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CILT 351
Advances in Iranian Linguistics
Edited by Richard K. Larson, Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian
July 2020. vi, 309 pp.
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... read more
CILT 353
All Things MorphologyIts independence and its interfaces
Edited by Sedigheh Moradi, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller and Andrija Petrovic
August 2021. vii, 439 pp.
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,... read more
HCP 73
Analogy and Contrast in LanguagePerspectives from Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Karolina Krawczak, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Marcin Grygiel
Expected October 2022. ix, 437 pp. + index
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... read more
TSL 130
AntipassiveTypology, diachrony, and related constructions
Edited by Katarzyna Janic and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich
March 2021. vii, 645 pp.
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... read more
LA 271
Arabic Dislocation
Ali A. Alzayid
March 2022. xii, 240 pp.
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... read more
Z 231
The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
September 2021. x, 299 pp.
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... read more
TSL 129
Austronesian UndressedHow and why languages become isolating
Edited by David Gil and Antoinette Schapper
October 2020. ix, 510 pp.
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... read more
LA 263
Beyond Emotions in LanguagePsychological verbs at the interfaces
Edited by Bożena Rozwadowska and Anna Bondaruk
December 2020. xiii, 325 pp.
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... read more
LA 260
Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais
Edited by Roberta Pires De Oliveira, Ina Emmel and Sandra Quarezemin
May 2020. ix, 216 pp.
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... read more
HCP 69
Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions
Edited by Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi
August 2020. vii, 324 pp.
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... read more
SLCS 220
Building Categories in InteractionLinguistic resources at work
Edited by Caterina Mauri, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria
December 2021. vi, 467 pp.
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... read more
TSL 134
Caused Accompanied MotionBringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig
May 2022. viii, 437 pp.
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... read more
SLCS 212
Chapters of Dependency GrammarA historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière
Edited by András Imrényi and Nicolas Mazziotta
February 2020. v, 281 pp.
Was Tesnière the founding father of dependency grammar or merely a culmination point in its long history? Leaving no doubt that the latter position is correct, Chapters of Dependency Grammar tells the story of how... read more
CAL 31
Cognitive Aphasiology – A Usage-Based Approach to Language in Aphasia
Rachel Hatchard
October 2021. xx, 311 pp.
Aphasia is the most common acquired language disorder in adults, resulting from brain damage, usually stroke. This book firstly explains how aphasia research and clinical practice remain heavily influenced by rule-based,... read more
HCP 74
A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial PrepositionsIntertwining networks
Maria Brenda and Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska
Expected October 2022. xiii, 240 pp. + index
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... read more
HCP 71
Collocations as a Language ResourceA functional and cognitive study in English phraseology
Sonja Poulsen
April 2022. xvi, 348 pp.
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... read more
BCT 122
Construction Grammar across Borders
Edited by Tiago Timponi Torrent, Ely Edison da Silva Matos and Natália Sathler Sigiliano
July 2022. v, 174 pp.
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... read more
CAL 30
Constructions in Contact 2Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
June 2021. vii, 437 pp.
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... read more
LA 267
Current Issues in Syntactic CartographyA crosslinguistic perspective
Edited by Fuzhen Si and Luigi Rizzi
October 2021. vi, 328 pp.
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,... read more
BCT 123
Development of Tense and Aspect Systems
Edited by Jadranka Gvozdanović
August 2022. v, 202 pp.
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... read more
BCT 113
Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics
Edited by Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti
August 2020. v, 154 pp.
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,... read more
LA 276
Discourse ParticlesSyntactic, semantic, pragmatic and historical aspects
Edited by Xabier Artiagoitia, Arantzazu Elordieta and Sergio Monforte
May 2022. vi, 258 pp.
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... read more
CAL 33
Discourse Structuring Markers in EnglishA historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
March 2022. xviii, 274 pp.
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... read more
VEAW G66
Earlier North American Englishes
Edited by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers
July 2022. viii, 261 pp.
Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twenty-first century. To throw light on the linguistics of North American Englishes and their socio-historical... read more
CILT 358
English Historical LinguisticsChange in structure and meaning
Edited by Bettelou Los, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale
February 2022. viii, 349 pp.
This volume contains a set of articles based on papers selected from those delivered at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018). It focuses on cutting-edge research in the... read more
CILT 359
English Historical LinguisticsHistorical English in contact
Edited by Bettelou Los, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux
February 2022. vi, 185 pp.
This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. It showcases a wide variety of historical... read more
SLCS 221
English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive PerspectiveCurrent issues
Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Evelien Keizer
January 2022. vii, 433 pp.
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... read more
CAL 26
English ResultativesA force-recipient account
Seizi Iwata
March 2020. xx, 549 pp.
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... read more
SLCS 223
Extravagant MorphologyStudies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology
Edited by Matthias Eitelmann and Dagmar Haumann
March 2022. v, 258 pp.
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... read more
CAL 28
Frame-Constructional Verb ClassesChange and Theft verbs in English and German
Ryan Dux
November 2020. x, 320 pp.
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... read more
LA 278
From Pseudo-relatives to Causative ConstructionsScandinavian languages as a case study
Mara Frascarelli and Giorgia Di Lorenzo
Expected October 2022. vii, 127 pp. + index
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... read more
CAL 29
Give Constructions across Languages
Edited by Myriam Bouveret
March 2021. viii, 246 pp.
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,... read more
HCP 70
Grammar and CognitionDualistic models of language structure and language processing
Edited by Alexander Haselow and Gunther Kaltenböck
November 2020. vii, 358 pp.
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... read more
Z 227
Historical LinguisticsA cognitive grammar introduction
Margaret E. Winters
May 2020. xvii, 241 pp.
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.... read more
CILT 350
Historical Linguistics 2017Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017
Edited by Bridget Drinka
July 2020. xi, 495 pp.
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... read more
SLCS 213
Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles
Edited by Pierre-Yves Modicom and Olivier Duplâtre
March 2020. vi, 304 pp.
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... read more
CLiP 4
Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics
Klaus-Uwe Panther
March 2022. xxiii, 283 pp.
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... read more
Z 234
Japanese Mood and Modality in Systemic Functional LinguisticsTheory and Application
Edited by Ken-Ichi Kadooka
March 2021. v, 179 pp.
This book is a cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary exploration of modality within systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Drawing upon the broad SFL notion of modality that refers to the intermediate degrees between the... read more
LA 275
Language Change at the InterfacesIntrasentential and intersentential phenomena
Edited by Nicholas Catasso, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani
April 2022. viii, 255 pp.
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.... read more
CILT 356
Language and TextData, models, information and applications
Edited by Adam Pawłowski, Jan Mačutek, Sheila Embleton and George Mikros
December 2021. vi, 280 pp.
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... read more
SLCS 214
Late Modern EnglishNovel encounters
Edited by Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg
March 2020. vii, 359 pp.
The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in... read more
CILT 354
Lexicalising Clausal SyntaxThe interaction of syntax, the lexicon and information structure in Hungarian
Tibor Laczkó
November 2021. xiii, 353 pp.
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... read more
Z 236
The Life Cycle of Adpositions
T. Givón
July 2021. xii, 205 pp.
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... read more
TSL 132
Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology
Edited by Luca Alfieri, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat
July 2021. vi, 424 pp.
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... read more
TSL 131
The Linguistics of OlfactionTypological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity
Edited by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Przemysław Staniewski
April 2021. xiii, 481 pp.
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... read more
SLCS 218
Lost in ChangeCauses and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions
Edited by Svenja Kranich and Tine Breban
June 2021. vi, 366 pp.
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... read more
CAL 32
Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Martin Hilpert, Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere
October 2021. v, 251 pp.
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... read more
SLCS 215
Morphological Complexity within and across BoundariesIn honour of Aslı Göksel
Edited by Aslı Gürer, Dilek Uygun-Gökmen and Balkız Öztürk
July 2020. vi, 421 pp.
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... read more
TSL 127
The NP-strategy for Expressing ReciprocityTypology, history, syntax and semantics
Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal
March 2020. xv, 291 pp.
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... read more
HCP 72
Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event DescriptionDeixis, asymmetries, constructions
Edited by Laure Sarda and Benjamin Fagard
July 2022. vii, 279 pp.
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... read more
LA 272
New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical SyntaxStudies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li
Edited by Andrew Simpson
April 2022. vi, 577 pp.
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... read more
CAL 27
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Elena Smirnova
May 2020. vi, 355 pp.
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... read more
LA 270
Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective
Edited by Anne Mucha, Jutta M. Hartmann and Beata Trawiński
September 2021. v, 290 pp.
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.... read more
SLCS 225
Paradigms in Word FormationTheory and applications
Edited by Alba E. Ruz, Cristina Fernández-Alcaina and Cristina Lara-Clares
Expected September 2022. vi, 380 pp. + index
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... read more
SLCS 224
Particles in German, English, and Beyond
Edited by Remus Gergel, Ingo Reich and Augustin Speyer
Expected August 2022. vi, 382 pp.
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.... read more
LA 265
Past Participle AgreementA study on the grammaticalization of formal features
Jorge Vega Vilanova
December 2020. xix, 236 pp.
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.... read more
SLCS 222
Pejorative Suffixes and Combining Forms in English
José A. Sánchez Fajardo
February 2022. xvi, 229 pp.
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... read more
SLCS 217
The Perfect VolumePapers on the perfect
Edited by Kristin Melum Eide and Marc Fryd
July 2021. vii, 485 pp.
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... read more
CILT 352
Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond
Edited by Robert Crellin and Thomas Jügel
September 2020. xiv, 686 pp.
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... read more
CILT 360
Points of Convergence in Romance LinguisticsPapers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018
Edited by Gabriela Alboiu and Ruth King
March 2022. vii, 275 pp.
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... read more
LA 274
Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions
Edited by Giuliana Giusti, Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro and Daniel Ross
March 2022. vii, 342 pp.
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... read more
SLCS 216
Re-Assessing Modalising ExpressionsCategories, co-text, and context
Edited by Pascal Hohaus and Rainer Schulze
November 2020. vi, 344 pp.
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,... read more
LA 258
Right Peripheral FragmentsRight dislocation and related phenomena in Romance
Javier Fernández-Sánchez
February 2020. ix, 214 pp.
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”... read more
LA 266
Romance Interrogative SyntaxFormal and typological dimensions of variation
Caterina Bonan
March 2021. xiv, 252 pp.
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... read more
CILT 355
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest
Edited by Alexandru Nicolae and Adina Dragomirescu
December 2021. vi, 377 pp.
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... read more
CILT 357
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 32, Utrecht
Edited by Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen and Luisa Meroni
December 2021. vi, 320 pp.
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... read more
LA 259
Silently Structured Silent Argument
Yuta Sakamoto
May 2020. xiii, 266 pp.
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... read more
LA 264
Stative InquiriesCauses, results, experiences, and locations
Alfredo García-Pardo
November 2020. xiv, 258 pp.
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... read more
SLCS 219
Studies at the Grammar-Discourse InterfaceDiscourse markers and discourse-related grammatical phenomena
Edited by Alexander Haselow and Sylvie Hancil
June 2021. vi, 354 pp.
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... read more
LA 261
Syntactic and Semantic Variation in Copular SentencesInsights from Classical Hebrew
Daniel J. Wilson
July 2020. xvi, 159 pp.
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... read more
LA 268
The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement
Johannes Mursell
September 2021. xii, 280 pp.
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... read more
LA 269
A Theory of Distributed Number
Myriam Dali and Eric Mathieu
August 2021. xi, 153 pp.
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... read more
LA 262
Thetics and Categoricals
Edited by Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa
July 2020. vii, 390 pp.
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... read more
HCP 75
Time Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity
Edited by Anna Piata, Adriana Gordejuela and Daniel Alcaraz Carrión
Expected November 2022. viii, 241 pp. + index
In recent years, the study of the conceptualization of time has seen a considerable growth, providing a basis for exploring the cognitive foundation of metaphor. But if metaphorical representations of time are established in the... read more
TSL 133
The Typology of Physical Qualities
Edited by Ekaterina Rakhilina, Tatiana Reznikova and Daria Ryzhova
May 2022. vi, 339 pp.
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... read more
BCT 114
Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units
Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki
April 2021. v, 204 pp.
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... read more
Z 228
Visual Linguistics with RA practical introduction to quantitative Interactional Linguistics
Christoph Rühlemann
July 2020. ix, 258 pp.
This book is a textbook on R, a programming language and environment for statistical analysis and visualization. Its primary aim is to introduce R as a research instrument in quantitative Interactional Linguistics. Focusing on... read more
LA 277
Wh-In Situ Licensing in Questions and Sluicing
Jun Abe
July 2022. viii, 204 pp.
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... read more
LA 273
When Data Challenges TheoryUnexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure
Edited by Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob
February 2022. vi, 307 pp.
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... read more
TSL 128
The ‘Noun Phrase’ across LanguagesAn emergent unit in interaction
Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson
July 2020. vi, 366 pp.
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... read more