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LALD 66
The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology
A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Veronika Mattes, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler
November 2021. ix, 307 pp.
This book offers the first systematic study of the early phases in the acquisition of derivational morphology from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. It presents ten empirical longitudinal studies in genealogically... read more
P&bns 324
Beyond Meaning
Edited by Elly Ifantidou, Louis de Saussure and Tim Wharton
November 2021. vi, 200 pp.
Despite the fact that they are often crucial to our understanding, the vague, ineffable elements of language use and communication have received much less attention from linguists than the more concrete, effable ones. This has... read more
Z 232
Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey N. Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan
November 2021. xxxv, 1220 pp.
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... read more
P&bns 326
Intersubjectivity in Action
Studies in language and social interaction
Edited by Jan Lindström, Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
November 2021. vi, 437 pp.
Intersubjectivity is a precondition for human life – for social organization as well as for individual development and well-being. Through empirical examination of social interactions in everyday and institutional settings, the... read more
LALD 65
L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning
The view from Romance
Edited by Larisa Avram, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu
November 2021. vi, 380 pp.
This volume includes fourteen papers on the acquisition of Romance languages, eleven of which were presented at the Romance Turn 9, held in Bucharest in September 2018. The studies offer new insights into central issues in the... read more
IVITRA 29
La «cavalleria umanistica» italiana / The Italian “Humanistic Chivalry”
Enyego (Inico) d’Àvalos e ‘Curial e Guelfa’ / Enyego (Inico) d’Àvalos and ‘Curial e Guelfa’
Edited by Antoni Ferrando and Anna Maria Babbi
November 2021. xxiii, 208 pp.
This book aims to contribute to the knowledge of the cultural and linguistic relations between Italy and the Crown of Aragon in the 15th century. In particular, it studies some relevant aspects of the chivalric... read more
TiLAR 29
Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings
LITMUS in action across Europe
Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes K. Grohmann
November 2021. vi, 333 pp
COST Action IS0804 “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment” aimed to profile bilingual specific language impairment (biSLI) by establishing a network for research on the... read more
CILT 354
Lexicalising Clausal Syntax
The 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
SiHoLS 130
Missionary Linguistics VI
Missionary Linguistics in Asia
. Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Rome, 21–24 March 2018
Edited by Otto Zwartjes and Paolo De Troia
November 2021. xii, 296 pp.
This is the sixth volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic work produced by missionaries in Asia. This volume presents research into the documentation, study and description of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Tamil.... read more
DAPSAC 94
Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking
A postfoundational perspective
Edited by Jana Declercq, Geert Jacobs, Felicitas Macgilchrist and Astrid Vandendaele
November 2021. vi, 186 pp.
This book brings together new research on the practices of newsmaking. Participation, engagement and collaboration have long been heralded as a vision, goal or emerging practice in the news. The claim in this volume is that they... read more
P&bns 329
The Sociopragmatics of Stance
Community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trials
Peter J. Grund
November 2021. ix, 246 pp.
Anchored in historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, this book weaves together a powerful narrative of the significance of stance marking in the history of English. Focusing on the community of... read more
NLP 14
The Swedish FrameNet++
Harmonization, integration, method development and practical language technology applications
Edited by Dana Dannélls, Lars Borin and Karin Friberg Heppin
November 2021. xiv, 333 pp.
Large computational lexicons are central NLP resources. Swedish FrameNet++ aims to be a versatile full-scale lexical resource for NLP containing many kinds of linguistic information. Although focused on Swedish, this ongoing... read more
IHLL 34
Syntactic Geolectal Variation
Traditional approaches, current challenges and new tools
Edited by Alba Cerrudo, Ángel J. Gallego and Francesc Roca Urgell
November 2021. vi, 385 pp.
This volume brings together studies that combine both traditional and contemporary tools in the study of syntactic geolectal variation, with a special focus on a subset of Iberian varieties. There is an increasing body of... read more