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VEAW G63
World Englishes on the Web
The Nigerian diaspora in the USA
Mirka Honkanen
August 2020. vii, 338 pp.
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... read more
SiGL 4
Norwegian Verb Particles
Leiv Inge Aa
August 2020. ix, 184 pp.
This book aims to explain the syntax and semantics of Norwegian verb particles. While particles have been claimed to be distributed optionally to the left (as LPrt) or right (as RPrt) of an associated DP in the linguistic... read more
BCT 109
Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary
Edited by Stuart Webb
August 2020. v, 234 pp.
This volume brings together a collection of chapters focused on the learning, testing, and researching of L2 vocabulary by leading international researchers including Paul Nation, Batia Laufer, Frank Boers, Elke Peters, Ana... read more
SiHoLS 128
Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography
E.F.K. Koerner
August 2020. x, 214 pp.
This volume brings together — in 8 chapters — what has occupied the author during his many years as editor of Historiographia Linguistica. Namely, how the history of linguistics has developed into a major field of scholarly... read more
IHLL 28
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact
Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain
Edited by Rajiv Rao
August 2020. x, 452 pp.
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... read more
FTL 9
Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language
Edited by Annalisa Baicchi
August 2020. vii, 311 pp.
This volume brings together twelve usage-based studies conducted by leading researchers in language and cognition that explore core issues of figurativeness from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The individual chapters... 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
LIS 35
The Expression of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Albert Camus’s L'Étranger and Its Translations / L'Étranger de Camus et ses traductions : questions de temps, d'aspect, de modalité et d'évidentialité (TAME)
An empirical study / Etude empirique
Edited by Eric Corre, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao
August 2020. ix, 388 pp.
This book deals with the linguistic treatment of tense-aspect-modal-evidential (TAME) expressions in translations of the French novel L’Étranger by Albert Camus into sixteen languages. It is strongly empirical in spirit, and uses... read more
IHLL 29
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
August 2020. viii, 277 pp.
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... read more
P&bns 312
Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English
Literary and linguistic approaches
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
August 2020. viii, 298 pp.
This volume traces the multifaceted concept of manners in the history of English from the late medieval through the early and late modern periods right up to the present day. It focuses in particular on transgressions of manners... read more
LL< 55
Languaging in Language Learning and Teaching
A collection of empirical studies
Edited by Wataru Suzuki and Neomy Storch
August 2020. vii, 313 pp.
This book is the first to bring together a collection of recent empirical studies investigating languaging, an important construct first introduced by Swain in 2006 but which has since been deployed in a growing number of L2... read more
BCT 112
How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map
Edited by Michael A. Arbib
August 2020. vii, 393 pp.
How did humans evolve biologically so that our brains and social interactions could support language processes, and how did cultural evolution lead to the invention of languages (signed as well as spoken)? This book addresses... read more