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SCL 100
Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes
A constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning
Samantha Laporte
July 2021. xxii, 395 pp.
This book takes an integrated approach to the fields of Corpus Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and World Englishes through a thorough constructional and corpus-based examination of the patterning of the versatile... read more
SAL 10
Experimental Arabic Linguistics
Edited by Dimitrios Ntelitheos and Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung
July 2021. vii, 249 pp.
This volume is the first systematic attempt to survey current progress in the relatively new field of Experimental Arabic Linguistics. While experimental work on Arabic linguistics has appeared sporadically in several venues in... read more
Z 236
The Life Cycle of Adpositions
T. Givón
July 2021. xii, 205 pp.
Adpositions are used, universally, to mark the roles of nominal participants in the verbal clause, most commonly indirect object roles. Practically all languages seem to have such markers, which begin their diachronic life as... read more
TSL 132
Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology
Edited by Luca Alfieri, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat
July 2021. vi, 424 pp.
Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range... read more
IHLL 35
Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World
Edited by Patricia Gubitosi and Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia
July 2021. xi, 395 pp.
Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World is the first book dedicated to languages in the urban space of the Spanish-speaking world filling a gap in the extensive research that highlights the richness and... read more
SLCS 217
The Perfect Volume
Papers on the perfect
Edited by Kristin Melum Eide and Marc Fryd
July 2021. vii, 485 pp.
Drawing on the data and history from a wide range of languages, from Atayal to Zapotec, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field of tense and aspect research resulting in 18 contributions on the perfect and some... read more
BCT 118
Police Interviews
Communication challenges and solutions
Edited by Luna Filipović
July 2021. v, 151 pp.
This collection breaks new ground in police communication research. It involves the first instance of the same dataset being analysed from different theoretical and methodological perspectives as well as providing original and... read more
BCT 117
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children
Edited by Leigh Fernandez, Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz and Shanley E.M. Allen
July 2021. vi, 272 pp.
How do production and comprehension processes interact in the bilingual brain during language interaction? Most experimental and theoretical research in psycholinguistics to date has focused on investigating the mechanisms that... read more
P&bns 323
Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures
Edited by Cornelia Ilie
July 2021. vi, 316 pp.
This book showcases innovative research about the multi-functional and dynamic interrelatedness of questioning and answering practices in institution- and culture-specific interactions ranging from under-explored to extensively... read more
SWLL 18
Tone Orthography and Literacy
The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages
Edited by David Roberts and Stephen L. Walter
July 2021. xxii, 375 pp.
This book presents the results of a series of literacy experiments in ten Niger-Congo languages, representing four language families and spanning five countries. It asks the research question, "To what extent does full tone... read more