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HCP 73
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 cutting-edge theoretical and...
full descriptionOctober 2022. xi, 442 pp.
Impact 53
The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words
A sociolinguistic exploration
Łukasz Zarzycki
Swearing plays an important role in everyday language. We swear in the streets, at school, universities, at work and at home, on the means of transport, with family and friends. People have used swear words for centuries and they will continue to use them. The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words examines offensive and...
full descriptionJanuary 2024. xvii, 336 pp.
CLU 23
Anthropological Linguistics
Perspectives from Africa
Edited by Andrea Hollington, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein
This collection presents new research on key topics in anthropological linguistics, with a focus on African languages. While Africanist linguists have long been concerned with sociocultural aspects of language structure and use, no comprehensive volume dedicated to the anthropological linguistics of Africa has yet...
full descriptionFebruary 2024. xiii, 485 pp.
VARGReB 3
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 constructions reflecting the...
full descriptionJanuary 2016. vii, 560 pp.
Z 231
The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
This book is a bridge to confident academic writing for advanced non-native English users. It emphasizes depth over breadth through mastery of core writing competencies and strategies which apply to most academic disciplines and genres. Tailored to students in EMI programs, the content was piloted and revised during a...
full descriptionSeptember 2021. x, 299 pp.
SLCS 100
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 potentiality of an event,...
full descriptionApril 2008. ix, 335 pp.
AIS 11
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 traditional...
full descriptionJanuary 2024. xii, 264 pp.
CLSCC 15
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 descriptionJanuary 2024. v, 242 pp.
LA 284
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 between individual...
full descriptionMay 2024. vi, 352 pp.
HCP 43
Corpus Methods for Semantics
Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy
Edited by Dylan Glynn and Justyna A. Robinson
This volume seeks to advance and popularise the use of corpus-driven quantitative methods in the study of semantics. The first part presents state-of-the-art research in polysemy and synonymy from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. The second part presents and explains in a didactic manner each of the statistical...
full descriptionNovember 2014. viii, 545 pp.
NLP 15
Corpus-based Translation of Private Legal Documents
Patrizia Giampieri
Legal translation is hallmarked by peculiarities revolving around language intricacies, particular formulae, and system-specificity issues. At present, there is a spectrum of legal corpora dedicated to court-related topics and legislation, but there is no corpus composed of private legal documents such as contracts...
full descriptionJune 2024. ix, 337 pp.
SiGL 7
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, and Norwegian, as well...
full descriptionAugust 2023. vi, 446 pp.
Z 242
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 items, this book...
full descriptionJune 2023. xi, 392 pp.
Z 240
English Sentence Constructions
Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Tim Kassenberg, Merel Keijzer and Gregory J. Poarch
English Sentence Constructions departs from a usage-based theoretical perspective in which all language units -- which we refer to as constructions -- have both a meaning and form, and context is all-important in determining the function and form of these constructions. As a...
full descriptionAugust 2022. 261 pp.
WLP 10
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 communicative areas. It...
full descriptionSeptember 2022. xx, 429 pp.
P&bns 341
Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism
In between antiracist and racist discourse
Edited by Argiris Archakis and Villy Tsakona
The ongoing migration ‘crisis’ in European countries (2015 to date) has fostered different stances and practices within European nation-states, ranging from xenophobia to solidarity. In this context, two contradictory discourses seem to coexist: the national racist discourse and the humanitarian, antiracist one. This...
full descriptionFebruary 2024. viii, 294 pp.
SLCS 234
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 extra-linguistic predictors, or...
full descriptionOctober 2023. vi, 352 pp.
NSS 33
From West to North Frisia
A Journey along the North Sea Coast
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 geographical range from...
full descriptionMarch 2022. xxv, 476 pp.
Z 232
Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey N. Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan
The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference grammars. But GSWE is unique in that it gives equal attention to describing the patterns of...
full descriptionNovember 2021. xxxv, 1220 pp.
Impact 48
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 researchers, have...
full descriptionApril 2021. viii, 415 pp.
HoT 3
Handbook of Terminology
Volume 3. Legal Terminology
Edited by Łucja Biel and Hendrik J. Kockaert
As a core component of legal language used to draft, enforce and practice law, legal terms have fascinated lawyers, linguists, terminologists and other scholars for centuries. Third in the series, this Handbook offers a comprehensive compendium of the current state of knowledge on legal terminology. It is the first...
full descriptionDecember 2023. vii, 622 pp.
Z 227
Historical Linguistics
A cognitive grammar introduction
Margaret E. Winters
This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics. Secondly, unlike many such textbooks, this one is based in the theoretical framework of...
full descriptionMay 2020. xvii, 241 pp.
TBLT 16
Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching
Edited by Shaofeng Li
This volume consists of a collection of empirical studies and research syntheses investigating the role of individual difference (ID) variables in task-based language teaching (TBLT)—a pedagogical approach that emphasizes the importance of the performance of meaning-oriented tasks in facilitating second language...
full descriptionJune 2024. viii, 379 pp
TSL 112
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, development and...
full descriptionJune 2016. v, 267 pp.
CLiP 4
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 pragmatics. Basic...
full descriptionMarch 2022. xxiii, 283 pp.
Z 219
Introduction to Discourse Studies
New edition
Jan Renkema and Christoph Schubert
This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook, which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international advisory board of 14...
full descriptionNovember 2018. xv, 453 pp.
SiGL 8
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 thirteen...
full descriptionMay 2024. vi, 327 pp.
Z 215
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 agriculture by their early...
full descriptionDecember 2017. xiii, 324 pp.
RMAL 6
Less Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics
Edited by A. Mehdi Riazi
Research methodology plays a pivotal role in generating new knowledge in any academic discipline. Applied Linguistics (AL) researchers use a variety of research methodologies to address different research problems and research questions, given its interdisciplinary nature. Notwithstanding the plethora of research...
full descriptionJanuary 2024. vi, 274 pp.
Z 216
A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students
Paul Boucher
A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students offers the reader an in-depth contrastive study of French and English based on recent theories of linguistics and discourse analysis. At the same time it is a practical manual for the advanced language student or the translator with dozens of...
full descriptionApril 2018. xiv, 297 pp.
AALS 11
The Linguistics of Newswriting
Daniel Perrin
The Linguistics of Newswriting focuses on text production in journalistic media as both a socially relevant field of language use and as a strategic field of applied linguistics. The book discusses and paves the way for scientific projects in the emerging field of linguistics of newswriting. From empirical micro and...
full descriptionSeptember 2013. xiii, 302 pp.
Z 199
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 brain? These...
full descriptionJune 2016. xv, 378 pp.
P&bns 339
Manufacturing Dissent
Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis
Edited by Cornelia Ilie
Spotlighting case studies of manipulation practices at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in different countries and socio-political circumstances, the authors expose context-specific discourse and argumentation strategies of 'infodemics’ (misleading information and fake news), public policy mismanagement, deceptive...
full descriptionJanuary 2024. vi, 311 pp.
SiBil 66
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 themes: The Early Years...
full descriptionApril 2024. x, 434 pp.
SiBil 67
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 movement, language is a...
full descriptionMay 2024. ix, 645 pp.
CILT 362
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 numeral classifiers....
full descriptionDecember 2023. x, 251 pp.
LA 270
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 Control (OC),...
full descriptionSeptember 2021. v, 290 pp.
TBLT 14
Pedagogical Realities of Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching
Rosemary Erlam and Constanza Tolosa
This book documents how teachers, working in school foreign language learning contexts and teaching beginner learners of languages other than English, learn about and use tasks. It first presents a pedagogically researched account of how teachers learn about, design and evaluate tasks, after being introduced to TBLT...
full descriptionFebruary 2022. ix, 282 pp.
AIS 12
Perspectives on Pantomime
Edited by Przemysław Żywiczyński, Johan Blomberg and Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska
Pantomime is a unique form of communication, which we improvise “on the fly” to transmit information when unable to use language, for example during intercultural contacts or when the use of language is blocked or constrained, as in the case of some medical conditions or the game of charades. Pantomimic communication...
full descriptionFebruary 2024. v, 244 pp.
P&bns 343
The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy
Edited by Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen
As a first attempt to date, this book addresses the notion of hypocrisy from a pragmatic perspective and devises a comprehensive model of verbal hypocrisy. The studies included adopt emic and etic approaches in order to contribute jointly towards an understanding of what appears to be a ubiquitous and multifaceted...
full descriptionMarch 2024. viii, 268 pp.
CLSCC 16
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 descriptionMay 2024. xvi, 351 pp.
IHLL 40
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 descriptionApril 2024. xvii, 234 pp.
P&bns 342
Self- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts
From global to local discourses
Edited by Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin
The chapters in this volume study the construction, representation and negotiation of a variety of social roles through self- and other-reference markers or the discussion of reference as a tool for identification. The chapters uncover new insights both from a historical and present-day perspective and show how...
full descriptionMarch 2024. v, 195 pp.
HCP 77
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 descriptionFebruary 2024. viii, 223 pp
Z 214
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 chapters are on lexical...
full descriptionNovember 2017. xvi, 159 pp.
BPA 13
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 relevant (sub-)...
full descriptionAugust 2022. xi, 388 pp.
LA 283
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 the question...
full descriptionApril 2024. xxii, 214 pp.
CILT 364
Unlocking the History of English
Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types
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 language in texts that...
full descriptionApril 2024. viii, 253 pp.
SILV 27
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 society and urban...
full descriptionDecember 2021. x, 280 pp.
LA 282
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 adjunct wh-in-situ are...
full descriptionFebruary 2024. xix, 173 pp.
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