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EURALEX 2024

Dubrovnik, 8-12 October 2024

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P&bns 324
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Beyond Meaning

Edited by Elly Ifantidou, Louis de Saussure and Tim Wharton

Despite the fact that they are often crucial to our understanding, the vague, ineffable elements of language use and communication have received much less attention from linguists than the more concrete, effable ones. This has left a range of important questions unanswered. How might we account for the communication... full description
November 2021. vi, 200 pp.
TSL 134
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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 Americas, Austronesia and... full description
May 2022. viii, 437 pp.
CLSCC 15
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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. In particular, the... full description
January 2024. v, 242 pp.
CAL 36
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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 comprehensive... full description
September 2023. xxiv, 393 pp.
LA 276
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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 as a separate... full description
May 2022. vi, 258 pp.
HCP 76
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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 construction), and... full description
July 2023. x, 352 pp.
IHLL 39
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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 defined.In this monograph... full description
March 2024. xiii, 394 pp.
SLCS 233
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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 of detail is termed... full description
August 2023. xviii, 536 pp.
SLCS 213
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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 illocutive particles. This... full description
March 2020. vi, 304 pp.
TLRP 20
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Lexical Semantics for Terminology

An introduction

Marie-Claude L'Homme

Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction explores the interconnections between lexical semantics and terminology. More specifically, it shows how principles borrowed from lexico-semantic frameworks and methodologies derived from them can help understand terms and describe them in resources. It also explains... full description
January 2020. xxi, 263 pp.
HCP 78
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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 it is derived; (ii)... full description
November 2024. xvii, 348 pp.
SLCS 231
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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 discussed in the... full description
March 2023. vii, 353 pp.
SILV 29
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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 corpus-based typology... full description
August 2022. ix, 375 pp.
CLSCC 16
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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 contribute, from a Cognitive... full description
May 2024. xvi, 351 pp.
SLCS 228
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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 (formal and... full description
February 2023. vi, 349 pp.
SLSI 35
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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 languages of the world.... full description
November 2023. vii, 383 pp.
IHLL 40
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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 how the traditional... full description
April 2024. xvii, 234 pp.
P&bns 334
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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 classes can have both... full description
June 2023. ix, 254 pp.
CELCR 26
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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 been acknowledged.... full description
June 2023. xv, 355 pp.
HCP 77
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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 reference. The aim... full description
February 2024. viii, 223 pp
TSL 133
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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 – and regardless of... full description
May 2022. vi, 339 pp.
IVITRA 34
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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 explore its reflection... full description
January 2023. xviii, 398 pp.
LALD 30
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The Lexicon–Syntax Interface in Second Language Acquisition

Edited by Roeland van Hout, Aafke Hulk, Folkert Kuiken and Richard J. Towell

Second language acquisition has to integrate the totality of the SLA process, which includes both the learning of the core syntax of a language and the learning of the lexical items that have to be incorporated into that syntax. But these two domains involve different kinds of learning. Syntax is learnt through a... full description
August 2003. viii, 234 pp.