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CoLL 57
Advances in Contact Linguistics
In honour of Pieter Muysken
Edited by Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch Oladé Aboh
October 2020. ix, 400 pp.
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... read more
CVS 16
Controversies and Interdisciplinarity
Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model
Edited by Jens Allwood, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna and Giovanni Scarafile
October 2020. vi, 279 pp.
Nowadays, the forms assumed by knowledge indicate an unhinging of traditional structures conceived on the model of discipline. Consequently, what was once strictly disciplinary becomes interdisciplinary, what was homogeneous... read more
SCL 97
Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts
In honor of Merja Kytö
Edited by Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson
October 2020. xiii, 348 pp.
This volume provides a diachronic and synchronic overview of linguistic variability and change in involved, speech-related and spoken texts in English. While previous works on the topic have focused on more limited time periods,... read more
TSL 129
Austronesian Undressed
How 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
P&bns 316
The Discourse of Indirectness
Cues, voices and functions
Edited by Zohar Livnat, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar and Galia Hirsch
October 2020. viii, 257 pp.
Indirectness has been a key concept in pragmatic research for over four decades, however the notion as a technical term does not have an agreed-upon definition and remains vague and ambiguous. In this collection, indirectness is... read more
LALD 64
Typical and Impaired Processing in Morphosyntax
Edited by Vincent Torrens
October 2020. vi, 305 pp.
The present volume presents research on language processing and language disorders. Topics range across typical language processing, child developmental language disorders, adult neurodegenerative disorders and neurological bases... read more
Z 230
Coherence
T. Givón
October 2020. xi, 293 pp.
Coherence, connectivity and the fitting together of smaller parts into larger structures and a coherent whole is the hallmark of complex biologically-based systems. As a structure-internal constraint, coherence makes it possible... read more
BTL 154
Translation in Knowledge, Knowledge in Translation
Edited by Rocío G. Sumillera, Jan Surman and Katharina Kühn
October 2020. vii, 272 pp.
This volume explores the intersection between Translation Studies and History and Philosophy of Science to shed light on the workings of scientific communities, the dissemination of knowledge across languages and cultures, and... read more
BTL 153
Opera in Translation
Unity and diversity
Edited by Adriana Şerban and Kelly Kar Yue Chan
October 2020. vii, 369 pp.
This volume covers aspects of opera translation within the Western world and in Asia, as well as some of opera’s many travels between continents, countries, languages and cultures—and also between genres and media. The concept of... read more