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SFSL 57
Advances in Functional LinguisticsColumbia School beyond its origins
Edited by Joseph Davis, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern
December 2006. x, 344 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 62
Body, Language and Meaning in Conflict SituationsA semiotic analysis of gesture-word mismatches in Israeli-Jewish and Arab discourse
Orit Sônia Waisman
November 2010. xi, 191 pp.
This original research applies semiotics to linguistic and non-linguistic segments in a text in search of potential correlations between them. The resultant mapping is applied to cases of gesture-word mismatches that are evident... read more
SFSL 70
Case in RussianA sign-oriented approach
Alexandra Beytenbrat
September 2015. xiii, 182 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 51
Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis
Edited by Ellen Contini-Morava, Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller
December 2004. viii, 389 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 77
Columbia School Linguistics in the 21st Century
Edited by Nancy Stern, Ricardo Otheguy, Wallis Reid and Jaseleen Sackler
October 2019. vii, 311 pp.
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... read more
P&bns 271
Evidentiality RevisitedCognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives
Edited by Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Gerda Haßler and Marta Carretero
March 2017. vi, 320 pp.
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,... read more
SLCS 157
Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space
Christopher S. Butler and Francisco Gonzálvez-García
August 2014. xviii, 579 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 79
Follow the SignsArchetypes of consciousness embodied in the signs of language
Rodney B. Sangster
February 2020. xiii, 175 pp.
In this his latest book, Sangster presents a comprehensive theory that takes the cognitive view of language in a promising new direction, based upon how linguistic signs relate to one another at different levels of consciousness.... read more
SFSL 55
Language and MeaningThe structural creation of reality
Christopher Beedham
November 2005. xiv, 225 pp.
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... read more
LL< 55
Languaging in Language Learning and TeachingA collection of empirical studies
Edited by Wataru Suzuki and Neomy Storch
August 2020. vii, 313 pp.
This book is the first to bring together a collection of recent empirical studies investigating languaging, an important construct first introduced by Swain in 2006 but which has since been deployed in a growing number of L2... read more
SFSL 58
Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts
Edited by Judith Munat
November 2007. xvi, 294 pp.
The coining of novel lexical items and the creative manipulation of existing words and expressions is heavily dependent on contextual factors, including the semantic, stylistic, textual and social environments in which they occur.read more
SFSL 75
Lexical meaning as a testable hypothesisThe case of English look, see, seem and appear
Nadav Sabar
April 2018. xv, 144 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 78
Lexicalization patterns in color namingA cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Ida Raffaelli, Daniela Katunar and Barbara Kerovec
October 2019. vi, 429 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 64
Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence
Edited by Bob de Jonge and Yishai Tobin
June 2011. vi, 299 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 54
Meaning Predictability in Word FormationNovel, context-free naming units
Pavol Štekauer
March 2005. xxii, 289 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 61
The Motivated Syntax of Arbitrary SignsCognitive constraints on Spanish clitic clustering
Erica C. García
September 2009. xv, 335 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 76
Questioning Theoretical Primitives in Linguistic InquiryPapers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy
Edited by Naomi Shin and Daniel Erker
December 2018. vi, 293 pp.
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,... read more
P&bns 251
Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon
Patrick J. Duffley
October 2014. x, 246 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 73
Semantic Structure in English
Jim Feist
September 2016. xv, 452 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 48
Signal, Meaning, and MessagePerspectives on sign-based linguistics
Edited by Wallis Reid, Ricardo Otheguy and Nancy Stern
July 2002. xxii, 413 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 74
The Substance and Value of Italian Si
Joseph Davis
September 2017. xiii, 257 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 72
Textplicating IconophonesArticulatory iconic action in Ulysses
Nurit Levy
April 2016. xvii, 333 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 68
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
July 2014. vi, 327 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 71
Third Person ReferencesForms and functions in two spoken genres of Spanish
Jenny Dumont
February 2016. ix, 179 pp.
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... read more
SFSL 69
Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change
Edited by Evie Coussé and Ferdinand von Mengden
July 2014. v, 275 pp.
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... read more
LL< 49
Usage-inspired L2 InstructionResearched pedagogy
Edited by Andrea E. Tyler, Lourdes Ortega, Mariko Uno and Hae In Park
February 2018. xvii, 324 pp.
This book presents a set of compelling essays collectively making a persuasive case for why a usage-based perspective on language is fast becoming a leading theoretical framework for investigating second language (L2) learning... read more