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
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.
Expressing and Describing Surprise
Edited by Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari
Among emotions, surprise has been extensively studied in psychology. In linguistics, surprise, like other emotions, has mainly been studied through the syntactic patterns involving surprise lexemes. However, little has been done so far to correlate the reaction of surprise investigated in… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 92] 2017. v, 246 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond
Edited by Karen Dakin, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein
Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. This volume presents and analyzes fresh empirical data… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 185] 2017. xv, 433 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics
Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev
Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world’s major language families owe their dispersal to the adoption of… read moreOther subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics
Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: State of the art 2017
Edited by Theodoros Marinis, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:3/4 (2017) v, 211 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Language Variation - European Perspectives VI: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015
Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller and Beat Siebenhaar
Language Variation - European Perspectives VI showcases a selection of papers from the 8th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe which was held in Leipzig in 2015. The volume includes plenaries by Miriam Meyerhoff and Steffen Klaere (“The large and the small of it: Big issues… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 19] 2017. xvi, 237 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
Lexical Priming: Applications and advances
Edited by Michael Pace-Sigge and Katie J. Patterson
Published in 2005, Michael Hoey’s Lexical Priming – A new theory of words and language introduced a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. In the ten years that have passed, the theory has since gained traction in the field of corpus-linguistics. This… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 79] 2017. xxiii, 309 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages
Edited by Eva van Lier
Special issue of Studies in Language 41:2 (2017) v, 302 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2017
Edited by Sander Lestrade and Bert Le Bruyn
The 48th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 4th, 2017. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year’s meeting, 64 papers were presented, of which 18 were submitted in writing.… read more
Motion and Space across Languages: Theory and applications
Edited by Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective. The chapters present cutting-edge research covering central topics such as the status of semantic components in motion event… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 59] 2017. xiv, 460 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Typology
Mots de liaison et d'intégration: Prépositions, conjonctions et connecteurs
Sous la direction de Thierry Ponchon, Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot et Annie Bertin
Les unités linguistiques ayant pour fonction (paradoxale) de signifier une relation entre d’autres unités de discours, suscitent, depuis l’Antiquité, un intérêt toujours renouvelé. Défi pour le grammairien, dont ils subvertissent les « parties du discours », ces « mots-outils », que l’on peut… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 34] 2017. ix, 246 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World
Edited by Kate Bellamy, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto
This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another. The thirteen contributions in this volume offer… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 13] 2017. vii, 327 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIX: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2015
Edited by Hamid Ouali
This volume features a set of selected peer-reviewed articles, which represent research by some very prominent scholars and some promising researchers in the field. The articles cover a wide range of areas in Arabic linguistics, namely Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 5] 2017. vi, 250 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
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 | Syntax
Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek
Edited by Camille Denizot and Olga Spevak
Pragmatics forms nowadays an integral part of the description not only of modern languages but also of ancient languages such as Latin and Ancient Greek. This book explores various pragmatic phenomena in these two languages, which are accessible through corpora consisting of a broad range of text… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 190] 2017. xvi, 309 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
The Pragmatics of Negation: Negative meanings, uses and discursive functions
Edited by Malin Roitman
Negation is one of the most discussed phenomena within linguistics, on all language levels though it never seems to be exhausted. This operator establishes complex sentence structures and constantly challenges – from a cognitive, syntactical, semantic and morphologic viewpoint – presuppositions on… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 283] 2017. ix, 270 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
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 | Syntax
Robert Brandom's Normative Inferentialism
Giacomo Turbanti
The philosophy of language of Robert Brandom is based on a theoretical structure composed of three main elements: the normative analysis of linguistic practices, the inferential characterization of conceptual contents and the expressive articulation of the relations between the former two.… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 280] 2017. xi, 245 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Pragmatics | Semantics
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11: Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario
Edited by Silvia Perpiñán, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar and Adriana Soto-Corominas
This collection brings together current research on a range of phenomena in French, Spanish, Occitan and Italian, that will be of interest to scholars and students of Romance and general linguistics. The volume includes 12 peer-reviewed articles, first presented at the 44th Linguistic Symposium on… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 11] 2017. vi, 269 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12: Selected papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil
Edited by Ruth E.V. Lopes, Juanito Ornelas de Avelar and Sonia M. L. Cyrino
The current volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 45th meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 45), which took place from May 6 to 9, 2015 at the University of Campinas, Brazil. A volume of selected papers, such as this one, will ultimately be successful… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 12] 2017. xi, 277 pp.
Other subjects Romance 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.
Social Environment and Cognition in Language Development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç
Edited by F. Nihan Ketrez, Aylin C. Küntay, Şeyda Özçalışkan and Aslı Özyürek
Language development is driven by multiple factors involving both the individual child and the environments that surround the child. The chapters in this volume highlight several such factors as potential contributors to developmental change, including factors that examine the role of immediate… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 21] 2017. xii, 242 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
Sonic Signatures: Studies dedicated to John Harris
Edited by Geoff Lindsey and Andrew Nevins
Sonic Signatures is devoted to the representation of sound patterns and sound structures across a diverse range of typologically distinct languages with the overall aim of understanding the nature of linguistic data structures from a principled balance between representational economy and the… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 14] 2017. x, 322 pp.
Space in Diachrony
Edited by Silvia Luraghi, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi
Space is a fundamental dimension of human life and is pervasive in human experience. Research on space has highlighted the possible asymmetrical nature of spatial relations. Differences in the encoding of goals and sources of motion are a case in point, and cross-linguistic coding tendencies show… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 188] 2017. xvii, 373 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
Stance, resonance and the power of engagement
Edited by Bracha Nir and Elisabeth Zima
Special issue of Functions of Language 24:1 (2017) v, 137 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
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.
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 | Syntax
Studies in Figurative Thought and Language
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou
This volume contains original research and innovative analyses that deepen our understanding of figurative thought and language. The selected papers focus on the multi-faceted aspect of figuration, its function in thought, and its impact on areas of grammar and communication. Key topics explored… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 56] 2017. x, 327 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Pragmatics
Studies on Variation in Portuguese
Edited by Pilar Barbosa, Maria da Conceição de Paiva and Celeste Rodrigues
Studies on Variation in Portuguese offers a collection of studies on a range of variable phenomena attested within and across varieties of Portuguese. The volume starts out with an overview of current issues in the study of intralinguistic variation and is divided in two parts. Part 1 is dedicated… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 14] 2017. vi, 345 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
Syllable Weight in African Languages
Edited by Paul Newman
Syllable weight is a crucially important concept in the fields of phonology and morphology. It impacts analyses and explanation whether theoretical, typological, or descriptive. African linguistics was critical in the original development of the concept and, as this book demonstrates, the concept… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 338] 2017. x, 219 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Morphology | Other African languages | Phonology
Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian
Edited by Höskuldur Thráinsson, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen and Zakaris Svabo Hansen
This book presents the latest research on the syntax of the “Insular Scandinavian” languages (Faroese and Icelandic), with contributions from thirteen experts, and a significant introductory chapter by the four editors. The topics covered include some that have figured extensively in recent… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 1] 2017. v, 343 pp.
Other subjects Germanic 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
Acquisition and Development of Hebrew: From infancy to adolescence
Edited by Ruth A. Berman
The volume addresses developing knowledge and use of Hebrew from the dual perspective of typologically specific factors and of shared cross-linguistic trends, aimed at providing an overview of acquisition in a single language from infancy to adolescence while also shedding light on key issues in… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 19] 2016. xvii, 404 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Language acquisition
The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood
Edited by Belma Haznedar and F. Nihan Ketrez
The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood presents recent research on the nature of language acquisition by typically and atypically developing monolingual and bilingual Turkish-speaking children. The book summarises the most recent research findings on the acquisition of Turkish in childhood, with a… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 20] 2016. viii, 416 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Turkic languages
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.
Aging and Bilingualism
Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:1/2 (2016) vi, 226 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Bilingualism and Executive Function: An interdisciplinary approach
Edited by Irina A. Sekerina and Lauren Spradlin
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:5 (2016) vi, 213 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
Cognition, Language and Aging
Edited by Heather Harris Wright
Age-related changes in cognitive and language functions have been extensively researched over the past half-century. The older adult represents a unique population for studying cognition and language because of the many challenges that are presented with investigating this population, including… read moreOther subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism
Edited by John W. Schwieter
The human mind is a marvelous device that effectively regulates mental activities and facilitates amendable cognitive behaviour across several domains such as attention, memory, and language processing. For multilinguals, the mind also represents and manages more than one language system—a mental… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 2] 2016. xvii, 453 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition
Edited by Gisela Granena, Daniel O. Jackson and Yucel Yilmaz
Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition contains 14 chapters that focus on the role of cognitive IDs in L2 learning and processing. The book brings together theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of cognitive IDs, as well as empirical studies… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 3] 2016. vi, 353 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Computational Construction Grammar and Constructional Change
Edited by Katrien Beuls and Remi van Trijp
After several decades in scientific purgatory, language evolution has reclaimed its place as one of the most important branches in linguistics. This renewed interest is accompanied by powerful new methods for making empirical observations. At the same time, construction grammar is increasingly… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 30] 2016. v, 286 pp.
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 | Syntax
Concise Lexicon for Sign Linguistics
Jan Nijen Twilhaar and Beppie van den Bogaerde
This extensive, well-researched and clearly formatted lexicon of a wide variety of linguistic terms is a long overdue. It is an extremely welcome addition to the bookshelves of sign language teachers, interpreters, linguists, learners and other sign language users, and of course of the Deaf… read more[Not in series, 201] 2016. xi, 230 pp.
Other subjects Dictionaries | Signed languages
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 Syntax
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 | Syntax
Cross-linguistic Transfer in Reading in Multilingual Contexts
Edited by Elena Zaretsky and Mila Schwartz
This book represents concurrent attempts of multiple researchers to address the issue of cross-linguistic transfer in literacy. It includes broad spectrum of languages and reflects a new generation of conceptualizations of cross-linguistic transfer, offering a different level of complexity by… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 89] 2016. ix, 183 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Writing and literacy
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 | Syntax
Designing Speech for a Recipient: The roles of partner modeling, alignment and feedback in so-called 'simplified registers'
Kerstin Fischer
This study asks how speakers adjust their speech to their addressees, focusing on the potential roles of cognitive representations such as partner models, automatic processes such as interactive alignment, and social processes such as interactional negotiation. The nature of addressee orientation… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 270] 2016. x, 327 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages
Edited by Jörg-U. Keßler, Anke Lenzing and Mathias Liebner
This edited volume brings together the work of a number of researchers working in the framework of Processability Theory (PT), a psycholinguistic theory of second language acquisition (SLA) (Pienemann 1998; 2005). The aim of the volume is two-fold: It engages with current issues in both theory… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 5] 2016. xviii, 244 pp. | open access
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
Discourse Topics
Richard Watson Todd
Discourse topics are a frequently mentioned but rarely operationalised concept in linguistics. Taking a text linguistic approach and defining discourse topics as clusterings of concepts, this book examines and compares methods for investigating topic boundaries, topic identification and topic… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 269] 2016. xv, 314 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Embodiment in Latin Semantics
Edited by William Michael Short
Embodiment in Latin Semantics introduces theories of embodied meaning developed in the cognitive sciences to the study of Latin semantics. Bringing together contributions from an international group of scholars, the volume demonstrates the pervasive role that embodied cognitive structures and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 174] 2016. v, 271 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics
Emotive Interjections in British English: A corpus-based study on variation in acquisition, function and usage
Ulrike Stange-Hundsdörfer
Emotive Interjections in British English: A corpus-based study on variation in acquisition, function and usage constitutes the first in-depth corpus-based study on the use of emotive interjections in Present Day British English. In a novel approach, it systematically distinguishes between child and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 75] 2016. xxi, 221 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Pragmatics
Epistemological issue with keynote article “The development of bimodal bilingualism: Implications for linguistic theory” by Diane Lillo-Martin, Ronice Müller de Quadros and Deborah Chen Pichler
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:6 (2016) iv, 133 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Exaptation and Language Change
Edited by Muriel Norde and Freek Van de Velde
This volume is the first collection of papers that is exclusively dedicated to the concept of exaptation, a notion from evolutionary biology that was famously introduced into linguistics by Roger Lass in 1990. The past quarter-century has seen a heated debate on the properties of linguistic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 336] 2016. viii, 411 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape: Essays in honor of Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan
Edited by Mine Güven, Didar Akar, Balkız Öztürk and Meltem Kelepir
Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape provides in-depth analyses of different aspects of Turkish in the domains of phonology, morphology and syntax, discourse and language acquisition relevant to recent theoretical discussions. While some of the papers in the volume offer new analyses to known… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 175] 2016. xviii, 202 pp.
Other subjects Altaic languages
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins
Edited by Julie Abbou and Fabienne H. Baider
This volume aims to demonstrate that the centre/periphery tension allows for a theory of gender understood as a power relationship with implications for a political analysis of language structures, language uses and linguistic resistances. All of the 12 chapters included in this volume work on… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 264] 2016. vi, 411 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
The Idiom Principle and L1 Influence: A contrastive learner-corpus study of delexical verb + noun collocations
Ying Wang
This book examines delexical verb + noun collocations such as make a decision, give rise to and take care of in Swedish and Chinese learner English. Using a methodological framework that combines learner corpus research with a contrastive perspective, the study is one of the very few in the field… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 77] 2016. xii, 249 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence
Edited by Alejandro Cuza, Lori Czerwionka and Daniel Olson
Inquires in Hispanic Linguistics: From Theory to Empirical Evidence showcases eighteen chapters from formal and empirical approaches related to Spanish syntax and semantics, phonetics and phonology, and language contact and variation. Drawing on data from a number of monolingual and contact Spanish… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 12] 2016. xi, 358 pp.
Other subjects Romance 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.
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
IntraLatino Language and Identity: MexiRican Spanish
Kim Potowski
The increasing diversity of the U.S. Latino population has given rise to a growing population of “mixed” Latinos. This is a study of such individuals raised in Chicago, Illinois who have one Mexican parent and one Puerto Rican parent, most of whom call themselves “MexiRicans.” Given that these two… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 43] 2016. ix, 278 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun
Edited by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Dagostino
This unique collection of articles in honor of Marianne Mithun represents the very latest in research on language contact and language change in the Indigenous languages of the Americas. The book aims to provide new theoretical and empirical insights into how and why languages change, especially… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 173] 2016. viii, 416 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Languages of South America
Lexical plurals and beyond
Edited by Peter Lauwers and Marie Lammert
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 39:2 (2016) v, 201 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
Linguistic Rhythm and Literacy
Edited by Jenny Thomson and Linda Jarmulowicz
The intersection of sound processing, speech production, and literacy is a promising and growing area of study. This volume showcases recent empirical research exploring the association between linguistic rhythm and reading. Linguistic rhythm does not easily assume a single definition, which is… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 17] 2016. xiv, 286 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Phonetics | Phonology | Writing and literacy
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2016
Edited by Jenny Audring and Sander Lestrade
Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles representing current research in the Netherlands, in various fields of linguistics.This year's volume is based on the 47th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands (Utrecht, 7 February,… read more
The Linguistics of Sign Languages: An introduction
Edited by Anne E. Baker, Beppie van den Bogaerde, Roland Pfau and Trude Schermer
How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constructed in the same way across these languages? What are the rules for having a conversation in a sign language? How do children and adults learn a sign language? How are sign languages processed in the… read more[Not in series, 199] 2016. xv, 378 pp.
Other subjects Signed languages
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Mixing Metaphor
Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
Mixing metaphors in speech, writing, and even gesture, is traditionally viewed as a sign of inconsistency in thought and language. Despite the prominence of mixed metaphors, there have been surprisingly few attempts to comprehensively explain why people mix their metaphors so frequently and in the… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 6] 2016. xiv, 269 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Nasals and Nasalization in Spanish and Portuguese: Perception, phonetics and phonology
C. Elizabeth Goodin-Mayeda
Nasality, whether part of a consonant or vowel, has certain phonetic and phonological characteristics that lead to outcomes seen time and again in languages with and without common ancestries. Spanish and Portuguese constitute a particularly fruitful language pairing for studying phonological… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 9] 2016. x, 115 pp.
Other subjects Phonetics | Phonology | Romance linguistics
New Approaches to English Linguistics: Building bridges
Edited by Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja and Sarah Chevalier
This book aims at providing a cross-section of current developments in English linguistics, by tracing recent approaches to corpus linguistics and statistical methodology, by introducing new inter- and multidisciplinary refinements to empirical methodology, and by documenting the on-going emphasis… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 177] 2016. vi, 326 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013
Edited by Stuart Davis and Usama Soltan
The study of Arabic dialects has been an important and rich area of research over the past thirty-five years or so, with significant implications for modern linguistic analysis. The current volume builds on this tradition with ten scholarly contributions that provide novel data and analyses in… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 3] 2016. xvii, 238 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Gainesville, Florida, 2014
Edited by Youssef A. Haddad and Eric Potsdam
This volume makes important contributions to the growing body of descriptive and theoretical studies in Arabic linguistics. It focuses on the rich linguistic work being done on Arabic dialects. The papers on individual dialects draw attention to the micro-variation that exists, emphasize that they… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 4] 2016. xii, 248 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 10: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 28, Lisbon
Edited by Ernestina Carrilho, Alexandra Fiéis, Maria Lobo and Sandra Pereira
This volume contains a selection of papers of the 28th Going Romance conference, which was organized by the Linguistics centers of Universidade de Lisboa and Universidade Nova de Lisboa in December 2014. It assembles the invited contributions by Alain Rouveret, Guido Mensching, Luigi Rizzi, and… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 10] 2016. x, 330 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics
Romance Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17-19 April, 2013
Edited by Christina Tortora, Marcel den Dikken, Ignacio L. Montoya and Teresa O'Neill
This volume contains a selection of peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held in New York in 2013. The articles deal with various synchronic and diachronic aspects of Romance languages and dialects world-wide. They will be of interest… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 9] 2016. xix, 418 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
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 | Syntax
Sequential Voicing in Japanese: Papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project
Edited by Timothy J. Vance and Mark Irwin
The papers in this tightly focused collection all report recent research on aspects of rendaku (‘sequential voicing’), the well-known morphophonemic phenomenon in Japanese that affects initial consonants of non-initial elements in complex words (mostly compounds). The papers include… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 176] 2016. ix, 279 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Phonology
Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis
Edited by Sandro Sessarego and Fernando Tejedo-Herrero
This book explores the current state of Spanish sociolinguistics and its contribution to theories of language variation and change, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. It offers original analyses on a variety of topics across a wide spectrum of linguistic subfields from different… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 8] 2016. xvi, 406 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Structure of the English NP: Synchronic and diachronic explorations
Edited by Kristin Davidse
Special issue of Functions of Language 23:1 (2016) v, 147 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Textplicating Iconophones: Articulatory iconic action in Ulysses
Nurit Levy
This volume applies a sign-oriented approach to the description of articulatory and acoustic iconic phenomena in James Joyce’s Ulysses. In its hypothesis, the greater the role of sensory experience in the message of a text, the more likely it is to employ linguistic representation in articulated… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 72] 2016. xvii, 333 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Phonology | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation
Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese, Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni
The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation. They all share the assumption that within the language faculty the variation space is hierarchically constrained and that minimal changes in the set of property values defining each language give rise to diverse outputs… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 234] 2016. vii, 376 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Ute Dictionary
T. Givón
This third volume of our Ute language collection contains the Ute dictionary. It opens with several introductory chapters that link the dictionary to our Ute Reference Grammar (2011) and explain the structure and use of the dictionary. The bulk of the information on the meaning and usage of Ute… read more[Culture and Language Use, 15] 2016. xiv, 373 pp.
Other subjects Dictionaries | Language documentation | Languages of North America
Visually Situated Language Comprehension
Edited by Pia Knoeferle, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matthew W. Crocker
Visually Situated Language Comprehension has been compiled as a state-of the-art introduction to real-time language processing in visually-situated contexts. It covers the history of this emergent field, explains key methodological developments and discusses the insights these methods have enabled… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 93] 2016. x, 358 pp.
Other subjects Consciousness research | Psycholinguistics
World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations
Edited by Elena Seoane and Cristina Suárez-Gómez
This book provides a collection of articles that reflect the current state of affairs in the blossoming field of World Englishes by bringing together several innovative synchronic and diachronic approaches. It contributes to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the criteria that make a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G57] 2016. viii, 285 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings
Edited by Tiffany Judy and Silvia Perpiñán
By examining the acquisition of Spanish in combination with languages other than English (Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Nahuatl, Quechua, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish), this volume advances novel data pertinent to the field’s understanding of acquisition of Spanish… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 3] 2015. vi, 362 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Afro-Peruvian Spanish: Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles
Sandro Sessarego
The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in the Americas in a broader sense. In order to provide a more concrete answer to… read moreOther subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Romance 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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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.
Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change: Motion Verbs from Latin to Romance
Natalya I. Stolova
This monograph offers the first in-depth lexical and semantic analysis of motion verbs in their development from Latin to nine Romance languages — Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Sardinian, and Raeto-Romance — demonstrating that the patterns of innovation and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 331] 2015. viii, 261 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics
Contrasting contrastive approaches
Guest-edited by Bart Defrancq
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 15:1 (2015) v, 160 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages
Edited by Amina Mettouchi, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet
This volume presents new findings based on the analysis of spoken corpora in thirteen different Afro-Asiatic languages – a unique endeavor in the domain of lesser-described languages. It will be of interest to corpus linguists, general linguists, typologists, and linguists specializing in… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 68] 2015. vi, 338 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Corpus linguistics
Current Issues in Phraseology
Edited by Sebastian Hoffmann, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand
In this stimulating collection of papers, leading researchers from Europe and North America demonstrate the theoretical and methodological importance of corpus studies of phraseology and show how data-intensive case studies provide new perspectives on language use. One of the main theoretical… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 74] 2015. viii, 166 pp.
Other subjects Corpus 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Early Germanic Languages in Contact
Edited by John Ole Askedal and Hans Frede Nielsen †
This volume contains revised and, in some cases, extended versions of twelve of the fourteen lectures read at the conference on “Early Germanic Languages in Contact” held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense on 22-23 August 2013 – with a paper and a review article added at the end on… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 27] 2015. x, 304 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical 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 | Syntax
Emotion in Language: Theory – research – application
Edited by Ulrike M. Lüdtke
The miracle of children's language development and the joy of expressive language on the one hand and the vulnerability of language and the sorrow and grief caused by its distortion or even loss in people with aphasia or dementia on the other hand show us the inseparability of emotion and language… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 10] 2015. xi, 458 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Psycholinguistics
Epistemological issue with keynote article “The role of language processing in language acquisition” by Colin Phillips and Lara Ehrenhofer
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 5:4 (2015) iv, 147 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Evidentiality and the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
Edited by Bert Cornillie and Juana I. Marín-Arrese
Coming to grips with the semantics-pragmatics interface of evidentiality is an important step forward towards a comprehensive lexicography of this functional category. It not only allows for differentiating between encoded evidential meanings and contextually inferred pragmatic meanings, but also… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 29] 2015. v, 216 pp.
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 | Syntax
Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change
Edited by Janne Bondi Johannessen † and Joseph C. Salmons
This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The… read moreOther subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
Grammatical Change in English World-Wide
Edited by Peter Collins
The contributions to this volume apply and extend the techniques of corpus linguistics and diachronic linguistics to the challenge of describing and explaining grammatical change in varieties of English world-wide. The book is divided into two parts, with ten chapters on ‘Inner Circle’ varieties… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 67] 2015. vi, 488 pp.
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 | Syntax
Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2013
Edited by Rachel Klassen, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela
This collection of articles, contributed by both experienced and novice researchers, addresses core issues in three different domains of Hispanic Linguistics: theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Together these papers provide an overview of how the analysis of Spanish… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 4] 2015. xviii, 339 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013
Edited by Dag T.T. Haug
The International Conference on Historical Linguistics is the main conference for specialists in language change, and the 2013 conference in Oslo drew more than 300 participants, with 182 papers presented in the general session. The 16 papers selected for inclusion in this volume from the general… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 334] 2015. ix, 327 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
Honorific language and linguistic politeness in Korean
Edited by John Whitman and Lucien Brown
Special issue of Korean Linguistics 17:2 (2015) v, 140 pp.
Other subjects Linguistics of isolated languages
How to do Linguistics with R: Data exploration and statistical analysis
Natalia Levshina
This book provides a linguist with a statistical toolkit for exploration and analysis of linguistic data. It employs R, a free software environment for statistical computing, which is increasingly popular among linguists. How to do Linguistics with R: Data exploration and statistical analysis is… read more[Not in series, 195] 2015. xi, 443 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics
Iconicity: East meets West
Edited by Masako K. Hiraga, William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita
Iconicity: East Meets West presents an intersection of East-West scholarship on Iconicity. Several of its chapters thus deal with Asian languages and cultures, or a comparison of world languages. Divided into four categories: general issues; sound symbolism and mimetics; iconicity in literary… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 14] 2015. x, 279 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Semiotics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
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 | Syntax
Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages
Edited by Patrick Rebuschat
Implicit learning is a fundamental feature of human cognition. Many essential skills, including language comprehension and production, intuitive decision making, and social interaction, are largely dependent on implicit (unconscious) knowledge. Given its relevance, it is not surprising that the… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 48] 2015. xxii, 489 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism
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 | Syntax
Language Development: The lifespan perspective
Edited by Annette Gerstenberg and Anja Voeste
Language Development: The lifespan perspective generates insights into the central issues of age-dependent language change, focusing especially on the middle and later stages of life. The contributors exploit contemporary and historical longitudinal data, adopting psycholinguistic, corpus… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 37] 2015. vii, 233 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Edited by Paula Prescod
This collection is a pioneer study of linguistic phenomena in St Vincent and the Grenadines, written by scholars who are both respected in their field of research and connected to the linguistic realities in the geographic area under investigation. This book covers the subfields of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G51] 2015. xv, 191 pp.
Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factors
Edited by Rik De Busser and Randy J. LaPolla
Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. After a general overview, the… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 6] 2015. vi, 370 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English
Tobias Bernaisch
This book offers the first in-depth corpus-based description of written Sri Lankan English. In comparison to British and Indian English, lexical and lexicogrammatical features of Sri Lankan English are analysed in a complex corpus environment comprising data from the respective components of the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G54] 2015. xiv, 248 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2015
Edited by Björn Köhnlein and Jenny Audring
The 46th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on 7 February, 2015. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year's meeting, 86 papers were presented, of which 21 were submitted in writing to… read more
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.
Metaphor in Specialist Discourse
Edited by J. Berenike Herrmann and Tony Berber Sardinha
Metaphor in Specialist Discourse presents multiple perspectives on metaphor use in specialist and popularized discourse contexts. Using genre and register as starting parameters for deeper exploration, and pushing the boundaries further to open up new areas and possibilities, ten independent… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 4] 2015. xii, 319 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Dictionaries | Pragmatics
Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by María Jesús Pinar Sanz
The aim of this volume is to advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the relationship between Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics. The innovative nature of the volume in relation to those existing in the field lies in the fact that it brings together contributions from three of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 78] 2015. x, 212 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Semiotics
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
The Phonetics–Phonology Interface: Representations and methodologies
Edited by Joaquín Romero and María Riera
This volume is a collection of advanced laboratory phonology research papers concerned with the interaction between the physical and the mental aspects of speech and language. The traditional linguistic theoretic distinction between phonetics and phonology is put to the test here in a series of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 335] 2015. xxi, 288 pp.
Other subjects Phonetics | Phonology | Romance linguistics
Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages: An Introduction
Viveka Velupillai
This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics. Part I presents the theoretical background, with chapters devoted to the definition of terms, the… read more[Creole Language Library, 48] 2015. xxvii, 599 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies
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 | Syntax
Researching Northern English
Edited by Raymond Hickey
Northern English has become the focus of intensive research in the past decade or so, following on a series of dedicated conferences. The present book brings together leading-edge contributions on various aspects of language use, variation and change in the North of England. The volume covers the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G55] 2015. x, 483 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes
Robert B. Dewell
The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken in this area of German grammar. Using an extensive collection of naturally occurring data, the author proposes an image-schematic interpretation for each of the productive prefixes be-, ver-, er-, ent-, zer-, um-,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 49] 2015. xiii, 284 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Germanic linguistics | Semantics
Sensory Perceptions in Language and Cognition
Edited by Rosario Caballero and Carita Paradis
Special issue of Functions of Language 22:1 (2015) v, 159 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
South Pacific Englishes: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan English and Cook Islands English
Carolin Biewer
Second-language varieties of English in the South Pacific have received scant attention, until now. This monograph offers the first book-length analysis of the sociolinguistics and morphosyntax of three representatives of South Pacific L2 English in comparison – two of which have never been… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G52] 2015. xvi, 351 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Spanish Phraseology: Varieties and variations
Edited by Pedro Mogorrón Huerta and Xavier Blanco
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 38:2 (2015) v, 159 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
Specific Language Impairment: Current trends in research
Edited by Stavroula Stavrakaki
This volume is dedicated to the field of Specific Language Impairment (SLI), addressing important research questions, including: the interrelation of genetic and cognitive profiles of individuals with SLI; the comorbidity issue and clinical boundaries between SLI and other developmental disorders;… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 58] 2015. ix, 327 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Language disorders & speech pathology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Theoretical and Methodological Developments in Processability Theory
Edited by Kristof Baten, Aafke Buyl, Katja Lochtman and Mieke Van Herreweghe
This edited volume is devoted to expanding the theoretical basis of Processability Theory, a theory of second language development that combines insights in the way speakers generate language and store their language knowledge to predict, describe and explain developmental sequences (Pienemann… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 4] 2015. vii, 273 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development
Edited by Hagen Peukert
This volume, dedicated to language transfer, starts out with state-of-the-art psycholinguistic approaches to language transfer involving studies on psycho-typological transfer, lexical interference and foreign accent. The next chapter on Transfer in Language Learning, Contact, and Change presents… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 4] 2015. ix, 353 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Traveling Conceptualizations: A cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican
Andrea Hollington
Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlantic relations between Africa and Jamaica, and in particular to the understanding of African influences in Jamaican linguistic practices. The… read more[Culture and Language Use, 14] 2015. xxiv, 242 pp.
Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology
Edited by Natalie Operstein and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein
Zapotec languages present a wide range of lexical, morphological, phonological, and syntactic means of indicating valence changes. Despite their significant theoretical interest, detailed descriptions of valence-changing phenomena in Zapotec are rare, comparative studies are practically… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 110] 2015. xiii, 385 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Typology
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.
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 | Syntax
Where do nouns come from?
Edited by John B. Haviland
The noun is an apparent cross-linguistic universal; nouns are central targets of language acquisition; they are frequently prototypical exemplars of Saussurian arbitrariness. This volume considers nouns in sign languages and in the evanescent performances of homesigners (and gesturers), which… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 70] 2015. v, 140 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language | Gesture Studies | Signed languages | Typology
The Why and How of Total Reduplication: Current Issues and New Perspectives
Edited by Daniela Rossi
Special issue of Studies in Language 39:4 (2015) v, 241 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
The (Ir)reversibility of English Binomials: Corpus, constraints, developments
Sandra Mollin
This book focuses on binomials (word pairs such as heart and soul, rich and poor, or if and when), and in particular on the degree of reversibility that English binomials demonstrate. Detailed and innovative corpus linguistic analyses investigate the correlates of the degree of reversibility,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 64] 2014. x, 254 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English 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.
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 | Syntax
Advances in Sociophonetics
Edited by Chiara Celata and Silvia Calamai
Sociophonetics is a privileged domain for the investigation of language variation and change. By combining theoretical reflections and sophisticated techniques of analysis – both phonetic and statistical – it is possible to extrapolate the role of individual factors (socio-cultural, physiological,… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 15] 2014. vi, 214 pp.
Other subjects Phonetics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Advances in research on semantic roles
Edited by Seppo Kittilä and Fernando Zúñiga
Special issue of Studies in Language 38:3 (2014) v, 211 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Beyond ‘Khoisan’: Historical relations in the Kalahari Basin
Edited by Tom Güldemann and Anne-Maria Fehn
Greenberg’s (1954) concept of a ‘Khoisan’ language family, while heartily embraced by non-specialists, has been harshly criticized by linguists working on these languages. Evidence for Greenberg's hypothesis has proved to be seriously insufficient and little progress has been made in the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 330] 2014. xii, 331 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Other African languages
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 | Syntax
Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between
Edited by Sibilla Cantarini, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss
The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 165] 2014. x, 365 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Semantics
Coarticulation and Sound Change in Romance
Daniel Recasens
This volume should be of great interest to phoneticians, phonologists, and both historical and cognitive linguists. Using data from the Romance languages for the most part, the book explores the phonetic motivation of several sound changes, e.g., glide insertions and elisions, vowel and consonant… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 329] 2014. xi, 207 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Phonology | Romance 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 | Syntax
Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English
Edited by Simone E. Pfenninger, Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier
The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change, (socio)linguistic research on variation, and contact linguistics. Drawing on a range of recently-developed methodological innovations, such… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 159] 2014. vi, 326 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 Syntax
Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children
Edited by Zhu Hua and Lixian Jin
For many years, studies of the development of pragmatic and discourse skills in young children have predominantly focused on English and other European languages, as with the field of child language development in general. This volume, originally published in Chinese Language and Discourse 3:1… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 60] 2014. v, 134 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen
Diachronic corpus pragmatics extends the pragmatic perspective to developments in the history of various languages and uses corpus-linguistic methods to trace them. The chapters in this volume focus on linguistic elements at several levels, from individual words to phrases, clauses and entire… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 243] 2014. viii, 335 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Discourse linguistics: Theory and practice
Edited by Karin Aijmer and Anita Fetzer
Special issue of Functions of Language 21:1 (2014) iii, 137 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Epistemological issue with keynote article “Early, late or very late? Timing acquisition and bilingualism” by Ianthi Maria Tsimpli
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:3 (2014) iv, 120 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Evaluation in Context
Edited by Geoff Thompson † and Laura Alba-Juez
It is now an acknowledged fact in the world of linguistics that the concept of evaluation is crucial, and that there is very little – if any – discourse that cannot be analyzed through the prism of its evaluative content. This book presents some of the latest developments in the study of this… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 242] 2014. xi, 418 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs
Edited by Klaus Robering
The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and the treatment of time and aspect. The… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 152] 2014. viii, 373 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Semantics
The Evidential Basis of Linguistic Argumentation
Edited by András Kertész and Csilla Rákosi
Currently, one of the methodological debates in linguistics focuses on the question of what kinds of data are allowed in different linguistic theories and what subtypes of data can work as evidence for or against particular hypotheses. The first part of the volume puts forward a methodological… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 153] 2014. vi, 320 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
Evidentiality in Interaction
Edited by Janis B. Nuckolls and Lev Michael
In recent decades, linguists have significantly advanced our understanding of the grammatical properties of evidentials, but their social and interactional properties and uses have received less attention. This volume, originally published as a special issue of Pragmatics and Society (issue 3:2,… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 63] 2014. v, 199 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond
Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch
This two-part volume provides a collection of 27 linguistic studies and contributions that shed light on the evolution of different Englishes world-wide (varieties, learner Englishes, dialects, creoles) from a broad spectrum of different perspectives, including both synchronic and diachronic… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G49] 2014. xviii, 513 pp.
Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space
Christopher S. Butler and Francisco Gonzálvez-García
This book, intended primarily for researchers and advanced students, expands greatly on previous work by the authors exploring the topography of the multidimensional “functional-cognitive space” within which functional, cognitive and/or constructionist approaches to language can be located. The… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 157] 2014. xviii, 579 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional 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 | Syntax
Frames of Understanding in Text and Discourse: Theoretical foundations and descriptive applications
Alexander Ziem
How do words mean? What is the nature of meaning? How can we grasp a word’s meaning? The frame-semantic approach developed in this book offers some well-founded answers to such long-standing, but still controversial issues. Following Charles Fillmore’s definition of frames as both organizers of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 48] 2014. xii, 428 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
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 | Syntax
The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications
Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing
Over the last forty years, the functionalist approach to linguistic description and explanation has given rise to several major schools of thought that share two crucial assumptions: (i) form is not independent of meaning/function or language use; and (ii) linguistic description and explanation… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 247] 2014. viii, 292 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Genre- and register-related discourse features in contrast
Edited by Marie-Aude Lefer and Svetlana Vogeleer
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 14:1 (2014) v, 161 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
A Grammar of Luwo: An anthropological approach
Anne Storch
This book is a description of Luwo, a Western Nilotic language of South Sudan. Luwo is used by multilingual, dynamic communities of practice as one language among others that form individual and flexible repertoires. It is a language that serves as a means of expressing the Self, as a medium of art… read more[Culture and Language Use, 12] 2014. xvii, 291 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Other African languages
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 | Syntax
Grammatical Variation and Change in Jersey English
Anna Rosen
Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on a specially compiled corpus of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G48] 2014. xii, 237 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
A History of the English Language: Revised edition
Elly van Gelderen
The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most suggestions brought up by users and reviewers have been incorporated, for instance, a… read more[Not in series, 183] 2014. xx, 338 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical 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 | Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
Input and Experience in Bilingual Development
Edited by Theres Grüter and Johanne Paradis
Children acquiring two languages, either simultaneously or sequentially, have more variation in their linguistic input than their monolingual peers. Understanding the nature and consequences of this variability has been the focus of much recent research on childhood bilingualism. This volume… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 13] 2014. ix, 204 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
Language Description Informed by Theory
Edited by Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin
This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 147] 2014. xii, 391 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Language documentation
Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Andreas Dufter and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta
Since the advent of syntactic cartography, left sentence peripheries have begun to take center stage in linguistic research. Following the lead of Rizzi (1997), much work on left peripheries has been focused on Italian, whereas other Romance languages have attracted somewhat less attention. This… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 214] 2014. viii, 423 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context
Edited by Fabienne H. Baider and Georgeta Cislaru
This book presents new issues in the study of the interface of emotions and language, and their use in social context. Two fundamental questions are tackled: the way different languages encode emotional information and the core role emotions play in languages' structure, use and learning. Seldom… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 241] 2014. vi, 358 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2014
Edited by Anita Auer and Björn Köhnlein
The 45th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on 1 February, 2014. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year's meeting, 80 papers were presented, of which 18 were submitted to the present… read more
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 | Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
Mots nous en català / New words in Catalan: Una panoràmica geolectal / A diatopic view
Edited by Teresa Cabré, Ona Domènech Bagaria and Rosa Estopà
This is an innovative and distinctive comparative monograph about new word creation in the different varieties of Catalan. In eight chapters, it provides a panoramic analysis of the neologisms documented by the NEOXOC network. Each chapter is dedicated to the qualitative and quantitative analysis,… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 7] 2014. xiv, 276 pp
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Multi-Dimensional Analysis, 25 years on: A tribute to Douglas Biber
Edited by Tony Berber Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto
Approximately a quarter of a century ago, the Multi-Dimensional (MD) approach—one of the most powerful (and controversial) methods in Corpus Linguistics—saw its first book-length treatment. In its eleven chapters, this volume presents all new contributions covering a wide range of written and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 60] 2014. xxxviii, 328 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Discourse studies
Multilingual Cognition and Language Use: Processing and typological perspectives
Edited by Luna Filipović and Martin Pütz
This volume provides a multifaceted view of certain key themes in multilingualism research today and offers future directions for this research area in the context of the multilingual development of individuals and societies. The selection of studied languages is eclectic (e.g. Amondawa, Cantonese,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 44] 2014. x, 337 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Multilingualism | Typology
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 | Syntax
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 Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia
Edited by Pirkko Suihkonen and Lindsay J. Whaley
The languages of Europe and North and Central Asia provide a rich variety of data. In this volume, some articles are summaries of large areal typological research projects, and some articles focus on structures or constructions in a single language. However, it is common to all the articles that… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 164] 2014. xviii, 437 pp.
Other subjects Typology
Parsing to Learn
Edited by Laurent Dekydtspotter and Claire Renaud
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:2 (2014) vi, 152pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV–XXV: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics. Texas, 2010 and Arizona, 2011
Edited by Samira Farwaneh and Hamid Ouali
This volume provides important contributions to Arabic linguistics and Linguistic research in general by presenting new empirical facts and innovative theoretical analyses. It consists of two major parts: the first contains four papers on phonology and morphology, most of which deal with… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 1] 2014. xiii, 229 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. New York, 2012
Edited by Reem Khamis and Karen Froud
This volume provides a unique collection of studies representing diversity and innovation in Arabic linguistics. The volume includes several groundbreaking papers authored by leaders in the field organized around key aspects of Arabic morphosyntax, semantics, phonology, and sociolinguistics, as… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 2] 2014. vi, 304 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
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 | Syntax
Perspectives on Phonological Theory and Development: In honor of Daniel A. Dinnsen
Edited by Ashley W. Farris-Trimble and Jessica A. Barlow
Any theory of phonology must be able to account for the acquisition and development of a phonological system, and studying acquisition often leads to reciprocal advances in the theory. This volume explores the link between phonological theory and linguistic development from a variety of angles,… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 56] 2014. viii, 256 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Phonology
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.
Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters
Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller, Anders Holmberg and Mohammad Almoaily
Most of what we know about pidgin and creole languages is the result of research into contact languages that developed as a consequence of European expansion into Africa and the Caribbean. The narrow focus on European lexifier and West African substrate languages has resulted in insufficient… read more[Creole Language Library, 47] 2014. v, 178 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies
Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact
Edited by Patrícia Amaral and Ana Maria Carvalho
Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces captures the diversity of encounters that these languages have known and explores their relevance for current linguistic theories. The book focuses on dimensions along which Portuguese and Spanish can be fruitfully compared and highlights the theoretical value of… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 1] 2014. vi, 468 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Romance linguistics
Pragmatic Competence and Relevance
Elly Ifantidou
This book probes into under-researched issues in L2 pragmatics. Firstly, pragmatic competence, pragmatic awareness and metapragmatic awareness are re-defined and clearly distinguished on theoretical grounds. Secondly, pragmatic competence and its manifestations are evaluated on empirical grounds by… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 245] 2014. x, 228 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Semantics
Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition
Edited by Danielle Matthews
Pragmatic development is increasingly seen as the foundation stone of language acquisition more generally. From very early on, children demonstrate a strong desire to understand and be understood that motivates the acquisition of lexicon and grammar and enables ever more effective communication. In… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 10] 2014. vi, 394 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2012: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leuven 2012
Edited by Karen Lahousse and Stefania Marzo
This volume contains a selective collection of peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the 26th Going Romance conference, organized at the KU Leuven (Belgium) from 6-8 December 2012. The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 6] 2014. xiii, 247 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics
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 | Syntax
The Sociolinguistics of Grammar
Edited by Tor A. Åfarli and Brit Mæhlum
The aim of this book is to investigate and attain new insights on how and to what extent the wider sociolinguistic context of language use and contact impinges on formal grammatical structures. The papers contained in the book approach this important problem from various points of view by focusing… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 154] 2014. v, 260 pp.
The Spatial Language of Time: Metaphor, metonymy, and frames of reference
Kevin Ezra Moore
The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 42] 2014. xxv, 340 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive 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 | Syntax
Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl
Convergence, i.e. the increase of inter-systemic similarities, is usually considered the default development in language contact situations. This volume focuses on the other logical possibilities of diachronic development, namely stability and divergence – two well-attested, but under-researched… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 16] 2014. vi, 298 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Nikolas Gisborne and Willem B. Hollmann
Cognitive linguistics has an honourable tradition of paying respect to naturally occurring language data and there have been fruitful interactions between corpus data and aspects of linguistic structure and meaning. More recently, dialect data and sociolinguistic data collection methods/theoretical… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 67] 2014. v, 262 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Historical linguistics
Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space
Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Francisco Gonzálvez-García
The differences among functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist models are generally taken to be not absolute, but rather a matter of emphasis and degree, with an increasing permeability between paradigms arising from cross-fertilizing influences. This book further explores this burgeoning… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 68] 2014. vi, 327 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Functional linguistics | Generative linguistics
Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change
Edited by Evie Coussé and Ferdinand von Mengden
Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has always been recognized in this framework, but has never received central attention. It is the main aim of this book to fill this gap. Once we recognize that usage… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 69] 2014. v, 275 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
Variation within and across Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011
Edited by Marie-Hélène Côté and Eric Mathieu
This volume is a selection of twenty peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 41st annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held at the University of Ottawa in 2011. They are thematically linked by a broad notion of variation across languages, dialects, speakers, time,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 333] 2014. viii, 426 pp.
Other subjects Romance 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson
Edited by Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg
Contrastive studies have experienced a dramatic revival in the last decades. By combining the methodological advantages of computer corpus linguistics and the possibility of contrasting texts in two or more languages, the structure and use of languages can be explored with greater accuracy, detail… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 54] 2013. x, 295 pp.
Other subjects Corpus 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 | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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 Syntax
Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach
Edited by Isabel Verdaguer, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar
The corpus-based studies in this volume explore biomedical research writing in English from a variety of perspectives. The articles in this collection delve into the lexicographic issues involved in building an electronic database of collocations and lexical bundles, offer insight on the teaching… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 56] 2013. xiii, 214 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Lexicography
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo, María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado and María Martínez-Adrián
Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s. Currently, researchers adopt multiple perspectives in the analysis of learner language, all of them providing different but complementary answers to the understanding of oral and written data… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 9] 2013. xiii, 265 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism
Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis
Edited by Hilde Hasselgård, Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling
A hallmark of corpus linguistics is the study of patterns of language use. The studies presented in this volume all use corpora to investigate patterns of lexis from various perspectives. The first section, “Sequence and Order”, presents theoretical and practical aspects of the linguist’s task of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 57] 2013. viii, 299 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology
Edited by Parth Bhatt and Tonjes Veenstra
It is generally assumed that Creole languages form a separate category from the rest of the world’s languages. The papers in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars in the field of Creole studies, seek to explore more deeply this commonly held assumption by comparing the… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 57] 2013. v, 279 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Typology
Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics
Edited by Irina Kor Chahine
This volume represents an overview of current research on Slavic linguistics in Europe and North America based on selected papers presented during the 6th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (September 1-3, 2011, Aix-en-Provence, France). It includes topics across a range of linguistic… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 146] 2013. xi, 331 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics
Deixis and Pronouns in Romance Languages
Edited by Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Jan Lindschouw
This volume proposes a new way to address the classical question concerning the relation between language, cognition, and culture from the perspective of two basic systems: deixis and the pronominal system. It investigates the linguistic structuring of basic concepts of person, place and time in… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 136] 2013. vi, 289 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax | Typology
Epistemological issue with keynote article “The illusion of language acquisition” by William O’Grady
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:3 (2013) iv, 131 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
First Language Attrition
Edited by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke
This volume consists of a collection of papers that focus on structural/grammatical aspects of the process of first language attrition. It presents an overview of current research, methodological issues and important questions regarding first language attrition. In particular, it addresses the two… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 48] 2013. v, 159 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech
Sandra Götz
This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and nonnative speech.… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 53] 2013. xxiii, 238 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
Iconic Investigations
Edited by Lars Elleström, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The contributions to Iconic Investigations deal with linguistic or literary aspects of language. While some studies analyze the cognitive structures of language, others pay close attention to the sounds of spoken language and the visual characteristics of written language. In addition this volume… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 12] 2013. x, 357 pp.
Other subjects Semiotics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque
Edited by Terje Lohndal
This volume in honor of Jan Terje Faarlund covers the areas in which he has contributed to linguistic theorizing, ranging from in-depth studies of Norwegian and Scandinavian grammar both synchronically and diachronically, to work on the Indian language Chiapas Zoque. The book is organized… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 202] 2013. vi, 361 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Languages of South America
Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics
Edited by Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics showcases recent trends in the co-development of theory and empiricism in Chinese linguistics. The volume tackles a wide range of theoretical and empirical problems in multiple subfields including sociolinguistics, discourse analysis,… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 2] 2013. ix, 317 pp.
Other subjects Sino-Tibetan languages
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 | Syntax
The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings
Edited by Isabelle Léglise and Claudine Chamoreau
This volume is at the cross-roads between two research traditions dealing with language change: contact linguistics and language variation and change. It starts out from the notion that linguistic variation is still a little researched area in most contact-induced language change studies. Intending… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 12] 2013. vii, 264 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Japanese: Revised edition
Shoichi Iwasaki
Japanese ranks as the ninth most widely spoken language of the world with more than 127 million speakers in the island state of Japan. Its genetic relation has been a topic of heated discussion, but Altaic and Austronesian languages appear to have contributed to the early formation of this language. read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 17] 2013. xxi, 383 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics
Korean Historical Linguistics
Special issue of Korean Linguistics 15:2 (2013) v, 135 pp.
Other subjects Linguistics of isolated languages
Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols
Edited by Balthasar Bickel, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake
What is the range of diversity in linguistic types, what are the geographical distributions for the attested types, and what explanations, based on shared history or universals, can account for these distributions? This collection of articles by prominent scholars in typology seeks to address these… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 104] 2013. viii, 512 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Typology
Language Variation - European Perspectives IV: Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011
Edited by Peter Auer, Javier Caro Reina and Göz Kaufmann
The eighteen contributions in this volume are based on papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), which was held at the University of Freiburg, Germany, from June 29 to July 1, 2011. The volume includes plenaries by Sjef Barbiers (‘Where is… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 14] 2013. xiv, 296 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013
Edited by Suzanne Aalberse and Anita Auer
The 44th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 9th, 2013. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year's meeting, 83 papers were presented, of which 25 were submitted to the present… read more
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 | Syntax
Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho
Uncovering the meaning of individual words or entire texts is a complex process that needs to take into consideration the multiple interactions of linguistic organization including orthography, morphology, syntax and, ultimately, pragmatics. The papers in this volume pay close attention to these… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 148] 2013. vii, 348 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Historical 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 | Syntax
Metaphor across Time and Conceptual Space: The interplay of embodiment and cultural models
James J. Mischler, III
Contemporary linguistic forms are partially the product of their historical antecedents, and the same is true for cognitive conceptualization. The book presents the results of several diachronic corpus studies of conceptual metaphor in a longitudinal and empirical “mixed methods” design, employing… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 3] 2013. xv, 237 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Historical linguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
New Perspectives on the Origins of Language
Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen
The question of how language emerged is one of the most fascinating and difficult problems in science. In recent years, a strong resurgence of interest in the emergence of language from an evolutionary perspective has been helped by the convergence of approaches, methods, and ideas from several… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 144] 2013. xvi, 582 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language | Historical linguistics
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 | Syntax
Nonmanuals in Sign Language
Edited by Annika Herrmann and Markus Steinbach
In addition to the hands, sign languages make extensive use of nonmanual articulators such as the body, head, and face to convey linguistic information. This collected volume focuses on the forms and functions of nonmanuals in sign languages. The articles discuss various aspects of specific… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 53] 2013. v, 197 pp.
Other subjects Gesture Studies | Signed languages
On multiple source constructions in language change
Edited by Hendrik De Smet, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde
Special issue of Studies in Language 37:3 (2013) vi, 219 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
Patterns and Meanings in Discourse: Theory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)
Alan Partington, Alison Duguid and Charlotte Taylor
This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies. It delves into a… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 55] 2013. xiii, 371 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
The Regularity of the 'Irregular' Verbs and Nouns in English
Elena Even-Simkin and Yishai Tobin
This volume presents an in-depth study of the so-called irregular Past Tense (sing/sang) and Noun Plural (foot/feet) forms with Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in English demonstrating that they possess both a fixed phonological and semantic regularity. The innovative sign-oriented analysis and… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 66] 2013. xvii, 273 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Phonology | Semantics
Ressources Lexicales: Contenu, construction, utilisation, évaluation
Sous la direction de Núria Gala et Michael Zock
Les ressources lexicales (dictionnaires, bases de données, thesaurus, etc.) rassemblent des connaissances sur les mots, leurs sens et leurs usages. Si pendant des siècles elles ont été tributaires de l'imprimerie et du format textuel, il existe de nos jours une grande variété d'outils et de… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 30] 2013. xii, 364 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Lexicography
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 | Syntax
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2011: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Utrecht 2011
Edited by Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen, Luisa Meroni and Manuela Pinto
In 2011, the annual conference series Going Romance celebrated its 25th edition in Utrecht, the founder city of the enterprise. Since its inception in the eighties of the last century, the local initiative has developed into the major European discussion forum for research focussing on the… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 5] 2013. ix, 269 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Shared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Hubert Cuyckens
This book offers fresh perspectives on “shared grammaticalization”, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammaticalization process in common. While contact-induced grammaticalization has generated great interest in recent years, far less attention has been paid… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 132] 2013. xv, 360 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
Sign Language Syntax from a Formal Perspective: Selected Papers from the 2012 Warsaw FEAST
Edited by Paweł Rutkowski
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 16:2 (2013) v, 166 pp.
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | Signed languages
Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface
Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli
The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and linguistic variation. What has traditionally been treated as a dichotomy is now seen rather in terms of a dynamic interface. The contributions… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 133] 2013. xi, 450 pp.
Other subjects Historical 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Text-based contrastive linguistics
Guest-edited by Bengt Altenberg and Karin Aijmer
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 13:2 (2013) v, 137 pp.
Other subjects Comparative 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events
Edited by Juliana Goschler and Anatol Stefanowitsch
The linguistic typology of motion event encoding is one of the central topics in Cognitive Linguistics. A vast body of typological, contrastive, and psycholinguistic research has shown the potential, but also the limitations of the original distinction between verb-framed and satellite-framed… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 41] 2013. x, 251 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Historical linguistics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
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.
Author Representations in Literary Reading
Eefje Claassen
Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader. It is the first book-length empirical study on generated author inferences by readers of literature. It bridges the gap between theories which hold that the author is irrelevant and those that… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 11] 2012. ix, 272 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Bengali
Hanne-Ruth Thompson
Bangla (Bengali), an Eastern Indo-Aryan Language, is the national language of Bangladesh with 150 million speakers and the state language of Paschim Banga (West Bengal) in India with 90 million speakers. There are sizeable communities of Bengalis scattered all over the world. Altogether, the number… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 18] 2012. xxviii, 384 pp.
Other subjects Other Indo-European languages
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Contrastive Linguistics and other Approaches to Language Comparison
Edited by Matthias Hüning and Barbara Schlücker
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 12:1 (2012) v, 119 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency. Selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 13–16 May 2010
Edited by Ferenc Kiefer †, Mária Ladányi and Péter Siptár
The present volume contains selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting held in Budapest, 13–16 May 2010, organized under the auspices of the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The selection of papers presented here addresses problems of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 322] 2012. xx, 268 pp.
Other subjects Morphology
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 | Syntax
The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change
Edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler
Much theorizing in language change research is made without taking into account dialect data. Yet, dialects seem to be superior data to build a theory of linguistic change on, since dialects are relatively free of standardization and therefore more tolerant of variant competition in grammar. In… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 128] 2012. vi, 297 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Epistemological issue with keynote article “Different speakers, different grammars: Individual differences in native language attainment” by Ewa Dabrowska
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:3 (2012) iv, 117 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution
Edited by Luc Steels
The fascinating question of the origins and evolution of language has been drawing a lot of attention recently, not only from linguists, but also from anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, and brain scientists. This groundbreaking book explores the cultural side of language evolution. It… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 3] 2012. xii, 306 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies
From Space to Time: A cognitive analysis of the Cora locative system and its temporal extensions
Eugene H. Casad
Eugene Casad’s posthumous monograph is an in-depth study of the TIME IS SPACE metaphor in Cora – an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the state of Nayarit, Mexico – within the framework of Ronald Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar. The author provides an introduction to Cora speakers and their history, and… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 39] 2012. xxvii, 263 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Historical linguistics | Languages of North America
Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections
Edited by Kristin Davidse, Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems and Tanja Mortelmans
This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification. It addresses topical issues relating to the motivations, sources, defining features,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 130] 2012. viii, 342 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics
Inflection and Word Formation in Romance Languages
Edited by Sascha Gaglia and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin
Morphology, and in particular word formation, has always played an important role in Romance linguistics since it was introduced in Diez’s comparative Romance grammar. Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in inflectional morphology, and current research shows a strong interest in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 186] 2012. vii, 400 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Romance linguistics
Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Grammatical Structure
Edited by Bart Defrancq, Gudrun Rawoens and Els Tobback
This volume is a collection of papers dealing with the close connection between discourse and grammar, illustrating the many, sometimes conflicting, facets of that relationship in various European languages. Central to all contributions is their focus on diverse aspects of clause combination and on… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 26] 2012. v, 159 pp.
The Initiation of Sound Change: Perception, production, and social factors
Edited by Maria-Josep Solé and Daniel Recasens
The origins of sound change is one of the oldest and most challenging questions in the study of language. The goal of this volume is to examine current approaches to sound change from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including articulatory variation and modeling, speech… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 323] 2012. x, 250 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Phonology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2012
Edited by Marion Elenbaas and Suzanne Aalberse
The 43rd annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 4th, 2012. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year's meeting, 67 papers were presented, of which 22 were submitted to the present… read more
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 | Syntax
Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes
Edited by Marianne Hundt and Ulrike Gut
This volume presents a collection of in-depth cross-varietal studies on a broad spectrum of grammatical features in English varieties spoken all over the world. The contributions explore the structural unity and diversity of New Englishes and thus investigate central aspects of dialect evolution… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G43] 2012. xiv, 294 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Mongolian
Juha A. Janhunen
Mongolian is the principal language spoken by some five million ethnic Mongols living in Outer and Inner Mongolia, as well as in adjacent parts of Russia and China. The spoken language is divided into a number of mutually intelligible dialects, while for writing two separate written languages are… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 19] 2012. xv, 320 pp.
Other subjects Altaic languages
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 | Syntax
New Methodologies in Sign Language Phonology: Papers from TISLR 10
Edited by Diane Brentari and Ronnie B. Wilbur
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 15:1 (2012) v, pp. 183
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | Signed languages
New Perspectives on Irish English
Edited by Bettina Migge and Máire Ní Chiosáin
This volume brings together current research by international scholars on the varieties of English spoken in Ireland. The papers apply contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches and frameworks to a range of topics. A number of papers explore the distribution of linguistic features in… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G44] 2012. xvii, 361 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
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 Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from three continents
Edited by Randall Gess, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg
This volume presents a selection of French varieties representing the great diversity of this language along geographical, social, and stylistic dimensions. Twelve illustrations from regions as far removed as Western Canada and Central Africa represent widely divergent social contexts of language… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 11] 2012. vii, 397 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Pidgins and Creoles in Asia
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo
This book shifts the focus of Pidgin and Creole Studies from the better-known Atlantic/Caribbean contexts to the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and Mongolia. By looking at Asian contexts before and after Western colonial expansion, we offer readers insights into language contact in historical… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 38] 2012. ix, 170 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | Typology
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2010: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leiden 2010
Edited by Irene Franco, Sara Lusini and Andrés Saab
The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. The twenty-fourth Going Romance conference was… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 4] 2012. viii, 223 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
SMS Communication: A linguistic approach
Edited by Louise-Amélie Cougnon and Cédrick Fairon
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 35:2 (2012) viii, 261 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Theory and data in cognitive linguistics
Edited by Nikolas Gisborne and Willem B. Hollmann
Special issue of Studies in Language 36:3 (2012) v, 258 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
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 | Syntax
The Transmission of Anglo-Norman: Language history and language acquisition
Richard P. Ingham
This investigation contributes to issues in the study of second language transmission by considering the well-documented historical case of Anglo-Norman. Within a few generations of the establishment of this variety, its phonology diverged sharply from that of continental French, yet core syntactic… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 9] 2012. xii, 179 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Advances in Frame Semantics
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 3:1 (2011) v, 154 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies
Edited by Kim Potowski and Jason Rothman
The present volume represents a variety of portraits of what happens when families attempt to raise children in Spanish while living in English-speaking societies. Aided by the foregrounding chapter by Suzanne Romaine about language and identity and the afterword by Carol Klee that ties together… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 42] 2011. vi, 371 pp.
Other subjects Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion
Edited by Mario Brdar, Stefan Th. Gries and Milena Žic Fuchs
Cognitive Linguistics is not a unified theory of language but rather a set of flexible and mutually compatible theoretical frameworks. Whether these frameworks can or should stabilize into a unified theory is open to debate. One set of contributions to the volume focuses on evidence that… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 32] 2011. vii, 362 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics
Cognitive and Empirical Pragmatics: Issues and perspectives
Edited by Gregory Bochner, Philippe De Brabanter, Mikhail Kissine and Daniela Rossi
Over the last decade, research in semantics and pragmatics has started to increasingly incorporate new experimental methods from cognitive psychology. That this empirical stance on utterance interpretation has now reached maturity is revealed by two unmistakable symptoms: (i) an increased… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 25] 2011. v, 208 pp.
Colouring Meaning: Collocation and connotation in figurative language
Gill Philip
Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 43] 2011. xiii, 232 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Corpus linguistics | Semantics
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 | Syntax
Compound Words in Spanish: Theory and history
María Irene Moyna
This is the first book devoted entirely to the history of compound words in Spanish. Based on data obtained from Spanish dictionaries and databases of the past thousand years, it documents the evolution of the major compounding patterns of the language. It analyzes the structural, semantic, and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 316] 2011. xxv, 451 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Romance 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Converging Evidence: Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research
Edited by Doris Schönefeld
The volume argues for the use of multi-methodological strategies in linguistic research. In its lead chapter, in addition, the thorny issue of phenomenological pluralism is explored in detail. From a usage-based perspective, the individual chapters demonstrate methodological pluralism in the… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 33] 2011. x, 352 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology
Edited by Claire Lefebvre
Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 95] 2011. ix, 626 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Typology
Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar
Edited by Luc Steels
Construction Grammar is enthusiastically embraced by a growing group of linguists who find it a natural way to formulate their analyses. But so far there is no widespread formalization of construction grammar with a solid computational implementation. Fluid Construction Grammar attempts to fill… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 11] 2011. xi, 332 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus 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 | Syntax
Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics
Edited by Jörg Meibauer and Markus Steinbach
In recent years, a lively debate ensued on an old issue, namely the proper distinction between semantics and pragmatics against the background of the classical Gricean distinction between ‘what is said’ and ‘what is implicated’. From a linguist’s point of view, however, there has always been a… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 175] 2011. x, 240 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a paradigm gap
Edited by Joybrato Mukherjee and Marianne Hundt
The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 44] 2011. vi, 222 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Multilingualism
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.
Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics
Edited by Zeki Majeed Hassan and Barry Heselwood
Brought together in this volume are fourteen studies using a range of modern instrumental methods – acoustic and articulatory – to investigate the phonetics of several North African and Middle Eastern varieties of Arabic. Topics covered include syllable structure, quantity, assimilation, guttural… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 319] 2011. xii, 365 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Phonetics
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 | Syntax
Landscape in Language: Transdisciplinary perspectives
Edited by David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult and David Stea
Landscape is fundamental to human experience. Yet until recently, the study of landscape has been fragmented among the disciplines. This volume focuses on how landscape is represented in language and thought, and what this reveals about the relationships of people to place and to land. Scientists… read more[Culture and Language Use, 4] 2011. xiii, 449 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics
Languages in Contact: French, German and Romansh in twentieth-century Switzerland
Uriel Weinreich
The appearance of Uriel Weinreich's Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1953) marked a milestone in the study of multilingualism and language contact. Yet until now, few linguists have been aware that its main themes were first laid out in Weinreich’s Columbia University doctoral… read more[Not in series, 166] 2011. xxxiv, 401 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2011
Edited by Rick Nouwen and Marion Elenbaas
The 42nd annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 5th, 2011. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 112 papers were presented, of which 19 were submitted to the present… read more
Loanwords in Japanese
Mark Irwin
Loanwords in Japanese is the first monograph in a Western language to offer a systematic and coherent overview of the vast number of words borrowed into Japanese since the mid-16th century. Its publication is timely given the fact that the loanword stratum’s recent exponential growth has given rise… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 125] 2011. xix, 276 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Morphology | Phonology
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 | Syntax
Modeling Bilingualism: From Structure to Chaos. In Honor of Kees de Bot
Edited by Monika S. Schmid and Wander Lowie
This volume presents an overview of changes in paradigms, perspectives and contexts of research into bilingual development over the past two decades. During this time, the focus of perspective has changed. In the early 1990s, most investigations still proceeded from models that assumed modular… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 43] 2011. vii, 308 pp.
Other subjects Multilingualism
Morphology and its Interfaces
Edited by Alexandra Galani, Glyn Hicks and George Tsoulas
One of the most striking trends across linguistic research in recent years has been the examination of the interfaces between the various subcomponents of the language faculty. Yet, approaches to these interfaces across different theoretical frameworks differ substantially. This volume pulls… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 178] 2011. ix, 353 pp.
Other subjects Morphology
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 | Syntax | Typology
Nonmanuals in Sign Language
Edited by Annika Herrmann and Markus Steinbach
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 14:1 (2011) vi, 212 pp.
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | Signed languages
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Reciprocals and Semantic Typology
Edited by Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid
Reciprocals are an increasingly hot topic in linguistic research. This reflects the intersection of several factors: the semantic and syntactic complexity of reciprocal constructions, their centrality to some key points of linguistic theorizing (such as Binding Conditions on anaphors within… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 98] 2011. viii, 349 pp.
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.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2009: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Nice 2009
Edited by Janine Berns, Haike Jacobs and Tobias Scheer
The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. The twenty-third Going Romance conference was a… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 3] 2011. viii, 393 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics
Romance Linguistics 2010: Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010
Edited by Julia Herschensohn
This volume contains a selection of nineteen peer-reviewed papers from the 40th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Washington in March 2010. In addition to overviews of Romance linguistics by the editor and by Jurgen Klausenburger in the keynote… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 318] 2011. xvii, 332 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Semblance and Signification
Edited by Pascal Michelucci, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 10] 2011. xii, 427 pp.
Other subjects Semiotics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Studies in Transitivity: Insights from Language Documentation
Edited by František Kratochvíl, Alexander R. Coupe and Randy J. LaPolla
Special issue of Studies in Language 35:3 (2011) v, 266 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
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 | Syntax
Studying Processability Theory: An Introductory Textbook
Edited by Manfred Pienemann and Jörg-U. Keßler
Processability Theory (PT) as developed by Manfred Pienemann is a prominent theory of second language acquisition. PT serves as a framework for a wide range of research covering issues, including L2 processing, interlanguage variation, typological effects on SLA, L1 transfer, pidgins and creoles,… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 1] 2011. xi, 179 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
A Taste for Corpora: In honour of Sylviane Granger
Edited by Fanny Meunier, Sylvie De Cock, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Magali Paquot
The eleven contributions to this volume, written by expert corpus linguists, tackle corpora from a wide range of perspectives and aim to shed light on the numerous linguistic and pedagogical uses to which corpora can be put. They present cutting-edge research in the authors’ respective domain of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 45] 2011. xv, 295 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics
Theory of Language: The representational function of language
Karl Bühler
Karl Bühler (1879–1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of the twentieth century. Although primarily a psychologist, Bühler devoted much of his attention to the study of language and language theory. His masterwork Sprachtheorie (1934) quickly gained recognition in the fields of… read more[Not in series, 164] 2011. xcviii, 518 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Philosophy | Semiotics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Where Do Phonological Features Come From?: Cognitive, physical and developmental bases of distinctive speech categories
Edited by G. Nick Clements and Rachid Ridouane
This volume offers a timely reconsideration of the function, content, and origin of phonological features, in a set of papers that is theoretically diverse yet thematically strongly coherent. Most of the papers were originally presented at the International Conference "Where Do Features Come From?"… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 6] 2011. xv, 347 pp.
Other subjects Phonology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Consonant Structure and Prevocalization
Natalie Operstein
This monograph proposes a new interpretation of the intrasegmental structure of consonants and provides the first systematic intra- and cross-linguistic study of consonant prevocalization. The proposed model represents consonants as inherently bigestural and makes strong predictions that are… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 312] 2010. x, 234 pp.
Other subjects Phonology
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 | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Generative linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
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 Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality
Edited by Michael A. Arbib and Derek Bickerton
Somewhere and somehow, in the 5 to 7 million years since the last common ancestors of humans and the great apes, our ancestors “got” language. The authors of this volume all agree that there was no single mutation or cultural innovation that took our ancestors directly from a limited system of a… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 24] 2010. xi, 181 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
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 | Syntax | Typology
Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research
Edited by Elma Blom and Sharon Unsworth
Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research provides students and researchers interested in language acquisition with comprehensible and practical information on the most frequently used methods in language acquisition research. It includes contributions on first and child/adult second… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 27] 2010. vii, 292 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Framing: From grammar to application
Edited by Paul Sambre and Maria-Cornelia Wermuth
The aim of this issue is to provide an overview of current research into frame semantics and construction grammar, and to stimulate the dialogue between these frameworks and the notion of framing in other linguistic traditions. Using Fillmore’s frame semantics as a common source of inspiration, the… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 24] 2010. v, 193 pp.
French Syntax in Contrast
Edited by Karen Lahousse, Béatrice Lamiroy and Kristel Van Goethem
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 33:2 (2010) vi, 170 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Heterogeneity in Word-Formation Patterns: A corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English
Susanne Mühleisen
Postulated word-formation rules often exclude formations that can nevertheless be found in actual usage. This book presents an in-depth investigation of a highly heterogeneous word-formation pattern in English: the formation of nouns by suffixation with -ee. Rather than relying on a single semantic… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 118] 2010. xiii, 245 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology
An Introduction to the Grammar of English: Revised edition
Elly van Gelderen
It has been eight years since An Introduction to the Grammar of English was first published. The second edition is completely revised and greatly expanded, especially where texts, example sentences, exercises, and cartoons are concerned. It continues to provide a very lively and clearly written… read more[Not in series, 153] 2010. xxi, 232 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems
Edited by Michèle Kail and Maya Hickmann †
How and why do all children learn language? Why do some have difficulties while others are early language learners? What are the consequences of early bilingualism? Is it possible to reach native-like competence in a foreign language? Although we still cannot fully answer these questions, research… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 52] 2010. vii, 330 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Language Contact: New perspectives
Edited by Muriel Norde, Bob de Jonge and Cornelius Hasselblatt
The study of languages in contact is an ever-relevant topic in linguistics, especially at present times when increasing globalization leads to a number of new contact situations. This volume features ten papers on various aspects of language contact by leading specialists in the field. In these… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 28] 2010. vii, 225 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language Documentation: Practice and values
Edited by Lenore A. Grenoble and N. Louanna Furbee
Language documentation, also often called documentary linguistics, is a relatively new subfield in linguistics which has emerged in part as a response to the pressing need for collecting, describing, and archiving material on the increasing number of endangered languages. The present book details… read more[Not in series, 158] 2010. xviii, 340 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Language documentation
Lexical-Semantic Relations: Theoretical and practical perspectives
Edited by Petra Storjohann
This collection of articles sketches the complexity of the subject of lexical-semantic relations and addresses semantic, lexicographic and computational issues on an array of meaning relations in different languages. It brings together a variety of linguistic studies on the contextualised… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 28] 2010. viii, 188 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Semantics
The Linguistic Structure of Modern English
Laurel J. Brinton and Donna M. Brinton
This text is for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language, primary or secondary-school education, English stylistics, theoretical and applied linguistics, or speech pathology. The… read more[Not in series, 156] 2010. xx, 426 pp.
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
The Linguistics Enterprise: From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics
Edited by Martin B.H. Everaert, Tom Lentz, Hannah N.M. De Mulder, Øystein Nilsen and Arjen Zondervan
Linguistics investigates the systems underlying language, speech, and language use. Linguists seek to develop an understanding of the rules and laws that govern the structure and use of particular languages and the manner in which these interact with internal systems and processes (interpretation,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 150] 2010. ix, 379 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2010
Edited by Jacqueline van Kampen and Rick Nouwen
The 41th annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 6th, 2010. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year's meeting, 103 papers were presented, of which 22 were submitted to the… read more
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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 Syntax
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 | Syntax
Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends
Edited by Peter Lauwers, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 10:2 (2010) vi, 168 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
The Processing of Events
Oliver Bott
Synthesizing ideas from event semantics and psycholinguistics, this monograph provides a new perspective on the processing of linguistic aspect and aspectual coercion. Confronting alternative semantic accounts with experimental evidence, the author develops a comprehensive model of online aspectual… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 162] 2010. xvii, 383 pp.
Other subjects Psycholinguistics | Semantics
Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing
Edited by Bill VanPatten and Jill Jegerski
This volume is the first dedicated to the growing field of theory and research on second language processing and parsing. The fourteen papers in this volume offer cutting-edge research using a number of different languages (e.g., Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, English) and structures (e. read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 53] 2010. vii, 351 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2008: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Groningen 2008
Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Bart Hollebrandse
This volume assembles a significant number of selected papers that were presented at the 22nd edition of Going Romance, held at the University of Groningen in December 2008. Though it contains a variety of topics, 'tense, mood and aspect' is represented most extensively. This volume contains a rich… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 2] 2010. x, 251 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics
Romance Linguistics 2008: Interactions in Romance. Selected papers from the 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Urbana-Champaign, April 2008
Edited by Karlos Arregi, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Silvina Montrul and Annie Tremblay
The sixteen papers here united have been selected from the 38th Linguistic Symposium of the Romance Languages held in Champaign-Urbana in 2008. The papers, whose authors include both well-known researchers and younger scholars, cover a broad and truly interdisciplinary range of topics in phonology,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 313] 2010. vii, 266 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics
Romance Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Tucson, Arizona, March 2009
Edited by Sonia Colina, Antxon Olarrea and Ana Maria Carvalho
This volume contains a selection of twenty-four peer-reviewed papers from the 39th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Arizona in 2009. Contributions cover a wide variety of topics in the areas of phonology, phonetics, syntax, morphology, and diachronic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 315] 2010. xiv, 426 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance 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 | Syntax
Signergy
Edited by C. Jac Conradie, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The title of this volume strives to capture the dynamic scope and range of the essays it contains, applying insights into the workings of iconicity to texts as far removed from each other in time as the Medieval tale of a bishop-fish and the war-poems of 20th century Italian Futurist F.T.… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 9] 2010. x, 420 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semiotics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing
Edited by Patrick Brandt and Marco García García
What happens when a canonically transitive form meets a canonically transitive meaning, and what happens when this doesn’t happen? How do dyadic forms relate to monadic ones, and what are the entailments of the operations that the grammar uses to relate one to the other? Collecting original expert… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 166] 2010. vii, 308 pp.
Variation and Change in Morphology: Selected papers from the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2008
Edited by Franz Rainer, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky and Hans Christian Luschützky
The papers in this volume derive from the 13th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna 2008). They all address the main topic of the meeting, viz. variation and change in morphology. Inflectional and derivational morphology are represented on equal terms. The focus is on cases of language-internal… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 310] 2010. vii, 249 pp.
Other subjects Morphology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | Uralic languages
The Architect of Modern Catalan: Selected writings
Pompeu Fabra (1868–1948)
Pompeu Fabra (1868-1948) is renowned as the person who reformed and codified modern Catalan, giving it the condition of a normativised language of culture that proved fit to meet all the challenges of the twentieth century. The context in which he worked was defined by the ideology and momentum of… read more[Not in series, 150] 2009. xxxii, 240 pp.
Other subjects Language policy | Romance linguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Contrastive Pragmatics
Edited by Karin Aijmer
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 9:1 (2009) 182 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Juliane House
This book deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations. It provides insights into the various forms of language contact and the conditions under which bilingual speakers master their every-day life in bilingual communities.… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 8] 2009. viii, 241 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality
Edited by Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov
In recent years, we have witnessed, on the one hand, an increased interest in cross-linguistic data in formal semantic studies, and, on the other hand, an increased concern for semantic issues in language typology. However, only few studies combine semantic and typological research for a particular… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 148] 2009. vii, 406 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Typology
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 | Syntax
Declarative and Procedural Determinants of Second Languages
Michel Paradis
This volume is the outcome of the author’s observations and puzzlement over seventeen years of teaching English and French as second languages, followed by 30 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. It examines, within the framework of a neurolinguistic theory of… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 40] 2009. xii, 219 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Discourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies
Edited by Jan Renkema
Discourse, of Course comes after Jan Renkema’s Introduction to Discourse Studies (2004) for undergraduates. The new book is a collection of twenty short papers. It is a capita selecta course and meant for graduate programs. The aim of this book is threefold: to present material for advanced… read more[Not in series, 148] 2009. vii, 393 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Evidentiality in language and cognition
Edited by Lena Ekberg and Carita Paradis
Special issue of Functions of Language 16:1 (2009) 172 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
The Exploration of Multilingualism: Development of research on L3, multilingualism and multiple language acquisition
Edited by Larissa Aronin and Britta Hufeisen
This volume offers an ontogenetic perspective on research on L3, multilingualism and multiple languages acquisition and a conceptually updated picture of multilingualism studies and third/multiple language acquisition studies. The contributions by prominent scholars of multilingualism present… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 6] 2009. vii, 167 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax | Typology
From Body to Meaning in Culture: Papers on cognitive semantic studies of Chinese
Ning Yu
From the perspective of Cognitive Semantics and Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this collection of papers looks at the relationship between language, body, culture, and cognition. In particular, it looks into the embodied nature of human language and cognition as arising from and situated in the… read more[Not in series, 149] 2009. xvi, 310 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages
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 | Syntax
Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals
Edited by John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts, Tomonori Matsushita and Hiroshi Hasegawa
For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals has as its general aim the investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages,… read more[The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals, 1] 2009. v, 213 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends
Edited by Rachel Selbach, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg
Is creolization an abrupt or a gradual process? In this volume leading scholars provide both comparative and case studies that outline their working definitions and their views on the particular or average time depth, or key processes necessary for contact language formation, providing a… read more[Creole Language Library, 34] 2009. x, 392 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
Grammatical Variation across Space and Time: The French interrogative system
Martin Elsig
Interrogative clauses in French show abundant variation, especially with regard to the position of the subject vis-à-vis the finite verb, the placement of the wh-word, and the use of question markers such as est-ce que and ti/tu. This book presents a comprehensive study of the evolution and use of… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 3] 2009. xvi, 282 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Hispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development
Edited by John Grinstead
This book contains 12 papers contributed by leading scholars in the field of language development, studying variants of the languages which originated on the Iberian peninsula. The contributors examine language development in both typically-developing and language-impaired populations who are… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 50] 2009. xix, 304 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics | Romance linguistics
Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007
Edited by Bernard Comrie, Ray Fabri, Elizabeth Hume, Manwel Mifsud, Thomas Stolz and Martine Vanhove
This collection of articles highlights a selection of on-going research projects. Phonological, morphological, and syntactic issues are addressed by international experts on Maltese. The diachronic development of Maltese, its age-long contact with Italo-Romance, and the present diglossic situation… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 113] 2009. xi, 422 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | English linguistics
An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary
Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.
This is the first text book to offer a comprehensive approach to Old Frisian. Part One begins with a succinct survey of the history of the Frisians during the Middle Ages, their society and literary culture. Next follow chapters on the phonology, morphology, word formation and syntax of Old Frisian. read more[Not in series, 147] 2009. xii, 237 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations
Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden
Special issue of Studies in Language 33:2 (2009) 250 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Functional linguistics | Typology
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 | Syntax
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009
Edited by Bert Botma and Jacqueline van Kampen
Linguistics in the Netherlands is a series of annual publications, sponsored by the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands (Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap) and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company since Volume 8 in 1991. Each volume contains a careful selection of papers presented… read more
The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking
Edited by John Newman
This volume reviews a range of fascinating linguistic facts about ingestive predicates in the world’s languages. The highly multifaceted nature of ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ events gives rise to interesting clausal properties of these predicates, such as the atypicality of transitive constructions involving… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 84] 2009. xii, 280 pp.
Other subjects Typology
Loan Phonology
Edited by Andrea Calabrese and W. Leo Wetzels
For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is that loanword… read moreOther subjects Phonology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching
Edited by Ludmila Isurin, Donald Winford and Kees de Bot
The volume presents a selection of contributions by leading scholars in the field of code-switching. In the past the phenomenon of code-switching was studied within different subfields of linguistics and they all took their own perspectives on code-switching without taking into account findings… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 41] 2009. xviii, 364 pp.
Other subjects Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Named Entities: Recognition, classification and use
Edited by Satoshi Sekine and Elisabete Ranchhod
Named Entities provides critical information for many NLP applications. Named Entity recognition and classification (NERC) in text is recognized as one of the important sub-tasks of Information Extraction (IE). The seven papers in this volume cover various interesting and informative aspects of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 19] 2009. v, 168 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Semantics
Narrative Progression in the Short Story: A corpus stylistic approach
Michael Toolan
One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging of the clash between predictability and unpredictability. This book… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 6] 2009. xi, 212 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax | Typology
New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Vyvyan Evans and Stéphanie Pourcel
Nearly three decades since the publication of the seminal Metaphors We Live By, Cognitive Linguistics is now a mature theoretical and empirical enterprise, with a voluminous associated literature. It is arguably the most rapidly expanding ‘school’ in modern linguistics, and one of the most exciting… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 24] 2009. xi, 519 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics
Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations
Edited by Marina Vigário, Sónia Frota and M. João Freitas
The papers included in the volume Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations are concerned with some of the multiple possible forms of interactions and interrelations in phonetics and phonology: the phonetic and/or phonological nature of speech patterns, segmental and prosodic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 306] 2009. vi, 290 pp.
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing V: Selected papers from RANLP 2007
Edited by Nicolas Nicolov, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov
This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP) held in Borovets, Bulgaria, 27–29 September 2007. These papers cover a wide variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP)… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 309] 2009. x, 338 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics
Register Variation in Indian English
Chandrika Balasubramanian
Register Variation in Indian English constitutes the first large-scale empirical investigation of an international variety of English. Using a combination of the corpus compiled for this project and relevant sections of ICE-India as its database, this work tests existing descriptions and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 37] 2009. xviii, 284 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Amsterdam 2007
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Elisabeth van der Linden, Josep Quer and Petra Sleeman
The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.This volume assembles a significant number of… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 1] 2009. xii, 288 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French
Edited by Kate Beeching, Nigel Armstrong and Françoise Gadet
Divided into three main sections on Phonology, Syntax and Semantics, this new volume on variation in French aims to provide a snapshot of the state of sociolinguistic research inside and outside metropolitan France. From a diatopic perspective, varieties in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Africa and… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 26] 2009. xi, 257 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
Symbol Grounding
Edited by Tony Belpaeme, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman
When explaining cognition one must explain how representations in the mind, or symbols, become meaningful by connecting to the external world. This process of connecting symbols with sensorimotor experiences is known as symbol grounding. The classical view of symbol grounding is that it is an… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 21] 2009. v, 167 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology
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 | Syntax
Syntax within the Word: Economy, allomorphy, and argument selection in Distributed Morphology
Daniel Siddiqi
Syntax within the Word provides a multifaceted look into the syntactic framework of Distributed Morphology (DM) within the Minimalist program. For those unfamiliar with the theory, this monograph provides an overview of DM and argues its strengths. For those more familiar with DM, this monograph… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 138] 2009. xii, 138 pp.
Other subjects Morphology
Television Dialogue: The sitcom Friends vs. natural conversation
Paulo Quaglio
This book explores a virtually untapped, yet fascinating research area: television dialogue. It reports on a study comparing the language of the American situation comedy Friends to natural conversation. Transcripts of the television show and the American English conversation portion of the Longman… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 36] 2009. xiii, 165 pp
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyond
Edited by Jean-Louis Aroui and Andy Arleo
Metrics is often defined as a discipline that concerns itself with the study of meters. In this volume the term is used in a broader sense that more or less coincides with the traditional notion of “versification”. Understood this way, metrics is an eminently complex object that displays variation… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 2] 2009. xiv, 428 pp.
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.
Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages
Edited by James N. Stanford and Dennis R. Preston
Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics.… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 25] 2009. vii, 519 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax | Typology
Vocalize to Localize
Edited by Christian Abry, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz
Vocalize-to-Localize? Meerkats do it for specific predators… And babies point with their index finger toward targets of interest at about nine months, well before using language-specific that-demonstratives. With what-interrogatives they are universal and, as relativizers and complementizers, play… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 13] 2009. x, 311 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Evolution of language
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 | Syntax
World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference
Edited by Thomas Hoffmann and Lucia Siebers
World Englishes is a vibrant research field that has attracted scholars from many different linguistic subdisciplines. Emphasizing the common ground of all research on World Englishes, the 22 articles in this collected volume, selected from more than a hundred papers presented at the 2007… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G40] 2009. xix, 436 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
'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 | Syntax
25th Lexis and Grammar Conference
Edited by Ignazio Mauro Mirto
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 31:2 (2008) 208 pp.
Other subjects Generative 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 | Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
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.
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 | Syntax
Commitment
Edited by Philippe De Brabanter and Patrick Dendale
Commitment is a notion widely invoked in speech-act theory, in studies on modality and in dialogue modelling, but it has never been the central topic of a monograph or a collective volume in linguistics. This volume is the very first to bring together researchers from different linguistic… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 22] 2008. 276 pp.
Constructional Reorganization
Edited by Jaakko Leino
The present volume consists of several novel and different applications of the Construction Grammar framework to areas such as language change, variation, and the internal organization of grammar. The book is a collection of articles which bring together the framework of Construction Grammar and… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 5] 2008. vi, 155 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Historical linguistics
Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives
Edited by Heike Behrens
Corpus research forms the backbone of research on children's language development. Leading researchers in the field present a survey on the history of data collection, different types of data, and the treatment of methodological problems. Morphologically and syntactically parsed corpora allow for… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 6] 2008. xxx, 234 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Language acquisition
A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation: The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic)
Winnie Cheng, Chris Greaves and Martin Warren
The book is the first to apply David Brazil’s Discourse Intonation systems (prominence, tone, key and termination) to the study of a corpus of authentic, naturally-occurring spoken discourses. The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (prosodic) is made up of approximately one million words consisting… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 32] 2008. xi, 325 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Cross-Linguistic Semantics
Edited by Cliff Goddard
Cross-linguistic semantics – investigating how languages package and express meanings differently – is central to the linguistic quest to understand the nature of human language. This set of studies explores and demonstrates cross-linguistic semantics as practised in the natural semantic… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 102] 2008. xvi, 356 pp.
Other subjects Semantics
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.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and cognitive perspectives
Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. González Álvarez
This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive analysis. The articles range across a broad gamut of languages, with most attention going to the languages of Europe. They show how advances in theory and computer technology are together impacting the… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 60] 2008. xxi, 333 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Functional linguistics
Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: In honor of Willie van Peer
Edited by Sonia Zyngier, Marisa Bortolussi, Anna Chesnokova and Jan Auracher
Directions in Empirical Literary Studies is on the cutting edge of empirical studies and is a much needed volume. It both widens the scope of empirical studies and looks at them from an intercultural perspective by bringing together renowned scholars from the fields of philosophy, sociology,… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 5] 2008. xii, 357 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Writing and literacy
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 | Syntax
The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen
Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the ‘life cycle’ of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range from electronic corpora to the internet. In the spirit of the 1968 Weinreich, Labov and Herzog classic, the fifteen contributions divide… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 2] 2008. viii, 339 pp.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Essays on Nominal Determination: From morphology to discourse management
Edited by Henrik Høeg Müller and Alex Klinge
This volume brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that nominal determination and reference assignment play in the complicated interplay between thought, language and communication. The articles can be divided roughly into five… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 99] 2008. xviii, 369 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
Evaluation in text types
Edited by Monika Bednarek
Special issue of Functions of Language 15:1 (2008) 192 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Explorations in Integrational Linguistics: Four essays on German, French, and Guaraní
Edited by Robin Sackmann
Integrational Linguistics (IL), developed by the German linguist Hans-Heinrich Lieb and others, is an approach to linguistics that integrates linguistic descriptions, construed as ‘declarative’ theories, with a detailed theory of language that covers all classical areas of linguistics, from… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 285] 2008. ix, 239 pp.
First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax: Perspectives across languages and learners
Edited by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, María Pilar Larrañaga and John Clibbens
The papers comprising this volume focus on a broad range of acquisition phenomena (subject dislocation, structural case, word order, determiners, pronouns, quantifiers and logical words) from different languages and language combinations. These include languages with large numbers of speakers… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 45] 2008. vi, 302 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Morphology
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 | Syntax
From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics
Edited by Pieter Muysken
From linguistic areas to areal linguistics explores language description and typology in terms of areal background, presenting case studies in areal linguistics. Some concern well-established linguistic areas such as the Balkan, other regions such as East Nusantara (Indonesia) and the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 90] 2008. vii, 293 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics
From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a typology of lexical semantic associations
Edited by Martine Vanhove
This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered together field linguists, semanticists, cognitivists, typologists, and an NLP specialist. These cross-linguistic studies concern semantic shifts at large, both synchronic and diachronic: the outcome of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 106] 2008. xiii, 404 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Typology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism: Re-examining the Age Factor
Silvina Montrul
Age effects have played a particularly prominent role in some theoretical perspectives on second language acquisition. This book takes an entirely new perspective on this issue by re-examining these theories in light of the existence of apparently similar non-native outcomes in adult heritage… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 39] 2008. x, 312 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax | Typology
An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Automata
Willem J.M. Levelt
The present text is a re-edition of Volume I of Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics, a three-volume work published in 1974. This volume is an entirely self-contained introduction to the theory of formal grammars and automata, which hasn’t lost any of its relevance. Of course, major… read more[Not in series, 143] 2008. xi, 139 pp.
Other subjects Psycholinguistics
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 | Syntax
La raison morphologique: Hommage à la mémoire de Danielle Corbin
Bernard Fradin
Ce recueil se compose de treize articles centrés sur la morphologie ou le lexique. Ses auteurs ont tous entretenu des relations de travail avec Danielle Corbin et la plupart sont des linguistes reconnus en morphologie. Au-delà de la diversité des approches, l’originalité de l’ouvrage tient au fait… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 27] 2008. xiii, 242 pp.
Other subjects Morphology
Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change
Edited by Matti Miestamo, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson
Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume – a thematic selection of papers from the conference Approaches to Complexity in Language, held in Helsinki, August 2005 – is the first collection of articles devoted to the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 94] 2008. xiv, 356 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Typology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Les structures comparatives du français: Des bases de données aux corpus
Sous la direction de Catherine Fuchs
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 31:1 (2008) 150 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages
Edited by K. David Harrison, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer
This volume represents part of an unprecedented and still growing effort to advance, coordinate and disseminate the scientific documentation of endangered languages. As the pace of language extinction increases, linguists and native communities are accelerating their efforts to speak, remember,… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 78] 2008. vi, 375 pp.
Other subjects Typology
Limiting the Iconic: From the metatheoretical foundations to the creative possibilities of iconicity in language
Ludovic De Cuypere
Iconicity has become a popular notion in contemporary linguistic research. This book is the first to present a synthesis of the vast amount of scholarship on linguistic iconicity which has been produced in the previous decades, ranging from iconicity in phonology and morpho-syntax to the role of… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 6] 2008. xiii, 286 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Philosophy | Semantics | Semiotics
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 | Syntax
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2008
Edited by Marjo van Koppen and Bert Botma
The 39th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 2nd, 2008. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 91 papers were presented, of which 24 were… read more
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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.
Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch
Edited by Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli
This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] 2008. x, 364 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology
Morphology at the Interfaces: Reduplication and Noun Incorporation in Uto-Aztecan
Jason D. Haugen
This monograph addresses morphology and its interfaces with phonology and syntax by examining comparative data from the Uto-Aztecan language family, and analyses involving reduplication as well as noun incorporation and related derivational morphology are provided within the framework of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 117] 2008. xv, 257 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology
Naturalness and Iconicity in Language
Edited by Klaas Willems and Ludovic De Cuypere
Iconicity and naturalness remain controversial concepts in recent linguistic research. The present volume aims to scrutinize unresolved issues of iconicity and naturalness in language. The studies discuss topics such as naturalism in the philosophy of language and the epistemology of linguistics,… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 7] 2008. ix, 249 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Philosophy | Semantics | Semiotics
The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance
Edited by Ulrich Detges and Richard Waltereit
Recent years have seen intense debates between formal (generative) and functional linguists, particularly with respect to the relation between grammar and usage. This debate is directly relevant to diachronic linguistics, where one and the same phenomenon of language change can be explained from… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 293] 2008. vi, 252 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics
Parts of Speech: Descriptive tools, theoretical constructs
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau
Special issue of Studies in Language 32:3 (2008) 246 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Phonology: A cognitive grammar introduction
Geoffrey S. Nathan
This textbook introduces the reader to the field of phonology, from allophones to faithfulness and exemplars. It assumes no prior knowledge of the field, and includes a brief review chapter on phonetics. It is written within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, but covers a wide range of… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 3] 2008. x, 171 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Phonology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects
Edited by Bjarke Frellesvig and John Whitman
Proto-Japanese is the reconstructed language stage from which all later varieties of Japanese, including Ryukyuan, descend. It has been studied both as an end in itself (as the genetic code of the Japanese language) and as part of endeavors to clarify the genetic affiliation of Japanese. Based on… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 294] 2008. vii, 229 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Japanese 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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax | Typology
Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates
Edited by Susanne Maria Michaelis
This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual historical circumstances under which the pidgin and creole languages arose. The contributions deal with different areas of language… read more[Creole Language Library, 33] 2008. xvii, 425 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Semantics of Generics in Dutch and Related Languages
Albert Oosterhof
This monograph is a comprehensive study of the various ways in which genericity can be expressed in Dutch, dialects of Dutch, and languages related to Dutch. On the basis of empirical (corpus- and questionnaire-based) data, a wide range of topics are discussed which have been addressed in the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 122] 2008. xviii, 286 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Semantics
Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations
Edited by Carolina Plaza-Pust and Esperanza Morales-López
This volume provides a unique cross-disciplinary perspective on the external ecological and internal psycholinguistic factors that determine sign bilingualism, its development and maintenance at the individual and societal levels. Multiple aspects concerning the dynamics of contact situations… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 38] 2008. xvi, 389 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Signed languages
Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff
Edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Naomi Nagy
This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 24] 2008. ix, 365 pp.
Other subjects Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
St Helenian English: Origins, evolution and variation
Daniel Schreier
This volume provides the first-ever sociolinguistic analysis of English on the island of St Helena, the oldest variety of English in the Southern Hemisphere. It is based on a concise synchronic profile of the variety (describing its segmental phonology and morphosyntax) and an evaluation of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G37] 2008. xv, 312 pp.
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.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect
Edited by Susan Rothstein
The papers in this volume investigate the semantics of aspect from both a theoretical and a crosslinguistic point of view, in a wide range of languages from a number of different language families. The papers are all informed by the belief that a thorough exposure to the expression of aspect… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 110] 2008. viii, 453 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Semantics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | Typology
Unity and Diversity of Languages
Edited by Piet van Sterkenburg
The Permanent International Committee of Linguists (Comité International Permanent des Linguistes, CIPL) has organized the 18th Congress of Linguists in Seoul (July 21-26, 2008), in close collaboration with the Linguistic Society of Korea. In this book one finds the invited talks which address hot… read more[Not in series, 141] 2008. xii, 232 pp.
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 | Syntax
The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Ineta Savickienė and Wolfgang U. Dressler
This cross-linguistic volume innovates research of the acquisition of diminutives in the inflecting-fusional languages Lithuanian, Russian, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch, the agglutinating languages Turkish, Hungarian and Finnish and in the introflecting Hebrew. These… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 43] 2007. vi, 352 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Morphology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition
Edited by Michel Aurnague, Maya Hickmann † and Laure Vieu
Despite a growing interest for space in language, most research has focused on spatial markers specifying the static or dynamic relationships among entities (verbs, prepositions, postpositions, case markings…). Little attention has been paid to the very properties of spatial entities, their status… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 20] 2007. viii, 371 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Coreference, Modality, and Focus: Studies on the syntax–semantics interface
Edited by Luis Eguren and Olga Fernández-Soriano
This volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVIth Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. All the papers deal with current issues within the generative framework, mostly paying attention to phenomena pertaining to the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 111] 2007. xii, 239 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
Ditransitivity
Edited by Anna Siewierska and Willem B. Hollmann
Special issue of Functions of Language 14:1 (2007) vi, 173 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Identifying sentences in signed languages
Edited by Onno A. Crasborn
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 10:2 (2007) 140 pp.
Other subjects Signed languages
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 | Syntax
Information Structuring Resources in Contrast
Edited by Bergljot Behrens, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 7:2 (2007) vi, 190 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
La négation dans les langues romanes
Sous la direction de Franck Floricic
Negation has always been and still is a central topic in typological studies and theoretical research. Its centrality shows itself in the fact that it is not restricted to a given linguistic field but compasses the whole domain of linguistic studies. Very often, works on negation are brought about… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 26] 2007. xii, 229 pp
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
Language Attrition: Theoretical perspectives
Edited by Barbara Köpke, Monika S. Schmid, Merel Keijzer and Susan Dostert
This collection of articles provides theoretical foundations and perspectives for language attrition research. Its purpose is to enable investigations of L1 attrition to avail themselves more fully and more fundamentally of the theoretical frameworks that have been formulated with respect to SLA… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 33] 2007. vii, 258 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
The Language of Pain: Expression or description?
Chryssoula Lascaratou
How is the universal, yet private and subjective, experience of pain talked about by different people in everyday encounters? What does the analysis of pain-related lexico-phraseological choices, grammatical structures, and linguistic metaphors reveal as to how pain is perceived and experienced?… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 9] 2007. xii, 238 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Functional 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 | Syntax
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007
Edited by Bettelou Los and Marjo van Koppen
The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 3rd, 2007. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 99 papers were presented, of which 39 were… read more
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 | Syntax
Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Irene Mittelberg †, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey
Methods in Cognitive Linguistics is an introduction to empirical methodology for language researchers. Intended as a handbook to exploring the empirical dimension of the theoretical questions raised by Cognitive Linguistics, the volume presents guidelines for employing methods from a variety of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 18] 2007. xxviii, 452 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive 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 | Syntax
Named Entities: Recognition, classification and use
Edited by Satoshi Sekine and Elisabete Ranchhod
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 30:1 (2007) vi; 163 pp.
Other subjects Generative 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
On Information Structure, Meaning and Form: Generalizations across languages
Edited by Kerstin Schwabe and Susanne Winkler
This collection of articles offers a new and compelling perspective on the interface connecting syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatics. At the core of this volume is the hypothesis that information structure represents the common interface of these grammatical components. Information structure… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 100] 2007. vii, 570 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Typology
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 | Syntax
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XIX: Urbana, Illinois, April 2005
Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun
This volume offers a selection from the papers presented at the 2005 Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The papers cover a variety of topics in Arabic Linguistics, ranging from the lexicon, phonology, syntax and computational linguistics. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 289] 2007. xiv, 304 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XX: Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 2006
Edited by Mustafa A. Mughazy
This volume includes twelve papers selected from the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held in 2006 at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. The papers in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues pertaining to Arabic, particularly in the areas of phonology,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 290] 2007. xii, 247 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
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.
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 | Syntax
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.
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing IV: Selected papers from RANLP 2005
Edited by Nicolas Nicolov, Kalina Bontcheva, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov
This volume brings together selected and revised papers from the international conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing”, held in Borovets, Bulgaria, in September 2005. The best papers have been selected for this volume with the aim to reflect the most promising and significant… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 292] 2007. xii, 307 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Utrecht, 8–10 December 2005
Edited by Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen and Manuela Pinto
The conference series Going Romance is the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages, where ideas about language and linguistics and about Romance languages are put in an interactive perspective, giving space to both universality and Romance-internal… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 291] 2007. viii, 338 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Romance Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the 36th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New Brunswick, March-April 2006
Edited by José Camacho, Nydia Flores-Ferrán, Liliana Sánchez, Viviane Déprez and María José Cabrera
This volume presents selected papers from the 36th LSRL conference held at Rutgers University in 2006. It contains twenty-two articles of current approaches to the study of Romance linguistics. Well-known researchers present their findings in areas such as of syntax and semantics, phonology,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 287] 2007. viii, 340 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
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 Syntax | 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 | Syntax
Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology
Edited by Pilar Prieto, Joan Mascaró and Maria-Josep Solé
This volume is a collection of cutting-edge research papers written by well-known researchers in the field of Romance phonetics and phonology. An important goal of this book is to bridge the gap between traditional Romance linguistics — with its long and rich tradition in data collection,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 282] 2007. xvi, 262 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Romance 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 | Syntax
Simultaneity in Signed Languages: Form and function
Edited by Myriam Vermeerbergen, Lorraine Leeson and Onno A. Crasborn
Signed language users can draw on a range of articulators when expressing linguistic messages, including the hands, torso, eye gaze, and mouth. Sometimes these articulators work in tandem to produce one lexical item while in other instances they operate to convey different types of information… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 281] 2007. viii, 360 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | Signed languages | Typology
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.
Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar: In honour of Lachlan Mackenzie
Edited by Mike Hannay and Gerard J. Steen
This collection presents a number of studies in the lexico-grammar of English which focus on the one hand on close reading of language in context and on the other hand on current functional theoretical concerns. The various contributions represent distinct functionalist models of language,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 83] 2007. vi, 393 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Studies on Old High German Syntax: Left sentence periphery, verb placement and verb-second
Katrin Axel-Tober
This monograph is the first book-length study on Old High German syntax from a generative perspective in twenty years. It provides an in-depth exploration of the Old High German pre-verb-second grammar by answering the following questions: To what extent did generalized verb movement exist in Old… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 112] 2007. xii, 364 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax
The Study of Language and Translation
Edited by Willy Vandeweghe, Sonia Vandepitte and Marc Van de Velde
The volume contains a selection of papers from the congress on the topic of 'The Study of Language and Translation', held in Ghent in January 2006. Its theme is the interface between Linguistics and Translation Studies. The volume hosts contributions from leading scholars in the field such as Mona… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 21] 2007. v, 200 pp
Other subjects Translation Studies
Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages
Edited by Magnus Huber and Viveka Velupillai
This collection of selected conference papers from three SPCL meetings brings together a cross-fertilization of approaches to the study of contact languages. The articles are grouped into three coherent sections dealing with, respectively, phonetics and phonology, including Optimality Theory;… read more[Creole Language Library, 32] 2007. xii, 370 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics
Voicing in Dutch: (De)voicing – phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics
Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer and Erik Jan van der Torre
This volume focuses on the phonology, phonetics and psycholinguistics of voicing-related phenomena in Dutch. Dutch phonology has played a touchstone role in the past few decades where competing phonological theories regarding laryngeal representation have been concerned. Debates have focused on the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 286] 2007. x, 186 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Phonology
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 Syntax
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 | Syntax
Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins
Edited by Joseph Davis, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern
This collection carries the functionalist Columbia School of linguistics forward with contributions on linguistic theory, semiotics, phonology, grammar, lexicon, and anthropology. Columbia School linguistics views language as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its communicative… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 57] 2006. x, 344 pp.
Other subjects Functional 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
The Chinese Rime Tables: Linguistic philosophy and historical-comparative phonology
Edited by David Prager Branner
This book, the first in its field in a Western language, examines China’s native phonological tool with regard to reconstruction, theory, and linguistic philosophy.After an introductory essay on the nature of the tables and the history of their interpretation, the book concentrates on three areas:… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 271] 2006. viii, 358 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Phonology | Sino-Tibetan languages
Cognitive Linguistics Investigations: Across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries
Edited by June Luchjenbroers
The total body of papers presented in this volume captures research across a variety of languages and language groups, to show how particular elements of linguistic description draw on otherwise separate aspects (or fields) of linguistic investigation. As such, this volume captures a diversity of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 15] 2006. xiii, 334 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Philosophy
Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax: From Afrikaans to Zurich German
Edited by Jutta M. Hartmann and László Molnárfi
This selection of papers presented at the 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop brings together contributions that address issues in syntactic predication and studies in the nominal system, as well as papers on data from the history of English and German. Showing a strong comparative… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 97] 2006. vi, 332 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Competing Models of Linguistic Change: Evolution and beyond
Edited by Ole Nedergaard Thomsen
The articles of this volume are centered around two competing views on language change originally presented at the 2003 International Conference on Historical Linguistics in the two important plenary papers by Henning Andersen and William Croft. The latter proposes an evolutionary model of language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 279] 2006. vi, 344 pp.
Other subjects Historical 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.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 Syntax | Uralic languages
A History of the English Language
Elly van Gelderen
THIS INFORMATION REFERS TO AN OLD EDITION. This exceptionally clear text focuses on internal changes in the English language. It outlines the history of English from pre-Old English times to the present. Not only does it present the traditional morphological descriptions of the various stages of… read more[Not in series, 135] 2006. xviii, 334 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
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 | Syntax
Inquiries in Linguistic Development: In honor of Lydia White
Edited by Roumyana Slabakova, Silvina Montrul and Philippe Prévost
The focus of this collection is on important themes in L2 acquisition, the nature of grammatical systems developed by language learners in L1 acquisition, third language acquisition, and bilingualism and language attrition. The chapters present an interesting mix of theoretical contributions,… read more[Not in series, 133] 2006. vi, 363 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism
Interfaces in Multilingualism: Acquisition and representation
Edited by Conxita Lleó
Modeling of linguistic knowledge generally involves the compartmentalization of grammar into phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic components. These components are not isolated but interacting components. It is the resulting interfaces between grammatical… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 4] 2006. xiv, 284 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism
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 | Syntax
Investigating Understudied Sign Languages - Croatian SL and Austrian SL, with comparison to American SL
Edited by Ronnie B. Wilbur
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 9:1/2 (2006) v, 256 pp.
Other subjects Signed languages
L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues
Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan
In this volume, second language (L2) acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles (Siegel). The first group of papers… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 42] 2006. viii, 433 pp.
Other subjects Creole studies | Language acquisition | Multilingualism
Language Variation – European Perspectives: Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005
Edited by Frans Hinskens
This volume presents 16 original studies of variation in languages representing the three main European language families, as well as in varieties of Greek and Hungarian. The studies concern variation in or across dialects or dialect groups, in standard varieties or in emerging regional varieties… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 1] 2006. vi, 279 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006
Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer and Bettelou Los
The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 4th, 2006. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 89 papers were presented, of which 34… read more
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005
Edited by Chiyo Nishida and Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil
This is the first of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote address delivered by Denis Bouchard on exaptation and linguistic explanation, as well as seventeen contributions by… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 275] 2006. xiv, 282 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics; Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology. 2 Vols. set. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005
Edited by Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil and Chiyo Nishida
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 275-276] 2006. 525 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Romance linguistics
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005
Edited by Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil
This is the second of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote addresses delivered by Prof. Jacques Durand on the Phonology of Contemporary French Project and Prof. John Charles Smith… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 276] 2006. x, 213 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Romance 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 | Syntax
Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology
Edited by Fernando Martínez-Gil and Sonia Colina
This outstanding volume offers the first comprehensive collection of optimality-theoretic studies in Spanish phonology. Bringing together most of the best-known researchers in the field, it presents a state-of-the-art overview of research in Spanish phonology within the non-derivational framework… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 99] 2006. viii, 564 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Romance linguistics
Ordre des mots et topologie de la phrase française
Sous la direction de Kim Gerdes et Claude Muller
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 29:1 (2006) 199 pp.
Other subjects Generative 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.
Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz
Edited by Sharon Unsworth, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten
The main focus of generative language development research in recent decades has been the logical problem of language acquisition - how learners go beyond the input to acquire complex linguistic knowledge. This collection deals with the complementary issue of the developmental problem of language… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 39] 2006. viii, 222 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVI: , Cambridge, March 2002
Edited by Sami Boudelaa
The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held in Cambridge, UK, in 2002. They deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in varieties of Arabic. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 266] 2006. xii, 181 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics
Perspectives on Grammar Writing
Edited by Thomas E. Payne and David J. Weber
Special issue of Studies in Language 30:2 (2006) iv, 227 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
Point of View in Plays: A cognitive stylistic approach to viewpoint in drama and other text-types
Dan McIntyre
This is the first book-length study of how point of view is manifested linguistically in dramatic texts. It examines such issues as how readers process the shifts in viewpoint that can occur within such texts. Using insights from cognitive linguistics, the book aims to explain how the analysis of… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 3] 2006. xii, 203 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and culture & Volume II. Psychological aspects (set)
Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Christian Kay and Nicola Pitchford
These two volumes offer a fascinating glimpse into the current avenues of research into colour. The majority of the papers originated in a 2004 conference held in Glasgow, U.K.; some additional invited papers are included. The contributions to both books represent reviews of state-of-the-art colour… read more[Not in series, PICS S] 2006. xii, 223 pp. & xiv, 237 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Lexicography | Semantics
Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and culture
Edited by Carole P. Biggam and Christian Kay
Along with its companion volume, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the current avenues of research into colour, a phenomenon which daily affects all our lives in often surprising ways. The majority of the papers originated in a 2004 conference entitled ‘Progress in Colour Studies’ which… read more[Not in series, PICS 1] 2006. xii, 223 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Lexicography | Semantics
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.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Leiden, 9–11 December 2004
Edited by Jenny Doetjes and Paz González
This volume brings together a selection of papers from the eighteenth ‘Going Romance’ symposium, held at Leiden University, 9–11 December 2004. These papers cover a broad range of topics in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, and acquisition, in a variety of Romance… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 278] 2006. viii, 320 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics
Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages
Edited by Bert Peeters
This volume is part of a research program which started with the publication, in 1972, of Anna Wierzbicka’s groundbreaking work on Semantic Primitives. The first within the program to focus on a number of typologically similar languages, it proposes a French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian version… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 81] 2006. xvi, 374 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Semantics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Three-Participant Constructions in English: A functional-cognitive approach to caused relations
An Laffut
This study aims to give a systematic and comprehensive description of the constructions involved in three important types of alternation: the locative alternation, which is by far the most researched of the three, the image impression alternation and the material/product alternation. The author… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 79] 2006. ix, 268 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics
Topics in Subjectification and Modalization
Edited by Bert Cornillie and Nicole Delbecque
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.This… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 20] 2006. 208 pp.
Types of Variation: Diachronic, dialectal and typological interfaces
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen
This volume interfaces three fields of linguistics rarely discussed in the same context. Its underlying theme is linguistic variation, and the ways in which historical linguists and dialectologists may learn from insights offered by typology, and vice versa. The aim of the contributions is to raise… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 76] 2006. viii, 378 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Typology
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.
The Acquisition of Swahili
Kamil Deen
This monograph is the first study of the acquisition of Swahili as a first language. It focuses on the acquisition of inflectional affixes, with a particular emphasis on subject agreement and tense. Other inflectional affixes are also investigated, including object agreement and mood. The study… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 40] 2005. xiv, 241 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Other African languages
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 | Syntax
Analogy as Structure and Process: Approaches in linguistics, cognitive psychology and philosophy of science
Esa Itkonen
The concept of analogy is of central concern to modern cognitive scientists, whereas it has been largely neglected in linguistics in the past four decades. The goal of this thought-provoking book is (1) to introduce a cognitively and linguistically viable notion of analogy; and (2) to re-establish… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 14] 2005. xiv, 249 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Philosophy
Aspects of English Negation
Edited by Yoko Iyeiri
This book contains eleven carefully selected papers, all discussing negative constructions in English. The aim of this volume is to bring together empirical research into the development of English negation and analyses of syntactic variations in Present-day English negation. The first part… read more[Not in series, 132] 2005. xii, 239 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | History of linguistics
Bare Plurals, Indefinites, and Weak–Strong Distinction
Edited by Svetlana Vogeleer
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, 19] 2005. iv, 265 pp.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Contrast in Context
Edited by Karin Aijmer, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 5:1 (2005) 184 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
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 | Syntax
Corpus-Based Approaches to Sentence Structures
Edited by Toshihiro Takagaki, Susumu Zaima, Yoichiro Tsuruga, Francisco Moreno-Fernández and Yuji Kawaguchi
This is the second volume of the series "Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics", a product of the 21st century COE program held at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). The project has an objective to realize an integration of theoretical and applied linguistics on the basis of computer sciences. read more[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 2] 2005. vi, 317 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics
Dialects Across Borders: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002
Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Marjatta Palander and Esa Penttilä
Nonstandard varieties of languages have recently become an object of new interest in scholarly research. This is very much due to the advances in the methods used in data collection and analysis, as well as the emergence of new language-theoretical frameworks. The articles in this volume stem from… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 273] 2005. xii, 291 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
The Dynamics of Language Use: Functional and contrastive perspectives
Edited by Christopher S. Butler, María de los Ángeles Gómez González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez
This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 140] 2005. xvi, 413 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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.
Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: Phonological papers in honour of John Anderson
Edited by Philip Carr, Jacques Durand and Colin J. Ewen
The papers in this volume focus on notions which are central to the work of John M. Anderson – the founder of Dependency Phonology – and to phonological theory: the idea of structural analogy between phonology and syntax; the head/dependent relation; the idea that phonological representations are… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 259] 2005. xxviii, 405 pp.
Other subjects Phonology
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 | Syntax
Language Acquisition
Edited by Anne E. Baker and Bencie Woll
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 8:1/2 (2005) 222 pp.
Other subjects Signed languages
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 | Syntax
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.
Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories
Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Adam Hodges and David S. Rood
From the refinement of general methodology, to new insights of synchronic and diachronic universals, to studies of specific phenomena, this collection demonstrates the crucial role that language data play in the evolution of useful, accurate linguistic theories. Issues addressed include the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 72] 2005. xii, 432 pp.
Linguistic Informatics – State of the Art and the Future: The first international conference on Linguistic Informatics
Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Susumu Zaima, Toshihiro Takagaki, Kohji Shibano and Mayumi Usami
It is widely believed that linguistic theories and information technology have considerably influenced foreign language education. However, the collaboration of these three domains has not brought about new scientific results. It it thus, our attempt to realize an integration of theoretical and… read more[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 1] 2005. viii, 363 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2005
Edited by Jenny Doetjes and Jeroen van de Weijer
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, which took place in Utrecht on January 29th, 2005. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At… read more
Machine Translation, Controlled Languages and Specialised Languages
Edited by Sylviane Cardey, Peter Greenfield and Séverine Vienney
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 28:1 (2005) 173 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Meaning Predictability in Word Formation: Novel, context-free naming units
Pavol Štekauer
This book aims to contribute to a growing interest amongst psycholinguists and morphologists in the mechanisms of meaning predictability. It presents a brand-new model of the meaning-prediction of novel, context-free naming units, relating the wordformation and wordinterpretation processes. Unlike… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 54] 2005. xxii, 288 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Psycholinguistics | Semantics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVII–XVIII: Alexandria, 2003 and Norman, Oklahoma 2004
Edited by Mohammad T. Alhawary and Elabbas Benmamoun
The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics, held in 2003 (Alexandria) and 2004 (Oklahoma). They tackle a broad range of issues in current linguistic research, particularly in the areas of phonology, morphology/lexicon,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 267] 2005. xvi, 315 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics
Quantifier Scope in German
Jürgen Pafel
This book presents a comprehensive account of quantifier scope in German. The author investigates scope behavior of ordinary quantifiers and negative, adverbial, interrogative, relative and particle quantifiers. The areas which are dealt with include: relative scope in simple sentences, absolute… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 84] 2005. xvi, 312 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2003, Nijmegen, 20–22 November
Edited by Twan Geerts, Ivo van Ginneken and Haike Jacobs
The annual Going Romance conference is the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. Starting with the thirteenth conference held in 1999, volumes with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 270] 2005. viii, 369 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics
Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social
Edited by Leonie Cornips and Karen P. Corrigan
The papers in this collection share a common interest in the empirical, theoretical and meta-theoretical aspects of the ‘internal-external’ (‘formal-functional’) debate in linguistic theory. The primary aim of this volume is to initiate cooperation between internationally renowned generative and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 265] 2005. vi, 312 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Verbes supports: Nouvel état des lieux
Sous la direction de Gaston Gross et Sophie de Pontonx
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 27:2 (2005) 199 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Adpositions of Movement
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Walter De Mulder and Tanja Mortelmans
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, 18] 2004. viii, 323 pp.
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis
Edited by Ellen Contini-Morava, Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller
This volume is the product of a Columbia School Linguistics Conference held at Rutgers University in October 1999, where the plenary speaker was Ronald W. Langacker, a founder of Cognitive Linguistics. The goal of the book is to promote two kinds of dialogue. First, dialogue between Cognitive… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 51] 2004. viii, 389 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Functional 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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Bloomington, Indiana, April 2003
Edited by Julie Auger, J. Clancy Clements and Barbara Vance
This collection of twenty articles, selected from the 33rd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at Indiana University in 2003, presents current theoretical approaches to a variety of issues in Romance linguistics. Invited speakers Luigi Burzio and José Ignacio Hualde contribute… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 258] 2004. viii, 404 pp.
Other subjects Romance 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.
Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar
Edited by Eric Fuß and Carola Trips
This volume emphasizes a new line of thinking in generative grammar which acknowledges that certain synchronic properties of languages can only be fully understood if diachronic data is taken into consideration. The central topics addressed in this collection of papers are (1) a critical assessment… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 72] 2004. viii, 228 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Historical linguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Functional Linguistics and Contrastive Description
Edited by Kristin Davidse and Liesbet Heyvaert
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 4:1 (2004) 199 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Functional 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 | Syntax
Grounding and headedness in the noun phrase
Edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete
Special issue of Functions of Language 11:1 (2004) 145 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax
Linguistics Today – Facing a Greater Challenge
Edited by Piet van Sterkenburg
Every five years the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (CIPL) organises a world congress for linguists. And every five years the Committee faces the challenge of presenting a programme at the highest possible level. The CIPL Executive Committee decided for the Congress planned for 2003… read more[Not in series, 126] 2004. viii, 367 pp. (incl. CD Rom)
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Pragmatics
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004
Edited by Leonie Cornips and Jenny Doetjes
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.
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.
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.
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 | Syntax
Principles of Generative Phonology: An introduction
John T. Jensen
Principles of Generative Phonology is a basic, thorough introduction to phonological theory and practice. It aims to provide a firm foundation in the theory of distinctive features, phonological rules and rule ordering, which is essential to be able to appreciate recent developments and discussions… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 250] 2004. xii, 324 pp.
Other subjects Phonology
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing III: Selected papers from RANLP 2003
Edited by Nicolas Nicolov, Kalina Bontcheva, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov
This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the 2003 International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing”. A wide range of topics is covered in the volume: semantics, dialogue, summarization, anaphora resolution, shallow parsing,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 260] 2004. xii, 402 pp.
Other subjects Natural language processing
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002
Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman
The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. Selected papers are published in the Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory volumes. This is the fourth such volume, containing a selection of the papers that have… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 256] 2004. viii, 273 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics
Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and quantitative perspectives
David Eddington
Unlike most monographs on Spanish phonology and morphology that approach these topics from a structuralist or generativist framework, this volume is written from a less traditional point of view. More specifically, it emphasizes quantitative evidence from sources such as usage-based studies,… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 53] 2004. xvi, 198 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Phonology | Romance linguistics
Theory Construction in Second Language Acquisition
Geoff Jordan
Recently, many SLA researchers have adopted a postmodernist approach which challenges the assumption that SLA research is a rationalist, scientific endeavour. The resulting epistemological arguments, plus problems of theory proliferation, contradicting theories, and theory domain, hinder progress… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 8] 2004. xviii, 294 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Language teaching | Psycholinguistics
Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization
Edited by Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon
The basic idea behind this volume is to probe the nature of grammaticalization. Its contributions focus on the following questions: (i) In how far can grammaticalization be considered a universal diachronic process or mechanism of change and in how far is it conditioned by synchronic factors? (ii)… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 59] 2004. viii, 406 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
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 | Syntax | Uralic languages
What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness
Edited by Martina Penke and Anette Rosenbach
Special issue of Studies in Language 28:3 (2004) 280 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
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 | Syntax
Bibliography of Modern Romani Linguistics: Including a guide to Romani linguistics
Compiled by Peter Bakker and Yaron Matras
The interest in Romani, the language of the Roma or "Gypsies", has grown considerably in recent years. Romani has drawn attention from a.o. grammarians, sociolinguists, Indologists, language contact researchers, language planners, educators, typologists and historical linguists.This Indic language… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 28] 2003. xxviii, 366 pp.
Other subjects Bibliographies in linguistics
Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson
Edited by Dee Ann Holisky and Kevin Tuite
This volume is a collection of seventeen papers, on languages of all three indigenous Caucasian families as well as other languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Several papers are concerned with diachronic questions, either within individual families, or at deeper time depths. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 246] 2003. xxviii, 426 pp.
Other subjects Altaic languages | Balto-Slavic linguistics | Caucasian languages | Historical linguistics
The Development of Prosodic Structure in Early Words: Continuity, divergence and change
Mitsuhiko Ota
This monograph addresses three basic questions regarding the development of word-internal prosodic structure: How much of the phonological structure of early words is regulated by the same constituents and principles that govern the organization of prosodic structure of mature grammar? Why do early… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 34] 2003. xii, 224 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Language acquisition | Phonology
Discussing Conversation Analysis: The work of Emanuel A. Schegloff
Edited by Carlo L. Prevignano and Paul J. Thibault
Discussing Conversation Analysis: The work of Emanuel A. Schegloff presents an in-depth view on Schegloff’s complex and stimulating work in Conversation Analysis (CA) and offers clear insights into how it has and may be developed further as a research tool in social psychology, social science,… read more[Not in series, 118] 2003. xiv, 192 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar: In honor of Eloise Jelinek
Edited by Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley and MaryAnn Willie
The contributions making up this volume in honor of Eloise Jelinek are written from a formalist perspective that deals with stereotypically functionalist questions about language. Jelinek's pioneering work in formalist syntax has shown that autonomous syntax need not exist in a vacuum. Her work has… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 62] 2003. xii, 375 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
Grammaires et Lexiques Comparés: Actes du Colloque
Edited by Mirella Conenna and Éric Laporte
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 26:1 (2003) vi, 174 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Grammatical Metaphor: Views from systemic functional linguistics
Edited by Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Miriam Taverniers and Louise J. Ravelli
Since the 1980s, metaphor has received much attention in linguistics in general. Within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) the area of 'grammatical metaphor' has become increasingly more important. This volume aims to raise and debate problematic issues in the study of lexico-grammatical… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 236] 2003. vi, 453 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13–17 August 2001
Edited by Barry J. Blake and Kate Burridge
This is a selection of papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held in Melbourne 13-17 August 2001, hosted by the Linguistics Program at La Trobe University. The papers range from the general theoretical to the study of particular languages and embrace most areas of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 237] 2003. ix, 442 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
Hybrid Quotations
Edited by Philippe De Brabanter
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, 17] 2003. 232 pp.
The Interaction of Data, Description, and Theory in Linguistics: Functional perspectives
Edited by William B. McGregor
Special issue of Functions of Language 9:2 (2003) iv, 206 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation: Syntactic, informational and functional structures
Kazuko Matsumoto
This book explores how speakers of Japanese organize their messages into coherent units as they jointly and interactively construct conversational discourse. Specifically, it investigates the syntactic, informational, and functional structures of intonation units (IUs) as basic units of discourse… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 65] 2003. xviii, 212 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Phonetics | Pragmatics
An Introduction to African Languages
G. Tucker Childs
This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate… read more[Not in series, 121] 2003. xx, 265 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Other African languages | Typology
Language and Function: To the memory of Jan Firbas
Edited by Josef Hladký
The present volume, originally prepared to celebrate Jan Firbas' 80th birthday, unfortunately is presented only belatedly, to commemorate one of the most outstanding personalities of functional and structural linguistics. Its contributors have been inspired by the richness and penetrating invention… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 49] 2003. x, 336 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
Language and Interaction: Discussions with John J. Gumperz
Edited by Susan L. Eerdmans, Carlo L. Prevignano and Paul J. Thibault
This book features a fascinating and extended focal interview with Professor John J. Gumperz, who ranges over his long career trajectory and reflects on his scientific achievements and how they relate to the contemporary linguistic scene. In this way, the reader is presented with a snapshot… read more[Not in series, 117] 2003. xii, 171 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2003
Edited by Pierre Pica
Linguistic Variation Yearbook is devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. It aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It seeks in particular to investigate to what extent… read more[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 3] 2003. 249 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Typology
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2003
Edited by Leonie Cornips and Paula Fikkert
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XV: Salt Lake City 2001
Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson and Samira Farwaneh
This volume includes nine papers selected from the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Four of the papers deal with the area of corpus linguistics (new for this series), including papers from both a computational and a variationist point of view. The other papers deal with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 247] 2003. x, 214 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition. Selected papers from the 32nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Toronto, April 2002
Edited by Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Yves Roberge
This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 32nd Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, dealing with linguistic theory as applied to the Romance languages, and on empirical studies on the acquisition of Romance, with studies on Romanian, French,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 244] 2003. viii, 388 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics
A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use: Selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001
Edited by Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López and Richard Cameron
Twenty-one articles from the 31st LSRL investigate cutting-edge issues and interfaces across phonology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, semantics, and syntax in multiple dialects of such Romance languages as Catalan, French, Creole French, and Spanish, both old and modern. Research in Romance… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 238] 2003. xv, 384 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics
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 | Syntax | Uralic languages
Structure and Function – A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories: Part 1: Approaches to the simplex clause
Christopher S. Butler
This book and its companion volume present a detailed guide to three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar. This first volume provides the necessary background through a discussion of the characteristics of functional… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 63] 2003. xx, 573 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
Structure and Function – A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories: Part 2: From clause to discourse and beyond
Christopher S. Butler
Like its companion volume, this book offers a detailed description and comparison of three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar, illustrated throughout with corpus-derived examples from English and other languages.… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 64] 2003. xiv, 579 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
Structure and Function – A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories: 2 Volumes (set)
Christopher S. Butler
These two volumes offer a detailed description and comparison of three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar, illustrated and tested throughout with corpus-derived examples from English and other languages.Part 1… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 63-64] 2003. xx, 573 pp. & xiv, 579 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Current Issues in Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ann Arbor, 8–11 April 1999
Edited by Teresa Satterfield, Christina Tortora and Diana Cresti
This book presents an enlightening collection of papers contributing to theoretical discussions across many topics within the study of Romance Languages and Linguistics. The work originates from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held in 1999 at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 220] 2002. viii, 412 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | Typology
Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology
Edited by Werner Abraham and Jan-Wouter Zwart
This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 45] 2002. xviii, 336 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Typology
The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology
Edited by M. Rafael Salaberry and Yasuhiro Shirai
The present volume provides a cross-linguistic perspective on the development of tense-aspect in L2 acquisition. Data-based studies included in this volume deal with the analysis of a wide range of target languages: Chinese, English, Italian, French, Japanese, and Spanish. Theoretical frameworks… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 27] 2002. x, 489 pp.
Other subjects Language disorders & speech pathology
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 | Syntax
The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st century. Volume 2: Mathematics and computability of language
Edited by Bruce E. Nevin and Stephen B. Johnson
Zellig Harris had a profound influence in formal systems and applied mathematics, in demonstrations of the computability of language, and in informatics. Volume 2 begins with a commentary by André Lentin on Harris's grounding in constructivist, intuitionist mathematics, drawing a parallel between… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 229] 2002. xix, 312 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | History of linguistics | Natural language processing
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 | Syntax
Lexical Template Morphology: Change of state and the verbal prefixes in German
B. Roger Maylor
While there have been many attempts in the literature to account for the semantics and syntax of individual German(ic)prefixes, this is the first time that the prefixes have been analysed in a unified way and a framework established that is capable of relating the prefixes to each other and to… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 58] 2002. x, 273 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Semantics
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2002
Edited by Pierre Pica
[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 2] 2002. iv, 308 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Typology
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2002
Edited by Hans Broekhuis and Paula Fikkert
Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings. Volume 1
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka
This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal grammar is constituted by the inherent grammatical properties of some 60 empirically established semantic primes, which appear… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 60] 2002. xvi, 337 pp.
Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka
This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal grammar is constituted by the inherent grammatical properties of some 60 empirically established semantic primes, which appear… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 60-61] 2002. xvi, 337 pp. & xvi, 337 pp.
Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings. Volume 2
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka
This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal grammar is constituted by the inherent grammatical properties of some 60 empirically established semantic primes, which appear… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 61] 2002. xvi, 334 pp.
Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000
Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Maria D. Voeikova
This volume focuses on two main topics: comparative morphology (i.e. cross-linguistic analysis, including typology, dialectology and diachrony) and psycholinguistics (i.e. on-line processing, off-line experiments, child language). Since the psycholinguistic papers of this volume consistently refer… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 218] 2002. vii, 317 pp.
Other subjects Morphology
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 | Syntax
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XIII-XIV: Stanford, 1999 and Berkeley, California 2000
Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson and Elabbas Benmamoun
The papers in this collection derive from the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics held in Stanford (1999) and Berkeley (2000). The selection is noteworthy for its diversity of approach, and for a noticeable broadening of the kinds of questions that are being asked and the kind of data being… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 230] 2002. xiv, 250 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série. Volume 4
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Petr Sgall, Jirí Hana and Tomáš Hoskovec
The fourth volume of the revived series of “Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague” brings three contributions (by J. Vachek, O. Leška and V. Skalička) connected with the classical period of the Prague School, as well as papers delivered at the conference “Function, Form, and Meaning: Bridges and… read more[Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague N.S., 4] 2002. viii, 376 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
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 | Syntax
Romance Phonology and Variation: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000
Edited by Caroline R. Wiltshire and Joaquim Camps
This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, focussing on the areas of phonology and language variation. The papers address issues in phonology such as the emergence of the unmarked, representational… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 217] 2002. xi, 238 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Phonology | Romance linguistics
Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics
Edited by Wallis Reid, Ricardo Otheguy and Nancy Stern
This is the second volume of papers on sign-based linguistics to emerge from Columbia School linguistics conferences. One set of articles offers semantic analyses of grammatical features of specific languages: English full-verb inversion; Serbo-Croatian deictic pronouns; English auxiliary do;… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 48] 2002. xxii, 413 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Semiotics
Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax: Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000)
Edited by Jan-Wouter Zwart and Werner Abraham
This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages.Divided in four main sections, the book focuses on issues of subordination and complementation (with… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 53] 2002. xiv, 404 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. Volume 1
Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Barbara Höhle
Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 23] 2001. xviii, 298 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics
Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. Volume 2
Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Barbara Höhle
Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 24] 2001. vi, 336 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics
Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Barbara Höhle
Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 23-24] 2001. xviii, 299 pp. & viii, 337 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics
Approaches to Languages in Contrast
Edited by Stig Johansson
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 3:1 (2001) iv, 163 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2001
Edited by Pierre Pica
[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 1] 2001. xiv, 270 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Typology
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2001
Edited by Ton van der Wouden and Hans Broekhuis
Other subjects Classical linguistics
Papers on Grammar: Volume VII
Edited by Alessandra Bertocchi, Mirka Maraldi and Anna Orlandini
[Not in series, POG 7] 2001. xii, 146 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics
Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000
Edited by Joaquim Camps and Caroline R. Wiltshire
This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, representing the areas of syntax, semantics, their interfaces, and second language acquisition. The topics addressed include movement (both wh- and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 216] 2001. xii, 246 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Romance linguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax
Edited by Birgit Gerlach and Janet Grijzenhout
This book contains fourteen articles that reflect current ideas on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of clitics. It covers the forms and functions of clitics in various typologically diverse languages and presents data from, e.g. European Portuguese, Macedonian, and Yoruba. It extensively deals… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 36] 2000. xii, 441 pp.
Other subjects Generative 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 | Syntax
Evidence for Linguistic Relativity
Edited by Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven †
This volume has arisen from the 26th International LAUD Symposium on “Humboldt and Whorf Revisited. Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis”. While contrasting two or more languages, the papers in this volume either provide empirical evidence confirming hypotheses… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 198] 2000. xxii, 240 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
History and Perspectives of Language Study: Papers in honor of Ranko Bugarski. .
Edited by Olga Mišeska Tomić and Milorad Radovanović
Each of the contributions in this volume expresses in some way the hope that it is possible to achieve an integrity of linguistics, understood as a science of man, in its psychological, sociological, pragmatic and cultural context. The first section focuses on the history of language study, the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 186] 2000. xxi, 305 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | History of linguistics
Hypothetical Modality: Grammaticalisation in an L2 dialect
Debra Ziegeler
This book marks a new development in the field of grammaticalisation studies, in that it extends the field of grammaticalisation studies from relatively homogeneous languages to those possessing well-established and institutionalised second language varieties. In Hypothetical Modality, special… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 51] 2000. xx, 287 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and modern theories of language
John E. Joseph
The idea that some aspects of language are ‘natural’, while others are arbitrary, artificial or derived, runs all through modern linguistics, from Chomsky’s GB theory and Minimalist program and his concept of E- and I-language, to Greenberg’s search for linguistic universals, Pinker’s views on… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 96] 2000. x, 224 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Philosophy
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2000
Edited by Helen de Hoop and Ton van der Wouden
Other subjects Classical linguistics
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Volume II: Selected papers from RANLP ’97
Edited by Nicolas Nicolov and Ruslan Mitkov
This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the Second International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP’97) held in Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 1997. The aim of the conference was to give researchers the opportunity to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 189] 2000. xi, 422 pp.
Other subjects Natural language processing
The Structure of Modern English: A linguistic introduction
Laurel J. Brinton
The Structure of Modern English is an extensive introduction to all aspects of Modern English structure, including:PhonologyMorphologyLexical and sentence semanticsSyntaxPragmaticsThis text is for advanced undergraduate (and graduate) students interested in contemporary English, especially those… read more[Not in series, 94] 2000. xxii, 335 pp. (incl. workbook on CD-rom)
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
A Theory of Syntax for Systemic Functional Linguistics
Robin P. Fawcett
This book describes and evaluates alternative approaches within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to representing the structure of language at the level of form. It assumes no prior knowledge of SFL, and can therefore be read as an introduction to current issues within the theory. It will… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 206] 2000. xxviii, 360 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory
Edited by Ben Hermans and Marc van Oostendorp
Constraint-based frameworks such as Optimality Theory (OT) have significantly altered phonologists' views on the nature of derivations and their role in linguistic theory. Earlier frameworks of generative phonology were characterized by a fairly complicated theory of derivations, involving lexical… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 28] 1999. viii, 321 pp.
Other subjects Phonology
The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner. Volume 1: Historiographical perspectives
Edited by Sheila Embleton, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe
Although it is widely thought that structural linguistics began abruptly with the publication of Saussure's 'revolutionary' Course in General Linguistics, the work of E. F. K. Koerner has demonstrated that Saussure, for all his originality, remained true to the basic tenets of his 19th-century… read more[Not in series, EMLS 1] 1999. lvi, 310 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | History of linguistics
The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner. Volume 2: Methodological perspectives and applications
Edited by Sheila Embleton, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe
Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of… read more[Not in series, EMLS 2] 1999. lvi, 335 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | History of linguistics
Function and Structure: In honor of Susumu Kuno
Edited by Akio Kamio and Ken-ichi Takami
This collection of papers on functional syntax shows the development of a specific stream of functional linguistics initiated by Susumu Kuno of Harvard University. Inspired by Prague School linguists such as Jan Firbas and Vilém Mathesius, Kuno developed a more comprehensive and theory-oriented… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 59] 1999. x, 398 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Generative linguistics
Issues in Phonological Structure: Papers from an International Workshop
Edited by S.J. Hannahs and Mike Davenport
This volume contains revised, expanded and updated versions of papers originally presented at the International Workshop on Phonological Structure held at the University of Durham in September 1994. As the title suggests, the contributions focus on aspects of phonological structure, both segment… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 196] 1999. xii, 268 pp.
Other subjects Phonology
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1999
Edited by Renée van Bezooijen and René Kager
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the thirtieth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on February, 6, 1998. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. At… read more
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XII: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1998
Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun
The papers in this volume deal with various topics in Arabic Linguistics. Most of the papers focus on new issues and introduce new empirical generalizations that haven't been studied before within the context of Arabic linguistics. The syntax and morphosyntax papers explore issues ranging from the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 190] 1999. vii, 204 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série. Volume 3
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Tomáš Hoskovec, Oldřich Leška †, Petr Sgall and Zdena Skoumalová
This volume is the third one of the revived series of Travaux, which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic Circle, published in the years 1929-39. The tradition of the Circle still attracts attention in broad circles of European and American linguistics. read more[Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague N.S., 3] 1999. viii, 310 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
Source Book for Linguistics: Third revised edition
William Cowan and Jaromira Rakušan
This is a revised and expanded edition of Cowan and Rakušan’s Source Book for Linguistics. In addition to the chapters on Phonetics, Phonology, Phonological Alternations, Morphology, Syntax, Sound Change and Historical Reconstruction, there are two new chapters: one on Semantics and one on… read more[Not in series, 89] 1999. xii, 252 pp.
Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity: Essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov
Edited by Werner Abraham and Leonid Kulikov
This collection presents typological work on tense, aspect, and epistemic modality in a variety of languages and against the background of different schools of thinking, among which the St. Petersburg Typological School developed and so masterfully implemented by the Petersburg linguist, Vladimir… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 50] 1999. xxxiv, 359 pp.
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 | Syntax
Language and its Functions: A historico-critical study of views concerning the functions of language from the pre-humanistic philology of Orleans to the rationalistic philology of Bopp. Translated by Paul Salmon in consultation with Anthony J. Klijnsmit
Pieter A. Verburg
When Pieter Verburg (1905-1989) published Taal en Functionaliteit in 1952, the work was received with admiration by linguistic scholars, though the number of those who could read the Dutch text for themselves remained limited. The title alludes to the theories of linguistic function set out in 1936… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 84] 1998. xxxiv, 577 pp.
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 | Syntax | Typology
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998
Edited by Renée van Bezooijen and René Kager
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January, 17, 1998. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. At… read more
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 | Syntax
Themes in Greek Linguistics: Volume II
Edited by Brian D. Joseph, Geoffrey C. Horrocks and Irene Philippaki-Warburton
This volume brings together 11 original papers on a variety of themes in Greek linguistics, covering phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, both synchronically and diachronically.Collectively, these papers report on recent advances in the study of Greek grammar within the framework of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 159] 1998. x, 335 pp.
Other subjects Other Indo-European languages
Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVI), Mexico City, 28–30 March, 1996
Edited by José Lema and Esthela Treviño
From the papers presented at the 26th LSRL, this volume offers a selection of a contributions on phonological issues and on syntax. Most of the grammatical phenomena discussed are treated within the frameworks of the Minimalist Program, Distributed Morphology, or Optimality Theory. It was apparent… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 157] 1998. viii, 380 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
The Categories of Grammar: French lui and le
Alan Huffman
This book offers an analysis of the French clitic object pronouns lui and le in the radically functional Columbia school framework, contrasting this framework with sentence-based treatments of case selection. It suggests that features of the sentence such as subject and object relations, normally… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 30] 1997. xiv, 379 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Semantics
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 | Syntax
The Cognitive System of the French Verb
John Hewson
This study is based on the writings and teaching of Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960), one of the earliest proponents of what is today called Cognitive Linguistics. It offers (1) a much needed presentation in English of Guillaume’s view of the French system, (2) the clarifications added by his… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 147] 1997. xii, 187 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Romance linguistics
Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón
Edited by Joan L. Bybee, John Haiman † and Sandra A. Thompson
In their subject matter and in their theoretical orientation all the papers in this volume reflect the powerful influence of T. Givón. Most of them deal with questions of morphosyntactic typology, pragmatics, and grammaticalization theory. Many of them are directly based on extensive fieldwork on… read more[Not in series, 82] 1997. vi, 480 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and his critics
Edited by George Wolf and Nigel Love
Roy Harriss thoroughgoing attack on the presuppositions underpinning the dominant traditions of Western thought about language, and his advocacy of a radically reconceived linguistics focused on the idea that the linguistic sign is contextually created and interpreted as a function of the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 148] 1997. xxviii, 344 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Psycholinguistics
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1997
Edited by Jane A. Coerts and Helen de Hoop
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January, 18, 1997. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. At… read more
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 | Syntax
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.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume X: Salt Lake City, 1996
Edited by Mushira Eid and Robert R. Ratcliffe
The papers in this volume are a selection of papers presented at the 10th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (Salt Lake City, 1-3 March 1996). The contributions are:Remarks on Focus in Standard Arabic: Jamal Ouhalla;Definiteness Realization and Function in Palestinian Arabic: Dina Belyayeva;… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 153] 1997. vii, 296 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
The Phonology of Coronals
Tracy Alan Hall
This study investigates the phonological behavior of coronal consonants, i.e. sounds produced with the tip or blade of the tongue. The analysis draws on data from over 120 languages and dialects. A definition of coronality is proposed that rejects the current view holding that palatals are… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 149] 1997. x, 176 pp.
Other subjects Phonology
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax | Translation Studies
From Grammar to Science: New Foundations for General Linguistics
Victor H. Yngve
Although efforts have been under way for the past two centuries to treat language scientifically, linguists and others who work with language, speech, or communication have not found an adequate scientific foundation in current linguistic theory. Many of the difficulties are caused by longstanding… read more[Not in series, 80] 1996. xii, 350 pp.
Germanic Linguistics: Syntactic and diachronic
Edited by Rosina L. Lippi-Green and Joseph C. Salmons
This volume contains ten revised and expanded papers selected from the dozens presented at the last Michigan-Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, five contributions each from syntax (by Werner Abraham, Sarah Fagan, Isabella Barbier, John te Velde, and Ruth Lanouette) and historical linguistics… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 137] 1996. viii, 192 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 25th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXV) Seattle, 2–4 March 1995
Edited by Karen Zagona
This volume presents recent theoretical research on Romance languages, selected from papers presented at the 25th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. It includes studies of individual Romance languages as well as comparative studies both within the Romance family and with non-Romance… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 133] 1996. vi, 330 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1996
Edited by Crit Cremers and Marcel den Dikken
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Linguistic society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January, 20, 1996. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. read more
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 | Syntax
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume IX: Washington D.C., 1995
Edited by Mushira Eid and Dilworth B. Parkinson
This volume includes twelve papers selected from the Ninth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 1995. Three of the papers deal with codeswitching with Arabic, two with the acquisition of Arabic, and four with different aspects of Arabic grammatical… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 141] 1996. xiii, 249 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
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 Syntax
Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis
Edited by Edna Andrews and Yishai Tobin
This volume contains papers presented at a symposium in honor of Cornelis H. van Schooneveld and invited papers on the topics of invariance, markedness, distinctive feature theory and deixis. It is not a Festschrift in the usual sense of the word, but more of a collection of articles which… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 43] 1996. xxviii, 432 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Semantics | Semiotics
Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics
Edited by Rajendra Singh
This collection of twelve essays, some of which have been written specifically for this volume by well-known European and North-American sociolinguists, reflects an increasing recognition within the field that sociological and theoretical innocence can no longer be underwritten by it, and offers a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 125] 1996. xii, 342 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Advances in Roumanian Linguistics
Edited by Guglielmo Cinque and Giuliana Giusti
The aim of the book is to collect and make available to the public recent studies on Roumanian in the framework of Generative Grammar. All the studies can be considered as highly advanced from both the empirical and the theoretical point of view. In fact, they deal with many of the phenomena that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 10] 1995. xi, 172 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics
Alternative Linguistics: Descriptive and theoretical modes
Edited by Philip W. Davis
The papers in this volume were presented at the Fifth Biennial Symposium of the Department of Linguistics, Rice University, March 1993. The participants were asked to concentrate in depth and in a self-reflective way upon some range of data. The intent was multifold. The first purpose was… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 102] 1995. vii, 325 pp.
Bibliography of Quantitative Linguistics: Bibliographie zur quantitativen Linguistik. Библиографиа по квантитативной лингвистике
Reinhard Köhler
The Bibliography of Quantitative Linguistics (BQL) comprises more than 6500 titles from all areas of quantitative linguistic research. Publications have been included without restrictions regarding form, place, language, and date of publication. This bibliography thus provides, for the first time,… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 25] 1995. lii, 780 pp.
Other subjects Bibliographies in linguistics
The Biology of Language
Stanislaw Puppel
This volume brings together 15 papers on the evolution and origin of language. The authors approach the subject from various angles, exploring biological, cultural, psychological and linguistic factors. A wide variety of topics is discussed, such as animal communication, language acquisition, the… read more[Not in series, 75] 1995. x, 300 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language | Neurolinguistics
Cognition and Representation in Linguistic Theory
Antoine Culioli
The objective of this book is to better acquaint English-speaking linguistics with a corpus of texts hitherto untranslated, containing the cognitive-based research in formal linguistics of one of the most important theoreticians in the field: Antoine Culioli (b. 1924). Culioli's viewpoint is… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 112] 1995. x, 161 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semiotics
Contemporary Research in Romance Linguistics: Papers from the XXII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, El Paso/Juárez, February 22–24, 1992
Edited by Jon Amastae, Grant Goodall, M. Montalbetti and M. Phinney
This volume contains 23 papers selected from those presented at the 22nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. The papers address issues in phonology, morphology, syntax/semantics from contemporary theoretical perspectives. In addition, in keeping with the symposium's US-Mexico location and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 123] 1995. viii, 381 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | History of linguistics | Romance 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 | Syntax
Iconicity in Language
Edited by Raffaele Simone
Several current linguistic approaches converge in rejecting the wide-spread idea that language is an autonomous system, i.e. that it is structured independently from the outside world and the natural equipment of language users. Around the world, semiotically biased linguistics (functionalism,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 110] 1995. xii, 315 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | History of linguistics | Semiotics
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1995
Edited by Marcel den Dikken and Kees Hengeveld
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Linguistic society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January, 21, 1995. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. The… read more
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 | Syntax
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VII: Austin, Texas 1993
Edited by Mushira Eid
This volume includes ten papers selected from the Seventh Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. For the first time in this series, three of the papers represent experimental studies dealing with Arabic syllable and morphological structure. Four are focused on aspects of agreement in Arabic. The… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 130] 1995. vii, 192 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série. Volume 1
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Miroslav Červenka, Oldřich Leška † and Petr Sgall
This volume is the first one of the revived series of Travaux, which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic Circle, published in the years 1929-39. The tradition of the Circle still attracts attention in broad circles of European and American linguistics.… read more[Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague N.S., 1] 1995. x, 336 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
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.
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 | Syntax
Combinatorial Morphology
John T. Stonham
This book presents a detailed examination of the most important arguments for a process-based theory of morphology and offers a highly-constrained alternative to the powerful mechanisms proposed in processual theories of morphology.Data is presented from dozens of different languages from numerous… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 120] 1994. xii, 206 pp.
Other subjects Morphology
Continuity in Linguistic Semantics
Edited by Catherine Fuchs and Bernard Victorri
Until recently, most linguistic theories as well as theories of cognition have avoided use of the notion of continuity. At the moment, however, several linguistic trends, sharing a preoccupation with semantico-cognitive problems (e.g. cognitive grammars, 'psychomechanics', 'enunciative theories'),… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 19] 1994. iv, 255 pp.
Other subjects Semantics
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 | Syntax
Linguistic Studies on Latin: Selected papers from the 6th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (Budapest, 23–27 March 1991)
Edited by József Herman
The volume contains 26 articles (17 in English, 9 in French), selected from the papers presented at the 6th International Colloquim on Latin Linguistics, organized in Budapest. The authors share a common interest in applying to the study of Latin the conceptual framework of contemporary… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 28] 1994. ix, 421 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Romance linguistics
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1994
Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema and Crit Cremers
This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Linguistic society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht in January 1994. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. The… read more
Najdi Arabic: Central Arabian
Bruce Ingham
The region of Najd in Central Arabia has always been regarded as inaccessible, ringed by a belt of sand deserts, the Nafūd, Dahana and the Rub’ al-Khāli and often with its population at odds with the rulers of the outer settled lands. It is however the centre of a purely Arabian culture based on a… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 1] 1994. xvi, 215 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Papers on Grammar: Volume IV
Edited by Gualtiero Calboli
This is the fourth in a series of volumes bringing together a selection of papers presenting linguistic and philological studies on Latin. The papers combine a thorough theoretical approach of Latin grammar with a rigorous and detailed analysis of the data. read more[Not in series, POG 4] 1994. xi, 246 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics
A Paradigm Lost: The linguistic thought of Mikołaj Kruszewski
Joanna Radwańska-Williams
The general theory of language of Mikołaj Kruszweski (1851-1887) is, this book argues, a “lost paradigm” in the history of linguistics. The concept of 'paradigm' is understood in a broadly construed Kuhnian sense, and its applicability to linguistics as a science is examined. It is argued that… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 72] 1994. xii, 200 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics
Perspectives on Grammaticalization
Edited by William Pagliuca
This is the second of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UWM linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in 1990. It focuses on the evolution of grammatical form and meaning from lexical material, which has reinvigorated historical analysis and theory and led to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 109] 1994. xx, 306 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
The Prague School of Structural and Functional Linguistics
Edited by Philip A. Luelsdorff
The importance of the Prague School for the rise of structuralism and for integration of the theoretical linguistics of today can hardly be overestimated. The volume brings together 13 papers showing the main results of the research of the Prague School and of its continuation in the domains of… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 41] 1994. vii, 385 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
Praguiana 1945–1990
Edited by Philip A. Luelsdorff, Jarmila Panevová and Petr Sgall
The aim of this volume is to witness how the activities of the Prague School have continued to bring important new insights and discussions between the 1940s and the present time. Contributions are included which have escaped attention on an international scale because they were published in Czech;… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 40] 1994. x, 250 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
The Reality of Linguistic Rules
Susan D. Lima, Roberta Corrigan and Gregory Iverson
This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 21st Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium. Researchers from linguistics, psychology, computer science, and philosophy, using many different methods and focusing on many different facts of language, addressed the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 26] 1994. xxiii, 480 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993
Edited by Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Katerina Nicolaidis and Maria Sifianou
This volume brings together 65 papers which were presented at this Conference, the aim of which was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between scholars with expertise in various aspects of the Greek language. For this reason the volume contains the majority of the contributions. It should… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 117] 1994. xviii, 535 pp.
Other subjects Other Indo-European languages | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Voice and Inversion
Edited by T. Givón
This collection aims first to establish a structure-independent, language-independent definition of pragmatic voice, and more specifically then a universal functional definition of “inverse”. The grammar and pragmatic function of the four major voice constructions direct-active, inverse, passive,… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 28] 1994. viii, 402 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Voice: Form and Function
Edited by Barbara A. Fox and Paul J. Hopper
The volume's central concern is grammatical voice, traditionally known as diathesis, and its classical manifestations as Active, Middle, and Passive. While numerous problems in the meaning, syntax, and morphology of these categories in Indo-European remain unsolved, their counterparts in more… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 27] 1994. xiii, 377 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
American Dialect Research: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Dialect Society, 1889–1989
Edited by Dennis R. Preston
Containing all new material and published for the American Dialect Society's centennial celebration (1889-1989), this volume bings together in one place, as no previously published work has, current approaches to the general problems of language distribution and variation. The several chapters… read more[Not in series, 68] 1993. xiv, 464 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Bilingual Lexicon
Edited by Robert Schreuder and Bert Weltens
In the study of bilingualism, the lexical level of language is of prime importance because, in practical terms, vocabulary acquisition is an essential prerequisite for the development of skill in language use; from a theoretical point of view, the mental lexicon, as a bridge between form and… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 6] 1993. viii, 307 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Multilingualism | Semantics
Causatives and Transitivity
Edited by Bernard Comrie and Maria Polinsky
This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia. The inspirations for the volume is the pioneering work on causative constructions by the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 23] 1993. x, 399 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
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 | Syntax
Confluence: Linguistics, L2 acquisition and speech pathology
Edited by Fred Eckman
That linguistics, L2 acquisition and speech pathology impinge on each other in areas of vital importance to each discipline seems to be almost undeniable. All three fields are concerned with the characterization of language in one form or another; and all deal with the acquisition of language by… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 4] 1993. xvi, 260 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Language disorders & speech pathology | Neurolinguistics
English Phonology
John T. Jensen
This is a general discussion of the phonology of English within the frameworks of lexical, metrical, and prosodic phonology. It not only presents a synthesis of current approaches but also reconciles their discrepancies and presents critical commentary. There is a discussion of current theories,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 99] 1993. x, 251 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Phonology
Generative Studies in Basque Linguistics
Edited by José Ignacio Hualde and Jon Ortiz de Urbina
In part due to its exotic place within the languages of Europe, but mainly because of its basic typological differences with better-described languages, Basque has often attracted the interest of linguists of very different theoretical persuasions. This book presents a collection of articles which… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 105] 1993. 334 pp.
Other subjects Basque linguistics | Generative linguistics
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 | Syntax
The Language Builder: An essay on the human signature in linguistic morphogenesis
Claude Hagège
Linguistics, as a social science, should have something to teach us about humans as social beings. However, modern grammatical theories regard languages as autonomous systems, so these theories are little concerned with speakers and hearers, their interactions, and their relationship to the world… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 94] 1993. xii, 283 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Linguistic Variables: Towards a unified theory of linguistic variation
Hans-Heinrich Lieb
This book for the first time reconstructs in a single theoretical framework the more important approaches to linguistic variation found in areas as different as historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, stylistics, contrastive linguistics, language typology,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 108] 1993. xiv, 261 pp.
Other subjects Typology
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1993
Edited by Frank Drijkoningen and Kees Hengeveld
This volume contains a selection of 17 of the papers presented at the twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Linguistic society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January 16, 1993. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in… read more
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 | Syntax
The Parametrization of Universal Grammar
Edited by Gisbert Fanselow
In this volume the subject of parametrization is addressed from various, though interrelated perspectives, ranging from learnability, the form and nature of parametrization, the role of the interface between morphology and syntax and the parameters of X-bar syntax, to the lexical parametrization… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 8] 1993. xvii, 232 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Perspectives on Language and Conceptualization
Edited by Jan Nuyts and Eric Pederson
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 8] 1993. 207 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
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 | Syntax
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 Syntax
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 | Syntax
The Contextualization of Language
Edited by Peter Auer and Aldo Di Luzio
This volume suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction. On a theoretical level, it advocates a switch of focus from 'context' as a preestablished, monolithic category which constringes co-participants' verbal and nonverbal behaviour, to an active notion of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 22] 1992. xvi, 402 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Current Advances in Semantic Theory
Edited by Maxim I. Stamenov
This volume contains selected contributions to the interdisciplinary symposium on 'Models of Meaning' held in Varna, September 25-28, 1988, under the auspices of the Institute of the Bulgarian Language of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The aim of the meeting was to broaden the horizons of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 73] 1992. xi, 565 pp.
Other subjects Semantics
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 Syntax
Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text
Edited by William C. Mann and Sandra A. Thompson
Discourse Description presents in one convenient volume a variety of approaches to text description that have been proposed in the linguistic literature in the last decade or so. The book is organized to make it easy to understand and compare the various approaches. Since all of the researchers are… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 16] 1992. xiii, 409 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
Explanation in Historical Linguistics
Edited by Garry W. Davis and Gregory Iverson
This is the first of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UVM Linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in April 1990. The contributions in this volume investigate the general question of what constitutes an explanation of diachronic change, and illustrate their… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 84] 1992. xiv, 238 pp.
Other subjects Historical 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 Syntax
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 | Syntax
The Joy of Grammar: A festschrift in honor of James D. McCawley
Edited by Diane Brentari, Gary N. Larson and Lynn A. MacLeod
Two threads run through this collection of 22 papers by students and colleagues of James D. McCawley. The first is a commitment to deep reflection on the direction of linguistic study, sometimes resulting in challenges to the writings of major figures or new appreciations, sometimes questioning our… read more[Not in series, 55] 1992. xii, 400 pp.
Language Transfer in Language Learning: Revised edition
Edited by Susan M. Gass and Larry Selinker
The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. This book, which includes 12 chapters by distinguished researchers in the field of second language acquisition, traces the conceptual history of language transfer from… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 5] 1992. x, 236 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition
Layered Structure and Reference in a Functional Perspective: Papers from the Functional Grammar Conference, Copenhagen, 1990
Edited by Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder and Lars Kristoffersen
This volume contains revised and expanded versions of those papers from the 1990 Functional Grammar Conference in Copenhagen that contributed specifically to the current investigation of clause structure in terms of semantic layers. One of the key concepts in this discussion is 'reference'. Some… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 23] 1992. xiii, 444 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1992
Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema and Roeland van Hout
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-third annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. The papers present an overview of… read more
Papers in Theoretical Linguistics
Niels Danielsen
This volume contains eight papers by the late Niels Danielsen, Danish linguist and philologist, and serves as a fine introduction to this theory of linguistic universality. The papers highlight the most important universals introduced by him, such as Linguistic Polarity, the Constitutional Axis of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 23] 1992. xxii, 224 pp.
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 | Syntax | Typology
Predication
Edited by Johan De Caluwé, André Hantson and Willy Vandeweghe
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 7] 1992. 195 pp.
Other subjects Syntax
Prospects for a New Structuralism
Edited by Hans-Heinrich Lieb
This volume, which has partly grown from a Round Table at the XIVth International Congress of Linguists, argues for a large amount of underlying unity in outlook among different frameworks in present-day linguistics: the contemporary Prague School; the Noematic approach; the UNITYP model;… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 96] 1992. vii, 275 pp.
Quantitative Linguistics
Marie Těšitelová
Since the 1960s quantitative linguistics has undergone a great development marked especially by attempts to work systematically with language phenomena on all language levels. Besides traditional areas where significant results were already achieved before the 60s (phonology, graphemics and… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 37] 1992. 253 pp.
The Semantic Structure of Spanish: Meaning and grammatical form
Larry D. King
In recent years, linguistics has become increasingly more willing to allow some type of representation of 'meaning' in the study of language. However, most approaches deal with sentence or utterance meaning and thereby ignore the meaning of linguistic form. Yet no description of linguistic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 90] 1992. xii, 303 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Semantics
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 | Syntax
Theoretical Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XIX, Ohio State University, April 21–23, 1989
Edited by Christiane Laeufer and Terrell A. Morgan
This nineteenth edition of LSRL proceedings contains a selection of papers on variety of Romance idioms and includes current topics in established areas of study. The phonology papers focus mostly on syllabic and higher-level prosodic structure. The morphology section deals primarily with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 74] 1992. viii, 515 pp.
Other subjects Romance 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 Syntax
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 | Syntax | 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 | Syntax | Typology
A Case for Psycholinguistic Cases
Edited by Gabriela Appel and Hans W. Dechert
This volume comprises ten papers presented as plenary lectures on the occasion of the Second World Congress of the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL) at the University of Kassel, Germany, from July 27 — 31, 1987. The articles collected in this volume focus on the production,… read more[Not in series, 46] 1991. viii, 195 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
Categories and Case: The sentence structure of Korean
William O’Grady
The principal objective of this book is to provide a unified treatment of morphological case in Korean. Focussing on the nominative, accusative and dative suffixes, the author seeks to show that each of these morphemes consistently encodes a corresponding combinatorial relation in the 'surface'… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 71] 1991. vii, 294 pp.
Other subjects Altaic languages
Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory
Edited by Thom Huebner and Charles A. Ferguson
The term “crosscurrent” is defined as “a current flowing counter to another.” This volume represents crosscurrents in second language acquisition and linguistic theory in several respects. First, although the main currents running between linguistics and second language acquisition have… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 2] 1991. viii, 435 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition
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 | Syntax
Functional Grammar: A Field Approach
Alexander V. Bondarko
Every grammar has to a greater or lesser extent a functional aspect. In this book, Bondarko provides a comprehensive discourse on the theoretical foundations of grammar, concentrating on functional-semantic fields, with emphasis on the diversity of their structural types. Criteria for… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 35] 1991. viii, 207 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Semantics
Further Insights into Contrastive Analysis
Edited by Jacek Fisiak
After a period of crisis in the 1960s, Contrastive Analysis has now regained its firm position, although in a different form and with broader goals. This collection of papers reflects the scope of research and the range of interest of linguists who are involved in contrastive linguistics research.… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 30] 1991. vii, 610 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
Language Typology 1988: Typological Models in the Service of Reconstruction
Edited by Winfred P. Lehmann and Helen-Jo Jakusz Hewitt
This is the third volume of papers yielded from the annual Linguistic Typology symposia inaugurated by the International Research and Exchange Board. The volume deals with an area of linguistics in which scholars of the USSR have made notable contributions and makes available to the West at least… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 81] 1991. vi, 182 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Typology
Levels of Linguistic Adaptation: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987. Volume 2
Edited by Jef Verschueren
This volume comprises the second part of selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference in Antwerp, August 1987. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 6:2] 1991. viii, 339 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 Syntax
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1991
Edited by Frank Drijkoningen and Ans M.C. van Kemenade
This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the twenty-second annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. The seventeen papers in this volume… read more
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 | Syntax | Typology
Point Counterpoint: Universal Grammar in the second language
Edited by Lynn Eubank
Point Counterpoint offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, March 1989. The focus of the papers is primarily the role of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition, though the agenda also includes discussion… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 3] 1991. x, 439 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition
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 | Syntax
STAEFCRAEFT: Studies in Germanic Linguistics. Selected papers from the 1st and 2nd Symposium on Germanic Linguistics, University of Chicago, 4 April 1985, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3–4 Oct. 1986
Edited by Elmer H. Antonsen and Hans Henrich Hock
The first Symposium on Germanic Linguistics was organized at the University of Chicago by Jan Terje Faarlund. The notable success of this undertaking led Elmer H. Antonsen, Hans Henrich Hock, and James W. Marchand to arrange the Second Symposium on Germanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 79] 1991. viii, 217 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
Selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17–22, 1987: 3 Volumes (set)
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan Blommaert †
These three volumes provide a representative picture of the scholarly substance of the highly successful pragmatics conference held in Antwerp. Volume I collects those papers which focus on fundamental questions such as: the relationship of pragmatics to grammar and semantics, intentionality,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 6:S] 1991. 900 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
Varia Eurasiatica: Festschrift für Professor András Róna-Tas
This collection of 24 articles reflects the wide range of interests of Professor Róna-Tas: the contributions deal with topics from Altaic, Mongolic and Uralic studies, Eurasian history, Turkology, Tibetology and Hungarian history. The articles are in English (12), German (10) and Russian (2). read more[Not in series, 53] 1991. 270 pp.
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 | Syntax | Typology
Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings: The Vietnamese system of person reference
Hy V. Luong
This is a theoretically oriented study of the pragmatics of Vietnamese person reference (kinship terms, personal pronouns, naming set and status terms). Drawing upon linguistic data from a radically different non-Western society and the seminal insights of Volosinov, Bakhtin, and Leach, it offers a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 11] 1990. x, 213 pp.
Other subjects Austro-Asian languages | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi
William B. McGregor
This volume sets out to provide a comprehensive description of the grammar of Gooniyandi, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the southern-central Kimberley region of Western Australia. It covers phonetics and phonology, word phrase and clause structure, and the semantics of closed-class grammatical… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 22] 1990. xx, 618 pp.
Other subjects Australian languages | Functional linguistics
Language as Behaviour, Language as Code: A study of academic English
Lynne Young
This work arose from the desire to teach foreign students in North America a particular variety of language used in their disciplines (speech situations), whereupon the inadequacy or non-existence of previous study became apparent. Given this raison d'être, the work first illustrates one approach… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 8] 1990. ix, 304 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language teaching
Metaphor II: A classified bibliography of publications from 1985 to 1990
Compiled by Jean-Pierre van Noppen and Edith Hols
Metaphor, though not now the scholarly “mania” it once was, remains a topic of great interest in many disciplines albeit with interesting shifts in emphasis. Warren Shibles' Metaphor: An Annotated Bibliography and History (Bloomington, Ind. 1971) recorded the initial interest. Then Metaphor: A… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 20] 1990. iv, 350 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Semantics
Morphology: Word structure in generative grammar
John T. Jensen
A self-contained and lively text prepared in response to a perceived need for an up-to-date introduction to the field of morphology within the framework of generative grammar. The material is presented in the framework of the lexicalist hypothesis of Chomsky (1970), but also taking in the more… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 70] 1990. x, 210 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology
New Studies in Latin Linguistics: Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Cambridge, April 1987
Edited by Robert Coleman
The 29 papers in this volume cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from the Glottalic Theory and Lachmann's Law to the hermeneutic analysis of text-structure in Tacitus' Germania. The volume focuses on three themes specifically: the morphology and semantics of lexical formation; the internal and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 21] 1990. x, 480 pp.
Other subjects Classical 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 | Syntax
Other subjects Classical linguistics
Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics: Volume 10
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Marie Těšitelová and Ján Horecký
The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Těšitelová; M. Ludvíková; H. Confortiová; Ludmila Uhlířová; I. Nebeská; Jan Králík; J. Krámský; J. Sabol; J. Štěpán. Part 2 Algebraic Linguistics contains contributions by M.… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 34] 1990. 199 pp.
Studies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday
Edited by William A. Croft, Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning
Joseph H. Greenberg is a towering figure in late twentieth century linguistics. His major contributions in the field have been in the area of typology and universals, virtually launched by his paper on word order universals, and in diachronic linguistics. The major thrust of Greenberg's work in the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 20] 1990. xxxiv, 243 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Typology
Theory of Language: The Representational Function of Language
Karl Bühler
Karl Bühler (1879-1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of this century. His masterwork Sprachtheorie (1934) has been praised widely and gained considerable recognition in the fields of linguistics, semiotics, the philosophy of language and the psychology of language. The work has,… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 25] 1990. lxii, 508 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Philosophy | Psycholinguistics
Other subjects Philosophy
Current Progress in Chadic Linguistics: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chadic Linguistics, Boulder, Colorado, 1–2 May 1987
Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier
The volume consists of papers prepared for the International Symposium of Chadic Linguistics (Boulder, Colorado, May 1-2, 1987). Although the papers are representative of the current work being done in the field of Chadic linguistics, they also reflect the current and past interests and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 62] 1989. vi, 312 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Linguistic Categorization: Proceedings of an International Symposium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 10–11, 1987
Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Fred Eckman and Michael Noonan
This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the 16th International Symposium at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee. Two central question were addressed: What is the nature of the categories that underlie the structure of human language? What is the nature of extralinguistic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 61] 1989. viii, 348 pp.
Studies in Romance Linguistics: Selected Proceedings from the XVII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
Edited by Carl Kirschner and Janet Ann DeCesaris
The papers collected in this volume reflect the numerous interests in the field of Romance languages and Romance linguistics today. A far-ranging amount of Romance data are presented: French, Italian, and Spanish dialect data are crucial to several authors' arguments, Rumanian is the focus of two… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 60] 1989. ix, 496 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Subordination and Other Topics in Latin: Proceedings of the Third Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Bologna, 1–5 April 1985
Edited by Gualtiero Calboli
The papers in this volume are centered around the following topics: subordination; cases and prepositions; moods, tenses and voices of the verb; nominal forms of the verb; anaphors and pronouns; word order, theme and rheme, negation, style, morphology and word formation. read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 17] 1989. xxix, 691 pp.
Other subjects Classical 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 | Syntax
Text and Discourse Connectedness: Proceedings of the Conference on Connexity and Coherence, Urbino, July 16–21, 1984
Edited by Maria-Elisabeth Conte, János Sánder Petöfi and Emel Sözer
The 35 papers in this volume provide a comprehensive picture of crucial aspects of connectedness. The papers are divided into three main groups: the papers in the first group deal with particular questions of the text-constituting role of anaphora, deixis, coreference, modality, conjunctions and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 16] 1989. xxiv, 584 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
Universals of Language
Edited by Michel Kefer and Johan van der Auwera
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 4] 1989. 192 pp.
Yugoslav General Linguistics
Edited by Milorad Radovanović
This volume is the first anthology of readings in Yugoslav general linguistics in English. It contains twenty contributions by outstanding Yugoslav scholars in such areas as comparative typology and contact linguistics, sociolinguistics (including such topics as bilingualism, multilingualism,… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 26] 1989. viii, 381 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics
Austronesian Root Theory: An essay on the limits of morphology
Robert Blust
Since the pioneering analyses of Renward Brandstetter (1860–1942) a quasi-morphological element called the ‘root’ has been recognized in Austronesian linguistics. This monograph confronts many of the methodological and substantive issues raised but never fully resolved by Brandstetter. In an effort… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 19] 1988. xi, 190 pp.
Other subjects Austronesian languages | Morphology
Bibliography of Morphology, 1960–1985
Compiled by Robert Beard and Bogdan Szymanek
Rather than an attempt at an exhaustive bibliography of morphology, this is a collection of major and selected minor works of theoretical interest in the broadest sense. The area of morphology represented here exhaustively is contemporary (generative) theoretical morphology, interpreted broadly… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 18] 1988. xiv, 193 pp.
Other subjects Bibliographies in linguistics | Morphology
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 Syntax
Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by John Haiman † and Sandra A. Thompson
Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 18] 1988. xiii, 442 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
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.
Linguistics and Formulas in Homer: Scalarity and description of the particle per
Egbert J. Bakker
The purpose of this study is to provide a description of the Greek particle per as it occurs in the text of Homer. As such it is a contribution to the study of Ancient Greek in general and of the Greek' particles in particular. But the work transgresses the boundaries of Greek linguistics' proper. read more[Not in series, 31] 1988. x, 306 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics
Linguistics in a Systemic Perspective
Edited by James D. Benson, Michael J. Cummings and William S. Greaves
The purpose of this book is to provide a general introduction to Systemic Linguistics in the form of essays written by leading figures in the field. These are, with one exception, not previously published, and taken together they constitute a comprehensive coverage of the diverse interests of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 39] 1988. x, 452 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
The Prague School and Its Legacy
Edited by Yishai Tobin
Many of the fundamental ideas of the classical Prague School have guided or inspired much of the interdisciplinary post World War II research in linguistics, literary theory, semiotics, folklore and the arts. The Prague School promoted a humanistic and functional Leitmotiv of language as an open,… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 27] 1988. xxx, 317 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Phonology | Pragmatics | Semiotics | Semiotics
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.
Studies in Syntactic Typology
Edited by Michael Hammond, Edith A. Moravcsik and Jessica Wirth
The papers in this volume are revised versions of presentations at the conference on Language Universals and Language Typology in March 1985 at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. They include new proposals of universals, results of investigations to validate or refine previously proposed… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 17] 1988. xiv, 394 pp.
The Theory of Neutralization and the Archiphoneme in Functional Phonology
Tsutomu Akamatsu
The theory of neutralization and the archiphoneme is well known to have been expounded by the Prague School. It is now being fully accepted and practised by A. Martinet and his associates, to whom Akamatsu refers as the neo-Prague School. The objective is to propose a maximally functionalist theory… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 43] 1988. xxi, 533 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Phonology
Topics in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn
This volume presents new developments in cognitive grammar and explores its descriptive and explanatory potential with respect to a wide range of language phenomena. These include the formation and use of locationals, causative constructions, adjectival and nominal expressions of oriented space,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 50] 1988. x, 704 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | History of 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.
Functionalism in Linguistics
Edited by René Dirven † and Vilém Fried
This volume offers a variety of viewpoints on the functional approach to the study of language. After an exposition of the Prague School functionalism, and Dik's and Halliday's functional approaches, it presents a wider area of text-linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, theoretical,… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 20] 1987. xviii, 489 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Ross Steele and Terry Threadgold
[Not in series, LT S] 1987. 1160 pp.
Other subjects Semiotics
Leitmotifs in Natural Morphology
Wolfgang U. Dressler, Willi Mayerthaler, Oswald Panagl and Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel
Natural Morphology is the term the four authors of this monograph agreed on to cover the leitmotifs of their common and individual approaches in questions of theoretical morphology. The introduction summarizes the basic concepts and strategies of Natural Morphology, to be followed by Mayerthaler… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 10] 1987. ix, 168 pp.
Other subjects Morphology
Leonard Bloomfield: Essays on his life & work
Edited by Robert A. Hall, Jr.
These essays were brought together to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), one of the most outstanding and influential linguists of the twentieth century. The contributions have been grouped in three sections according to their relevance to his work,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 47] 1987. x, 237 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics
Linguistics and Pseudo-Linguistics
Robert A. Hall, Jr.
The doctrines of transformational-generative grammar (as promulgated in 1957, with frequent later emendations) have on occasion been criticised, sometimes severely. Such criticism have, however, appeared mostly in article-form, and mostly in relatively inaccessible places. Discussions in bookform… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 55] 1987. vii, 147 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics
Mathematics of Language: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1984
Edited by Alexis Manaster-Ramer
By mathematics of language is meant the mathematical properties that may, under certain assumptions about modeling, be attributed to human languages and related symbolic systems, as well as the increasingly active and autonomous scholarly discipline that studies such things. More specifically, the… read more[Not in series, 35] 1987. ix, 401 pp.
Perspectives on Topicalization: The case of Japanese wa
Edited by John Hinds, Shoichi Iwasaki and Senko K. Maynard
Within the field of Japanese linguistics, few areas have generated as much controversy as the morpheme wa; traditionally described as a marker of old or contrasted information, its function as a discourse marker has also been studied. This work aims to deepen the understanding of wa through careful… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 14] 1987. xi, 307 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics
Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics: Volume 9
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Marie Těšitelová and Ján Horecký
The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Těšitelová; Ludmila Uhlířová; I. Nebeská; M. Ludvíková; H. Confortiová; Marie Těšitelová , J. Petr & Jan Králík; J. Štěpán; J. Krámský; J. Dušková; J. Sabol. Part 2 Algebraic… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 22] 1987. 200 pp.
Refurbishing our Foundations: Elementary linguistics from an advanced point of view
Charles F. Hockett
This essay challenges several patterns of thinking common in twentieth-century linguistics. The most pervasive of these is our habit of looking at language from the point of view of the speaker. When we take, instead, that of the hearer, matters fall into place in a new way. In syntax, we are led… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 56] 1987. x, 181 pp.
The Semantics of Form in Arabic: In the mirror of European languages
David Justice
Justice's first aim in this volume is to demystify the Arabic language, which is widely perceived as difficult to learn, and has been characterised as ambiguous and confusingly polysemous. The central concern of this three-dimensional portrait of Classical Arabic is a version of the Sapir-Whorf… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 15] 1987. iv, 417 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Semantics
Structures and their Functions in Usan
Ger P. Reesink
Usan is a Papuan language. In this monograph on the grammatical structures of Usan and their function the author shows the unique features of this language: how speakers can exploit certain principles for communicative purposes, how the language reflects their physical environment. Uniqueness can… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 13] 1987. xviii, 369 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Languages of Trans-New Guinea | Pragmatics
Diversity and Diachrony
David Sankoff
This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the 12th Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), held in Montréal in 1983. It is divided into three sections: 1. Varieties of English and their history; 2. Change and variation in Romance; 3. Functions and discourse. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 53] 1986. xii, 430 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Functional Explanations in Linguistics
Edited by Alain Bossuyt
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 1] 1986. 285 pp.
Language and Discourse: Test and Protest. A Festschrift for Petr Sgall
Edited by Jacob L. Mey
The present volume was brought together on the occasion of Petr Sgall’s 60th birthday. It bears testimony to the multifarious and variegated character of his background and activities. It is to be hoped that this kind of variety will contribute – as Petr Sgall strives to do – to a broader and… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 19] 1986. xiii, 611 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
Noam Chomsky: A personal bibliography, 1951–1986
Compiled by E.F.K. Koerner † and Matsuji Tajima
The impetus for producing a bibliography of Noam Chomky’s output (so far) derives from a strong interest in and commitment to a historical accounting of the contribution to the field of linguistic theory and possibly other subjects, such as philosophy and political science, by a man who has… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 11] 1986. xi, 217 pp.
Other subjects Bibliographies in linguistics | Generative linguistics | History of linguistics
Other subjects Classical linguistics
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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985
Edited by Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith
Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the structures of the Creole languages of the Atlantic and the Pacific differ are the universalist and he substrate hypotheses. The universalist hypothesis claims, essentially, that the particular grammatical properties of Creole languages directly… read more[Creole Language Library, 1] 1986. vii, 311 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies
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 | Syntax
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.
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 Syntax
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 Syntax
Linguistics and Philosophy: Festschrift for Rulon S. Wells
Edited by Adam Makkai and Alan K. Melby
This volume contains papers by a large number of influencial linguists, written as a tribute to the work of Rulon S. Wells. The volume is subdivided into sections on the Philosophy of Language, Phonology, Syntax, Historical and Typological Linguistics, and Diachronic and Synchronic Derivation. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 42] 1985. xviii, 472 pp.
Metaphor: A Bibliography of post-1970 publications
Compiled by Jean-Pierre van Noppen
The aim of the present bibliography is to provide the student of metaphor with an up-to-date and comprehensive (albeit not exhaustive) overview of recent publications dealing with various aspects of metaphor in a variety of disciplines. Where the emphasis is primarily on specific works “about”… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 17] 1985. x, 497 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Semantics
Morphology: A Study of the Relation between Meaning and Form
Joan L. Bybee
This is a textbook right in the thick of current interest in morphology. It proposes principles to predict properties previously considered arbitrary and brings together the psychological and the diachronic to explain the recurrent properties of morphological systems in terms of the processes that… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 9] 1985. xii, 235 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Typology
The Philosophical Foundations of Humboldt's Linguistic Doctrines
Martin L. Manchester
Wilhelm von Humboldt’s writings on language are a mixture of philosophical theorizing about mind and language on the one hand, and on the other hand, specialized studies of the most detailed sort of both the classical languages and languages which only in Humboldt’s day were becoming known to… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 32] 1985. xii, 216 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy
Scientific and Humanistic Dimensions of Language: Festschrift for Robert Lado. On the Occasion of his 70th Birthday
Edited by Kurt R. Jankowsky
The volume has been written by a great variety of scholars and educators. Not only are the authors literally from all four corners of the world; they also represent, in spite of the large body of shared professional viewpoints and objectives, many different, even diverging, approaches,… read more[Not in series, 22] 1985. lii, 614 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Language acquisition
Source Book for Linguistics
William Cowan and Jaromira Rakušan
Developed at Carleton University, Ottawa, this is a comprehensive workbook now in its second, revised edition designed primarily for use with introductory courses in linguistics. With 334 graded excercises and problems from more than 60 languages and dialects. read more[Not in series, 20] 1985. xxvi, 338 pp.
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 | Syntax
Toward an Understanding of Language: Charles Carpenter Fries in Perspective
Edited by Peter H. Fries and Nancy M. Fries
Charles C. Fries (1887-1967) was a major figure in American linguistics and language education during the first half of the 20th century. Theoretical innovation and practical implementation were important threads that ran throughout his work. Fries believed that the attempt to deal with practical… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 40] 1985. xvi, 384 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics
Current Progress in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics: Papers of the Third International Hamito-Semitic Congress, London, 1978
Edited by James Bynon
The papers in this volume derive from the Third Hamito-Semitic Congress, which took place in London in 1978. The papers, loosely grouped according to language families and theoretical issues, are in a number of cases considerably expanded and updated version of those presented at the conference.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 28] 1984. xi, 505 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
Edward Sapir – Appraisals of his life and work
Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884–1939), this volume brings together a number of papers by distinguished North American scholars appraising the life and work of the world-renowned anthropologist and linguist. It includes an introduction by the editor, a full… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 36] 1984. xxviii, 224 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics
Foundations for a Science of Language
Gustave Guillaume (1883–1960)
This volume presents, for the first time in English, a representative view of Gustave Guillaume's thought. The texts, drawn mainly from his manuscript notes for lectures at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, were selected as far as possible for their accessibility, as requiring no prior… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 31] 1984. xxiv, 175 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Historical linguistics
Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition
Edited by William E. Rutherford
This volume consists of papers presented at the Conference on Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition, University of Southern California, February 1982. Published with the papers are the remarks of the originally assigned discussants. The collection represents an important… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 5] 1984. ix, 264 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Typology
New Directions in Linguistics and Semiotics
Edited by James E. Copeland
This volume derives from a symposium held in March 1982, to celebrate the inauguration of the Department of Linguistics at Rice University. The focus of the symposium was the state of linguistics and semiotics in its recent past, the current status, and directions to be explored in the immediate… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 32] 1984. xi, 269 pp.
Papers from the XIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University Park, April 1–3, 1982
Edited by Philip Baldi
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the XII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held in April 1982 at Penn State University. These papers reflect the general state of the art in Romance Linguistics. Some of the studies are theoretical papers that seek to establish… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 26] 1984. xii, 611 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Syntax: A functional-typological introduction. Volume I
T. Givón
[Not in series, 17] 1984. xx, 464 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax
Die Sprachen Europas in systematischer Übersicht: Linguistische Untersuchungen (Bonn, 1850). New edition
August Schleicher (1821–1868)
In Die Sprachen Europas in systematischer Uebersicht (Bonn 1850) Schleicher works out a naturalistic conception of language and a research program inspired by the methods of the natural sciences, in particular botany and geology. It does not only provide a general exposition of Schleicher’s views,… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 4] 1983. lxii, viii, 270, 4 pp (altog. 344 pp).
Other subjects History of linguistics | Typology
From Particular to General Linguistics: Selected Essays 1965–1978. With an introduction by the author, an index rerum and an index nominum
Yakov Malkiel
The period of 1965 to 1978 was an extremely productive time for U.S. (Russian born) Romance etymologist and philologist Yakov Malkiel whose specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish. Malkiel will be known as the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 3] 1983. xxii, 659 pp.
Grammatical Proof of the Affinity of the Hungarian Language with Languages of Fennic Origin (Göttingen: Dieterich, 1799)
Sámuel Gyarmathi (1751–1830)
Sámuel Gyarmathi’s Affinitas linguae hungaricae cum linguis fennicae originis grammatice demonstrata (Göttingen 1799) was received as a distinguished work of scholarship in its own days, and its historical importance has been fully recognized ever since. This volume provides an English translation… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 15] 1983. xl, 327 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Uralic languages
Integrational Linguistics: Vol. I: General Outline
Hans-Heinrich Lieb
This is the first volume of a work envisioned to consist of six volumes, providing a complete overview of the unified approach to basic problems of linguistics, as developed by Hans-Heinrich Lieb. This first volume contains a detailed overview of Integrational Linguistics, and outlines a major… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 17] 1983. xxiii, 527 pp.
Introduction to English Derivational Morphology
Theodore M. Lightner
This book aims to give an indication of the extent of derivational morphology in English; of how much immanent, internal structure must be presumed for words -- even apparently simplex ones. This is done by showing that three (morpho-)phonological processes which tend to hide surface sound-meaning… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 6] 1983. xxxviii, 533 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology
Latin Linguistics and Linguistic Theory: Proceedings of the 1st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 1981
Edited by Harm Pinkster
The articles of this collection on Latin linguistics are representative of the kind of research that is currently carried out in the field of linguistics. Most deal with syntax or sentence structure, but they vary with respect to their emphasis on theory or description. They also vary with respect… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 12] 1983. xviii, 307 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Historical linguistics
Linguistics and Evolutionary Theory: Three Essays. New edition
With an introduction by J. Peter Maher
Contains: The Darwinian Theory and the Science of language (1863) by August Schleicher, translated from the German by Alexander V. W. Bikkers. On the Significance of Language for the Natural History of Man (1865) by August Schleicher, translated from the German by J. Peter Maher. On the Origin of… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 6] 1983. xlvi, 84, 78 pp. (altog. 210 pp.).
Other subjects Evolution of language | Philosophy
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 | Syntax
PRAGUIANA: Some Basic and Less Known Aspects of the Prague Linguistic School. With an introduction by Philip A. Luelsdorff
Edited by Josef Vachek and Libuše Dušková
Contains key papers by the founders of the Prague School; including Vilém Mathesius famous article “Functional Linguistics” (1929), the theses presented at the First Congress of Slavists in Prague (1929), an earlier paper by Mathesius “On the potentiality of the phenomena of language” (1911), Jan… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 12] 1983. xxxi, 321 pp.
Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics: Volume 8
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Marie Těšitelová and Ján Horecký
The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Těšitelová; M. Ludvíková; H. Confortiová; Ludmila Uhlířová; I. Nebeská; Jan Králík; J. Krámský; L. Klimeš; J. Štěpán; Z. Lišková. Part 2 Algebraic Linguistics contains… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 17] 1983. 224 pp.
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 | Syntax
Topic Continuity in Discourse: A quantitative cross-language study
T. Givón
The functional notion of “topic” or “topicality” has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. And second, quite often its definition boiled down to structure-dependent circularity. This volume represents a major… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 3] 1983. v, 492 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
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 Syntax
Augenkommunikation: Methodenreflexion und Beispielanalyse
Konrad Ehlich und Jochen Rehbein
The book sketches a systematics of non-verbal communication. It contains the following separate chapters: movement potential and expression repertoire; clinical literature on the eye’s movement potential; eye movement viewed from the perspective of communicative action; eye communication as part of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 2] 1982. viii, 150 pp. With many photographic ills.
Catastrophe Theoretic Semantics: An elaboration and application of René Thom's theory
Wolfgang Wildgen
René Thom, the famous French mathematician and founder of catastrophe theory, considered linguistics an exemplary field for the application of his general morphology. It is surprising that physicists, chemists, biologists, psychologists and sociologists are all engaged in the field of catastrophe… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:5] 1982. iv, 124 pp.
Other subjects Semantics
Festschrift für Karl Schneider
Herausgegeben von Ernst S. Dick und Kurt R. Jankowsky
This volume is in honour of Karl Schneider and covers the wide spectrum of Schneider’s own interests: Part I covers runology (Elmer H. Antonsen, Hans Schwartz, Winfred P. Lehmann); The second part deals with indogermanics, etymology and lexicography (Edgard C. Polomé, Fritz W. Schulze, Kurt R.… read more[Not in series, 14] 1982. xx, 595 pp.
Hungarian General Linguistics
Edited by Ferenc Kiefer †
This volume contains papers on Hungarian general linguistics. ‘Hungarian’ here means that the work of these authors either centers around the Hungarian language or has close ties to present-day Hungarian linguistics, or both. Topics include: philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, historical… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 4] 1982. vii, 599 pp.
Other subjects Uralic languages
Language Form and Linguistic Variation: Papers dedicated to Angus McIntosh
Edited by John A.E. Anderson
The papers in this volume celebrate the work of Angus McIntosh, who specialized in dialects of Later Middle English, and wrote on other topics in English linguistics as well. Of the papers in this volume most deal with English and a few with other subjects in (historical) dialectology. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 15] 1982. viii, 496 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Method and Language
Joseph Grünfeld
This monograph explores the relationship between method and language. The notion of method is inherent in everything we can claim to understand. The language conventions which make a question meaningful cannot be challenged at the same time the problem is posed. Problems exist only relatively to… read more[Not in series - Grüner, 137] 1982. vii, 208 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy
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 | Syntax
Topical Relevance in Argumentation
Douglas N. Walton
It is a longstanding if not altogether coherent tradition of logic and rhetorical studies that an argument can be incorrect or fallacious in virtue of some proposition in it being “irrelevant”. This monograph clarifies that tradition. Non-classical propositional calculi, including relevance logics… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:8] 1982. viii, 81 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
From Linguistics to Literature: Romance Studies offered to Francis M. Rogers
Edited by Bernard H. Bichakjian
Francis M. Rogers, to whom the current volume is in honor of, may be a modest man in principle, but not in his academic pursuits. To call his interests broad in scope is no exaggeration as they cover the fields of linguistics, literature, philology, bibliography, travel narratives and celestial… read more[Not in series, 13] 1981. x, 292 pp. + 6 ills.
Phonology in the 1980’s
Edited by Didier L. Goyvaerts
This volume brings together a number of ground-breaking papers in the theory of phonology. read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 4] 1981. viii, 647 pp.
Other subjects Phonology
Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics: Volume 7
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Marie Těšitelová and Ján Horecký
The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Těšitelová; Jiří Kraus; Ján Horecký & E. Nemcová; J. Sabol; Z. Lišková; V. Smetáček & M. Königová; J. Štěpán; L. Klimeš; P. Vašák. Part 2 Algebraic Linguistics contains… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 9] 1981. 255 pp.
Semiotic Principles in Semantic Theory
Neal R. Norrick
This study represents a contribution to the theory of meaning in natural language. It proposes a semantic theory containing a set of regular relational principles. These principles enable semantic theory to describe connections from the lexical reading of a word to its figurative contextual… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 20] 1981. xiii, 252 pp.
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 | Syntax
Contexts of Understanding
Herman Parret
This essay deals with the difficulty of understanding understanding, taking the understanding of natural language fragments as a paradigm. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:6] 1980. viii, 109 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Pragmatics
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 | Syntax
Godfrey of Fontaine's Abridgement of Boethius of Dacia's Modi Significandi sive Quaestiones super Priscianum Maiorem: A text edition with English translation and introduction
Edited by A. Charlene Senape McDermott
This volume presents the Latin text, critically established by Heinrich Roos, S.J. and Jan Pinborg (Copenhagen 1969), together with an English translation on opposite pages. This is prefaced by an introductory article, which places Boethius the Dane’s Modistic grammar into historical perspective. A… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 22] 1980. ix, 237 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Medieval linguistics | Medieval philosophy
Issues in Vowel Harmony: Proceedings of the CUNY Linguistics Conference on Vowel Harmony, May 14, 1977
Edited by Robert M. Vago
Vowel harmony is a well known phonological phenomenon found in a large number of languages spoken mainly in Eurasia and the African continent. In simple terms, vowel harmony is a law which governs the co-occurrence of vowels within a span of utterance, nearly always the word. The contributions of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 6] 1980. xx, 340 pp.
Other subjects Phonology
Other subjects Classical 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 | Syntax
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 | Syntax
Anatomy of the Verb: The Gothic Verb as a Model for a Unified Theory of Aspect, Actional Types, and Verbal Velocity. (Part I: Theory; Part II: Application)
Albert L. Lloyd
The continuing debate over the existence or non-existence of formal verbal aspect in Gothic triggered the author to write this monograph whose aim is to provide a completely new foundation for a theory of aspect and related features. Gothic, with its limited corpus, representing a translation of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 4] 1979. x, 351 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical 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 | Syntax
Integrale Linguistik: Festschrift für Helmut Gipper
Herausgegeben von Edeltraud Bülow und Peter Schmitter
Integrale Linguistik honour the life and work of Helmut Gipper. Part I covers the History of Linguistics (Hennig Brinkmann, Eugenio Coseriu, Hartwig Franke & Kristina Franke, Johannes Lohmann, Gerold Ungeheur); Part II Theory of Linguistics (Karl-Otto Apel, Edeltraud Bülow, Shirô Hattori, Ladislaus… read more[Not in series, 12] 1979. xiii, 817 pp.
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 | Syntax
Perspectives in Experimental Linguistics: Papers from the University of Alberta Conference on Experimental Linguistics, Edmonton, 1–14 Oct. 1978
Edited by Gary D. Prideaux
Over the past few years interest and research in experimental linguistics has shifted more toward centre stage, perhaps because of the growing recognition that purely theoretical formulations and speculations about language must necessarily be tested against the empirical facts of language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 10] 1979. xi, 176 pp.
Readings in Creole Studies
Edited by Ian F. Hancock
Creole studies embrace a wide range is disciplines: history, ethnography, geography, sociology, etc. The phenomenon of creolization has come to be recognized as widespread; creolization presupposes contact, and that is a human universal. The present anthology discusses social, historical and… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 2] 1979. xiv, 352 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies
Studies in Diachronic, Synchronic, and Typological Linguistics: Festschrift for Oswald Szemérenyi on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi
This two-volume collection of papers was brought together in honor of Oswald Szemerényi on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The volumes contain 70 papers, most of which deal with Indo-European (historical) linguistics. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 11] 1979. xiv, 487, x, 506 pp. (2 vols.)
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Typology
Theoretical Morphology of the French Verb
James Foley
The analysis of French verbs presented in this monograph is neither a synchronic nor a diachronic description, but rather a theoretical achronic analysis whose goal is the explanation of the historical phonetic development of the French verb in terms of changes in the underlying abstract… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 1] 1979. iv, 292 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Romance linguistics
Grammatical Theory and Metascience: A critical investigation into the methodological and philosophical foundations of 'autonomous' linguistics
Esa Itkonen
In this book, the author analyses the nature of the science of grammar. After presenting some methodological and historical background, he sets forth a theory of language and of grammar, showing that the science of grammar is not an empirical, but a normative science, comparable to logic and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 5] 1978. x, 355 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1974–1976
Wim Zonneveld
This volume contains papers from the 1974, 1975, and 1976 meetings of the annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands (Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap), held in Amsterdam. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members with an opportunity to report on their work in… read more[Not in series - Grüner, 135] 1978. vi, 227 pp.
Studia linguistica: Alexandro Vasilii Filio Issatschenko. A Collegis Amicisque Oblata
Edited by Henrik Birnbaum, Ľubomir Ďurovič, Gunnar Jacob, Nils Åke Nilsson et Anders Sjöberg
[Not in series - Grüner, 13] 1978. xxvi, 517 pp.
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.
'Quaestiones Alberti de Modis significandi': A critical edition
Pseudo-Albertus Magnus
This book provides a critical edition, translation and commentary of the British Museum Incunabulum C.21.C.52 and the Cambridge Incunabulum 5.J.3.7. of the Quaestiones Alberti. Although the British Museum catalogue ascribes the incunabulum to Albertus Magnus, the authorship is debated.The format of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 15] 1977. xxxvii, 191 pp.
Other subjects Medieval linguistics | Medieval philosophy | Semantics
Analogy: A basic bibliography
Raimo Anttila and Warren A. Brewer
This basic bibliography of analogy aims to be a useful tool for linguistic research. The compilers have emphasized the years from 1868 onwards, starting with Scherer’s statement, but a few important premonitory works have been included as well. read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 1] 1977. xiv, 50 pp.
Other subjects Bibliographies in linguistics
Papers on Language Theory and History: Volume I: Creation and Tradition in Language
J. Peter Maher
Interest in word-meaning is on the increase among mainstream linguists again after a half-century of neglect. During this interval progress in phonology and syntax was great, but further progress in these sub-disciplines will remain blocked until it is recognized that the prime functional unit of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 3] 1977. xx, 171 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
A Structural Description of the Macedonian Dialect of Dihovo: Phonology, morphology, texts, lexicon
B.M. Groen
[Not in series - Grüner, 134] 1977. viii, 307 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics
Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics: Festschrift for Winfred P. Lehmann
Edited by Paul J. Hopper
This volume of articles was prepared in honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The papers are presented in two sections: I. Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, and II. Studies in Historical Linguistics. The volume contains contributions by R.M.W. Dixon, Ralph M. Goodman,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 4] 1977. x, 502 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
Summa modorum significandi; Sophismata: New edition, on the basis of G. Wallerand's editio prima
Sigerus De Cortraco
The writings of Siger of Courtrai were first edited by Gaston Wallerand in 1913. This new edition on the basis of Wallerand's editio prima , with additions, critical notes, and an introduction by Jan Pinborg, reprints the two works from that edition that have an immediate relevance for the study of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 14] 1977. xli, 108 pp. Small-4to.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Medieval linguistics | Medieval philosophy
Linguistic and Literary Studies in Honor of Archibald A. Hill: Vol. I: General and theoretical linguistics
Edited by Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Edgar C. Polomé and Werner Winter
[Not in series - Grüner, 129] 1976. 412 pp.
Cathecismo en Lengua española y moxa. Lima, 1701: Small 8vo. Reprint edition 1975 (Ed. Cabildo, Valduz/Georgetown) of the second part of Marban's Arte de la Lengua Moxa con su Vocabulario y Cathecismo
P. Pedro Marban
[Not in series, 4] 1975. (xx), 145 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Essays on the Sound Pattern of English
Edited by Didier L. Goyvaerts and Geoffrey K. Pullum
This book is a collection of readings in phonological theory with special reference to English. The essays it contains are all concerned to a significant extent with discussion and criticism of the theory of phonology developed by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle in their monograph The Sound Pattern… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 1] 1975. x, 580
Other subjects Phonology
Language and Creativity: An interdisciplinary Essay in Chomskyan Humanism
Bernard D. den Ouden
[Not in series - Grüner, 125] 1975. 107 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Philosophy
The Transformational-Generative Paradigm and Modern Linguistic Theory
Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †
This volume reflects the fact that the possibilities in theory construction allow for a much wider spectrum than students of linguistics have perhaps been led to believe. It consists of articles by scholars of differing generations and widely varying academic persuasions: some have received their… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 1] 1975. viii, 462 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Ut videam: Contributions to an understanding of linguistics. For Pieter Verburg on the occasion of his 70th birthday
Edited by Werner Abraham
[Not in series - Grüner, 123] 1975. 300 pp. + 1 photo.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Einleitung in die Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (1884–1890) together with Zur Literatur der Sprachenkunde Europas (Leipzig, 1887)
August Friedrich Pott (1802–87)
This volume contains August Friedrich Pott's Einleitung in de Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, which appeared between 1884 and 1890 in F. Techmer's Internationale Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Leipzig). In addition, the volume contains Pott's Zur Literatur der Sprachenkunde Europas… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 10] 1974. xlvi, 502 pp. Small-4to.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
Other subjects Philosophy
Linguistic Structures and Linguistic Laws
Ferenc Kovacs
This monograph has as its objective to give a critical survey of the development of the theories concerning the essence, the function, and the most characteristic (determining) features of language, and to explore and evaluate the motive forces responsible for this development. The author explains… read more[Not in series - Grüner, 121] 1971. 398 pp.
Theoretical Problems of Typology and the Northern Eurasian Languages
Edited by László Dezső and Péter Hajdú
[Not in series - Grüner, 120] 1970. 184 pp.
Other subjects Typology