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CILT 368
The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon
Evidence from Japanese verb morphology
Brent de Chene
All linguists recognize that competence in a natural language involves knowledge of a lexicon or dictionary; most assume that it also involves knowledge of a grammatical system. Just where the boundary between the lexicon and the grammar lies, however, is a question on which there is little consensus. This problem...
full descriptionExpected January 2025. xvii, 259 pp. + index
CHLEL XXXVII
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery
The Atlantic world and beyond
Edited by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Madeleine Dobie and Mads Anders Baggesgaard
The second volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond explores literary memory of enslavement in post-slavery societies on four continents (North- and South America, Africa and Europe). The twenty-two contributors to this volume relate the memory work of literature to...
full descriptionExpected April 2025. vii, 416 pp. + index
CHLEL XXXVI
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery
The Atlantic world and beyond
Edited by Madeleine Dobie, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
The first volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery explores literary representations of enslavement with a focus on the emotions. The contributors consider how the diverse emotions generated by slavery have been represented over a historical period stretching from the 16th century to the present and...
full descriptionExpected December 2024. xx, 334 pp. + index
LA 286
Intonation in Language Contact
The case of Spanish in Catalonia
Jonas Grünke
The intense language contact between Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia has led to cross-linguistic influence at all linguistic levels, but its effect on the prosody of these languages has received little attention to date. Based on semi-spontaneous and read speech data from 31 Catalan–Spanish bilinguals, this book...
full descriptionExpected November 2024. ix, 427 pp.
TSL 135
Investigating Language Isolates
Typological and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga
Language isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates, including a detailed, in-depth,...
full descriptionExpected February 2025. vii, 333 pp. + index
SiHoLS 132
Lectures on Language Theory 1942–1943
Louis Hjelmslev
The present book is the English translation of Louis Hjelmslev’s lectures on glossematics, the theory of language developed in the forties by him and Hans Jørgen Uldall, and taught at the University of Copenhagen in 1942-43, thoroughly taken down in shorthand by his student Harry Wett Frederiksen. The document,...
full descriptionExpected December 2024. viii, 223 pp. + index
DAPSAC 104
Male Separatism
Discourse, ideology, and argumentation
Jessica Aiston
This book offers a critical discourse analytical perspective on the phenomenon of men who voluntarily abstain from relationships with women. Based on a case study of the online Reddit community known as ‘Men Going Their Own Way’, the author engages in qualitative examination of the argumentative and discursive...
full descriptionExpected March 2025. xiii, 199 pp. + index
CAL 38
Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective
Edited by Kiki Nikiforidou and Mirjam Fried
The volume is of direct interest to scholars, from senior academics to PhD students, interested in linguistically relevant phonetic and gestural information and in the relationship between multimodal communication and grammar. It contains important work in a relatively new, dynamic and exploratory field that is...
full descriptionExpected February 2025. v, 312 pp. + index
DAPSAC 105
News with an Attitude
Ideological perspectives in the historical press
Edited by Claudia Claridge
This volume extends research on ideology in the news into the historical sphere, spanning discourse from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The chapters investigate the ideological representation and assessment of political events across three continents, such as uprisings, independence, and genocide,...
full descriptionExpected April 2025. vii, 248 pp. + index
IVITRA 44
Nuevos Enfoques Lingüísticos y Traductológicos del Discurso Turístico
Editado por Manuela Álvarez Jurado y Gisella Policastro Ponce
El presente volumen explora la riqueza y pluralidad del turismo y su discurso a través de un análisis interdisciplinario, que proporciona una visión integral del impacto del turismo en diversas esferas comunicativas, sociales y culturales. Esta obra recopila las investigaciones presentadas en la segunda edición del...
full descriptionExpected February 2025. xi, 170 pp. + index
CoLL 62
Our People’s Language
Variation and change in the Lánnang-uè of the Manila Lannangs
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
This book pioneers the study of Lánnang-uè, deeply embedded in Manila’s Lannang community’s culture. It approaches Lánnang-uè not just as a language but as a vibrant social practice, highlighting its variability and complex social meanings (e.g., identity-marking). Over six years and with more than 150 participants,...
full descriptionExpected April 2025. xiv, 454 pp. + index
SILV 32
Pluricentricity and Pluriareality
Dialects, Variation, and Standards
Edited by Philipp Meer and Ryan Durgasingh
This edited collection engages with the contentious debate surrounding standard varieties and their distribution. For the past three decades, these arguments have coalesced around two camps: pluricentricity (the idea that standard varieties are intimately associated with nation states, with more powerful national...
full descriptionExpected April 2025. viii, 196 pp. + index
P&bns 350
Vagueness as an Implicitating Persuasive Strategy
Giorgia Mannaioli
The book presents an integrated model of vagueness as an implicit and persuasive strategy, pervasive in everyday language use and public discourse. It considers three macro-dimensions of the phenomenon: linguistic-theoretical, psychological, and social-discursive. It shows how vagueness can be strategically employed...
full descriptionExpected January 2025. ix, 268 pp. + index
HSLD 9
World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies
Edited by Peter Siemund, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl
World Englishes coexist and interact with local languages in multilingual ecologies. Multilingual speakers use the languages in their ecologies for different functions, with different interlocutors, and at different proficiency levels. Attitudinal responses to the languages vary. Speaker groups are heterogenous...
full descriptionExpected May 2025. xii, 396 pp. + index
