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CILT 361
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 significant...
full descriptionApril 2023. vi, 315 pp.
SCL 108
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 construction. Part 1 focuses on...
full descriptionApril 2023. xxii, 389 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.
LA 281
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 cross-linguistic data...
full descriptionNovember 2023. xvi, 264 pp.
BPA 17
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 friends, the book...
full descriptionSeptember 2023. vi, 297 pp.
TiLAR 32
Child L2 Writers
A room of their own
Amparo Lázaro-Ibarrola
Studies on L2 writing tasks with child learners have broken through several barriers in the past few years. Although long considered a solitary task, writing is now regularly done in collaborative pairs and groups as well. New and more comprehensive writing and feedback strategies have been implemented and task...
full descriptionJanuary 2023. xi, 236 pp.
CAL 36
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 descriptionSeptember 2023. xxiv, 393 pp.
CAL 37
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, such as the...
full descriptionNovember 2023. v, 278 pp.
CAL 34
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 morphology, syntax,...
full descriptionJuly 2023. vi, 409 pp.
SCL 109
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 corpus techniques in...
full descriptionJune 2023. vii, 292 pp.
SCL 110
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 statistical...
full descriptionAugust 2023. vi, 220 pp.
BPA 16
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 differently because of...
full descriptionMay 2023. vi, 321 pp.
DAPSAC 103
Cultural Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies
Edited by Monika Reif and Frank Polzenhagen
The present volume explores the meeting ground between Critical Discourse Studies and Cultural Linguistics. The contributions investigate culture-specific conceptualisations, ways of framing and conceptual metaphors in political discourse, as well as cultural models, cultural stereotypes and stereotyping. The...
full descriptionNovember 2023. v, 212 pp.
IVITRA 35
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 today’s thinkers have...
full descriptionJanuary 2023. vi, 294 pp.
SLCS 232
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 grammars. In this volume,...
full descriptionJuly 2023. vi, 284 pp.
LA 280
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 theoretical level. Many...
full descriptionNovember 2023. viii, 350 pp.
DS 33
Disability in Dialogue
Edited by Jessica M.F. Hughes and Mariaelena Bartesaghi
What would it mean to invite disability into dialogue? Disability in Dialogue attunes us to the dialogues of and about disability. In the pages of this book, we ask readers to consider the dialogic constitution of disability and to imagine its reformulation. We find the voices, bodies, social norms, visceral...
full descriptionSeptember 2023. x, 214 pp.
SLCS 227
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 that grammar is...
full descriptionMarch 2023. vi, 439 pp.
SiGL 6
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 annotated data and...
full descriptionJune 2023. xviii, 333 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.
HCP 76
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 descriptionJuly 2023. x, 352 pp.
FTL 18
Fictive questions in the Zhuangzi
A cognitive rhetorical study
Mingjian Xiang
Rhetoric is intimately related to interaction and cognition. This book explores the cognitive underpinnings of rhetoric by presenting a case study of the rhetorical use of interactional structures, namely expository questions and rhetorical questions, in the classical Chinese tradition. Such questions are generally...
full descriptionMay 2023. xiii, 206 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.
LIS 36
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 idioms (shoot the...
full descriptionMarch 2023. xiv, 281 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.
HOP 26
Handbook of Pragmatics
26th Annual Installment
Edited by Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Frank Brisard
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionOctober 2023. xiii, 187 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 15
How to Teach an Additional Language
To task or not to task?
Kris Van den Branden
This book provides a comprehensive, research-based account of how people learn a second/foreign language and shows how classroom practice can be organised around research-based principles. In the first part, the book provides up-to-date insights into the cognitive, motivational, and emotional dimensions of learning an...
full descriptionApril 2022. xiii, 292 pp.
Z 195
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 unique in its scope,...
full descriptionNovember 2015. xi, 443 pp.
LFAB 18
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 theoretical and...
full descriptionNovember 2023. vi, 246 pp.
AALS 20
Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching
Historical perspectives
Edited by Richard Smith and Tim Giesler
By adopting a historical perspective, this edited collection of papers takes a fresh look at a key concept in applied linguistics, that of innovation. A substantial introduction advocates historical re-evaluation of this notion via exploration of its rise to prominence, while the ten subsequent chapters present...
full descriptionJune 2023. x, 220 pp.
RMAL 3
Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods
Edited by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss and YouJin Kim
Written for novice and established scholars alike, Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods is a stand-alone research methods guide from an Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) lens. After offering foundations of conducting ISLA research, the subsequent chapters are organized by four skill...
full descriptionDecember 2022. xxiv, 388 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.
TAR 5
It's different with you
Contrastive perspectives on address research
Edited by Nicole Baumgarten and Roel Vismans
This book is a collection of studies about forms of address in the world’s languages, with a focus on contrast and difference. The individual chapters highlight inter- and intralinguistic variation in the expression of address and its sociol-cultural functions across media, registers, geographical contexts and time –...
full descriptionSeptember 2023. vi, 432 pp.
LL< 59
L2 Collaborative Writing in Diverse Learning Contexts
Edited by Mimi Li and Meixiu Zhang
This book is the first edited volume to compile up-to-date scholarship that discusses frontier knowledge on second language (L2) collaborative writing (CW) and highlights technology-mediated solutions to it. The volume consists of conceptual papers and empirical studies that explore theoretical, methodological, and...
full descriptionAugust 2023. vii, 253 pp.
LL< 58
L2 Pragmatics in Action
Teachers, learners and the teaching-learning interaction process
Edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor, Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández and Júlia Barón
This is the first edited volume dedicated to both teachers and learners of second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics. It comprises a collection of studies that explore how teachers background and practices, and individual learners differences contribute to the teaching and learning of L2 pragmatics. Also included are...
full descriptionApril 2023. xxii, 343 pp.
SiBil 65
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 needs to expand its...
full descriptionOctober 2023. vi, 275 pp.
LL< 57
Language Teacher Development in Digital Contexts
Edited by Hayriye Kayi-Aydar and Jonathon Reinhardt
This volume demonstrates how various methodologies and tools have been used to analyze the multidimensional, dynamic, and complex nature of identities and professional development of language teachers in digital contexts that have not been adequately examined before. It therefore offers new understandings and...
full descriptionJanuary 2022. x, 196 pp.
LAL 41
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, cognitive psychology,...
full descriptionFebruary 2023. x, 194 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.
ILLA 1
Meaningful Language Test Scores
Research to enhance score interpretation
Edited by Spiros Papageorgiou and Venessa F. Manna
Research on how stakeholders interpret language test scores and how they make decisions about language proficiency is critical because score-based decisions can be extremely consequential for test takers, score users, such as educational institutions and employers, and the society overall. This edited volume is...
full descriptionJune 2023. x, 172 pp.
RMAL 4
Methods in Study Abroad Research
Past, present, and future
Edited by Carmen Pérez-Vidal and Cristina Sanz
Study abroad research has become an established area of inquiry with theoretical impact and methodological sophistication. The field has incorporated the different approaches and methodological changes that have characterized SLA scholarship, including technological advances and new designs. The present volume...
full descriptionFebruary 2023. ix, 393 pp.
SLCS 231
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 descriptionMarch 2023. vii, 353 pp.
P&bns 333
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 together eleven empirical...
full descriptionFebruary 2023. vii, 360 pp.
VEAW G68
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 improve upon old...
full descriptionApril 2023. viii, 276 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.
SLCS 226
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), including two...
full descriptionMarch 2023. xiv, 534 pp.
SAL 13
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 consonants and vowels...
full descriptionNovember 2023. xii, 230 pp.
CLL 48
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 sociohistorical settings,...
full descriptionApril 2015. xxvii, 599 pp.
P&bns 337
Pragmatics and Translation
Edited by Miriam A. Locher, Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli
This volume presents innovative research on the interface between pragmatics and translation. Taking a broad understanding of translation, papers are presented in four different parts. Part I focuses on interpreting; Part II centers on the translation of fictional and non-fictional texts and spaces; Part III discusses...
full descriptionSeptember 2023. vii, 336 pp.
P&bns 335
The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts
Edited by Esther Linares Bernabéu
Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in interactional humour from social and pragmatic perspectives, with fascinating results. Released more than a decade later than Norrick and Chiaro (2009) Humor in Interaction, The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts gathers some of the most recent work on humour...
full descriptionMay 2023. vi, 239 pp.
PALART 9
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 be pleasantly...
full descriptionFebruary 2023. vii, 309 pp.
SLCS 230
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, Semiotic Grammar and...
full descriptionFebruary 2023. vii, 305 pp.
SLCS 228
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 descriptionFebruary 2023. vi, 349 pp.
DAPSAC 102
Remedies against the Pandemic
How politicians communicate crisis management
Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Daniel Weiss
The present volume offers a fresh perspective on political top-down crisis communication across several countries during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes how leaders address the growing awareness of the dangerous impact of social restrictions, along with the controversies surrounding the...
full descriptionJuly 2023. vi, 301 pp.
RMAL 2
Research Methods in Vocabulary Studies
Philip Durrant, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, Benjamin Kremmel and Suhad Sonbul
Understanding vocabulary and its role in language learning is one of the central tasks of applied linguistic research. It is also an area that has seen, and continues to see, huge progress in terms of the complexity and diversity of work being done. While this makes for a rich and exciting research scene, it can also...
full descriptionSeptember 2022. xv, 325 pp.
RMAL 5
Research Methods in the Study of L2 Writing Processes
Edited by Rosa M. Manchón and Julio Roca de Larios
This volume brings together the perspectives of new and established scholars who have connected with the broad fields of first language (L1) and second language (L2) writing to discuss critically key methodological developments and challenges in the study of L2 writing processes. The focus is on studies of composing...
full descriptionOctober 2023. vi, 387 pp.
SLSI 35
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 descriptionNovember 2023. vii, 383 pp.
P&bns 334
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 descriptionJune 2023. ix, 254 pp.
P&bns 336
Risk Discourse and Responsibility
Edited by Annelie Ädel and Jan-Ola Östman
The widespread view that risk is highly relevant in late modern societies has also meant that the very study of risk has become central in many areas of social studies. The key aim of this book is to establish Risk Discourse as a field of research of its own in language studies. Risk Discourse is introduced as a field...
full descriptionJuly 2023. vii, 260 pp.
VEAW G69
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 qualitative and...
full descriptionJuly 2023. xx, 249 pp.
SLCS 229
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 characterizes...
full descriptionFebruary 2023. xxiii, 166 pp.
CELCR 26
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 descriptionJune 2023. xv, 355 pp.
LA 279
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 in-depth study that...
full descriptionFebruary 2023. xviii, 276 pp.
CAL 35
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’ processing of a...
full descriptionJuly 2023. xiii, 236 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.
IVITRA 36
Terminology
Cognition, language and communication
Teresa Cabré
This volume brings together a selection of M. Teresa Cabré’s articles on terminology published after 1999 in journals of diverse nature and scope, many of which are difficult to access; articles in languages other than English are here provided in English translation. As a whole, these articles aim to represent the...
full descriptionAugust 2023. ix, 371 pp.
BTL 159
Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting
Voices from around the world
Edited by Lucía Ruiz Rosendo and Jesús Baigorri-Jalón
The aspiration of an Atlas is to cover the whole world, by compiling cartographical material representing territories from across the five continents. This book intends to contribute to that ideally comprehensive, yet always unfinished, Atlas with pieces gathered from all of the Earth’s regions. However, its focus is...
full descriptionFebruary 2023. vi, 310 pp.
ATA XX
Translation in Transition
Human and machine intelligence
Edited by Isabel Lacruz
Extraordinary advances in machine translation over the last three quarters of a century have profoundly affected many aspects of the translation profession. The widespread integration of adaptive “artificially intelligent” technologies has radically changed the way many translators think and work. In turn,...
full descriptionJuly 2023. vi, 287 pp.
VEAW G70
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 the advanced state of...
full descriptionAugust 2023. ix, 225 pp.
IVITRA 34
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 descriptionJanuary 2023. xviii, 398 pp.
DAPSAC 101
Voices of Supporters
Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections
Veronika Koller, Natalia Borza, Massimiliano Demata, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Anna W. Gustafsson, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer, Valeria Reggi, Ljiljana Šarić, Charlotta Seiler Brylla and Maria Stopfner
This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual...
full descriptionSeptember 2023. vi, 333 pp.
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