Conference selection

SPCL 2023

Groningen, 26-28 June 2023

John Benjamins will be present at SPCL 2023. Check out our promotional material and discount order form through the links below. Or come and browse our books at the exhibit. If you wish to talk about our books, your work, and possible publishing projects please get in touch with Anke de Looper at anke.delooper at benjamins.nl

Check out our selection of top titles for this conference!


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CoLL 57
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Advances in Contact Linguistics

In honour of Pieter Muysken

Edited by Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh

Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of multilingualism is... full description
October 2020. ix, 400 pp.
SLCS 208
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Agreement in Language Contact

Gender development in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Florian Dolberg

Gender in English changed dramatically from the elaborate system found in Old English to the very simple he/she/it-alternation in use from (late) Middle English onwards. While either system is well described and understood, the change from one to the other is anything but: more than 120 years of research into the... full description
June 2019. xxi, 351 pp.
IHLL 23
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Amazonian Spanish

Language Contact and Evolution

Edited by Stephen Fafulas

Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution explores the unique origins, linguistic features, and geo-political situation of the Spanish that has emerged in the Amazon. While this region boasts much linguistic diversity, many of the indigenous languages found within its limits are now being replaced by Spanish.... full description
July 2020. viii, 303 pp.
CAL 30
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Constructions in Contact 2

Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition

Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder

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 volume Constructions in Contact (2018) and extends its methodology and insights in three... full description
June 2021. vii, 437 pp.
SiBil 58
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Heritage Languages

A language contact approach

Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken

Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special status. They have... full description
November 2019. xix, 302 pp.
IHLL 22
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Hispanic Contact Linguistics

Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives

Edited by Luis A. Ortiz López, Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Melvin González-Rivera

This volume comprises cutting edge research on language contact and change. The chapters present a wide scope of settings in which Spanish is in contact with other languages, such as Catalan, English, and Quechua; a large breadth of geographical areas (e.g., United States, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina);... full description
February 2020. vii, 336 pp.
SILV 24
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Intermediate Language Varieties

Koinai and regional standards in Europe

Edited by Massimo Cerruti and Stavroula Tsiplakou

The papers in this volume address the interplay of factors underlying the formation of intermediate varieties in the ‘dialect-standard’ landscape of present-day Europe. Research is presented on varieties of several different languages (Norwegian, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek), on speech communities with... full description
June 2020. vi, 258 pp.
Impact 50
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Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union

Edited by Diana Forker and Lenore A. Grenoble

The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact. This is the first book that bundles different case studies... full description
June 2021. vi, 386 pp.
LA 256
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Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew

Edited by Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube

The emergence of Modern Hebrew as a spoken language constitutes a unique event in modern history: a language which for generations only existed in the written mode underwent a process popularly called “revival”, acquiring native speakers and becoming a language spoken for everyday use. Despite the attention it has... full description
September 2019. ix, 390 pp.
VEAW G62
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Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English

Sofia Rüdiger

Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English presents fundamental research on the use of English by South Korean speakers. Despite the extraordinary and vibrant status of the English language in South Korean society (demonstrated, for example, by the notion of English Fever), research on the forms of English in... full description
July 2019. xvii, 228 pp.
CoLL 56
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Palenquero and Spanish in Contact

Exploring the interface

John M. Lipski

Bilingual speakers are normally aware of what language they are speaking or hearing; there is, however, no widely accepted consensus on the degree of lexical and morphosyntactic similarity that defines the psycholinguistic threshold of distinct languages. This book focuses on the Afro-Colombian creole language... full description
March 2020. xvii, 318 pp.
CoLL 58
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Pre-Historical Language Contact in Peruvian Amazonia

A dynamic approach to Shawi (Kawapanan)

Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia

South America was populated relatively recently, probably around 15,000 years ago. Yet, instead of finding a relatively small number of language families, we find some 118 genealogical units. So far, the historical processes that underlie the current picture are not yet fully understood. This book represents a... full description
May 2021. xvii, 261 pp.
Impact 52
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Reconstructing Non-Standard Languages

A socially-anchored approach

Lenore A. Grenoble and Jessica Kantarovich

Focusing on language contact involving Russian, and the linguistic varieties that emerged from that contact in different social settings, this book analyzes issues and methodologies in reconstructing both the linguistic effects of language contact and the social contexts of usage. In-depth analyses of Odessan Russian,... full description
December 2022. xv, 354 pp.
IHLL 28
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Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact

Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain

Edited by Rajiv Rao

Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain brings together scholars working on a wide range of aspects of the Spanish sound system and how their coexistence with another language in speech communities across the Hispanophone world influences their manifestation. Drawing... full description
August 2020. x, 452 pp.
CoLL 59
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Variation Rolls the Dice

A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene

Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Cécile B. Vigouroux

Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene aims to celebrate Mufwene’s ground-breaking contribution to linguistics in the past four decades. The title also encapsulates his approach to language as both systemic and socio-cultural practices, and the role of variation in determining... full description
October 2021. xiv, 330 pp.
IHLL 29
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Variation and Evolution

Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking world

Edited by Sandro Sessarego, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli

This book is a collection of original studies analyzing how different internal and external factors affect Spanish language variation and evolution across a number of (socio)linguistic scenarios. Its primary goal is to expand our understanding of how native and non-native varieties of Spanish co-exist with other... full description
August 2020. viii, 277 pp.
VEAW G63
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World Englishes on the Web

The Nigerian diaspora in the USA

Mirka Honkanen

World Englishes on the Web focuses on linguistic practices at the intersection of international migration and social media, examining the language repertoires of Nigerians living in the United States, and their negotiations of identity and authenticity on a Nigerian web forum. Based on a large corpus of informal,... full description
August 2020. vii, 338 pp.