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TiLAR 28
The Acquisition of Referring Expressions
A dialogical approach
Edited by Anne Salazar-Orvig, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland
June 2021. xix, 372 pp.
This book describes the repertoire and uses of referring expressions by French-speaking children and their interlocutors in naturally occurring dialogues at home and at school, in a wide range of communicative situations and... read more
SCL 99
Conjunctive Markers of Contrast in English and French
From syntax to lexis and discourse
Maïté Dupont
June 2021. xvii, 436 pp.
Situated at the interface between corpus linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, this volume focuses on conjunctive markers expressing contrast in English and French. The frequency and placement patterns of the markers... read more
CAL 30
Constructions in Contact 2
Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
June 2021. vii, 437 pp.
The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact. This volume builds on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the... read more
Impact 50
Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
Edited by Diana Forker and Lenore A. Grenoble
June 2021. vi, 386 pp.
The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying... read more
SILV 25
Language Variation – European Perspectives VIII
Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019
Edited by Hans Van de Velde, Nanna Haug Hilton and Remco Knooihuizen
June 2021. vi, 316 pp.
This volume contains a selection of papers from the 10th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), which was organized by the Fryske Akademy and held in Leeuwarden/Ljouwert (the Netherlands) in June... read more
SLCS 218
Lost in Change
Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions
Edited by Svenja Kranich and Tine Breban
June 2021. vi, 366 pp.
While research on language change has formulated robust empirical generalisations about processes and motivations underlying the emergence and spread of linguistic elements, their decline and loss is less well understood. So far... read more
LAL 38
Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts
A textual and communicative perspective
Lisa Nahajec
June 2021. xiii, 218 pp.
During an election campaign in 2008, Ken Livingstone said to a newspaper reporter “this election is not a joke”. By doing so, he introduced an expectation into the discourse that someone does, in fact, think it is a joke. This... read more
SLCS 219
Studies at the Grammar-Discourse Interface
Discourse markers and discourse-related grammatical phenomena
Edited by Alexander Haselow and Sylvie Hancil
June 2021. vi, 354 pp.
This book investigates phenomena at the grammar–discourse interface with a strong focus on discourse markers, whose development and concrete uses in a given language tend to be based on a close interplay of grammatical and... read more