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Expanding Horizons in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Interdisciplinary applications, multimodality, and theoretical advances

Edited by Claudia E. Stoian and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

This volume serves as a practical manifestation of Systemic Functional Linguistics’ continued evolution toward greater global impact and relevance. Through a diverse range of interdisciplinary applications, it aims to reinforce the theory’s unique status as a fundamentally appliable resource… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 80] 2027. vi, 275 pp. + index

Basic Variet(ies) and L2 Initial Stages in Different Learning Contexts

Edited by Cecilia Andorno and Sandra Benazzo

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 17:1 (2026) v, 172 pp.

Basilio Brollo’s Dictionarium sinico-latinum (Chinese-Latin dictionary): A critical edition of the manuscript Rinuccini 22 (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana)

Gabriele Tola

This publication is the first and long-awaited critical edition of the Dictionarium sinico-latinum (Chinese-Latin dictionary) by the Franciscan missionary Basilio Brollo (1648–1704; Chinese name, Ye Zunxiao 葉尊孝). This publication thoroughly researches for the first time a lexicographical milestone,… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 134] 2026. xxviii, 1029 pp. | open access

Bridging Boundaries: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Hispanic Linguistics

Edited by Gregory L. Thompson and Scott M. Alvord

Bridging Boundaries: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Hispanic Linguistics is a new collection of research expanding the field of Hispanic linguistics. Edited by Gregory L. Thompson and Scott M. Alvord, this volume brings together established and rising scholars to span the full range of Spanish… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 46] 2026. vi, 435 pp.

Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics

Edited by Olga Capirci and Sabina Fontana

Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 29:1/2 (2026) vi, 352 pp.

Comparing Constructions in Romance and Germanic Languages

Edited by Carmen Mellado Blanco and Pedro Ivorra-Ordines

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 26:2 (2026) v, 195 pp.

Conceptualizing the Environment: Words as cultural lenses for seeing the world

Edited by Zhengdao Ye and Cliff Goddard

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 13:1 (2026) v, 129 pp.

Constructions Disloquées: Descriptions, modélisations, approches contrastives

Edited by Alexander Guryev, Florence Lefeuvre and Nathalie Rossi-Gensane

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 49:1 (2026) vi, 195 pp.

Corpus Perspectives on Legal Discourse

Edited by David Wright

Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 31:1 (2026) v, 138 pp.

Creative Audiovisual Translation: Human emotion in translation in the age of AI

Edited by Frederic Chaume and Irene Ranzato

Special issue of Translation Spaces 15:1 (2026) v, 201 pp.

Discourses of Discrimination: Language aggression in the construction of otherness

Edited by Angeliki Alvanoudi and Marianthi Georgalidou

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 14:1 (2026) v, 145 pp.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Sustainability (DEIS) in Language Education

Edited by Subhan Zein

Special issue of AILA Review 39:2 (2026) vi, 227 pp.

The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations

Edited by Sonja Riesberg, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig

The documentarist turn, i.e., the growing impact of documentary concepts and practices within general linguistics, has increased awareness of the empirical foundations of our discipline, accompanied by an appreciation of the value of observable linguistic behaviour. Today, there exist… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] 2026. xii, 909 pp. | open access

Epistemological issue: What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation

Edited by Matthew T. Carlson and Jorge González Alonso

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:1 (2026) v, 100 pp.

Heritage Language, Racialization, and (Post)colonialism, Part I

Edited by Jennifer B. Delfino, Sonia Das and Chantal Tetreault

Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 8:1 (2026) v, 135 pp.

Interactional Problems and Their Resolutions in Natural Discourse in Languages in Taiwan

Edited by Miao-Hsia Chang

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 17:2 (2026) v, 172 pp.

Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives

Edited by Julia Fuchs-Kreiß

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 33:1 (2026) vi, 228 pp.

Italo-Romance Morphosyntax: Theoretical and empirical issues

Edited by Francesco Maria Ciconte and Michela Cennamo

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 26:1 (2026) v, 220 pp.

Labeling in Language, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Edited by Heiko Motschenbacher

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 15:1 (2026) v, 136 pp.

Languages for Specific Purposes Meet Pop Culture

Edited by Audrey Louckx, Charlène Meyers and Tiffany Jandrain

Special issue of Journal of Language and Pop Culture 2:2 (2026) v, 161 pp.

A Linguistic Comparison of Chinese and English: Structural, functional, and typological perspectives

Chao Li

The book examines similarities and differences between Chinese and English from structural, functional, and typological perspectives. The linguistic comparison undertaken covers various aspects of the two languages, including, for example, typological features, the phonological system, the writing… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 239] 2026. xv, 399 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2026

Edited by Remco Knooihuizen, Marloes Oomen and Alex Reuneker

Special issue of Nota Bene 3:2 (2026) vi, 253 pp.

Metonymic Thinking All the Way Down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond

Edited by Carmen Portero Muñoz, Antonio Barcelona and Almudena Soto Nieto

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 13:1 (2026) vi, 273 pp.

Names and Naming

Edited by Philipp Krämer, Eeva Sippola and Rachel Selbach

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 41:1 (2026) v, 172 pp.

The One-New-Idea Constraint and the Information–Intonation Interface

Edited by Uta Reinöhl and Naomi Peck

Special issue of Functions of Language 33:1/2 (2026) v, 191 pp.

Perspectives in Systemic Functional Linguistics: A celebration of the fiftieth international congress

Edited by Tom Bartlett

Special issue of Language, Context and Text 8:1 (2026) ca. 200 pp.

Pragmatics in African Contexts

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 17:2 (2026) v, 141 pp.

The Pragmatics of Trusting (Artificial) Others

Edited by Kerstin Fischer and Bracha Nir

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 17:5 (2026) vi, 203 pp.

Progress in Colour Studies: Colour Expression and Cognition

Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Domicele Jonauskaite, Mari Uusküla and Dimitris Mylonas

This volume presents recent research in colour studies with a particular focus on language, offering both continuity and innovation within the field. All chapters are developed from papers first presented at the Progress in Colour Studies 2022 (PICS2022) conference, held at Tallinn University,… read more

[Not in series, 244] 2026. viii, 226 pp.

Psycho-Historical Linguistics

Edited by Helen Engemann and Duygu F. Şafak

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:4 (2026) v, 173 pp.

Research Synthesis Methodologies in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Sin Wang Chong

This edited volume offers a critical examination of research synthesis in Applied Linguistics at a time when such work is increasingly influential and increasingly misunderstood. The volume brings together reflective accounts of conducting and editing different types of research syntheses. Instead… read more

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 17] 2026. xix, 382 pp. | open access

Rethinking Multilingualism in Education: Inclusion, policy and practice for newcomers in Europe

Edited by Steven Delarue and Wendelien Vantieghem

Special issue of Nota Bene 3:1 (2026) v, 199 pp.

Syntax of Uralic Languages: Selected papers from SOUL5
Selected papers from SOUL 5

Edited by Beáta Wagner-Nagy, Anders Holmberg and Balázs Surányi

Special issue of Journal of Uralic Linguistics 5:1 (2026) v, 131 pp.

Terminology Beyond Terms

Edited by Pius ten Hacken and Rossella Resi

Special issue of Terminology 32:1 (2026) v, 154 pp.

Advanced Quantitative Methods in Bi-/Multilingualism

Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, George Pontikas and Ian Cunnings

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:4 (2025) v, 175 pp.

Approaches to Hungarian 19

Edited by Edgar Onea and Balázs Surányi

Special issue of Journal of Uralic Linguistics 4:1 (2025) v, 143 pp.

Areal Effects on Argument-Coding Patterns

Edited by Daria Alfimova, Kirill Kozhanov and Sergey Say

Special issue of Studies in Language 49:4 (2025) v, 201 pp.

Aspects of Metaphor

Edited by Maria Theodoropoulou

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:1 (2025) vi, 326 pp.

Becoming a Member in Social Worlds
: The interface of learning and socialization in L2 interactions

Edited by Klara Skogmyr Marian and Simona Pekarek Doehler

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 16:1 (2025) v, 198 pp.

Beyond Corpus Data — Complementary and Alternative Methods in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Anton Granvik, Veera Hatakka, Olli O. Silvennoinen, Riku Erkkilä and Eveliina Mäntylä

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:2 (2025) vi, 357 pp.

Broken: Towards a vulnerability approach to Semiotic Landscape research

Edited by Máiréad Moriarty and Maida Kosatica

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 11:2 (2025) v, 100 pp.

Computational Terminology

Edited by Ayla Rigouts Terryn and Patrick Drouin

Special issue of Terminology 31:1 (2025) v, 170 pp.

Conflict Talk in Spanish Digital Interactions

Edited by Lucía Fernández-Amaya

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 13:1 (2025) v, 153 pp.

Decolonial Approaches to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Applied Linguistics: Addressing local and global EDI challenges

Edited by Kyria Finardi, Marina Orsini-Jones and Azirah Hashim

Special issue of AILA Review 38:2 (2025) v, 224 pp.

Embodied, Social, and Creative Dimensions of Metonymy

Edited by Marlene Johansson Falck and Thomas Wiben Jensen

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 15:2 (2025) vi, 151 pp.

Emerging Issues in Content-Based Minority Language Immersion Education Contexts

Edited by Laurent Cammarata and Pádraig Ó Duibhir

Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 13:1 (2025) vi, 192 pp.

Epistemological issue: Translanguaging

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:1 (2025) vi, 116 pp.

The Grammar of Canonical and Non-canonical Wh-constructions

Edited by C.-T. James Huang

Special issue of Concentric 51:2 (2025) v, 172 pp.

Handbook of Terminology: Volume 4. Terminology planning in Europe

Edited by Rossella Resi and Frieda Steurs

This book provides an overview of the various methods adopted for terminology planning in the languages under examination. Collectively, the authors attempt to establish an overall understanding of terminology planning in Europe, starting from an examination of the organizations engaged in… read more

[Handbook of Terminology, 4] 2025. viii, 799 pp.

Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research: Amplifying voices from immigrant, transnational, and refugee communities

Edited by Amanda K. Kibler and Fares J. Karam

Researchers who study multilingual literacy development face the reality of complex and ever evolving conceptualizations of multilingualism and literacy across dynamic contexts, languages, and modalities. To unlock the full potential of continuous developments in Applied Linguistics, innovative… read more

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 11] 2025. ix, 268 pp.

Instructing Bodies

Edited by Leelo Keevallik, Emily Hofstetter and Jan Lindström

Special issue of Interactional Linguistics 5:1/2 (2025) v, 228 pp.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

Edited by Mark Amengual and Amanda Dalola

The study of Romance linguistics has long been a vibrant and dynamic field, enriched by diverse theoretical perspectives and a range of methodological innovations. This volume gathers contributions from leading scholars and emerging voices in the field to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 45] 2025. vi, 331 pp.

La Percepción de las Variedades Cultas del Español en el S. XXI

Edited by Cristina Illamola and Mar Forment Fernández

Special issue of Spanish in Context 22:1 (2025) vi, 310 pp.

Le verbe vouloir dans tous ses états

Edited by Anouch Bourmayan

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:1 (2025) v, 177 pp.

Life Storytelling across Media and Contexts

Edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Zuzana Fonioková

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 35:2 (2025) v, 163 pp.

Love, Sex, and the Sacred: A metaphor analysis of Hungarian folk songs

Veronika Szelid

Most Hungarian folksongs are about SEX – according to a widely accepted opinion of ethnographers. But what is SEX about? How is it connected to LOVE, and what does THE SACRED have to do with these? Drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this book reveals the profound connections between the three… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 18] 2025. xi, 265 pp.

Mapping Synergies in Cognitive Research on Multilectal Mediated Communication

Edited by Laura Babcock, Raphael Sannholm and Elisabet Tiselius

Special issue of Target 37:2 (2025) vi, 158 pp.

Mathematical Modelling in Linguistics and Text Analysis: Theory and applications

Edited by Adam Pawłowski, Sheila Embleton, Jan Mačutek and Aris Xanthos

This book is a panorama of contemporary quantitative linguistics, as developed over decades. It highlights the main topics of QL: statistical laws of language, taxonomy of linguistic phenomena, authorial attribution, quantitative analysis of syntax (e.g., dependency grammar), measurement of text… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 370] 2025. vi, 241 pp.

Modality in the Architecture of Language

Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese and Manuela Caterina Moroni

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 7:1/2 (2025) v, 207 pp.

Multilingualism and Language Contact in Asia-Pacific

Edited by Shobha Satyanath

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 11:1/2 (2025) vi, 222 pp.

New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole: Standardization, grammar and language use

Edited by Muhsina Alleesaib and Julie Lefort

In the South-West Indian Ocean, Mauritius and Reunion are part of a group of islands where French-based Creoles are spoken. In spite of their geographical proximity, Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole are strikingly different in their morphosyntax. The first part of this volume describes some… read more

[Contact Language Library, 61] 2025. vi, 326 pp.

Old Germanic Languages and Latin/Early Romance in Contact

Edited by Carla Falluomini

Special issue of NOWELE 78:1 (2025) v, 120 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXV: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Washington, D.C., 2022

Edited by Ahmad Al-Qassas

This volume contains nine chapters that cover a wide range of topics in Arabic linguistic research. The papers are organized into four parts; these are phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, and decolonizing linguistics. Drawing on a wide range of Arabic varieties, articles in… read more

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 14] 2025. vii, 219 pp.

Perspectives on Chinese Language Acquisition

Edited by Henghua Su

Special issue of International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 12:2 (2025) v, 170 pp.

Proper Names

Edited by Chia-Jung Pan and Yang Huang

Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 6:1 (2025) v, 252 pp.

The Quality of Quantity, the Quantity of Quality

Edited by Steven Schoonjans

Published with support from the University Foundation / de Universitaire Stichting van België / la Fondation Universitiaire de Belgique

Special issue of Nota Bene 2:1 (2025) v, 225 pp.

The Representation and Processing of Morphologically Complex Words

Edited by Roberto G. de Almeida and Lori Buchanan

Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 20:2/3 (2025) v, 312 pp.

Reproducibility, Replicability, and Robustness in Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh

Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:2 (2025) v, 145 pp.

Researching Occitan in the 21st Century: Un dialòg interdisciplinari

Edited by Marc Olivier and Anna Paradis

Special issue of Revue Romane 60:1 (2025) v, 151 pp.

SFL Appliability, Visibility and Accessibility

Edited by Claudia E. Stoian, Jorge Arús-Hita and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

Special issue of Language, Context and Text 7:2 (2025) v, 297 pp.

Similatives: Semantic sources, pathways, and types of usage

Edited by Anna Kisiel, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems and Dejan Stosic

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:2 (2025) v, 257 pp.

Solitude Speech across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Mitsuko Narita Izutsu and Katsunobu Izutsu

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 12:1 (2025) v, 208 pp.

Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making

Edited by Kara Warburton and John Humbley

Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making is a collection of individual contributions by leading terminology scholars from around the globe who describe historical developments of terminology as a discipline and a field of practice. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive written… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 24] 2025. ix, 678 pp.

Today’s Innovations, Tomorrow’s Conventions: Usage-based approaches to incipient developments in English

Edited by David Lorenz and David Tizón-Couto

Special issue of Functions of Language 32:1 (2025) v, 161 pp.

Towards an Integrated Approach to Heritage and School Languages in Education Policies: The case of multilingual Geneva

Edited by Claire de Goumoëns, Laurent Gajo and Myriam Radhouane

Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 49:3 (2025) v, 107 pp.

Trans(portable): English in the world

Edited by Julie Deconinck and Eva Ulrike Pirker

Special issue of English Text Construction 18:2 (2025) v, 171 pp.

What makes a Figure: Rethinking figurativity

Edited by Herbert L. Colston

This volume presents works seeking to re-think the very nature and scope of figurativity, calling into attention some of the received tenets in accounts of figurativity, both as a holistic category and for individual types and families of figures, but also attempting to expand upon the current… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 19] 2025. vi, 322 pp.

‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction

Edited by Chi-Hé Elder, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 32:1 (2025) v, 260 pp.

(Inter)subjectivity across registers of Estonian: Special issue of the Journal of Uralic Linguistics 3:2 (2024)

Edited by Helle Metslang, Tiit Hennoste and Külli Habicht

Special issue of Journal of Uralic Linguistics 3:2 (2024) v, 178 pp.

The (Self-)Translation of Knowledge: Scholarship in migration

Edited by Lavinia Heller and Spencer Hawkins

Special issue of Target 36:4 (2024) v, 187 pp.

10th Anniversary Issue: Engaging with LL futures

Edited by Robert Blackwood and Elana Shohamy

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 10:4 (2024) v, 110 pp.

Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa

Edited by Andrea Hollington, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein

This collection presents new research on key topics in anthropological linguistics, with a focus on African languages. While Africanist linguists have long been concerned with sociocultural aspects of language structure and use, no comprehensive volume dedicated to the anthropological linguistics… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 23] 2024. xiii, 485 pp. | open access

Applied Narratology

Edited by Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar, Laura Karttunen and Anna Ovaska

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 34:2 (2024) v, 199 pp.

Australian Contact Languages

Edited by Carmel O'Shannessy, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:1 (2024) vi, 311 pp.

Bringing Figurative Language into Real L2 Classrooms: The challenges of empirical testing

Edited by Ana M. Piquer-Píriz and Reyes Llopis-García

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22:2 (2024) vi, 316 pp.

Challenges in Corpus Linguistics: Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis

Edited by Mark Kaunisto and Marco Schilk

This book contributes to the discussion of challenges faced in different areas of corpus linguistics, namely the compilation, annotation, and analysis of linguistic corpora. In a field of growing corpus sizes and expanding possibilities of gathering data, some old issues persist, while at the same… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 118] 2024. vii, 172 pp.

Cognitive Approaches to Mind, Language, and Society: Theory and description

Edited by Mario Serrano-Losada and Daniela Pettersson-Traba

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:1 (2024) vi, 249 pp.

Comparing Crosslinguistic Complexity

Edited by Jenny Ström Herold and Magnus Levin

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 24:1 (2024) v, 163 pp.

Corpus Approaches to Business Communication

Edited by Mathew Gillings and Susanne Kopf

Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 29:3 (2024) iv, 149 pp.

Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics

Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer

This volume illustrates new trends in corpus linguistics and shows how corpus approaches can be used to investigate new datasets and emerging areas in linguistics and related fields. It addresses innovative research questions, for example how prosodic analyses can increase the accuracy of syntactic… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 119] 2024. vi, 265 pp.

Culturas Juveniles, Contracultura y Procesos de Difusión en el Español Coloquial

Edited by Ana Llopis Cardona

Special issue of Spanish in Context 21:1 (2024) v, 218 pp.

Decolonising or Recolonising?: Generative AI through the eyes of applied linguists, language teachers, and learners

Edited by Toni Dobinson, Julian Chen and Carly Steele

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:3 (2024) v, 165 pp.

Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1 (2024) vi, 114 pp.

Ethical Issues in Applied Linguistics Scholarship

Edited by Peter I. De Costa, Amr Rabie-Ahmed and Carlo Cinaglia

This volume contributes to ongoing discussions of ethics in Applied Linguistics scholarship by focusing in depth on several different sub-areas within the field. The book is comprised of four sections: methodological approaches to research; specific participant populations and contexts of research;… read more

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 7] 2024. xii, 372 pp.

Evidentiality, Modality and Grammaticalization

Edited by Eric Mélac

Special issue of Studies in Language 48:3 (2024) v, 240 pp.

The Evolution of Expletives: Theoretical and diachronic perspectives

Edited by Eric Fuß and Benjamin L. Sluckin

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 6:1/2 (2024) v, 243 pp.

Frequency, Dispersion, Association, and Keyness: Revising and tupleizing corpus-linguistic measures

Stefan Th. Gries

This book is an attempt to revisit the main specifically corpus-linguistic statistics/measures the field has been relying on for decades: frequency, dispersion, association, and keyness. The book first discusses the purpose of these measures and how they have been measured. Then, the book makes… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 115] 2024. vii, 321 pp.

The Functions of Evidentiality

Edited by Eric Mélac and Pascale Leclercq

Special issue of Functions of Language 31:1 (2024) v, 114 pp.

The History of Chinese Linguistics in East and West

Edited by Otto Zwartjes

Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 51:1-3 (2024) vi, 385 pp.

History of Linguistics 2021: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS 15), Milan, 28 August – 1 September

Edited by Savina Raynaud, Maria Paola Tenchini and Enrica Galazzi

This volume comprises two invited talks and fifteen selected papers, chosen from over 200 submissions to the 15th International Conference on the History of Language Sciences (ICHoLS XV). Originally scheduled to be held in Milan in 2020, the conference was postponed and moved online due to the… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 133] 2024. vi, 284 pp.

Interactions and Language Acquisition in Non-Family Settings

Edited by Caroline Masson

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 15:1 (2024) v, 188 pp.

Intonation in Language Contact: The case of Spanish in Catalonia

Jonas Grünke

The intense language contact between Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia has led to cross-linguistic influence at all linguistic levels, but its effect on the prosody of these languages has received little attention to date. Based on semi-spontaneous and read speech data from 31 Catalan–Spanish… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 286] 2024. ix, 427 pp.

Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell

Edited by Jennifer Hendriks and B. Richard Page

This volume celebrates Robert B. Howell's wide-ranging contribution as a scholar, mentor, collaborator, and colleague in the field of Germanic linguistics. In addition to investigating present-day or past varieties of Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Flemish, German, and Pennsylvania Dutch, each of the… read more

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 8] 2024. vi, 327 pp.

Investigating Wikipedia: Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis

Edited by Céline Poudat, Harald Lüngen and Laura Herzberg

The present volume is intended as a reference book on Wikipedia corpus studies, from corpus construction to exploration and analysis. Wikipedia is a complex object, difficult to manipulate for linguists and corpus researchers. In addition to the encyclopedic articles consulted by millions of users,… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 121] 2024. vi, 264 pp.

La Référence Floue

Edited by Laure Gardelle and Frédéric Landragin

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 47:2 (2024) vi, 254 pp.

Lectures on Language Theory 1942–1943

Louis Hjelmslev

The present book is the English translation of Louis Hjelmslev’s lectures on glossematics, the theory of language developed in the forties by him and Hans Jørgen Uldall, and taught at the University of Copenhagen in 1942-43, thoroughly taken down in shorthand by his student Harry Wett Frederiksen.… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 132] 2024. viii, 234 pp.

Les droits fondamentaux linguistiques existent-ils? / Do Linguistic Human Rights Exist?

Edited by Laure Clément-Wilz

Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 48:2 (2024) v, 101 pp.

Linguistic Constructions

Edited by Beata Trawiński, Marc Kupietz and Kristel Proost

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 24:2 (2024) v, 160 pp.

Methods for Studying Variation in Partitives

Edited by Petra Sleeman and Anne Tamm

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 24:2 (2024) v, 207 pp.

Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese: The contribution of seventeenth century Spanish Dominicans

Otto Zwartjes

This monograph aims to shed light on the linguistic endeavors and educational practices employed by 17th century Spanish Dominicans in their efforts to understand and disseminate knowledge of the Chinese language during this historical period. Ample attention is dedicated to the evolution of… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 131] 2024. xii, 381 pp.

Moving towards Peace, Compassion and Empathy through Semiotic Enquiry: Special issue of the Journal Language, Context and Text 6:1 (2024)

Edited by Elizabeth A. Thomson, Awni Etaywe, Ingrid Wijeyewardene and Penny Wheeler

Special issue of Language, Context and Text 6:1 (2024) vi, 225 pp.

Multilingualism and Mobility in the Twenty-First Century: New Trajectories and Possibilities in Migration Linguistics

Edited by Ariane Macalinga Borlongan and Lisa Lim

Special issue of AILA Review 37:1 (2024) vi, 176 pp.

Pragmatic perspectives on disagreement

Edited by Jennifer Schumann and Steve Oswald

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 12:1 (2024) v, 138 pp.

Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion

Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto and Heidi E. Hamilton

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 15:1 (2024) vi, 213 pp.

Processing in Bilingual Children

Edited by Chantal van Dijk, Jasmijn E. Bosch and Sharon Unsworth

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:4 (2024) v, 174 pp.

Qualitative Research on Language Learning Strategies and Self-Regulation

Edited by Nathan Thomas, Jason Schneider and Sihan Zhou

Special issue of AILA Review 37:2 (2024) vi, 264 pp.

Quo Vadis, Construction Grammar?

Edited by Hans C. Boas, Jaakko Leino and Benjamin Lyngfelt

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 16:2 (2024) v, 177 pp.

Recent Developments in Hispanic Linguistics: Studies in structure, variation, and bilingualism

Edited by Michael Gradoville and Sean McKinnon

This book brings together eleven peer-reviewed chapters of cutting-edge research produced by both established and rising scholars in the field. Given that this volume is inspired by papers from the 25th iteration of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, the editors track the development of the field… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 41] 2024. xvi, 296 pp.

The Representation and Processing of Morphologically Complex Words

Edited by Lori Buchanan and Roberto G. de Almeida

Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 19:2 (2024) v, 151 pp.

The Speech Act(ion) of Commenting in Social Media and Beyond

Edited by Robert Külpmann and Rita Finkbeiner

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 31:2 (2024) v, 134 pp.

Terminology, Ideology and Discourse

Edited by Katia Peruzzo and Paola Catenaccio

Special issue of Terminology 30:1 (2024) v, 158 pp.

Textbook English: A multi-dimensional approach

Elen Le Foll

This book provides a systematic, empirical account of the language typically presented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks, based on a large corpus of EFL textbooks used in secondary schools. A modified version of the Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) framework serves to examine… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 116] 2024. xix, 294 pp.

Translanguaging and Multimodality

Edited by Qi Zhang

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 15:2 (2024) v, 138 pp.

Translators’ and Interpreters’ Job Satisfaction

Edited by Minna Ruokonen, Elin Svahn and Anu Heino

Special issue of Translation Spaces 13:1 (2024) v, 169 pp.

The Unit of Processing in Chinese

Edited by Tianlin Wang

Special issue of International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 11:1 (2024) v, 149 pp.

Words in the World

Edited by Laura Teddiman, Lori Buchanan and Hamad Al-Azary

Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 19:1 (2024) vi, 188 pp.

Advances in Iranian Linguistics II

Edited by Simin Karimi, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui

This volume offers insight into different aspects of an interesting but fairly understudied language family, opens a path to new inquiries, and provides valuable contribution to linguistics, in general, and to Iranian linguistics, in particular. The articles in this volume offer novel analyses of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 361] 2023. vi, 315 pp.

Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Ella Wehrmeyer

This collected volume showcases cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of sign language corpus linguistics in various sign language contexts across the globe. Each chapter provides a detailed account of particular national corpora and methodological considerations in their… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 108] 2023. xxii, 389 pp.

Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching

Edited by Paolo Della Putta and Ferran Suñer

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:1 (2023) vi, 330 pp.

Approaches to Hungarian 18: Special issue of the Journal of Uralic Linguistics 2:1 (2023)

Edited by Donka F. Farkas, Gábor Alberti and Balázs Surányi

Special issue of Journal of Uralic Linguistics 2:1 (2023) v, 153 pp.

Asian Perspectives on Queer Discourse

Edited by Ke Zhang and Chao Lu

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 33:2 (2023) vi, 152 pp.

Audiovisual translation in the age of streaming

Edited by Jinsil Choi, Kyung Hye Kim and Jonathan Evans

Special issue of Target 35:3 (2023) v, 164 pp.

Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 37 (2023): Tangible Traces of Language Ideologies

Edited by Esther Baiwir, Janine Berns and Marie Steffens

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 37] 2023. v, 143 pp.

Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics: New Developments

Edited by Agnieszka Piskorska and Manuel Padilla Cruz

Special issue of Pragmatics 33:3 (2023) v, 192 pp. | open access

Conceptual transfer, (re)conceptualisation and other cognitive aspects of crosslinguistic influence in L2 acquisition

Edited by Cecilia Gunnarsson-Largy

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 14:1 (2023) v, 166 pp.

Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches

Edited by Matthias Klumm, Anita Fetzer and Evelien Keizer

Special issue of Functions of Language 30:1 (2023) v, 135 pp.

Converging paradigms in contrastive and translation studies: Crosslinguistic corpus perspectives

Edited by Silvia Bernardini and Adriano Ferraresi

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 23:2 (2023) v, 155 pp.

Copulas in Spanish and Beyond

Edited by Silvia Gumiel-Molina and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez

Special issue of Spanish in Context 20:2 (2023) v, 160 pp.

Corpus Dialectology

Edited by Elissa Pustka, Carmen Quijada Van den Berghe and Verena Weiland

Corpus Dialectology combines the fields of corpus linguistics and dialectological mapping. It concerns documentation of linguistic variation and mapping of linguistic spaces and boundaries, while ascribing renewed importance to the methodology and the material itself, especially data processing and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 110] 2023. vi, 220 pp.

Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research: Paving the way for teaching, translation and professional communication

Edited by Marlén Izquierdo and Zuriñe Sanz-Villar

Cross-linguistic research is a fruitful field of language inquiry that has benefited enormously from the use of corpora. As sources of linguistic data of various kinds and as tools for language processing, corpora have shaped the development of cross-linguistic research, enabling both language… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 113] 2023. vi, 237 pp.

Current challenges in metaphor research

Edited by Nina Julich-Warpakowski and Paula Pérez-Sobrino

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 13:1 (2023) vi, 143 pp.

Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective

Edited by Qiongpeng Luo, Zhiguo Xie and Xiao Li

Special issue of Language and Linguistics 24:1 (2023) v, 181 pp. | open access

Dire et ses marqueurs: approches contrastives

Edited by Laurence Rouanne

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 46:2 (2023) v, 169 pp.

Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1 (2023) vi, 132 pp.

Ethnolinguistic contact across the Indo-Myanmar-Southwestern China mountains

Edited by Alexander R. Coupe, Randy J. LaPolla and Hideo Sawada

Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 4:2 (2023) v, 218 pp.

Handbook of Terminology: Volume 3. Legal Terminology

Edited by Łucja Biel and Hendrik J. Kockaert

As a core component of legal language used to draft, enforce and practice law, legal terms have fascinated lawyers, linguists, terminologists and other scholars for centuries. Third in the series, this Handbook offers a comprehensive compendium of the current state of knowledge on legal terminology. read more

[Handbook of Terminology, 3] 2023. vii, 622 pp. | open access

Indirect Translation and Sustainable Development

Edited by Jan Buts, Hanna Pięta, Laura Ivaska and James Hadley

Special issue of Translation Spaces 12:2 (2023) v, 181 pp.

Innovative Approaches to Research in Hispanic Linguistics: Regional, diachronic, and learner profile variation

Edited by Sara Fernández Cuenca, Tiffany Judy and Lauren Miller

This volume presents research from across the subdisciplines of Hispanic Linguistics in an attempt to showcase how new research methods, together with a renewed focus on language variation, have advanced our field. This volume is divided into three sections of original research, with the first… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 38] 2023. x, 250 pp.

Interdisciplinary approaches to the language of pop culture

Edited by Rocío Montoro and Valentin Werner

Special issue of English Text Construction 16:2 (2023) v, 152 pp.

Issues in Diachronic Construction Morphology

Edited by Muriel Norde and Graeme Trousdale

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 15:2 (2023) v, 152 pp.

The Korean language and multilingual communities in Australasia and beyond

Edited by Seong-Chul Shin

Special issue of Korean Linguistics 19:2 (2023) v, 83 pp.

Language Contact with Chinese

Edited by Zhiming Bao

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1 (2023) vi, 206 pp.

Language learning for language minority students in a globalized world

Edited by Mark Feng Teng and Fan Fang

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 46:2 (2023) v, 158 pp.

Lexical semantics towards the big-data era

Edited by Meichun Liu and Chunyu Kit

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 14:1 (2023) v, 207 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023

Edited by Sterre Leufkens and Marco Bril

Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles presenting current linguistic research in the Netherlands and Belgium. This volume is based on the 54th annual conference of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands (on February 3, 2023). For this volume, 14… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 40] 2023. v, 317 pp. | open access

Manufacturing Knowledge

Edited by Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile B. Vigouroux

Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 5:2 (2023) v, 112 pp.

Mapping “Language" in Education: Special issue of the Journal Language, Context and Text 5:2 (2023)

Special issue of Language, Context and Text 5:2 (2023) v, 166 pp.

Meaning in Interaction: Studies in memory of Jack Bilmes

Edited by Arnulf Deppermann and Elwys De Stefani

Special issue of Interactional Linguistics 3:1/2 (2023) v, 177 pp.

Memory and Narrative

Edited by Alma Jeftic, Thomas Van de Putte and Johana Wyss

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 33:2 (2023) v, 172 pp.

Methods in Study Abroad Research: Past, present, and future

Edited by Carmen Pérez-Vidal and Cristina Sanz

Study abroad research has become an established area of inquiry with theoretical impact and methodological sophistication. The field has incorporated the different approaches and methodological changes that have characterized SLA scholarship, including technological advances and new designs. The… read more

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 4] 2023. ix, 393 pp.

Naming and Labelling Contexts of Cultural Importance in Africa

Edited by Nico Nassenstein, Sambulo Ndlovu and Svenja Völkel

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 10:2 (2023) vi, 161 pp.

New Englishes, New Methods

Edited by Guyanne Wilson and Michael Westphal

There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions in this volume critically explore the gamut of familiar and unfamiliar methods applied in data collection and analysis in order to… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G68] 2023. viii, 276 pp.

Partitives cross-linguistically: Dimensions of variation

Edited by Silvia Luraghi and Petra Sleeman

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 23:1 (2023) v, 243 pp.

Perception, Culture and Language

Edited by Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Rita Brdar Szabó

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:2 (2023) vi, 239 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, 2020

Edited by Mahmoud Azaz

This volume brings together eleven peer-reviewed articles on Arabic linguistics. The contributions fall under three areas of linguistics: Phonology and phonetics; syntax and semantics; and language acquisition, language contact, and diglossia. They reflect some various perspectives and emphases.… read more

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 12] 2023. vii, 286 pp.

The Political Economy of Linguistic Landscapes

Edited by Johan Järlehed, Tommaso M. Milani and Tove Rosendal

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 9:3 (2023) v, 109 pp.

Processability and Language Acquisition in the Asia-Pacific Region

Edited by Satomi Kawaguchi, Bruno Di Biase and Yumiko Yamaguchi

This PALART volume makes an original addition to the Series as it opens a stimulating window on the Asia-Pacific region of the world by bringing together a great deal of empirical and theoretical new work in Second Language Acquisition within the Processability Theory (PT) framework. Readers will… read more

[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 9] 2023. vii, 309 pp.

Promoting linguistic vitality through public policy: The role of rules, costs and incentives

Edited by Bengt-Arne Wickström, Noémi Nagy, Anneliese Rieger-Roschitz and Balázs Vizi

Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 47:2 (2023) v, 117 pp.

Reconsidering Language and Gender in Contemporary Japan and among the Japanese Diaspora amid the #MeToo Movement

Edited by Kikuko Omori and Hiroshi Ota

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 33:1 (2023) v, 110 pp.

Retour(s) sur la cataphore

Edited by Anne Theissen and Annie Kuyumcuyan

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 46:1 (2023) v, 146 pp.

Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory

Gerard J. Steen

If thinking can be fast or slow, metaphorical thinking can be fast and slow too. But metaphorical thinking does not occur as often and in the ways that many metaphor scholars today think. Slow metaphorical thinking does mean, however, that we can exert more control over metaphor than has previously… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 26] 2023. xv, 355 pp.

Structural similarity across domains in third language acquisition

Edited by Nadine Kolb, Natalia Mitrofanova and Marit Westergaard

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:5 (2023) v, 136 pp.

Terminology: Cognition, language and communication

Teresa Cabré

This volume brings together a selection of M. Teresa Cabré’s articles on terminology published after 1999 in journals of diverse nature and scope, many of which are difficult to access; articles in languages other than English are here provided in English translation. As a whole, these articles aim… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 36] 2023. ix, 371 pp.

Understanding Language and Cognition through Bilingualism: In honor of Ellen Bialystok

Edited by Gigi Luk, John A.E. Anderson and John G. Grundy

Bilingualism is a ubiquitous global phenomenon. Beyond being a language experience, bilingualism also entails a social experience, and it interacts with development and learning, with cognitive and neural consequences across the lifespan. The authors of this volume are world renowned experts across… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 64] 2023. vi, 394 pp.

What can metacognition teach us about the evolution of communication?

Edited by Joëlle Proust

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 5:1 (2023) v, 101 pp.

The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic

Edited by Eva Ogiermann

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 14:2 (2023) v, 185 pp.

The terminological impact of pandemics: COVID-19 and beyond

Edited by Maria-Cornelia Wermuth and Paul Sambre

Special issue of Terminology 29:2 (2023) v, 214 pp.

(In)equity Issues in CLIL

Edited by Ana Llinares and Russell Cross

Special issue of AILA Review 35:2 (2022) vi, 190 pp.

10th Anniversary Celebration

Edited by Pádraig Ó Duibhir and Laurent Cammarata

Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 10:2 (2022) vi, 269 pp.

Autism, Language, Communication and Cognition

Edited by Stephanie Durrleman

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 4:1 (2022) v, 151 pp.

Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics: New approaches to variability and change

Edited by Susanne Flach and Martin Hilpert

This volume presents a snapshot of the current state of the art of research in English corpus linguistics. It contains selected papers from the 40th ICAME conference in 2019 and features contributions from experts in synchronic, diachronic, and contrastive linguistics, as well as in… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 105] 2022. vi, 321 pp.

Chronotopes and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Edited by Anna De Fina and Sabina M. Perrino

Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 4:2 (2022) v, 171 pp.

Classifiers

Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 3:2 (2022) v, 227 pp.

Collocations as a Language Resource: A functional and cognitive study in English phraseology

Sonja Poulsen

Are collocations problems or solutions to problems? If you take the perspective of the foreign learner, as in traditional phraseology, they are certainly challenging, and they have therefore been categorized as arbitrary, or even defective, deviations from an assumed norm of full compositionality.… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 71] 2022. xvi, 348 pp.

Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Learner Corpus Research

Edited by Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska and Sandra Götz

This volume illustrates the high potential of learner corpus investigations for research into the CAF triad by presenting eleven original learner corpus-based studies which are set within solid theoretical frameworks, examine learner corpora with state-of-the-art analytical techniques and yield… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 104] 2022. vi, 327 pp.

Corpus studies of language through time: Special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 (2022)

Edited by Tony McEnery, Gavin Brookes and Isobelle Clarke

Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 (2022) v, 161 pp.

Dialogicity in Political Discourse

Edited by Elda Weizman and Zohar Livnat

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 13:5 (2022) v, 154 pp.

The Discourse of Terrorism

Edited by Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio and Juan L. Castro

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 13:3 (2022) vi, 202 pp.

Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives

Edited by Kate Beeching, Grant Howie, Minna Kirjavainen and Anna Piasecki

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 29:2 (2022) iii, 213 pp.

Discourse-pragmatic perspectives on interrogatives

Edited by Malte Rosemeyer

Special issue of Functions of Language 29:1 (2022) v, 141 pp.

Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond

Edited by Herbert L. Colston, Teenie Matlock and Gerard J. Steen

The last half century witnessed an upheaval in scientific investigation of human meaning-making and meaning-sharing. Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond, is offered as a snapshot of the status of this multidisciplinary endeavor—a peak under the umbrella of what Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics,… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 9] 2022. vii, 359 pp.

English Sentence Constructions

Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Tim Kassenberg, Merel Keijzer and Gregory J. Poarch

English Sentence Constructions departs from a usage-based theoretical perspective in which all language units -- which we refer to as constructions -- have both a meaning and form, and context is all-important in determining the function and form of these constructions. … read more

[Not in series, 240] 2022. 261 pp.

Epistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1 (2022) vi, 102 pp.

Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community

Sabine Fiedler and Cyril Robert Brosch

This book addresses a fascinating topic – a constructed language that has turned from a project into a fully-fledged language used by some of its speakers on a daily basis. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book provides rare and profound insights into the use of Esperanto in a large number of… read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 10] 2022. xx, 429 pp. | open access

Explorations of morphological structure in distributional space

Edited by Melanie J. Bell, Juhani Järvikivi and Vito Pirrelli

Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 17:3 (2022) v, 155 pp. | open access

Figurativity and Human Ecology

Edited by Alexandra Bagasheva, Bozhil Hristov and Nelly Tincheva

Figurativity has attracted scholars’ attention for thousands of years and yet there are still open questions concerning its nature. Figurativity and Human Ecology endorses a view of figurativity as ubiquitous in human reasoning and language, and as a key example of how a human organism and its… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 17] 2022. vi, 307 pp.

From West to North Frisia: A Journey along the North Sea Coast. Frisian studies in honour of Jarich Hoekstra

Edited by Alastair Walker, Eric Hoekstra, Goffe Jensma, Wendy Vanselow, Willem Visser and Christoph Winter

This volume contains 25 articles covering a wide array of subjects, reflecting the breadth of scholarship of one of today’s leading experts in the field of Frisian Studies. The articles, written mostly in English and German, encompass a temporal range from Old Frisian to Modern Frisian and a… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 33] 2022. xxv, 476 pp. | open access

Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems

Edited by Sara Lenninger, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska

This volume investigates iconicity as to both comprehension and production of meaning in language, gesture, pictures, art and literature. It highlights iconic processes in meaning-making and interpretation across different semiotic systems at structurally, historically and pragmatically different… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18] 2022. x, 411 pp.

Identity and Communication in Asian Contexts

Edited by Asmah Haji Omar and Michael Dimitrios Hadzantonis

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 32:1 (2022) v, 191 pp.

Introducing Chinese Linguistics: A handbook for Chinese language teachers and learners

Hang Zhang and Lan Zhang

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of Chinese linguistics, including the core components of phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, writing system, and social cultural aspects of the language. It also discusses key features of Chinese language acquisition in… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 16] 2022. xx, 283 pp.

Konkani

Ramesh Vaman Dhongde

Konkani is a modern Indo-Aryan language and a state language of the Indian state Goa. Until recently, it was considered a dialect of Marathi, but it is now considered an independent language. Konkani has several varieties, including the Manglore variety spoken in the south of Goa, the Gawdi variety… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 21] 2022. xxix, 355 pp.

La phraséologie dans les interactions orales et écrites

Edited by Gaétane Dostie and Agnès Tutin

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 45:2 (2022) v, 221 pp.

Language and Islam in the Asian Pacific

Edited by Ali H. Al-Hoorie

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 32:2 (2022) v, 95 pp.

The Language of Food in Japanese: Cognitive perspectives and beyond

Edited by Kiyoko Toratani

Many studies on the language of food examine English or adopt discourse analysis. This volume makes a fresh attempt to analyze Japanese, focusing on non-discursive units. It offers state-of-the-art data-oriented studies, including methods of analysis in line with Cognitive Linguistics. It… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 25] 2022. x, 347 pp.

Language, conflict and security

Edited by Roberta Medda-Windischer and Andrea Carlà

Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 46:2 (2022) v, 118 pp.

The Linguistic Landscape of Covid-19

Edited by Jackie Jia Lou, David Malinowski and Amiena Peck

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 8:2/3 (2022) vi, 176 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022

Edited by Jorrig Vogels and Sterre Leufkens

Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles presenting current linguistic research in the Netherlands.This volume is based on the 53rd annual conference of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands (online, on February 4, 2022). For this volume, 14… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 39] 2022. iv, 294 pp. | open access

Living Metaphors and Metonymies

Edited by Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar Szabó

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20:1 (2022) vi, 304 pp.

Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China

Edited by Doreen D. Wu, Ming Liu and David C.S. Li

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 13:1 (2022) v, 165 pp.

Methodological Issues in Experimental Research in Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility

Edited by Gian Maria Greco, Anna Jankowska and Agnieszka Szarkowska

Special issue of Translation Spaces 11:1 (2022) v, 156 pp.

Motion Metaphors in Music Criticism: An empirical investigation of their conceptual motivation and their metaphoricity

Nina Julich-Warpakowski

The book explores (1) the motivation of motion expressions in Western classical music criticism in terms of conceptual metaphors (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, 1999) in two corpus studies, and (2) their perceived degree of metaphoricity among musicians and non-musicians in a rating study. The results… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 10] 2022. xiii, 247 pp.

Multilingual education or How to learn to teach multilingual learning

Edited by Eva Vetter and Nikolay Slavkov

Special issue of AILA Review 35:1 (2022) v, 169 pp.

The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor

Elisa Gironzetti

This volume is the first monograph exploring the functions of visual cues in humor, advocating for the development of a non-linguocentric theory of humor performance. It analyzes a corpus of dyadic, face-to-face interactions in Spanish and English to study the relationship between humor, smiling,… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 13] 2022. xix, 235 pp.

Narratives as Social Practice in Organisational Contexts

Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop, Jonathan Clifton and Stephanie Schnurr

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 32:1 (2022) vi, 243 pp.

Nonbinary pronouns as a site of advocacy in research and teaching

Edited by Lex Konnelly, Bronwyn M. Bjorkman and Lee Airton

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 11:2 (2022) vi, 153 pp.

Paremias: Estudio lingüístico contrastivo francés-español

Lucía Navarro-Brotons

La importancia del estudio de la fraseología en general, y de la paremiología en particular, viene avalada tanto por el interés que han suscitado las unidades fraseológicas desde la Antigüedad como porque los investigadores del tema ponen de manifiesto que se trata de la piedra angular del lexicón… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 33] 2022. xxii, 176 pp.

Particles in German, English, and Beyond

Edited by Remus Gergel, Ingo Reich and Augustin Speyer

Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic properties. After an introductory overview of the complex field, the contributions… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 224] 2022. vi, 382 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII: Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 2019

Edited by Abdel-Khalig Ali and Atiqa Hachimi

This volume features eight peer-reviewed chapters based on papers presented at the 33rd Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Toronto in 2019. The chapters are divided into four sections: sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology, syntax, and first language acquisition.… read more

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 11] 2022. xvi, 201 pp.

Poetic Metaphors: Creativity and interpretation

Carina Rasse

Poetry pushes metaphor to the limit. Consider how many different, dynamic, and interconnected dimensions (e.g., text, rhyme, rhythm, sound, and many more) a poem has, and how they all play a role in the ways (metaphorical) meaning is constructed. There is probably no other genre that relies so much… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 15] 2022. xvii, 190 pp.

Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018

Edited by Gabriela Alboiu and Ruth King

This volume brings together selected papers from the 48th annual Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, held at York University in Toronto, Canada, in April 2018. It presents original research on a wide variety of Romance languages both past (Latin, Old Catalan, Old Iberian Romance, Old… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 360] 2022. vii, 275 pp.

Second Language Acquisition of Sign Languages: Acquisition d'une langue des signes comme langue seconde

Edited by Krister Schönström and Chloë Marshall

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 13:2 (2022) v, 109 pp.

The Semiotic Diversity of Language: The Case of Signed Languages

Edited by Alysson Lepeut and Inez Beukeleers

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 36] 2022. v, 248 pp.

Signed and spoken language contrastive research: A multimodal approach

Edited by Sílvia Gabarró-López and Laurence Meurant

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 22:2 (2022) v, 192 pp.

Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias

Edited by Guillermo Lorenzo

This is the first generative-oriented volume ever published about Asturian and Asturian Galician, two Romance languages which, along with their intrinsic interest, are crucial to understand the parametric distance between Spanish and Galician/Portuguese. Its chapters offer new insights about old… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 36] 2022. ix, 218 pp.

Storytelling: How organization of narratives is (not) affected by linguistic skills

Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:4 (2022) v, 164 pp.

The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese

Edited by Lian-Hee Wee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang

Special issue of Language and Linguistics 23:1 (2022) v, 139 pp. | open access

Tangible translation: Migration and materiality

Edited by Andrea Ciribuco and Anne O’Connor

Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 17:1 (2022) vi, 178 pp.

Time Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity

Edited by Anna Piata, Adriana Gordejuela and Daniel Alcaraz Carrión

In recent years, the study of the conceptualization of time has seen a considerable growth, providing a basis for exploring the cognitive foundation of metaphor. But if metaphorical representations of time are established in the cognitive system, how are they manipulated when humans are engaged in… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 75] 2022. viii, 245 pp.

Translingual practices entangled with semiotized space and time

Edited by Shaila Sultana and Dariush Izadi

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 45:2 (2022) v, 116 pp.

Unpacking Sign Language Interpreting: Special issue of the Journal on Translation and Interpreting Studies 17:3 (2022)

Edited by Hilde Haualand, Maartje De Meulder and Jemina Napier

Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 17:3 (2022) v, 127 pp.

Variation and Grammaticalization of Verbal Constructions

Edited by Dániel Czicza and Gabriele Diewald

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 14:1 (2022) v, 223 pp.

Visual Metaphors

Edited by Réka Benczes and Veronika Szelid

Whenever we think about the world – including its concrete and abstract entities – we typically see a series of so-called mental images in front of our eyes that aid us in everyday problem solving and navigating ourselves in the world. Visual metaphors, similarly to their linguistic counterparts,… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 124] 2022. vi, 284 pp.

Voicing Absences/Presences in a Damaged World

Edited by Jessica Maufort and Marc Maufort

Special issue of English Text Construction 15:2 (2022) v, 83 pp.

What can research on indirect translation do for Translation Studies?

Edited by Hanna Pięta, Laura Ivaska and Yves Gambier

Special issue of Target 34:3 (2022) v, 194 pp.

What’s so standard about standards? Variationist principles and debates

Edited by Jonathan R. Kasstan

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 8:2 (2022) v, 135 pp.

When Corpus Linguistics meets acquisition of Korean: Implications on the use of Korean corpora for developmental research on Korean

Edited by Gyu-Ho Shin

Special issue of Korean Linguistics 18:2 (2022) v, 118 pp. | open access

Young researchers in action

Edited by Angeliki Tzanne

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 10:1 (2022) vi, 239 pp.

10th Anniversary Issue: Reflections on the Field of Language and Sexuality Studies

Edited by William L. Leap and Heiko Motschenbacher

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 10:1 (2021) v, 96 pp.

Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, challenges, and possibilities

Edited by Mandy R. Menke and Paul A. Malovrh

This book analyzes the construct of advanced proficiency in second language learning by bringing together empirical research from numerous linguistic domains and methodological traditions. Focusing on the dynamic nature of language use, the volume explores diverse manifestations of high-level… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 31] 2021. x, 512 pp.

Approaches to Variation in Creole Studies

Edited by Isabelle Léglise, Bettina Migge and Nicolas Quint

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 36:1 (2021) v, 219 pp.

Bermudian English: A sociohistorical and linguistic profile

Nicole Eberle

Bermudian English. A sociohistorical and linguistic profile focuses on a hitherto severely under-researched variety of English. The book traces the origins and development of Bermudian English, so as to situate the variety within the canon of other lesser-known varieties of English, and provides a… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G64] 2021. xv, 231 pp.

Beyond Concordance Lines: Corpora in language education

Edited by Pascual Pérez-Paredes and Geraldine Mark

In over 30 years of data-driven learning (DDL) research, there has been a growing sophistication in the ways we collect, analyse, and put corpus data to use. This volume takes a three-fold perspective on DDL. It first looks at DDL and its role in informing language learning theory and how it might… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 102] 2021. ix, 255 pp.

Bi-/Multilingualism and the Declining Brain

Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:4 (2021) v, 158 pp.

Biological Evolution: More than a metaphor for grammar change

Edited by Maria Rita Manzini

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 3:1 (2021) v, 121 pp.

The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Anna Gladkova and Jesús Romero-Trillo

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 (2021) vii, 168 pp.

Constructional Approach(es) to Discourse-Level Phenomena: Theoretical challenges and empirical advances

Edited by Renata Enghels and María Sol Sansiñena

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 13:1 (2021) v, 191 pp.

Context in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theoretical developments and directions

Edited by Wendy L. Bowcher and Tom Bartlett

Special issue of Functions of Language 28:3 (2021) v, 125 pp.

Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication

Edited by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda

The studies in the present volume illustrate the current state-of-the-art in the corpus-based approach in cognitive linguistics, which seeks to motivate linguistic phenomena through the combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. By focusing on language use in different contexts from a… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 119] 2021. v, 157 pp.

Corpus approaches to telecinematic language

Edited by Monika Bednarek, Valentin Werner and Marcia Veirano Pinto

Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:1 (2021) v, 160 pp.

Critical perspectives on gender, politics and violence

Edited by Eleonora Esposito

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 9:1 (2021) v, 183 pp.

Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society

Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel

This book offers Cultural-Linguistic explorations into the diverse Lebenswelten of a wide range of cultural contexts, such as South Africa, Hungary, India, Nigeria, China, Romania, Iran, and Poland. The linguistic expedition sets out to explore three thematic segments that were, thus far,… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 14] 2021. vii, 279 pp.

Current Perspectives on Codeswitching

Edited by Emma Vanden Wyngaerd, Renata Enghels, Mena B. Lafkioui and Marie Steffens

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 35] 2021. v, 213 pp.

Developing shared languages: The fundamentals of mutual learning and problem solving in transdisciplinary collaboration

Edited by Marlies Whitehouse, Henrik Rahm and Séverine Wozniak

Special issue of AILA Review 34:1 (2021) v, 144 pp.

Developments in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies

Edited by Kairong Xiao and Sandra L. Halverson

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:2 (2021) vi, 278 pp.

Diaspora and Asian Spaces in a Transnational World

Edited by Thom Huebner

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 7:2 (2021) v, 141 pp.

Early history of the North Sea Germanic languages

Edited by Stephen Laker and Hans Frede Nielsen †

Special issue of NOWELE 74:1 (2021) v, 151 pp.

Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:1 (2021) vi, 129 pp.

Experimental Arabic Linguistics

Edited by Dimitrios Ntelitheos and Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung

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 the past, the chapters in this book provide a more coherent picture of… read more

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 10] 2021. vii, 249 pp.

Formal Language Theory and its Relevance for Linguistic Analysis

Edited by Diego Gabriel Krivochen

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 3:2 (2021) v, 134 pp.

Historical Germanic morphosyntax

Edited by Stephen Laker and John Ole Askedal

Special issue of NOWELE 74:2 (2021) v, 155 pp.

A History of the Study of the Indigenous Languages of North America

Marcin Kilarski

The languages indigenous to North America are characterized by a remarkable genetic and typological diversity. Based on the premise that linguistic examples play a key role in the origin and transmission of ideas within linguistics and across disciplines, this book examines the history of… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 129] 2021. xiv, 443 pp.

Humour in Spanish Context

Edited by Larissa Timofeeva-Timofeev

Special issue of Spanish in Context 18:1 (2021) v, 159 pp.

Into adpositions: New formal perspectives on the structure of the PP and its variation

Edited by Víctor Acedo-Matellán, Theresa Biberauer, Jaume Mateu and Anna Pineda

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 21:1 (2021) v, 279 pp.

Issues and Perspectives on Student Diversity and Content-Based Language Education

Edited by Fred Genesee and Diane J. Tedick

Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 9:2 (2021) vi, 209 pp.

The Joint Production of Conversational Turns

Edited by K.K. Luke and Mei Fang

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 12:1 (2021) v, 134 pp.

L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance

Edited by Larisa Avram, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu

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 literature, such as syntactic complexity in both typical and impaired… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 65] 2021. vi, 380 pp.

La burla en la literatura del Siglo de Oro

Edited by Ignacio Arellano

Special issue of Revue Romane 56:1 (2021) v, 140 pp.

Language and Communication of Asian Diaspora Communities in Europe

Edited by Zi Wang and Florian Coulmas

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 31:2 (2021) v, 175 pp.

Language and Covid-19

Edited by Michaela Mahlberg and Gavin Brookes

Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:4 (2021) v, 158 pp.

Language and Text: Data, models, information and applications

Edited by Adam Pawłowski, Jan Mačutek, Sheila Embleton and George Mikros

Specialists in quantitative linguistics the world over have recourse to a solid and universal methodology. These days, their methods and mathematical models must also respond to new communication phenomena and the flood of data produced daily. While various disciplines (computer science, media… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 356] 2021. vi, 280 pp.

Language, Epistemology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production

Edited by Alfonso Del Percio, Patricia Baquedano-López, Miguel Pérez-Milans and Cécile B. Vigouroux

Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 3:2 (2021) v, 135 pp.

Language, Plasticity and Learning: Developmental Issues: Langage, Plasticité et Apprentissage : enjeux développementaux

Edited by Michèle Kail and Frédéric Isel

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 12:1 (2021) v, 184 pp.

Legal and institutional translation: Functions, processes, competences

Edited by Fernando Prieto Ramos

Special issue of Target 33:2 (2021) vi, 205 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2021

Edited by Mark Dingemanse, Eva van Lier and Jorrig Vogels

This volume of Linguistics in the Netherlands contains 10 articles on topics representing the breadth of Dutch linguistics, along with a Foreword by the editors honouring the memory of Pieter Muysken (1950-2021). read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 38] 2021. iii, 178 pp. | open access

The Linguistics of Olfaction: Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity

Edited by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Przemysław Staniewski

This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfactory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic and fourteen chapters based on philological… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 131] 2021. xiii, 481 pp.

Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size

I.S.P. Nation and Averil Coxhead

Estimating native-speaker vocabulary size is important for guiding interventions to support native-speaker vocabulary growth and for setting goals for learners of English as a foreign language. Unfortunately, the measurement of native-speaker vocabulary size has been one of the most… read more

[Not in series, 233] 2021. xiii, 160 pp.

Metaphor in Education: A multilingual perspective

Edited by Katrin Ahlgren, Anne Golden and Ulrika Magnusson

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 11:2 (2021) vi, 191 pp.

Methodology of Narrative Study: What the first thirty years of Narrative Inquiry have revealed

Edited by Allyssa McCabe and Dorien Van De Mieroop

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 31:1 (2021) vi, 262 pp.

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

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. It provides a selection of papers which primarily concentrate on the… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 130] 2021. xii, 296 pp.

New Developments in Relevance Theory

Edited by Manuel Padilla Cruz and Agnieszka Piskorska

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 28:2 (2021) v, 218 pp.

New perspectives on conflict

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 9:2 (2021) v, 147 pp.

Pink Dot: Discursive Formations, Constructions, and Contestations

Edited by Adi Saleem Bharat, Pavan Mano and Robert Phillips

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 10:2 (2021) v, 119 pp.

Polymedia in Interaction

Edited by Jannis Androutsopoulos

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 12:5 (2021) vi, 168 pp.

Postverbal negation

Edited by Olga Krasnoukhova, Johan van der Auwera and Mily Crevels

Special issue of Studies in Language 45:3 (2021) v, 208 pp.

Preparing Teachers for Addressing the Sociocultural Issues with Asian Pacific Immigrants and Refugees

Edited by Yin Lam Lee-Johnson and Hsiao-Chin Kuo

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 31:1 (2021) v, 121 pp.

Problematizing Language Policy and Practice in EMI and Transnational Higher Education: Challenges and Possibilities

Edited by Curtis Green-Eneix, Peter I. De Costa and Wendy Li

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 44:2 (2021) v, 145 pp.

Recurrent Gestures

Edited by Simon Harrison, Silva H. Ladewig and Jana Bressem

Special issue of Gesture 20:2 (2021) v, 177 pp.

Revisiting Linguistic Territoriality in Contemporary Europe

Edited by Till Burckhardt, John Coakley and László Marácz

Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 45:2 (2021) v, 140 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest

Edited by Alexandru Nicolae and Adina Dragomirescu

This volume contains a selection of 18 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 31st edition of Going Romance. Phenomena found in Romance languages (European Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian), in Romance dialects (Cosentino, Salentino, southern Calabrese, Neapolitan, and Trevigiano), and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 355] 2021. vi, 377 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 32, Utrecht

Edited by Frank Drijkoningen, Sergio Baauw and Luisa Meroni

This volume contains a peer reviewed selection of invited contributions, papers and posters that were presented at the 2018 venue of Going Romance (XXXII) in Utrecht (a four day program that included two thematic workshops).The papers all discuss data and formalized analyses of one or more Romance… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 357] 2021. vi, 320 pp.

Sex, Death & Politics: Taboos in Language

Edited by Melanie Keller, Philipp Striedl, Daniel Biro, Johanna Holzer and Benjamin Weber

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 28:1 (2021) v, 221 pp.

Source-Goal (a)symmetries across languages

Edited by Anetta Kopecka and Marine Vuillermet

Special issue of Studies in Language 45:1 (2021) v, 275 pp.

The Swedish FrameNet++: Harmonization, integration, method development and practical language technology applications

Edited by Dana Dannélls, Lars Borin and Karin Friberg Heppin

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 effort, which includes building a new Swedish framenet and recycling… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 14] 2021. xiv, 333 pp. | open access

Terminology as a Societal Resource: Possibilities and Responsibilities in a Changing World

Edited by Nina Pilke, Niina Nissilä and Hans Landqvist

Special issue of Terminology 27:1 (2021) vi, 177 pp.

Time in Languages, Languages in Time

Edited by Anna Čermáková, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik

This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Swedish, all of which are contrasted with English. While the amount of published research on temporal relations in general is considerable,… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 101] 2021. vi, 307 pp.

Translation and LGBT+/queer activism

Edited by Michela Baldo, Jonathan Evans and Ting Guo

Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 16:2 (2021) v, 140 pp.

Transnational Image Building: Linking up Translation Studies, Reception Studies and Imagology

Edited by Paola Gentile, Fruzsina Kovács and Marike van der Watt

Special issue of Translation Spaces 10:1 (2021) vi, 180 pp.

Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia

Edited by Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and Abigail C. Cohn

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:2 (2021) v, 132 pp.

Variation in the Pacific: Part II

Edited by Eri Kashima and Miriam Meyerhoff

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:1 (2021) v, 82 pp.

The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking

Edited by Alexandru Mardale and Silvina Montrul

Differential Object marking (DOM), a linguistic phenomenon in which a direct object is morphologically marked for semantic and pragmatic reasons, has attracted the attention of several subfields of linguistics in the past few years. DOM has evolved diachronically in many languages, whereas it has… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 26] 2020. vi, 369 pp.

Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken

Edited by Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh

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 topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of… read more

[Contact Language Library, 57] 2020. ix, 400 pp.

Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing: Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise

Edited by Ute Römer-Barron, Viviana Cortes and Eric Friginal

This volume showcases some of the latest research on academic writing by leading and up-and-coming corpus linguists. The studies included in the volume are based on a wide range of corpora spanning first and second language academic writing at different levels of writing expertise, containing texts… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 95] 2020. vi, 358 pp.

Advances in Iranian Linguistics

Edited by Richard K. Larson, Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian

This volume brings together selected papers from the first North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics, which was organized by the linguistics department at Stony Brook University. Papers were selected to illustrate the range of frameworks, diverse areas of research and how the boundaries of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 351] 2020. vi, 309 pp.

Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution

Edited by Stephen Fafulas

Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution explores the unique origins, linguistic features, and geo-political situation of the Spanish that has emerged in the Amazon. While this region boasts much linguistic diversity, many of the indigenous languages found within its limits are now being… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 23] 2020. viii, 303 pp.

Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference

Edited by Veronika Hegedűs and Irene Vogel

This volume contains selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Budapest, 2017).The contributions address current issues in Hungarian linguistics, including comparisons with other languages (e.g., English, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish).Specifically,… read more

[Approaches to Hungarian, 16] 2020. v, 233 pp. | open access

Child Bilingualism and Second Language Learning: Multidisciplinary perspectives

Edited by Fangfang Li, Karen E. Pollock and Robbin Gibb

This book focuses exclusively on child bilinguals or children exposed to a second language in various learning contexts. Through the presentation of research on how children learn the sound systems or lexicon in two languages and via different routes, the book aims to paint a comprehensive picture… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 10] 2020. vii, 306 pp.

Cognitive Linguistic Aspects of Information Structure and Flow

Edited by Wei-lun Lu and Jirí Lukl

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:2 (2020) v, 165 pp.

Coherence

T. Givón

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 for the parts to work together as a whole. As an external constraint,… read more

[Not in series, 230] 2020. xi, 293 pp.

The Complementary Contribution of Comparable and Parallel Corpora to Crosslinguistic Studies

Edited by Sylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 20:2 (2020) v, 147 pp.

Construction Grammar across Borders

Edited by Tiago Timponi Torrent, Ely Edison da Silva Matos and Natália Sathler Sigiliano

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 12:1 (2020) v, 169 pp.

Corpus Linguistics and Education in Australia

Edited by Alexandra Garcia Murrago, Peter Crosthwaite and Monika Bednarek

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 43:2 (2020) v, 119 pp.

Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

Edited by Diego Pascual y Cabo and Idoia Elola

Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics is a 15-chapter compilation written by both established and emerging scholars representing a wide array of theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives. Each chapter presents original and significant… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 27] 2020. vi, 344 pp.

Developments in Diglossic Settings in the Asian Pacific Region

Edited by Marinus van den Berg

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 30:1/2 (2020) vi, 310 pp.

Discourses of aggression in Greek digitally-mediated communication

Edited by Ourania Hatzidaki and Ioannis E. Saridakis

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 8:2 (2020) v, 204 pp.

Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages

Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 27:1 (2020) v, 312 pp.

Ethics of Non-Professional Translation and Interpreting

Edited by Esther Monzó-Nebot and Melissa Wallace

Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 15:1 (2020) vi, 159 pp.

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

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 the method of contrastive linguistics and multilingual comparison… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 35] 2020. ix, 388 pp.

Fair MT: Towards ethical, sustainable Machine Translation

Edited by Joss Moorkens, Dorothy Kenny and Félix do Carmo

Special issue of Translation Spaces 9:1 (2020) v, 176 pp.

Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language

Edited by Annalisa Baicchi

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 reveal the central function of figurativeness in thought and its impact on… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 9] 2020. vii, 311 pp.

Follow the Signs: Archetypes of consciousness embodied in the signs of language

Rodney B. Sangster

In this his latest book, Sangster presents a comprehensive theory that takes the cognitive view of language in a promising new direction, based upon how linguistic signs relate to one another at different levels of consciousness. At the rational level, where signs are necessarily experienced in… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 79] 2020. xiii, 175 pp.

Hate speech: Definitions, interpretations and practices

Edited by Fabienne H. Baider, Sharon Millar and Stavros Assimakopoulos

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 11:2 (2020) v, 165 pp.

Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives

Edited by Luis A. Ortiz López, Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Melvin González-Rivera

This volume comprises cutting edge research on language contact and change. The chapters present a wide scope of settings in which Spanish is in contact with other languages, such as Catalan, English, and Quechua; a large breadth of geographical areas (e.g., United States, Puerto Rico, Colombia,… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 22] 2020. vii, 336 pp.

Hispanic Linguistics: Current issues and new directions

Edited by Alfonso Morales-Front, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz

This volume addresses a wide range of phenomena including intonation, restructuring, clitic climbing, aspectual structure, subject focus marking, code-switching, lenition, loanwords, and heritage learning that are central in Hispanic linguistics today. The authors approach these issues from a… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 26] 2020. vi, 344 pp.

History of Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, (ICHoLS 14), Paris, 28 August – 1 September

Edited by Émilie Aussant and Jean-Michel Fortis

The present book is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (Paris 2017). The volume is divided thematically into three parts: I. Notions and categories, II. Representations and receptions, III. Learning, codification and the linguistic… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 127] 2020. xviii, 245 pp.

How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science

Edited by Anke Beger and Thomas H. Smith

Metaphors are essential to scientists themselves and strongly influence science communication. Through careful analyses of metaphors actually used in science texts, recordings, and videos, this book explores the essential functions of conceptual metaphor in the conduct of science, teaching of… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 6] 2020. vi, 332 pp. | open access

Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics

Edited by Ulrike Schröder, Milene Mendes de Oliveira and Hans-Georg Wolf

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 7:1 (2020) v, 145 pp.

Interfaces in Romance: A constraint-based approach

Edited by Gabriela Bîlbîie

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:1 (2020) v, 168 pp.

Language Processing in Advanced Learners of English: A multi-method approach to collocation based on corpus linguistic and experimental data

Marco Schilk

The production and processing of collocations and formulaic language is a field of growing interest in corpus linguistics and experimental psycholinguistics. In the past this fascinating field at the interface of grammar and the lexicon has been mainly studied based on English native speakers,… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 9] 2020. xvii, 293 pp.

Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life

Edited by Vera da Silva Sinha, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian

The dynamics of language, culture and identity are a major focus for many linguists and cognitive and cultural researchers. This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 13] 2020. viii, 319 pp.

Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography

E.F.K. Koerner †

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 research, and that the discussion of questions of method and epistemology… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 128] 2020. x, 214 pp.

Les variations diatopiques dans les expressions figées

Sous la direction de Pedro Mogorrón Huerta, Aude Grezka et Lucía Navarro-Brotons

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:2 (2020) vi, 211 pp.

Lexical Issues in the Architecture of the Language Faculty

Edited by Andrea Padovan

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:1 (2020) v, 111 pp.

Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language

Edited by Karina Veronica Molsing, Cristina Becker Lopes Perna and Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños

This book includes a selection of theoretical and practical accounts of the acquisition of Portuguese from a broad range of linguistic perspectives. This collection is particularly appealing in the broad academic sphere of language acquisition due to the fact that there has yet to be one entirely… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 24] 2020. x, 300 pp.

Linguistic Recycling: The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings

Edited by Lauri Haapanen and Daniel Perrin

“She said that he said that they said…” – in this volume of the AILA Review, we investigate linguistic recycling from complementary angles. In particular, we discuss how and for whom language users – both as individuals and as communities – save resources and create value by quoting and… read more

[AILA Review, 33] 2020. iv, 225 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2020

Edited by Elena Tribushinina and Mark Dingemanse

Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles presenting current linguistic research in the Netherlands.This volume is based on the 51st annual conference of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands (Utrecht on January 31, 2020). At this meeting, 70… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 37] 2020. iii, 179 pp. | open access

Lost in Transmission: The role of attrition and input in heritage language development

Edited by Bernhard Brehmer and Jeanine Treffers-Daller

Heritage speakers are a fascinating group of bilinguals with a unique profile. Living abroad as immigrants of the second generation, they speak the language of their own speech community (the heritage language) at home, and the societally dominant language in most other domains. What exactly they… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 59] 2020. vii, 276 pp.

Macro and micro-social variation in Asia-Pacific sign languages

Edited by Nick Palfreyman

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 6:1 (2020) v, 150 pp.

Mental representations in receptive multilingualism

Edited by Bonnie C. Holmes and Michael T. Putnam

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:3 (2020) v, 132 pp.

Metaphor in Mental Healthcare

Edited by Dennis Tay

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 10:2 (2020) vi, 166 pp.

The Middle Voice in Baltic

Axel Holvoet

The fifth volume in the VARGReB series is a monograph presenting a collection of studies on middle-voice grams in Baltic, that is, on a widely ramified family of constructions with different syntactic and semantic properties but sharing a morphological marker of reflexive origin. Though the… read more

[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 5] 2020. xvii, 250 pp.

Minorities in Italy in a changing legal landscape

Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro and Vittorio Dell’Aquila

Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 44:3 (2020) v, 130 pp.

The Multilingual Challenge for the Construction and Transmission of Scientific Knowledge

Anne-Claude Berthoud and Laurent Gajo

Whereas it is now generally recognised that multilingualism is important for society, culture and the economy, the relevance of multilingualism for the world of science has still largely escaped attention. But science, too, is created and transmitted in and through communication. Today, the… read more

[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 5] 2020. ix, 158 pp.

Multilingual Landscapes and the Construction of Community

Edited by Leonie Gaiser and Yaron Matras

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 6:2 (2020) v, 128 pp.

Networked Practices of Emotion and Stancetaking in Reactions to Mediatized Events and Crises

Edited by Korina Giaxoglou and Marjut Johansson

Special issue of Pragmatics 30:2 (2020) v, 134 pp. | open access

Notes from the field on perspective-indexing constructions: Irregular shifts and perspective persistence

Edited by Stef Spronck, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens and María Sol Sansiñena

Special issue of Functions of Language 27:1 (2020) v, 112 pp.

Operationalizing Iconicity

Edited by Pamela Perniss, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg

The Iconicity in Language and Literature series has long been dedicated to the recognition and understanding of the pervasiveness of iconicity in language in its many forms and functions. The present volume, divided into four sections, brings together and unifies different perspectives on iconicity. read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 17] 2020. xii, 331 pp.

Palenquero and Spanish in Contact: Exploring the interface

John M. Lipski

Bilingual speakers are normally aware of what language they are speaking or hearing; there is, however, no widely accepted consensus on the degree of lexical and morphosyntactic similarity that defines the psycholinguistic threshold of distinct languages. This book focuses on the Afro-Colombian… read more

[Contact Language Library, 56] 2020. xvii, 318 pp.

The Pragmatics of Ritual

Edited by Dániel Z. Kádár and Juliane House

Special issue of Pragmatics 30:1 (2020) v, 168 pp. | open access

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16: Selected papers from the 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Newark, Delaware

Edited by Irene Vogel

The chapters in this book represent the theme of “bridges” – bridging research approaches and directions across languages, methodologies and disciplines. Alongside descriptive and theoretical studies, the contributions present experimental studies addressing issues in syntax, phonetics-phonology… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 16] 2020. vi, 278 pp.

Runic Inscriptions and the Early History of the Germanic Languages

Edited by Robert Nedoma and Hans Frede Nielsen †

Special issue of NOWELE 73:1 (2020) v, 192 pp.

Semantics and Psychology of Complex Words

Edited by Christina L. Gagné and Thomas L. Spalding

Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 15:1 (2020) v, 160 pp.

Sexuality and the discursive construction of the digital self in the Global South

Edited by Nell Haynes and Baird Campbell

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 9:1 (2020) v, 100 pp.

Sociolinguistic patterns and processes of convergence and divergence in Spanish

Edited by Isabel Molina Martos, Florentino Paredes García and Ana M. Cestero Mancera

Special issue of Spanish in Context 17:2 (2020) vi, 219 pp.

Special Issue in Memory of Irit Meir

Edited by Diane Lillo-Martin, Wendy Sandler, Marie Coppola and Rose Stamp

Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 23:1/2 (2020) vi, 285 pp.

Studies in Turkish as a Heritage Language

Edited by Fatih Bayram

Heritage language bilingualism refers to contexts where a minority language spoken at home is (one of) the first native language(s) of an individual who grows up and typically becomes dominant in the societal majority language. Heritage language bilinguals often wind up with grammatical systems… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 60] 2020. xiv, 287 pp.

Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages

Edited by Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff

Special issue of Language Ecology 4:1 (2020) v, 130 pp.

Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research

Edited by Robert Fuchs and Valentin Werner

The expression of temporal relations, notably through tense and aspect, is central in all processes of communication, but commonly perceived and described as a major hurdle for non-native speakers. While this topic has already received considerable attention in the SLA literature, it features less… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 108] 2020. v, 161 pp.

Tracking Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary, Cross-Theoretical Enterprise

Edited by Livio Gaeta

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:2 (2020) v, 103 pp.

Translaboration: Exploring Collaboration in Translation and Translation in Collaboration

Edited by Alexa Alfer and Cornelia Zwischenberger

Special issue of Target 32:2 (2020) vi, 216 pp.

Translation and the cultural Cold War

Edited by Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam and Giles Scott-Smith

Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 15:3 (2020) v, 146 pp.

Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development: Essays in honour of Bencie Woll

Edited by Gary Morgan

The study of childhood deafness offers researchers many interesting insights into the role of experience and sensory inputs for the development of language and cognition. This volume provides a state of the art look at these questions and how they are being applied in the areas of clinical and… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 25] 2020. xv, 214 pp.

Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax

Edited by Ruth A. Berman

The goal of the volume is to shed fresh light on Modern Hebrew from perspectives aimed at readers interested in the domains of general linguistics, typology, and Semitic studies. Starting with chapters that provide background information on the evolution and sociolinguistic setting of the language,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 210] 2020. xviii, 682 pp.

Variation in phonology

Edited by Péter Szigetvári

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 20:1 (2020) v, 171 pp.

Variation in the Pacific: Part I

Edited by Eri Kashima and Miriam Meyerhoff

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 6:2 (2020) v, 128 pp.

Visual Linguistics with R: A practical introduction to quantitative Interactional Linguistics

Christoph Rühlemann

This book is a textbook on R, a programming language and environment for statistical analysis and visualization. Its primary aim is to introduce R as a research instrument in quantitative Interactional Linguistics. Focusing on visualization in R, the book presents original case studies on… read more

[Not in series, 228] 2020. ix, 258 pp.

Visual Metaphors

Edited by Réka Benczes and Veronika Szelid

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:1 (2020) vi, 274 pp.

The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research

Edited by Timothy Colleman, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 34] 2020. vii, 382 pp.

Writing and Language Learning: Advancing research agendas

Edited by Rosa M. Manchón

The current volume aspires to add to previous research on the connection between writing and language learning from a dual perspective: It seeks to reflect current progress in the domain as well as to foster future developments in theory and research. The theoretical postulations contained in Part… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 56] 2020. vii, 432 pp.

A cross-theoretical and cross-linguistic perspective on the L2 acquisition of case systems / L'acquisition de systèmes casuels en L2 : des études à travers plusieurs théories et langues

Edited by Kristof Baten and Saartje Verbeke

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 11:1 (2020) v, 162 pp.

A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories

Edited by Suzi Oliveira de Lima and Susan Rothstein

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 20:2 (2020) vi, 247 pp.

40 Years of Bill 101 in Québec

Edited by François Vaillancourt

Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 43:2 (2019) v, 138 pp.

Anthropology of Gesture

Edited by Heather Brookes and Olivier Le Guen

Special issue of Gesture 18:2/3 (2019) vi, 282 pp.

Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages

Edited by Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla, Lucía Buil-Legaz, Raúl López-Penadés, Victor A. Sanchez-Azanza and Daniel Adrover-Roig

This book presents a range of ongoing studies on atypical language development in Romance languages. Despite the steady increase in the number of studies on typical language development, there is still little research about atypical language development, especially in Romance languages. This book… read more

[Not in series, 223] 2019. vi, 257 pp. | open access

Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond: Questions and insights

Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Lauren Spradlin and Virginia Valian

The study of bilingualism has charted a dramatically new, important, and exciting course in the 21st century, benefiting from the integration in cognitive science of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology (especially work on the higher-level cognitive processes often… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 57] 2019. viii, 377 pp.

Case Studies in Fluid Construction Grammar: The verb phrase

Edited by Luc Steels and Katrien Beuls

Construction grammar enjoys great popularity among empirical linguists, typologists, psycholinguists, and language educators, because it puts meaning and function of language at the forefront of linguistic analysis. This book shows that construction grammar gives us also a powerful new way to… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 106] 2019. v, 150 pp.

Categorization in multilingual storytelling

Edited by Matthew T. Prior and Steven Talmy

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 10:3 (2019) vi, 163 pp.

Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese

Edited by Dingfang Shu, Hui Zhang and Lifei Zhang

Bringing together contributions from a group of prominent researchers, within a cognitive-linguistic framework, this volume sheds light on linguistic structures and usages characteristic of the Chinese language, including noun-verb inclusion, the conceptual spatialization of actions, existential… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 67] 2019. xv, 313 pp.

Columbia School Linguistics in the 21st Century

Edited by Nancy Stern, Ricardo Otheguy, Wallis Reid and Jaseleen Sackler

This collection is the fifth volume of selected papers to emerge from Columbia School (CS) linguistics conferences. A radically functionalist approach, CS shares with Cognitive linguistics the view that grammar is composed of form-meaning correspondences. CS views language as a symbolic tool whose… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 77] 2019. vii, 311 pp.

Constructions in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Susan Hunston and Florent Perek

Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 24:3 (2019) v, 150 pp.

Conversation Analysis in Chinese: Part II

Edited by Ni-Eng Lim

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 10:2 (2019) v, 175 pp.

Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication

Edited by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:1 (2019) vi, 301 pp.

Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes

Edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia

Corpus linguistics has become one of the most widely used methodologies across the different linguistic subdisciplines; especially the study of world-wide varieties of English uses corpus-based investigations as one of the chief methodologies. This volume comprises descriptions of the many new… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 88] 2019. ix, 403 pp.

Corpus-Based Research in Legal and Institutional Translation

Edited by Fernando Prieto Ramos

Special issue of Translation Spaces 8:1 (2019) v, 191 pp.

Creativity in Language

Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein and Anne Storch

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 6:1 (2019) vi, 223 pp.

Current Visions of TAML2: Tense, Aspect and Modality in Second Languages

Edited by Paz González and Tim Diaubalick

Special issue of Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 8:1 (2019) v, 135 pp. | open access

Differential objects and datives – a homogeneous class?

Edited by Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Anna Pineda

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 42:1 (2019) v, 131 pp.

Documentary Linguistics: Working with Communities

Edited by Sumittra Suraratdecha and Toshihide Nakayama

Special issue of Language Ecology 3:2 (2019) v, 122 pp.

Encoding Motion Events in Mandarin Chinese: A cognitive functional study

Jingxia Lin

This book is a corpus-based description and discussion of how Modern Mandarin Chinese encodes motion events, with a focus on how the distribution of verbal motion morphemes is closely associated with the meanings they lexicalize. The book is not only the first work that proposes a finer-grained… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 11] 2019. xvii, 209 pp.

Epistemological issue with keynote article “Prosodic effects on L2 grammars”

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:6 (2019) iv, 132 pp.

French liaison in second language acquisition / La liaison en français langue étrangère: Issues, methods and perspectives / Thèmes, méthodes et perspectives

Edited by Martin Howard and Malin Ågren

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 10:1 (2019) v, 139 pp.

Handbook of Terminology: Volume 2. Terminology in the Arab world

Edited by Abied Alsulaiman and Ahmed Allaithy

The current volume represents a revival of Arabic translation and terminology studies. These disciplines have been dominated by Western scholarship in recent decades, but in truth their historical tradition as a whole owes a great debt to Arabic scholarship. The first systematic translation… read more

[Handbook of Terminology, 2] 2019. vi, 267 pp.

Intercultural Experience in Narrative: Expatriate stories from a multicultural workplace

Michał Wilczewski

This book systematically investigates intercultural experiences of Polish managers and specialists delegated by their multinational company (MNC) on an international assignment to China. The book employs narrative inquiry to explore language, intercultural communication, collaboration, learning,… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 26] 2019. xix, 325 pp.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics

Edited by Nigel Duffield, Trang Phan and Tue Trinh

This volume was originally inspired by a 2017 conference to honour the scholar and linguist Cao Xuân Hạo, whose landmark work – in many diverse areas of language study – established a bridge between traditional Vietnamese scholarship and contemporary theories of grammatical organisation. The book… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 211] 2019. vii, 304 pp.

Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence: Discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches

Edited by Caroline Gentens, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck and An Van linden

Special issue of Pragmatics 29:2 (2019) v, 154 pp. | open access

Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew

Edited by Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube

The emergence of Modern Hebrew as a spoken language constitutes a unique event in modern history: a language which for generations only existed in the written mode underwent a process popularly called “revival”, acquiring native speakers and becoming a language spoken for everyday use. Despite the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 256] 2019. ix, 390 pp.

Language and Intercultural Communication Pedagogies in Australian Higher Education

Edited by Paul J. Moore and Adriana Díaz

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 42:2 (2019) v, 100 pp.

Language, translation and empire in the Americas

Edited by Roberto A. Valdeón

Special issue of Target 31:2 (2019) vi, 141 pp.

Latin influence on the syntax of the languages of Europe

Edited by Bert Cornillie and Bridget Drinka

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 33] 2019. v, 250 pp.

Les prépositions complexes dans les langues romanes

Edited by Benjamin Fagard, José Pinto De Lima and Dejan Stosic

Special issue of Revue Romane 54:1 (2019) v, 203 pp.

Lexicalization patterns in color naming: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Ida Raffaelli, Daniela Katunar and Barbara Kerovec

The volume presents sixteen chapters focused on lexicalization patterns used in color naming in a variety of languages. Although previous studies have dealt with categorization and perceptual salience of color terms, few studies have been consistently conducted in order to investigate phonological,… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 78] 2019. vi, 429 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2019

Edited by Janine Berns and Elena Tribushinina

The 50th annual conference of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 2nd, 2019. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year’s meeting, 72 papers were presented, of which 16 were submitted in writing. read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 36] 2019. iv, 207 pp. | open access

Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world

Edited by Susan Nacey, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse

This volume explores linguistic metaphor identification in a wide variety of languages and language families. The book is an essential read for anyone interested in researching language and metaphor, from students to experienced scholars. Its primary goals are to discuss the challenges involved in… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 22] 2019. vi, 330 pp.

Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language

Edited by Marianna Bolognesi, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot

This book describes methods, risks, and challenges involved in the construction of metaphor and metonymy digital repositories. The first part of this volume showcases established and new projects around the world in which metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified. The second part… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 8] 2019. x, 263 pp.

Morality and language aggression

Edited by Dániel Z. Kádár and Vahid Parvaresh

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 7:1 (2019) v, 132 pp.

Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English

Sofia Rüdiger

Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English presents fundamental research on the use of English by South Korean speakers. Despite the extraordinary and vibrant status of the English language in South Korean society (demonstrated, for example, by the notion of English Fever), research on the… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G62] 2019. xvii, 228 pp.

Negation and Speculation Detection

Noa P. Cruz Díaz and Manuel J. Maña López

Negation and speculation detection is an emerging topic that has attracted the attention of many researchers, and there is clearly a lack of relevant textbooks and survey texts. This book aims to define negation and speculation from a natural language processing perspective, to explain the need for… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 13] 2019. ix, 95 pp.

Nominalization in Languages of the Americas

Edited by Roberto Zariquiey, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck

Recent scholarship has confirmed earlier observations that nominalization plays a crucial role in the formation of complex constructions in the world’s languages. Grammatical nominalizations are one of the most salient and widespread features of languages of the Americas, yet they have not been… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 124] 2019. vii, 662 pp.

Normativity in Language and Linguistics

Edited by Aleksi Mäkilähde, Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen

This volume sets out to discuss the role of norms and normativity in both language and linguistics from a multiplicity of perspectives. These concepts are centrally important to the philosophy and methodology of linguistics, and their role and nature need to be investigated in detail. The chapters… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 209] 2019. vii, 272 pp.

The Northumbrian Old English glosses

Edited by Elly van Gelderen

Special issue of NOWELE 72:2 (2019) v, 154 pp.

On mood and speech function and the ‘why’ of text analysis: In honour of Margaret Berry

Edited by Lise Fontaine, Miriam Taverniers and Kristin Davidse

Special issue of Functions of Language 26:1 (2019) vi, 135 pp.

On the Role of Pragmatics in Construction Grammar

Edited by Rita Finkbeiner

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 11:2 (2019) v, 163 pp.

Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies: New resources and applications

Edited by Irene Doval and M. Teresa Sánchez-Nieto

This volume assesses the state of the art of parallel corpus research as a whole, reporting on advances in both recent developments of parallel corpora – with some particular references to comparable corpora as well– and in ways of exploiting them for a variety of purposes. The first part of the… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 90] 2019. ix, 301 pp.

Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: Syntax, semantics, discourse

Xiaoling He

As a distinctive syntactic structure in Mandarin Chinese, the Patient-Subject Construction (PSC) is one of the most interesting but least well-understood structures in the language. This book offers a comprehensive account of the history, structure, meaning and use of the PSC. Unlike previous… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 12] 2019. xi, 204 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXX: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics, Stony Brook, New York, 2016 and Norman, Oklahoma, 2017

Edited by Amel Khalfaoui and Matthew A. Tucker

This volume contains selected papers from the Thirtieth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics that was held at Stony Brook University in 2016, as well as two articles that are based on papers presented at the Thirty-First Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Oklahoma… read more

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 7] 2019. vii, 220 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017

Edited by Amel Khalfaoui and Youssef A. Haddad

This volume brings together ten peer-reviewed articles on Arabic linguistics. The articles are distributed over three parts: phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics and pragmatics, and language acquisition. Including data from North African, Levantine, and Gulf varieties of Arabic, as well as… read more

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 8] 2019. xiii, 264 pp.

Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change: Studies in honor of Henning Andersen

Edited by Lars Heltoft, Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler

This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 345] 2019. ix, 419 pp.

Police interviews: Communication challenges and solutions

Edited by Luna Filipović

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 10:1 (2019) v, 151 pp.

Policy and practice in early language learning

Edited by Janet Enever and Patricia Driscoll

Since the 1990s the inclusion of additional languages in primary and kindergarten curricula has become the norm in many jurisdictions globally. Too frequently however, only limited attention has been paid to the satisfactory preparation of schools, teachers, families and the wider community in… read more

[AILA Review, 32] 2019. iv, 186 pp.

Pragmatics and its Interfaces as related to the Expression of Intention

Edited by István Kecskés

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 26:1 (2019) vi, 165 pp.

Prosodic Issues in Language Contact Situations

Edited by Yolanda Congosto Martín and Laura Morgenthaler

Special issue of Spanish in Context 16:3 (2019) vi, 250 pp.

Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children

Edited by Maialen Iraola Azpiroz, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:4/5 (2019) vi, 263 pp.

Real Fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling

Edited by Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 29:2 (2019) v, 189 pp.

Regional Chinese in Contact

Edited by James A. Walker

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 5:1 (2019) v, 108 pp.

Representation and Processing in Bilingual Morphology

Edited by Jennifer R. Austin

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:1 (2019) v, 162 pp.

Representing Wine – Sensory Perceptions, Communication and Cultures

Rosario Caballero, Ernesto Suárez-Toste and Carita Paradis

Wine culture is a complex phenomenon of increasing importance in modern society, and it combines the joys of wine appreciation with the frustrations of trying to verbally communicate sensory impressions. While wine appreciation is traditionally characterized as joyously convivial in its social… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 21] 2019. xii, 234 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt

Edited by Ingo Feldhausen, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt and Mareike Neuhaus

In 2016, the Going Romance conference series celebrated its 30th edition and the Goethe University of Frankfurt (Germany) had the honor of organizing this.The edited volume at hand presents a selection of 17 peer-reviewed articles, based on papers that were presented at this occasion. The volume… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 15] 2019. vii, 358 pp.

Sensory Linguistics: Language, perception and metaphor

Bodo Winter

One of the most fundamental capacities of language is the ability to express what speakers see, hear, feel, taste, and smell. Sensory Linguistics is the interdisciplinary study of how language relates to the senses. This book deals with such foundational questions as: Which semiotic strategies do… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 20] 2019. xiv, 289 pp.

Sound, Form, and Meaning of Chinese Dialects

Edited by Ik-sang Eom

Special issue of Language and Linguistics 20:1 (2019) ix, 129 pp. | open access

Teaching, Learning and Scaffolding in CLIL Science Classrooms

Edited by Yuen Yi Lo and Angel M.Y. Lin

Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 7:2 (2019) v, 178 pp.

Terminology and e-dictionaries

Edited by Amparo Alcina, Rute Costa and Christophe Roche

Special issue of Terminology 25:2 (2019) v, 152 pp.

Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Edited by Tania Ionin and Matthew Rispoli

This edited volume contains a representative sample of papers presented at the 7th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA-7) conference. The book features three streams of research (Variation in Input, First Language Acquisition, and Second Language… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 63] 2019. vi, 358 pp.

Translation and/in Periodical Publications

Edited by María Constanza Guzmán

Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 14:2 (2019) v, 164 pp.

Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units

Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki

Special issue of Studies in Language 43:2 (2019) vi, 253 pp.

Vagueness and Elasticity of 'Sort of' in TV Discussion Discourse in the Asian Pacific

Edited by Vahid Parvaresh and Grace Zhang

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29:1 (2019) v, 147 pp.

What is a verb? – Linguistic, psycholinguistic and developmental perspectives on verbs in Germanic and Semitic languages

Edited by Eva Smolka and Dorit Ravid

Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 14:2 (2019) v, 164 pp.

Widening Contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and issues

Edited by Anke Lenzing, Howard Nicholas and Jana Roos

This book explores relationships between Processability Theory approaches and other approaches to SLA. It is distinctive in two ways. It offers PT-insiders a way to see connections between their familiar traditions and theories with other ways of working. Parallel to this it offers readers who work… read more

[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 7] 2019. ix, 404 pp.

X-Scapes: New horizons in Linguistic Landscapes

Edited by Crispin Thurlow and Kellie Gonçalves

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 5:2 (2019) v, 106 pp.

The interface of semantics & etymology, morpho-syntax, and pragmatics in Chinese

Edited by Jeeyoung Peck

Special issue of Language and Linguistics 20:2 (2019) x, 151 pp. | open access

A micro-perspective on Verb Second in Romance and Germanic

Edited by Christine Meklenborg Salvesen

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 19:1 (2019) v, 198 pp.

Advances in Gothic Philology and Linguistics

Edited by Alexandra Holsting and Hans Frede Nielsen †

Special issue of NOWELE 71:2 (2018) v, 145 pp.

Afroasiatic: Data and perspectives

Edited by Mauro Tosco

The articles in the present volume offer an updated view of the breadth of theoretical and empirical research being carried on in the different subgroups of the Afroasiatic phylum. They are written by leading specialists and are representative of widely different perspectives and interests, from… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 339] 2018. vi, 288 pp.

Anglo-German Discourse Crossings and Contrasts

Edited by Sylvia Jaworska and Torsten Leuschner

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 9:1 (2018) vi, 172 pp.

Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk and Jukka Tyrkkö

The use of corpora has conventionally been envisioned as being either corpus-based or corpus-driven. While the formal definition of the latter term has been widely accepted since it was established by Tognini-Bonelli (2001), it is often applied to studies that do not, in fact, fullfil the… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 82] 2018. vii, 313 pp.

Asymmetries, Mismatches and Construction Grammar

Edited by Nikos Koutsoukos, Kristel Van Goethem and Hendrik De Smet

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 10:2 (2018) v, 183 pp.

Attention to Metaphor: From neurons to representations

Valentina Cuccio

The last decades of the twentieth century have witnessed a fundamental scientific discovery: the identification of mirror neurons and, consequently, the development of the Embodied Simulation theory. Neuroscientific data on the mechanism of Embodied Simulation and its role in conceptual and… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 7] 2018. vi, 167 pp.

Bilingual Cognition and Language: The state of the science across its subfields

Edited by David Miller, Fatih Bayram, Jason Rothman and Ludovica Serratrice

This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series. Over the last 25 years the study of bilingualism has received a tremendous amount of attention from linguists, psychologists, cognitive… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 54] 2018. vi, 403 pp.

Building and Using the Siarad Corpus: Bilingual conversations in Welsh and English

Margaret Deuchar, Peredur Webb-Davies and Kevin Donnelly

This book is a research monograph divided into two parts. The first part describes the methods used to build the first sizeable corpus of informal conversational data collected from bilingual speakers of Welsh and English: Siarad. The second part describes the linguistic analysis of data from this… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 81] 2018. vii, 199 pp.

CLIL and Bilingual Education in the Netherlands

Edited by Tessa Mearns and Rick de Graaff

Special issue of Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 7:2 (2018) vi, 158 pp.

Closeness and conflict: The discourse of domestic discord across English and Spanish-speaking communities

Edited by Diana Boxer and María Elena Placencia

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 6:2 (2018) v, 174 pp.

Code-switching – Experimental Answers to Theoretical Questions: In honor of Kay González-Vilbazo

Edited by Luis López

This volume compiles eight original chapters dedicated to different topics within bilingual grammar and processing with special focus on code-switching. Three main features unify the contributions to this volume. First, they focus on making a contribution to our understanding of the human language… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 19] 2018. vii, 270 pp.

Cognitive Perspectives on Genre

Edited by Carla Vergaro

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 25:3 (2018) v, 214 pp.

Community Interpreting, Translation, and Technology

Edited by Nike K. Pokorn and Christopher D. Mellinger

Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 13:3 (2018) v, 172 pp.

Complement Clauses in Portuguese: Syntax and acquisition

Edited by Ana Lúcia Santos and Anabela Gonçalves

This volume addresses core issues on complement clauses, focusing on Portuguese (European, Brazilian and Mozambican varieties). It contributes to the discussion of complementation, providing an overview of how theoretical syntax and acquisition studies may combine to broaden our knowledge about the… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 17] 2018. vi, 418 pp.

Computational terminology and filtering of terminological information

Edited by Patrick Drouin, Natalia Grabar, Thierry Hamon, Kyo Kageura and Koichi Takeuchi

Special issue of Terminology 24:1 (2018) v, 147 pp.

Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages

Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder

The last three decades have seen the emergence of Construction Grammar as a major research paradigm in linguistics. At the same time, very few researchers have taken a constructionist perspective on language contact phenomena. This volume brings together, for the first time, a broad range of… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 24] 2018. vi, 316 pp.

Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015

Edited by Jonathan E. MacDonald

Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics offers a panorama of current research into multiple varieties of Spanish from several different regions (Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, Costa Rica, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras), Catalan, Brazilian Portuguese, as well as varieties in… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 15] 2018. ix, 376 pp.

The Corpus Linguistics Discourse: In honour of Wolfgang Teubert

Edited by Anna Čermáková and Michaela Mahlberg

With an ever-growing body of corpus linguistic tools, resources and applications, it becomes increasingly important to reflect critically on the underlying assumptions that corpus linguistics is based on. Focusing on meaning and methods, this book tackles fundamental concepts and approaches that… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 87] 2018. vi, 261 pp.

Corpus Linguistics in Language and Sexuality Studies: Developments and Prospects

Edited by Heiko Motschenbacher

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 7:2 (2018) v, 135 pp.

Czech and Slovak Contributions to African Studies

Special issue of Archív Orientální 86:3 (2018) 234 pp.

Del manuscrit a la paraula digital / From Manuscript to Digital Word: Estudis de llengua i literatura catalanes / Studies of Catalan language and literature

Edited by Manuel Pérez-Saldanya and Rafael Roca Ricart

This collection, which transports readers from the age of manuscripts to the digital word, is a good demonstration not only of the current vitality of studies of Catalan language and literature, but also of the variety of interests and theoretical approaches and the diversity of origin of Catalan… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 16] 2018. vii, 439 pp.

Discourse approaches to evidentiality in Spanish

Edited by Marta Albelda Marco and María Estellés

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 9:3 (2018) v, 162 pp.

The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation: Data, methods, models

Edited by Daphné Kerremans, Jelena Prokić, Quirin Würschinger and Hans-Jörg Schmid

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 25:1 (2018) v, 200 pp.

The Emergence of Nominal Expressions in Spanish-English Early Bilinguals: Economy and bilingual first language acquisition

Emma Ticio Quesada

This monograph examines the first syntactic unit in child language by presenting a longitudinal multiple-case study that focuses on the inner structure of nominal expressions in bilingual or monolingual child Spanish. This compilation of case studies offers the first insight on some of the… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 56] 2018. xi, 244 pp.

Empirical Studies of Literariness

Edited by Massimo Salgaro and Paul Sopčák

Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 8:1 (2018) v, 208 pp.

Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6 (2018) iv, 145 pp.

Essays on Linguistic Realism

Edited by Christina Behme and Martin Neef

This book contains new articles by leading philosophers and linguists discussing a promising philosophical framework distinct from currently dominant ones: Linguistic Realism. As opposed to Nominalism and Chomskyian Conceptualism, this approach distinguishes between use of language, knowledge of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 196] 2018. xiii, 300 pp.

Estrategias atenuantes en géneros discursivos del español: Interfaz semántico-pragmática

Edited by Marta Albelda Marco

Special issue of Spanish in Context 15:2 (2018) v, 192 pp.

Event Structure Metaphors through the Body: Translation from English to American Sign Language

Daniel R. Roush

How do the experiences of people who have different bodies (deaf versus hearing) shape their thoughts and metaphors? Do different linguistic modes of expression (signed versus spoken) have a shaping force as well? This book investigates the metaphorical production of culturally-Deaf translators who… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 4] 2018. xv, 224 pp.

Expressions de la bhakti dans les littératures indiennes

Special issue of Archív Orientální 86:2 (2018) 142 pp.

Extending the notion of near-synonymy: Studies in morphological, syntactic and pragmatic equivalence

Edited by Renata Enghels

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 18:1 (2018) v, 153 pp.

Fraseología, Diatopía y Traducción / Phraseology, Diatopic Variation and Translation

Edited by Pedro Mogorrón Huerta and Antonio Albaladejo-Martínez

In all languages, humans frequently use linguistic combinations called phraseological units (PUs) in communicative acts. These PUs are characterized by their institutionalized fixation and, in many cases, by their opacity. Traditionally, the work on phraseology has placed the emphasis on the total… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 17] 2018. vi, 354 pp.

From Culture to Language and Back: The Animacy Hierarchy in language and discourse

Edited by Laure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 5:2 (2018) v, 190 pp.

Gender, Sexuality & Linguistic Landscapes

Edited by Tommaso M. Milani

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 4:3 (2018) v, 119 pp.

Genre and Disciplinarity

Edited by Tim Moore, Janne Morton and Steve Price

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 41:2 (2018) v, 120 pp.

Growing up on the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea: Childhood and educational ideologies in Tauwema

Barbara Senft and Gunter Senft

This volume deals with the children’s socialization on the Trobriands. After a survey of ethnographic studies on childhood, the book zooms in on indigenous ideas of conception and birth-giving, the children’s early development, their integration into playgroups, their games and their education… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 21] 2018. xxv, 248 pp. | open access

Impersonal human reference in Sign Languages

Edited by Gemma Barberà and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr

Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 21:2 (2018) v, 216 pp.

Interpersonal Meaning: Systemic Functional Linguistics perspectives

Edited by J.R. Martin

Special issue of Functions of Language 25:1 (2018) v, 204 pp.

Issues in Humour Cognition

Edited by Marta Dynel

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 16:1 (2018) vi, 315 pp.

Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler

Edited by Lucy Pickering and Vyvyan Evans

Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler comprises a collection of original empirically and theoretically motivated studies at the nexus of discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and second language learning. The thematic relationships between these… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 64] 2018. ix, 317 pp.

Language of Empire, Language of Power

Edited by Kees Versteegh

Special issue of Language Ecology 2:1/2 (2018) v, 146 pp.

Language/Sexuality/Affect

Edited by William L. Leap

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 7:1 (2018) v, 144 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2018

Edited by Bert Le Bruyn and Janine Berns

The 49th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 3rd, 2018. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 65 papers were presented, of which 19 were submitted in writing.… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 35] 2018. v, 186 pp. | open access

Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition: In honor of Roumyana Slabakova

Edited by Jacee Cho, Michael Iverson, Tiffany Judy, Tania Leal and Elena Shimanskaya

This volume presents a range of studies testing some of the latest models and hypotheses in the field of second/third language acquisition, such as the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008, 2016), the Scalpel Model (Slabakova, 2017), and the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace & Serratrice, 2009) to… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 55] 2018. xv, 311 pp.

Mediation Strategies

Edited by Anthony Pym

Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 42:3 (2018) v, 110 pp.

Mental Models across Languages: The visual representation of baldness terms in German, English, and Japanese

Pawel Sickinger

This book presents a study that triangulates the meanings of expressions across English, German and Japanese via their perception-based conceptual representations. In an online experiment, native speakers of the three languages were asked to design visual representations of expressions referring to… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 63] 2018. xv, 328 pp.

Methodologies for intra-sentential code-switching research

Edited by Amaia Munarriz-Ibarrola, M. Carmen Parafita Couto and Emma Vanden Wyngaerd

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:1 (2018) v, 161 pp.

Models of Discourse Units in Romance Languages

Edited by Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga, Vahram Atayan and Sybille Große

Special issue of Revue Romane 53:1 (2018) v, 179 pp.

Morphology and emotions across the world's languages

Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet and Marine Vuillermet

Special issue of Studies in Language 42:1 (2018) v, 295 pp.

New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change

Edited by Sylvie Hancil, Tine Breban and José Vicente Lozano

The chapters in this volume present a state of the art of grammaticalization research in the 2010s. They are concerned with the application of new models, such as constructionalization, the ongoing debate about the status and modelling of the development of discourse markers, and reveal a renewed… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 202] 2018. vi, 433 pp.

Non-prototypical clefts

Edited by Lena Karssenberg, Karen Lahousse, Béatrice Lamiroy, Stefania Marzo and Ana Drobnjakovic

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 32] 2018. v, 169 pp.

Observing Eurolects: Corpus analysis of linguistic variation in EU law

Edited by Laura Mori

Focusing on the multi-faceted topic of Eurolects, this volume brings together knowledge and methodologies from various disciplines, including sociolinguistics, legal linguistics, corpus linguistics, and translation studies. The legislative varieties of eleven EU official and working languages… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 86] 2018. xiv, 395 pp.

The Poetics of Time – Metaphors and Blends in Language and Literature

Anna Piata

How does the concept of time, elusive and inconceivable as it may be, lend itself to verbal creativity? Is it possible to trace something like a “poetics of time”? This book embarks on this endeavor initiated by the assumption that verbal creativity can shed some new light on our understanding of… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 3] 2018. xviii, 206 pp.

The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil

Edited by Laura Álvarez López, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar

The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese. Authored by specialists on varieties of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil, the eleven chapters and the… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 20] 2018. xii, 318 pp. | open access

Progress in Colour Studies: Cognition, language and beyond

Edited by Lindsay W. MacDonald, Carole P. Biggam and Galina V. Paramei

This volume presents authoritative and up-to-date research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines, including vision science, psychology, psycholinguistics, linguistics, anthropology, onomastics, philosophy, archaeology and design. The chapters have been… read more

[Not in series, 217] 2018. xx, 470 pp.

Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes

Edited by Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte

At a time when the paradigm gap (Sridhar & Sridhar 1986) between the EFL and ESL research areas is attracting much scholarly attention, the contributions in the current volume explore this gap from the perspective of linguistic innovations across the two different types of non-native Englishes. In… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 98] 2018. vi, 223 pp.

Revisiting Shakespeare's Language

Edited by Annalisa Baicchi, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani and Antonio Bertacca

Special issue of English Text Construction 11:1 (2018) v, 168 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 13: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 29, Nijmegen

Edited by Janine Berns, Haike Jacobs and Dominique Nouveau

In the three decades of its existence, the annual Going Romance conference has turned out to be the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current theoretical ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 13] 2018. vi, 340 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14: Selected papers from the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Stony Brook, NY

Edited by Lori Repetti and Francisco Ordóñez

This book contains a peer-reviewed selection of papers presented at the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 46) that took place in April 2016 at Stony Brook University (SUNY), New York. The most current research and debates on bilingualism, historical linguistics, morphology,… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 14] 2018. vii, 345 pp.

Romance Parsed Corpora

Edited by Christina Tortora, Beatrice Santorini and Frances Blanchette

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 18:1 (2018) v, 204 pp.

Signed Language Interpreting and Translation

Edited by Laurie Swabey and Brenda Nicodemus

Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 13:1 (2018) vi, 161 pp.

Speaking in a Second Language

Edited by Maria Rosa Alonso Alonso

For millions of individuals all over the world, speaking in a second language is a daily activity. It is therefore important that research in applied linguistics should contribute empirically to the study of second language spoken interaction. The aim of this volume is to make such a contribution… read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 17] 2018. xii, 243 pp.

Strategic Communication: Beyond nation cultural adaption, images and identity

Edited by Hassan Abu Bakar and Bahtiar Bin Mohamad

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28:1 (2018) v, 194 pp.

Teacher education and professional development for immersion and content-based instruction: Research on programs, practices, and teacher educators

Edited by Laurent Cammarata and T.J. Ó Ceallaigh

Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 6:2 (2018) v, 193 pp.

Transcategoriality: A crosslinguistic perspective

Edited by Sylvie Hancil, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:1 (2018) v, 187 pp.

Transdisciplinarity in Applied Linguistics. AILA Review, Volume 31

Edited by Daniel Perrin and Claire Kramsch

Crossing boundaries between disciplines, research fields, and epistemologies has long been considered a promising way to get to grips with real-world problems. First formulated in the early 1960s in pedagogy and natural sciences, principles of transdisciplinarity have always been at the core of… read more

[AILA Review, 31] 2018. iii, 148 pp. | open access

Translation and Interpreting in Non-Governmental Organisations

Edited by Wine Tesseur

Special issue of Translation Spaces 7:1 (2018) v, 161 pp.

Variation in C: Comparative approaches to the Complementizer Phrase

Edited by Jacopo Garzonio and Silvia Rossi

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 18:2 (2018) v, 225 pp.

Verbal and gestural expression of motion and spatial events / L’expression verbale et gestuelle du mouvement et de l’espace: New evidence from different age groups and linguistic environments / nouveaux arguments en provenance de différents groupes d’âge et de différents environnements linguistiques

Edited by Kateřina Fibigerová, Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 9:1 (2018) v, 136 pp.

Visual Metaphor: Structure and process

Edited by Gerard J. Steen

Metaphor has recently been reconceptualised as a fundamental part of the human conceptual system. It can hence be expressed in language but also in other modalities and media of communication, including gesture and body language, sound and music, and film and visuals. In spite of this theoretical… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 18] 2018. vii, 198 pp.

Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork

Edited by Hannah Sarvasy and Diana Forker

In Word Hunters, eleven distinguished linguists reflect on their career-spanning linguistic fieldwork. Over decades, each has repeatedly stood up to physical, intellectual, interpersonal, intercultural, and sometimes political challenges in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. These… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 194] 2018. vi, 177 pp.

Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 15: Papers from the 2015 Leiden Conference

Edited by Harry van der Hulst and Anikó Lipták

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 12th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Leiden, 2015). The contributions cover a wide range of topics and their significance in generative theorizing.The papers about morphosyntax focus on the formation of comparative clauses,… read more

[Approaches to Hungarian, 15] 2017. x, 255 pp.

Cameroon Pidgin English: A comprehensive grammar

Miriam Ayafor and Melanie Green

Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) is an English-lexified Atlantic expanded pidgin/creole spoken in some form by an estimated 50% of Cameroon’s population, primarily in the anglophone west regions, but also in urban centres throughout the country. Primarily a spoken language, CPE enjoys a vigorous oral… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 20] 2017. xxi, 314 pp.

Camus et Faulkner: Écriture et modernité

Edited by Steen Bille Jørgensen and Hans Peter Lund

Special issue of Revue Romane 52:1 (2017) v, 112 pp.

Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014

Edited by Tony McEnery, Robbie Love and Vaclav Brezina

Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22:3 (2017) v, 145 pp.

Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre

Edited by Thomas Egan and Hildegunn Dirdal

Contrastive Linguistics is an expanding field, as witnessed by the publication in recent years of an increasing number of monographs, collected volumes and journal articles. The present volume, which comprises an introduction and ten chapters dealing with lexical contrasts between English and other… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 191] 2017. vii, 298 pp.

Cultural Linguistic Contributions to World Englishes

Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen and Arne Peters

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 4:2 (2017) v, 152 pp.

Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation

Edited by Ludovic De Cuypere, Clara Vanderschueren and Gert de Sutter

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 31] 2017. vi, 325 pp.

Dimensions of Iconicity

Edited by Angelika Zirker, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg

This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity. While some contributions examine the phonic dimensions of iconicity that are based on empirical, diachronic and theoretical work, others explore the function of similarity from a cognitive point of view. The section on multimodal… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 15] 2017. xiv, 351 pp.

Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity

Edited by Hagen Peukert and Ingrid Gogolin

This volume emphasizes the energetic nature of linguistic diversity and its consequences of how we think about language, how it affects the individual, education in school, and urban spaces across the globe. Hence, linguistic diversity reflects the constant state of rapid change prevalent in modern… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 6] 2017. x, 269 pp.

Emotions across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Ad Foolen

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 4:1 (2017) v, 119 pp.

Epistemological issue with keynote article “The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development” by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:6 (2017) iv, 140 pp.

Flourishing in Italian: Positive Psychology approaches to the teaching and learning of Italian in Australia

Edited by Antonia Rubino, Antonella Strambi and Vincenza Tudini

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 40:2 (2017) v, 109 pp.

Food and terminology: Expressing sensory experience in several languages

Edited by Rita Temmerman and Danièle Dubois

Special issue of Terminology 23:1 (2017) vi, 179 pp.

Grammar, usage and discourse: Functional studies offered to Kristin Davidse

Edited by Lieven Vandelanotte, Wout Van Praet and Lieselotte Brems

Special issue of English Text Construction 10:2 (2017) v, 159 pp.

Imdeduya: Variants of a myth of love and hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea

Gunter Senft

This volume presents five variants of the Imdeduya myth: two versions of the actual myth, a short story, a song and John Kasaipwalova’s English poem “Sail the Midnight Sun”. This poem draws heavily on the Trobriand myth which introduces the protagonists Imdeduya and Yolina and reports on Yolina’s… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 20] 2017. xvi, 244 pp. | open access

Iranian Political Satirists: Experience and motivation in the contemporary era

Mahmud Farjami

This volume surveys political satire as a journalistic genre in Iran since the latter days of the Qajar dynasty to the present, thus spanning one century and more. It is an important resource, but it also provides an analysis. Moreover, this volume is a rare effort to answer a question that looks… read more

[Topics in Humor Research, 5] 2017. x, 213 pp.

Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: State of the art 2017

Edited by Theodoros Marinis, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:3/4 (2017) v, 211 pp.

Latin Grammars in Transition, 1200 - 1600

Edited by Anneli Luhtala and Mark E. Amsler

Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 44:2/3 (2017) vi, 270 pp.

Lexical Priming: Applications and advances

Edited by Michael Pace-Sigge and Katie J. Patterson

Published in 2005, Michael Hoey’s Lexical Priming – A new theory of words and language introduced a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. In the ten years that have passed, the theory has since gained traction in the field of corpus-linguistics. This… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 79] 2017. xxiii, 309 pp.

Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages

Edited by Eva van Lier

Special issue of Studies in Language 41:2 (2017) v, 302 pp.

The Linguistic Expression of Mirativity

Edited by Agnès Celle and Anastasios Tsangalidis

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 15:2 (2017) v, 271 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2017

Edited by Sander Lestrade and Bert Le Bruyn

The 48th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 4th, 2017. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year’s meeting, 64 papers were presented, of which 18 were submitted in writing.… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 34] 2017. iii, 155 pp. | open access

Meaning Making in the Periphery. AILA Review, Volume 30

Edited by Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes and Mike Baynham

[AILA Review, 30] 2017. xiii, 188 pp. | open access

Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World

Edited by Marcus Callies and Alexander Onysko

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 4:1 (2017) v, 169 pp.

Metaphor in Religion and Spirituality

Edited by Stephen Pihlaja

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 7:1 (2017) v, 157 pp.

Methodology in Linguistic Landscape Research

Edited by Robert Blackwood

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 3:3 (2017) v, 113 pp.

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World

Edited by Kate Bellamy, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto

This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another. The thirteen contributions in this volume offer… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 13] 2017. vii, 327 pp.

Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising

Paula Pérez-Sobrino

Metaphor and metonymy appeal to us because they evoke mental images in unique but still recognisable ways. The potential for figurative thought exists in everyone, and it pervades our everyday social interactions. In particular, advertising offers countless opportunities to explore the way in which… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 2] 2017. vii, 232 pp.

Multiple Perspectives on Terminological Variation

Edited by Patrick Drouin, Aline Francœur, John Humbley and Aurélie Picton

The aim of the present volume is to provide a present-day take on variation in terminology by looking forward and examining what leading scholars in the field are working on and where they are taking research in the field today.This reader is built around three themes arranged according to… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 18] 2017. vi, 260 pp.

Orality, Identity, and Resistance in Palenque (Colombia): An interdisciplinary approach

Edited by Armin Schwegler, Bryan Kirschen and Graciela Maglia

Located near Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Palenque is a former Afro-Hispanic maroon community that has recently attracted much national and international attention. The authors of this collection examine Palenque’s linguistic, geographic, and cultural origins from interdisciplinary and… read more

[Contact Language Library, 54] 2017. xvii, 323 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIX: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2015

Edited by Hamid Ouali

This volume features a set of selected peer-reviewed articles, which represent research by some very prominent scholars and some promising researchers in the field. The articles cover a wide range of areas in Arabic linguistics, namely Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and… read more

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 5] 2017. vi, 250 pp.

Public Debates on Immigration

Edited by Andreas Musolff

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 5:2 (2017) vi, 177 pp.

Register Variation and Syntactic Theory

Edited by Diane Massam and Tim Stowell

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 17:2 (2017) v, 198 pp.

Right-Wing Populism in Europe & USA: Contesting Politics & Discourse beyond ‘Orbanism’ and ‘Trumpism’

Edited by Ruth Wodak and Michał Krzyżanowski

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 16:4 (2017) vi, 169 pp.

The Roles of Communication on a Regional Conflict: Antipathy, Nationalism, and Conflicts among China, Japan, and South Korea

Edited by Eung-jun Min

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 27:2 (2017) v, 111 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11: Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario

Edited by Silvia Perpiñán, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar and Adriana Soto-Corominas

This collection brings together current research on a range of phenomena in French, Spanish, Occitan and Italian, that will be of interest to scholars and students of Romance and general linguistics. The volume includes 12 peer-reviewed articles, first presented at the 44th Linguistic Symposium on… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 11] 2017. vi, 269 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12: Selected papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil

Edited by Ruth E.V. Lopes, Juanito Ornelas de Avelar and Sonia M. L. Cyrino

The current volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 45th meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 45), which took place from May 6 to 9, 2015 at the University of Campinas, Brazil. A volume of selected papers, such as this one, will ultimately be successful… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 12] 2017. xi, 277 pp.

Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure

Viviana Masia

The book tackles the sociobiological bases of Information Structure (IS) inquiring both its evidential and neurobiological underpinnings in human communication. Its purpose is to delve into the epistemic and neurocognitive rationales behind the realization of informational hierarchies in a sentence. read more

[Advances in Interaction Studies, 9] 2017. xxi, 193 pp.

Specialised Translation in Spain: Institutional dimensions

Edited by José Santaemilia-Ruiz and Sergio Maruenda-Bataller

Special issue of Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 30:2 (2017) vi, 240 pp.

Stance, resonance and the power of engagement

Edited by Bracha Nir and Elisabeth Zima

Special issue of Functions of Language 24:1 (2017) v, 137 pp.

Storytelling in the Digital Age: New challenges

Edited by Anna De Fina and Sabina M. Perrino

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 27:2 (2017) vi, 209 pp.

Studies on Variation in Portuguese

Edited by Pilar Barbosa, Maria da Conceição de Paiva and Celeste Rodrigues

Studies on Variation in Portuguese offers a collection of studies on a range of variable phenomena attested within and across varieties of Portuguese. The volume starts out with an overview of current issues in the study of intralinguistic variation and is divided in two parts. Part 1 is dedicated… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 14] 2017. vi, 345 pp.

The Substance and Value of Italian Si

Joseph Davis

This book offers an original treatment of the Italian clitic si. Sharply separating encoded grammar from inference in discourse, it proposes a unitary meaning for si, including impersonals, passives, and reflexives. Si signals third-person participancy but makes no distinctions of number, gender,… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 74] 2017. xiii, 257 pp.

Syntactic Variation and Change

Edited by David Håkansson, Ida Larsson and Erik Magnusson Petzell

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 17:1 (2017) iii, 148 pp.

Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian

Edited by Höskuldur Thráinsson, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen and Zakaris Svabo Hansen

This book presents the latest research on the syntax of the “Insular Scandinavian” languages (Faroese and Icelandic), with contributions from thirteen experts, and a significant introductory chapter by the four editors. The topics covered include some that have figured extensively in recent… read more

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 1] 2017. v, 343 pp.

Term Variation in Specialised Corpora: Characterisation, automatic discovery and applications

Béatrice Daille

This book addresses term variation which has been a very important topic in terminology, computational terminology and natural language processing for up to twenty years. This book presents the first complete inventory of term variants and the linguistic procedures that lead to their formation. It… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 19] 2017. xii, 272 pp.

Toward Comparative Translation and Interpreting Studies

Edited by Sergey Tyulenev and Binghan Zheng

Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 12:2 (2017) v, 170 pp.

Transitivity and Valency: From theory to acquisition

Edited by Georgia Fotiadou and Hélène Vassiliadou

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 40:1 (2017) v, 133 pp.

Translation Practice in the Field: Current research on socio-cognitive processes

Edited by Hanna Risku, Regina Rogl and Jelena Milosevic

Special issue of Translation Spaces 6:1 (2017) v, 180 pp.

Translation in times of technocapitalism

Edited by Stefan Baumgarten and Jordi Cornellà-Detrell

Special issue of Target 29:2 (2017) vi, 168 pp.

Verb Phrase and Fluid Construction Grammar

Edited by Luc Steels and Katrien Beuls

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 9:2 (2017) v, 162 pp.

The gesture–sign interface in language acquisition / L’interface geste–signe dans l’acquisition du langage

Edited by Aliyah Morgenstern and Michèle Guidetti

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 8:1 (2017) v, 171 pp.

The micro-politics of sequential organization: Contributions from conversation analysis and ethnomethodology

Edited by Lorenza Mondada and Sara Keel

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 16:1 (2017) v, 147 pp.

'The Conditioned and the Unconditioned': Late Modern English texts on philosophy. incl. CD-rom: A Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)

Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Gonzalo Camiña, Inés Lareo and Begoña Crespo

This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT), together with a number of pilot studies that demonstrate how the corpus can be used to investigate English philosophy writing in the eighteenth and… read more

[Not in series, 198] 2016. xi, 182 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)

(Co-)Constructing Interpersonally Sensitive Activities Across Institutional Settings

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Rosina Márquez Reiter

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:4 (2016) v, 186 pp.

Acquisition and Development of Hebrew: From infancy to adolescence

Edited by Ruth A. Berman

The volume addresses developing knowledge and use of Hebrew from the dual perspective of typologically specific factors and of shared cross-linguistic trends, aimed at providing an overview of acquisition in a single language from infancy to adolescence while also shedding light on key issues in… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 19] 2016. xvii, 404 pp.

The Acquisition and Processing of Spanish and Portuguese Morphosyntax: Theoretical and experimental issues

Edited by Rachel Klassen, Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Joanne Markle LaMontagne and Almudena Basanta y Romero-Valdespino

Special issue of Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 29:2 (2016) vi, 307 pp.

The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood

Edited by Belma Haznedar and F. Nihan Ketrez

The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood presents recent research on the nature of language acquisition by typically and atypically developing monolingual and bilingual Turkish-speaking children. The book summarises the most recent research findings on the acquisition of Turkish in childhood, with a… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 20] 2016. viii, 416 pp.

Advances in Spanish as a Heritage Language

Edited by Diego Pascual y Cabo

Bringing together contributions from some of the leading experts in the field of Spanish as a Heritage Language, this volume aims to provide an in-depth understanding of current and emerging trends in research and praxis. To this end, the volume is divided into three thematic units. The first unit… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 49] 2016. ix, 353 pp.

Aging and Bilingualism

Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:1/2 (2016) vi, 226 pp.

Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology

Edited by Ana M. Piquer-Píriz and Rafael Alejo-González

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:1 (2016) vi, 245 pp.

Asian Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca and Identity

Edited by Chit Cheung Matthew Sung

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:2 (2016) vi, 182 pp.

Aspectuality and Temporality: Descriptive and theoretical issues

Edited by Zlatka Guentchéva

This volume brings together a collection of articles exploring tense and aspect phenomena in a variety of non-related languages: Indo-European (Albanian, Bulgarian, Armenian, English, Norwegian, Hindi), Hamito-Semitic (Berber, Zenaga Berber, Arabic varieties, Neo-Aramaic), African (Wolof, Langi),… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 172] 2016. xi, 740 pp.

Audiovisual Translation: Theoretical and methodological challenges

Edited by Yves Gambier and Sara Ramos Pinto

Special issue of Target 28:2 (2016) vi, 166 pp.

Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist: The life histories of some applied linguists

Edited by Rod Ellis

Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist contains narrative accounts of the lives of thirteen well-established applied linguists. Their professional autobiographies document the development of some of the key areas of applied linguistics – second, language acquisition, motivation, grammar,… read more

[Not in series, 203] 2016. vi, 373 pp.

Beyond transfiction: Translators and (their) authors

Edited by Nitsa Ben-Ari, Patricia Godbout, Klaus Kaindl and Shaul Levin

Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 11:3 (2016) v, 146 pp.

Bilingualism and Executive Function: An interdisciplinary approach

Edited by Irina A. Sekerina and Lauren Spradlin

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:5 (2016) vi, 213 pp.

Child Language Variation: Sociolinguistic and formal approaches

Edited by Véronique Lacoste and Lisa Green

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 16:1 (2016) v, 150 pp.

Cognition, Language and Aging

Edited by Heather Harris Wright

Age-related changes in cognitive and language functions have been extensively researched over the past half-century. The older adult represents a unique population for studying cognition and language because of the many challenges that are presented with investigating this population, including… read more

[Not in series, 200] 2016. viii, 248 pp. | open access

A Cognitive Grammar of Japanese Clause Structure

Toshiyuki Kumashiro

This volume represents the first comprehensive work on Japanese clause structure conducted within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. The author proposes schematic conceptual structures for the major constructions in the language and defines Japanese case marking and grammatical relations in purely… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 53] 2016. xxiii, 373 pp.

Cognitive space: Exploring the situational interface

Edited by Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow and Birgitta Englund Dimitrova

Special issue of Translation Spaces 5:1 (2016) v, 161 pp.

Compilation, transcription, markup and annotation of spoken corpora

Edited by John M. Kirk and Gisle Andersen

Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21:3 (2016) iii, 148 pp.

Computational Construction Grammar and Constructional Change

Edited by Katrien Beuls and Remi van Trijp

After several decades in scientific purgatory, language evolution has reclaimed its place as one of the most important branches in linguistics. This renewed interest is accompanied by powerful new methods for making empirical observations. At the same time, construction grammar is increasingly… read more

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 30] 2016. v, 286 pp.

Conceptualizations of Time

Edited by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

As time cannot be observed directly, it must be analyzed in terms of mental categories, which manifest themselves on various linguistic levels. In this interdisciplinary volume, novel approaches to time are proposed that consider temporality without time, on the one hand, and the coding of time in… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 52] 2016. xxi, 325 pp.

Constructing Languages: Norms, myths and emotions

Edited by Francesc Feliu and Josep M. Nadal

As language historians we believe that the subject of our study is neither natural languages nor idiolects which speakers have always been able to develop individually (loosely what Chomsky calls L-i), but rather the social constructions of reference shared by all speakers (basically what Chomsky… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 13] 2016. vii, 416 pp.

Constructions across Grammars

Edited by Martin Hilpert and Jan-Ola Östman

Up to now, most research in Construction Grammar has focused on single languages, most notably English. This volume aims to broaden the scope of Construction Grammar towards issues in bi- and multilingualism, second language learning, and generalizations across different languages and language… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 82] 2016. v, 206 pp.

Contexts of Russian Literary Translation

Edited by Julie Hansen and Susanna Witt

Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 11:1 (2016) v, 130 pp.

Contrastive Pragmatics and Translation: Evaluation, epistemic modality and communicative styles in English and German

Svenja Kranich

This book provides the first comprehensive account of English-German pragmatic contrasts in written discourse and their effects on English-German translations. The novel and multi-dimensional corpus-based studies of business communication and popular science writing presented in this book combine… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 261] 2016. xiv, 204 pp.

Controversies, Communication and the Body

Edited by Joseph Lehmann

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 23:3 (2016) vi, 170 pp.

Conversation Analysis in Chinese

Edited by Sandra A. Thompson and Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 7:2 (2016) v, 166 pp.

Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory and Subtext

Bill Louw and Marija Milojkovic

The volume presents Louw's Contextual Prosodic Theory from its beginnings to its newest applications. It journeys from delexicalisation and relexicalisation into Semantic Prosody and then to the heart of its contextual requirements within collocation and the thinking of J.R. Firth. Once there, it… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 23] 2016. xix, 419 pp.

Cyclical Change Continued

Edited by Elly van Gelderen

This book presents new data and additional questions regarding the linguistic cycle. The topics discussed are the pronoun, negative, negative existential, analytic-synthetic, distributive, determiner, degree, and future/modal cycles. The papers raise questions about the length of time that cycles… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 227] 2016. viii, 429 pp.

Dementia-compromised language conflict and aggression

Edited by Boyd Davis

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 4:1 (2016) v, 150 pp.

Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages

Edited by Jörg-U. Keßler, Anke Lenzing and Mathias Liebner

This edited volume brings together the work of a number of researchers working in the framework of Processability Theory (PT), a psycholinguistic theory of second language acquisition (SLA) (Pienemann 1998; 2005). The aim of the volume is two-fold: It engages with current issues in both theory… read more

[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 5] 2016. xviii, 244 pp. | open access

Discourse Markers in Second Language Acquisition / Les marqueurs discursifs dans l’acquisition d’une langue étrangère: Studies on Italian and French as L2 / Études en italien et en français langues étrangères

Edited by Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga and Britta Thörle

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 7:1 (2016) v, 144 pp.

Discourse Reflexivity in Linear Unit Grammar: The case of IMDb message boards

Cameron Smart

Discourse Reflexivity in Linear Unit Grammar: The case of IMDb message boards represents a significant landmark. Not only is it the first in-depth corpus-based study to be based on Linear Unit Grammar, it is also the first study to present a unified model of both Linear Unit Grammar and Linear Unit… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 76] 2016. xvi, 293 pp.

Discursive Self in Microblogging: Speech acts, stories and self-praise

Daria Dayter

This volume examines the language of microblogs drawing on the example of a group of eleven users who are united by their interest in ballet as a physical activity and an art form. The book reports on a three and a half year study which complemented a 20,000 word corpus of tweets with… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 260] 2016. ix, 247 pp.

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 16 (2016)

Edited by Sarah Ann Liszka, Pascale Leclercq, Marion Tellier and Georges Daniel Véronique

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 16] 2016. ix, 210 pp.

Embodiment in Latin Semantics

Edited by William Michael Short

Embodiment in Latin Semantics introduces theories of embodied meaning developed in the cognitive sciences to the study of Latin semantics. Bringing together contributions from an international group of scholars, the volume demonstrates the pervasive role that embodied cognitive structures and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 174] 2016. v, 271 pp.

Emotive Interjections in British English: A corpus-based study on variation in acquisition, function and usage

Ulrike Stange-Hundsdörfer

Emotive Interjections in British English: A corpus-based study on variation in acquisition, function and usage constitutes the first in-depth corpus-based study on the use of emotive interjections in Present Day British English. In a novel approach, it systematically distinguishes between child and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 75] 2016. xxi, 221 pp.

English in the Netherlands: Functions, forms and attitudes

Alison Edwards

This volume provides the first comprehensive investigation of the Netherlands in the World Englishes paradigm. It explores the history of English contact, the present spread of English and attitudes towards English in the Netherlands. It describes the development and analysis of the Corpus of Dutch… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G56] 2016. xv, 271 pp.

Epistemological issue with keynote article “The development of bimodal bilingualism: Implications for linguistic theory” by Diane Lillo-Martin, Ronice Müller de Quadros and Deborah Chen Pichler

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:6 (2016) iv, 133 pp.

Exaptation and Language Change

Edited by Muriel Norde and Freek Van de Velde

This volume is the first collection of papers that is exclusively dedicated to the concept of exaptation, a notion from evolutionary biology that was famously introduced into linguistics by Roger Lass in 1990. The past quarter-century has seen a heated debate on the properties of linguistic… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 336] 2016. viii, 411 pp.

Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives

Edited by Manuela Romano and M. Dolores Porto

This volume offers readers interested in Discourse Analysis and/or Socio-Cognitive models of language a closer view of the relationship between discourse, cognition and society by disclosing how the cognitive mechanisms of discourse processing depend on shared knowledge and situated cognition. An… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 262] 2016. vi, 299 pp.

Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape: Essays in honor of Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan

Edited by Mine Güven, Didar Akar, Balkız Öztürk and Meltem Kelepir

Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape provides in-depth analyses of different aspects of Turkish in the domains of phonology, morphology and syntax, discourse and language acquisition relevant to recent theoretical discussions. While some of the papers in the volume offer new analyses to known… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 175] 2016. xviii, 202 pp.

Finiteness Matters: On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages

Edited by Kristin Melum Eide

"Although standardly recognized by linguists of many diverse theoretical persuasions, finiteness continues to figure among [...] the most poorly understood concepts of linguistic theory”. This was eloquently stated by Ledgeway (2000, 2007) and remains true even today. The present volume thus aims… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 231] 2016. vi, 346 pp.

Finiteness and Nominalization

Edited by Claudine Chamoreau and Zarina Estrada-Fernández

This volume addresses the relation between finiteness and nominalization, which is far more complex than the simple opposition finite-nonfinite. The contributions analyze finiteness cross-linguistically from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, focusing on a number of topics that has not… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 113] 2016. vii, 380 pp.

Fluid Orality in the Discourse of Japanese Popular Culture

Senko K. Maynard

This volume invites the reader into the world of pragmatic and discourse studies in Japanese popular culture. Through “character-speak”, the book analyzes quoted speech in light (graphic) novels, the effeminate onee kotoba in talk shows, narrative character in keetai (mobile phone) novels, floating… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 263] 2016. xi, 344 pp.

Focus-related Operations at the Right Edge in Spanish: Subjects and Ellipsis

Iván Ortega-Santos

Syntactic movement is a pervasive phenomenon in natural language and, as such, has played a key role in syntactic theorizing. Nonetheless, an understanding of the mechanism that allows a constituent to appear to the right of its base-generated position has remained elusive. This groundbreaking… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 7] 2016. xii, 204 pp.

Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas

Edited by María Irene Moyna and Susana Rivera-Mills

In the growing field of address research, Spanish emerges as one of the most complex Indo European languages. Firstly, it presents second person variation in its nominal, pronominal, and verbal systems. Moreover, several Spanish varieties have more than two address variants, which compete and mix… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 10] 2016. x, 352 pp.

Grammarians, Skalds and Rune Carvers I

Edited by Robert Nedoma and Michael Schulte

Special issue of NOWELE 69:1 (2016) v, 112 pp.

Grammarians, Skalds and Rune Carvers II

Edited by Michael Schulte and Robert Nedoma

Special issue of NOWELE 69:2 (2016) v, 123 pp.

Grammatica, Gramadach and Gramadeg: Vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales

Edited by Deborah Hayden and Paul Russell

Grammatica, Gramadach, and Gramadeg : Vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales is concerned with the history of linguistic ideas and literary theory in the vernacular languages of medieval Ireland and Wales. While much good work, especially by Vivian Law, has been done on… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 125] 2016. xvi, 226 pp.

History of Linguistics 2014: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25–29 August 2014

Edited by Carlos Assunção, Gonçalo Fernandes and Rolf Kemmler

This volume brings together a selection of 20 out of altogether 170 papers presented at the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), held at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro in Vila Real, Portugal, 25–29 August 2014. It is divided… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 126] 2016. xii, 277 pp.

Humour and Relevance

Francisco Yus

This book offers a cognitive-pragmatic, and specifically relevance-theoretic, analysis of different types of humorous discourse, together with the inferential strategies that are at work in the processing of such discourses. The book also provides a cognitive pragmatics description of how… read more

[Topics in Humor Research, 4] 2016. xix, 367 pp.

Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective

Edited by Eystein Dahl and Krzysztof Stroński

This volume presents a state-of-the-art survey of synchronic and diachronic dimensions of Ergativity in the Indo-Aryan language family. It contains an introduction drawing on the most important recent typological and theoretical contributions to this field, plus seven papers about the origin,… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 112] 2016. v, 267 pp.

Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms: Syntactic properties and interpretative effects

Edited by Werner Frey, André Meinunger and Kerstin Schwabe

This book deals with sentential proforms and their relationship to their associated clauses. Sentential proforms are highly interesting from the point of view of grammatical theory, since their occurrence is determined not only by syntax, but also by prosody and semantics. The present volume… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 232] 2016. v, 278 pp.

Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence

Edited by Alejandro Cuza, Lori Czerwionka and Daniel Olson

Inquires in Hispanic Linguistics: From Theory to Empirical Evidence showcases eighteen chapters from formal and empirical approaches related to Spanish syntax and semantics, phonetics and phonology, and language contact and variation. Drawing on data from a number of monolingual and contact Spanish… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 12] 2016. xi, 358 pp.

Intonation Units Revisited: Cesuras in talk-in-interaction

Dagmar Barth-Weingarten

Intonation units have been notoriously difficult to identify in natural talk. Problems include fuzzy boundaries, lack of exhaustivity, and the potential circularity involved when studying their interface with other language-organizational dimensions. This volume advocates a way to resolve such… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 29] 2016. xviii, 318 pp.

Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields

Edited by Meghan E. Armstrong, Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell

Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields is a volume of empirical research papers incorporating recent theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary advances in the field of intonation, as they relate to the Ibero-Romance languages. The volume brings… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 6] 2016. xxi, 389 pp.

Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country

Edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Diane Hafner

This volume offers a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic, anthropological, archaeological and historical work focused on Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, in Australia’s northeast. The volume also honours Bruce Rigsby, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Queensland,… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 18] 2016. x, 492 pp.

Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun

Edited by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Dagostino

This unique collection of articles in honor of Marianne Mithun represents the very latest in research on language contact and language change in the Indigenous languages of the Americas. The book aims to provide new theoretical and empirical insights into how and why languages change, especially… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 173] 2016. viii, 416 pp.

Language Periphery: Monocollocable words in English, Italian, German and Czech

Compiled and edited by František Čermák, Jan Čermák, Zora Obstová and Marie Vachková

A full-length study of monocollocable words, i.e. words whose usage is severely restricted to one or a few combinations only (such as English ado in without much/further ado), that brings together corpus-based data from the four languages along with studies analysing, along both general and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 74] 2016. vi, 108 pp. + index

Language, Discourse, Style: Selected works of John McH. Sinclair

Edited by Sonia Zyngier

For the first time, the works on stylistics by one of the most brilliant linguists of our times are collected in a single volume. This book highlights the evolution of John Sinclair’s theories and insights from studies on language teaching through detailed analyses of text and discourse, and into… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 22] 2016. xxiii, 282 pp.

Lexical plurals and beyond

Edited by Peter Lauwers and Marie Lammert

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 39:2 (2016) v, 201 pp.

Linguistic Perspectives on Morphological Processing

Edited by Harald Clahsen, Vera Heyer and Jana Reifegerste

Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 11:2 (2016) v, 168 pp.

Linguistic Rhythm and Literacy

Edited by Jenny Thomson and Linda Jarmulowicz

The intersection of sound processing, speech production, and literacy is a promising and growing area of study. This volume showcases recent empirical research exploring the association between linguistic rhythm and reading. Linguistic rhythm does not easily assume a single definition, which is… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 17] 2016. xiv, 286 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2016

Edited by Jenny Audring and Sander Lestrade

Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles representing current research in the Netherlands, in various fields of linguistics.This year's volume is based on the 47th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands (Utrecht, 7 February,… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 33] 2016. iv, 179 pp. | open access

Master Narratives, Identities, and the Stories of Former Slaves

Jonathan Clifton and Dorien Van De Mieroop

This book is intended for researchers in the field of narrative from post-graduate level onwards. It analyzes the audio-recordings of the narratives of former slaves from the American South which are now publically available on the Library of Congress website: Voices from the days of slavery. More… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 22] 2016. viii, 229 pp.

Memory and memorialization

Edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Elana Shohamy

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 2:3 (2016) v, 104 pp.

MetaNet

Edited by Miriam R.L. Petruck

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 8:2 (2016) v, 192 pp.

Metaphor and Communication

Edited by Elisabetta Gola and Francesca Ervas

This collection of papers presents different views on metaphor in communication. The overall aim is to show that the communicative dimension of metaphor cannot be reduced to its conceptual and/or linguistic dimension. The volume addresses two main questions: does the communicative dimension of… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 5] 2016. vi, 289 pp.

Mixing Metaphor

Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.

Mixing metaphors in speech, writing, and even gesture, is traditionally viewed as a sign of inconsistency in thought and language. Despite the prominence of mixed metaphors, there have been surprisingly few attempts to comprehensively explain why people mix their metaphors so frequently and in the… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 6] 2016. xiv, 269 pp.

Modal Meaning in Construction Grammar

Edited by Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 8:1 (2016) vi, 129 pp.

Morphological Metatheory

Edited by Daniel Siddiqi and Heidi Harley

The field of morphology is particularly heterogeneous. Investigators differ on key points at every level of theory. These divisions are not minor issues about technical implementation, but rather are foundational issues that mold the underlying anatomy of any theory. The field has developed very… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 229] 2016. xiii, 547 pp.

Multimodality, Politics and Ideology

Edited by David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 15:3 (2016) v, 126 pp.

Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’

Edited by Lesley Stirling, Jennifer Green, Tania Strahan and Susan Douglas

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 26:2 (2016) v, 308 pp.

Nasals and Nasalization in Spanish and Portuguese: Perception, phonetics and phonology

C. Elizabeth Goodin-Mayeda

Nasality, whether part of a consonant or vowel, has certain phonetic and phonological characteristics that lead to outcomes seen time and again in languages with and without common ancestries. Spanish and Portuguese constitute a particularly fruitful language pairing for studying phonological… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 9] 2016. x, 115 pp.

New Questions for the Next Decade

Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben † and Victor Kuperman

Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 11:3 (2016) v, 165 pp.

New Theoretical Insights into Untruthfulness

Edited by Marta Dynel

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 23:1 (2016) v, 208 pp.

Occupy: The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements

Edited by Luisa Martín Rojo

Large-scale protest movements have recently transformed urban common spaces into sites of resistance. The Arab Spring, the European Summer, the American Fall in 2011, the revolts in India and South Africa and, more recently, in Istanbul, in several cities in Brazil, and in Hong Kong, are part of a… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 83] 2016. viii, 180 pp.

Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest

Edited by John Flowerdew and Rodney H. Jones

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 15:5 (2016) vi, 147 pp.

Pejoration

Edited by Rita Finkbeiner, Jörg Meibauer and Heike Wiese

Though “pejoration” is an important notion for linguistic analysis and theory, there is still a lack of theoretical understanding and sound descriptive analysis. In this timely collection, the phenomenon of pejoration is studied from a number of angles. It contains studies from phonology,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 228] 2016. vii, 357 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013

Edited by Stuart Davis and Usama Soltan

The study of Arabic dialects has been an important and rich area of research over the past thirty-five years or so, with significant implications for modern linguistic analysis. The current volume builds on this tradition with ten scholarly contributions that provide novel data and analyses in… read more

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 3] 2016. xvii, 238 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Gainesville, Florida, 2014

Edited by Youssef A. Haddad and Eric Potsdam

This volume makes important contributions to the growing body of descriptive and theoretical studies in Arabic linguistics. It focuses on the rich linguistic work being done on Arabic dialects. The papers on individual dialects draw attention to the micro-variation that exists, emphasize that they… read more

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 4] 2016. xii, 248 pp.

Perspectives on Narrativity and Narrative Perspectivization

Edited by Natalia Igl and Sonja Zeman

The book offers a novel approach to the question of how to model narrativity against the background of perspectivization. By bringing together contributions from neuro- and cognitive linguistics, literary studies, and picture theory, the volume uncovers basic mechanisms of perspectivization that… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 21] 2016. viii, 185 pp.

Quantifying Expressions in the History of German: Syntactic reanalysis and morphological change

Dorian Roehrs and Christopher D. Sapp

This study describes the 1200-year history of German quantifying expressions like nîoman anderro > niemand anderer ‘nobody else’, analyzing the morpho-syntactic developments within the generative framework. The quantifiers examined arose from various lexical sources/categories (nouns, adjectives,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 230] 2016. xvii, 299 pp.

Queering Borders: Language, sexuality, and migration

Edited by David A.B. Murray

In recent years, migration has moved to the forefront of national and global debates, intensifying discussions about borders, security, identity and citizenship. In this volume we ask how language and sexuality impact these discussions: how do sexuality and language contribute toward the… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 85] 2016. v, 158 pp.

Reflexivity in Late Modernity: Accounts from linguistic ethnographies of youth. AILA Review, Volume 29

Edited by Miguel Pérez-Milans

This issue engages with contemporary sociological debates on reflexivity, youth, and late modernity. Drawing from the ontological and epistemological lens of linguistic ethnography, the contributors describe different indexical forms of language use (linguistic styles, discourse registers, small… read more

[AILA Review, 29] 2016. iii, 213 pp. | open access

Restructuring Chinese Speech Communities: Urbanization, language contact and identity formation

Edited by Marinus van den Berg

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:1 (2016) v, 173 pp.

The Role of Functions in Syntax: A unified approach to language theory, description, and typology

Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay

The main aim of this book is to address a fundamental question in linguistics, namely why languages are similar and why they are different. The study proposes that languages are fundamentally similar when they encode the same meanings in their grammatical systems and that languages are different… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 111] 2016. xvi, 308 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 10: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 28, Lisbon

Edited by Ernestina Carrilho, Alexandra Fiéis, Maria Lobo and Sandra Pereira

This volume contains a selection of papers of the 28th Going Romance conference, which was organized by the Linguistics centers of Universidade de Lisboa and Universidade Nova de Lisboa in December 2014. It assembles the invited contributions by Alain Rouveret, Guido Mensching, Luigi Rizzi, and… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 10] 2016. x, 330 pp.

Romance Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17-19 April, 2013

Edited by Christina Tortora, Marcel den Dikken, Ignacio L. Montoya and Teresa O'Neill

This volume contains a selection of peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held in New York in 2013. The articles deal with various synchronic and diachronic aspects of Romance languages and dialects world-wide. They will be of interest… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 9] 2016. xix, 418 pp.

Second Language Acquisition of Turkish

Edited by Ayşe Gürel

This book brings together the findings of current studies on the second language (L2) acquisition of Turkish, an Altaic language with more than 140 million native speakers around the world. There is now a growing interest in learning and teaching Turkish as an L2, both in and outside Turkey.… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 59] 2016. vi, 351 pp.

Sequential Voicing in Japanese: Papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project

Edited by Timothy J. Vance and Mark Irwin

The papers in this tightly focused collection all report recent research on aspects of rendaku (‘sequential voicing’), the well-known morphophonemic phenomenon in Japanese that affects initial consonants of non-initial elements in complex words (mostly compounds). The papers include… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 176] 2016. ix, 279 pp.

Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis

Edited by Sandro Sessarego and Fernando Tejedo-Herrero

This book explores the current state of Spanish sociolinguistics and its contribution to theories of language variation and change, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. It offers original analyses on a variety of topics across a wide spectrum of linguistic subfields from different… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 8] 2016. xvi, 406 pp.

Starting Over – The Language Development in Internationally-Adopted Children

Edited by Fred Genesee and Audrey Delcenserie

Internationally-adopted children are a unique population of language learners. They discontinue acquisition of their birth language when they are adopted by families that speak other languages. Their unique language learning history raises important practical, clinical and theoretical issues.… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 18] 2016. vii, 208 pp.

The Structure of the English NP: Synchronic and diachronic explorations

Edited by Kristin Davidse

Special issue of Functions of Language 23:1 (2016) v, 147 pp.

Studies of Discourse and Governmentality: New perspectives and methods

Edited by Paul McIlvenny, Julia Zhukova Klausen and Laura Bang Lindegaard

This volume brings together analyses of governmentality from different angles in order to explore the multiple forms, practices, modes, programmes and rationalities of the ‘conduct of conduct’ today. Following the publication of Foucault’s annual lecture series at the Collège de France, scholars… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 66] 2016. vii, 402 pp.

Switch Reference 2.0

Edited by Rik van Gijn and Jeremy Hammond

Switch reference is a grammatical process that marks a referential relationship between arguments of two (or more) verbs. Typically it has been characterized as an inflection pattern on the verb itself, encoding identity or non-identity between subject arguments separately from traditional person… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 114] 2016. vi, 503 pp.

Third Person References: Forms and functions in two spoken genres of Spanish

Jenny Dumont

This volume, a case study on the grammar of third person references in two genres of spoken Ecuadorian Spanish, examines from a discourse-analytic perspective how genre affects linguistic patterns and how researchers can look for and interpret genre effects. This marks a timely contribution to… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 71] 2016. ix, 179 pp.

Tibetan Margins

Guest-edited by Daniel Berounský and Jarmila Ptáčková

Special issue of Archív Orientální 84:3 (2016) iv, 195 pp.

Transdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Empathy

Edited by Paul Sopčák, Massimo Salgaro and J. Berenike Herrmann

Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 6:1 (2016) v, 174 pp.

Transnational discourses of peripheral sexualities in the Hispanic world

Edited by Michael J. Horswell and Nuria Godón

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 5:2 (2016) v, 150 pp.

Ute Dictionary

T. Givón

This third volume of our Ute language collection contains the Ute dictionary. It opens with several introductory chapters that link the dictionary to our Ute Reference Grammar (2011) and explain the structure and use of the dictionary. The bulk of the information on the meaning and usage of Ute… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 15] 2016. xiv, 373 pp.

Visually Situated Language Comprehension

Edited by Pia Knoeferle, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matthew W. Crocker

Visually Situated Language Comprehension has been compiled as a state-of the-art introduction to real-time language processing in visually-situated contexts. It covers the history of this emergent field, explains key methodological developments and discusses the insights these methods have enabled… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 93] 2016. x, 358 pp.

World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations

Edited by Elena Seoane and Cristina Suárez-Gómez

This book provides a collection of articles that reflect the current state of affairs in the blossoming field of World Englishes by bringing together several innovative synchronic and diachronic approaches. It contributes to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the criteria that make a… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G57] 2016. viii, 285 pp.

World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition: Insights from Southeast Asian Englishes

Michael Percillier

Bridging the gap between the fields of World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition, this volume offers an in-depth comparative analysis of two postcolonial varieties of English (Singapore and Malaysian English) and neighbouring Indonesian learner English in order to examine the Outer/Expanding… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G58] 2016. xviii, 205 pp.

The dynamicity of communication below, around and above the clause

Edited by Ben Clarke and Jorge Arús-Hita

Special issue of English Text Construction 9:1 (2016) v, 219 pp.

The locus of linguistic variation

Edited by Constantine Lignos, Laurel MacKenzie and Meredith Tamminga

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 16:2 (2016) x, 186 pp.

The pragmatics of professional discourse

Edited by Winnie Cheng

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:1 (2016) vi, 168 pp.

The referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences

Edited by Barbara De Cock and Bettina Kluge

Special issue of Pragmatics 26:3 (2016) ca. 150 pp. | open access

“Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Cliff Goddard and Zhengdao Ye

In the fast-growing fields of happiness studies and pain research, which have attracted scholars from diverse disciplines including psychology, philosophy, medicine, and economics, this volume provides a much-needed cross-linguistic perspective. It centres on the question of how much ways of… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 84] 2016. vi, 145 pp.

The Acquisition of Inflection in Q’anjob’al Maya

Pedro Mateo Pedro

Most studies on the acquisition of verbal inflection have examined languages with a single verb suffix. This book offers a study on the acquisition of verb inflections in Q’anjob’al Maya. Q’anjob’al has separate inflections for aspect, subject and object agreement, and status suffixes. The subject… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 14] 2015. xiii, 144 pp.

The Acquisition of Italian: Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition

Adriana Belletti and Maria Teresa Guasti

A major contribution to the study of language acquisition and language development inspired by theoretical linguistics has been made by research on the acquisition of Italian syntax. This book offers an updated overview of results from theory-driven experimental and corpus-based research on the… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 57] 2015. xiv, 326 pp.

The Acquisition of Reference

Edited by Ludovica Serratrice and Shanley E.M. Allen

Referring to entities is one of the key functions of language; learning to understand and use the relevant referential expressions is one of children’s major linguistic achievements. The 13 chapters of this volume bring together a wealth of information on the acquisition of referential processes in… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 15] 2015. vi, 339 pp.

The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings

Edited by Tiffany Judy and Silvia Perpiñán

By examining the acquisition of Spanish in combination with languages other than English (Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Nahuatl, Quechua, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish), this volume advances novel data pertinent to the field’s understanding of acquisition of Spanish… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 3] 2015. vi, 362 pp.

The Acquisition of the Present

Edited by Dalila Ayoun

This is the first edited volume that tackles the acquisition of the present (tense, aspect, temporality), an under-researched area, particularly compared to the acquisition of past temporality. The first two chapters focus on the L1 acquisition of English from the perspective of the Aspect… read more

[Not in series, 196] 2015. xvi, 347 pp.

Adverbs: Functional and diachronic aspects

Edited by Karin Pittner, Daniela Elsner and Fabian Barteld

Adverbs as a word class are notoriously difficult to define. The volume deals with the delimitation of this category, its internal structure, the morphological make-up of adverbs and their positions in syntactic structures. A closer look at diachronic developments sheds light on the characteristics… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 170] 2015. v, 275 pp.

Afro-Peruvian Spanish: Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles

Sandro Sessarego

The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in the Americas in a broader sense. In order to provide a more concrete answer to… read more

[Creole Language Library, 51] 2015. xvi, 184 pp. | open access

Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 14: Papers from the 2013 Piliscsaba Conference

Edited by Katalin É. Kiss, Balázs Surányi and Éva Dékány

This volume of papers selected from the 11th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian addresses current topics in Hungarian linguistics, focusing on their theoretical implications.The papers in syntax investigate the complement zone of nouns, the syntax of case assigning adpositions,… read more

[Approaches to Hungarian, 14] 2015. v, 296 pp.

Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives

Florent Perek

The argument structure of verbs, defined as the part of grammar that deals with how participants in verbal events are expressed in clauses, is a classical topic in linguistics that has received considerable attention in the literature. This book investigates argument structure in English from a… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 17] 2015. x, 246 pp.

Argumentation in Political Deliberation

Edited by Marcin Lewiński and Dima Mohammed

The goal of this volume is to further the examination of the role, shape, and quality of argumentation in political deliberation. The chapters collected in the volume employ the concepts and methods developed within argumentation theory to investigate the specifics of political discourse across… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 76] 2015. v, 178 pp.

Beyond Aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages

Edited by Doris L. Payne and Shahar Shirtz

Certain grammatical elements help hearers know how propositions are conceptually related: Does a given proposition advance the foregrounded event line, or not? Initiate versus continue an event chain? Indicate that one proposition belongs to a different "mental space" from the previous one? Provide… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 109] 2015. vii, 321 pp.

Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES V): Desde el año 1861 hasta el año 1899

Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres y Hans-Josef Niederehe

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably, and most manuscript and secondary sources had never been… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 124] 2015. v, 957 pp.

Case in Russian: A sign-oriented approach

Alexandra Beytenbrat

This volume presents an analysis of Russian case from a sign-oriented perspective. The study was inspired by William Diver’s analysis of Latin case and follows the spirit of the Columbia School of linguistics. The fundamental premise that underlies this volume is that language is a communicative… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 70] 2015. xiii, 182 pp.

Causation, Permission, and Transfer: Argument realisation in GET, TAKE, PUT, GIVE and LET verbs

Edited by Brian Nolan, Gudrun Rawoens and Elke Diedrichsen

This book offers a comprehensive investigative study of the argument realisation of the concepts of causative purpose, permit, let/allow and transfer in a broad cross-linguistic typologically diverse mix of languages with GIVE, GET, TAKE, PUT, and LET verbs. This volume stands as the first… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 167] 2015. vi, 499 pp.

Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse

Edited by Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl

This volume explores the dynamics of genre conventions in historical English news discourse. The contributions cover a wide spectrum of news writing and publication formats: from corantos to modern tabloids, from prototypical hard news stories and crime reports to more specialised genres such as… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 5] 2015. xiv, 254 pp.

Circulating Signs and People: Politics, affect, ethnography

Edited by Daniel N. Silva

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 6:2 (2015) vi, 144 pp.

Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change: Motion Verbs from Latin to Romance

Natalya I. Stolova

This monograph offers the first in-depth lexical and semantic analysis of motion verbs in their development from Latin to nine Romance languages — Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Sardinian, and Raeto-Romance — demonstrating that the patterns of innovation and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 331] 2015. viii, 261 pp.

Contemporary Chinese Discourse and Social Practice in China

Edited by Linda Tsung and Wei Wang

Significant socio-political changes in China have had great impact on Chinese discourse. Changes to the discourse have become an increasing focus of scholarship. This book examines contemporary Chinese discourse and social practice in China with a focus on the role that language plays in the… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 4] 2015. xvi, 223 pp.

Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres

Edited by Monika Kopytowska

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 3:1 (2015) vi, 229 pp.

Contrasting contrastive approaches

Guest-edited by Bart Defrancq

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 15:1 (2015) v, 160 pp.

Corpora, Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Susan Hunston

Edited by Nicholas Groom, Maggie Charles and Suganthi John

Corpus linguistics has had a revolutionary impact on grammar and discourse research. Not only has it opened up entirely new theoretical perspectives and methodological possibilities for both fields, but it has also to a considerable extent erased the boundaries that have traditionally been drawn… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 73] 2015. xvi, 310 pp.

Corpus-based Research in Applied Linguistics: Studies in Honor of Doug Biber

Edited by Viviana Cortes and Eniko Csomay

This volume comprises nine contributions that were written by up-and-coming corpus-based researchers with varied areas of expertise, who were all disciples of Douglas Biber sometime in the past two decades. These papers cover a wide variety of linguistic analyses and describe the principles of the… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 66] 2015. xix, 219 pp.

Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages

Edited by Amina Mettouchi, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet

This volume presents new findings based on the analysis of spoken corpora in thirteen different Afro-Asiatic languages – a unique endeavor in the domain of lesser-described languages. It will be of interest to corpus linguists, general linguists, typologists, and linguists specializing in… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 68] 2015. vi, 338 pp.

Creating Social Orientation Through Language: A socio-cognitive theory of situated social meaning

Andreas Langlotz

This monograph develops a new socio-cognitive theory of sense-making for analyzing the creative management of situated social meaning. Drawing on cognitive-linguistic and social-interactional heuristics in an innovative way, the book both theorizes and demonstrates how embodied cognizers create… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 17] 2015. xix, 366 pp.

Crime and Corpus: The linguistic representation of crime in the press

Ulrike Tabbert

Reports on crime in newspapers do not provide a neutral representation of criminals and their offences but instead construct them in accordance with societal discourse surrounding this issue. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of Linguistics, Criminology, and Media… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 20] 2015. xvii, 181 pp.

Current Issues in Phraseology

Edited by Sebastian Hoffmann, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand

In this stimulating collection of papers, leading researchers from Europe and North America demonstrate the theoretical and methodological importance of corpus studies of phraseology and show how data-intensive case studies provide new perspectives on language use. One of the main theoretical… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 74] 2015. viii, 166 pp.

Death, Graves and the Hereafter in Islam: Muslim Perceptions of the Last Things During the Middle Ages and Today

Guest-edited by Bronislav Ostřanský and Miroslav Melčák

Special issue of Archív Orientální 83:3 (2015) iv, 228 pp.

Demonstratives and Possessives with Attitude: An intersubjectively-oriented empirical study

Magdalena Rybarczyk

Linking grammatical analyses with ideas about a shareable reality, this book investigates some fascinating ways in which nominal reference is exploited to meet interpersonal and rhetorical goals. It focuses on the use of demonstrative and possessive determiners in Polish discourse and proposes that… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 51] 2015. xxii, 226 pp.

Diachronic Construction Grammar

Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer and Spike Gildea

Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 18] 2015. xi, 263 pp.

The Diachrony of Grammar

T. Givón

The case-studies assembled in these two volumes span a lifetime of research into the diachrony of grammar. That is, into the rise and fall of syntactic constructions and their attendant grammatical morphology. While focused squarely on the data, the studies are nonetheless cast in an explicit… read more

[Not in series, 192] 2015. 928 pp. (Hb in 2 vols.)

Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities

Edited by Dale Koike and Carl S. Blyth

Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities contains a collection of new articles that approach the study of dialogue through the construct of the ‘community’, that is, a group of people who come together for any number of reasons; e.g. geographical location, a common goal, a search for… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 27] 2015. vi, 314 pp.

Discourse Analysis in Translation Studies

Edited by Jeremy Munday and Meifang Zhang

Special issue of Target 27:3 (2015) vi, 194 pp.

Discourse analysis, policy analysis, and the borders of EU identity

Edited by Caterina Carta and Ruth Wodak

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 14:1 (2015) v, 174 pp.

The Discourse of Nurse-Patient Interactions: Contrasting the communicative styles of U.S. and international nurses

Shelley Staples

The Discourse of Nurse-Patient Interactions: Contrasting the communicative styles of U.S. and international nurses is the first book to quantitatively examine a wide range of linguistic features in a corpus of interactions between nurses and standardized patients. The main goal of this book is to… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 72] 2015. xiv, 263 pp.

Discourse, Identity and Legitimacy: Self and Other in representations of Iran's nuclear programme

Majid KhosraviNik

This book is a critical study of the ways that discourses of the (national) Self and Other are invoked and reflected in the reporting of a major international political conflict. Taking Iran’s nuclear programme as a case study, this book offers extensive textual analysis, comparative investigation… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 62] 2015. viii, 304 pp.

Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders

Edited by John Wilson and Diana Boxer

Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders focuses on the discourse practices of women in global political leadership. It provides a series of discursive studies of women in positions of political leadership. ‘Political leadership’ is defined as achieving a senior position within a political… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 63] 2015. vi, 360 pp.

Discourse-oriented Syntax

Edited by Josef Bayer, Roland Hinterhölzl and Andreas Trotzke

Until recently, little attention has been paid within syntax to components of discourse meaning that go beyond information structure and fall into the domain of non-at-issue meaning operating at the level of illocutionary force. To approach this domain, many of the contributions of this volume deal… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 226] 2015. v, 253 pp.

Discursive Strategies and Political Hegemony: The Turkish case

Can Küçükali

With the help of critical discourse analysis (CDA), this book approaches Turkish politics from an interdisciplinary perspective in order to deepen our understanding of political power and discourse. This study re-conceptualizes discursive strategies as hegemonic projects and thirteen governmental… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 64] 2015. vii, 184 pp.

The Dynamics of Political Discourse: Forms and functions of follow-ups

Edited by Anita Fetzer, Elda Weizman and Lawrence N. Berlin

Rethinking Sinclair and Coulthard’s sequentiality-based notion of the follow-up, this volume explores its forms and communicative functions in traditional and contemporary modes of communication (parliamentary sessions, interviews, debates, speeches, op-eds, discussion forums and Twitter) wherein… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 259] 2015. vi, 278 pp.

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 15 (2015)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Kevin McManus, Norbert Vanek and Danijela Trenkic

The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 15] 2015. ix, 163 pp.

Early Germanic Languages in Contact

Edited by John Ole Askedal and Hans Frede Nielsen †

This volume contains revised and, in some cases, extended versions of twelve of the fourteen lectures read at the conference on “Early Germanic Languages in Contact” held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense on 22-23 August 2013 – with a paper and a review article added at the end on… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 27] 2015. x, 304 pp.

Education in Languages of Lesser Power: Asia-Pacific Perspectives

Edited by Craig Alan Volker and Fred E. Anderson

The cultural diversity of the Asia-Pacific region is reflected in a multitude of linguistic ecologies of languages of lesser power, i.e., of indigenous and immigrant languages whose speakers lack collective linguistic power, especially in education. This volume looks at a representative sampling of… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 35] 2015. xv, 300 pp.

Emotion in Language: Theory – research – application

Edited by Ulrike M. Lüdtke

The miracle of children's language development and the joy of expressive language on the one hand and the vulnerability of language and the sorrow and grief caused by its distortion or even loss in people with aphasia or dementia on the other hand show us the inseparability of emotion and language… read more

[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 10] 2015. xi, 458 pp.

Epistemological issue with keynote article “The role of language processing in language acquisition” by Colin Phillips and Lara Ehrenhofer

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 5:4 (2015) iv, 147 pp.

Evidentiality and the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Edited by Bert Cornillie and Juana I. Marín-Arrese

Coming to grips with the semantics-pragmatics interface of evidentiality is an important step forward towards a comprehensive lexicography of this functional category. It not only allows for differentiating between encoded evidential meanings and contextually inferred pragmatic meanings, but also… read more

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 29] 2015. v, 216 pp.

Explored but not Assumed: Revisiting Commonalities in Asian Pacific Communication

Edited by Hui-Ching Chang and Ling Chen

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:1 (2015) v, 164 pp.

Expressing and Describing Surprise

Edited by Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:2 (2015) vi, 250 pp.

Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu

Claire Lefebvre

This book is about the functional categories of three Caribbean creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian Creole and Papiamentu with two specific goals. The first one is to evaluate the respective contribution of the source languages to the functional categories of these three creoles. The second is to evaluate… read more

[Creole Language Library, 50] 2015. xvii, 386 pp.

Gender Across Languages: Volume 4

Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Heiko Motschenbacher

This is the fourth volume of a comprehensive reference work which provides systematic descriptions of the manifestations of gender in languages of diverse areal, typological and socio-cultural affiliations. To the 30 languages already analysed in previous volumes, Vol. 4 adds another 12 languages… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 36] 2015. xv, 415 pp.

Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change

Edited by Janne Bondi Johannessen † and Joseph C. Salmons

This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 18] 2015. vi, 418 pp. | open access

A Grammar of Mandarin

Jeroen Wiedenhof

A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth. Crammed with examples from everyday conversations, it aims to let the language speak for itself. The book opens with an overview of the language situation and a thorough… read more

[Not in series, 197] 2015. xxv, 477 pp.

Grammatical Change in English World-Wide

Edited by Peter Collins

The contributions to this volume apply and extend the techniques of corpus linguistics and diachronic linguistics to the challenge of describing and explaining grammatical change in varieties of English world-wide. The book is divided into two parts, with ten chapters on ‘Inner Circle’ varieties… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 67] 2015. vi, 488 pp.

Handbook of Terminology: Volume 1

Edited by Hendrik J. Kockaert and Frieda Steurs

Terminology has started to explore unbeaten paths since Wüster, and has nowadays grown into a multi-facetted science, which seems to have reached adulthood, thanks to integrating multiple contributions not only from different linguistic schools, including computer, corpus, variational,… read more

[Handbook of Terminology, 1] 2015. xix, 539 pp.

Head Movement in Syntax

Rosmin Mathew

Head Movement in Syntax argues that verb movement is a narrow syntactic phenomenon that can affect locality constraints. The altered locality domains are detectable from the way certain phrasal elements such as a phrase containing a Wh are forced to undergo movement. The basic idea explored in the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 224] 2015. xi, 190 pp.

Hearer-Orientation in Spoken Genres

Edited by Bert Cornillie and Barbara De Cock

Special issue of Spanish in Context 12:1 (2015) vi, 176 pp.

Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2013

Edited by Rachel Klassen, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela

This collection of articles, contributed by both experienced and novice researchers, addresses core issues in three different domains of Hispanic Linguistics: theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Together these papers provide an overview of how the analysis of Spanish… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 4] 2015. xviii, 339 pp.

Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013

Edited by Dag T.T. Haug

The International Conference on Historical Linguistics is the main conference for specialists in language change, and the 2013 conference in Oslo drew more than 300 participants, with 182 papers presented in the general session. The 16 papers selected for inclusion in this volume from the general… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 334] 2015. ix, 327 pp.

Honorific language and linguistic politeness in Korean

Edited by John Whitman and Lucien Brown

Special issue of Korean Linguistics 17:2 (2015) v, 140 pp.

How to do Linguistics with R: Data exploration and statistical analysis

Natalia Levshina

This book provides a linguist with a statistical toolkit for exploration and analysis of linguistic data. It employs R, a free software environment for statistical computing, which is increasingly popular among linguists. How to do Linguistics with R: Data exploration and statistical analysis is… read more

[Not in series, 195] 2015. xi, 443 pp.

Iconicity: East meets West

Edited by Masako K. Hiraga, William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita

Iconicity: East Meets West presents an intersection of East-West scholarship on Iconicity. Several of its chapters thus deal with Asian languages and cultures, or a comparison of world languages. Divided into four categories: general issues; sound symbolism and mimetics; iconicity in literary… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 14] 2015. x, 279 pp.

Impersonals and other Agent Defocusing Constructions in French

Michel Achard

This book investigates French impersonals as a functional category. Any structure whose agent is defocused and whose predicate describes a situation stable enough to be generally available should be considered impersonal. In addition to il impersonals, the category also includes demonstrative… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 50] 2015. ix, 372 pp.

Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages

Edited by Patrick Rebuschat

Implicit learning is a fundamental feature of human cognition. Many essential skills, including language comprehension and production, intuitive decision making, and social interaction, are largely dependent on implicit (unconscious) knowledge. Given its relevance, it is not surprising that the… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 48] 2015. xxii, 489 pp.

The In-Situ Approach to Sluicing

Jun Abe

It has been standardly claimed since Merchant (2001) that island violations can be repaired by simply deleting the categories that induce such violations, as witnessed by sluicing, an ellipsis construction that deletes TP with a remnant wh-phrase. This book aims to argue that such “repair by… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 222] 2015. viii, 168 pp.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness

Edited by Marina Terkourafi

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness brings together the work of linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and second language experts in order to provide readers with a snapshot of the possibilities for studying im/politeness in the 21st century. The volume is organized along… read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 14] 2015. xi, 279 pp.

Israeli Peace Discourse: A cultural approach to CDA

Dalia Gavriely-Nuri

What role do language and discourse play in the advancement of peace? What is the connection between a given society’s “peace language” and the repeated failure of peace initiatives involving it? At the heart of this book lie these basic questions and the attempt to shed light on them from new… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 59] 2015. xviii, 155 pp.

Jamaican Creole Goes Web: Sociolinguistic styling and authenticity in a digital 'Yaad'

Andrea Moll

Large-scale migration after WWII and the prominence of Jamaican Creole in the media have promoted its use all around the globe. Deterritorialisation has entailed the contact-induced transformation of Jamaican Creole in diaspora communities and its adoption by ‘crossers’. Taking sociolinguistic… read more

[Creole Language Library, 49] 2015. viii, 294 pp.

Language & Citizenship

Edited by Tommaso M. Milani

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 14:3 (2015) v, 160 pp.

Language Development: The lifespan perspective

Edited by Annette Gerstenberg and Anja Voeste

Language Development: The lifespan perspective generates insights into the central issues of age-dependent language change, focusing especially on the middle and later stages of life. The contributors exploit contemporary and historical longitudinal data, adopting psycholinguistic, corpus… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 37] 2015. vii, 233 pp.

Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa

Edited by James Essegbey, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin

This volume brings together a number of important perspectives on language documentation and endangerment in Africa from an international cohort of scholars with vast experience in the field. Offering insights from rural and urban settings throughout the continent, these essays consider topics that… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 17] 2015. vi, 317 pp.

Language Endangerment: Disappearing metaphors and shifting conceptualizations

Edited by Elisabeth Piirainen and Ari Sherris

Languages and language varieties around the globe have been diminishing at an astonishing rate. Despite great efforts at language documentation, scholarship on metaphors and figurative units – often particularly fragile parts of language – has been largely neglected until recently. This book, like… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 7] 2015. vi, 208 pp.

Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Edited by Paula Prescod

This collection is a pioneer study of linguistic phenomena in St Vincent and the Grenadines, written by scholars who are both respected in their field of research and connected to the linguistic realities in the geographic area under investigation. This book covers the subfields of… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G51] 2015. xv, 191 pp.

Language Proficiency in Native and Non-native Speakers: Theory and research

Jan H. Hulstijn

This book, written for both seasoned and novice researchers, presents a theory of what is called Basic and Higher Language Cognition (BLC and HLC), a theory aimed at making some fundamental issues concerning first and second language learning and bilingualism (more) empirical. The first part of the… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 41] 2015. xi, 195 pp.

Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factors

Edited by Rik De Busser and Randy J. LaPolla

Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. After a general overview, the… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 6] 2015. vi, 370 pp.

Language Variation - European Perspectives V: Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim, June 2013

Edited by Eivind Torgersen, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland

Language Variation – European Perspectives V is based on papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), which was held in Trondheim, Norway from 26 to 28 June 2013. The 17 papers included in the book explore phonetic and phonological variation… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 17] 2015. xiii, 240 pp.

Language and Cultural Values: Adventures in applied ethnolinguistics

Edited by Bert Peeters

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 2:2 (2015) vii, 161 pp.

Language and Material Culture

Allison Paige Burkette

This innovative and provocative work introduces complexity theory and its application to both the study of language and the study of material culture. The book begins with a wide-ranging theoretical background, covering the areas of dialect geography, the anthropological study of material culture,… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 38] 2015. xvii, 192 pp.

Languages of Governance in Conflict: Negotiating democracy in Tokelau

Ingjerd Hoëm

Through an ethnographically based study of local communicative practices in the Pacific atoll society of Tokelau, the book adds to our understanding of how systems of governance are constituted by minute acts of social interaction, and are informed by our conceptions of the nature of sociality. It… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 13] 2015. xxii, 152 pp.

Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment

Edited by Marcus Callies and Sandra Götz

The aim of this volume is to highlight the benefits and potential of using learner corpora for the testing and assessment of L2 proficiency in both speaking and writing, reflecting the growing importance of learner corpora in applied linguistics and second language acquisition research. Identifying… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 70] 2015. vi, 220 pp.

The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English

Tobias Bernaisch

This book offers the first in-depth corpus-based description of written Sri Lankan English. In comparison to British and Indian English, lexical and lexicogrammatical features of Sri Lankan English are analysed in a complex corpus environment comprising data from the respective components of the… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G54] 2015. xiv, 248 pp.

Linguistic Equality

Edited by Humphrey Tonkin

Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 39:3 (2015) v, 101 pp.

Linguistic Variation in Research Articles: When discipline tells only part of the story

Bethany Gray

Linguistic Variation in Research Articles investigates the linguistic characteristics of academic research articles, going beyond a traditional analysis of the generically-defined research article to take into account varied realizations of research articles within and across disciplines. It… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 71] 2015. xiv, 222 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2015

Edited by Björn Köhnlein and Jenny Audring

The 46th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on 7 February, 2015. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year's meeting, 86 papers were presented, of which 21 were submitted in writing to… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 32] 2015. iv, 169 pp. | open access

The Linguistics of Temperature

Edited by Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

The volume is the first comprehensive typological study of the conceptualisation of temperature in languages as reflected in their systems of central temperature terms (hot, cold, to freeze, etc.). The key issues addressed here include questions such as how languages categorize the temperature… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 107] 2015. xii, 934 pp.

Made-in-Canada Humour: Literary, folk and popular culture

Beverly J. Rasporich

Made-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall… read more

[Topics in Humor Research, 3] 2015. xxi, 300 pp.

Media and communication as antecedents to the transformation agenda in Malaysia: Challenges and realities

Edited by Ali Salman

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:2 (2015) vi, 157 pp.

Metaphor in Specialist Discourse

Edited by J. Berenike Herrmann and Tony Berber Sardinha

Metaphor in Specialist Discourse presents multiple perspectives on metaphor use in specialist and popularized discourse contexts. Using genre and register as starting parameters for deeper exploration, and pushing the boundaries further to open up new areas and possibilities, ten independent… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 4] 2015. xii, 319 pp.

Missionary Linguistics world-wide: Theory, practice and politics

Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 42:2/3 (2015) iv, 257 pp.

The Morphological Expression of Temporality on the Verb in French as a Second Language / L’expression morphologique de la temporalité sur le verbe en français langue seconde

Edited by Pascale Leclercq and Martin Howard

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 6:1 (2015) v, 180 pp.

Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Edited by Dirk Delabastita and Ton Hoenselaars

No literary tradition in early modern Europe was as obsessed with the interaction between the native tongue and its dialectal variants, or with ‘foreign’ languages and the phenomenon of ‘translation’, as English Renaissance drama. Originally published as a themed issue of English Text Construction … read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 73] 2015. viii, 215 pp.

Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by María Jesús Pinar Sanz

The aim of this volume is to advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the relationship between Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics. The innovative nature of the volume in relation to those existing in the field lies in the fact that it brings together contributions from three of… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 78] 2015. x, 212 pp.

Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines

Edited by Franziska Gygax and Miriam A. Locher

This collection of original chapters gives center stage to the concept of ‘narrative’ in medical contexts. The contributors come from the disciplines of literary and cultural studies, linguistics, psychology, and medicine and work with texts as diverse as autobiographies, graphic novels,… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 20] 2015. vii, 217 pp.

Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands

Edited by Farzana Gounder

Comprising of more than twenty five percent of the world’s known languages, the Pacific is considered to be the most linguistically diverse region in the world. What unifies the region is the culture of storytelling, which provides a fundamental means for perpetuating cultural knowledge across… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 21] 2015. xvi, 260 pp.

Negation in Uralic Languages

Edited by Matti Miestamo, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy

The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. As in no other major language family before, a comprehensive typological questionnaire provides the basis for the chapters documenting… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 108] 2015. ix, 667 pp.

New Directions in Grammaticalization Research

Edited by Andrew D.M. Smith, Graeme Trousdale and Richard Waltereit

The articles in this volume examine a number of critical issues in grammaticalization studies, including the relationship between grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, subjectification and intersubjectification, and grammaticalization and language contact. The contributions consider data from… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 166] 2015. xv, 302 pp.

New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar

Edited by Isabel Pérez-Jiménez, Manuel Leonetti and Silvia Gumiel-Molina

This is the first book entirely and exclusively devoted to the grammar of the two copular verbs ser and estar, certainly one of the most intriguing features of Spanish grammar. Although the topic has long attracted the interest of scholars, it had never given rise to a collection of papers that… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 5] 2015. vi, 326 pp.

Norn im keltischen Kontext

Christer Lindqvist

Auch die Britischen Inseln waren von der wikingerzeitlichen Expansion ab dem 8. Jh. betroffen. Nördlich und westlich des dänischen Danelag in England entstanden norwegische Siedlungen auf den Shetland- und Orkneyinseln, in Nordschottland, auf den Hebriden, an der schottischen und nordenglischen… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 26] 2015. xxii, 261 pp.

On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change

Edited by Hendrik De Smet, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde

In much writing on language change, there is a tacit assumption that change operates on a single source construction to produce an innovative target construction. This volume challenges this assumption, by showing that many changes involve interactions between multiple source constructions. In… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 79] 2015. v, 227 pp.

On the Interaction of Constructions with Register and Genre

Edited by Kerstin Fischer and Kiki Nikiforidou

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 7:2 (2015) v, 243 pp.

Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions

Edited by Marta Dynel and Jan Chovanec

This book deals with participation frameworks in modern social and public media. It brings together several cutting-edge research studies that offer exciting new insights into the nature and formats of interpersonal communication in diverse technology-mediated contexts. Some papers introduce new… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 256] 2015. vi, 285 pp.

Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue

Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu, Maria-Ionela Neagu and Stanca Măda

Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue is about the rediscovery of humans as proficient users of language in the sense that – while involved in a dialogue – they listen, observe, discuss, reason, evaluate and conclude; in other words, speakers are no longer interested in defeating… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 26] 2015. xiv, 275 pp.

Phonological and Phonetic Considerations of Lexical Processing

Edited by Gonia Jarema and Gary Libben †

The human ability to understand and produce spoken words is fascinating in its complexity. People often vary in how they pronounce a word. They may need to recognize words spoken with an accent quite different from their own. And, in order to understand a word of a second or foreign language, they… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 80] 2015. ix, 233 pp.

Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages: An Introduction

Viveka Velupillai

This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics. Part I presents the theoretical background, with chapters devoted to the definition of terms, the… read more

[Creole Language Library, 48] 2015. xxvii, 599 pp.

Pragmatic Markers in Irish English

Edited by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan

Pragmatic Markers in Irish English offers 18 studies from the perspective of variational pragmatics by established and younger scholars with an interest in the English of Ireland. Taking a broad definition of pragmatic markers (PMs) as items operating outside the structural limits of the clause… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 258] 2015. vi, 443 pp.

The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns

Edited by Laure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin

This volume presents new research on the pragmatics of personal pronouns. Whereas personal pronouns used to have a reputation of poor substitutes for full NP’s, recent research shows that personal pronouns are a fundamental, if not universal, category, whose pragmatics is central to their… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 171] 2015. vi, 337 pp.

Producing and Managing Restricted Activities: Avoidance and withholding in institutional interaction

Edited by Fabienne H.G. Chevalier and John Moore

This book examines the kinds of talk that service providers working in various settings (e.g. doctors, healthcare providers, helpline call takers, tourist officers) seek to avoid in their interactions with clients, when such talk may be expected or due in some way. The studies utilise Conversation… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 255] 2015. vi, 382 pp.

Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development

Edited by Leonid Kulikov and Nikolaos Lavidas

Although for some scholars the very possibility of syntactic reconstruction remains dubious, numerous studies have appeared reconstructing a variety of basic elements of Proto-Indo-European syntax based on evidence available particularly from ancient and/or archaic Indo-European languages. The… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 75] 2015. v, 158 pp.

Relational work in Facebook and discussion boards/fora

Edited by Miriam A. Locher, Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn

Special issue of Pragmatics 25:1 (2015) 122 pp. | open access

Researching Northern English

Edited by Raymond Hickey

Northern English has become the focus of intensive research in the past decade or so, following on a series of dedicated conferences. The present book brings together leading-edge contributions on various aspects of language use, variation and change in the North of England. The volume covers the… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G55] 2015. x, 483 pp.

Responses to Language Varieties: Variability, processes and outcomes

Edited by Alexei Prikhodkine and Dennis R. Preston

This book is about responses to language variety — their variability, shape, and content, as well as the variable cognitive and neural pathways underlying them. The chapters explore access to, processing of, and outcomes of that diversity and complexity. Many traditions are represented: from social… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 39] 2015. xiv, 249 pp.

Rethinking Syntactocentrism: Architectural issues and case studies at the syntax-pragmatics interface

Andreas Trotzke

The term ‘syntactocentrism’ has been used to criticize the claim that syntax, as regarded in generative linguistics, plays the central role in modeling the mental architecture of the human language faculty. This research monograph explores the conjecture that many of the objections to the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 225] 2015. vi, 147 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013

Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Jeannette Schaeffer and Petra Sleeman

The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. This volume assembles a selection of the papers that were presented at the 27th edition of Going Romance, which was organized by the University of Amsterdam in… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 8] 2015. xi, 280 pp.

Romance Linguistics 2012: Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Cedar City, Utah, 20-22 April 2012

Edited by Jason Smith and Tabea Ihsane

This volume contains a selection of nineteen peer-reviewed papers from the 42nd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, in 2012. The contributions cover a wide range of current topics in the areas of phonetics, phonology, syntax,… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 7] 2015. xii, 304 pp.

Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 3

Igor Mel’čuk

This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language can be described as a mechanism for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms, or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a transition… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 168] 2015. xx, 546 pp.

The Semantics of Chinese Music: Analysing selected Chinese musical concepts

Adrian Tien

Music is a widely enjoyed human experience. It is, therefore, natural that we have wanted to describe, document, analyse and, somehow, grasp it in language. This book surveys a representative selection of musical concepts in Chinese language, i.e. words that describe, or refer to, aspects of… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 5] 2015. xv, 303 pp.

The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes

Robert B. Dewell

The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken in this area of German grammar. Using an extensive collection of naturally occurring data, the author proposes an image-schematic interpretation for each of the productive prefixes be-, ver-, er-, ent-, zer-, um-,… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 49] 2015. xiii, 284 pp.

Sensory Adjectives in the Discourse of Food: A frame-semantic approach to language and perception

Catherine Diederich

Sensory Adjectives in the Discourse of Food presents a frame-based analysis of sensory descriptors. This book investigates the identification and usefulness of conceptual frames in three respects: First, an analysis of scientific language use shows that a semantic interpretation of the adjectives… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 16] 2015. xiv, 220 pp.

Sensory Perceptions in Language and Cognition

Edited by Rosario Caballero and Carita Paradis

Special issue of Functions of Language 22:1 (2015) v, 159 pp.

Signs and Structures: Formal Approaches to Sign Language Syntax

Edited by Paweł Rutkowski

As sign language linguistics has become an important and prodigious field of research in the last few decades, it comes as no surprise that the repertoire of methodological approaches to the study of the communication of the Deaf has also expanded considerably. While earlier work on sign languages… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 71] 2015. v, 143 pp.

Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics: South African political discourses

Edited by Mirjana N. Dedaić

The discourses of the post-apartheid South Africa embody symbols of change and promises of new lessons in history. This is the first volume that brings together analyses of a variety of discourses produced in South Africa through which we follow the evolution of transitional processes in the… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 65] 2015. vii, 251 pp.

Sociology of Discourse: From institutions to social change

Óscar García Agustín

Sociology of Discourse takes the perspective that collective actors like social movements are capable of creating social change from below by creating new institutions through alternative discourses. Institutionalization becomes a process of moving away from existing institutions towards creating… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 61] 2015. xi, 217 pp.

A Sociophonetic Approach to Scottish Standard English

Ole Schützler

Applying a sociophonetic research paradigm, this volume presents an investigation of variation and change in the Scottish Standard English accent. Based on original audio recordings made in Edinburgh, it provides detailed acoustic and auditory analyses of selected accent features. In contrast to… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G53] 2015. xx, 179 pp.

South Pacific Englishes: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan English and Cook Islands English

Carolin Biewer

Second-language varieties of English in the South Pacific have received scant attention, until now. This monograph offers the first book-length analysis of the sociolinguistics and morphosyntax of three representatives of South Pacific L2 English in comparison – two of which have never been… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G52] 2015. xvi, 351 pp.

Spanish Phraseology: Varieties and variations

Edited by Pedro Mogorrón Huerta and Xavier Blanco

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 38:2 (2015) v, 159 pp.

Specific Language Impairment: Current trends in research

Edited by Stavroula Stavrakaki

This volume is dedicated to the field of Specific Language Impairment (SLI), addressing important research questions, including: the interrelation of genetic and cognitive profiles of individuals with SLI; the comorbidity issue and clinical boundaries between SLI and other developmental disorders;… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 58] 2015. ix, 327 pp.

Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti

Edited by Elisa Di Domenico, Cornelia Hamann and Simona Matteini

The volume contains 18 contributions from senior and junior scholars covering core issues within the theoretical investigation of the architecture and the mechanisms of the faculty of language, with particular emphasis on the computational component. They all pursue a comparative approach,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 223] 2015. xxvi, 421 pp.

Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language

Edited by Kristine Bentzen, Henrik Rosenkvist and Janne Bondi Johannessen †

Övdalian is spoken in central Sweden by about 2000 speakers. Traditionally categorized as a dialect of Swedish, it has not received much international attention. However, Övdalian is typologically closer to Faroese or Icelandic than it is to Swedish, and since it has been spoken in relative… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 221] 2015. v, 232 pp. | open access

Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical

Edited by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Tuomas Huumo

This volume analyzes constructions with non-canonical subjects in individual languages and cross-linguistically, drawing on insights from cognitive and discourse-functional linguistics. Prototypical subjects have often been characterized in terms of their semantic, syntactic and discourse features,… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 16] 2015. viii, 324 pp.

The Syntax of Multiple-que Sentences in Spanish: Along the left periphery

Julio Villa-García

Complementizers offer a window into the architecture of the left-periphery and further our understanding of the demarcation of the boundaries between the C(omplementizer) and T(ense) domains. Using the articulated left-periphery as a laboratory and Spanish constructions featuring more than one… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2] 2015. xv, 274 pp.

T&I pedagogy in dialogue with other disciplines

Edited by Sonia Colina and Claudia V. Angelelli

Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 10:1 (2015) v, 163 pp.

Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea: Psycholinguistic and anthropological linguistic analyses of tales told by Trobriand children and adults

Gunter Senft

This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 16] 2015. xviii, 299 pp. | open access

Teachers’ Plurilingual Identities in Transnational Contexts

Edited by Clea Schmidt and Antoinette Gagné

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 38:3 (2015) 98 pp. | open access

Temporality in Interaction

Edited by Arnulf Deppermann and Susanne Günthner

Time is a constitutive element of everyday interaction: all verbal interaction is produced and interpreted in time. However, it is only recently that research in linguistics has started to take the temporality of linguistic production and reception in interaction into account by studying the… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 27] 2015. vi, 342 pp.

Terminology across Languages and Domains

Edited by Patrick Drouin, Natalia Grabar, Thierry Hamon and Kyo Kageura

Special issue of Terminology 21:2 (2015) v, 153 pp.

Theoretical and Methodological Developments in Processability Theory

Edited by Kristof Baten, Aafke Buyl, Katja Lochtman and Mieke Van Herreweghe

This edited volume is devoted to expanding the theoretical basis of Processability Theory, a theory of second language development that combines insights in the way speakers generate language and store their language knowledge to predict, describe and explain developmental sequences (Pienemann… read more

[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 4] 2015. vii, 273 pp.

Theory in Applied Linguistics Research: Critical approaches to production, performance and participation. AILA Review, Volume 28

Edited by Theresa Lillis

[AILA Review, 28] 2015. iii, 150 pp. | open access

Time and Emergence in Grammar: Dislocation, topicalization and hanging topic in French talk-in-interaction

Simona Pekarek Doehler, Elwys De Stefani and Anne-Sylvie Horlacher

This monograph examines how language contributes to the social coordination of actions in talk-in-interaction. Focusing on a set of frequently used constructions in French (left-dislocation, right-dislocation, topicalization, and hanging topic), the study provides an empirically rich contribution… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 28] 2015. x, 275 pp.

Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English

Edited by Marina Dossena

The volume presents an innovative approach to studies in Late Modern English by giving attention to variation and change in varieties of English on both sides of the Atlantic. As new corpora become available, scholarly interests broaden their horizons to encompass varieties, the history of which… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 4] 2015. vii, 221 pp.

Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development

Edited by Hagen Peukert

This volume, dedicated to language transfer, starts out with state-of-the-art psycholinguistic approaches to language transfer involving studies on psycho-typological transfer, lexical interference and foreign accent. The next chapter on Transfer in Language Learning, Contact, and Change presents… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 4] 2015. ix, 353 pp.

Translation as a cognitive activity

Edited by Fabio Alves, Amparo Hurtado Albir and Isabel Lacruz

Special issue of Translation Spaces 4:1 (2015) v, 187 pp.

Traveling Conceptualizations: A cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican

Andrea Hollington

Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlantic relations between Africa and Jamaica, and in particular to the understanding of African influences in Jamaican linguistic practices. The… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 14] 2015. xxiv, 242 pp.

Trilingual Language Acquisition: Contextual factors influencing active trilingualism in early childhood

Sarah Chevalier

This book examines the language development of two children from the ages of two till four, who are growing up exposed to English, Swiss German and French. Its aim is to ascertain the importance of different environmental factors in fostering active trilingualism. These factors include the quantity… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 16] 2015. x, 225 pp.

Understanding Patients' Voices: A multi-method approach to health discourse

Marta Antón and Elizabeth M. Goering

This volume illustrates the process of conducting interdisciplinary, multi-cultural research into the relationship between patient language use and chronic disease management. The ten chapters in this book provide a model for interdisciplinary research in health discourse from start to finish. Part… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 257] 2015. xv, 185 pp.

Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology

Edited by Natalie Operstein and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein

Zapotec languages present a wide range of lexical, morphological, phonological, and syntactic means of indicating valence changes. Despite their significant theoretical interest, detailed descriptions of valence-changing phenomena in Zapotec are rare, comparative studies are practically… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 110] 2015. xiii, 385 pp.

Verb Classes and Aspect

Edited by Elisa Barrajón López, José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Susana Rodríguez Rosique

This volume offers a variety of perspectives on two of the main topics situated at the crossroads between lexical semantics and syntax, namely: (a) aspect and its correspondence with syntactic structure; and (b) the delimitation of syntactic structures from verb classes. Almost from Aristotle’s… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 9] 2015. xviii, 446 pp.

Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic

Edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau

The second volume in the VARGReB series deals with voice in the wider sense, encompassing both alternations that preserve semantic valency, with passives as the most typical instance, and valency-changing devices such as the causative. Regarding the former, special attention is given to… read more

[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 2] 2015. vii, 402 pp.

Voice in Retranslation

Edited by Cecilia Alvstad and Alexandra Assis Rosa

Special issue of Target 27:1 (2015) vi, 172 pp.

Where do nouns come from?

Edited by John B. Haviland

The noun is an apparent cross-linguistic universal; nouns are central targets of language acquisition; they are frequently prototypical exemplars of Saussurian arbitrariness. This volume considers nouns in sign languages and in the evanescent performances of homesigners (and gesturers), which… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 70] 2015. v, 140 pp.

Who’s really normal? Language and sexuality in public space

Edited by Mie Hiramoto

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 4:2 (2015) v, 109 pp.

The Why and How of Total Reduplication: Current Issues and New Perspectives

Edited by Daniela Rossi

Special issue of Studies in Language 39:4 (2015) v, 241 pp.

The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology: History, theory, practice

Stefan Dollinger

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a minor role in the field of social dialectology, the study of regional and social variation, the last decade has seen a methodological revival. This book… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 40] 2015. xxvii, 397 pp.

The political impact of metaphors

Edited by Julien Perrez and Min Reuchamps

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 5:2 (2015) v, 130 pp.

The (Ir)reversibility of English Binomials: Corpus, constraints, developments

Sandra Mollin

This book focuses on binomials (word pairs such as heart and soul, rich and poor, or if and when), and in particular on the degree of reversibility that English binomials demonstrate. Detailed and innovative corpus linguistic analyses investigate the correlates of the degree of reversibility,… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 64] 2014. x, 254 pp.

Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics

Edited by Johanneke Caspers, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten

Above and Beyond the Segments presents a unique collection of experimental linguistic and phonetic research. Mainly, it deals with the experimental approach to prosodic, and more specifically melodic, aspects of speech. But it also treats segmental phonetics and phonology, second language… read more

[Not in series, 189] 2014. xii, 363 pp.

The Acquisition of French as a Second Language: New developmental perspectives

Edited by Christina Lindqvist and Camilla Bardel

Within the field of second language acquisition, interest in the acquisition of French as a second language has a long-standing tradition, especially in the European context. The aim of this book is to offer a synthesis of current research within this area. It contains contributions from different… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 62] 2014. v, 168 pp.

Adjectives in Germanic and Romance

Edited by Petra Sleeman, Freek Van de Velde and Harry Perridon

Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate syntactic and morphological category, the syntax, morphology, and interpretation of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 212] 2014. vii, 286 pp.

Advances in Sociophonetics

Edited by Chiara Celata and Silvia Calamai

Sociophonetics is a privileged domain for the investigation of language variation and change. By combining theoretical reflections and sophisticated techniques of analysis – both phonetic and statistical – it is possible to extrapolate the role of individual factors (socio-cultural, physiological,… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 15] 2014. vi, 214 pp.

Advances in research on semantic roles

Edited by Seppo Kittilä and Fernando Zúñiga

Special issue of Studies in Language 38:3 (2014) v, 211 pp.

Advances in the Syntax of DPs: Structure, agreement, and case

Edited by Anna Bondaruk, Gréte Dalmi and Alexander Grosu

The contributions in this volume are devoted to various aspects of the internal and external syntax of DPs in a wide variety of languages belonging to the Slavic, Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Semitic and Germanic language families. In particular, the papers address questions related to the internal and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 217] 2014. xvii, 320 pp.

Anxiety, Insecurity, and Border Crossing: Language Contact in a Globalizing World

Edited by Mie Hiramoto and Joseph Sung-Yul Park

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24:2 (2014) vi, 184 pp.

Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics

Edited by Ritva Laury, Marja Etelämäki and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

Special issue of Pragmatics 24:3 (2014) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles

Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:2 (2014) v, 253 pp.

Argumentation and Health

Edited by Sara Rubinelli and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the role of argumentation in the health care domain. Argumentation and Health is a collection of essays by argumentation theorists reflecting on the way in which the institutional context of health care shapes the argumentative interaction. The… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 64] 2014. vi, 147 pp.

Auxiliary Selection in Spanish: Gradience, gradualness, and conservation

Malte Rosemeyer

Although usage-based linguistics emphasises the need for studies of language change to take frequency effects into account, there is a lack of research that tries to systematically model frequency effects and their relation to diffusion processes in language change. This monograph offers a… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 155] 2014. xix, 313 pp.

Bavarian Syntax: Contributions to the theory of syntax

Edited by Günther Grewendorf and Helmut Weiß

Dialect syntax has proven to be an invaluable data source for theoretical syntax, and theoretical syntax has provided useful analytical tools for uncovering fascinating grammatical properties of dialects. In the 1980s, the assumption that there must be more than one structural position in the left… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 220] 2014. vi, 339 pp.

Beyond ‘Khoisan’: Historical relations in the Kalahari Basin

Edited by Tom Güldemann and Anne-Maria Fehn

Greenberg’s (1954) concept of a ‘Khoisan’ language family, while heartily embraced by non-specialists, has been harshly criticized by linguists working on these languages. Evidence for Greenberg's hypothesis has proved to be seriously insufficient and little progress has been made in the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 330] 2014. xii, 331 pp.

Biomedical Natural Language Processing

Kevin Bretonnel Cohen and Dina Demner-Fushman

Biomedical Natural Language Processing is a comprehensive tour through the classic and current work in the field. It discusses all subjects from both a rule-based and a machine learning approach, and also describes each subject from the perspective of both biological science and clinical medicine.… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 11] 2014. xi, 160 pp.

Bridging the Methodological Divide: Linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to formulaic language

Edited by Stefanie Wulff and Debra Titone

Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:3 (2014) v, 126 pp.

Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages: Set (6 Volumes)

This is a series of 6 books dealing with case phenomena in different languages, both Indo- and non-Indo-European, instigated by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, and resulting from work by a team of specialists at the University of Leuven. It is the first time such a large-scale investigation into case has… read more

[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, S] 2014. ca. 2510 pp.

Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between

Edited by Sibilla Cantarini, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss

The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 165] 2014. x, 365 pp.

Coarticulation and Sound Change in Romance

Daniel Recasens

This volume should be of great interest to phoneticians, phonologists, and both historical and cognitive linguists. Using data from the Romance languages for the most part, the book explores the phonetic motivation of several sound changes, e.g., glide insertions and elisions, vowel and consonant… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 329] 2014. xi, 207 pp.

Cognitive Grammar in Literature

Edited by Chloe Harrison, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan

This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar. The contributors provide exemplary analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 17] 2014. xiv, 255 pp.

Cognitive Modeling: A linguistic perspective

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Alicia Galera Masegosa

This monograph studies cognitive operations on cognitive models across levels and domains of meaning construction. It explores in what way the same set of cognitive operations, either in isolation or in combination, account for meaning representation whether obtained on the basis of inferential… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 45] 2014. ix, 250 pp.

Cognitive Perspectives on Political Discourse

Edited by Pascal Fischer and Christoph Schubert

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 13:2 (2014) v, 170 pp.

Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use

Edited by Martin Pütz, Justyna A. Robinson and Monika Reif

This volume is intended to be a contribution to the rapidly growing field of research into Cognitive Sociolinguistics which draws on the convergence of methods and theoretical frameworks typically associated with Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. The papers in this volume, written by… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 59] 2014. v, 214 pp.

Colour Studies: A broad spectrum

Edited by Wendy Anderson, Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough and Christian Kay

This volume presents some of the latest research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines. Many are represented here, including anthropology, archaeology, the fine arts, linguistics, onomastics, philosophy, psychology and vision science. The chapters have been… read more

[Not in series, 191] 2014. xiv, 417 pp.

Communication in Autism

Edited by Joanne Arciuli and Jon Brock

Communication in Autism adopts a multidisciplinary approach to explore one of the most common developmental disorders associated with communication impairment. Perhaps the most fascinating thing about communication in autism is that variation is as extreme as it could possibly be. While some… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 11] 2014. vi, 275 pp.

Constructing Collectivity: 'We' across languages and contexts

Edited by Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to first person non-singular reference (‘we’). Its aim is to explore the interplay between the grammatical means that a language offers for accomplishing collective self-reference and the socio-pragmatic – broadly speaking – functions of ‘we’.… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 239] 2014. x, 355 pp.

Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English

Edited by Simone E. Pfenninger, Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier

The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change, (socio)linguistic research on variation, and contact linguistics. Drawing on a range of recently-developed methodological innovations, such… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 159] 2014. vi, 326 pp.

Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives

Edited by Laura Visapää, Jyrki Kalliokoski and Helena Sorva

Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives is a collection of articles that approaches linguistic subordination as a semantico-grammatical and pragmatic phenomenon. The volume brings together cognitive, interactional and typological perspectives, and is… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 249] 2014. viii, 288 pp.

Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns

Edited by Kristin Davidse, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte

The studies in this volume approach English grammatical patterns in novel ways by interrogating corpora, focusing on patterns in the verb phrase (tense, aspect and modality), the noun phrase (intensification and focus marking), complementation structures and clause combining. Some studies… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 63] 2014. viii, 358 pp.

Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy

Edited by Dylan Glynn and Justyna A. Robinson

This volume seeks to advance and popularise the use of corpus-driven quantitative methods in the study of semantics. The first part presents state-of-the-art research in polysemy and synonymy from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. The second part presents and explains in a didactic manner each of… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 43] 2014. viii, 545 pp.

Creativity, Cognition and Material Culture

Edited by Lambros Malafouris, Chris Gosden and Karenleigh A. Overmann

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 22:1 (2014) v, 181 pp.

Cross-linguistic Investigations of Nominalization Patterns

Edited by Ileana Paul

The chapters in this volume address current topics in the morphology, syntax, and semantics of nominalizations, drawing on a range of typologically and geographically diverse languages. Nominalizations represent a long-standing puzzle to linguists: How is a noun, such as destruction, related to the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 210] 2014. xiii, 217 pp.

Current Trends in Chinese Discourse

Edited by Wei Wang and Linda Tsung

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 5:1 (2014) v, 97 pp.

Dependency Linguistics: Recent advances in linguistic theory using dependency structures

Edited by Kim Gerdes, Eva Hajičová and Leo Wanner

This volume offers the reader a unique possibility to obtain a concise introduction to dependency linguistics and to learn about the current state of the art in the field. It unites the revised and extended versions of the linguistically-oriented papers to the First International Conference on… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 215] 2014. xi, 355 pp.

Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children

Edited by Zhu Hua and Lixian Jin

For many years, studies of the development of pragmatic and discourse skills in young children have predominantly focused on English and other European languages, as with the field of child language development in general. This volume, originally published in Chinese Language and Discourse 3:1… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 60] 2014. v, 134 pp.

The Development of Professional Competence

Edited by Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, Birgitta Englund Dimitrova and Séverine Hubscher-Davidson

Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 9:1 (2014) vi, 177 pp.

Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen

Diachronic corpus pragmatics extends the pragmatic perspective to developments in the history of various languages and uses corpus-linguistic methods to trace them. The chapters in this volume focus on linguistic elements at several levels, from individual words to phrases, clauses and entire… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 243] 2014. viii, 335 pp.

The Diachrony of Negation

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti

Despite intensive research, negation remains elusive. Its expression across languages, its underlying cognitive mechanisms, its development across time, and related phenomena, such as negative polarity and negative concord, leave many unresolved issues of both a definitional and a substantive… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 160] 2014. v, 258 pp.

Diagrammatic Reasoning

Edited by Riccardo Fusaroli and Kristian Tylén

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 22:2 (2014) v, 107 pp.

Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres

Edited by Luz Gil-Salom and Carmen Soler-Monreal

Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres analyses how human beings intentionally establish a network of relations that contribute to the construction of discourse in different genres in academic, promotional and professional domains in English, Spanish and Italian. The chapters in the present… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 23] 2014. xvi, 227 pp.

Discourse Segmentation in Romance Languages

Edited by Salvador Pons Bordería

This volume gathers together for the first time contributions from the most relevant approaches in discourse segmentation developed in the last fifteen years in Romance languages. All these approaches share the assumption that discourses (either oral or written) can be fully divided into units and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 250] 2014. v, 276 pp.

The Discourse Studies Reader: Main currents in theory and analysis

Edited by Johannes Angermuller, Dominique Maingueneau and Ruth Wodak

Discourse Studies is an interdisciplinary field studying the social production of meaning across the entire spectrum of the social sciences and humanities. The Discourse Studies Reader brings together 40 key readings from discourse researchers in Europe and North America, some of which are now… read more

[Not in series, 184] 2014. ix, 417 pp.

Discourse linguistics: Theory and practice

Edited by Karin Aijmer and Anita Fetzer

Special issue of Functions of Language 21:1 (2014) iii, 137 pp.

Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China

Edited by Qing Cao, Hailong Tian and Paul Chilton

After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully controlled by the political elites. Discourse, as a way of speaking and… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 54] 2014. vi, 213 pp. | open access

Discourses of Helping Professions

Edited by Eva-Maria Graf, Marlene Sator and Thomas Spranz-Fogasy

Discourses of Helping Professions brings together cutting-edge research on professional discourses from both traditional helping contexts such as doctor-patient interaction or psychotherapy and more recent helping contexts such as executive coaching. Unlike workplace, professional and institutional… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 252] 2014. vi, 320 pp.

Dynamics and Terminology: An interdisciplinary perspective on monolingual and multilingual culture-bound communication

Edited by Rita Temmerman and Marc Van Campenhoudt

The urge to understand all aspects of human experience more and better seems to be one of the motives underlying cognitive development in many domains of human existence. Understanding more and better is at the basis of knowledge creation and extension. One way of getting access to how… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 16] 2014. vi, 305 pp.

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 14 (2014)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Ineke Vedder and Jan H. Hulstijn

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 14] 2014. x, 261 pp.

Educated Fiji English: Lexico-grammar and variety status

Lena Zipp

This volume contains a comprehensive corpus-based study of prepositional constructions in written Fiji English. It explores the endo- and exonormative dynamics of norm-giving and norm-developing varieties and contributes to our understanding of structural nativization and variety formation in a… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G47] 2014. xvii, 230 pp.

Educating in Dialog: Constructing meaning and building knowledge with dialogic technology

Edited by Sebastian Feller and Ilker Yengin

Educating in Dialog: Constructing meaning and building knowledge with dialogic technology contains a collection of new articles on the relationship of learning, dialog and technology. The articles combine different views of dialogic learning stemming from a multiplicity of discipline backgrounds… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 24] 2014. xviii, 250 pp.

Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax

Hiroki Narita

Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax puts forward a novel theory of syntax that rigidly adheres to the principle of Minimal Computation, in which a number of traditional but extraneous stipulations such as referential indices and representational labels/projections are eliminated. It… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 218] 2014. xii, 268 pp.

English in Nordic Universities: Ideologies and practices

Edited by Anna Kristina Hultgren, Frans Gregersen and Jacob Thøgersen

This volume brings together theoretical perspectives and empirical studies on the ongoing Englishization of Nordic universities. A core objective is to contrast and address the gap between ideological representations of this phenomenon and the ways in which it unfolds in the practices on the ground. read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 5] 2014. vi, 268 pp.

English in the Indian Diaspora

Edited by Marianne Hundt and Devyani Sharma

Diasporic populations offer unique opportunities for the study of language variation and change. This volume is the first collection of sociolinguistic studies of English use across the historically complex and widely dispersed Indian diaspora. The contributions describe particular sociohistorical… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G50] 2014. ix, 244 pp.

Epistemological issue with keynote article “Early, late or very late? Timing acquisition and bilingualism” by Ianthi Maria Tsimpli

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:3 (2014) iv, 120 pp.

Evaluation in Context

Edited by Geoff Thompson † and Laura Alba-Juez

It is now an acknowledged fact in the world of linguistics that the concept of evaluation is crucial, and that there is very little – if any – discourse that cannot be analyzed through the prism of its evaluative content. This book presents some of the latest developments in the study of this… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 242] 2014. xi, 418 pp.

The Evaluation of Language Regimes: Theory and application to multilingual patent organisations

Michele Gazzola

Building on existing analytical frameworks, this book provides a new methodology allowing different language policies in international multilingual organisations (or “language regimes”) to be compared and evaluated on the basis of criteria such as efficiency and fairness. It explains step-by-step… read more

[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 3] 2014. xxi, 380 pp.

Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs

Edited by Klaus Robering

The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and the treatment of time and aspect. The… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 152] 2014. viii, 373 pp.

The Evidential Basis of Linguistic Argumentation

Edited by András Kertész and Csilla Rákosi

Currently, one of the methodological debates in linguistics focuses on the question of what kinds of data are allowed in different linguistic theories and what subtypes of data can work as evidence for or against particular hypotheses. The first part of the volume puts forward a methodological… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 153] 2014. vi, 320 pp.

Evidentiality in Interaction

Edited by Janis B. Nuckolls and Lev Michael

In recent decades, linguists have significantly advanced our understanding of the grammatical properties of evidentials, but their social and interactional properties and uses have received less attention. This volume, originally published as a special issue of Pragmatics and Society (issue 3:2,… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 63] 2014. v, 199 pp.

The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond

Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch

This two-part volume provides a collection of 27 linguistic studies and contributions that shed light on the evolution of different Englishes world-wide (varieties, learner Englishes, dialects, creoles) from a broad spectrum of different perspectives, including both synchronic and diachronic… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G49] 2014. xviii, 513 pp.

Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space

Christopher S. Butler and Francisco Gonzálvez-García

This book, intended primarily for researchers and advanced students, expands greatly on previous work by the authors exploring the topography of the multidimensional “functional-cognitive space” within which functional, cognitive and/or constructionist approaches to language can be located. The… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 157] 2014. xviii, 579 pp.

The Expression of Inequality in Interaction: Power, dominance, and status

Edited by Hanna Pishwa and Rainer Schulze

In keeping with the profile of Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, this volume presents and discusses issues that are central to aspects of social inequality, power, dominance and status as expressed in discourse in its broadest sense. The volume aggregates research efforts of the past years, and it… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 248] 2014. vi, 267 pp.

Fictive Interaction: The conversation frame in thought, language, and discourse

Esther Pascual

Language is intimately related to interaction. The question arises: Is the structure of interaction somehow mirrored in language structure and use? This book suggests a positive answer to this question by examining the ubiquitous phenomenon of fictive interaction, in which non-genuine… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 47] 2014. xiv, 243 pp.

The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm

Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli

This volume brings together articles by some major figures in various linguistics domains — phonology, morphology and syntax — aiming at explaining the form of linguistic items by exploring the structures that underlie them.The book is divided in 5 parts: vowels, syllables, templates,… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 12] 2014. vii, 377 pp.

Frames of Understanding in Text and Discourse: Theoretical foundations and descriptive applications

Alexander Ziem

How do words mean? What is the nature of meaning? How can we grasp a word’s meaning? The frame-semantic approach developed in this book offers some well-founded answers to such long-standing, but still controversial issues. Following Charles Fillmore’s definition of frames as both organizers of… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 48] 2014. xii, 428 pp.

Frames, constructions, and computation

Edited by Lars Borin, Gerard de Melo, Karin Friberg Heppin and Tiago Timponi Torrent

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 6:1 (2014) v, 135 pp.

From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon

Edited by Mandana Seyfeddinipur and Marianne Gullberg

Language use is fundamentally multimodal. Speakers use their hands to point to locations, to represent content and to comment on ongoing talk; they position their bodies to show their orientation and stance in interaction; they use facial displays to comment on what is being said; and they engage… read more

[Not in series, 188] 2014. ix, 379 pp.

From Text to Political Positions: Text analysis across disciplines

Edited by Bertie Kaal, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof

From Text to Political Positions addresses cross-disciplinary innovation in political text analysis for party positioning. Drawing on political science, computational methods and discourse analysis, it presents a diverse collection of analytical models including pure quantitative and qualitative… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 55] 2014. xi, 333 pp.

The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications

Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing

Over the last forty years, the functionalist approach to linguistic description and explanation has given rise to several major schools of thought that share two crucial assumptions: (i) form is not independent of meaning/function or language use; and (ii) linguistic description and explanation… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 247] 2014. viii, 292 pp.

Gender, Language and Ideology: A genealogy of Japanese women's language

Momoko Nakamura

The book examines women’s language as an ideological construct historically created by discourse. The aim is to demonstrate, by delineating a genealogy of Japanese women’s language, that, to deconstruct and denaturalize the relationships between gender and any language, and to account for why and… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 58] 2014. xv, 253 pp.

Genre- and register-related discourse features in contrast

Edited by Marie-Aude Lefer and Svetlana Vogeleer

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 14:1 (2014) v, 161 pp.

A Grammar of Luwo: An anthropological approach

Anne Storch

This book is a description of Luwo, a Western Nilotic language of South Sudan. Luwo is used by multilingual, dynamic communities of practice as one language among others that form individual and flexible repertoires. It is a language that serves as a means of expressing the Self, as a medium of art… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 12] 2014. xvii, 291 pp.

Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic

Edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau

This is the first of three volumes dealing with clausal architecture, grammatical relations, case-marking and the syntax–semantics interface in Baltic. It focuses on the grammatical relations of subject and object and the viability of these notions in languages like Lithuanian and Latvian, which… read more

[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 1] 2014. vii, 370 pp.

Grammatical Variation and Change in Jersey English

Anna Rosen

Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on a specially compiled corpus of… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G48] 2014. xii, 237 pp.

Grammaticalization – Theory and Data

Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Ekkehard König

Since the 1980s theories and studies of grammaticalization have provided a major source of inspiration for the description and explanation of language change, giving rise to many publications and conferences. This collection presents original, empirical studies that explore various facets of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 162] 2014. viii, 293 pp.

The Great American Scaffold: Intertextuality and identity in American presidential discourse

Frank Austermühl

Based on extensive quantitative and qualitative analyses of a corpus of American presidential speeches that includes all inaugural addresses and State of the Union messages from 1789 to 2008, as well as major foreign and security policy speeches after 1945, this research monograph analyzes the… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 53] 2014. ix, 338 pp.

History of Linguistics 2011: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XII), Saint Petersburg, 28 August - 2 September 2011

Edited by Vadim Kasevich, Yuri A. Kleiner and Patrick Sériot

This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at the 12th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XII) held in St. Petersburg, Russia, 28 August – 2 September 2011. It begins with contributions on 17th-century rationalist ideas and practical grammar… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 123] 2014. xviii, 221 pp.

A History of the English Language: Revised edition

Elly van Gelderen

The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most suggestions brought up by users and reviewers have been incorporated, for instance, a… read more

[Not in series, 183] 2014. xx, 338 pp.

Ideophones: Between Grammar and Poetry

Edited by Katherine Lahti, Rusty Barrett and Anthony K. Webster

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 5:3 (2014) vi, 185 pp.

Idiomatic Constructions in Italian: A Lexicon-Grammar approach

Simonetta Vietri

This study is devoted to the analysis of Italian idioms with either ordinary or support verbs (also called light verbs). The research focuses on the exhaustive description of idioms, and is based on their systematic classification according to the principles of the Lexicon-Grammar methodology… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 31] 2014. vi, 259 pp.

Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences

Edited by Rik van Gijn, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio

This volume is dedicated to exploring the crossroads where complex sentences and information management – more specifically information structure and reference tracking – come together. Complex sentences are a highly relevant but understudied domain for studying notions of IS and RT. On the one… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 105] 2014. vi, 409 pp.

Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages

Edited by Kristin Bech and Kristine Gunn Eide

The contributions of this volume offer new perspectives on the relation between syntax and information structure in the history of Germanic and Romance languages, focusing on English, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. In… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 213] 2014. vii, 421 pp.

Input and Experience in Bilingual Development

Edited by Theres Grüter and Johanne Paradis

Children acquiring two languages, either simultaneously or sequentially, have more variation in their linguistic input than their monolingual peers. Understanding the nature and consequences of this variability has been the focus of much recent research on childhood bilingualism. This volume… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 13] 2014. ix, 204 pp.

Interlanguage: Forty years later

Edited by ZhaoHong Han and Elaine Tarone

Few works in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) can endure multiple reads, but Selinker's (1972) "Interlanguage" is a clear exception. Written at the inception of the field, this paper delineates a disciplinary scope; asks penetrating questions; advances daring hypotheses; and proposes… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 39] 2014. vii, 255 pp.

Intersubjectivity and Intersubjectification in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical and descriptive advances

Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde

Recent years saw a growing interest in the study of subjectivity, as the linguistic expression of speaker involvement. Intersubjectivity, defined by Traugott as "the linguistic expression of a speaker/writer's attention to the hearer/reader", on the other hand, has so far received little explicit… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 65] 2014. vi, 161 pp.

Korean English: A corpus-driven study of a new English

Glenn Hadikin

The English language is changing every day and it is us – the individual speakers and writers – that drive those changes in small ways by choosing to use certain strings of words over others. This book discusses and describes some of the choices made by speakers from South Korea by examining the… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 62] 2014. xiv, 192 pp.

Language Acquisition in Study Abroad and Formal Instruction Contexts

Edited by Carmen Pérez-Vidal

This publication constitutes essential reading for academics, teachers and language policy makers wanting to understand, plan, and implement an educational language program involving learner mobility. The book provides data and analyses from a long-term program of research on study abroad (the SALA… read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 13] 2014. vi, 329 pp.

Language Aggression Against Women

Edited by Patricia Bou-Franch

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 2:2 (2014) v, 120 pp.

Language Contact, Inherited Similarity and Social Difference: The story of linguistic interaction in the Maya lowlands

Danny Law

This book offers a study of long-term, intensive language contact between more than a dozen Mayan languages spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Southern Mexico and Belize. It details the massive restructuring of syntactic and semantic organization, the calquing of grammatical patterns, and the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 328] 2014. xi, 206 pp.

Language Description Informed by Theory

Edited by Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin

This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 147] 2014. xii, 391 pp.

Language Immersion Education: A research agenda for 2015 and beyond

Edited by Diane J. Tedick and Siv Björklund

Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 2:2 (2014) vi, 168 pp.

Language Processing and Grammars: The role of functionally oriented computational models

Edited by Brian Nolan and Carlos Periñán-Pascual

There is a growing awareness of the significance and value that modelling using information technology can bring to the functionally oriented linguistic enterprise. This encompasses a spectrum of areas as diverse as concept modelling, language processing and grammar modelling, conversational… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 150] 2014. vi, 396 pp.

Language and Food: Verbal and nonverbal experiences

Edited by Polly E. Szatrowski

This book investigates the intricate interplay between language and food in natural conversations among people eating and talking about food in English, Japanese, Wolof, Eegimaa, Danish, German, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. It is a socio-cultural/ linguistic study of how adults/ children organize… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 238] 2014. vi, 318 pp.

Language in Interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark

Edited by Inbal Arnon, Marisa Casillas, Chigusa Kurumada and Bruno Estigarribia

Understanding how communicative goals impact and drive the learning process has been a long-standing issue in the field of language acquisition. Recent years have seen renewed interest in the social and pragmatic aspects of language learning: the way interaction shapes what and how children learn.… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 12] 2014. xi, 358 pp.

The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia)

Maïa Ponsonnet

The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia) is the first extensive study of the linguistic encoding of emotions in an Australian language, and further, in an endangered, non-European language. Based on first-hand data collected using innovative methods, the monograph describes and… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 4] 2014. xxvii, 466 pp.

Language, Literacy, and Learning in STEM Education: Research Methods and Perspectives from Applied Linguistics

Edited by Mary Jane Curry and David I. Hanauer

Language, Literacy, and Learning in STEM Education brings together a range of applied linguistic researchers and projects that address the interface among language studies, science, engineering, and education. The book is premised on the concept that science is of central importance in the… read more

[Language Studies, Science and Engineering, 1] 2014. xvi, 180 pp.

Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities: Many pathways to being Chinese

Edited by Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen and Andy Hancock

This book brings together new theoretical perspectives and bilingual education models from different sociopolitical and cultural contexts across the globe in order to address the importance of sociocultural, educational and linguistic environments that create, enhance or limit the ways in which… read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 12] 2014. xv, 243 pp.

Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Andreas Dufter and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta

Since the advent of syntactic cartography, left sentence peripheries have begun to take center stage in linguistic research. Following the lead of Rizzi (1997), much work on left peripheries has been focused on Italian, whereas other Romance languages have attracted somewhat less attention. This… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 214] 2014. viii, 423 pp.

Letters as Loot: A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch

Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal

The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of letters focussing on a unique collection of Dutch private letters from… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 2] 2014. xiii, 426 pp. | open access

Lexical Bundles in Native and Non-native Scientific Writing: Applying a corpus-based study to language teaching

Danica Salazar

This book presents an investigation of lexical bundles in native and non-native scientific writing in English, whose aim is to produce a frequency-derived, statistically- and qualitatively-refined list of the most pedagogically useful lexical bundles in scientific prose: one that can be sorted and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 65] 2014. ix, 212 pp.

Lexical semantic approaches to terminology

Edited by Pamela Faber and Marie-Claude L'Homme

Special issue of Terminology 20:2 (2014) v, 161 pp.

The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages

Edited by Pritha Chandra and Richa Srishti

The present collection offers fresh perspectives on the lexicon-syntax interface, drawing on novel data from South Asian languages like Bangla, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, Kannada, Malayalam, Manipuri, Punjabi, and Telugu. It covers different phenomena like adjectives, nominal phrases, ditransitives,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 209] 2014. vii, 275 pp.

Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context

Edited by Fabienne H. Baider and Georgeta Cislaru

This book presents new issues in the study of the interface of emotions and language, and their use in social context. Two fundamental questions are tackled: the way different languages encode emotional information and the core role emotions play in languages' structure, use and learning. Seldom… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 241] 2014. vi, 358 pp.

Linguistic Diversity and Social Inclusion in Australia

Edited by Ingrid Piller

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 37:3 (2014) 99 pp. | open access

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2014

Edited by Anita Auer and Björn Köhnlein

The 45th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on 1 February, 2014. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year's meeting, 80 papers were presented, of which 18 were submitted to the present… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 31] 2014. v, 191 pp. | open access

Literary Detective Work on the Computer

Michael P. Oakes

Computational linguistics can be used to uncover mysteries in text which are not always obvious to visual inspection. For example, the computer analysis of writing style can show who might be the true author of a text in cases of disputed authorship or suspected plagiarism. The theoretical… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 12] 2014. x, 283 pp.

Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces

Edited by Peter Kosta, Steven L. Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork and Lilia Schürcks

The Minimalist Program is just that, a “program”. It is a challenge for syntacticians to reexamine the constructs of their models and ask what is minimally needed in order to accomplish the essential task of syntax – interfacing between form and meaning. This volume pushes Minimalism to its… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 11] 2014. vi, 423 pp.

Missionary Linguistics V / Lingüística Misionera V: Translation theories and practices. Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Bremen, 28 February - 2 March 2012

Edited by Otto Zwartjes, Klaus Zimmermann and Martina Schrader-Kniffki

The object of this volume is the study of missionary translation practices which occur within a colonial context of political domination and spiritual conquest. Missionary translation becomes especially manifest in bilingual ethnographic descriptions, in (bilingual) catechisms and in the… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 122] 2014. xii, 350 pp.

Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar

Edited by Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham

The volume aims at a universal definition of modality or “illocutionary/speaker’s perspective force” that is strong enough to capture the entire range of different subtypes and varieties of modalities in different languages. The central idea is that modality is all-pervasive in language. This… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 149] 2014. vi, 511 pp.

Morphology and Meaning: Selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012

Edited by Franz Rainer, Francesco Gardani, Hans Christian Luschützky and Wolfgang U. Dressler

The problem of form and meaning in morphology has produced an impressive amount of scholarly work over the last hundred years. Nevertheless, many issues continue to be in need of clarification. The present volume assembles 18 selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 327] 2014. viii, 350 pp.

Morphology and its interfaces: Syntax, semantics and the lexicon

Edited by Dany Amiot, Delphine Tribout, Natalia Grabar, Cédric Patin and Fayssal Tayalati

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 37:2 (2014) vi, 168 pp.

Mots nous en català / New words in Catalan: Una panoràmica geolectal / A diatopic view

Edited by Teresa Cabré, Ona Domènech Bagaria and Rosa Estopà

This is an innovative and distinctive comparative monograph about new word creation in the different varieties of Catalan. In eight chapters, it provides a panoramic analysis of the neologisms documented by the NEOXOC network. Each chapter is dedicated to the qualitative and quantitative analysis,… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 7] 2014. xiv, 276 pp

Multi-Dimensional Analysis, 25 years on: A tribute to Douglas Biber

Edited by Tony Berber Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto

Approximately a quarter of a century ago, the Multi-Dimensional (MD) approach—one of the most powerful (and controversial) methods in Corpus Linguistics—saw its first book-length treatment. In its eleven chapters, this volume presents all new contributions covering a wide range of written and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 60] 2014. xxxviii, 328 pp.

Multilingual Cognition and Language Use: Processing and typological perspectives

Edited by Luna Filipović and Martin Pütz

This volume provides a multifaceted view of certain key themes in multilingualism research today and offers future directions for this research area in the context of the multilingual development of individuals and societies. The selection of studied languages is eclectic (e.g. Amondawa, Cantonese,… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 44] 2014. x, 337 pp.

Multimodality, Interaction and Turn-taking in Mandarin Conversation

Xiaoting Li

One major feature of conversation is that people take turns to speak. Based on audio and video recordings of naturally-occurring Mandarin conversation, this book explores the role of syntax, prosody, body movements as well as their interplay in turn organization in the temporal unfolding of action… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 3] 2014. xi, 265 pp.

Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs

Artemis Alexiadou

This book is a research monograph that investigates the crosslinguistic distribution of multiple determiners. In some languages, noun phrases permit or even seem to require a double or multiple realization of definite/indefinite markers in certain modification environments. The book develops tools… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 211] 2014. xi, 134 pp.

New Perspectives on Utterance Interpretation and Implicit Contents

Edited by Daniela Rossi and Nicolas Ruytenbeek

For some years now, meanings that are communicated implicitly have been the target of intense theoretical debate and considerable empirical examination. However, it is mainly during the last decade that scholars started covering a range of topics from a variety of perspectives, weaving together… read more

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 28] 2014. v, 118 pp.

Non-Nuclear Cases

Edited by Nicole Delbecque, Karen Lahousse and Willy Van Langendonck

In contrast with the central arguments of the event structure, which have been extensively studied, much less attention has been given to non-arguments. To bridge this gap, the present volume focuses on prepositional and adverbial phrases expressing instrumental, causal, spatial, temporal roles and… read more

[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 6] 2014. xii, 328 pp.

Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective

Edited by Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche

Historical sociolinguistics has successfully challenged the traditional focus on standardization in linguistic historiography. Extensive research on newly uncovered textual resources has shown the widespread variation in the written language of the past that was previously hidden or neglected. The… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 3] 2014. viii, 334 pp.

Noun Valency

Edited by Olga Spevak

Despite a recent spate of publications, the valency of nouns is a topic that still remains in the shadow of the valency of verbs. This volume aims to contribute to the discussion of noun valency not only from a theoretical point of view, as is often the case, but also from an empirical one by… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 158] 2014. xvi, 213 pp.

Number – Constructions and Semantics: Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania

Edited by Anne Storch and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approaches from descriptive linguistics, anthropological linguistics, socio-historical studies, areal linguistics, and social anthropology. The… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 151] 2014. xv, 366 pp.

Occupy: The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements

Edited by Luisa Martín Rojo

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 13:4 (2014) vi, 286 pp.

Old Northumbrian Verbal Morphosyntax and the (Northern) Subject Rule

Marcelle Cole

This volume provides both a quantitative statistical and qualitative analysis of Late Northumbrian verbal morphosyntax as recorded in the Old English interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels. It focuses in particular on the attestation of the subject type and adjacency constraints that… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 25] 2014. xvii, 286 pp.

On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia

Edited by Pirkko Suihkonen and Lindsay J. Whaley

The languages of Europe and North and Central Asia provide a rich variety of data. In this volume, some articles are summaries of large areal typological research projects, and some articles focus on structures or constructions in a single language. However, it is common to all the articles that… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 164] 2014. xviii, 437 pp.

Paradigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond

Edited by Martine Robbeets and Walter Bisang

This book is concerned with comparing morphological paradigms between languages in order to establish areal and genealogical relationships. The languages in focus are the Transeurasian languages: Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages. World-eminent experts in diachronic… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 161] 2014. xix, 345 pp.

Parsing to Learn

Edited by Laurent Dekydtspotter and Claire Renaud

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:2 (2014) vi, 152pp.

Personalisation in Mass Media Communication: British online news between public and private

Daniela Landert

It seems to be a truism that today’s news media present the news in a more personal and direct way than print newspapers some twenty-five years ago. However, it is far from obvious, how this can be described linguistically. This study develops a model that integrates and differentiates between the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 240] 2014. xiv, 294 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV–XXV: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics. Texas, 2010 and Arizona, 2011

Edited by Samira Farwaneh and Hamid Ouali

This volume provides important contributions to Arabic linguistics and Linguistic research in general by presenting new empirical facts and innovative theoretical analyses. It consists of two major parts: the first contains four papers on phonology and morphology, most of which deal with… read more

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 1] 2014. xiii, 229 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. New York, 2012

Edited by Reem Khamis and Karen Froud

This volume provides a unique collection of studies representing diversity and innovation in Arabic linguistics. The volume includes several groundbreaking papers authored by leaders in the field organized around key aspects of Arabic morphosyntax, semantics, phonology, and sociolinguistics, as… read more

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 2] 2014. vi, 304 pp.

Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context: Studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht

Edited by Stacey Katz Bourns and Lindsy L. Myers

In this tribute to Knud Lambrecht, a pioneer of Information Structure, a diverse group of scholars examines the intersection of syntax, discourse, pragmatics, and semantics. The six chapters in the first section of the volume consider issues of grammar with new theoretical and applied insights,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 244] 2014. xv, 244 pp.

Perspectives on Phonological Theory and Development: In honor of Daniel A. Dinnsen

Edited by Ashley W. Farris-Trimble and Jessica A. Barlow

Any theory of phonology must be able to account for the acquisition and development of a phonological system, and studying acquisition often leads to reciprocal advances in the theory. This volume explores the link between phonological theory and linguistic development from a variety of angles,… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 56] 2014. viii, 256 pp.

Perspectives on Semantic Roles

Edited by Silvia Luraghi and Heiko Narrog

Semantic roles have continued to intrigue linguists for more than four decades now, starting with determining their kind and number, with their morphological expression, and with their interaction with argument structure and syntax. The focus in this volume is on typological and historical issues.… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 106] 2014. vi, 336 pp.

Phraseological Substitutions in Newspaper Headlines: “More than Meats the Eye”

Sylvia Jaki

The major purpose of newspaper headlines is to trigger the reader’s interest. A popular way to achieve this goal is the use of phraseological modifications. Based on previous findings from various linguistic disciplines, this book provides an interdisciplinary approach to shed light on the… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 46] 2014. xvi, 243 pp.

Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters

Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller, Anders Holmberg and Mohammad Almoaily

Most of what we know about pidgin and creole languages is the result of research into contact languages that developed as a consequence of European expansion into Africa and the Caribbean. The narrow focus on European lexifier and West African substrate languages has resulted in insufficient… read more

[Creole Language Library, 47] 2014. v, 178 pp.

Plurilingual Education: Policies – practices – language development

Edited by Patrick Grommes and Adelheid Hu

Plurilingual communication is common practice in most urban areas. Societal domains such as business and science nowadays see themselves as international, and plurilingual communication is the rule rather than the exception. But how do other players in critical domains of modern societies, and more… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 3] 2014. viii, 260 pp.

Political Argumentation in the United States: Historical and contemporary studies. Selected essays by David Zarefsky

David Zarefsky

In the United States, political argumentation occurs in institutionalized settings and the broader public forum, in efforts to resolve conflict and efforts to foster it, in settings with time limits and controversies that extend over centuries. From the ratification of the U.S. Constitution to the… read more

[Argumentation in Context, 7] 2014. x, 386 pp.

Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact

Edited by Patrícia Amaral and Ana Maria Carvalho

Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces captures the diversity of encounters that these languages have known and explores their relevance for current linguistic theories. The book focuses on dimensions along which Portuguese and Spanish can be fruitfully compared and highlights the theoretical value of… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 1] 2014. vi, 468 pp.

Pragmatic Competence and Relevance

Elly Ifantidou

This book probes into under-researched issues in L2 pragmatics. Firstly, pragmatic competence, pragmatic awareness and metapragmatic awareness are re-defined and clearly distinguished on theoretical grounds. Secondly, pragmatic competence and its manifestations are evaluated on empirical grounds by… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 245] 2014. x, 228 pp.

Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition

Edited by Danielle Matthews

Pragmatic development is increasingly seen as the foundation stone of language acquisition more generally. From very early on, children demonstrate a strong desire to understand and be understood that motivates the acquisition of lexicon and grammar and enables ever more effective communication. In… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 10] 2014. vi, 394 pp.

The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence: Theories and applications

Edited by Helmut Gruber and Gisela Redeker

Over the past four decades, discourse coherence has been studied from linguistic, psycholinguistic, computational, and applied perspectives. This volume identifies current issues and under-researched topics in the pragmatics of discourse coherence. Nine studies from various disciplines address the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 254] 2014. vii, 295 pp.

Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News: From canonical headlines to online news texts

Jan Chovanec

This book provides the first comprehensive account of temporal deixis in English printed and online news texts. Linking the characteristic usage of tenses with the projection of deictic centres, it notes how conventional tenses, particularly in headlines, are affected by heteroglossia arising from… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 253] 2014. xvi, 294 pp.

Profiling Discourse Participants: Forms and functions in Spanish conversation and debates

Barbara De Cock

The construction of discourse is a challenging field where many discourse structures and interactional effects remain poorly understood. This analysis provides a systematic explanation for the way in which discourse participants (speaker and hearer) are construed in Spanish through a corpus-driven… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 246] 2014. xvii, 307 pp.

Qualitative-Quantitative Analyses of Dutch and Afrikaans Grammar and Lexicon

Robert S. Kirsner

Sharing certain assumptions but differing in theory and practice, both Columbia School linguistics (CS) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) have increasingly supported their analyses with quantitative evidence. Citation of individual sentences, in isolation or in context, has been supplemented with counts… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 67] 2014. xi, 239 pp.

Queering borders: Language, sexuality and migration

Edited by David A.B. Murray

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 3:1 (2014) v, 160 pp.

Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon

Patrick J. Duffley

This monograph is part of a growing research agenda in which semantics and pragmatics not only complement the grammar, but replace it. The analysis is based on the assumption that human language is not primarily about form, but about form-meaning pairings. This runs counter to the autonomous-syntax… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 251] 2014. x, 246 pp.

Reflections on Constructions across Grammars

Edited by Martin Hilpert and Jan-Ola Östman

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 6:2 (2014) v, 201 pp.

Research methods and approaches in Applied Linguistics: Looking back and moving forward. AILA Review, Volume 27

Edited by Rosa M. Manchón

The present AILA Review volume contributes a collective, retrospective exploration of where the field of Applied Linguistics, as a research community, currently is, as well as a forward-looking analysis of which future avenues are to be explored in the research methods used in the domains of… read more

[AILA Review, 27] 2014. iii, 104 pp. | open access

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2012: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leuven 2012

Edited by Karen Lahousse and Stefania Marzo

This volume contains a selective collection of peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the 26th Going Romance conference, organized at the KU Leuven (Belgium) from 6-8 December 2012. The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 6] 2014. xiii, 247 pp.

Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar

Edited by Hans C. Boas and Francisco Gonzálvez-García

The chapters in this book show how the different flavors of Construction Grammar provide illuminating insights into the syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse-functional properties of specific phenomena in Romance languages such as (Castilian) Spanish, French, Romanian, and Latin from a… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 15] 2014. x, 316 pp.

SMS Communication: A linguistic approach

Edited by Louise-Amélie Cougnon and Cédrick Fairon

The media often point an accusatory finger at new technologies; they suggest that there is always a loss of information or quality, or even that computer-mediated communication is destroying language. Most linguists, on the contrary, are firmly convinced that it is better to consider language as an… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 61] 2014. viii, 267 pp.

Semantic Considerations of Lexical Processing

Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:1 (2014) iii, 140 pp.

The Sociolinguistics of Grammar

Edited by Tor A. Åfarli and Brit Mæhlum

The aim of this book is to investigate and attain new insights on how and to what extent the wider sociolinguistic context of language use and contact impinges on formal grammatical structures. The papers contained in the book approach this important problem from various points of view by focusing… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 154] 2014. v, 260 pp.

Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens

Irene Theodoropoulou

This ethnographic study deals with the ways people in Athens, Greece, use style to construct their social class identities. Including a rich dataset comprising ethnographic interviews with actual people who live in the stereotypically seen as leafy and posh northern suburbs and in the… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 57] 2014. xiv, 240 pp.

The Spatial Language of Time: Metaphor, metonymy, and frames of reference

Kevin Ezra Moore

The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 42] 2014. xxv, 340 pp.

Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies

Edited by Tommaso Raso and Heliana Mello

The authors of this book share a common interest in the following topics: the importance of corpora compilation for the empirical study of human language; the importance of pragmatic categories such as emotion, attitude, illocution and information structure in linguistic theory; and a passionate… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 61] 2014. vii, 498 pp.

Structuring the Argument: Multidisciplinary research on verb argument structure

Edited by Asaf Bachrach, Isabelle Roy and Linnaea Stockall

While the argument structure of verbs has long been a central issue in linguistic research of all varieties and continues to be a vexed area of research across a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches, the inter-disciplinary perspective and dialogue remain largely under explored. This… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 10] 2014. vii, 205 pp.

Symmetry Breaking in Syntax and the Lexicon

Leah S. Bauke

This book is a research monograph that explores the implications of the strongest minimalist thesis from an antisymmetric perspective. Three empirical domains are investigated: nominal root compounds in German and English, nominal gerunds in English and their German counterparts, and small clauses… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 216] 2014. xi, 304 pp.

Technology-mediated TBLT: Researching Technology and Tasks

Edited by Marta González-Lloret and Lourdes Ortega

This volume contributes to the development and advancement of TBLT as a research domain by investigating the intersection between tasks and technology from a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., educational, cognitive, sociocultural) and by gathering empirical findings on the design and… read more

[Task-Based Language Teaching, 6] 2014. vi, 336 pp.

Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Nikolas Gisborne and Willem B. Hollmann

Cognitive linguistics has an honourable tradition of paying respect to naturally occurring language data and there have been fruitful interactions between corpus data and aspects of linguistic structure and meaning. More recently, dialect data and sociolinguistic data collection methods/theoretical… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 67] 2014. v, 262 pp.

Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space

Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Francisco Gonzálvez-García

The differences among functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist models are generally taken to be not absolute, but rather a matter of emphasis and degree, with an increasing permeability between paradigms arising from cross-fertilizing influences. This book further explores this burgeoning… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 68] 2014. vi, 327 pp.

Three Factors and Beyond: Socio-syntax and language acquisition

Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 14:1 (2014) v, 178 pp.

Trust and Discourse: Organizational perspectives

Edited by Katja Pelsmaekers, Geert Jacobs and Craig Rollo

Trust and Discourse: Organizational perspectives offers a timely collection of new articles on the relationship between discursive practices in organizational or institutional contexts and the psychological/moral category of trust. As globalization, the drive for efficiency and accountability, and… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 56] 2014. vii, 224 pp.

Twenty Years EST: Same place, different times

Edited by Michael Boyden

Special issue of Target 26:2 (2014) vi, 168 pp.

Unity and Diversity in West Germanic, III

Edited by Hans Frede Nielsen † and Patrick V. Stiles

Special issue of NOWELE 67:1 (2014) v, 129 pp.

Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change

Edited by Evie Coussé and Ferdinand von Mengden

Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has always been recognized in this framework, but has never received central attention. It is the main aim of this book to fill this gap. Once we recognize that usage… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 69] 2014. v, 275 pp.

Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language

Edited by Kaori Kabata and Tsuyoshi Ono

This volume brings together papers that take usage-based approaches to study the nature of human language, with a focus on the grammar of Japanese. The 12 chapters provide a rich array of data and methodologies, with topics ranging from phonology, modality, and grammatical morphemes, to sentential… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 156] 2014. ix, 308 pp.

Variation within and across Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011

Edited by Marie-Hélène Côté and Eric Mathieu

This volume is a selection of twenty peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 41st annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held at the University of Ottawa in 2011. They are thematically linked by a broad notion of variation across languages, dialects, speakers, time,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 333] 2014. viii, 426 pp.

Weak Referentiality

Edited by Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts

This volume brings together studies in the domain of weak referentiality, the phenomenon that a definite or indefinite noun phrase lacks its usual referential force. Several papers investigate syntactic or semantic properties of indefinite noun phrases, such as modality, number neutrality, narrow… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 219] 2014. xii, 390 pp.

Word Classes: Nature, typology and representations

Edited by Raffaele Simone and Francesca Masini

The universal and typological status of the notion of word class — closely related to part-of-speech systems, morphology, syntax and the lexicon-syntax interface — continues to be of major linguistic theoretical interest. The papers included in this volume offer a fresh look at the variety of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 332] 2014. vii, 293 pp.

Word Formation in South American Languages

Edited by Swintha Danielsen, Katja Hannss and Fernando Zúñiga

This volume focuses on word formation processes in smaller and so far underrepresented indigenous languages of South America. The data for the analyses have been mainly collected in the field by the authors. The several language families described here, among them Arawakan, Takanan, and Guaycuruan,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 163] 2014. v, 228 pp.

Words & Constructions: Language complexity in linguistics and psychology

Edited by Juhani Järvikivi, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matti Laine

Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:2 (2014) v, 230 pp.

Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese: Revised edition

Insup Taylor and M. Martin Taylor

The book describes how the three East Asian writing systems-Chinese, Korean, and Japanese- originated, developed, and are used today. Uniquely, this book: (1) examines the three East Asian scripts (and English) together in relation to each other, and (2) discusses how these scripts are, and… read more

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 14] 2014. xix, 487 pp.

The interaction between context and grammar in Functional Discourse Grammar

Edited by Nuria Alturo, Evelien Keizer and Lluís Payrató

Special issue of Pragmatics 24:2 (2014) ca. 125 pp. | open access

The role of input on early first language morphosyntactic development: Le rôle de l’input sur le développement morphosyntaxique précoce en langue maternelle

Edited by Sophie Kern, Frédérique Gayraud and Florence Chenu

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 5:1 (2014) v, 136 pp.

The Acquisition of Ergativity

Edited by Edith L. Bavin and Sabine Stoll

Ergativity is one of the main challenges both for linguistic and acquisition theories. This book is unique, taking a cross-linguistic approach to the acquisition of ergativity in a large variety of typologically distinct languages. The chapters cover languages from different families and from… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 9] 2013. v, 341 pp.

The Acquisition of the German Case System by Foreign Language Learners

Kristof Baten

This is the first book on the acquisition of the German case system by foreign language learners. It explores how learners in their interlanguage progress from the total absence to the presence of a case system. This development is characterized by an evolvement from marking the argument’s position… read more

[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 2] 2013. xvii, 304 pp.

Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson

Edited by Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg

Contrastive studies have experienced a dramatic revival in the last decades. By combining the methodological advantages of computer corpus linguistics and the possibility of contrasting texts in two or more languages, the structure and use of languages can be explored with greater accuracy, detail… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 54] 2013. x, 295 pp.

Advances in Frame Semantics

Edited by Mirjam Fried and Kiki Nikiforidou

This volume presents some of the latest research in Frame Semantics, including work in computational lexicography as developed within the FrameNet project. Using varied material from English, Italian, and Japanese, the contributions collectively expand the theoretical, conceptual, and computational… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 58] 2013. v, 209 pp.

Analyzing Genres in Political Communication: Theory and practice

Edited by Piotr Cap and Urszula Okulska

Featuring contributions by leading specialists in the field, the volume is a survey of cutting edge research in genres in political discourse. Since, as is demonstrated, “political genres” reveal many of the problems pertaining to the analysis of communicative genres in general, it is also a… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 50] 2013. xi, 426 pp.

Applications in Applied Linguistics: AILA Review, Volume 26

Edited by Karlfried Knapp

Applications in Applied Linguistics departs from a comprehensive concept that views Applied Linguistics as the application of findings, theories and methods of sciences related to issues of language and communication, and that distinguishes different modes of applications (practical vs.… read more

[AILA Review, 26] 2013. iii, 99 pp. | open access

Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 13: Papers from the 2011 Lund conference

Edited by Johan Brandtler, Valéria Molnár and Christer Platzack

This volume brings together ten papers presented at the 10th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Lund, 2011). The papers cover a broad field of issues in Hungarian relating to phonetics, phonology, semantics, syntax and pragmatics, such as vowel harmony, particle verb… read more

[Approaches to Hungarian, 13] 2013. v, 254 pp.

Approaches to Slavic Interaction

Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Peter Kosta

This volume provides an overview of current research priorities in the analysis of face-to-face-interaction in Slavic speaking language communities. The core of this volume ranges from discourse analysis in the tradition of interactional linguistics and conversation analysis to newer methods of… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 20] 2013. xi, 318 pp.

Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics

Special issue of Pragmatics 23:3 (2013) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers

Edited by Elly van Gelderen, Jóhanna Barðdal and Michela Cennamo

The present volume is centered around five linguistic themes: argument structure and encoding strategies; argument structure and verb classes; unexpressed arguments; split intransitivity; and existential and presentational constructions. The articles also cover a variety of typologically different… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 131] 2013. viii, 578 pp.

Automatic Treatment and Analysis of Learner Corpus Data

Edited by Ana Díaz-Negrillo, Nicolas Ballier and Paul Thompson

This book is a critical appraisal of recent developments in corpus linguistics for the analysis of written and spoken learner data. The twelve papers cover an introductory critical appraisal of learner corpus data compilation and development (section 1); issues in data compilation, annotation and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 59] 2013. vi, 314 pp.

Autour des verbes: Constructions et interprétations

Sous la direction de Kozué Ogata

Le présent recueil rassemble douze études consacrées à des problèmes de syntaxe verbale et à certains faits fondamentaux de lexique et de grammaire. Au-delà de la diversité des approches, l'originalité de l'ouvrage tient au fait que les contributions concernent plusieurs phénomènes peu ou pas… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 29] 2013. x, 252 pp.

Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach

Edited by Isabel Verdaguer, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar

The corpus-based studies in this volume explore biomedical research writing in English from a variety of perspectives. The articles in this collection delve into the lexicographic issues involved in building an electronic database of collocations and lexical bundles, offer insight on the teaching… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 56] 2013. xiii, 214 pp.

Casebook in Functional Discourse Grammar

Edited by J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Hella Olbertz

This book provides ten case studies in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), a typologically-oriented theory of the organization of natural languages that has risen to prominence in recent years. The authors, all committed practitioners of FDG, include Kees Hengeveld, the intellectual father of the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 137] 2013. ix, 313 pp.

Challenging Clitics

Edited by Christine Meklenborg Salvesen and Hans Petter Helland

Challenging Clitics deals with multiple sides of cliticisation from different theoretical frameworks and with data from a number of different languages. Unlike many other books on clitics where clitics are considered from a mere syntactical point of view, this book also discusses the acquisition of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 206] 2013. vii, 315 pp.

Chinese Grammar at Work

Shuanfan Huang

Chinese Grammar at Work adopts a cognitive-functional approach and uses a corpus-based methodology to examine how Chinese syntax emerges from natural discourse context and what the evolving grammar at work looks like. In this volume the author weaves together an array of fresh perspectives on… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 1] 2013. xii, 458 pp.

The Clause Structure of Wolof: Insights into the Left Periphery

Harold Torrence

This volume investigates the clausal syntax of Wolof, an understudied Atlantic language of Senegal. The goals of the work are descriptive, analytical, and comparative, with a focus on the structure of the left periphery and left peripheral phenomena. The book includes detailed examination of the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 198] 2013. xiii, 289 pp.

Cleft Structures

Edited by Katharina Hartmann and Tonjes Veenstra

The phenomenon of clefts is beyond doubt a golden oldie. It has captivated linguists of different disciplines for decades. The fascination arises from the unique syntax of clefts in interaction with their pragmatic and semantic interpretation. Clefts structure sentences according to the information… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 208] 2013. viii, 348 pp.

Communication in Humans and Other Animals

Gisela Håkansson and Jennie Westander

Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of as a unique system, which separates humans from other animals. This textbook serves as a guide to different types of communication, and suggests that each is unique in its own way: human verbal and… read more

[Advances in Interaction Studies, 4] 2013. xi, 242 pp.

Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories

Edited by Gabriele Diewald, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer

This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories, even though they… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 138] 2013. vi, 318 pp.

Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo, María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado and María Martínez-Adrián

Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s. Currently, researchers adopt multiple perspectives in the analysis of learner language, all of them providing different but complementary answers to the understanding of oral and written data… read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 9] 2013. xiii, 265 pp.

Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis

Edited by Hilde Hasselgård, Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling

A hallmark of corpus linguistics is the study of patterns of language use. The studies presented in this volume all use corpora to investigate patterns of lexis from various perspectives. The first section, “Sequence and Order”, presents theoretical and practical aspects of the linguist’s task of… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 57] 2013. viii, 299 pp.

Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology

Edited by Parth Bhatt and Tonjes Veenstra

It is generally assumed that Creole languages form a separate category from the rest of the world’s languages. The papers in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars in the field of Creole studies, seek to explore more deeply this commonly held assumption by comparing the… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 57] 2013. v, 279 pp.

Culture, Interaction and Person Reference in an Australian Language: An ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication

Murray Garde

The study of person reference stands at the cross-roads of linguistics, anthropology and psychology. As one aspect of an ethnography of communication, this book deals with a single problem — how one knows who is being talked about in conversation — from a rich and varied ethnographic perspective.… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 11] 2013. xx, 274 pp.

Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics

Edited by Irina Kor Chahine

This volume represents an overview of current research on Slavic linguistics in Europe and North America based on selected papers presented during the 6th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (September 1-3, 2011, Aix-en-Provence, France). It includes topics across a range of linguistic… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 146] 2013. xi, 331 pp.

Deixis and Pronouns in Romance Languages

Edited by Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Jan Lindschouw

This volume proposes a new way to address the classical question concerning the relation between language, cognition, and culture from the perspective of two basic systems: deixis and the pronominal system. It investigates the linguistic structuring of basic concepts of person, place and time in… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 136] 2013. vi, 289 pp.

The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition: The Multiple Constraints Hypothesis

Anke Lenzing

Shortlisted for the Christopher Brumfit Award in Applied Linguistics.The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition focuses on the acquisition process of early L2 learners. It is based on the following key hypothesis: the initial mental grammatical system of L2… read more

[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 3] 2013. xx, 280 pp.

The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects

Edited by Ilja A. Seržant and Leonid Kulikov

This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal mechanisms and triggers for various changes that non-canonical subjects undergo, ranging from semantic motivations to purely structural… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 140] 2013. xxv, 364 pp.

Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs

Edited by Folke Josephson and Ingmar Söhrman

This volume applies a diachronic perspective to the verb and mainly deals with typological change affecting tense, aspect, mood and modality in a variety of Indo-European languages (Latin, Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Hittite, and Semitic) and the non-Indo-European Turkic,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 134] 2013. viii, 443 pp.

Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: Categorization and description

Edited by Liesbeth Degand, Bert Cornillie and Paola Pietrandrea

Discourse markers and modal particles are fuzzy linguistic categories that are difficult to describe. The contributions in this volume go beyond this statement. They discuss the intersection between modal particles and discourse markers and examine whether or not it is possible to draw a line… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 234] 2013. v, 239 pp.

Discourse and Crisis: Critical perspectives

Edited by Antoon De Rycker and Zuraidah Mohd Don

Discourse and Crisis: Critical perspectives brings together an exciting collection of studies into crisis as text and context, as unfolding process and unresolved problem. Crisis is viewed as a complex phenomenon that – in its prevalence, disruptiveness and (appearance of) inevitability – is both… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 52] 2013. vii, 498 pp.

The Discursive Construction of the Scots Language: Education, politics and everyday life

Johann Wolfgang Unger

This monograph is about how the Scots language is discursively constructed, both from ‘above’ (through texts such as educational policies, debates in parliament and official websites) and from ‘below’ (in focus group discussions among Scottish people). It uses the interdisciplinary… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 51] 2013. xvi, 178 pp.

Displacement, Language Maintenance and Identity: Sudanese refugees in Australia

Anikó Hatoss

This monograph presents an ecological perspective to the study of language maintenance and shift in immigrant contexts. The ecology incorporates past, present and future and treats spatial and temporal dimensions as the main organizing frames in which everyday language use and identity development… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 34] 2013. xviii, 259 pp.

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 13 (2013)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Anna Ewert, Miroslaw Pawlak and Magdalena Wrembel

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 13] 2013. viii, 250 pp.

English in Cyprus or Cyprus English: An empirical investigation of variety status

Sarah Buschfeld

This volume provides the first-ever comprehensive analysis of a potential variety of English, spoken in the Greek part of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Despite the fact that Cyprus was a British colony from 1878 to 1960, the status of the English language spoken there has not yet been… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G46] 2013. xvi, 246 pp.

Errors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora

Edited by Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Sylvie De Cock

The papers brought together in this volume illustrate how spoken corpora (be they native or learner corpora) can provide insights into various aspects of errors and disfluencies such as pauses and discourse markers. They show, among others, that such phenomena can be influenced by factors like… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 52] 2013. v, 172 pp.

The Ethics of Literary Communication: Genuineness, directness, indirectness

Edited by Roger D. Sell, Adam Borch and Inna Lindgren

Viewing literature as one among other forms of communication, Roger D. Sell and his colleagues evaluate writer-respondent relationships according to the same ethical criterion as applies for dialogue of any other kind. In a nutshell: Are writers and readers respecting each other’s human autonomy?… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 19] 2013. xii, 271 pp.

Exploring the Dynamics of Multilingualism: The DYLAN project

Edited by Anne-Claude Berthoud, François Grin and Georges Lüdi

This book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and its uses in a context of rapid changes, in Europe and around the world. All types of organisations, including the political institutions of the European Union, universities and private-sector companies must rise to the many… read more

[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 2] 2013. xxi, 440 pp.

First Language Attrition

Edited by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke

This volume consists of a collection of papers that focus on structural/grammatical aspects of the process of first language attrition. It presents an overview of current research, methodological issues and important questions regarding first language attrition. In particular, it addresses the two… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 48] 2013. v, 159 pp.

Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech

Sandra Götz

This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and nonnative speech.… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 53] 2013. xxiii, 238 pp.

Frames and Constructions in Metaphoric Language

Karen Sullivan

Frames and constructions in metaphoric language shows how linguistic metaphor piggybacks on certain patterns of constructional meaning that have already been identified and studied in non-metaphoric language. Recognition of these shared semantic structures, and comparison of their roles in… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 14] 2013. vii, 184 pp.

Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey

Edited by Tim Thornes, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop and Joana Jansen

Contributions from both well-known practitioners and new voices in the areas of language typology, historical linguistics, and function-based approaches to language description define this volume, as does its foci in two major geographical areas — southeast Asia and northwestern North America. All… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 103] 2013. xviii, 294 pp.

Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and change

Edited by Lilian Lem Atanga, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland

Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle and Change is the first book to bring together the topics of language and gender, African languages, and gender in African contexts, and it does so in a descriptive, explanatory and critical way. Including fascinating new work and new,… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 33] 2013. xi, 331 pp.

Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams

Edited by Misha Becker, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman

The articles of this collection cover a wide range of formal syntactic and semantic phenomena. The focus is on a broad array of developmental syntactic phenomena, including topics in Argument Structure and Clause-Internal Syntax, the DP Domain and Learning Theory. In total, the contents of the… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 54] 2013. vi, 358 pp.

The Genitive

Edited by Anne Carlier and Jean-Christophe Verstraete

This volume, the fifth in the series Case and Grammatical Relations across Languages, is devoted to genitive constructions in a range of Indo-European languages (Russian, French, Romanian, German and Swedish), as well as Finnish, Bantu languages and Northern Akhvakh (Northeast Caucasian).… read more

[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 5] 2013. vii, 356 pp.

German Colour Terms: A study in their historical evolution from earliest times to the present

William Jervis Jones

This monograph provides, for the first time, a comprehensive historical analysis of German colour words from early beginnings to the present, based on data obtained from over one thousand texts.Part 1 reviews previous work in colour linguistics. Part 2 describes and documents the formation of… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 119] 2013. xiv, 663 pp.

Grammaticalization and First Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic perspectives

Edited by Dominique Bassano-Bonhommo and Maya Hickmann †

Grammaticalization and lexicalization are at the heart of first language acquisition. Understanding how these processes begin and evolve is a major challenge for current theories and has implications for applications in teaching or clinical contexts. This volume examines the relative weight of… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 50] 2013. v, 187 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2013 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 17] 2013. xiii, 268 pp.

Historical Linguistics 2011: Selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011

Edited by Ritsuko Kikusawa and Lawrence A. Reid

This volume of selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Osaka, Japan, July 2011) presents a set of stimulating and ground-breaking studies on a wide range of languages and language families. As the scope of studies that can be characterized as ‘Historical… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 326] 2013. ix, 337 pp.

Iconic Investigations

Edited by Lars Elleström, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg

The contributions to Iconic Investigations deal with linguistic or literary aspects of language. While some studies analyze the cognitive structures of language, others pay close attention to the sounds of spoken language and the visual characteristics of written language. In addition this volume… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 12] 2013. x, 357 pp.

In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque

Edited by Terje Lohndal

This volume in honor of Jan Terje Faarlund covers the areas in which he has contributed to linguistic theorizing, ranging from in-depth studies of Norwegian and Scandinavian grammar both synchronically and diachronically, to work on the Indian language Chiapas Zoque. The book is organized… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 202] 2013. vi, 361 pp.

Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics

Edited by Zhuo Jing-Schmidt

Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics showcases recent trends in the co-development of theory and empiricism in Chinese linguistics. The volume tackles a wide range of theoretical and empirical problems in multiple subfields including sociolinguistics, discourse analysis,… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 2] 2013. ix, 317 pp.

Information Structure and Agreement

Edited by Victoria Camacho-Taboada, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González and Mariano Reyes-Tejedor

This collection consists of thirteen contributions focusing on the latest trends of information structure and agreement, couched in the most current developments of Minimalism, Cartography, and Optimality. Some chapters focus on the syntax of information structure in relation with the position… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 197] 2013. vi, 376 pp.

Insular Toponymies: Place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island

Joshua Nash

How do people name places on islands? Is toponymy in small island communities affected by degrees of connection to larger neighbours such as a mainland? Are island (contact) languages and mainland languages different in how they are used in naming places? How can we conceptualise the human-human… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 9] 2013. xiv, 302 pp.

Interference and normalization in genre-controlled multilingual corpora

Edited by Marie-Aude Lefer and Svetlana Vogeleer

Capturing the distinction between translated vs. original (i.e. non-translated) language varieties holds centre stage in corpus-based translation studies and related fields such as supervised machine learning. A similar question also holds for native vs. proficient non-native speakers' production.… read more

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 27] 2013. v, 134 pp.

Investigation of the Origin of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language: New edition of the 1993 English translation by Niels Ege

Rasmus Rask (1787–1832)

This edition constitutes a reprint of Niels Ege’s English translation of Rasmus Rask’s prize essay of 1818, which appeared as volume XXVI in the Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague in 1993. The prize essay was published in Danish in 1818. In contrast to other works by Rask, notably his… read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 18] 2013. *lv , xii, 289 pp.

Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse

Edited by Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega

Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse is a complete updated panorama of linguistic research on irony and humor, based on a variety of perspectives, corpora and theories. The book collects the most recent contributions from such diverse approaches as Relevance Theory, Cognitive Linguistics,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 231] 2013. vi, 270 pp.

Japanese: Revised edition

Shoichi Iwasaki

Japanese ranks as the ninth most widely spoken language of the world with more than 127 million speakers in the island state of Japan. Its genetic relation has been a topic of heated discussion, but Altaic and Austronesian languages appear to have contributed to the early formation of this language. read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 17] 2013. xxi, 383 pp.

Language Policy and Identity Construction: The dynamics of Cameroon's multilingualism

Eric A. Anchimbe

The (dis)empowerment of languages through language policy in multilingual postcolonial communities often shapes speakers’ identification with these languages, their attitude towards other languages in the community, and their choices in interpersonal and intergroup communication. Focusing on the… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 32] 2013. xxvi, 250 pp.

Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols

Edited by Balthasar Bickel, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake

What is the range of diversity in linguistic types, what are the geographical distributions for the attested types, and what explanations, based on shared history or universals, can account for these distributions? This collection of articles by prominent scholars in typology seeks to address these… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 104] 2013. viii, 512 pp.

Language Variation - European Perspectives IV: Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011

Edited by Peter Auer, Javier Caro Reina and Göz Kaufmann

The eighteen contributions in this volume are based on papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), which was held at the University of Freiburg, Germany, from June 29 to July 1, 2011. The volume includes plenaries by Sjef Barbiers (‘Where is… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 14] 2013. xiv, 296 pp.

Language and Power in Blogs: Interaction, disagreements and agreements

Brook Bolander

Language and Power in Blogs systematically analyses the discursive practices of bloggers and their readers in eight English-language personal/diary blogs. The main focus is thereby placed on ties between these practices and power. The book demonstrates that the exercise of power in this mode can be… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 237] 2013. xvi, 275 pp.

Linguistic Superdiversity in Urban Areas: Research approaches

Edited by Joana Duarte and Ingrid Gogolin

Rapidly increasing migration flows contribute to the development of multiple forms of social and cultural differentiation in urban areas – or to ‘super-diversity’. Language diversity is an important part of the resulting new social and cultural constellations. Although linguistic diversity is not a… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 2] 2013. xi, 304 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013

Edited by Suzanne Aalberse and Anita Auer

The 44th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 9th, 2013. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year's meeting, 83 papers were presented, of which 25 were submitted to the present… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 30] 2013. iv, 213 pp. | open access

The Linguistics of Newswriting

Daniel Perrin

The Linguistics of Newswriting focuses on text production in journalistic media as both a socially relevant field of language use and as a strategic field of applied linguistics. The book discusses and paves the way for scientific projects in the emerging field of linguistics of newswriting. From… read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 11] 2013. xiii, 302 pp. | open access

Linking Constructions into Functional Linguistics: The role of constructions in grammar

Edited by Brian Nolan and Elke Diedrichsen

There is a growing awareness of the significance of constructions in grammar in the world’s languages. To date there has not been a single volume that addresses the issues of constructions within a functional Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) account. The book is a collection of articles that will… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 145] 2013. xix, 335 pp.

Listenership Behaviours in Intercultural Encounters: A time-aligned multimodal corpus analysis

Keiko Tsuchiya

How do people listen in a conversation, especially in an intercultural setting, and how do they shift from listener to speaker in the particular context? This book investigates listenership behaviours of a tutor and a student in the context of academic supervision sessions at a university in the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 236] 2013. xv, 234 pp.

The Macregol Gospels or The Rushworth Gospels: Edition of the Latin text with the Old English interlinear gloss transcribed from Oxford Bodleian Library, MS Auctarium D. 2. 19

Edited by Kenichi Tamoto

This work is composed of two parts. The first or introductory part, contains a palaeographical discussion about Bodleian Library, MS Auctarium D.2.19, that is to say, the MacRegol Gospels or the Rushworth Gospels, edited by Kenichi Tamoto, and which forms the second and main part of this book. The… read more

[Not in series, 180] 2013. cxxxix, 339 pp.

Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho

Uncovering the meaning of individual words or entire texts is a complex process that needs to take into consideration the multiple interactions of linguistic organization including orthography, morphology, syntax and, ultimately, pragmatics. The papers in this volume pay close attention to these… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 148] 2013. vii, 348 pp.

Meta-informative Centering in Utterances: Between Semantics and Pragmatics

Edited by André Włodarczyk and Hélène Włodarczyk

The notion of information has nowadays become crucial both in our daily life and in many branches of science and technology. In language studies, this notion was used as a technical term for the first time about at least fifty years ago. It is argued, however, that "Old" and "New", used… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 143] 2013. xvii, 306 pp.

Metaphor across Time and Conceptual Space: The interplay of embodiment and cultural models

James J. Mischler, III

Contemporary linguistic forms are partially the product of their historical antecedents, and the same is true for cognitive conceptualization. The book presents the results of several diachronic corpus studies of conceptual metaphor in a longitudinal and empirical “mixed methods” design, employing… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 3] 2013. xv, 237 pp.

Metaphor and Metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications

Edited by Francisco Gonzálvez-García, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández

The contributions in this volume go beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor complementing it in a number of relevant ways. Some of the papers argue for a more dynamic, interdisciplinary approach to metaphor looking into it from semiotic, psychological and socio-cultural perspectives. Other… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 56] 2013. vi, 318 pp.

Metaphor in Psychotherapy: A descriptive and prescriptive analysis

Dennis Tay

This book represents a bold attempt to address contemporary issues in both metaphor and psychotherapy research. On one hand, metaphor research is increasingly concerned not just with describing metaphors in discourse, but how they could be used more adroitly in purposive ‘real world’ contexts such… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 1] 2013. vii, 211 pp.

Metaphors in Learner English

Susan Nacey

This volume presents results from a corpus-based investigation into the metaphorical production of foreign language learners, comparing texts written by Norwegian (L2) learners of English with those written by British (L1) students. Three types of questions are addressed. The first has empirically… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 2] 2013. xi, 279 pp.

Modelling Language

Sylviane Cardey

In response to the need for reliable results from natural language processing, this book presents an original way of decomposing a language(s) in a microscopic manner by means of intra/inter‑language norms and divergences, going progressively from languages as systems to the linguistic,… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 10] 2013. xi, 194 pp.

Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession

Edited by Kersti Börjars, David Denison and Alan K. Scott

The analysis of constructions denoting possession (particularly, but not exclusively, in English) has long presented a challenge to morpho-syntactic theory and has been a topic of debate for some time. The papers presented here afford thought-provoking insights into the morphosyntactic nature of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 199] 2013. xii, 341 pp.

Multilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas: Acquisition, identities, space, education

Edited by Peter Siemund, Ingrid Gogolin, Monika Edith Schulz and Julia Davydova

This state-of-the-art volume provides an interdisciplinary overview of current topics and research foci in the areas of linguistic diversity and migration-induced multilingualism and aims to lay the foundations for interdisciplinary work and the development of a common methodological framework for… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 1] 2013. ix, 379 pp.

New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond

Edited by Johannes Kabatek and Albert Wall

This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determination. Combining insights from different theoretical backgrounds and extending the empirical coverage of bare noun phenomena, the ten… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 141] 2013. v, 334 pp.

New Perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca

Heiko Motschenbacher

This volume complements earlier work on English as a lingua franca (ELF) by providing an in-depth study of the phenomenon from a decidedly European perspective. Distancing itself from more traditional approaches to the study of English in Europe (linguistic imperialism and “Euro-English”), the… read more

[Not in series, 182] 2013. xi, 249 pp.

New Perspectives on the Origins of Language

Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen

The question of how language emerged is one of the most fascinating and difficult problems in science. In recent years, a strong resurgence of interest in the emergence of language from an evolutionary perspective has been helped by the convergence of approaches, methods, and ideas from several… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 144] 2013. xvi, 582 pp.

Nominal Classification: A history of its study from the classical period to the present

Marcin Kilarski

This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics. Based on an analysis of over 200 genetically and typologically diverse languages, the author shows that these seemingly arbitrary and redundant categories play in… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 121] 2013. xiv, 405 pp.

Non-Canonical Passives

Edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer

This volume contains a selection of papers dealing with constructions that have a passive-like interpretation but do not seem to share all the properties with canonical passives. The fifteen chapters of this volume raise important questions concerning the proper characterization of the universal… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 205] 2013. vi, 361 pp

Nonmanuals in Sign Language

Edited by Annika Herrmann and Markus Steinbach

In addition to the hands, sign languages make extensive use of nonmanual articulators such as the body, head, and face to convey linguistic information. This collected volume focuses on the forms and functions of nonmanuals in sign languages. The articles discuss various aspects of specific… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 53] 2013. v, 197 pp.

On Language Diversity and Relationship from Bibliander to Adelung

George J. Metcalf

From the Renaissance onwards, European scholars began to collect and study the various languages of the Old and the New Worlds. The recognition of language diversity encouraged them to explain how differences between languages emerged, why languages kept changing, and in what language families they… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 120] 2013. viii, 181 pp.

Patterns and Meanings in Discourse: Theory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)

Alan Partington, Alison Duguid and Charlotte Taylor

This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies. It delves into a… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 55] 2013. xiii, 371 pp.

Patterns in Contrast

Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling

Combining the fields of phraseology and contrastive analysis, this book describes how patterns, defined as recurrent word-combinations with semantic unity, behave cross-linguistically. As the contrastive approach adopted in the book relies on translations and a bidirectional corpus model, the first… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 58] 2013. xiv, 257 pp.

The Persistence of Language: Constructing and confronting the past and present in the voices of Jane H. Hill

Edited by Shannon T. Bischoff, Deborah Cole, Amy V. Fountain and Mizuki Miyashita

This edited collection presents two sets of interdisciplinary conversations connecting theoretical, methodological, and ideological issues in the study of language. In the first section, Approaches to the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas, the authors connect historical,… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 8] 2013. xxx, 440 pp.

The Politics of English: South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific

Edited by Lionel Wee, Robbie B.H. Goh and Lisa Lim

This volume brings together contributions that explore the increasingly important roles that English plays in Asia, including its contribution to economic growth, national imaginaries and creative writing. These are issues that are political in a broad sense, but the diversity of Asian contexts… read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 4] 2013. ix, 322 pp.

The Pragmatics of Political Discourse: Explorations across cultures

Edited by Anita Fetzer

The volume promotes a pragmatic perspective to the analysis of political discourse as multilayered mediated discourse. The chapters cross the disciplinary and methodological boundaries of speech act theory, social positioning theory, and argumentation theory and rhetorics. They address the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 228] 2013. vi, 246 pp.

Prosody and Humor

Edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi

This is the first-ever book-length collection of articles on the subject of prosody and humor. The chapters are written by the recognized leaders in the field and present the cutting edge of the research in this new interdisciplinary field of study. The book covers a broad range of languages, using… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 55] 2013. v, 192 pp.

Prosody and Iconicity

Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Daniel Hirst

The contributions to this volume focus on the interrelation between prosody and iconicity and shed new light on the topic by enlarging the number of parameters traditionally considered, and by confronting various theoretical backgrounds. The parameters taken into account include socio-linguistic… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 13] 2013. xv, 252 pp.

Proximization: The pragmatics of symbolic distance crossing

Piotr Cap

This book proposes a new theory (“proximization theory”) in the area of political/public legitimization discourse. Located at the intersection of Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics and critical approaches, the theory holds that legitimization of broadly consequential political/public policies, such… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 232] 2013. ix, 220 pp.

A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase

Edited by Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Giurgea

Based on recent research in formal linguistics, this volume provides a thorough description of the whole system of Romanian Noun Phrases, understood in an extended sense, that is, in addition to nouns, pronouns and determiners, it examines all the adnominal phrases: genitive-marked DPs, adjectives,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 207] 2013. xxviii, 900 pp.

The Regularity of the 'Irregular' Verbs and Nouns in English

Elena Even-Simkin and Yishai Tobin

This volume presents an in-depth study of the so-called irregular Past Tense (sing/sang) and Noun Plural (foot/feet) forms with Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in English demonstrating that they possess both a fixed phonological and semantic regularity. The innovative sign-oriented analysis and… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 66] 2013. xvii, 273 pp.

Responses to Language Endangerment: In honor of Mickey Noonan. New directions in language documentation and language revitalization

Edited by Elena Mihas, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei-Doval and Kathleen Wheatley

This volume further complicates and advances the contemporary perspective on language endangerment by examining the outcomes of the most commonly cited responses to language endangerment, i.e. language documentation, language revitalization, and training. The present collection takes stock of many… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 142] 2013. xv, 273 pp.

Ressources Lexicales: Contenu, construction, utilisation, évaluation

Sous la direction de Núria Gala et Michael Zock

Les ressources lexicales (dictionnaires, bases de données, thesaurus, etc.) rassemblent des connaissances sur les mots, leurs sens et leurs usages. Si pendant des siècles elles ont été tributaires de l'imprimerie et du format textuel, il existe de nos jours une grande variété d'outils et de… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 30] 2013. xii, 364 pp.

Rethinking Narrative Identity: Persona and Perspective

Edited by Claudia Holler and Martin Klepper

Why is it that we tend to think about our lives as stories? Why do we strive to create coherent narratives that reflect a particular perspective? What happens when we discover multiple, perhaps conflicting perspectives in our narratives? Following groundbreaking work in the study of narrative… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 17] 2013. vi, 209 pp.

Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective

Edited by Gert Webelhuth, Manfred Sailer and Heike Walker

This book represents the state of the art on rightward movement in one thematically coherent volume. It documents the growing importance of the combination of empirical and theoretical work in linguistic analysis. Several contributions argue that rightward movement is a means of reducing… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 200] 2013. viii, 476 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2011: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Utrecht 2011

Edited by Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen, Luisa Meroni and Manuela Pinto

In 2011, the annual conference series Going Romance celebrated its 25th edition in Utrecht, the founder city of the enterprise. Since its inception in the eighties of the last century, the local initiative has developed into the major European discussion forum for research focussing on the… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 5] 2013. ix, 269 pp.

Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 2

Igor Mel’čuk

This book presents an innovative approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language is a mechanism for the expression of linguistic meanings as particular surface forms (texts). Semantics is that system of rules that ensures a transition from a Semantic Representation of the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 135] 2013. xvi, 400 pp.

Sensitive periods, language aptitude, and ultimate L2 attainment

Edited by Gisela Granena and Mike Long

Research on second language acquisition (SLA) has identified language aptitude and age of onset (AO), i.e., the age at which learners are first meaningfully exposed to the L2, as robust predictors of rate of classroom language learning and level of ultimate L2 attainment in naturalistic settings,… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 35] 2013. xv, 295 pp.

Shared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages

Edited by Martine Robbeets and Hubert Cuyckens

This book offers fresh perspectives on “shared grammaticalization”, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammaticalization process in common. While contact-induced grammaticalization has generated great interest in recent years, far less attention has been paid… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 132] 2013. xv, 360 pp.

Silence and Concealment in Political Discourse

Melani Schröter

This book constitutes a significant contribution to political discourse analysis and to the study of silence, both from the point of view of discourse analysis as well as pragmatics, and it is also relevant for those interested in politics and media studies. It promotes the empirical study of… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 48] 2013. ix, 202 pp.

The Structure of Discourse-Pragmatic Variation

Heike Pichler

Everyday language use overflows with discourse-pragmatic features. Their frequency, form and function can vary greatly across social groups and change dramatically over time. And yet these features have not figured prominently in studies of language variation and change. The Structure of… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 13] 2013. xxi, 276 pp.

Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface

Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli

The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and linguistic variation. What has traditionally been treated as a dichotomy is now seen rather in terms of a dynamic interface. The contributions… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 133] 2013. xi, 450 pp.

Syntactic Variation and Verb Second: A German dialect in Northern Italy

Federica Cognola

This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Mòcheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy. Basing her study on detailed new data collected during extensive fieldwork, and focusing on finite verb movement; on multiple access to the left periphery;… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 201] 2013. xii, 325 pp.

The Syntax of Tuki: A cartographic approach

Edmond Biloa

This monograph conducts a syntactic study of Tuki, a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon, from a cartographic perspective. The following domains are meticulously explored: The Complementizer Domain, the Inflectional Domain and the Verbal Domain. This study reveals that there is a relative phrase… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 203] 2013. xxv, 611 pp.

A Syntax of the Nivkh Language: The Amur dialect

Vladimir P. Nedjalkov and Galina A. Otaina

This volume, originally published in Russian in 2012, is one of the few larger works on Nivkh (Gilyak), an underinvestigated endangered Paleosiberian language-isolate, that have appeared lately. It is a descriptive grammar based on extensive language data and supplemented with the authors’… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 139] 2013. xxx, 396 pp.

The Syntax–Prosody Interface: A cartographic perspective with evidence from Italian

Giuliano Bocci

This book presents an experimental and theoretical investigation of the interplay between information structure, word order alternations, and prosody in Italian. Left/right dislocations, focus fronting, and other reordering phenomena are analyzed, taking into account their morphosyntactic and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 204] 2013. ix, 213 pp.

Teaching Creole-Speaking Children: Issues, concerns and resolutions for the classroom

Edited by Gillian Wigglesworth

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 36:3 (2013) 131 pp. | open access

Thanking Formulae in English: Explorations across varieties and genres

Sabine Jautz

In the present study the use of thanking formulae is examined across different genres and varieties of English. Data is taken from the British National Corpus and the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English.Employing a form-to-function mapping, thanking formulae are not only analysed… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 230] 2013. xv, 308 pp.

Thematising Multilingualism in the Media

Edited by Helen Kelly-Holmes and Tommaso M. Milani

This volume analyses the complex relations between multilingualism and the media: how the media manage multilingualism; how multilingualism is presented and used as media content; and how the media are discursive sites where debates about multilingualism and other language-related issues unfold. It… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 49] 2013. v, 151 pp.

Transferring Linguistic Know-how into Institutional Practice

Edited by Kristin Bührig and Bernd Meyer

This volume is dedicated to applied linguistic research on multilingualism. The term “applied linguistics” is used in a broad sense and describes several examples of the cooperation between linguists and public service institutions or commercial companies. Furthermore, renowned scholars in the… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 15] 2013. vii, 151 pp.

The Travelling Concepts of Narrative

Edited by Mari Hatavara, Lars-Christer Hydén and Matti Hyvärinen

Narrative is a pioneer concept in our trans-disciplinary age. For decades, it has been one of the most successful catchwords in literature, history, cultural studies, philosophy, and health studies. While the expansion of narrative studies has led to significant advances across a number of fields,… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 18] 2013. vi, 311 pp.

Understanding Interfaces: Second language acquisition and first language attrition of Spanish subject realization and word order variation

Laura Domínguez

By combining theoretical analysis and empirical investigation, this monograph investigates the status of interfaces in Minimalist linguistic theory, second language acquisition and native language attrition. Two major questions are currently under debate: (1) what exactly makes a linguistic… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 55] 2013. xx, 267 pp.

Units of Talk – Units of Action

Edited by Beatrice Szczepek Reed and Geoffrey Raymond

In this volume leading academics in Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis consider the notion of units for the study of language and interaction. Amongst the issues being explored are the role and relevance of traditionally accepted linguistic units for the analysis of naturally… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 25] 2013. vi, 378 pp.

Ute Texts

Compiled and edited by T. Givón

This second volume of our Ute trilogy contains a collection of Ute oral texts. Ute oral literature reflects the life experience of a small-scale hunting-and-gathering Society of Intimates and its tight connection to the local terrain, flora and fauna that supported the hunter-gatherer life. Ute… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 7] 2013. xvi, 333 pp.

Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from corpus linguistics

Edited by Julia Bamford, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani

This book focuses on aspects of variation and change in language use in spoken and written discourse on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive insights, and new methods of utilising small specialized corpora for the description of language variation and change. The sixteen… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 21] 2013. xiii, 290 pp.

Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events

Edited by Juliana Goschler and Anatol Stefanowitsch

The linguistic typology of motion event encoding is one of the central topics in Cognitive Linguistics. A vast body of typological, contrastive, and psycholinguistic research has shown the potential, but also the limitations of the original distinction between verb-framed and satellite-framed… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 41] 2013. x, 251 pp.

Vocabulary Knowledge: Human ratings and automated measures

Edited by Scott Jarvis and Michael Daller

Language researchers and practitioners often adopt tools and techniques without testing whether they really work as they should. This is understandable because most scholars do not have the time or expertise to properly evaluate the usefulness of all instruments, measures, and methods they need. It… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 47] 2013. viii, 220 pp.

Women's Epistolary Utterance: A study of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611

Graham T. Williams

Located at the intersection of historical pragmatics, letters and manuscript studies, this book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611. It investigates multiple ways in which socio-culturally and socio-familially contextualized reading of particular… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 233] 2013. ix, 266 pp.

(Re)presentations and Dialogue

Edited by François Cooren and Alain Létourneau

This edited volume proposes key contributions addressing the connections between two important themes: dialogue and representation. These connections were approached or interpreted in three possible ways: 1. Dialogue as representation, 2. Normative perspectives on dialogue/representation issues,… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 16] 2012. xv, 348 pp.

Advice in Discourse

Edited by Holger Limberg and Miriam A. Locher

This multi-faceted collection of research papers on Advice in Discourse focuses on advisory practices in different contexts. Data is drawn from academic, educational and training settings, health-related practices, and computer-mediated communication. The languages involved are Cantonese, English,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 221] 2012. ix, 376 pp.

Affectivity in Interaction: Sound objects in English

Elisabeth Reber

How do participants display affectivity in social interaction? Based on recordings of authentic everyday conversations and radio phone-ins, this study offers a fine-grained analysis of how recipients of affect-laden informings deploy sound objects, i.e. interjections (oh, ooh and ah) and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 215] 2012. ix, 281 pp.

Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles

Edited by Nicholas Faraclas

This book is a ‘must read’ for those who are looking for fresh perspectives on the process of creolization of language. Focusing on peoples whose agency has too often been rendered invisible in colonial and neo-colonial history and on voices which have too often been silenced in linguistic accounts… read more

[Creole Language Library, 45] 2012. xiii, 246 pp.

The Anglicization of European Lexis

Edited by Cristiano Furiassi, Virginia Pulcini and Félix Rodríguez González

This volume explores the lexical influence of English on European languages, a topical theme with linguistic and cultural implications. It provides an extensive introductory background to a cross-national view of English-induced lexical borrowing, posing crucial analytical questions such as what… read more

[Not in series, 174] 2012. ix, 356 pp.

The Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life

Edited by Ruth Ayaß and Cornelia Gerhardt

This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of interactional linguistic media studies. It focuses on how people appropriate media in their daily lives. Thus here it is not the talk in the medium itself, but naturally occurring interactions in different media reception situations that are… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 224] 2012. vii, 308 pp.

Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology

Edited by Pirkko Suihkonen, Bernard Comrie and Valery Solovyev

This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of grammatical relations and argument structure in the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia (LENCA). Topics covered with respect to individual languages are: split-intransitivity (Basque), causativization (Agul),… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 126] 2012. xv, 406 pp.

Astronomy ‘playne and simple’: The writing of science between 1700 and 1900. Including CD-Rom: A Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA)

Edited by Isabel Moskowich and Begoña Crespo

This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA), together with a number of pilot studies using these texts showing how the corpus can be used to investigate English Astronomy writing between 1700… read more

[Not in series, 173] 2012. xi, 240 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Author Representations in Literary Reading

Eefje Claassen

Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader. It is the first book-length empirical study on generated author inferences by readers of literature. It bridges the gap between theories which hold that the author is irrelevant and those that… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 11] 2012. ix, 272 pp.

Bengali

Hanne-Ruth Thompson

Bangla (Bengali), an Eastern Indo-Aryan Language, is the national language of Bangladesh with 150 million speakers and the state language of Paschim Banga (West Bengal) in India with 90 million speakers. There are sizeable communities of Bengalis scattered all over the world. Altogether, the number… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 18] 2012. xxviii, 384 pp.

Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES IV): Desde el año 1801 hasta el año 1860

Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres y Hans-Josef Niederehe

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the early… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 118] 2012. v, 696 pp.

Causality and Connectives: From Grice to relevance

Valandis Bardzokas

The book explores finely-grained distinctions in causal meaning, mostly from a relevance-theoretic perspective. To increase the challenge of this double task, i.e. a thorough as well as satisfactory account of cause and a detailed assessment of the theoretical model employed to this end, the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 216] 2012. xii, 206 pp.

Challenges for Arabic Machine Translation

Edited by Abdelhadi Soudi, Ali Farghaly, Günter Neumann and Rabih Zbib

This book is the first volume that focuses on the specific challenges of machine translation with Arabic either as source or target language. It nicely fills a gap in the literature by covering approaches that belong to the three major paradigms of machine translation: Example-based, statistical… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 9] 2012. viii, 157 pp.

Clefts and their Relatives

Matthew Reeve

Cleft constructions have long presented an analytical challenge for syntactic theory. This monograph argues that clefts and related constructions cannot be analysed in a straightforwardly compositional manner. Instead, it proposes that the locality conditions on modification (for example by a… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 185] 2012. xiii, 223 pp.

A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative: With special reference to Japanese imperatives

Hidemitsu Takahashi

This volume offers the first comprehensive description of English imperatives made from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. It proposes a new way of explaining the meaning and function of the imperative independently of illocutionary act classifications, which allows for quantifying the strength of… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 35] 2012. xvii, 242 pp.

Cohesive Profiling: Meaning and interaction in personal weblogs

Christian R. Hoffmann

Cohesive Profiling provides one of the first linguistic descriptions of blog discourse, focusing on the cohesive relations which enable users to construe blogs as compatible meaningful wholes. With a corpus-based analysis of cohesive relations in personal blogs, the study surprisingly reveals that… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 219] 2012. xxi, 237 pp.

Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art

Edited by Peter Ackema, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest for syntactic theory… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 191] 2012. xvi, 418 pp.

Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and inferring discourse structure

Edited by Anton Benz, Manfred Stede and Peter Kühnlein

The analysis of discourse is probably one of the most complex problems of linguistics. It can be approached from many different directions, involving a large variety of different methods. This volume unites psycholinguistic studies, investigations of logical and computational models of discourse,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 223] 2012. vii, 229 pp.

Constructions in French

Edited by Myriam Bouveret and Dominique Legallois

The book Constructions in French is the first collected volume to focus on French syntax from a constructionist perspective. It has been written with two kinds of readers in mind: for readers interested in the relationship between the French linguistic tradition and cognitive linguistics, and for… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 13] 2012. vi, 287 pp.

Contrastive Media Analysis: Approaches to linguistic and cultural aspects of mass media communication

Edited by Stefan Hauser and Martin Luginbühl

The study of media, texts and culture(s) and especially the analysis of interdependent relationships between them has become a major concern in various academic fields, such as intercultural communication, contrastive textology, comparative cultural studies, historical and intercultural pragmatics.… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 226] 2012. vi, 248 pp.

Conversational Storytelling among Japanese Women: Conversational circumstances, social circumstances and tellability of stories

Mariko Karatsu

This book presents research findings on the overall process of storytelling as a social event in Japanese everyday conversations focusing on the relationship between a story and surrounding talks, the social and cultural aspects of the participants, and the tellability of conversational stories.… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 16] 2012. ix, 225 pp.

Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics

Edited by Stefania Marzo, Kris Heylen and Gert de Sutter

Contrastive Linguistics, like other linguistic disciplines, is becoming more and more data-oriented, relying increasingly on the statistical analysis of corpus data to reveal and investigate the similarities and dissimilarities between languages. The volume Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 43] 2012. v, 171 pp.

Creative Dynamics: Diagrammatic strategies in narrative

Christina Ljungberg

How do readers make sense of a picture, a photograph, or a map in literary narratives in which visual signs play a critical role? How do authors accomplish their various objectives in constructing such complex texts? What strategies and techniques do they use to project fictional worlds and to… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 11] 2012. vii, 190 pp.

Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency. Selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 13–16 May 2010

Edited by Ferenc Kiefer †, Mária Ladányi and Péter Siptár

The present volume contains selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting held in Budapest, 13–16 May 2010, organized under the auspices of the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The selection of papers presented here addresses problems of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 322] 2012. xx, 268 pp.

The Defective Copy Theory of Movement: Evidence from wh-constructions in Cape Verdean Creole

Nélia Alexandre

Within the framework of Chomsky’s Principles and Parameters Theory and the Minimalist Program, this work presents a detailed discussion of the different types of wh-question formation and relativization strategies in Cape Verdean Creole (Santiago variety), especially focusing on wh-movement of PPs.… read more

[Creole Language Library, 41] 2012. xvi, 249 pp.

Describing School Achievement in Asian Languages for Diverse Learner Groups

Edited by Angela Scarino and Catherine Elder

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 35:3 (2012) 147 pp. | open access

Developmental and Crosslinguistic Perspectives in Learner Corpus Research

Edited by Yukio Tono, Yuji Kawaguchi and Makoto Minegishi

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research and developments on the use of learner corpora perceived from developmental and crosslinguistic perspectives. The book is divided into two parts. The eleven contributions of Part I investigate the development of English language… read more

[Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 4] 2012. vi, 361 pp.

The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change

Edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler

Much theorizing in language change research is made without taking into account dialect data. Yet, dialects seem to be superior data to build a theory of linguistic change on, since dialects are relatively free of standardization and therefore more tolerant of variant competition in grammar. In… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 128] 2012. vi, 297 pp.

Dialogue in Politics

Edited by Lawrence N. Berlin and Anita Fetzer

The volume considers politics as cooperative group action and takes the position that forms of government can be posited on a continuum with endpoints where governance is shared, and where hegemony dictates, ranging from politics as interaction to politics as imposition. Similarly, dialogue and… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 18] 2012. vii, 313 pp.

Dialogue, Science and Academic Writing

Zohar Livnat

This book investigates the dialogic nature of research articles from the perspective of discourse analysis, based on theories of dialogicity. It proposes a theoretical and applied framework for the understanding and exploration of scientific dialogicity. Focusing on some dialogic components, among… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 13] 2012. vi, 216 pp.

Discourse Markers in Early Modern English

Ursula Lutzky

This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three corpora (A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 227] 2012. ix, 293 pp.

Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China

Edited by Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak

China’s opening up to the West, its extraordinary economic rise, and the subsequent internal and global issues, are an object of huge interest and concern. Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China focuses on one aspect of the contemporary Chinese phenomenon, one that is… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 42] 2012. ix, 150 pp.

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 12 (2012)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Christina Lindqvist, Camilla Bardel and Niclas Abrahamsson

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 12] 2012. viii, 217 pp.

Endangered Metaphors

Edited by Anna Idström and Elisabeth Piirainen

When the last speaker of a language dies, s/he takes to oblivion the memories, associations and the rich imagery this language community has once lived by. The cultural heritage encoded in conventional linguistic metaphors, handed down through generations, will be lost forever. This volume consists… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 2] 2012. vi, 376 pp.

English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008. Volume II: Words, texts and genres

Edited by Hans Sauer and Gaby Waxenberger

The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al. 2010). Nine concentrate on the development of the English vocabulary and six on historical text linguistics, including the development of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 324] 2012. xviii, 271 pp.

English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010

Edited by Irén Hegedűs and Alexandra Fodor

The volume brings together seventeen peer-reviewed, revised papers originally presented at the 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), held in August 2010 at the University of Pécs, Hungary. This selection aims to show how theoretical and empirical approaches can… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 325] 2012. viii, 386 pp.

English in Southeast Asia: Features, policy and language in use

Edited by Ee-Ling Low and Azirah Hashim

This volume provides a first systematic, comprehensive account of English in Southeast Asia (SEA) based on current research by leading scholars in the field. The volume first provides a systematic account of the linguistic features across all sub-varieties found within each country. It also has a… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G42] 2012. xiv, 394 pp.

The Evaluability Hypothesis: The syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of polarity item licensing

Johan Brandtler

Although the field of polarity is well researched, this monograph offers a new take on polarity sensitivity that both challenges and incorporates previous theories. Based primarily on Swedish data, it presents new solutions to long-standing problems, such as the non-complementary distribution of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 183] 2012. xiii, 199 pp.

Evaluating Cognitive Competences in Interaction

Edited by Gitte Rasmussen, Catherine E. Brouwer and Dennis Day

Evaluation is a part of everyday life. Competences, knowledge and skills are assessed in ordinary as well as in institutional settings like hospitals, clinics and schools. This volume investigates how evaluations are being carried out interactionally. More specifically, it explores how people… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 225] 2012. v, 238 pp.

Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective

Edited by Anetta Kopecka and Bhuvana Narasimhan

Events of putting things in places, and removing them from places, are fundamental activities of human experience. But do speakers of different languages construe such events in the same way when describing them? This volume investigates placement and removal event descriptions from 18 areally,… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 100] 2012. xv, 371 pp.

Experimental Semiotics: Studies on the emergence and evolution of human communication

Edited by Bruno Galantucci and Simon Garrod

In the early twentieth century, Ferdinand de Saussure envisioned "a science which studies the role of signs as part of social life". About a century later, a science has emerged that is very much in the spirit of that envisioned by de Saussure. Researchers who are developing this science, which has… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 45] 2012. v, 161 pp.

Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution

Edited by Luc Steels

The fascinating question of the origins and evolution of language has been drawing a lot of attention recently, not only from linguists, but also from anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, and brain scientists. This groundbreaking book explores the cultural side of language evolution. It… read more

[Advances in Interaction Studies, 3] 2012. xii, 306 pp.

Exploring Newspaper Language: Using the web to create and investigate a large corpus of modern Norwegian

Edited by Gisle Andersen

This book describes new methodological and technological approaches to corpus building and presents recent research based on the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus. This is a large monitor corpus of contemporary Norwegian language, compiled through daily harvesting of web newspapers. The book gives an… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 49] 2012. vi, 356 pp.

From Space to Time: A cognitive analysis of the Cora locative system and its temporal extensions

Eugene H. Casad

Eugene Casad’s posthumous monograph is an in-depth study of the TIME IS SPACE metaphor in Cora – an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the state of Nayarit, Mexico – within the framework of Ronald Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar. The author provides an introduction to Cora speakers and their history, and… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 39] 2012. xxvii, 263 pp.

Gesture and Multimodal Development

Edited by Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti

We gesture while we talk and children use gestures prior to words to communicate during the first year. Later, as words become the preferred form of communication, children continue to gesture to reinforce or extend the spoken messages or even to replace them. This volume, originally published as a… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 39] 2012. xii, 223 pp.

Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections

Edited by Kristin Davidse, Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems and Tanja Mortelmans

This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification. It addresses topical issues relating to the motivations, sources, defining features,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 130] 2012. viii, 342 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2012 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 16] 2012. 248 pp.

Historical Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, 10-14 August 2009

Edited by Ans M.C. van Kemenade and Nynke de Haas

The International Conference on Historical Linguistics has always been a forum that reflects the general state of the art in the field, and the 2009 edition, held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, fully allows the conclusion that the field has been thriving over the years. The studies presented in this… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 320] 2012. xxi, 404 pp.

Ibero-Asian Creoles: Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Hugo C. Cardoso, Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda-Nunes

Starting in 1498, contact between Ibero-Romance and Asian languages has taken place along a vast stretch of the coastlines of continental and insular Asia, producing a string of contact varieties which are among the least visible in the field of Creole Studies. This volume, the first one dedicated… read more

[Creole Language Library, 46] 2012. xi, 375 pp.

Inflection and Word Formation in Romance Languages

Edited by Sascha Gaglia and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin

Morphology, and in particular word formation, has always played an important role in Romance linguistics since it was introduced in Diez’s comparative Romance grammar. Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in inflectional morphology, and current research shows a strong interest in… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 186] 2012. vii, 400 pp.

Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Grammatical Structure

Edited by Bart Defrancq, Gudrun Rawoens and Els Tobback

This volume is a collection of papers dealing with the close connection between discourse and grammar, illustrating the many, sometimes conflicting, facets of that relationship in various European languages. Central to all contributions is their focus on diverse aspects of clause combination and on… read more

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 26] 2012. v, 159 pp.

The Initiation of Sound Change: Perception, production, and social factors

Edited by Maria-Josep Solé and Daniel Recasens

The origins of sound change is one of the oldest and most challenging questions in the study of language. The goal of this volume is to examine current approaches to sound change from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including articulatory variation and modeling, speech… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 323] 2012. x, 250 pp.

Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education: Gaining Insights into English-Medium Instruction at European Universities. AILA Review, Volume 25

Edited by Ute Smit and Emma Dafouz

This volume explores a highly topical applied linguistic issue: the spreading of English-medium courses and programmes in Higher Education. Hailed as a ticket to internationalisation, English is fast becoming a popular educational medium also at universities with a long-standing tradition of using… read more

[AILA Review, 25] 2012. iii, 103 pp.

An Interdisciplinary Bibliography on Language, Gender and Sexuality (2000–2011)

Heiko Motschenbacher

This comprehensive, state-of-the-art bibliography documents the most recent research activity in the vibrant field of language, gender and sexuality. It provides experts in the field and students in tertiary education with access to language-centred resources on gender and sexuality and is,… read more

[Not in series, 177] 2012. vii, 294 pp.

Interlanguage Request Modification

Edited by Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis and Helen Woodfield

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to interlanguage request modification. It is a collection of empirical studies carried out by an international array of scholars which provides insights for researchers, graduate students and language teachers on patterns of interlanguage… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 217] 2012. ix, 318 pp.

An Introduction to Linguistic Typology

Viveka Velupillai

This clear and accessible introduction to linguistic typology covers all linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change. There is also a discussion on methodological issues in typology. This… read more

[Not in series, 176] 2012. xxii, 517 pp.

Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics

Edited by Ulrich Busse and Axel Hübler

The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to, i.e. historical metapragmatics. More particularly, the collected papers apply a meta-communicative approach to historical texts by focusing on lexis that either directly or… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 220] 2012. vii, 292 pp.

Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar

Abdelkader Fassi Fehri

In light of recent generative minimalism, and comparative parametric theory of language variation, the book investigates key features and parameters of Arabic grammar. Part I addresses morpho-syntactic and semantic interfaces in temporality, aspectuality, and actionality, including the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 182] 2012. xx, 358 pp.

Language Contact and Development around the North Sea

Edited by Merja Stenroos, Martti Mäkinen and Inge Særheim

This volume brings together eleven studies on the history of language and writing in the North Sea area, with focus on contacts and interchanges through time. Its range spans from the investigation of pre-Germanic place-names to present-day Shetland; the materials studied include glosses, legal and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 321] 2012. xvi, 235 pp.

Language Maintenance and Language Death: The decline of Texas Alsatian

Karen A. Roesch

This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved with… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 6] 2012. xv, 253 pp.

Latin Embedded Clauses: The left periphery

Lieven Danckaert

This monograph is one of the first studies that approaches Latin syntax from a formal perspective, combining detailed corpus-based description with formal theoretical analysis. The empirical focus is word order in embedded clauses, with special attention to clauses in which one or more constituents… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 184] 2012. xviii, 368 pp.

Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe

Edited by Marina Dossena and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in correspondence both as a literary genre and as cultural practice, and several studies have appeared, mainly spanning the centuries between Early and Late Modern times. However, it is between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the roots… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 218] 2012. vii, 254 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2012

Edited by Marion Elenbaas and Suzanne Aalberse

The 43rd annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 4th, 2012. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year's meeting, 67 papers were presented, of which 22 were submitted to the present… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 29] 2012. v, 158 pp. | open access

Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons

Edited by Lobke Aelbrecht, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye

Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons takes the study of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) into the 21st century, without neglecting the origins of the topic. It brings together work by both established and up-and-coming scholars, who present analyses for a wide range of MCP, from a variety of languages,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 190] 2012. vi, 433 pp.

Make Peace and Take Victory: Support verb constructions in Old English in comparison with Old Irish

Patricia Ronan

This corpus-based study examines the use of support verb constructions in Old English and Old Irish. It determines in how far these constructions can be seen as a means to offer semantic specification of existing verbal expressions. The study further investigates whether support verb constructions… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 24] 2012. xiv, 251 pp.

Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes

Edited by Marianne Hundt and Ulrike Gut

This volume presents a collection of in-depth cross-varietal studies on a broad spectrum of grammatical features in English varieties spoken all over the world. The contributions explore the structural unity and diversity of New Englishes and thus investigate central aspects of dialect evolution… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G43] 2012. xiv, 294 pp.

Media Intertextualities

Edited by Mie Hiramoto

This collection of critical essays, originally published in Pragmatics and Society 1:2 (2010), discusses how normative biases that shape our relation to the world are constructed through discursive practice in media discourse. The intertextual perspective it adopts is crucial for our understanding… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 37] 2012. v, 144 pp.

Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication

Edited by Fiona MacArthur, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García and Ana M. Piquer-Píriz

Metaphor is a fascinating phenomenon, but it is also complex and multi-faceted, varying in how it is manifested in different modes of expression, languages, cultures, or time-scales. How then can we reliably identify metaphors in different contexts? How does the language or culture of speakers and… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 38] 2012. x, 379 pp.

Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research

Edited by Gary Libben †, Gonia Jarema and Chris Westbury

The study of how words are represented and processed in the mind has served as a meeting ground for research in psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. Right now, this domain of study is in the midst of astonishing developments. At the core of these developments are the methodological and… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 47] 2012. x, 465 pp.

Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A multi-dimensional approach

Edited by Manfred Markus, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson

This book brings together a variety of approaches to English corpus linguistics and shows how corpus methodologies can contribute to the linking of diachronic and synchronic studies. The articles in this volume investigate historical changes in the English language as well as specific aspects of… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 50] 2012. viii, 287 pp.

Mongolian

Juha A. Janhunen

Mongolian is the principal language spoken by some five million ethnic Mongols living in Outer and Inner Mongolia, as well as in adjacent parts of Russia and China. The spoken language is divided into a number of mutually intelligible dialects, while for writing two separate written languages are… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 19] 2012. xv, 320 pp.

The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages

Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith and Anne Zribi-Hertz

This is a new contribution to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Reiteration is meant to denote any situation where the same form occurs (at least) twice within the boundaries of some linguistic domain. By including two case studies bearing on Hebrew and… read more

[Creole Language Library, 43] 2012. vii, 287 pp.

Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language

Edited by Ad Foolen, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine and Jordan Zlatev

The close relationship between motion (bodily movement) and emotion (feelings) is not an etymological coincidence. While moving ourselves, we move others; in observing others move – we are moved ourselves. The fundamentally interpersonal nature of mind and language has recently received due… read more

[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 6] 2012. viii, 492 pp. | open access

Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis

Edited by Thomas Schmidt and Kai Wörner

This volume deals with different aspects of the creation and use of multilingual corpora. The term 'multilingual corpus' is understood in a comprehensive sense, meaning any systematic collection of empirical language data enabling linguists to carry out analyses of multilingual individuals,… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 14] 2012. xiii, 407 pp.

Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies

Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Christoph Gabriel

The 25 contributions of this volume represent a selection from the more than 120 papers originally presented at the International Conference on “Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies” (MIMS), held in Hamburg (October 2010) and organized by the Collaborative Research Center… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 13] 2012. xiv, 474 pp.

Multilingualism

Larissa Aronin and David Singleton

This book is an authoritative account of multilingualism in the present era, a phenomenon affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of languages and millions of language users. The book’s focus is specifically on the knowledge and use of multiple languages, but its treatment of the topic is… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 30] 2012. ix, 230 pp.

New Perspectives on Irish English

Edited by Bettina Migge and Máire Ní Chiosáin

This volume brings together current research by international scholars on the varieties of English spoken in Ireland. The papers apply contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches and frameworks to a range of topics. A number of papers explore the distribution of linguistic features in… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G44] 2012. xvii, 361 pp.

Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque: Syntax and semantics

Edited by Urtzi Etxeberria, Ricardo Etxepare and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria

This collective volume on nominal expressions in Basque, a language isolate with no known relatives, comprises original papers on the syntactic structure and the interpretation of both Noun Phrases and nominalization constructions – a traditionally neglected aspect of Basque linguistics. The minute… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 187] 2012. vii, 466 pp.

Of Grammar, Words, and Verses: In honor of Carlos Piera

Edited by Esther Torrego

This book offers new work by some major figures in the field of linguistics, addressing old debates from the perspective of current explanatory grammatical theory. These include paradigmatic relations among words, and agreeing adjectives and their grammatical source. Covering a broad range of… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 8] 2012. xi, 272 pp.

On the Compositional Nature of States

E. Matthew Husband

This monograph pursues a structural analogy between the availability of an existential interpretation in states and the telicity of events. Focusing on evidence from both verbal and adjectival predicates, it argues that quantization forms the basis of a unified theory of aktionsart and provides a… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 188] 2012. xv, 170 pp.

On the Grammar of Optative Constructions

Patrick G. Grosz

This monograph is one of the first theoretical studies of optatives. Optative constructions express desire without an overt lexical item that means ‘desire’. The author specifically investigates optatives with the syntax of embedded clauses that contain prototypical particles such as ‘only’. He… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 193] 2012. xi, 346 pp.

Optimizing Adverb Positions

Eva Engels

Adverb positions vary within a single language as well as across diverse languages. Based on the study of adverbs in English, French and German, this monograph shows that the distribution of adverbs is influenced by various factors at distinct levels of linguistic representation – comprising… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 181] 2012. xiv, 347 pp.

The Passive in Japanese: A cartographic minimalist approach

Tomoko Ishizuka

This book describes and analyzes the passive voice system in Japanese within the framework of generative grammar. By unifying different types of passives conventionally distinguished within the literature, the book advances a simple minimalist account where various passive characteristics emerge… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 192] 2012. xv, 249 pp.

Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools

Véronique Lacoste

This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. For sociolinguists and second language/dialect researchers interested in the acquisition and use of sociolinguistic variables, an… read more

[Creole Language Library, 42] 2012. xiv, 293 pp.

Pidgins and Creoles in Asia

Edited by Umberto Ansaldo

This book shifts the focus of Pidgin and Creole Studies from the better-known Atlantic/Caribbean contexts to the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and Mongolia. By looking at Asian contexts before and after Western colonial expansion, we offer readers insights into language contact in historical… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 38] 2012. ix, 170 pp.

Playing by Ear and the Tip of the Tongue: Precategorial information in poetry

Reuven Tsur †

In our everyday life we are flooded by a pandemonium of information which consciousness organizes into more easily manageable phonetic and semantic categories. In poetry reading, however, the total effect of a poem is not only obtained by some of these categories but also by precategorial… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 14] 2012. xi, 310 pp.

Practical Theories and Empirical Practice: A linguistic perspective

Edited by Andrea C. Schalley

There is a perceived tension between empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of language. Many recent works in the discipline emphasise that linguistics is an ‘empirical science’. This volume argues for a nuanced view, highlighting that theory and practice necessarily and as a matter of… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 40] 2012. xi, 338 pp.

Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends

Edited by Peter Lauwers, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen

This volume brings together five papers offering cross-linguistic analyses of pragmatic markers involving modality, supplemented by three book reviews on the same topic. The contrastive method, based on monolingual or translation corpora, does not only provide interesting insights about differences… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 44] 2012. v, 160 pp.

Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts: Methodological issues

Edited by J. César Félix-Brasdefer and Dale Koike

Departing from Schneider and Barron (2008), representing the emerging field of Variational Pragmatics, this volume examines pragmatic variation focusing on methods utilized to collect and analyze data in a variety of first (L1) and second (L2) language contexts. The objectives are to: (1) examine… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 31] 2012. x, 338 pp.

Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren

Edited by Michael Meeuwis and Jan-Ola Östman

The ideas that mark modern-day pragmatics are old, but did not start to get more systematically developed until the 1960s and 1970s. Still, the very recognition of pragmatics as a self-standing academic discipline is a product of the 1980s, not least made possible by the establishment of the… read more

[Not in series, 170] 2012. vi, 230 pp.

Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Stanca Măda and Răzvan Săftoiu

Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures aims at developing an integrative linguistic perspective on talk at work. Professional communication allows multi- and interdisciplinary explorations on how workplace relationships and mechanisms are influenced by the use of certain… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 17] 2012. vi, 284 pp.

Public Information Messages: A contrastive genre analysis of state-citizen communication

Anne Barron

Public information messages are an important means of state-citizen communication in today’s societies. Using this genre, citizens are directed to “never ever drink and drive”, to “slow down” and to “learn to say no”. Yet, this book presents the first in-depth analysis of public information… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 222] 2012. xix, 340 pp.

The Quantitative Analysis of the Dynamics and Structure of Terminologies

Kyo Kageura

The dynamics and systematicity of terminology: this book addresses these essential and intriguing aspects of terminology, by using quantitative methodologies which have been underutilized in the field to date. Through the analysis of the Japanese terminologies of six domains and with special… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 15] 2012. xix, 243 pp.

Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh

Edited by Søren Wichmann and Anthony P. Grant

Quantitative methods in linguistics, which the protean American structuralist linguist Morris Swadesh introduced in the 1950s, have become increasingly popular and have opened the world of languages to interdisciplinary approaches. The papers collected here are the work not only of descriptive and… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 46] 2012. x, 182 pp.

Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives

Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller and Ingrid van Alphen

Research on quotation has yielded a rich and diverse knowledge-base. Scientific interest has been sparked particularly by the recent emergence of new quotative forms in typologically related and unrelated languages (i.e. English be like, Hebrew kazé, Japanese mitai-na).The present collection gives… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 15] 2012. xxx, 296 pp.

Reflexive Marking in the History of French

Richard Waltereit

While French reflexive clitics have been widely studied, other forms of expressing co-reference within the clause have not received much attention. This monograph offers a diachronic study of the wider system of clause-mate co-reference in French, including the stressed pronouns, their suffixed… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 127] 2012. x, 224 pp.

Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview

Edited by Bernard Comrie and Zarina Estrada-Fernández

Patterns of relative clause formation tend to vary according to the typological properties of a language. Highly polysynthetic languages tend to have fully nominalized relative clauses and no relative pronouns, while other typologically diverse languages tend to have relative clauses which are… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 102] 2012. xiii, 307 pp.

Relative Clauses in Time and Space: A case study in the methods of diachronic typology

Rachel Hendery

This book presents a comprehensive survey of historically attested relative clause constructions from a diachronic typological perspective. Systematic integration of historical data and a typological approach demonstrates how typology and historical linguistics can each benefit from attention to… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 101] 2012. xii, 281 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2010: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leiden 2010

Edited by Irene Franco, Sara Lusini and Andrés Saab

The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. The twenty-fourth Going Romance conference was… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 4] 2012. viii, 223 pp.

Roots of Afrikaans: Selected writings of Hans den Besten

Edited by Ton van der Wouden

Hans den Besten (1948-2010) made numerous contributions to Afrikaans linguistics over a period of nearly three decades. His writings helped shift the perspective on the roots of Afrikaans beyond Dutch to the structure and vocabulary of Khoekhoe, to Portuguese Creole, and to Malay varieties. This… read more

[Creole Language Library, 44] 2012. vii, 458 pp.

Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 1

Igor Mel’čuk

This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, beginning with the idea that language can be described as a system for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a correct… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 129] 2012. xxi, 436 pp.

Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew

Ron Kuzar

Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew offers an innovative perspective on sentential syntax, in which sentence patterns are introduced as constructions within the general framework of Construction Grammar. Drawing on naturally occurring data collected from the Internet, the study challenges the… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 12] 2012. xvii, 254 pp.

Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity

Edited by Luna Filipović and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt

This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A number of authors discuss expression of dynamic spatial relations cross-linguistically in a vast range of typologically different languages… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 36] 2012. xv, 492 pp.

Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition

Edited by Luna Filipović and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt

This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 37] 2012. xiii, 363 pp.

Space in Tense: The interaction of tense, aspect, evidentiality and speech acts in Korean

Kyung-Sook Chung

This monograph explores the tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality of Korean, which has a rich verbal inflectional system, and proposes novel treatments within the framework of compositional semantics. One of the major contributions is the demonstration that Korean has two types of deictic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 189] 2012. xvii, 292 pp.

Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European History

Edited by Matthias Hüning, Ulrike Vogl and Olivier Moliner

This volume explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. It argues that, over the centuries, the pursuit of linguistic homogeneity has become a central aspect of the mindset of Europeans. In its extreme form, it became manifest in the principle of 'one language, one state, one… read more

[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 1] 2012. ix, 339 pp.

Style-Shifting in Public: New perspectives on stylistic variation

Edited by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa

Language acts are acts of identity, and linguistic variation reflects the multifaceted construction of verbal alternatives for transmitting social meaning, where style-shifting represents our ability to take up different social positions due to its potential for linguistic performance, rhetorical… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 9] 2012. vii, 231 pp.

Swiss German Intonation Patterns

Adrian Leemann

Switzerland is renowned for having a diverse linguistic and dialectal landscape in a comparatively small and confined space. Possibly, this is one of the reasons why Swiss German dialects have been investigated thoroughly on various linguistic levels. Nevertheless, natural speech intonation has,… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 10] 2012. xv, 331 pp.

The Syntax of Spoken Indian English

Claudia Lange

This book offers an in-depth analysis of several features of spoken Indian English that are generally considered as ‘typical’, but have never before been studied empirically. Drawing on authentic spoken data from the International Corpus of English, Indian component, the book focuses on the domain… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G45] 2012. xv, 265 pp.

Syntax, Semantics and Acquisition of Multiple Interrogatives: Who wants what?

Lydia Grebenyova

Multiple interrogatives, questions with multiple wh-phrases (e.g. Who bought what?), have long presented analytical challenges for linguistic theory. This monograph presents a new theoretical and experimental study of this construction. The theoretical findings concern the interaction between… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 195] 2012. xviii, 191 pp.

Textual Choices in Discourse: A view from cognitive linguistics

Edited by Barbara Dancygier, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte

In recent years, research in cognitive linguistics has expanded its interests to cover a variety of texts – spoken, written, or multimodal. Analytical tools such as conceptual metaphor, frame semantics, mental spaces and grammatical constructions have been productively applied in various discourse… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 40] 2012. v, 198 pp.

Third Language Acquisition in Adulthood

Edited by Jennifer Cabrelli, Suzanne Flynn and Jason Rothman

In recent years, researchers have acknowledged that the study of third language acquisition cannot simply be viewed as an extension of the study of bilingualism, and the present volume’s authors agree that a point of departure that embraces the unique properties that differentiate L2 acquisition… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 46] 2012. vii, 312 pp.

Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on interfaces

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

The theoretical proposals brought forward in this book as well as the results from the reported experimental studies present genuine contributions to the biolinguistic program. The papers contribute to our understanding of the properties of the computations and the representations derived by the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 194] 2012. vi, 367 pp

Transforming National Holidays: Identity discourse in the West and South Slavic countries, 1985-2010

Edited by Ljiljana Šarić, Karen Gammelgaard and Kjetil Rå Hauge

How do people construct collective identity during profound societal transformations? This volume examines the discursive construction of identity related to important national holidays in nine countries of Central Europe and the Balkans: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic,… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 47] 2012. xiii, 314 pp.

The Transmission of Anglo-Norman: Language history and language acquisition

Richard P. Ingham

This investigation contributes to issues in the study of second language transmission by considering the well-documented historical case of Anglo-Norman. Within a few generations of the establishment of this variety, its phonology diverged sharply from that of continental French, yet core syntactic… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 9] 2012. xii, 179 pp.

Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness: Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures

Edited by Marcel Bax and Dániel Z. Kádár

Exploring a largely uncharted territory of cultural history and linguistic ethnography, Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness offers in-depth analyses and perceptive interpretations of the conveyance of social-relational meaning in times (long) past and across historical cultures.A collection of… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 41] 2012. vi, 283 pp.

What is a Context?: Linguistic approaches and challenges

Edited by Rita Finkbeiner, Jörg Meibauer and Petra B. Schumacher

Context is a core notion of linguistic theory. However, while there are numerous attempts at explaining single aspects of the notion of context, these attempts are rather diverse and do not easily converge to a unified theory of context. The present multi-faceted collection of papers reconsiders… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 196] 2012. vii, 253 pp.

The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity

Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop and Jonathan Clifton

Special issue of Pragmatics 22:2 (2012) ca. 125 pp. | open access

The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, typology and function

Edited by Evan Kidd

Explaining the acquisition and processing of relative clauses has long challenged psycholinguistics researchers. The current volume presents a collection of chapters that consider the acquisition of relative clauses with a particular focus on function, typology, and language processing. A diverse… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 8] 2011. viii, 244 pp.

Adjective Complementation: An empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses

Ilka Mindt

This is the first empirical study to focus on adjectives complemented by that-clauses. The in-depth analysis of more than 50,000 cases taken from the British National Corpus gives comprehensive insights into hitherto neglected relations of lexis and grammar. The result of this corpus-driven study… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 42] 2011. vii, 238 pp.

Adverbials and the Phase Model

Petr Biskup

This monograph addresses two issues, phases and adverbials. It proposes that there is a correlation between the phase structure, the tripartite quantificational structure and the information structure of the sentence. This correlation plays an important role not only in referential and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 177] 2011. ix, 235 pp.

Applied Folk Linguistics. AILA Review, Volume 24

Edited by Antje Wilton and Martin Stegu

Within applied linguistics, a number of approaches consider the ideas that lay people have about language-related topics. Taking those ideas as a serious object of research is essentially what can be subsumed under the folk linguistics approach. This issue of the AILA Review connects the study of… read more

[AILA Review, 24] 2011. iii, 115 pp.

Applying priming methods to L2 learning, teaching and research: Insights from Psycholinguistics

Edited by Pavel Trofimovich and Kim McDonough

This volume features a collection of empirical studies which use priming methods to explore the comprehension, production, and acquisition of second language (L2) phonology, syntax, and lexicon. The term priming refers to the phenomenon in which prior exposure to specific language forms or meanings… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 30] 2011. ix, 254 pp.

Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 12: Papers from the 2009 Debrecen Conference

Edited by Tibor Laczkó and Catherine O. Ringen

This volume contains eight papers, all presented at the 9th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (University of Debrecen, 2009), addressing a great variety of topics in the syntax, morphology, phonology, and semantics of Hungarian, and also offering discussion of related phenomena… read more

[Approaches to Hungarian, 12] 2011. x, 242 pp.

The Arabic Verb: Form and meaning in the vowel-lengthening patterns

Warwick Danks

The Arabic verbal system is, for most grammarians, the keystone of the language. Notable for the regularity of its patterns, it presents the linguist with an unparalleled opportunity to explore the Saussurean notion of the indivisible sign: form and meaning. Whilst Arabic forms are well-documented,… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 63] 2011. xviii, 281 pp.

Argumentation in Dispute Mediation: A reasonable way to handle conflict

Sara Greco

The context of mediation immediately highlights the importance of argumentation as a means to reasonably handle conflict. Argumentation in dispute mediation tackles this topic providing both theoretical insights and detailed empirical argumentative analysis. Its goal is twofold: to explore… read more

[Argumentation in Context, 3] 2011. xii, 291 pp.

Australian Languages: A challenge for applied linguistics

Edited by Michael Walsh

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 34:3 (2011) 107 pp. | open access

Bidirectional Optimality Theory

Edited by Anton Benz and Jason Mattausch

Bidirectional Optimality Theory (BiOT) emerged at the turn of the millennium as a fusion of Radical Pragmatics and Optimality Theoretic Semantics. It stirred a wealth of new research in the pragmatics‑semantics interface and heavily influenced e.g. the development of evolutionary and game theoretic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 180] 2011. v, 279 pp.

Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies

Edited by Kim Potowski and Jason Rothman

The present volume represents a variety of portraits of what happens when families attempt to raise children in Spanish while living in English-speaking societies. Aided by the foregrounding chapter by Suzanne Romaine about language and identity and the afterword by Carol Klee that ties together… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 42] 2011. vi, 371 pp.

Bilingualism in the USA: The case of the Chicano-Latino community

Fredric Field

This text provides an overview of bi- and multilingualism as a worldwide phenomenon. It features comprehensive discussions of many of the linguistic, social, political, and educational issues found in an increasingly multilingual nation and world. To this end, the book takes the Chicano-Latino… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 44] 2011. xviii, 320 pp.

Cambodian: Khmer

John Haiman †

Cambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of “Desesperanto” – a… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 16] 2011. xix, 425 pp.

Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles

Edited by Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski

The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike previous studies, these… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 99] 2011. vi, 354 pp.

Case-Marking in Contact: The development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol

Felicity Meakins

Until recently, mixed languages were considered an oddity of contact linguistics, with debates about whether or not they actually existed stifling much descriptive work or discussion of their origins. These debates have shifted from questioning their existence to a focus on their formation, and… read more

[Creole Language Library, 39] 2011. xxi, 311 pp.

Causatives in Minimalism

Mercedes Tubino-Blanco

This monograph studies issues of current minimalist concern, such as whether differences in the expression of argument and syntactic structure can all be attributed to the parameterization of specific functional heads. In particular, this book studies in-depth the extent to which variation in the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 179] 2011. xx, 294 pp.

Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality

Edited by Adeline Patard and Frank Brisard

This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 29] 2011. ix, 319 pp.

Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion

Edited by Mario Brdar, Stefan Th. Gries and Milena Žic Fuchs

Cognitive Linguistics is not a unified theory of language but rather a set of flexible and mutually compatible theoretical frameworks. Whether these frameworks can or should stabilize into a unified theory is open to debate. One set of contributions to the volume focuses on evidence that… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 32] 2011. vii, 362 pp.

Cognitive and Empirical Pragmatics: Issues and perspectives

Edited by Gregory Bochner, Philippe De Brabanter, Mikhail Kissine and Daniela Rossi

Over the last decade, research in semantics and pragmatics has started to increasingly incorporate new experimental methods from cognitive psychology. That this empirical stance on utterance interpretation has now reached maturity is revealed by two unmistakable symptoms: (i) an increased… read more

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 25] 2011. v, 208 pp.

Colouring Meaning: Collocation and connotation in figurative language

Gill Philip

Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 43] 2011. xiii, 232 pp.

Communicational Criticism: Studies in literature as dialogue

Roger D. Sell

Further developing the line of argument put forward in his Literature as Communication (2000) and Mediating Criticism (2001), Roger D. Sell now suggests that when so-called literary texts stand the test of time and appeal to a large and heterogeneous circle of admirers, this is because they are… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 11] 2011. xi, 392 pp.

Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An introduction. Second edition

Robert S.P. Beekes

This book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through Armenian and Albanian) and a… read more

[Not in series, 172] 2011. xxiv, 415 pp.

Complex Predicates: The syntax-morphology interface

Leila Lomashvili

Complex predicates present different levels of complexity at the syntactic and morphological levels crosslinguistically. The focus of this book is a subset of these constructions (causative and applicative) in three polysynthetic languages of the South Caucasian language family, in which the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 174] 2011. xi, 190 pp.

Compound Words in Spanish: Theory and history

María Irene Moyna

This is the first book devoted entirely to the history of compound words in Spanish. Based on data obtained from Spanish dictionaries and databases of the past thousand years, it documents the evolution of the major compounding patterns of the language. It analyzes the structural, semantic, and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 316] 2011. xxv, 451 pp.

Connecting Grammaticalisation

Jens Nørgård-Sørensen, Lars Heltoft and Lene Schøsler

This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. What unites morphology, topology (word… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 65] 2011. xiii, 347 pp. | open access

Constraints on Displacement: A phase-based approach

Gereon Müller

This monograph sets out to derive the effects of standard constraints on displacement like the Minimal Link Condition (MLC) and the Condition on Extraction Domain (CED) from more basic principles in a minimalist approach. Assuming that movement via phase edges is possible only in the presence of… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 7] 2011. x, 339 pp.

Context and Contexts: Parts meet whole?

Edited by Anita Fetzer and Etsuko Oishi

This book departs from the premise that context represents a complex relational configuration which can no longer be conceived as an analytic prime but rather requires a parts-whole perspective to capture its inherent dynamism. The edited volume presents a collection of papers which examine the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 209] 2011. vii, 239 pp.

Contrastive Pragmatics

Edited by Karin Aijmer

We have recently seen a broadening of pragmatics to new areas and to the study of more than one language. This is illustrated by the present volume on Contrastive Pragmatics which brings together a number of articles originally presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference in Göteborg… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 30] 2011. v, 182 pp.

Converging Evidence: Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research

Edited by Doris Schönefeld

The volume argues for the use of multi-methodological strategies in linguistic research. In its lead chapter, in addition, the thorny issue of phenomenological pluralism is explored in detail. From a usage-based perspective, the individual chapters demonstrate methodological pluralism in the… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 33] 2011. x, 352 pp.

Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics

Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Makoto Minegishi and Wolfgang Viereck

Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony. They recognize that synchrony can be motivated regionally (diatopic variation), sociolinguistically (diastratic variation), or stylistically (diaphasic variation). But,… read more

[Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 3] 2011. vi, 293 pp.

Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology

Edited by Claire Lefebvre

Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 95] 2011. ix, 626 pp.

Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition

Edited by Christopher Hart

Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) is an exciting research enterprise in which scholars are concerned with the discursive reproduction of power and inequality. However, researchers in CDS are increasingly recognising the need to investigate the cognitive dimensions of discourse and context if they… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 43] 2011. vii, 231 pp.

Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a consensus view

Edited by Réka Benczes, Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

While cognitive linguists are essentially in agreement on both the conceptual nature and the fundamental importance of metonymy, there remain disagreements on a number of specific but, nevertheless, crucial issues. Research questions include: Is metonymy a relationship between “entities” or… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 28] 2011. viii, 284 pp.

Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar

Edited by Luc Steels

Construction Grammar is enthusiastically embraced by a growing group of linguists who find it a natural way to formulate their analyses. But so far there is no widespread formalization of construction grammar with a solid computational implementation. Fluid Construction Grammar attempts to fill… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 11] 2011. xi, 332 pp.

The Development of Grammar: Language acquisition and diachronic change. In honour of Jürgen M. Meisel

Edited by Esther Rinke and Tanja Kupisch

This volume focuses on different aspects of language development. The contributions are concerned with similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition, the acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories, cross-linguistic influence in bilingual first language… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 11] 2011. viii, 414 pp.

Discursive Pragmatics

Edited by Jan Zienkowski, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural,… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 8] 2011. xv, 307 pp.

Distributed Language

Edited by Stephen J. Cowley

The volume presents language as fully integrated with human existence. On this view, language is not essentially ‘symbolic’, not represented inside minds or brains, and most certainly not determined by micro-social rules and norms. Rather, language is part of our ecology. It emerges when bodies… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 34] 2011. ix, 220 pp.

A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development: Methods and techniques

Edited by Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Kees de Bot and Wander Lowie

Dynamic systems theory, a general theory of change and development, offers a new way to study first and second language development and requires a new set of tools for analysis of empirical data. After a brief introduction to the theory, this book, co-authored by several leading scholars in the… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 29] 2011. ix, 211 pp.

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 11 (2011)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Gabriele Pallotti and Camilla Bettoni

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 11] 2011. vi, 272 pp.

Elements of Meaning in Gesture

Geneviève Calbris

Summarizing her pioneering work on the semiotic analysis of gestures in conversational settings, Geneviève Calbris offers a comprehensive account of her unique perspective on the relationship between gesture, speech, and thought. She highlights the various functions of gesture and especially shows… read more

[Gesture Studies, 5] 2011. xx, 378 pp.

Embodiment via Body Parts: Studies from various languages and cultures

Edited by Zouhair Maalej and Ning Yu

Research on the “embodiment hypothesis” within cognitive linguistics and beyond is growing steadily aiming to bridge language, culture, and cognition. This volume seeks to address the question regarding what specific roles individual body parts play in the embodied conceptualization of emotions,… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 31] 2011. ix, 258 pp.

English in Europe Today: Sociocultural and educational perspectives

Edited by Annick De Houwer and Antje Wilton

This volume discusses several facets of English in today's multilingual Europe. It emphasizes the interdependence between cultures, languages and situations that influence its use. This interdependence is particularly relevant to European settings where English is being learned as a second language. read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 8] 2011. xi, 170 pp.

Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas

Edited by Friederike Kern and Margret Selting

In recent years, ethnic ways of speaking by young people with migrant background have become an important research object in sociolinguistics; work on these ways of speaking has been prospering in many European countries. This work is continued in the present volume, with the aim of bringing… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 8] 2011. vi, 321 pp.

Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language

Edited by Inbal Arnon and Eve V. Clark

Are all children exposed to the same linguistic input, and do they follow the same route in acquisition? The answer is no: The language that children hear differs even within a social class or cultural setting, as do the paths individual children take. The linguistic signal itself is also variable,… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 7] 2011. x, 300 pp.

Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics

Edited by Jörg Meibauer and Markus Steinbach

In recent years, a lively debate ensued on an old issue, namely the proper distinction between semantics and pragmatics against the background of the classical Gricean distinction between ‘what is said’ and ‘what is implicated’. From a linguist’s point of view, however, there has always been a… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 175] 2011. x, 240 pp.

Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a paradigm gap

Edited by Joybrato Mukherjee and Marianne Hundt

The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 44] 2011. vi, 222 pp.

Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas: With special reference to Africa

Edited by Osamu Hieda, Christa König and Hiroshi Nakagawa

Is Africa a linguistic area (Heine & Leyew 2008)? The present volume consists of sixteen papers highlighting the linguistic geography of Africa, covering, in particular, southern Africa with its Khoisan languages. A wide range of phenomena are discussed to give an overview of the pattern of social,… read more

[Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2] 2011. vi, 321 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2011 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 15] 2011. vi, 303 pp.

Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages

Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their… read more

[Not in series, 161] 2011. xviii, 421 pp.

Historical Sociopragmatics

Edited by Jonathan Culpeper

Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:2 (2009), this is the first book to map out historical sociopragmatics, a multidisciplinary field located within historical pragmatics, but overlapping with socially-oriented fields, such as sociolinguistics and critical… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 31] 2011. vii, 135 pp.

History of Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August - 2 September 2008, Potsdam

Edited by Gerda Haßler

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 11th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (Potsdam 2008) which are especially representative of the concerns of the conference and its thematic range. The reflection about language and the individual languages… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 115] 2011. xi, 468 pp.

Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Andrej L. Malchukov and Anna Siewierska

This volume offers a much needed typological perspective on impersonal constructions, which are here viewed broadly as constructions lacking a referential subject. The contributions to this volume deal with all types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 124] 2011. ix, 641 pp.

Indentured Identities: Resistance and accommodation in plantation-era Fiji

Farzana Gounder

The book explores the historical dimension of Indian indenture from within the lived experience of laborers, who emigrated to Fiji from colonial India a century ago. As these laborers are no longer alive, one could argue that the experience of indenture is no longer accessible, if there had not… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 15] 2011. xvii, 345 pp.

Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics

Edited by Zeki Majeed Hassan and Barry Heselwood

Brought together in this volume are fourteen studies using a range of modern instrumental methods – acoustic and articulatory – to investigate the phonetics of several North African and Middle Eastern varieties of Arabic. Topics covered include syllable structure, quantity, assimilation, guttural… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 319] 2011. xii, 365 pp.

Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture

Edited by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino

Gestures are ubiquitous and natural in our everyday life. They convey information about culture, discourse, thought, intentionality, emotion, intersubjectivity, cognition, and first and second language acquisition. Additionally, they are used by non-human primates to communicate with their peers… read more

[Gesture Studies, 4] 2011. viii, 372 pp. | open access

The Japanese Sentence-Final Particles in Talk-in-Interaction

Hideki Saigo

The Japanese sentence-final particles, ne, yo and yone have proved notoriously difficult to explain and are especially challenging for second language users. This book investigates the role of the particles in talk-in-interaction with the aim of providing a comprehensive understanding that accounts… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 205] 2011. xiv, 281 pp.

Journalism and the Political: Discursive tensions in news coverage of Russia

Felicitas Macgilchrist

Journalism is often thought of as the ‘fourth estate’ of democracy. This book suggests that journalism plays a more radical role in politics, and explores new ways of thinking about news media discourse. It develops an approach to investigating both hegemonic discourse and discursive fissures,… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 40] 2011. xiv, 248 pp.

Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren

Edited by Eveline T. Feteris, Bart Garssen and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans

Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics is written to honor Frans van Eemeren and his work in the field of argumentation theory on the occasion of his retirement. The volume contains 17 contributions from teams of authors consisting of a combination of a pragma-dialectician and one or two… read more

[Not in series, 163] 2011. vi, 283 pp.

Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning

Lucien Brown

This book investigates the ways that advanced speakers of Korean as a second language perceive, use and learn the complexities of the Korean honorifics system. Despite their advanced proficiency in Korean, the study shows that the honorifics use of these speakers diverges in crucial ways from… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 206] 2011. xiv, 311 pp.

Kwéyòl in Postcolonial Saint Lucia: Globalization, language planning, and national development

Aonghas St-Hilaire

Can historically marginalized, threatened languages be saved in the contemporary global era? In relation to the wider postcolonial world, especially the Caribbean, this book focuses on efforts to preserve and promote Lesser Antillean French Creole – Kwéyòl – as the national language of Saint Lucia… read more

[Creole Language Library, 40] 2011. xv, 316 pp.

Landscape in Language: Transdisciplinary perspectives

Edited by David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult and David Stea

Landscape is fundamental to human experience. Yet until recently, the study of landscape has been fragmented among the disciplines. This volume focuses on how landscape is represented in language and thought, and what this reveals about the relationships of people to place and to land. Scientists… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 4] 2011. xiii, 449 pp.

Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations

Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden

The studies in Language Change in Contact Languages showcase the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understanding of phenomena such as relexification, transfer, reanalysis, grammaticalization, prosodic variation and the development of prosodic systems. Four of… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 36] 2011. v, 241 pp.

Language Variation - European Perspectives III: Selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 5), Copenhagen, June 2009

Edited by Frans Gregersen, Jeffrey K. Parrott and Pia Quist

Language Variation – European Perspectives III contains 18 selected papers from the International Conference on Language Variation in Europe which took place in Copenhagen 2009. The volume includes plenaries by Penelope Eckert (‘Where does the social stop?’) and Brit Mæhlum (on how cities have been… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 7] 2011. vi, 260 pp.

Languages in Contact: French, German and Romansh in twentieth-century Switzerland

Uriel Weinreich

The appearance of Uriel Weinreich's Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1953) marked a milestone in the study of multilingualism and language contact. Yet until now, few linguists have been aware that its main themes were first laid out in Weinreich’s Columbia University doctoral… read more

[Not in series, 166] 2011. xxxiv, 401 pp.

Learning and Teaching Narrative Inquiry: Travelling in the Borderlands

Edited by Sheila Trahar

In the final chapter of this volume, the authors refer to the “pedagogical vantage points offered by narrative inquiry”, an apt comment that encapsulates the volume’s purpose and its spirit. As an increasing number of people throughout the world – and from a broad range of disciplines – are turning… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 14] 2011. vi, 178 pp.

Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence

Edited by Bob de Jonge and Yishai Tobin

This volume further elaborates the empirical tradition of Columbia School (CS) Linguistics by offering diverse empirical analyses for a wide variety of languages. These studies open a much needed debate advocating the necessity of the independent validation of linguistic hypotheses. This research… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 64] 2011. vi, 299 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2011

Edited by Rick Nouwen and Marion Elenbaas

The 42nd annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 5th, 2011. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 112 papers were presented, of which 19 were submitted to the present… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 28] 2011. ix, 137 pp. | open access

Living with Patriarchy: Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures

Edited by Danijela Majstorović and Inger Lassen

This innovative book critically examines patriarchal hegemonies from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It challenges the Anglo-American bias of much gender and language research to date by including rich new data and insights from scholars working in countries such as… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 45] 2011. vi, 307 pp.

Loanwords in Japanese

Mark Irwin

Loanwords in Japanese is the first monograph in a Western language to offer a systematic and coherent overview of the vast number of words borrowed into Japanese since the mid-16th century. Its publication is timely given the fact that the loanword stratum’s recent exponential growth has given rise… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 125] 2011. xix, 276 pp.

Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners

Vincent X. Wang

Requests, a speech act people frequently use to perform everyday social interactions, have attracted particular attention in politeness theories, pragmatics, and second language acquisition. This book looks at request behaviours in a significant EFL population – Chinese-speaking learners of English. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 207] 2011. xv, 199 pp.

The Meaning of Particle / Prefix Constructions in German

Robert B. Dewell

This is really two books in one: a valuable reference resource, and a groundbreaking case study that represents a new approach to constructional semantics. It presents a detailed descriptive survey, using extensive examples collected from the Internet, of German verb constructions in which the… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 34] 2011. xiii, 336 pp.

Modeling Bilingualism: From Structure to Chaos. In Honor of Kees de Bot

Edited by Monika S. Schmid and Wander Lowie

This volume presents an overview of changes in paradigms, perspectives and contexts of research into bilingual development over the past two decades. During this time, the focus of perspective has changed. In the early 1990s, most investigations still proceeded from models that assumed modular… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 43] 2011. vii, 308 pp.

Morphology and its Interfaces

Edited by Alexandra Galani, Glyn Hicks and George Tsoulas

One of the most striking trends across linguistic research in recent years has been the examination of the interfaces between the various subcomponents of the language faculty. Yet, approaches to these interfaces across different theoretical frameworks differ substantially. This volume pulls… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 178] 2011. ix, 353 pp.

Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon

Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden

Language structure and use are largely shaped by cognitive processes such as categorizing, framing, inferencing, associative (metonymic), and analogical (metaphorical) thinking, and – mediated through cognition – by bodily experience, emotion, perception, action, social/communicative interaction,… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 27] 2011. vii, 306 pp.

Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives

Edited by Svenja Kranich, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House

This volume presents discourse production in multilingual contexts as a specific type of language contact situation. Translation may be seen as the prototypical type of multilingual discourse production, other types would include parallel text production in different languages (e.g. for websites)… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 12] 2011. viii, 312 pp.

New Directions in Colour Studies

Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough, Christian Kay and David R. Simmons

Colour studies attracts an increasingly wide range of scholars from across the academic world. Contributions to the present volume offer a broad perspective on the field, ranging from studies of individual languages through papers on art, architecture and heraldry to psychological examinations of… read more

[Not in series, 167] 2011. xii, 462 pp.

Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives

Edited by Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona

Research on nominalization, a process that gives rise to referring expressions, has always played a central role in linguistic investigations. Over the years there has also been growing evidence that nominalization constructions often extend to non-referential domains. They participate in… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 96] 2011. xvii, 796 pp.

The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and change

Edited by Petra Sleeman and Harry Perridon

One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likely that each 'average European' language developed a definite article all by itself, without any influence from neighbouring languages. It… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 171] 2011. vii, 283 pp.

Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu: The syntax of discourse-driven movement

Emily Manetta

This research monograph is an investigation of wh-movement and wh-expletive constructions in the Indic languages Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu. It advances a novel theory of the periphery, or the clausal positions that mediate A-bar movement. In particular, a detailed study of wh-expletives and… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 4] 2011. ix, 160 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XXII–XXIII: College Park, Maryland, 2008 and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2009

Edited by Ellen Broselow and Hamid Ouali

The present volume presents cutting-edge research on Arabic linguistics. It features a set of papers which continue a long tradition of seeking new explanations for familiar or previously undiscovered structural patterns. While the papers illustrate a range of approaches, from formalist to… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 317] 2011. xxvi, 295 pp.

Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Vander Viana, Sonia Zyngier and Geoff Barnbrook

Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics is a collection of interviews with fourteen well-known researchers in the field of linguistics. Each interview consists of a set of ten questions: the first seven are common to all contributors while the last three are connected to the research experience of each… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 48] 2011. xvi, 256 pp.

Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics

Edited by Marina Sbisà, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational,… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 10] 2011. xv, 318 pp.

Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800

Otto Zwartjes

From the 16th century onwards, Europeans encountered languages in the Americas, Africa, and Asia which were radically different from any of the languages of the Old World. Missionaries were in the forefront of this encounter: in order to speak to potential converts, they needed to learn local… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 117] 2011. xiv, 359 pp.

Practices of Truth: An ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts

Baudouin Dupret

The claim of this book is that truth is a matter of language games and practical achievements: it is a “member phenomenon”. To document this statement, it proceeds to the investigation of instances of truth-related practices in various Arab contexts. Bearing on the constitution of actions and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 214] 2011. xiv, 173 pp.

Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock

Edited by Etsuyo Yuasa, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals

This book presents papers in honor of Jerry Sadock’s rich legacy in pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar. Highlights of the pragmatics section include Larry Horn on almost, barely, and assertoric inertia; William Lycan on Sadock’s resolution of the Performadox with truth1 and truth2; and Jay Atlas on… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 176] 2011. xxv, 339 pp.

Pragmatics in Practice

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thereby attempting to divide up its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical,… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 9] 2011. xi, 326 pp.

The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains

Edited by Marta Dynel

This edited volume brings together a range of contributions solely on the linguistics of humour. Rather than favour one approach, this collection of articles gives a state-of-the-art picture of current directions in pragmatic humour studies. The contributors assume multifarious theoretical… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 210] 2011. vi, 382 pp.

The Pragmatics of Requests and Apologies: Developmental patterns of Mexican students

Elizabeth Flores-Salgado

The purpose of this research is to analyse the pragmatic development of language groups at different proficiency levels and to investigate the relationship between interlanguage pragmatics and grammatical competence. For this study, 36 native Spanish speaking EFL learners at different proficiency… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 212] 2011. xi, 263 pp.

Primate Communication and Human Language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans

Edited by Anne Vilain, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry and Jacques Vauclair

After a long period where it has been conceived as iconoclastic and almost forbidden, the question of language origins is now at the centre of a rich debate, confronting acute proposals and original theories. Most importantly, the debate is nourished by a large set of experimental data from… read more

[Advances in Interaction Studies, 1] 2011. vi, 239 pp.

Projecting the Future through Political Discourse: The case of the Bush doctrine

Patricia L. Dunmire

This monograph examines the rhetorical nature and function of representations of the future in political discourse, focusing on political actors’ use of hegemonic images of future “reality” to achieve their political goals. It argues that a key ideological dimension of political rhetoric lies in… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 41] 2011. xi, 218 pp.

Reciprocals and Semantic Typology

Edited by Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid

Reciprocals are an increasingly hot topic in linguistic research. This reflects the intersection of several factors: the semantic and syntactic complexity of reciprocal constructions, their centrality to some key points of linguistic theorizing (such as Binding Conditions on anaphors within… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 98] 2011. viii, 349 pp.

Referring Expressions in English and Japanese: Patterns of use in dialogue processing

Etsuko Yoshida

It is a major challenge for linguists to explore the relations between referential choice and the discourse structure in dialogues, because, unlike written modes of discourse, dialogue as an interactional mode of discourse needs careful treatment for linguistic analysis. This book investigates how… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 208] 2011. xviii, 206 pp.

Reframing framing: Interaction and the constitution of culture and society

Edited by Hiroko Takanashi and Joseph Sung-Yul Park

Special issue of Pragmatics 21:2 (2011) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Represented Discourse, Resonance and Stance in Joking Interaction in Mexican Spanish

Minerva Oropeza-Escobar

The book provides a new angle for the study of otherwise amply discussed discourse and interactional phenomena. The new perspective consists in addressing the interconnections between resonance, stance, represented discourse and joking in Mexican conversational discourse. In so doing, it… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 204] 2011. vii, 271 pp.

Resumptive Pronouns at the Interfaces

Edited by Alain Rouveret

This book brings together contributions which address a wide range of issues regarding resumption, gathering evidence from a great variety of languages including Welsh, Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, French, Vata, Hebrew, Jordanian and Palestinian Arabic. The topics covered include the… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 5] 2011. viii, 429 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2009: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Nice 2009

Edited by Janine Berns, Haike Jacobs and Tobias Scheer

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 3] 2011. viii, 393 pp.

Romance Linguistics 2010: Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010

Edited by Julia Herschensohn

This volume contains a selection of nineteen peer-reviewed papers from the 40th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Washington in March 2010. In addition to overviews of Romance linguistics by the editor and by Jurgen Klausenburger in the keynote… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 318] 2011. xvii, 332 pp.

Second Language Task Complexity: Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance

Edited by Peter Robinson

Understanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisions about task design and sequencing in TBLT programs. The chapters in this volume all examine evidence for claims of the Cognition Hypothesis that… read more

[Task-Based Language Teaching, 2] 2011. xii, 345 pp.

Semblance and Signification

Edited by Pascal Michelucci, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg

The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 10] 2011. xii, 427 pp.

Spanish Word Formation and Lexical Creation

Edited by José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Susana Rodríguez Rosique

This volume contributes a wider approach to word formation processes and sheds light on some unsolved issues. While the formal relationships established between the different constituents of a complex word have been analyzed in great depth, the semantic links have received little dedication. In… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 1] 2011. xvi, 485 pp.

Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar

Marco Schilk

This book contains the first in-depth corpus-based description of structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface in Indian English, the largest institutionalized second-language variety of English world-wide. For a set of three ditransitive verbs give, send and offer –collocational… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 46] 2011. xiii, 182 pp.

Studies in Political Humour: In between political critique and public entertainment

Edited by Villy Tsakona and Diana Elena Popa

If politics is a serious matter and humour a funny one, this volume investigates how and why the boundaries between the two are blurred: politics can be represented in a humorous manner and humour can have a serious intent. Political humour conveys criticism against the political status quo and/or… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 46] 2011. x, 290 pp.

Studies on German-Language Islands

Edited by Michael T. Putnam

The contributions in this volume present cutting-edge theoretical and structural analyses of issues surrounding German-language islands, or Sprachinseln, throughout the world. The individual topics of study in this volume focus on various aspects of these German-language islands such as (but not… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 123] 2011. xii, 477 pp.

Studying Processability Theory: An Introductory Textbook

Edited by Manfred Pienemann and Jörg-U. Keßler

Processability Theory (PT) as developed by Manfred Pienemann is a prominent theory of second language acquisition. PT serves as a framework for a wide range of research covering issues, including L2 processing, interlanguage variation, typological effects on SLA, L1 transfer, pidgins and creoles,… read more

[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 1] 2011. xi, 179 pp.

Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki

The articles in this volume examine the notion of clausal subordination based on English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Japanese conversational data. Some of the articles approach ‘subordination’ in terms of social action, taking into account what participants are doing with their talk,… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 24] 2011. viii, 244 pp.

Subordination in Native South American Languages

Edited by Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken

In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 97] 2011. viii, 315 pp.

Syntactic Effects of Conjunctivist Semantics: Unifying movement and adjunction

Tim Hunter

This book explores the syntactic and semantic properties of movement and adjunction in natural language. A precise formulation of minimalist syntax is proposed, guided by an independently motivated hypothesis about the composition of neo-Davidsonian logical forms, in which there is no atomic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 170] 2011. xi, 185 pp.

The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System: A case study of Mauritian creole

Diana Guillemin

Within the framework of Chomsky’s Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns,… read more

[Creole Language Library, 38] 2011. xviii, 310 pp.

The Syntax of the Be-Possessive: Parametric variation and surface diversities

Hakyung Jung

This book is the first attempt to provide a unified account of the be-possessive syntax and its extension to the modal and the perfect constructions in Russian/North Russian within a generative framework. Apparently diverse constructions are construed as deriving from the have/be parameter, which… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 172] 2011. xiii, 269 pp.

Talking Politics in Broadcast Media: Cross-cultural perspectives on political interviewing, journalism and accountability

Edited by Mats Ekström and Marianna Patrona

This book is a collection of studies on political interaction in a variety of broadcast, namely news and current affairs programs, political interviews, audience participation programs and radio phone-ins. Following a growing scholarly interest in political discourses, dialogic forms of news… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 42] 2011. ix, 248 pp.

A Taste for Corpora: In honour of Sylviane Granger

Edited by Fanny Meunier, Sylvie De Cock, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Magali Paquot

The eleven contributions to this volume, written by expert corpus linguists, tackle corpora from a wide range of perspectives and aim to shed light on the numerous linguistic and pedagogical uses to which corpora can be put. They present cutting-edge research in the authors’ respective domain of… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 45] 2011. xv, 295 pp.

Technology Enhanced Learning and Cognition

Edited by Itiel E. Dror

The use of technology in learning has increased dramatically. Training and education is now utilizing and almost integrated with the World Wide Web, podcasts, mobile and distant learning, interactive videos, serious games, and a whole range of e-learning. However, has such technology enhanced… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 27] 2011. ix, 265 pp.

Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the language of films and television series

Edited by Roberta Piazza, Monika Bednarek and Fabio Rossi

This cutting-edge collection of articles provides the first organised reflection on the language of films and television series across British, American and Italian cultures. The volume suggests new directions for research and applications, and offers a variety of methodologies and perspectives on… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 211] 2011. xi, 315 pp.

Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED)

Merja Kytö, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker

Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England examines various aspects of the witness depositions comprising An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED) on the accompanying CD-ROM.ETED combines modern corpus linguistic methodology and editorial theory, and makes available… read more

[Not in series, 162] 2011. xxi, 360 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)

Theory of Language: The representational function of language

Karl Bühler

Karl Bühler (1879–1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of the twentieth century. Although primarily a psychologist, Bühler devoted much of his attention to the study of language and language theory. His masterwork Sprachtheorie (1934) quickly gained recognition in the fields of… read more

[Not in series, 164] 2011. xcviii, 518 pp.

Transcribing Talk and Interaction: Issues in the representation of communication data

Christopher Jenks

Interest in transcript-based research has grown significantly in recent years. Alongside this growth has been an increase in awareness of the empirical utility of naturalistic research on language use in interaction. However, a quick scan of the literature reveals that very few transcription books… read more

[Not in series, 165] 2011. xi, 120 pp.

The Tuma Underworld of Love: Erotic and other narrative songs of the Trobriand Islanders and their spirits of the dead

Gunter Senft

The Trobriand Islanders' eschatological belief system explains what happens when someone dies. Bronislaw Malinowski described essentials of this eschatology in his articles "Baloma: the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands" and "Myth in Primitive Psychology". There he also presented the… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 5] 2011. xvii, 138 pp. | open access

The Typology of Asian Englishes

Edited by Lisa Lim and Nikolas Gisborne

When considering the structure of New Englishes which have evolved in – multilingual, mostly post-colonial – contexts of Asia (thus, Asian Englishes), the significant factors to be considered are: 1) the variety/ies of the English lexifier that entered the local context; 2) the nature of… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 33] 2011. vii, 120 pp.

Ute Reference Grammar

T. Givón

Ute is a Uto-Aztecan language of the northernmost (Numic) branch, currently spoken on three reservations in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Like many other native languages of Northern America, Ute is severely endangered. This book is part of the effort toward its preservation. Typologically,… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 3] 2011. xxiii, 441 pp.

Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency

Edited by Lars Hinrichs and Joseph T. Farquharson

The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has yielded influential theory, such as the (post-)creole continuum or the 'Acts of Identity' models, that has shaped sociolinguistics far beyond creole… read more

[Creole Language Library, 37] 2011. vi, 276 pp.

The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German

Christopher D. Sapp

This research monograph is an empirical and theoretical study of clause-final verbal complexes in the history of German. The book presents corpus studies of Middle High German and Early New High German and surveys of contemporary varieties of German. These investigations of the verbal complex… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 173] 2011. ix, 225 pp.

Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie

Edited by Olga Timofeeva and Tanja Säily

Bringing together fifteen articles by scholars in Europe and North America, this collection aims to represent and advance studies in historical lexis. It highlights the significance of the understanding of dictionary-making and language-making as important socio-cultural phenomena. With its general… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 14] 2011. xvi, 292 pp.

“And he knew our language”: Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast

Marcus Tomalin

This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 116] 2011. xi, 203 pp. | open access

Academic and Professional Discourse Genres in Spanish

Edited by Giovanni Parodi †

This volume offers a description and a deep examination of discourse genres across four disciplines (Psychology, Social Work, Industrial Chemistry, and Construction Engineering), in academic and professional settings. The study is based on one of the largest available corpus on disciplinary written… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 40] 2010. xii, 255 pp.

Adjectives: Formal analyses in syntax and semantics

Edited by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Ora Matushansky

Adjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs. The present volume brings together studies in the syntax and semantics of adjectives. Four of the contributions investigate the syntax of adjectives in a variety of languages (English, French, Mandarin… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 153] 2010. vii, 335 pp.

Applied Cognitive Linguistics in Second Language Learning and Teaching. AILA Review, Volume 23

Edited by Jeannette Littlemore and Constanze Juchem-Grundmann

This volume of the AILA Review focuses on the substantial contribution Cognitive Linguistics can make to language teaching. After almost three decades of empirical research into the motivated aspects of language, Cognitive Linguistic findings are gradually being applied to Second Language… read more

[AILA Review, 23] 2010. 178 pp.

Appositive Relative Clauses in English: Discourse functions and competing structures

Rudy Loock

This book sheds new light on Appositive Relative Clauses (ARCs), a structure that is generally studied from a merely syntactic point of view, in opposition to Determinative (or Restrictive) Relative Clauses (DRCs). In this volume, ARCs are examined from a discourse/pragmatic point of view,… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 22] 2010. xiii, 232 pp.

Appraising Research in Second Language Learning: A practical approach to critical analysis of quantitative research. Second edition

Graeme Keith Porte

Designed for students of applied linguistics and second language acquisition on research training courses, practising language teachers, and those in training, this combination textbook/workbook is a set or recommended textbook on more than a hundred undergraduate and postgraduate courses worldwide. read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 28] 2010. xxv, 307 pp.

Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Maia Duguine, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga

The topic of this collection is argument structure. The fourteen chapters in this book are divided into four parts: Semantic and Syntactic Properties of Event Structure; A Cartographic View on Argument Structure; Syntactic Heads Involved in Argument Structure; and Argument Structure in Language… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 158] 2010. vi, 348 pp.

Aspect in Grammatical Variation

Edited by James A. Walker

The articles in this edited volume represent a range of approaches to studying the role of verbal aspect in grammatical variation. Issues addressed include: defining the variable context; operationalizing aspectual distinctions as factors conditioning linguistic variation; and the appropriate… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 6] 2010. vi, 150 pp.

Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics

Edited by Raphael Mercado, Eric Potsdam and Lisa deMena Travis

The Austronesian language family is the largest language family in the world, yet its members are relatively little studied, particularly from a formal perspective. Interestingly, because these languages exhibit typologically unusual properties, they pose important challenges to linguistic theory.… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 167] 2010. vii, 379 pp.

Authoring the Dialogic Self: Gender, agency and language practices

Gergana Vitanova

This book offers a truly interdisciplinary perspective on key socio-cultural aspects of second language learning. Building on Bakhtin’s philosophy of language and the self, it examines the complex intersections among gender, culture, and agency in the everyday discursive practices of immigrants.… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 8] 2010. vi, 175 pp.

Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies

Edited by Fernando Zúñiga and Seppo Kittilä

Benefactives are constructions used to express that a state of affairs holds to someone’s advantage. The same construction sometimes also serves as a malefactive, whose meanings are generally not a simple mirror image of the benefactive. Benefactive constructions cover a wide range of phenomena:… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 92] 2010. x, 440 pp.

Beyond Narrative Coherence

Edited by Matti Hyvärinen, Lars-Christer Hydén, Marja Saarenheimo and Maria Tamboukou

Beyond Narrative Coherence reconsiders the way we understand and work with narratives. Even though narrators tend to strive for coherence, they also add complexity, challenge canonical scripts, and survey lives by telling highly perplexing and contradictory stories. Many narratives remain… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 11] 2010. vi, 196 pp.

Body, Language and Meaning in Conflict Situations: A semiotic analysis of gesture-word mismatches in Israeli-Jewish and Arab discourse

Orit Sônia Waisman

This original research applies semiotics to linguistic and non-linguistic segments in a text in search of potential correlations between them. The resultant mapping is applied to cases of gesture-word mismatches that are evident in conflict situations. The current study adopts the word systems… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 62] 2010. xi, 191 pp.

The Chain of Being and Having in Slavic

Steven J. Clancy

The complex diachronic and synchronic status of the concepts be and have can be understood only with consideration of their full range of constructions and functions. Data from modern Slavic languages (Russian, Czech, Polish, Bulgarian) provides a window into zero copulas, non-verbal have… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 122] 2010. xvii, 297 pp.

Chomskyan (R)evolutions

Edited by Douglas A. Kibbee

It is not unusual for contemporary linguists to claim that “Modern Linguistics began in 1957” (with the publication of Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures). Some of the essays in Chomskyan (R)evolutions examine the sources, the nature and the extent of the theoretical changes Chomsky introduced in… read more

[Not in series, 154] 2010. xii, 488 pp. | open access

Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy: Syntax and pragmatics

Edited by Isabelle Bril

This collective volume explores clause-linkage strategies in a cross-linguistic perspective with greater emphasis on subordination. Part I presents some theoretical reassessment of syntactic terminologies and distinctive criteria for subordination, as well as typological methods based on sets of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 121] 2010. viii, 632 pp.

Clitics in Greek: A minimalist account of proclisis and enclisis

Marios Mavrogiorgos

This monograph investigates the morpho-syntactic and other properties of clitic pronouns in Greek and offers a grammar of proclisis and enclisis in light of Chomsky’s (1995, 2001a, 2005) Minimalist Program. It explores the nature of clitics as syntactic topicalizers which are probed by structurally… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 160] 2010. x, 294 pp.

Cognitive Processing in Second Language Acquisition: Inside the learner's mind

Edited by Martin Pütz and Laura Sicola

This edited volume represents state of the field research linking cognition and second language acquisition, reflecting the experience of the learner when engaged in noticing, input/output processing, retrieval, and even attrition of target forms. Contributions are both theoretical and practical,… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 13] 2010. vii, 373 pp.

Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Information Structure

Edited by Carsten Breul and Edward Göbbel

This volume presents original comparative and contrastive research into various aspects of information structure (topic, focus, contrastivity, givenness, anaphoricity) as well as into forms and structures whose realisation depends on information-structural factors (clefts, dislocations, reflexives,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 165] 2010. xii, 306 pp.

Consonant Structure and Prevocalization

Natalie Operstein

This monograph proposes a new interpretation of the intrasegmental structure of consonants and provides the first systematic intra- and cross-linguistic study of consonant prevocalization. The proposed model represents consonants as inherently bigestural and makes strong predictions that are… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 312] 2010. x, 234 pp.

Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose

Olga Spevak

Latin is a language with variable (so-called 'free') word order. Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose (Caesar, Cicero, and Sallust) presents the first systematic description of its constituent order from a pragmatic point of view. Apart from general characteristics of Latin constituent order,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 117] 2010. xv, 318 pp.

Constraints in Discourse 2

Edited by Peter Kühnlein, Anton Benz and Candace L. Sidner

Text is highly structured, and structured at a variety of levels. But what are the units of text, which levels are at stake, and what establishes the structure that binds the units together? This volume, just as the predecessor a spin off of one of the workshops on constraints in discourse,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 194] 2010. v, 180 pp.

Continuity and Change in Grammar

Edited by Anne Breitbarth, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis

One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the causes of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ‘actuation problem’: why is it that changes occurring in a given language at a certain time cannot be reliably predicted to recur in other… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 159] 2010. viii, 359 pp.

Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar

Edited by Hans C. Boas

The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 10] 2010. vii, 244 pp.

Corpus and Sociolinguistics: Investigating age and gender in female talk

Bróna Murphy

Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 38] 2010. xviii, 231 pp.

Corpus, Cognition and Causative Constructions

Gaëtanelle Gilquin

English causative constructions with cause, get, have and make are often mistakenly presented as (quasi-)synonymous and more or less interchangeable. This book demonstrates the value of corpus linguistics in identifying the syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic features that are distinctive… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 39] 2010. xvii, 326 pp.

Creoles in Education: An appraisal of current programs and projects

Edited by Bettina Migge, Isabelle Léglise and Angela Bartens

This volume offers a first survey of projects from around the world that seek to implement Creole languages in education. In contrast to previous works, this volume takes a holistic approach. Chapters discuss the sociolinguistic, educational and ideological context of projects, policy developments… read more

[Creole Language Library, 36] 2010. vii, 356 pp.

Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding

Edited by Sergio Scalise and Irene Vogel

The study of compounds is currently at the center of attention in many areas of both theoretical and applied linguistics. This volume brings together contributions by experts involved in a wide range of such areas, based on a large number of diverse languages – spoken and signed. The fact that… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 311] 2010. viii, 382 pp.

Dialogue in Spanish: Studies in functions and contexts

Edited by Dale Koike and Lidia Rodríguez-Alfano

Dialogue in Spanish provides a strong theoretical and empirical foundation for the study of dialogue. This edited collection of twelve original studies contributes to a broad comprehension of dialogue in two general contexts: personal interactions among friends and family; and public speech, such… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 7] 2010. xiii, 324 pp.

Dialogue – The Mixed Game

Edda Weigand

The ‘Mixed Game Model’ represents a holistic theory of dialogue which starts from human beings’ competence-in-performance and describes how language is integrated in a general theory of human action and behaviour. Human beings are able to adapt to changing conditions and to pursue their interests… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 10] 2010. xii, 304 pp. | open access

Discourses in Interaction

Edited by Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Marjut Johansson and Mia Raitaniemi

The fourteen contributions in this collection come from different approaches in pragmatics, interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis and dialogue analysis; the name given to what is studied ranges from spoken language and conversation to interaction, dialogue, discourse… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 203] 2010. vii, 315 pp.

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 10 (2010)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Martin Howard, Muiris Ó Laoire and David Singleton

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 10] 2010. vi, 281 pp.

Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta

The corpus Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT) is the second component of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (CEEM), a three-part series of historical corpora of medical writing from 1375-1800. EMEMT contains a two-million word representative sample of the entire field of English… read more

[Not in series, 160] 2010. xv, 370 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Edges, Heads, and Projections: Interface properties

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Virginia Hill

This collection deals with central issues in the syntax of clauses and their interfaces with the conceptual-intentional system. The book targets the syntactic properties that have an impact on the interpretation of discourse and temporal dependencies, functional fields including CP, pragmatic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 156] 2010. vii, 265 pp.

Editorials and the Power of Media: Interweaving of socio-cultural identities

Élisabeth Le

Editorials define at a given time how media construct their socio-cultural environment and where they position themselves in it. In this sense, they are snapshots of media socio-cultural identities whose study is crucial for the understanding of media actions and interactions on the political stage. read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 35] 2010. xiv, 239 pp.

The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality

Edited by Michael A. Arbib and Derek Bickerton

Somewhere and somehow, in the 5 to 7 million years since the last common ancestors of humans and the great apes, our ancestors “got” language. The authors of this volume all agree that there was no single mutation or cultural innovation that took our ancestors directly from a limited system of a… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 24] 2010. xi, 181 pp.

English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008.. Volume I: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions

Edited by Ursula Lenker, Judith Huber and Robert Mailhammer

The fourteen studies selected for this volume – all of them peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics 2008 (23–30 August) at the University of Munich – investigate syntactic variation and change in the history of English from… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 314] 2010. vii, 281 pp.

English Prepositions Explained: Revised edition

Seth Lindstromberg

This completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998, covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time – with the focus being on short prepositions such as at, by, in, and on. Its target… read more

[Not in series, 157] 2010. xiii, 273 pp.

Ergativity in Amazonia

Edited by Spike Gildea and Francesc Queixalós

This volume presents a typological/theoretical introduction plus eight papers about ergative alignment in 16 Amazonian languages. All are written by linguists with years of fieldwork and comparative experience in the region, all describe details of the synchronic systems, and several also provide… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 89] 2010. v, 319 pp.

European Parliaments under Scrutiny: Discourse strategies and interaction practices

Edited by Cornelia Ilie

In the European tradition, parliaments are central political institutions that play a crucial role in the development of democratic societies. No other institution regularly offers a public arena for open deliberation and dissent, for discussing opposite points of view and for reaching compromise… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 38] 2010. vi, 378 pp.

Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research

Edited by Elma Blom and Sharon Unsworth

Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research provides students and researchers interested in language acquisition with comprehensible and practical information on the most frequently used methods in language acquisition research. It includes contributions on first and child/adult second… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 27] 2010. vii, 292 pp.

Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars

Edited by Michael T. Putnam

The Minimalist Program has advanced a research program that builds the design of human language from conceptual necessity. Seminal proposals by Frampton & Gutmann (1999, 2000, 2002) introduced the notion that an ideal syntactic theory should be ‘crash-proof’. Such a version of the Minimalist… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 3] 2010. xii, 301 pp.

Expressing Opinions in French and Australian English Discourse: A semantic and interactional analysis

Kerry Mullan

Based on the analysis of conversations between French and Australian English speakers discussing various topics, including their experiences as non-native speakers in France or Australia, this book combines subjective personal testimonies with an objective linguistic analysis of the expression of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 200] 2010. xvii, 282 pp.

The Expression of Information Structure: A documentation of its diversity across Africa

Edited by Ines Fiedler and Anne Schwarz

This book analyzes the different patterns found across subsaharan Africa to express information structure. Based on languages from all four African language phyla, it documents the great diversity of linguistic means used to encode information-structural phenomena and is therefore highly relevant… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 91] 2010. xii, 383 pp.

Extraction Asymmetries: Experimental evidence from German

Tanja Kiziak

This monograph addresses divergent views in the linguistic literature on whether German displays the that-trace effect and other subject/object asymmetries commonly found for long extractions in English and other languages. Using newly developed rating methodologies, the author exposes consistent… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 163] 2010. xvi, 273 pp.

Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders

Edited by Nino Amiridze, Boyd Davis and Margaret Maclagan

Fillers are items that speakers insert in spontaneous speech as a repair strategy. Types of fillers include hesitation markers and placeholders. Both are used to fill pauses that arise during planning problems or in lexical retrieval failure. However, while hesitation markers may not bear any… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 93] 2010. vii, 224 pp.

Focus Particles in German: Syntax, prosody, and information structure

Stefan Sudhoff

This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and links their syntactic, semantic, and information structural properties to their prosodic characteristics. The study also shows that focus particles present… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 151] 2010. xiii, 335 pp.

Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research

Edited by An Van linden, Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Kristin Davidse

This collective volume focuses on the crucial role of formal evidence in recognizing and explaining instances of grammaticalization. It addresses the hitherto neglected issue of system-internal factors steering grammaticalization and also revisits formal recognition criteria such as Lehmann and… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 94] 2010. viii, 344 pp.

Framing: From grammar to application

Edited by Paul Sambre and Maria-Cornelia Wermuth

The aim of this issue is to provide an overview of current research into frame semantics and construction grammar, and to stimulate the dialogue between these frameworks and the notion of framing in other linguistic traditions. Using Fillmore’s frame semantics as a common source of inspiration, the… read more

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 24] 2010. v, 193 pp.

Gestures in Language Development

Edited by Marianne Gullberg and Kees de Bot

Gestures are prevalent in communication and tightly linked to language and speech. As such they can shed important light on issues of language development across the lifespan. This volume, originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture Volume 8:2 (2008), brings together studies from different… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 28] 2010. viii, 139 pp.

Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization

Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale

This volume, which emerged from a workshop at the New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 conference held at KU Leuven in July 2008, contains a collection of papers which investigate the relationship between synchronic gradience and the apparent gradualness of linguistic change, largely from the… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 90] 2010. ix, 306 pp.

Grammaticalization: Current views and issues

Edited by Katerina Stathi, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König

This volume contains a selection of papers on grammaticalization from a broad perspective. Some of the papers focus on basic concepts in grammaticalization research such as the concept of 'grammar' as the endpoint of grammaticalization processes, erosion, (uni)directionality, the relation between… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 119] 2010. vii, 379 pp.

Grimm Language: Grammar, Gender and Genuineness in the Fairy Tales

Orrin W. Robinson

Grimm Language addresses a number of issues in the Grimms’ fairy tales from a (Germanic) linguist’s point of view. In sections dealing with the Grimms’ use of regional dialect material, various grammatical constructions, and specific nouns and adjectives in their Children’s and Household Tales, the… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 10] 2010. xi, 190 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2010 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 14] 2010. 520 pp.

Heterogeneity in Word-Formation Patterns: A corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English

Susanne Mühleisen

Postulated word-formation rules often exclude formations that can nevertheless be found in actual usage. This book presents an in-depth investigation of a highly heterogeneous word-formation pattern in English: the formation of nouns by suffixation with -ee. Rather than relying on a single semantic… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 118] 2010. xiii, 245 pp.

Heteroglossia and language ideologies in children’s peer play interactions

Edited by Amy Kyratzis, Ann-Carita Evaldsson and Jennifer Reynolds

Special issue of Pragmatics 20:4 (2010) ca. 125 pp. | open access

The Interactional Organization of Academic Talk: Office hour consultations

Holger Limberg

This book provides interesting and critical insights into a common university practice, the academic office hour. Office hours are a discursive site for a variety of different issues, ranging from administrative matters to course-related and study-related concerns. The study offers both an… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 198] 2010. xiv, 397 pp.

An Introduction to the Grammar of English: Revised edition

Elly van Gelderen

It has been eight years since An Introduction to the Grammar of English was first published. The second edition is completely revised and greatly expanded, especially where texts, example sentences, exercises, and cartoons are concerned. It continues to provide a very lively and clearly written… read more

[Not in series, 153] 2010. xxi, 232 pp.

Keyness in Texts

Edited by Marina Bondi and Mike Scott

This is corpus linguistics with a text linguistic focus. The volume concerns lexical inequality, the fact that some words and phrases share the quality of being key – and thereby reflect or promote important themes – in some textual contexts, while others do not. The patterning of words which… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 41] 2010. vi, 251 pp.

Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems

Edited by Michèle Kail and Maya Hickmann †

How and why do all children learn language? Why do some have difficulties while others are early language learners? What are the consequences of early bilingualism? Is it possible to reach native-like competence in a foreign language? Although we still cannot fully answer these questions, research… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 52] 2010. vii, 330 pp.

Language Contact: New perspectives

Edited by Muriel Norde, Bob de Jonge and Cornelius Hasselblatt

The study of languages in contact is an ever-relevant topic in linguistics, especially at present times when increasing globalization leads to a number of new contact situations. This volume features ten papers on various aspects of language contact by leading specialists in the field. In these… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 28] 2010. vii, 225 pp.

Language Documentation: Practice and values

Edited by Lenore A. Grenoble and N. Louanna Furbee

Language documentation, also often called documentary linguistics, is a relatively new subfield in linguistics which has emerged in part as a response to the pressing need for collecting, describing, and archiving material on the increasing number of endangered languages. The present book details… read more

[Not in series, 158] 2010. xviii, 340 pp.

Language Use and Language Learning in CLIL Classrooms

Edited by Christiane Dalton-Puffer, Tarja Nikula and Ute Smit

This volume explores a highly topical issue in second and foreign language education: the spreading practice in mainstream education to teach content subjects through a foreign language. CLIL has been enthusiastically embraced as a language enrichment measure in many contexts and finally research… read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 7] 2010. x, 295 pp.

Language, Gender and Sexual Identity: Poststructuralist perspectives

Heiko Motschenbacher

This book makes an innovative contribution to the relatively young field of Queer Linguistics. Subscribing to a poststructuralist framework, it presents a critical, deconstructionist perspective on the discursive construction of heteronormativity and gender binarism from a linguistic point of view.… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 29] 2010. xi, 209 pp.

Lexical Meaning in Dialogic Language Use

Sebastian Feller

Lexical Meaning in Dialogic Language Use addresses a number of central issues in the field of lexical semantics. Starting off from an action-theoretical view of communication meaning is defined as something that speakers do in dialogic language use. Meaning as ‘meaning-in-use’ opens up a new… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 9] 2010. vii, 184 pp.

Lexical Pragmatics and Theory of Mind: The acquisition of connectives

Sandrine Zufferey

The concept of theory of mind (ToM), a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five years, has gained increasing importance in the fields of linguistics and pragmatics. However, even though the relationship between ToM and verbal communication is now recognized, the extent, causality… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 201] 2010. ix, 192 pp.

Lexical-Semantic Relations: Theoretical and practical perspectives

Edited by Petra Storjohann

This collection of articles sketches the complexity of the subject of lexical-semantic relations and addresses semantic, lexicographic and computational issues on an array of meaning relations in different languages. It brings together a variety of linguistic studies on the contextualised… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 28] 2010. viii, 188 pp.

The Linguistic Structure of Modern English

Laurel J. Brinton and Donna M. Brinton

This text is for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language, primary or secondary-school education, English stylistics, theoretical and applied linguistics, or speech pathology. The… read more

[Not in series, 156] 2010. xx, 426 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2010

General Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck

The Linguistic Variation Yearbook is exclusively devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. In this perspective, the yearbook aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It… read more

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 10] 2010. viii, 302 pp.

The Linguistics Enterprise: From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics

Edited by Martin B.H. Everaert, Tom Lentz, Hannah N.M. De Mulder, Øystein Nilsen and Arjen Zondervan

Linguistics investigates the systems underlying language, speech, and language use. Linguists seek to develop an understanding of the rules and laws that govern the structure and use of particular languages and the manner in which these interact with internal systems and processes (interpretation,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 150] 2010. ix, 379 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2010

Edited by Jacqueline van Kampen and Rick Nouwen

The 41th annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 6th, 2010. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year's meeting, 103 papers were presented, of which 22 were submitted to the… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 27] 2010. v, 140 pp. | open access

A Method for Linguistic Metaphor Identification: From MIP to MIPVU

Gerard J. Steen, Aletta G. Dorst, J. Berenike Herrmann, Anna A. Kaal, Tina Krennmayr and Tryntje Pasma

This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the level of word use. It is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic research in two languages, English and Dutch. The method is formulated as an explicit manual of instructions covering… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 14] 2010. xi, 238 pp.

Minimalist Interfaces: Evidence from Indonesian and Javanese

Yosuke Sato

This monograph explores the interface between syntax and its related components through in-depth investigation of a sizable portion of the grammar of Indonesian and Javanese. It can be read on two levels. Theoretically, it proposes the minimalist interface thesis that syntax-external linguistic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 155] 2010. xiii, 159 pp.

Minority Languages and Group Identity: Cases and Categories

John Edwards

The central concern in this book is the relationship between language and group identity, a relationship that is thrown into greatest relief in ‘minority’ settings. Since much of the current interest in minority languages revolves around issues of identity politics, language rights and the plight… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 27] 2010. ix, 231 pp.

Modality and Subordinators

Jackie Nordström

This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It argues that general subordinators (or complementizers) denote propositional modality (otherwise expressed by moods such as the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 116] 2010. xvii, 341 pp.

Mood in the Languages of Europe

Edited by Björn Rothstein and Rolf Thieroff

This book is the first comprehensive survey of mood in the languages of Europe. It gives readers access to a collection of data on mood. Each article presents the mood system of a specific European language in a way that readers not familiar with this language are able to understand and to… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 120] 2010. xvi, 647 pp.

The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus: Minimalist inquiries in the Quechua periphery

Liliana Sánchez

This book presents an innovative analysis that relates informational structure, syntax and morphology in Quechua. It provides a minimalist account of the relationship between focus, topic, evidentiality and other left-peripheral features and sentence-internal constituents marked with suffixes that… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 169] 2010. xiii, 242 pp.

Movement Theory of Control

Edited by Norbert Hornstein and Maria Polinsky

Natural languages offer many examples of “displacement,” i.e. constructions in which a non-local expression is critical for some grammatical end. Two central examples include phenomena such as raising and passive on the one hand, and control on the other. Though each phenomenon is an example of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 154] 2010. vii, 330 pp.

Multilingualism at Work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings

Edited by Bernd Meyer and Birgit Apfelbaum

This volume focuses on work situations in Europe, North America and South-Africa, such as academic, medical and public sector, or business settings, in which participants have to make constant use of more than one language to cooperate with partners, clients, or colleagues. Central questions are… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 9] 2010. viii, 274 pp.

Narrative Revisited: Telling a story in the age of new media

Edited by Christian R. Hoffmann

The volume examines the role of narratives in old and new media. Its ten contributions firstly center on the various forms and functions narratives assume in computer-mediated environments, e.g. websites, weblogs, message boards, etc. In this light, past and present approaches to the description of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 199] 2010. vii, 276 pp.

New Adventures in Language and Interaction

Edited by Jürgen Streeck

In this book sixteen international scholars of language and social interaction describe their distinct frameworks of analysis. Taking conversation analysis and interactional sociolinguistics as their points of departure and investigating ordinary conversation as well as institutions such as health… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 196] 2010. vi, 275 pp.

New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion

Edited by Victoria Hasko and Renee Perelmutter

This volume unifies a wide breadth of interdisciplinary studies examining the expression of motion in Slavic languages. The contributors to the volume have joined in the discussion of Slavic motion talk from diachronic, typological, comparative, cognitive, and acquisitional perspectives with a… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 115] 2010. x, 392 pp.

New Perspectives on Endangered Languages: Bridging gaps between sociolinguistics, documentation and language revitalization

Edited by José Antonio Flores Farfán and Fernando F. Ramallo

Understanding sociolinguistics as a theoretical and methodological framework hopefully could attempt to promote change and social development in human communities. Yet it still presents important political, epistemological, methodological and theoretical challenges. A sociolinguistics of… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 1] 2010. v, 156 pp.

Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions

Edited by John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts and Tomonori Matsushita

For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co.The general aim of the Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals is investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages, such as… read more

[The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals, 2] 2010. vii, 225 pp.

Parts of Speech: Empirical and theoretical advances

Edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau

Parts of Speech are a central aspect of linguistic theory and analysis. Though a long-established tradition in Western linguistics and philosophy has assumed the validity of Parts of Speech in the study of language, there are still many questions left unanswered. For example, should Parts of Speech… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 25] 2010. vi, 291 pp.

Patterns, Meaningful Units and Specialized Discourses

Edited by Ute Römer-Barron and Rainer Schulze

This collection of papers explores some facets in the areas of Corpus Linguistics and Phraseology which have gone unnoticed so far. With the aid of a range of different corpora and new-generation software tools, the authors tackle specialized domains and discourse in specialized settings, utilizing… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 22] 2010. v, 124 pp.

Perspectives in Politics and Discourse

Edited by Urszula Okulska and Piotr Cap

The volume explores the vast and heterogeneous territory of Political Linguistics, structuring and developing its concepts, themes and methodologies into combined and coherent Analysis of Political Discourse (APD). Dealing with an extensive and representative variety of topics and domains –… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 36] 2010. ix, 416 pp.

Phase Theory

Ángel J. Gallego

This book provides a detailed and up to date review of the framework of phases (Chomsky 2000 and subsequent work). It explores the interaction between the narrow syntactic computation and the external systems from a minimalist perspective. As has sometimes been noted, Phase Theory is the current… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 152] 2010. xii, 365 pp.

The Post-Communist Condition: Public and private discourses of transformation

Edited by Aleksandra Galasińska and Dariusz Galasiński

This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on discourses in one national context of post-communist transformation. Proposing a macro-micro approach to discourse analysis and transformation, it examines a spectrum of topics including Polish history, with its ‘interpreters’; changes in… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 37] 2010. xi, 264 pp.

Probing Semantic Relations: Exploration and identification in specialized texts

Edited by Alain Auger and Caroline Barrière

Semantic relations are at the core of any representational system, and are keys to enable the next generation of information processing systems with semantic and reasoning capabilities. Acquisition, description, and formalization of semantic relations are fundamentals in computer-based systems… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 23] 2010. ix, 156 pp.

The Processing of Events

Oliver Bott

Synthesizing ideas from event semantics and psycholinguistics, this monograph provides a new perspective on the processing of linguistic aspect and aspectual coercion. Confronting alternative semantic accounts with experimental evidence, the author develops a comprehensive model of online aspectual… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 162] 2010. xvii, 383 pp.

Prosody in Interaction

Edited by Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elisabeth Reber and Margret Selting

Prosody is constitutive for spoken interaction. In more than 25 years, its study has grown into a full-fledged and very productive field with a sound catalogue of research methods and principles. This volume presents the state of the art, illustrates current research trends and uncovers potential… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 23] 2010. xxi, 406 pp.

Representations and Othering in Discourse: The construction of Turkey in the EU context

Beyza Ç. Tekin

This volume examines the construction of Turkey's possible European Union accession in French political discourse. In today's France, heated debates regarding Turkey's EU membership are turning into an essential part of European identity formation. Once again, the 'Turkish Other' functions as a… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 39] 2010. xi, 268 pp.

Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing

Edited by Bill VanPatten and Jill Jegerski

This volume is the first dedicated to the growing field of theory and research on second language processing and parsing. The fourteen papers in this volume offer cutting-edge research using a number of different languages (e.g., Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, English) and structures (e. read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 53] 2010. vii, 351 pp.

Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World

Edited by Graham Low, Zazie Todd, Alice Deignan and Lynne Cameron

It has become increasingly clear that metaphor needs to be explored in terms of the social and discourse context in which it is used, especially where the aim is to address real-world problems. The notion of 'real world' metaphor research has been developed to describe this important area of… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 26] 2010. xii, 385 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2008: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Groningen 2008

Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Bart Hollebrandse

This volume assembles a significant number of selected papers that were presented at the 22nd edition of Going Romance, held at the University of Groningen in December 2008. Though it contains a variety of topics, 'tense, mood and aspect' is represented most extensively. This volume contains a rich… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 2] 2010. x, 251 pp.

Romance Linguistics 2008: Interactions in Romance. Selected papers from the 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Urbana-Champaign, April 2008

Edited by Karlos Arregi, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Silvina Montrul and Annie Tremblay

The sixteen papers here united have been selected from the 38th Linguistic Symposium of the Romance Languages held in Champaign-Urbana in 2008. The papers, whose authors include both well-known researchers and younger scholars, cover a broad and truly interdisciplinary range of topics in phonology,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 313] 2010. vii, 266 pp.

Romance Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Tucson, Arizona, March 2009

Edited by Sonia Colina, Antxon Olarrea and Ana Maria Carvalho

This volume contains a selection of twenty-four peer-reviewed papers from the 39th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Arizona in 2009. Contributions cover a wide variety of topics in the areas of phonology, phonetics, syntax, morphology, and diachronic… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 315] 2010. xiv, 426 pp.

Sentential Form and Prosodic Structure of Catalan

Ingo Feldhausen

This monograph presents an experimental and theoretical inquiry into the role of sentential form and variation in the prosodic structure of Catalan. The empirical section examines intonational phrasing across sentence forms, including SVO structures with either nominal or sentential objects and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 168] 2010. xiii, 285 pp.

Sinhala

Dileep Chandralal

Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and the mother tongue of over 70% of the population. Outside Sri Lanka it is used among immigrant populations in the U.K., North America, Australia and some European and Middle Eastern countries. As for the genetic relation, it belongs to the… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 15] 2010. xv, 296 pp.

Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English

Edited by Päivi Pahta, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin

This volume presents a ground-breaking overview of the interconnections between socio-cultural reality and language practices, by looking at the different ways in which social roles are performed, maintained, adopted and assigned through linguistic means. The introductory chapter discusses and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 195] 2010. viii, 241 pp.

Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: An ethnolinguistic study

Svenja Völkel

This interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between culture, language and cognition based on the aspects of social structure, space and possession in Tonga, Polynesia. Grounded on extensive field research, Völkel explores the subject from an anthropological as well as from a… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 2] 2010. xv, 272 pp.

Society and Language Use

Edited by Jürgen Jaspers, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 7] 2010. xiii, 324 pp.

Sociocognitive Approaches to Second Language Pedagogy

Edited by Bronwen Patricia Dyson

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 33:3 (2010) 140 pp. | open access

Soliloquy in Japanese and English

Yoko Hasegawa

Language is recognized as an instrument of communication and thought. Under the shadow of prevailing investigation of language as a communicative means, its function as a tool for thinking has long been neglected in empirical research, vis-à-vis philosophical discussions. Language manifests itself… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 202] 2010. ix, 230 pp.

South Slavic Discourse Particles

Edited by Mirjana N. Dedaić and Mirjana Mišković-Luković

Discourse particles, discourse markers and pragmatic markers refer to phenomena that linguists have begun to probe only since the mid-1980s. Long-ignored in traditional linguistics and textbook grammars, and still relegated to marginal status in South Slavic, these linguistic phenomena have emerged… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 197] 2010. ix, 166 pp.

Speech Act Performance: Theoretical, empirical and methodological issues

Edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor and Esther Usó-Juan

Speech acts are an important and integral part of day-to-day life in all languages. In language acquisition, the need to teach speech acts in a target language has been demonstrated in studies conducted in the field of interlanguage pragmatics which indicate that the performance of speech acts may… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 26] 2010. xiv, 277 pp.

Storied Conflict Talk: Narrative construction in mediation

Katherine A. Stewart and Madeline M. Maxwell

Narrative analyses routinely investigate autobiographical and interview data. This book examines narratives-in-interaction co-constructed by participants in formal mediation sessions, by asking how many of the five cases in the videotaped data display the adversarial narrative pattern pervasive… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 12] 2010. vii, 137 pp.

Storytelling across Japanese Conversational Genre

Edited by Polly E. Szatrowski

This book investigates how Japanese participants accommodate to and make use of genre-specific characteristics to make stories tellable, create interpersonal involvement, negotiate responsibility, and show their personal selves. The analyses of storytelling in casual conversation, animation… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 13] 2010. vi, 313 pp.

Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster

Edited by Jan-Wouter Zwart and Mark de Vries

"Structure is at the rock-bottom of all explanatory sciences" (Jan Koster). Forty years ago, the hypothesis that underlying the bewildering variety of syntactic phenomena are general and unified structural patterns of unexpected beauty and simplicity gave rise to major advancements in the study of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 164] 2010. xxiii, 395 pp.

Studies in West Frisian Grammar

Selected papers by Germen J. de Haan

In this volume, Germen de Haan gives a multi-faceted view of the syntax, sociolinguistics, and phonology of West-Frisian. The author discusses distinct aspects of the syntax of verbs in Frisian: finiteness and Verb Second, embedded root phenomena, the verbal complex, verbal complementation, and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 161] 2010. x, 384 pp.

Stylistic Use of Phraseological Units in Discourse

Anita Naciscione

Stylistic Use of Phraseaological Units in Discourse received honourable mention of the ESSE Book Award 2012 in the field of English Language and Linguistics.This interdisciplinary study presents the cutting-edge state of theoretical and applied research in the fascinating field of phraseology. The… read more

[Not in series, 159] 2010. xiii, 292 pp. | open access

The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis

Lobke Aelbrecht

This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch. The author makes two main claims: The head selecting the ellipsis site is checked against the head licensing ellipsis in order for ellipsis to occur,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 149] 2010. xii, 230 pp.

Terminology in Everyday Life

Edited by Marcel Thelen and Frieda Steurs

Terminology in Everyday Life contains a selection of fresh and interesting articles by prominent scholars and practitioners in the field of terminology based on papers presented at an international terminology congress on the impact of terminology on everyday life. The volume brings together theory… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 13] 2010. vi, 271 pp.

Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing

Edited by Patrick Brandt and Marco García García

What happens when a canonically transitive form meets a canonically transitive meaning, and what happens when this doesn’t happen? How do dyadic forms relate to monadic ones, and what are the entailments of the operations that the grammar uses to relate one to the other? Collecting original expert… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 166] 2010. vii, 308 pp.

Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives

Edited by Mirjam Fried, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of the Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, cultural,… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 6] 2010. x, 275 pp.

Variation and Change in Morphology: Selected papers from the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2008

Edited by Franz Rainer, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky and Hans Christian Luschützky

The papers in this volume derive from the 13th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna 2008). They all address the main topic of the meeting, viz. variation and change in morphology. Inflectional and derivational morphology are represented on equal terms. The focus is on cases of language-internal… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 310] 2010. vii, 249 pp.

Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence

Edited by Raymond Hickey

This volume is concerned with assessing fictional and non-fictional written texts as linguistic evidence for earlier forms of varieties of English. These range from Scotland to New Zealand, from Canada to South Africa, covering all the major forms of the English language around the world. Central… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G41] 2010. x, 378 pp.

Verbs of Implicit Negation and their Complements in the History of English

Yoko Iyeiri

For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The principal focus of this book concerns various shifts of complements which verbs of implicit negation (e.g. forbid, forbear, avoid, prohibit, and prevent) have experienced in the history of English.… read more

[Not in series, 155] 2010. xv, 223 pp.

Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation

Susann Fischer

This book presents a new perspective on the interaction between word-order and grammaticalisation by investigating the changes that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have undergone in Romance (Catalan, French, Spanish) as compared to Germanic (English, Icelandic). It discusses a great deal of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 157] 2010. ix, 200 pp.

The Acquisition of French: The development of inflectional morphology and syntax in L1 acquisition, bilingualism, and L2 acquisition

Philippe Prévost

This book presents a thorough description of morphosyntactic knowledge developed by learners of French in four different learning situations — first language (L1) acquisition, second (L2) language acquisition, bilingualism, and acquisition by children with Specific Language Impairment — within the… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 51] 2009. xx, 458 pp.

The Acquisition of Word Order: Micro-cues, information structure, and economy

Marit Westergaard

Within a new model of language acquisition, this book discusses verb second (V2) word order in situations where there is variation in the input. While traditional generative accounts consider V2 to be a parameter, this study shows that, in many languages, this word order is dependent on fine… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 145] 2009. xii, 245 pp.

Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax

Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 21st and 22nd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Stuttgart. The contributions provide insightful discussions of several topics of current interest for… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 141] 2009. xv, 395 pp.

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 7

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more

[Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 7] 2009. iv, 356 pp.

Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 11: Papers from the 2007 New York Conference

Edited by Marcel den Dikken and Robert M. Vago

This volume brings together ten papers, all presented at the 8th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (New York City, 2007), addressing a wide range of topics in the morphology, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, and syntax of Hungarian, with discussion of related facts… read more

[Approaches to Hungarian, 11] 2009. ix, 280 pp.

The Architect of Modern Catalan: Selected writings

Pompeu Fabra (1868–1948)

Pompeu Fabra (1868-1948) is renowned as the person who reformed and codified modern Catalan, giving it the condition of a normativised language of culture that proved fit to meet all the challenges of the twentieth century. The context in which he worked was defined by the ideology and momentum of… read more

[Not in series, 150] 2009. xxxii, 240 pp.

Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian

Jasmine Dum-Tragut

This grammar of Modern Eastern Armenian gives a precise and explicit description of the Eastern Armenian language of the Republic of Armenia. It covers not only the normative tradition but, more importantly, also describes the colloquial language as it is used in Armenia today. With regard to… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 14] 2009. xv, 742 pp.

Aspect and the Categorization of States: The case of ser and estar in Spanish

David Brian Roby

In this work, the Spanish copulae ser and estar are argued to be aspectual morphemes. Their binary opposition reflects the universal aspectual values [±Perfective], which are the same ones overtly expressed by the preterite and imperfect past tense forms in Spanish. It can therefore be shown that… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 114] 2009. xiii, 191 pp.

Becoming Eloquent: Advances in the emergence of language, human cognition, and modern cultures

Edited by Francesco d'Errico and Jean-Marie Hombert

Few topics of scientific enquiry have attracted more attention in the last decade than the origin and evolution of language. Few have offered an equivalent intellectual challenge for interdisciplinary collaborations between linguistics, cognitive science, prehistoric archaeology,… read more

[Not in series, 152] 2009. vi, 289 pp.

Clearing the Air: Applied linguistic perspectives on aviation communication

Edited by John Read and Ute Knoch

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 32:2 (2009) 102 pp. | open access

Coding Participant Marking: Construction types in twelve African languages

Edited by Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

Whereas Africa as a typological area is often associated with extensive verb morphology and verb serialization, this collection of studies shows that there is tremendous typological diversity at the clausal level. Verb serialization in the Khoisan area contrasts with extensive case-marking in… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 110] 2009. xvi, 389 pp.

Cognition and Pragmatics

Edited by Dominiek Sandra, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, grammatical, social, variational, interactional, or… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 3] 2009. xvii, 399 pp.

Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond

Edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins and Adam Smith

This anthology brings together fresh corpus-based research by international scholars. It contrasts southern and northern hemisphere usage on variable elements of morphology and syntax. The nineteen invited papers include topics such as irregular verb parts, pronouns, modal and quasimodal verbs, the… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G39] 2009. x, 406 pp.

Complex Processes in New Languages

Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Norval Smith

In recent years, there has been a new interest in evaluating ‘complex’ structures in languages. The implications of such studies are varied, e.g., the distinction between supposedly more complex and less complex languages, how complexity relates to human knowledge of language, and the role of the… read more

[Creole Language Library, 35] 2009. vii, 409 pp.

ConcGram 1.0: A phraseological search engine

Chris Greaves

ConcGram 1.0 is a corpus linguistics software package which is specifically designed to find all the co-occurrences of words in a text or corpus irrespective of variation. The software finds the co-occurrences fully automatically, in other words, the user inputs no prior search commands. These… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics Software, 1] 2009. CD-Rom

Connected Words: Word associations and second language vocabulary acquisition

Paul Meara

What words come into your head when you think of SUN? For native English speakers, the most common responses are MOON, SHINE and HOT, and about half of all native speaker responses to SUN are covered by these three words. L2 English speakers are much less obliging, and produce patterns of… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 24] 2009. xvii, 174 pp.

Contemporary Indian English: Variation and change

Andreas Sedlatschek

Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change offers the first comprehensive description of Indian English and its emerging regional standard in a corpus-linguistic framework. Drawing on a wealth of authentic spoken and written data from India (including the Kolhapur Corpus and the… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G38] 2009. xix, 363 pp.

Contexts and Constructions

Edited by Alexander Bergs and Gabriele Diewald

This collection of original articles focuses on the function, role, and structure of linguistic and extralinguistic “context(s)” in relation to the notion of “constructions” and in construction grammar. It thus takes up and brings together two equally complex concepts of linguistics, which both… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 9] 2009. v, 247 pp.

Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations

Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Juliane House

This book deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations. It provides insights into the various forms of language contact and the conditions under which bilingual speakers master their every-day life in bilingual communities.… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 8] 2009. viii, 241 pp.

Corpora and Language Teaching

Edited by Karin Aijmer

The articles in this edited volume represent a broad coverage of areas. They discuss the role and effectiveness of corpora and corpus-linguistic techniques for language teaching but also deal with broader issues such as the relationship between corpora and second language teaching and how the… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 33] 2009. viii, 232 pp.

Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics

Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Makoto Minegishi and Jacques Durand

For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co.In this new edition of TUFS Studies in Linguistics, we aim to showcase the various linguistics research conducted at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. In this first volume, we report on the international… read more

[Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1] 2009. vi, 399 pp.

Correlatives Cross-Linguistically

Edited by Anikó Lipták

This volume brings together recent work in generative syntax on correlative relative constructions. Greatly expanding on the Hindi-oriented scope of previous studies, it describes and analyzes correlative constructions in a range of languages, such as Basque, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Sanskrit,… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 1] 2009. vii, 375 pp.

Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Academic Discourse

Edited by Eija Suomela-Salmi and Fred Dervin

The goal of this volume is to examine academic discourse (AD) from cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspectives. The adjective Cross-cultural in the volume title is not just limited to national contexts but also includes a cross-disciplinary perspective. Twelve scientific fields are under… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 193] 2009. vi, 299 pp.

Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality

Edited by Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov

In recent years, we have witnessed, on the one hand, an increased interest in cross-linguistic data in formal semantic studies, and, on the other hand, an increased concern for semantic issues in language typology. However, only few studies combine semantic and typological research for a particular… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 148] 2009. vii, 406 pp.

Culture and Language Use

Edited by Gunter Senft, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, variational,… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 2] 2009. xiii, 280 pp.

Cyclical Change

Edited by Elly van Gelderen

Linguistic Cycles are ever present in language change and involve a phrase or word that gradually disappears and is replaced by a new linguistic item. The most well-known cycles involve negatives, where an initial single negative, such as not, is reinforced by another negative, such as no thing,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 146] 2009. viii, 329 pp.

Declarative and Procedural Determinants of Second Languages

Michel Paradis

This volume is the outcome of the author’s observations and puzzlement over seventeen years of teaching English and French as second languages, followed by 30 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. It examines, within the framework of a neurolinguistic theory of… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 40] 2009. xii, 219 pp.

Deconstructing Constructions

Edited by Christopher S. Butler and Javier Martín Arista

This collection of papers brings together contributions from experts in functional linguistics and in Construction Grammar approaches, with the aim of exploring the concept of construction from different angles and trying to arrive at a better understanding of what a construction is, and what roles… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 107] 2009. xx, 306 pp.

Demonstratives and Definite Articles as Nominal Auxiliaries

Dorian Roehrs

Written in the cartographic tradition, this monograph is concerned with the inner structure and derivation of noun phrases. It proposes that demonstratives and definite articles are similar to auxiliaries in the clause. Referencing mostly Germanic languages, the book argues that determiners are… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 140] 2009. xii, 196 pp.

Dependency in Linguistic Description

Edited by Alain Polguère and Igor Mel’čuk

The book covers three major topics crucial for contemporary syntactic research. Firstly, it offers a sketch of a general theory of dependency in natural language. Different types of linguistic dependencies are distinguished (semantic, syntactic, and morphological), the criteria for their… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 111] 2009. xxii, 281 pp.

The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations

Glyn Hicks

The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations resolves a conspicuous problem for Minimalist theory, the apparently representational nature of the binding conditions. Hicks adduces a broad variety of evidence against the binding conditions applying at LF and builds upon the insights of recent proposals by… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 139] 2009. xii, 309 pp.

Determiners: Universals and variation

Edited by Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul and Martina Wiltschko

This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrelated languages. It seeks to answer the core question of modern linguistic theory: Which properties of languages are universal and which are… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 147] 2009. vii, 247 pp.

Dialogue in Intercultural Communities: From an educational point of view

Edited by Claudio Baraldi

This book explores the meanings of educational interactions which aim to promote peace and positive relationships. This analysis is based on theories of communication and active participation in education systems, in particular in intercultural settings. The book investigates the cultural… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 4] 2009. viii, 277 pp.

Discourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies

Edited by Jan Renkema

Discourse, of Course comes after Jan Renkema’s Introduction to Discourse Studies (2004) for undergraduates. The new book is a collection of twenty short papers. It is a capita selecta course and meant for graduate programs. The aim of this book is threefold: to present material for advanced… read more

[Not in series, 148] 2009. vii, 393 pp.

Discourses on Language and Integration: Critical perspectives on language testing regimes in Europe

Edited by Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, Clare Mar-Molinero and Patrick Stevenson

One of the most pressing issues in contemporary European societies is the need to promote integration and social inclusion in the context of rapidly increasing migration. A particular challenge confronting national governments is how to accommodate speakers of an ever-increasing number of languages… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 33] 2009. xiii, 170 pp.

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 9 (2009)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Georges Daniel Véronique, Anna Nilsson and Marion Tellier

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 9] 2009. vi, 295 pp.

Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker

In Early Modern Britain, new publication channels were developed and new textual genres established themselves. News discourse became increasingly more important and reached wider audiences, with pamphlets as the first real mass media. Newspapers appeared, first on a weekly and then on a daily… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 187] 2009. vii, 227 pp.

The Exploration of Multilingualism: Development of research on L3, multilingualism and multiple language acquisition

Edited by Larissa Aronin and Britta Hufeisen

This volume offers an ontogenetic perspective on research on L3, multilingualism and multiple languages acquisition and a conceptually updated picture of multilingualism studies and third/multiple language acquisition studies. The contributions by prominent scholars of multilingualism present… read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 6] 2009. vii, 167 pp.

Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface

Edited by Ute Römer-Barron and Rainer Schulze

This volume showcases studies that recognize and provide evidence for the inseparability of lexis and grammar. The contributors explore in what ways these two areas, often treated separately in linguistic theory and description, form an organic whole. The papers in Section I (Setting the Scene)… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 35] 2009. vi, 321 pp.

Focus and Background in Romance Languages

Edited by Andreas Dufter and Daniel Jacob

Focus–background structure has taken center stage in much current theorizing about sentence prosody, syntax, and semantics. However, both the inventory of focus expressions found cross-linguistically and the interpretive consequences associated with each of these continue to be insufficiently… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 112] 2009. vii, 362 pp.

Formulaic Language: Volume 1: Distribution and historical change, Volume 2: Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations. 2 vols. set

Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley

This two volume collection on formulaic language is among the first ones in the field. The authors of the present book represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed are similarly diverse, including languages such as Arabic, Japanese,… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 82-83] 2009. 724 pp.

Formulaic Language: Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations

Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley

This book is the second of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first in the field. The authors of the papers in this volume represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed come from a… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 83] 2009. xxiv, 361 pp.

Formulaic Language: Volume 1. Distribution and historical change

Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley

This book is the first of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first ones in the field. The book draws attention to the ritualized, repetitive side of language, which to some estimates make up over 50% of spoken and written text. While in the… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 82] 2009. xxiv, 315 pp.

From Body to Meaning in Culture: Papers on cognitive semantic studies of Chinese

Ning Yu

From the perspective of Cognitive Semantics and Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this collection of papers looks at the relationship between language, body, culture, and cognition. In particular, it looks into the embodied nature of human language and cognition as arising from and situated in the… read more

[Not in series, 149] 2009. xvi, 310 pp.

From Interaction to Symbol: A systems view of the evolution of signs and communication

Piotr Sadowski

Against the background of jargon-ridden and often obscure semiotic literature Sadowski’s book offers a reader-friendly yet rigorous account of human communication and its evolution from animal and primate behaviour. What is specifically human about the way we exchange information with other people,… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 8] 2009. xxi, 300 pp.

The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, ontogeny, neuro-cognition, evolution

T. Givón

Complex hierarchic syntax is a hallmark of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the evolutionary apex of the uniquely - human language faculty - evolutionary yet mysteriously immune to Darwinian… read more

[Not in series, 146] 2009. xviii, 366 pp.

Genres in the Internet: Issues in the theory of genre

Edited by Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein

This volume brings together for the first time pragmatic, rhetorical, and literary perspectives on genre, mapping theoretical frontiers and initiating a long overdue conversation amongst these methodologies. The diverse approaches represented in this volume meet on common ground staked by Internet… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 188] 2009. ix, 294 pp.

Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals

Edited by John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts, Tomonori Matsushita and Hiroshi Hasegawa

For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals has as its general aim the investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages,… read more

[The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals, 1] 2009. v, 213 pp.

Gesturecraft: The manu-facture of meaning

Jürgen Streeck

The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative ecologies in which hand-gestures appear: illuminating the world around us,… read more

[Gesture Studies, 2] 2009. xii, 235 pp.

Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends

Edited by Rachel Selbach, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg

Is creolization an abrupt or a gradual process? In this volume leading scholars provide both comparative and case studies that outline their working definitions and their views on the particular or average time depth, or key processes necessary for contact language formation, providing a… read more

[Creole Language Library, 34] 2009. x, 392 pp.

Grammar as Processor: A Distributed Morphology account of spontaneous speech errors

Roland Pfau

Spontaneous speech errors provide valuable evidence not only for the processes that mediate between a communicative intention and the articulation of an utterance but also for the types of grammatical entities that are manipulated during production. This study proposes an analysis of speech errors… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 137] 2009. xiii, 372 pp.

Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics

Edited by Frank Brisard, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, cultural, social, variational, interactional,… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 5] 2009. xiii, 308 pp.

Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages: Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European Linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007

Edited by Vit Bubenik, John Hewson and Sarah Rose

The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 305] 2009. xx, 262 pp.

Grammatical Variation across Space and Time: The French interrogative system

Martin Elsig

Interrogative clauses in French show abundant variation, especially with regard to the position of the subject vis-à-vis the finite verb, the placement of the wh-word, and the use of question markers such as est-ce que and ti/tu. This book presents a comprehensive study of the evolution and use of… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 3] 2009. xvi, 282 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2009 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 13] 2009. vi, 421 pp.

Hispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development

Edited by John Grinstead

This book contains 12 papers contributed by leading scholars in the field of language development, studying variants of the languages which originated on the Iberian peninsula. The contributors examine language development in both typically-developing and language-impaired populations who are… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 50] 2009. xix, 304 pp.

Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007

Edited by Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis and Etleva Vocaj

For more than three decades, the International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) has been characterized by diversity, both in terms of the theoretical frameworks used by its researchers and the wide variety of languages that are analyzed. ICHL 18, which took place at the Université du… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 308] 2009. x, 311 pp.

Humane Readings: Essays on literary mediation and communication in honour of Roger D. Sell

Edited by Jason Finch, Martin Gill, Anthony Johnson, Iris Lindahl-Raittila, Inna Lindgren, Tuija Virtanen and Brita Wårvik

Since the 1980s, Roger D. Sell’s literary criticism has striven to take account of the (often conflicting) approaches available without compromising the human importance of the literary work: either in terms of its creation or its reception. Sell’s theory of literature draws strength from the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 190] 2009. xi, 160 pp.

Humor in Interaction

Edited by Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives, but all concerned with interactional aspects of humor. The contributors are scholars active both in… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 182] 2009. xvii, 238 pp.

Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English: The syntax–pragmatics interface in second language acquisition

Marcus Callies

This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 186] 2009. xviii, 293 pp.

Instructional Writing in English: Studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen

Edited by Matti Peikola, Janne Skaffari and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen

The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 189] 2009. xiii, 240 pp.

Interactive Dialogue Sequences in Middle English Drama

Gabriella Mazzon

This book looks at mediaeval English drama using the theoretical frameworks of historical sociopragmatics and dialogue analysis. It focuses on the collection of cycle plays known as the N.Town Plays, preserved in a manuscript from the fifteenth century. The book examines various linguistic markers… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 185] 2009. ix, 228 pp.

Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007

Edited by Bernard Comrie, Ray Fabri, Elizabeth Hume, Manwel Mifsud, Thomas Stolz and Martine Vanhove

This collection of articles highlights a selection of on-going research projects. Phonological, morphological, and syntactic issues are addressed by international experts on Maltese. The diachronic development of Maltese, its age-long contact with Italo-Romance, and the present diglossic situation… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 113] 2009. xi, 422 pp.

Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition

Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap

FOR SALE IN U.S. AND CANADA ONLY. FOR SALES IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES, PLEASE CONTACT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS.Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern linguistics and deals with the place of language in human societies. This second edition of Introducing Sociolinguistics expertly… read more

[Not in series, 102] 2009. xxvi, 502 pp.

An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary

Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.

This is the first text book to offer a comprehensive approach to Old Frisian. Part One begins with a succinct survey of the history of the Frisians during the Middle Ages, their society and literary culture. Next follow chapters on the phonology, morphology, word formation and syntax of Old Frisian. read more

[Not in series, 147] 2009. xii, 237 pp.

Key Notions for Pragmatics

Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 1] 2009. xiii, 253 pp.

Language Variation – European perspectives II: Selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), Nicosia, June 2007

Edited by Stavroula Tsiplakou, Marilena Karyolemou and Pavlos Pavlou

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), which was held at the University of Cyprus from June 17th–19th 2007. The variety of theoretical frameworks and methodological perspectives (from Generative Grammar, Word… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 5] 2009. vi, 242 pp.

Language as Dialogue: From rules to principles of probability

Edda Weigand

With her theory of ‘Language as Dialogue’, Edda Weigand has opened up a new and promising perspective in linguistic research and its neighbouring disciplines. Her model of ‘competence-in-performance’ solved the problem of how to bridge the gap between competence and performance and thus… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 5] 2009. viii, 410 pp. | open access

The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800)

Edited by Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin

The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research. The volume contains nine studies and an introductory essay which discuss linguistic and social variation and change over four centuries. Each study… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 183] 2009. vii, 312 pp.

The Language of Outsourced Call Centers: A corpus-based study of cross-cultural interaction

Eric Friginal

The Language of Outsourced Call Centers is the first book to explore a large-scale corpus representing the typical kinds of interactions and communicative tasks in outsourced call centers located in the Philippines and serving American customers. The specific goals of this book are to conduct a… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 34] 2009. xxii, 319 pp.

Language, discourse and identities: Snapshot from Greek contexts

Edited by Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Vally Lytra

Special issue of Pragmatics 19:3 (2009) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics

Edited by John Flowerdew and Michaela Mahlberg

Lexical cohesion is about meaning in text. It concerns the ways in which lexical items relate to each other and to other cohesive devices so that textual continuity is created. Traditionally, lexical cohesion (along with other types of cohesion) has been investigated in individual texts. With the… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 17] 2009. vi, 124 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2009

General Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 9] 2009. 257 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009

Edited by Bert Botma and Jacqueline van Kampen

Linguistics in the Netherlands is a series of annual publications, sponsored by the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands (Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap) and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company since Volume 8 in 1991. Each volume contains a careful selection of papers presented… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 26] 2009. v, 148 pp. | open access

The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking

Edited by John Newman

This volume reviews a range of fascinating linguistic facts about ingestive predicates in the world’s languages. The highly multifaceted nature of ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ events gives rise to interesting clausal properties of these predicates, such as the atypicality of transitive constructions involving… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 84] 2009. xii, 280 pp.

Marathi

Ramesh Vaman Dhongde and Kashi Wali

Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language, is the official language of Maharashtra, including Mumbai. Father Thomas Stephens, the first English traveler to Goa, a pioneer linguist, wrote Christa Puran in Marathi (1616) and Arte da Lingoa Canarim in Portuguese, printed in (1640). The latter is a grammar of… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 13] 2009. xviii, 340 pp.

Metalanguage in Interaction: Hebrew discourse markers

Yael Maschler

Metalanguage in Interaction is about the crystallization of metalanguage employed throughout interaction into the discourse markers which permeate talk. Based on close analysis of naturally-occurring Hebrew conversation, it is a synchronic study of the grammaticization of discourse markers, a… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 181] 2009. xvi, 258 pp.

Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar

Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg and Antonio Barcelona

Figurative language has been regarded traditionally as situated outside the realm of grammar. However, with the advent of Cognitive Linguistics, metonymy and metaphor are now recognized as being not only ornamental rhetorical tropes but fundamental figures of thought that shape, to a considerable… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 25] 2009. xiii, 423 pp.

Minimal Answers: Ellipsis, syntax and discourse in the acquisition of European Portuguese

Ana Lúcia Santos

This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the acquisition of the syntax-discourse interface. It provides evidence that children acquiring European Portuguese have a very early ability to spontaneously produce VP ellipsis as answers to yes-no questions. It is also argued that the… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 48] 2009. xv, 296 pp.

Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax

Edited by Jairo Nunes

This collection of papers discusses some of the major syntactic properties of Brazilian Portuguese from a minimalist perspective. The volume focuses on movement and empty category issues and brings new empirical material on a variety of topics (null subjects and finite control, possessive and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 142] 2009. vi, 243 pp.

Missionary Linguistics IV / Lingüística misionera IV: Lexicography. Selected papers from the Fifth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Mérida, Yucatán, 14-17 March 2007

Edited by Otto Zwartjes, Ramón Arzápalo Marín and Thomas C. Smith-Stark

This fourth volume on Missionary Linguistics focuses on lexicography. It contains a selection of papers derived from the Fifth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics held in Mérida, Yucatán (Mexico), 14th–17th March 2007. As with the previous three volumes (2004, on general issues,… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 114] 2009. vi, 340 pp.

Modality in Japanese: The layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of functional categories

Heiko Narrog

Hierarchical clause structure is an important feature of most theories of grammar. While it has been an indispensable part of formal syntactic theories, functional theories have more recently discovered for themselves a ‘layered structure of the clause’. A major focus of the current discussion on… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 109] 2009. xxii, 277 pp.

More Support for More-Support: The role of processing constraints on the choice between synthetic and analytic comparative forms

Britta Mondorf

This book provides the most comprehensive account so far of novel and hitherto unexplained factors operative in the choice between synthetic (prouder) and analytic (more proud ) comparatives. It argues that the underlying motivation in using the analytic variant is to mitigate processing demands –… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 4] 2009. xi, 222 pp.

The Motivated Syntax of Arbitrary Signs: Cognitive constraints on Spanish clitic clustering

Erica C. García

This detailed study challenges the claim that syntax is arbitrary and autonomous, as well as the assumption that Spanish clitic clusters constitute grammaticalized units. Diverse--apparently unrelated--restrictions on clitic clustering in both simplex VP's and Accusative cum Infinitive structures… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 61] 2009. xv, 335 pp.

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching

Edited by Ludmila Isurin, Donald Winford and Kees de Bot

The volume presents a selection of contributions by leading scholars in the field of code-switching. In the past the phenomenon of code-switching was studied within different subfields of linguistics and they all took their own perspectives on code-switching without taking into account findings… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 41] 2009. xviii, 364 pp.

Multilingual, Globalizing Asia: Implications for policy and education. AILA Review, Volume 22

Edited by Lisa Lim and Ee-Ling Low

This special issue has Asia as its focus, springboarding primarily from the multilingual reality that defines South and Southeast Asia, but also including the regions of East Asia normally considered more monolingual. The collection of articles addresses the tensions involved in how the countries… read more

[AILA Review, 22] 2009. iv, 130 pp.

Named Entities: Recognition, classification and use

Edited by Satoshi Sekine and Elisabete Ranchhod

Named Entities provides critical information for many NLP applications. Named Entity recognition and classification (NERC) in text is recognized as one of the important sub-tasks of Information Extraction (IE). The seven papers in this volume cover various interesting and informative aspects of… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 19] 2009. v, 168 pp.

Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond

Edited by Norbert Cyffer, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer

This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a great diversity of negation patterns, the following… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 87] 2009. vi, 368 pp.

New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Vyvyan Evans and Stéphanie Pourcel

Nearly three decades since the publication of the seminal Metaphors We Live By, Cognitive Linguistics is now a mature theoretical and empirical enterprise, with a voluminous associated literature. It is arguably the most rapidly expanding ‘school’ in modern linguistics, and one of the most exciting… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 24] 2009. xi, 519 pp.

On Apologising in Negative and Positive Politeness Cultures

Eva Ogiermann

This book investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations. It reveals culture-specific perceptions of what counts as an apology and what constitutes politeness. It offers a critical discussion of Brown and Levinson's theory and provides counterevidence to the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 191] 2009. x, 296 pp.

Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations

Edited by Marina Vigário, Sónia Frota and M. João Freitas

The papers included in the volume Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations are concerned with some of the multiple possible forms of interactions and interrelations in phonetics and phonology: the phonetic and/or phonological nature of speech patterns, segmental and prosodic… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 306] 2009. vi, 290 pp.

The Pragmatics of Interaction

Edited by Sigurd D’hondt, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 4] 2009. xiii, 262 pp.

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing V: Selected papers from RANLP 2007

Edited by Nicolas Nicolov, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov

This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP) held in Borovets, Bulgaria, 27–29 September 2007. These papers cover a wide variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP)… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 309] 2009. x, 338 pp.

Register Variation in Indian English

Chandrika Balasubramanian

Register Variation in Indian English constitutes the first large-scale empirical investigation of an international variety of English. Using a combination of the corpus compiled for this project and relevant sections of ICE-India as its database, this work tests existing descriptions and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 37] 2009. xviii, 284 pp.

Representational Deficits in SLA: Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins

Edited by Neal Snape, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung and Michael Sharwood Smith

The main focus of this collection is to explore the question of “representational deficits” in second language acquisition, currently a much-debated topic. The volume is intended as a tribute to Roger Hawkins, a leading scholar in generative second language acquisition, whose research has been… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 47] 2009. xxv, 250 pp.

The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case

Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal and Shobhana L. Chelliah

The aim of this volume is to bring non-syntactic factors in the development of case into the eye of the research field, by illustrating the integral role of pragmatics, semantics, and discourse structure in the historical development of morphologically marked case systems. The articles represent… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 108] 2009. xx, 432 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Amsterdam 2007

Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Elisabeth van der Linden, Josep Quer and Petra Sleeman

The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.This volume assembles a significant number of… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 1] 2009. xii, 288 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006

Edited by Danièle Torck and W. Leo Wetzels

The annual conference series ‘Going Romance’ has developed into a major European discussion forum where ideas about language and linguistics and about Romance languages in particular are put in an interactive perspective, giving room to both universality and Romance-internal variation. The current… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 303] 2009. viii, 262 pp.

Romance Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15–18 March 2007

Edited by Pascual José Masullo, Erin O'Rourke and Chia-Hui Huang

The present volume includes a selection of twenty-one peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 37th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. The papers cover a range of topics in morphology, syntax, phonology and language acquisition. A… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 304] 2009. vii, 361 pp.

Second Language Acquisition of Articles: Empirical findings and theoretical implications

Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo and Roger Hawkins

The studies in this collection address a topic that has recently become the focus of considerable interest in second language acquisition (SLA) research: the acquisition of articles. Languages appear to vary in whether they have articles (English, German, Norwegian do, but Chinese, Japanese,… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 49] 2009. ix, 272 pp.

Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French

Edited by Kate Beeching, Nigel Armstrong and Françoise Gadet

Divided into three main sections on Phonology, Syntax and Semantics, this new volume on variation in French aims to provide a snapshot of the state of sociolinguistic research inside and outside metropolitan France. From a diatopic perspective, varieties in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Africa and… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 26] 2009. xi, 257 pp.

The Structure of Stative Verbs

Antonia Rothmayr

This book explores the nature of stative verbs, their eventuality structure, and the patterns of argument realization. The study shows that there is no single class of stative verbs. Rather, several distinct groups of verbs are found: Verbs that undergo a systematic stative/eventive ambiguity;… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 143] 2009. xv, 216 pp.

Symbol Grounding

Edited by Tony Belpaeme, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman

When explaining cognition one must explain how representations in the mind, or symbols, become meaningful by connecting to the external world. This process of connecting symbols with sensorimotor experiences is known as symbol grounding. The classical view of symbol grounding is that it is an… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 21] 2009. v, 167 pp.

Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution

Edited by T. Givón and Masayoshi Shibatani

Complex hierarchic syntax is considered one of the hallmarks of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the apex of the uniquely-human language faculty – evolutionary but somehow immune to adaptive… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 85] 2009. vi, 553 pp.

Syntax within the Word: Economy, allomorphy, and argument selection in Distributed Morphology

Daniel Siddiqi

Syntax within the Word provides a multifaceted look into the syntactic framework of Distributed Morphology (DM) within the Minimalist program. For those unfamiliar with the theory, this monograph provides an overview of DM and argues its strengths. For those more familiar with DM, this monograph… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 138] 2009. xii, 138 pp.

Television Dialogue: The sitcom Friends vs. natural conversation

Paulo Quaglio

This book explores a virtually untapped, yet fascinating research area: television dialogue. It reports on a study comparing the language of the American situation comedy Friends to natural conversation. Transcripts of the television show and the American English conversation portion of the Longman… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 36] 2009. xiii, 165 pp

The Texture of Discourse: Towards an outline of connectivity theory

Jan Renkema

The aim of this monograph is to give impetus to research into one of the central questions in discourse studies: what makes a sequence of sentences or utterances a discourse? The theoretical framework for describing the possibilities of discourse continuation is delineated by two principles: the… read more

[Not in series, 151] 2009. xi, 213 pp.

Time and Again: Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics. In honor of D. Terence Langendoen

Edited by William D. Lewis, Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley and Scott O. Farrar

This volume is a collection of papers that highlights some recurring themes that have surfaced in the generative tradition in linguistics over the past 40 years. The volume is more than a historical take on a theoretical tradition; rather, it is also a "compass" pointing to exciting new empirical… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 135] 2009. xiv, 265 pp.

Toddler and Parent Interaction: The organisation of gaze, pointing and vocalisation

Anna Filipi

This book provides a microanalysis of the interactions between four children and their parents starting when the children were aged 9 to 13 months and ending when they were 18 months old. It tracks development as an issue for and of interaction. In so doing, it uncovers the details of the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 192] 2009. xiii, 268 pp.

Towards a Derivational Syntax: Survive-minimalism

Edited by Michael T. Putnam

This volume explores recent advancements in the Minimalist Program that adopt Stroik’s (1999, 2009) Survive Principle as the principle means of accounting for displacement phenomena in earlier versions of generative theory. These contributions bring to light many advantages and challenges that… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 144] 2009. x, 269 pp.

Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyond

Edited by Jean-Louis Aroui and Andy Arleo

Metrics is often defined as a discipline that concerns itself with the study of meters. In this volume the term is used in a broader sense that more or less coincides with the traditional notion of “versification”. Understood this way, metrics is an eminently complex object that displays variation… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 2] 2009. xiv, 428 pp.

A Typology of Purpose Clauses

Karsten Schmidtke-Bode

This book presents the first comprehensive typology of purpose clause constructions in the world’s languages. Based on a stratified variety sample of 80 languages, it uncovers the unity and diversity of the morphosyntactic means by which purposive relations are coded, and discusses the status of… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 88] 2009. xii, 229 pp.

Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages

Edited by James N. Stanford and Dennis R. Preston

Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics.… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 25] 2009. vii, 519 pp.

Variations on Polysynthesis: The Eskaleut languages

Edited by Marc-Antoine Mahieu and Nicole Tersis

This work is comprised of a set of papers focussing on the extreme polysynthetic nature of the Eskaleut languages which are spoken over the vast area stretching from Far Eastern Siberia, on through the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and Canada, as far as Greenland. The aim of the book is to situate the… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 86] 2009. ix, 312 pp.

Vocalize to Localize

Edited by Christian Abry, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz

Vocalize-to-Localize? Meerkats do it for specific predators… And babies point with their index finger toward targets of interest at about nine months, well before using language-specific that-demonstratives. With what-interrogatives they are universal and, as relativizers and complementizers, play… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 13] 2009. x, 311 pp.

Words, Grammar, Text: Revisiting the work of John Sinclair

Edited by Rosamund Moon

John Sinclair’s work is widely known and has had a far-reaching influence, particularly in the areas of corpus linguistics, lexis, phraseology, lexicography, grammar, and discourse analysis. This collection of papers, written by former colleagues at Birmingham University, looks at some key writings… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 18] 2009. viii, 124 pp.

World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference

Edited by Thomas Hoffmann and Lucia Siebers

World Englishes is a vibrant research field that has attracted scholars from many different linguistic subdisciplines. Emphasizing the common ground of all research on World Englishes, the 22 articles in this collected volume, selected from more than a hundred papers presented at the 2007… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G40] 2009. xix, 436 pp.

Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective

Edited by Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen

Despite its potential influence on the standard language, there is still relatively little written about the language of the young. This book gives new insight into some important areas of their language, such as identity construction reflected, for instance, in prosodic patterns and language… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 184] 2009. vi, 206 pp.

Youth language at the intersection: From migration to globalization

Edited by Mary Bucholtz and Elena Skapoulli

Special issue of Pragmatics 19:1 (2009) ca. 125 pp. | open access

'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen and Wiebke Ramm

The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination – or… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 98] 2008. vi, 359 pp.

(Im)politeness in Spanish-speaking socio-cultural contexts

Edited by Diana Bravo

Special issue of Pragmatics 18:4 (2008) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Adpositions: Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives

Edited by Dennis Kurzon and Silvia Adler

This book is a collection of articles which deal with adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what is traditionally treated in studies from a European and Semitic orientation – prepositions, but it presents studies on postpositions, too.… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 74] 2008. viii, 307 pp.

Analysing Identities in Discourse

Edited by Rosana Dolón and Júlia Todolí

The discursive construction of identity is often under the control of the dominant forces in society and frequently results in forms of manipulation and abuse. This awareness led to the celebration of the First International Conference on CDA (València 2004), where over three-hundred academics… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 28] 2008. xi, 204 pp.

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 6

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

[Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 6] 2008. 366 pp.

Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages

Edited by Felix K. Ameka and Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu

This book explores the thesis that in the Kwa languages of West Africa, aspect and modality are more central to the grammar of the verb than tense. Where tense marking has emerged it is invariably in the expression of the future, and therefore concerned with the impending actualization or… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 100] 2008. ix, 335 pp.

Aspect in Burmese: Meaning and function

Nicoletta Romeo

The book presents an overview of the aspectual system of Burmese, and it focuses on the analysis and description of the meaning and function of some aspectual markers which are among the most commonly used in the language. The analysis highlights a few important facts. Firstly, these markers, which… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 96] 2008. xv, 289 pp.

Asymmetric Events

Edited by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

The book introduces the concept of asymmetric events, an important concept in language and cognition, which, for the first time in linguistic literature, is identified in a more systematic way and analyzed in a number of different languages, including typologically or genetically unrelated ones.… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 11] 2008. xii, 287 pp.

The Bantu–Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure

Edited by Cécile De Cat and Katherine Demuth

This landmark volume is the first work specifically designed to explore the extent to which striking surface morpho-syntactic similarities between Bantu and Romance languages actually represent similar syntactic structures. In particular, it explores the timely and much debated issues of verbal… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 131] 2008. xix, 355 pp.

Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the crossroads with other languages

Edited by Mercedes Niño-Murcia and Jason Rothman

Sociolinguists have been pursuing connections between language and identity for several decades. But how are language and identity related in bilingualism and multilingualism? Mobilizing the most current methodology, this collection presents new research on language identity and bilingualism in… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 37] 2008. vii, 365 pp.

Case and Grammatical Relations: Studies in honor of Bernard Comrie

Edited by Greville G. Corbett and Michael Noonan

The papers in this volume can be grouped into two broad, overlapping classes: those dealing primarily with case and those dealing primarily with grammatical relations. With regard to case, topics include descriptions of the case systems of two Caucasian languages, the problems of determining how… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 81] 2008. ix, 290 pp.

Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages

Edited by Dalina Kallulli and Liliane Tasmowski

This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 130] 2008. ix, 442 pp.

Commitment

Edited by Philippe De Brabanter and Patrick Dendale

Commitment is a notion widely invoked in speech-act theory, in studies on modality and in dialogue modelling, but it has never been the central topic of a monograph or a collective volume in linguistics. This volume is the very first to bring together researchers from different linguistic… read more

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 22] 2008. 276 pp.

Confronting Metaphor in Use: An applied linguistic approach

Edited by Mara Sophia Zanotto, Lynne Cameron and Marilda C. Cavalcanti

It is timely for researchers to approach metaphor as social and situated, as a matter of language and discourse, and not just as a matter of thought. Over the last twenty five years, scholars have come to appreciate in depth the cognitive, motivated and embodied nature of metaphor, but have tended… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 173] 2008. vii, 315 pp.

Constraints in Discourse

Edited by Anton Benz and Peter Kühnlein

It is a commonplace to say that the meaning of text is more than the conjunction of the meaning of its constituents. But what are the rules governing its interpretation, and what are the constraints that define well-formed discourse? Answers to these questions can be given from various perspectives. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 172] 2008. vii, 292 pp.

Constructional Reorganization

Edited by Jaakko Leino

The present volume consists of several novel and different applications of the Construction Grammar framework to areas such as language change, variation, and the internal organization of grammar. The book is a collection of articles which bring together the framework of Construction Grammar and… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 5] 2008. vi, 155 pp.

Contrastive Rhetoric: Reaching to intercultural rhetoric

Edited by Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout and William Rozycki

This volume explores contrastive rhetoric for audiences in both ESL contexts and international EFL contexts, exposing the newest developments in theories of culture and discourse and pushing the boundaries beyond any previously staked ground. The book presents a comprehensive set of empirical… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 169] 2008. viii, 324 pp.

Corpora and Discourse: The challenges of different settings

Edited by Annelie Ädel and Randi Reppen

This book brings together contributions from a diverse collection of scholars who explore different ways of combining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, studying discourse at the prosodic, lexical, and textual levels. Both spoken and written discourse are investigated in a variety of… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 31] 2008. vi, 295 pp.

Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives

Edited by Heike Behrens

Corpus research forms the backbone of research on children's language development. Leading researchers in the field present a survey on the history of data collection, different types of data, and the treatment of methodological problems. Morphologically and syntactically parsed corpora allow for… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 6] 2008. xxx, 234 pp.

Corpus and Context: Investigating pragmatic functions in spoken discourse

Svenja Adolphs

Corpus and Context explores the relationship between corpus linguistics and pragmatics by discussing possible frameworks for analysing utterance function on the basis of spoken corpora. The book articulates the challenges and opportunities associated with a change of focus in corpus research, from… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 30] 2008. xi, 151 pp.

Corpus-based Analyses of the Problem–Solution Pattern: A phraseological approach

Lynne Flowerdew

This book reports research on the Problem-Solution rhetorical pattern, which has to date received very little attention in corpus-based studies. Insights from genre analysis and systemic-functional grammar are also applied to the analysis of the Problem-Solution pattern, thus moving towards a more… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 29] 2008. xi, 179 pp.

Cross-Linguistic Semantics

Edited by Cliff Goddard

Cross-linguistic semantics – investigating how languages package and express meanings differently – is central to the linguistic quest to understand the nature of human language. This set of studies explores and demonstrates cross-linguistic semantics as practised in the natural semantic… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 102] 2008. xvi, 356 pp.

Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions

Edited by Ritva Laury

The study of clause combining has been advanced lately by increasing interest in the study of actual language use in a typologically diverse set of languages. A number of received understandings have been challenged, among these the idea of clause combinations as being divisible into subordination… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 80] 2008. xiv, 253 pp.

Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics

Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem, Gabi Danon and Susan Rothstein

This volume presents a collection of specially commissioned papers devoted to analyzing the linguistics of Modern Hebrew from a number of perspectives. Various aspects of Modern Hebrew grammar are discussed including the structure of the lexicon, grammatical features and inflectional morphology, as… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 134] 2008. vii, 393 pp.

Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective

Edited by Belma Haznedar and Elena Gavruseva

This volume presents recent generative research on the nature of grammars of child second language (L2) acquirers -- a learner population whose exposure to an L2 occurs between the ages of 4 to 8. The main goal is to define child L2 acquisition in relation to other types of acquisition such as… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 46] 2008. vi, 363 pp.

Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and cognitive perspectives

Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. González Álvarez

This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive analysis. The articles range across a broad gamut of languages, with most attention going to the languages of Europe. They show how advances in theory and computer technology are together impacting the… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 60] 2008. xxi, 333 pp.

Developmental Psycholinguistics: On-line methods in children’s language processing

Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Eva M. Fernández and Harald Clahsen

How do infants and young children coordinate information in real time to arrive at sentence meaning from the words and structure of the sentence and from the nonlinguistic context? This volume introduces readers to an emerging field of research, experimental developmental psycholinguistics, and to… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 44] 2008. xviii, 190 pp.

Dialogue and Rhetoric

Edited by Edda Weigand

The volume deals with the relationship between dialogue and rhetoric. The actual state of the art in dialogue analysis is characterized by a tendency to overcome the distinction between competence and performance and to combine components from both sides of the dichotomy, in a way which includes… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 2] 2008. xiv, 316 pp.

Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics

Edited by John Gibbons and M. Teresa Turell

This volume functions as a guide to the multidisciplinary nature of Forensic Linguistics understood in its broadest sense as the interface between language and the law. It seeks to address the links in this relatively young field between theory, method and data, without neglecting the need for new… read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 5] 2008. vi, 316 pp.

Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages

Edited by Ilana Mushin and Brett Baker

Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages is the first major survey to address the issue of the effects of information packaging on Australian languages, widely known for nonconfigurationality. The papers are based on individual fieldwork and describe a wide range of Australian languages of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 104] 2008. x, 239 pp.

The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen

Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the ‘life cycle’ of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range from electronic corpora to the internet. In the spirit of the 1968 Weinreich, Labov and Herzog classic, the fifteen contributions divide… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 2] 2008. viii, 339 pp.

Early Language Development: Bridging brain and behaviour

Edited by Angela D. Friederici and Guillaume Thierry

This book establishes a dialog between experimental psychology and electrophysiology in the study of infant language development. On the one hand, traditional methods of investigation into language development have reached a high level of refinement despite being confined to observing infants’… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 5] 2008. xiv, 263 pp.

The Emergence of Order in Syntax

Jordi Fortuny

The syntactic component of the faculty of language is argued to be a rewiring of a few independently motivated components: features, the conjunction of a successive operation of union-formation (‘Merge’) and of derivational records (‘nests’), and principles of analysis. Since nests linearize… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 119] 2008. viii, 211 pp.

English Adjective Comparison: A historical perspective

Victorina González-Díaz

The present work contributes to a better understanding of the English system of degree by means of a study of a number of aspects in the evolution of adjective comparison that have so far either been considered controversial or not been accounted for at all. As will be shown, the diachronic aspects… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 299] 2008. xix, 252 pp.

English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English

Edited by Marina Dossena, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti

The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, lexis and semantics, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on geo-historical… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 297] 2008. xiii, 197 pp.

English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change

Edited by Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena

The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, and dialectology, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on semantics, pragmatics… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 296] 2008. xiii, 264 pp.

English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology

Edited by Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena and Richard Dury

The papers selected for this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). At that important event, alongside studies of phonology, lexis, semantics and dialectology (presented in two companion volumes in this series), many… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295] 2008. xiv, 259 pp.

English as an International Language: Challenges and possibilities

Edited by Michael Clyne and Farzad Sharifian †

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 31:3 (2008) 98 pp. | open access

Essays on Nominal Determination: From morphology to discourse management

Edited by Henrik Høeg Müller and Alex Klinge

This volume brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that nominal determination and reference assignment play in the complicated interplay between thought, language and communication. The articles can be divided roughly into five… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 99] 2008. xviii, 369 pp.

Explorations in Integrational Linguistics: Four essays on German, French, and Guaraní

Edited by Robin Sackmann

Integrational Linguistics (IL), developed by the German linguist Hans-Heinrich Lieb and others, is an approach to linguistics that integrates linguistic descriptions, construed as ‘declarative’ theories, with a detailed theory of language that covers all classical areas of linguistics, from… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 285] 2008. ix, 239 pp.

First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax: Perspectives across languages and learners

Edited by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, María Pilar Larrañaga and John Clibbens

The papers comprising this volume focus on a broad range of acquisition phenomena (subject dislocation, structural case, word order, determiners, pronouns, quantifiers and logical words) from different languages and language combinations. These include languages with large numbers of speakers… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 45] 2008. vi, 302 pp.

Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics: Volume 1: An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Automata, Volume 2: Applications in Linguistic Theory, Volume 3: Psycholinguistic Applications

Willem J.M. Levelt

Almost four decades have passed since Formal Grammars first appeared in 1974. At that time it was still possible to rather comprehensively review for (psycho)linguists the relevant literature on the theory of formal languages and automata, on their applications in linguistic theory and in the… read more

[Not in series, 144] 2008. viii, 585 pp.

From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics

Edited by Pieter Muysken

From linguistic areas to areal linguistics explores language description and typology in terms of areal background, presenting case studies in areal linguistics. Some concern well-established linguistic areas such as the Balkan, other regions such as East Nusantara (Indonesia) and the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 90] 2008. vii, 293 pp.

From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a typology of lexical semantic associations

Edited by Martine Vanhove

This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered together field linguists, semanticists, cognitivists, typologists, and an NLP specialist. These cross-linguistic studies concern semantic shifts at large, both synchronic and diachronic: the outcome of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 106] 2008. xiii, 404 pp.

Germanic Future Constructions: A usage-based approach to language change

Martin Hilpert

This study offers a Construction Grammar approach to the historical development and modern usage of future constructions in English, German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish. On the basis of corpus data, constructions such as English be going to or German werden are analyzed as symbolic units that convey… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 7] 2008. ix, 205 pp.

Grammar and Interaction: Pivots in German conversation

Emma Betz

This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of the structure and communicative use of syntactic pivot constructions in German. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis, this work shows that pivots emerge in interaction in response to local communicative needs.Exclusively found in… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 21] 2008. xiii, 208 pp.

The Grammar of Repetition: Nupe grammar at the syntax–phonology interface

Jason Kandybowicz

Displacement is a fundamental property of grammar. Typically, when an occurrence moves it is pronounced in only one environment. This was previously viewed as a primitive/irreducible property of grammar. Recent work, however, suggests that it follows from principled interactions between the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 136] 2008. xiii, 168 pp.

Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers

Edited by Thórhallur Eythórsson

This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The overall theme of the volume is ‘internal factors in grammatical change.’ The papers focus on… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 113] 2008. vi, 441 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2008 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 12] 2008. vii, 200 pp.

History of German Negation

Agnes Jäger

This book represents the first comprehensive overview over the history of negation in German. It addresses both the development of the negation particles as well as the diachrony of indefinites in the scope of negation and the phenomenon of Negative Concord. Being based on a corpus study of several… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 118] 2008. ix, 350 pp.

Impoliteness in Interaction

Derek Bousfield

This study concerns the nature of impoliteness in face-to-face spoken interaction. For more than three decades many pragmatic and sociolinguistic studies of interaction have considered politeness to be one central explanatory concept governing and underpinning face-to-face interaction. Politeness'… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 167] 2008. xiii, 281 pp.

In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology. In honor of Harold Crane Fleming

Edited by John D. Bengtson

Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of… read more

[Not in series, 145] 2008. xxiv, 476 pp.

Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism: Re-examining the Age Factor

Silvina Montrul

Age effects have played a particularly prominent role in some theoretical perspectives on second language acquisition. This book takes an entirely new perspective on this issue by re-examining these theories in light of the existence of apparently similar non-native outcomes in adult heritage… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 39] 2008. x, 312 pp.

Interaction of Morphology and Syntax: Case studies in Afroasiatic

Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay

The present volume deals with hitherto unexplored issues on the interaction of morphology and syntax. These selected and invited papers mainly concern Cushitic and Chadic languages, the least-described members of the Afroasiatic family. Three papers in the volume explore one or more typological… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 75] 2008. v, 234 pp.

Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses

Edited by Folke Josephson and Ingmar Söhrman

The focus of this volume is the interdependence of diachrony and synchrony in the investigation of syntactic structure. A diverse set of modern and ancient languages is investigated from this perspective, including Hittite, the Classical languages, Old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 103] 2008. viii, 350 pp.

An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Automata

Willem J.M. Levelt

The present text is a re-edition of Volume I of Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics, a three-volume work published in 1974. This volume is an entirely self-contained introduction to the theory of formal grammars and automata, which hasn’t lost any of its relevance. Of course, major… read more

[Not in series, 143] 2008. xi, 139 pp.

Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface

Edited by Robert D. Van Valin Jr.

Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface presents on-going research in Role and Reference Grammar in a number of critical areas of linguistic theory: verb semantics and argument structure, the nature of syntactic categories and syntactic representation, prosody and syntax,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 105] 2008. xxiv, 484 pp.

La raison morphologique: Hommage à la mémoire de Danielle Corbin

Bernard Fradin

Ce recueil se compose de treize articles centrés sur la morphologie ou le lexique. Ses auteurs ont tous entretenu des relations de travail avec Danielle Corbin et la plupart sont des linguistes reconnus en morphologie. Au-delà de la diversité des approches, l’originalité de l’ouvrage tient au fait… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 27] 2008. xiii, 242 pp.

Language Change and Variation in Gibraltar

David Levey

While much has been written about Gibraltar from historical and political perspectives, sociolinguistic aspects have been largely overlooked. This book describes the influences which have shaped the colony’s linguistic development since the British occupation in 1704, and the relationship between… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 23] 2008. xxii, 192 pp.

Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change

Edited by Matti Miestamo, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson

Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume – a thematic selection of papers from the conference Approaches to Complexity in Language, held in Helsinki, August 2005 – is the first collection of articles devoted to the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 94] 2008. xiv, 356 pp.

Language Contact and Contact Languages

Edited by Peter Siemund and Noemi Kintana

This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented newcomers. It has two principal aims: to analyze language contact from different perspectives – notably those of language typology,… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 7] 2008. x, 358 pp.

Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison

Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. González Álvarez

This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings. The first two sections analyze the complex interplay between lexico-grammatical organization and communicative contexts. Part I focuses on structural options in syntax,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 175] 2008. xxii, 364 pp.

The Layered DP: Form and meaning of French indefinites

Tabea Ihsane

This book examines argumental un-NPs and du/des-NPs in French: nominals with the indefinite article and with the so-called ‘partitive article’ respectively. The main aim is to account for the different interpretations of these indefinites and to determine how interpretation and structure are… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 124] 2008. ix, 260 pp.

The Left Periphery: The interaction of syntax, pragmatics and prosody in Czech

Anne Sturgeon

This study of the interaction of syntax, pragmatics, and prosody in left peripheral positions focuses on two left dislocation constructions in Czech, Hanging Topic Left Dislocation and Contrastive Left Dislocation. The structure of the left periphery is delineated through a thorough description and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 129] 2008. xi, 143 pp.

Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages

Edited by K. David Harrison, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer

This volume represents part of an unprecedented and still growing effort to advance, coordinate and disseminate the scientific documentation of endangered languages. As the pace of language extinction increases, linguists and native communities are accelerating their efforts to speak, remember,… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 78] 2008. vi, 375 pp.

Limiting the Iconic: From the metatheoretical foundations to the creative possibilities of iconicity in language

Ludovic De Cuypere

Iconicity has become a popular notion in contemporary linguistic research. This book is the first to present a synthesis of the vast amount of scholarship on linguistic iconicity which has been produced in the previous decades, ranging from iconicity in phonology and morpho-syntax to the role of… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 6] 2008. xiii, 286 pp.

The Limits of Syntactic Variation

Edited by Theresa Biberauer

Against the background of the past half century’s typological and generative work on comparative syntax, this volume brings together 16 papers considering what we have learned and may still be able to learn about the nature and extent of syntactic variation. More specifically, it offers a… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 132] 2008. vii, 521 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2008

General Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 8] 2008. 284 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2008

Edited by Marjo van Koppen and Bert Botma

The 39th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 2nd, 2008. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 91 papers were presented, of which 24 were… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 25] 2008. 190 pp. | open access

Locative Alternation: A lexical-constructional approach

Seizi Iwata

The aim of the present volume is two-fold: to give a coherent account of the locative alternation in English, and to develop a constructional theory that overcomes a number of problems in earlier constructional accounts. The lexical-constructional account proposed here is characterized by two main… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 6] 2008. xiv, 239 pp.

Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction

Edited by Todd Oakley and Anders Hougaard

The cognitive theory of mental spaces and conceptual integration (MSCI) is a twenty-year-old, cross-disciplinary enterprise that presently unfolds in academic circles on many levels of reflection and research. One important area of inquiry where MSCI can be of immediate use is in the pragmatics of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 170] 2008. vi, 262 pp.

Metaphor and Gesture

Edited by Alan Cienki and Cornelia Müller

This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture — a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas… read more

[Gesture Studies, 3] 2008. ix, 306 pp.

Metaphors for Learning: Cross-cultural Perspectives

Edited by Erich A. Berendt

In Contemporary Metaphor Theory (CMT) research has predominantly focused on the English language with few studies of others and even less systematic comparative work. This volume focuses on the discourse domain of LEARNING (formal, technical and informal aspects) and brings together a variety of… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 22] 2008. ix, 249 pp.

Modality, Aspect and Negation in Persian

Azita H. Taleghani

This monograph presents a morpho-syntactic investigation on modality, aspect, and negation by concentrating on Persian, and is designed to contribute to theoretical linguistics and the study of Iranian languages. The analysis is based on the Minimalist program. This research challenges the idea… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 128] 2008. ix, 183 pp.

Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions

Edited by Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss

The main topics pursued in this volume are based on empirical insights derived from Germanic: logical and typological dispositions about aspect-modality links. These are probed in a variety of non-related languages. The logically establishable links are the following: Modal verbs are aspect… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 79] 2008. xxiv, 422 pp.

Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch

Edited by Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli

This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] 2008. x, 364 pp.

Morphology at the Interfaces: Reduplication and Noun Incorporation in Uto-Aztecan

Jason D. Haugen

This monograph addresses morphology and its interfaces with phonology and syntax by examining comparative data from the Uto-Aztecan language family, and analyses involving reduplication as well as noun incorporation and related derivational morphology are provided within the framework of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 117] 2008. xv, 257 pp.

Naturalness and Iconicity in Language

Edited by Klaas Willems and Ludovic De Cuypere

Iconicity and naturalness remain controversial concepts in recent linguistic research. The present volume aims to scrutinize unresolved issues of iconicity and naturalness in language. The studies discuss topics such as naturalism in the philosophy of language and the epistemology of linguistics,… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 7] 2008. ix, 249 pp.

New-Dialect Formation in Canada: Evidence from the English modal auxiliaries

Stefan Dollinger

This book details the development of eleven modal auxiliaries in late 18th- and 19th-century Canadian English in a framework of new-dialect formation. The study assesses features of the modal auxiliaries, tracing influences to British and American input varieties, parallel developments, or Canadian… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 97] 2008. xxii, 355 pp.

The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance

Edited by Ulrich Detges and Richard Waltereit

Recent years have seen intense debates between formal (generative) and functional linguists, particularly with respect to the relation between grammar and usage. This debate is directly relevant to diachronic linguistics, where one and the same phenomenon of language change can be explained from… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 293] 2008. vi, 252 pp.

The Perfect Time Span: On the present perfect in German, Swedish and English

Björn Rothstein

This book is the first book-length study on the Swedish present perfect. It provides an in-depth exploration of the present perfect in English, German and Swedish. It is claimed that only a discourse-based ExtendedNow-approach fully accounts for the present perfect. The main claim is that the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 125] 2008. xi, 171 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XXI: Provo, Utah, March 2007

Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson

This volume contains a selection of reviewed and revised papers from the twenty-first Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, which was held on March 2–3, 2007, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The papers in this volume deal with a variety of topics in Arabic linguistics with a notable… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 301] 2008. x, 206 pp.

Phonology: A cognitive grammar introduction

Geoffrey S. Nathan

This textbook introduces the reader to the field of phonology, from allophones to faithfulness and exemplars. It assumes no prior knowledge of the field, and includes a brief review chapter on phonetics. It is written within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, but covers a wide range of… read more

[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 3] 2008. x, 171 pp.

Phonology and Second Language Acquisition

Edited by Jette G. Hansen Edwards and Mary L. Zampini

This volume is a collection of 13 chapters, each devoted to a particular issue that is crucial to our understanding of the way learners acquire, learn, and use an L2 sound system. In addition, it spans both theory and application in L2 phonology. The book is divided into three parts, with each… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 36] 2008. vi, 380 pp.

Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective

Edited by Sylviane Granger and Fanny Meunier

Long regarded as a peripheral issue, phraseology is now taking centre stage in a wide range of fields. This recent explosion of interest undoubtedly has a great deal to do with the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated the key role of phraseological expressions in… read more

[Not in series, 139] 2008. xxviii, 422 pp.

Phraseology in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

Edited by Fanny Meunier and Sylviane Granger

This book addresses the key role of phraseology in second language acquisition and instruction. It is divided into three main sections: Extracting and Describing Phraseological Units investigates the role played by native and learner corpora in the extraction and description of multiword units, two… read more

[Not in series, 138] 2008. xi, 259 pp.

Politeness in Mexico and the United States: A contrastive study of the realization and perception of refusals

J. César Félix-Brasdefer

This book explores the issue of politeness phenomena and socially appropriate behavior in two societies, Mexico and the United States, in three different contexts: refusing invitations, requests, and suggestions. In addition to a state-of-the-art review of the speech act of refusals in numerous… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 171] 2008. xiv, 195 pp.

Positioning in Media Dialogue: Negotiating roles in the news interview

Elda Weizman

This book proposes a socio-pragmatic exploration of the discursive practices used to construe and dynamically negotiate positions in news interviews. It starts with a discursive interpretation of ‘positioning’, ‘role’ and ‘challenge’, puts forward the relevance of a distinction between social and… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 3] 2008. xiv, 208 pp.

The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit

Edited by Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer

Robert Brandom’s Making it Explicit (1994) marks a Copernican turn in the philosophy of mind and language, as this collection of critical essays together with Brandom’s enlightening answers convincingly shows. Though faithful to Wittgenstein’s pragmatic turn in spirit, Brandom gives a… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 15] 2008. viii, 237 pp.

Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction

Edited by Gisella Ferraresi and Maria Goldbach

This is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in the field of syntactic reconstruction. It treats a range of topics which are representative of current debates in historical syntax. The novelty and merit of the present book is, the editors believe, that, in contrast to most previous work on… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 302] 2008. xvii, 219 pp.

Productivity: Evidence from Case and Argument Structure in Icelandic

Jóhanna Barðdal

Productivity of argument structure constructions is a new emerging field within cognitive-functional linguistics. The term productivity as used in linguistic research contains at least three subconcepts: ‘extensibility’, ‘regularity’, and ‘generality’. The focus in this study of case and argument… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 8] 2008. xiii, 209 pp.

Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects

Edited by Bjarke Frellesvig and John Whitman

Proto-Japanese is the reconstructed language stage from which all later varieties of Japanese, including Ryukyuan, descend. It has been studied both as an end in itself (as the genetic code of the Japanese language) and as part of endeavors to clarify the genetic affiliation of Japanese. Based on… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 294] 2008. vii, 229 pp.

Request Strategies: A comparative study in Mandarin Chinese and Korean

Yong-Ju Rue and Grace Zhang

This book investigates request strategies in Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and is one of the first attempts to address cross-cultural strategies employed in the speech act of requests in two non-Western languages. The data, drawn from role-plays and naturally recorded conversations, complement each… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 177] 2008. xv, 320 pp.

Respecting Linguistic Diversity in the European Union

Edited by Xabier Arzoz

After the accession of ten new member-states in 2004, the number of official EU languages increased from eleven to twenty. In 2005, the Council of the European Union decided to expand the existing legal framework for Irish and for other languages, such as Basque, Catalan and Galician, which are… read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 2] 2008. viii, 269 pp.

Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives

Edited by María José López-Couso and Elena Seoane

This volume and its companion one Theoretical and empirical issues in grammaticalization offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held in Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. From the rich programme of the conference (over 120… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 76] 2008. x, 355 pp.

Rhetoric in Detail: Discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text

Edited by Barbara Johnstone and Christopher Eisenhart

The eleven studies in this volume illustrate and advance the synthesis of discourse analysis with rhetorical studies. Rhetoric in Detail shows how a variety of techniques from discourse analysis can be useful in studying such concerns as agency, legitimation, controversy, and style, and how… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 31] 2008. viii, 330 pp.

Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates

Edited by Susanne Maria Michaelis

This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual historical circumstances under which the pidgin and creole languages arose. The contributions deal with different areas of language… read more

[Creole Language Library, 33] 2008. xvii, 425 pp.

Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner: Child's play?

Edited by Jenefer Philp, Rhonda Oliver and Alison Mackey

This new volume of work highlights the distinctiveness of child SLA through a collection of different types of empirical research specific to younger learners. Characteristics of children’s cognitive, emotional, and social development distinguish their experiences from those of adult L2 learners,… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 23] 2008. viii, 334 pp.

The Semantics of Generics in Dutch and Related Languages

Albert Oosterhof

This monograph is a comprehensive study of the various ways in which genericity can be expressed in Dutch, dialects of Dutch, and languages related to Dutch. On the basis of empirical (corpus- and questionnaire-based) data, a wide range of topics are discussed which have been addressed in the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 122] 2008. xviii, 286 pp.

The Shared Mind: Perspectives on intersubjectivity

Edited by Jordan Zlatev, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen

The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed “social cognition” through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 12] 2008. xiii, 391 pp.

Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations

Edited by Carolina Plaza-Pust and Esperanza Morales-López

This volume provides a unique cross-disciplinary perspective on the external ecological and internal psycholinguistic factors that determine sign bilingualism, its development and maintenance at the individual and societal levels. Multiple aspects concerning the dynamics of contact situations… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 38] 2008. xvi, 389 pp.

Sign Language Acquisition

Edited by Anne E. Baker and Bencie Woll

How children acquire a sign language and the stages of sign language development are extremely important topics in sign linguistics and deaf education, with studies in this field enabling assessment of an individual child’s communicative skills in comparison to others. In order to do research in… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 14] 2008. xi, 167 pp.

The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis

Edited by John H. Powers and Xiaosui Xiao

When the SARS virus began its spread from southern China around the world in spring 2003, it caught regional and international health officials by surprise. The SARS epidemic itself lasted for only a few months, whereas its treatment, in communicative terms, keeps providing us with important… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 30] 2008. vi, 242 pp.

Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff

Edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Naomi Nagy

This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 24] 2008. ix, 365 pp.

Speech Acts in the History of English

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen

Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did they negotiate them in case of uncertainty? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this volume in innovative case studies… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 176] 2008. viii, 318 pp.

Split Possession: An areal-linguistic study of the alienability correlation and related phenomena in the languages of Europe

Thomas Stolz, Sonja Kettler, Cornelia Stroh and Aina Urdze

This book is a functional-typological study of possession splits in European languages. It shows that genetically and structurally diverse languages such as Icelandic, Welsh, and Maltese display possessive systems which are sensitive to semantically based distinctions reminiscent of the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 101] 2008. x, 546 pp.

St Helenian English: Origins, evolution and variation

Daniel Schreier

This volume provides the first-ever sociolinguistic analysis of English on the island of St Helena, the oldest variety of English in the Southern Hemisphere. It is based on a concise synchronic profile of the variety (describing its segmental phonology and morphosyntax) and an evaluation of… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G37] 2008. xv, 312 pp.

Studies in French Applied Linguistics

Edited by Dalila Ayoun

Studies in French Applied Linguistics invites the reader to adopt a broad perspective on applied linguistics, illustrating the fascinating multifaceted work researchers are conducted in so many various, inter-connected subfields. The five chapters of the first part are dedicated to the first and… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 21] 2008. xiii, 400 pp.

Style Shifting in Japanese

Edited by Kimberly Jones and Tsuyoshi Ono

This innovative and interdisciplinary book on style shifting in Japanese brings together a wide range of perspectives and methodologies—including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and functional linguistics—to look at a variety of types of style shifting in both spoken… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 180] 2008. vii, 335 pp.

Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages

Edited by Edward J. Vajda

Across North Asia, complex sentence formation patterns display an unusually high prevalence of suffixed relational morphemes used to convey subordination. Suffixal subordinators occur in a variety of genetic groupings, most notably Samoyedic, Turkic, and Tungusic, but also in some of the region’s… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 300] 2008. xii, 218 pp.

The Syntactic Nature of Inner Aspect: A minimalist perspective

Jonathan E. MacDonald

This book explores the syntactic nature of inner aspect from a minimalist perspective. It begins with the new observation that there are two independent properties at play in English inner aspect: the object-to-event mapping and event structure. From a discussion of English statives and Russian, it… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 133] 2008. xv, 241 pp.

Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P

Edited by Anna Asbury, Jakub Dotlačil, Berit Gehrke and Rick Nouwen

The category P belongs to a less studied area in theoretical linguistics, which has only recently attracted considerable attention. This volume brings together pioneering work on adpositions in spatial relations from different theoretical and cross-linguistic perspectives. The common theme in these… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 120] 2008. vi, 416 pp.

The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives: External arguments in change-of-state contexts

Florian Schäfer

This book develops an approach to the causative alternation that assumes syntactic event decomposition and a configurational theta theory. It is couched within the framework of the Minimalist Program and, especially, within Distributed Morphology. Central to the work is the syntax and semantics of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 126] 2008. xi, 324 pp.

The Syntax of Jamaican Creole: A cartographic perspective

Stephanie Durrleman

This book offers an in-depth study of the overall syntax of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole, the first since Bailey (1966). The author, a Jamaican linguist, meticulously examines distributional and interpretative properties of functional morphology in Jamaican Creole (JC) from a cartographic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 127] 2008. xii, 190 pp.

Taboo in Advertising

Elsa Simões Lucas Freitas

Taboos are much more than just a synonym of ‘forbidden’. Proof of the concept’s complexity can be found in the way ads often try to hide the taboo inherent to their products or, conversely, in the way certain taboo readings are foregrounded on purpose in other ads. This volume shows why and how… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 179] 2008. xix, 214 pp.

Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect

Edited by Susan Rothstein

The papers in this volume investigate the semantics of aspect from both a theoretical and a crosslinguistic point of view, in a wide range of languages from a number of different language families. The papers are all informed by the belief that a thorough exposure to the expression of aspect… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 110] 2008. viii, 453 pp.

Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization

Edited by Elena Seoane and María José López-Couso

This volume and its companion oneRethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held at the University of Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. The overall aim of the book is to enrich our… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 77] 2008. x, 367 pp.

Unique Focus: Languages without multiple wh-questions

Marina Stoyanova

This monograph focuses on an interesting typological property shared by four languages: the ungrammaticality of multiple wh-questions in Irish, Berber, Italian and Somali. It contains a broad discussion of data related to the grammar of wh-questions, a comparative analysis of wh-constructions in… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 123] 2008. xi, 184 pp.

Unity and Diversity of Languages

Edited by Piet van Sterkenburg

The Permanent International Committee of Linguists (Comité International Permanent des Linguistes, CIPL) has organized the 18th Congress of Linguists in Seoul (July 21-26, 2008), in close collaboration with the Linguistic Society of Korea. In this book one finds the invited talks which address hot… read more

[Not in series, 141] 2008. xii, 232 pp.

Universal Index of Biographical Names in the Language Sciences

E.F.K. Koerner †

This alphabetical listing of more than 15,000 authors and their life-dates aims to be “universal” in the sense that it covers, as far as possible for the work of a single individual, all linguistic traditions from the earliest beginnings of reflection about the nature of language to the present.… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 113] 2008. xvi, 286 pp.

Variational Pragmatics: A focus on regional varieties in pluricentric languages

Edited by Klaus P. Schneider and Anne Barron

This collection of papers is designed to establish variational pragmatics. This new field is situated at the interface of pragmatics and dialectology and aims at systematically investigating the effect of macro-social pragmatic variation on language in action. As such, it challenges the widespread… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 178] 2008. vii, 371 pp.

Verbal Prepositions and Argument Structure: Path, place and possession in Norwegian

Mai Ellin Tungseth

This book investigates different types of verb-PP combinations and examines the types of meanings which arise when the argument structure of the PP fuses with the verbal argument structure. Focussing mainly on data from Norwegian, the book investigates three different empirical domains of PP-VP… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 121] 2008. ix, 187 pp.

What We Remember: The construction of memory in military discourse

Mariana Achugar

This interdisciplinary monograph explores the discursive manifestations of the conflict over how to remember and interpret the actions of the military during the last dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-1985). Through the exploration of the discursive ways in which this powerful group represents past… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 29] 2008. x, 246 pp.

The discourse of news management

Edited by Geert Jacobs and Henk Pander Maat

Special issue of Pragmatics 18:1 (2008) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Silence in Intercultural Communication
:
Perceptions and performance

Ikuko Nakane

How and why is silence used interculturally? Approaching the phenomenon of silence from multiple perspectives, this book shows how silence is used, perceived and at times misinterpreted in intercultural communication. Using a model of key aspects of silence in communication – linguistic, cognitive… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 166] 2007. xii, 240 pp.

The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Ineta Savickienė and Wolfgang U. Dressler

This cross-linguistic volume innovates research of the acquisition of diminutives in the inflecting-fusional languages Lithuanian, Russian, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch, the agglutinating languages Turkish, Hungarian and Finnish and in the introflecting Hebrew. These… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 43] 2007. vi, 352 pp.

Adverb Licensing and Clause Structure in English

Dagmar Haumann

This monograph provides an in-depth investigation of the structural integration and the licensing of adverbs in relation to clause structure, with special emphasis on the structural implementation of the relation between the position and interpretation of adverbs. The book substantiates the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 105] 2007. ix, 435 pp.

Anaphors in Text: Cognitive, formal and applied approaches to anaphoric reference

Edited by Monika Schwarz-Friesel, Manfred Consten and Mareile Knees

This volume contains a careful selection of papers concerned with actual research questions on anaphoric reference, a subject of current interest with various linguistic subdisciplines. This is reflected in this book as it methodically covers broadly invested approaches from cognitive,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 86] 2007. xvi, 282 pp.

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 5

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

[Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 5] 2007. iv, 334 pp.

Application-Driven Terminology Engineering

Edited by Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Anne Condamines and Teresa Cabré

A common framework under which the various studies on terminology processing can be viewed is to consider not only the texts from which the terminological resources are built but particularly the applications targeted. The current book, first published as a Special Issue of Terminology 11:1 (2005),… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 2] 2007. vii, 203 pp.

Applicatives: Structure and interpretation from a minimalist perspective

Youngmi Jeong

Applicatives is concerned with the syntax of constructions that contain arguments that transcend the traditional subject-object characterization, and how the syntax of such constructions yields the interpretive effects that previous research has identified. At the empirical level this volume… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 104] 2007. vii, 144 pp.

Argument Structure

Edited by Eric J. Reuland, Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Giorgos Spathas

Recent developments in the generative tradition have created new interest in matters of argument structure and argument projection, giving prominence to the discussion on the role of lexical entries. Particularly, the more traditional lexicalist view that encodes argument structure information on… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 108] 2007. xviii, 243 pp.

Aspects of Meaning Construction

Edited by Günter Radden, Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Thomas Berg and Peter Siemund

Meaning does not reside in linguistic units but is constructed in the minds of the language users. Meaning construction is an on-line mental activity whereby speech participants create meanings on the basis of underspecified linguistic units. The construction of meaning is guided by cognitive… read more

[Not in series, 136] 2007. x, 289 pp.

Beiträge zur Morphologie: Germanisch, Baltisch, Ostseefinnisch

Herausgegeben von Hans Fix

Der vorliegende Band, der auf ein interdisziplinäres Symposion Morphologische Probleme in den Sprachen der Ostseeanrainer im September 2005 am Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald zurückgeht, enthält Beiträge von Norbert Endres (Greifswald), Frank Heidermanns (Köln), Arend Quak (Amsterdam),… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 23] 2007. viii, 484 pp.

Beyond Coherence: The syntax of opacity in German

Vera Lee-Schoenfeld

The overarching theme of this volume is one of the central concerns of syntactic theory: How local is syntax, and what are the measures of syntactic locality? It is argued here that movement and anaphoric relations are governed by a unified concept of locality: the phase. On an empirical level,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 114] 2007. viii, 206 pp.

The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition

Edited by Michel Aurnague, Maya Hickmann † and Laure Vieu

Despite a growing interest for space in language, most research has focused on spatial markers specifying the static or dynamic relationships among entities (verbs, prepositions, postpositions, case markings…). Little attention has been paid to the very properties of spatial entities, their status… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 20] 2007. viii, 371 pp.

Child Second Language Acquisition: A bi-directional study of English and Italian tense-aspect morphology

Sonia Rocca

As one of the first books in child second language acquisition (SLA), this book focuses on the core area of tense-aspect morphology, reporting on three L1-Italian children learning L2 English vs. three L1-English children learning L2 Italian. An innovative longitudinal/bidirectional research… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 35] 2007. xvi, 240 pp.

Cognitive English Grammar

Günter Radden and René Dirven †

Cognitive English Grammar is designed to be used as a textbook in courses of English and general linguistics. It introduces the reader to cognitive linguistic theory and shows that Cognitive Grammar helps us to gain a better understanding of the grammar of English. The notions of motivation and… read more

[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 2] 2007. xiv, 374 pp.

Cognitive Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition

Edited by Itiel E. Dror

Technology has long been a helpful aid in human cognitive activities. With its growing sophistication and usage, technology is now taking a more intrinsic and active role in human cognition. The shift from an external aid to being an internal component of cognitive processing reflects a revolution… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 12] 2007. xii, 186 pp.

Conceptual Structure in Lexical Items: The lexicalisation of communication concepts in English, German and Dutch

Kristel Proost

This volume deals with the occurrence of lexical gaps in the domain of linguistic action verbs. Though these constitute a considerable proportion of the verb inventory of many languages, not all concepts of verbal communication may be expressed by lexical items in any particular one of them.… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 168] 2007. xii, 304 pp.

Connectives as Discourse Landmarks

Edited by Agnès Celle and Ruth Huart

This set of eleven articles, by linguists from four different European countries and a variety of theoretical backgrounds, takes a new look at the discourse functions of a number of English connectives, from simple coordinators (and, but) to phrases of varying complexity (after all, the fact is… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 161] 2007. viii, 212 pp.

Connectives in the History of English

Edited by Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin

Clausal connection is one of the key building blocks of language and thus a field where a wide range of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and cognitive phenomena meet. The availability of large databases as well as considerable advances in corpus-linguistic methods have strengthened the interest in… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 283] 2007. viii, 318 pp.

Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse

Edited by Jochen Rehbein, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch

In this collection of carefully selected papers connectivity is looked at from the vantage points of language contact, language change, language acquisition, multilingual communication and related domains based on various European and Non-European languages. From typological and multilingual… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 5] 2007. viii, 465 pp.

Constraints on Spelling Changes

Edited by Guido Nottbusch and Eliane Segers

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 10:2 (2007) 162 pp.

Context and Appropriateness: Micro meets macro

Edited by Anita Fetzer

This book departs from the premise that context and appropriateness represent complex relational configurations which can no longer be conceived as analytic primes but rather require the accommodation of micro and macro perspectives to capture their inherent dynamism. The edited volume presents a… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 162] 2007. vi, 265 pp.

The Copy Theory of Movement

Edited by Norbert Corver and Jairo Nunes

This volume brings together papers which address issues regarding the copy theory of movement. According to this theory, a trace is a copy of the moved element that is deleted in the phonological component but is available for interpretation at L(ogical) F(orm). Thus far, the bulk of the research… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 107] 2007. vi, 388 pp.

Coreference, Modality, and Focus: Studies on the syntax–semantics interface

Edited by Luis Eguren and Olga Fernández-Soriano

This volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVIth Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. All the papers deal with current issues within the generative framework, mostly paying attention to phenomena pertaining to the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 111] 2007. xii, 239 pp.

Corpus-Based Perspectives in Linguistics

Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Toshihiro Takagaki, Nobuo Tomimori and Yoichiro Tsuruga

UBLI has conducted field surveys since 2002 and built spoken language corpora for French, Spanish, Italian (Salentino dialect), Russian, Malaysian, Turkish, Japanese, and Canadian multilinguals. This volume features new research presented at the UBLI second workshop on Corpus Linguistics – Research… read more

[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 6] 2007. vi, 442 pp.

Creativity and Convention: The pragmatics of everyday figurative speech

Rosa E. Vega Moreno

This book offers a pragmatic account of the interpretation of everyday metaphorical and idiomatic expressions. Using the framework of Relevance Theory, it reanalyses the results of recent experimental research on figurative utterances and provides a novel account of the interplay of creativity and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 156] 2007. xii, 249 pp.

Culture, Contexts, and Communication in Multicultural Australia and New Zealand: An Introduction

Edited by Yunxia Zhu and Herbert Hildebrandt

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 17:1 (2007) 176 pp.

Deconstructing Creole

Edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim

Deconstructing Creole is a collection of studies aimed at critically assessing the idea of creole languages as a homogeneous structural type with shared and peculiar patterns of genesis. Following up on the critical discussion of notions of ‘creole exceptionalism’ as historical and ideological… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 73] 2007. xii, 292 pp.

Dialogue and Culture

Edited by Marion Grein and Edda Weigand

The volume deals with the relationship between language, dialogue, human nature and culture by focusing on an approach that considers culture to be a crucial component of dialogic interaction. Part I refers to the so-called ‘language instinct debate’ between nativists and empiricists and introduces… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 1] 2007. xii, 262 pp.

The Discourse of Europe: Talk and text in everyday life

Edited by Sharon Millar and John Wilson

In this volume we approach the question of what it is to be European by considering the way in which citizens talk about their everyday lives, as they are perceived against the background of Europe and European issues. Hence, the volume will offer insights into the rarely glimpsed micro political… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 26] 2007. viii, 200 pp.

Discourse on the Move: Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure

Douglas Biber, Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton

Discourse on the Move is the first book-length exploration of how corpus-based methods can be used for discourse analysis, applied to the description of discourse organization. The primary goal is to bring these two analytical perspectives together: undertaking a detailed discourse analysis of each… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 28] 2007. xii, 289 pp.

Ditransitivity

Edited by Anna Siewierska and Willem B. Hollmann

Special issue of Functions of Language 14:1 (2007) vi, 173 pp.

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 7 (2007)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Ayşe Gürel, Sibel Tatar and Leyla Martı

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 7] 2007. iv, 207 pp.

Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective

Edited by Paolo Ramat and Elisa Roma

This volume is a collection of 12 papers which originated from a research project on ‘Europe and the Mediterranean from a linguistic point of view: history and prospects’. The papers deal with specific morphosyntactic aspects of language structure and evolution. The comparative perspective is… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 88] 2007. xxvi, 364 pp.

Experiential Constructions in Yucatec Maya: A typologically based analysis of a functional domain in a Mayan language

Elisabeth Verhoeven

This book combines a fieldwork-based language-specific analysis with a typological investigation. It offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the form and semantics of experiencer constructions in Yucatec, the Mayan language of the Yucatecan peninsula in Mexico. Since the linguistic… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 87] 2007. xiv, 380 pp.

Expressing the Same by the Different: The subjunctive vs the indicative in French

Igor Dreer

This volume offers an alternative, sign-oriented analysis of the distribution of the French Indicative and Subjunctive. It rejects both government and functions, attributed to both moods, and shows that the distribution of the Indicative and the Subjunctive is motivated by their invariant meanings.… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 59] 2007. xxx, 272 pp.

Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage: A methodological analysis of theory and research

Gerard J. Steen

Cognitive linguists have proposed that metaphor is not just a matter of language but of thought, and that metaphorical thought displays a high degree of conventionalization. In order to produce converging evidence for this theory of metaphor, a wide range of data is currently being studied with a… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 10] 2007. xvi, 430 pp.

French Applied Linguistics

Edited by Dalila Ayoun

This state-of-the-art volume on French Applied Linguistics includes two introductory chapters, the first summarizes the past, present and future of French in applied linguistics, and the second reviews the history of French from a sociolinguistic perspective. The six chapters of the first part… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 16] 2007. xvi, 560 pp.

Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing

Edited by Christopher S. Butler, Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López

This book, a tribute to Angela Downing, consists of twenty papers taking a broadly functional perspective on language, with topics ranging from the general (grammar as an evolutionary product, text comprehension, integrative linguistics) to particular aspects of the grammars of languages… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 85] 2007. xxx, 481 pp.

Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill

Edited by Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy

Each of the 21 chapters in this volume reflects a view of language as a dynamic phenomenon with emergent structure, and in each, gesture is approached as part of language, not an adjunct to it. In this, all of the authors have been influenced by David McNeill's methods for studying natural… read more

[Gesture Studies, 1] 2007. vi, 328 pp.

Grammar in Use across Time and Space: Deconstructing the Japanese ‘dative subject’ construction

Misumi Sadler

This monograph contains the first systematic investigation of the Japanese ‘dative subject’ construction across time and space. It demonstrates that, in order to capture what speakers/writers know about how to put an utterance or a clause together, it is necessary to pay attention to what they do… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 20] 2007. xiv, 212 pp.

The Grammar–Pragmatics Interface: Essays in honor of Jeanette K. Gundel

Edited by Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski

This collection of papers celebrates the work of Jeanette K. Gundel, who has contributed to the field of the grammar-pragmatics interface through her publications on the syntactic realization of topic and comment and the cognitive status of referring expressions, as well as by inspiring colleagues… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 155] 2007. viii, 345 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2007 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 11] 2007. vi, 315 pp. (incl. binder)

Historical Changes in Japanese: Subjectivity and intersubjectivity

Edited by Noriko O. Onodera and Ryoko Suzuki

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8:2 (2007) 176 pp.

Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005

Edited by Joseph C. Salmons and Shannon Dubenion-Smith

This volume contains 22 revised papers originally presented at the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held August 2005 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The papers cover a broad range of languages, including well-studied languages of Europe but also Aramaic, Zoque and Uto-Aztecan,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 284] 2007. viii, 413 pp.

History of Linguistics 2002: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, 27-30 August 2002, São Paulo - Campinas

Edited by Eduardo Guimarães and Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros

This volume brings together a selection of revised papers, originally presented at ICHoLS IX (São Paulo/Campinas). The papers in the first section deal with studies ranging from the Latin model in post-Renaissance grammars to new scientific propositions at the turn of the 19th century; the second… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 110] 2007. x, 242 pp.

History of Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1–5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Edited by Douglas A. Kibbee

As each period in the history of the language sciences has chosen to focus on different key questions, the study of that history promises to open our eyes to the variety of interesting questions that can be asked, and answered – taking off the blinders of contemporary preoccupations. September 1–5,… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 112] 2007. x, 451 pp.

Identifying sentences in signed languages

Edited by Onno A. Crasborn

Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 10:2 (2007) 140 pp.

Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies in honour of Frits Beukema

Edited by Wim van der Wurff

This volume contains ten articles exploring a wide range of issues in the analysis of the imperative clause from a generative perspective. The language data investigated in detail in the articles come from Dutch, English, German, (old) Scandinavian, Spanish, and South Slavic; there is further… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 103] 2007. viii, 352 pp.

Information Structuring Resources in Contrast

Edited by Bergljot Behrens, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 7:2 (2007) vi, 190 pp.

Insistent Images

Edited by Elżbieta Tabakowska, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer

Insistent Images presents a number of new departures dealing with iconicity on the conceptual and the structural levels. On the level of structure, the interface between different aspects of iconicity, lexical meaning and grammar is discussed in reference to both spoken and signed languages. Novel… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 5] 2007. xiii, 361 pp.

Irregularities in Modern English: Second edition revised by Erik Hansen

Hans Frede Nielsen † and Erik W. Hansen

This book, which appeared first in a Danish version in 1980 and subsequently in an English translation in 1986, reverses the history of the English language: it takes present-day English ‘irregularities’ in grammar and spelling as its point of departure, providing historical explanations only to… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 2] 2007. xii, 382 pp.

La négation dans les langues romanes

Sous la direction de Franck Floricic

Negation has always been and still is a central topic in typological studies and theoretical research. Its centrality shows itself in the fact that it is not restricted to a given linguistic field but compasses the whole domain of linguistic studies. Very often, works on negation are brought about… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 26] 2007. xii, 229 pp

Language Attrition: Theoretical perspectives

Edited by Barbara Köpke, Monika S. Schmid, Merel Keijzer and Susan Dostert

This collection of articles provides theoretical foundations and perspectives for language attrition research. Its purpose is to enable investigations of L1 attrition to avail themselves more fully and more fundamentally of the theoretical frameworks that have been formulated with respect to SLA… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 33] 2007. vii, 258 pp.

Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley

Edited by Jeff Siegel, John Lynch and Diana Eades

This volume in memory of Terry Crowley covers a wide range of languages: Australian, Oceanic, Pidgins and Creoles, and varieties of English. Part I, Linguistic Description and Typology, includes chapters on topics such as complex predicates and verb serialization, noun incorporation, possessive… read more

[Creole Language Library, 30] 2007. xv, 514 pp.

Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In honor of James Emil Flege

Edited by Ocke-Schwen Bohn and Murray J. Munro

This stimulating collection of articles from leading international researchers provides a state-of-the-art overview of core issues in second language speech perception and production. Aimed at phoneticians, speech scientists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, and pedagogical specialists, it… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 17] 2007. xvii, 406 pp.

Language as Action

Edited by Maurice Nevile and Johanna Rendle-Short

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30:3 (2007) 108 pp. | open access

The Language of Business Studies Lectures: A corpus-assisted analysis

Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

New opportunities in the global workplace have heightened interest in business studies. In response to this trend, this book presents an in-depth analysis of a corpus of authentic business studies lectures, focusing on spoken, academic, disciplinary and professional features (e.g., speech rate,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 157] 2007. xvi, 236 pp.

The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective

Edited by Mengistu Amberber

This book offers, for the first time, a detailed comparative study of how speakers of different languages express memory concepts. While there is a robust body of psycholinguistic research that bears on how memory and language are related, there is no comparative study of how speakers themselves… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 21] 2007. xii, 284 pp.

The Language of Pain: Expression or description?

Chryssoula Lascaratou

How is the universal, yet private and subjective, experience of pain talked about by different people in everyday encounters? What does the analysis of pain-related lexico-phraseological choices, grammatical structures, and linguistic metaphors reveal as to how pain is perceived and experienced?… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 9] 2007. xii, 238 pp.

Letter Writing

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen

The contributions in this book discuss letter-writing from 1400 to 1800, and the material studied ranges from the late medieval Paston Letters and the correspondence between Sweden and the German Hanse to Early Modern English family letters and correspondence in natural history between England and… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 1] 2007. viii, 160 pp.

Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts

Edited by Judith Munat

The coining of novel lexical items and the creative manipulation of existing words and expressions is heavily dependent on contextual factors, including the semantic, stylistic, textual and social environments in which they occur. The twelve specialists contributing to this collection aim to… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 58] 2007. xvi, 294 pp.

Linguistic Creativity in Japanese Discourse: Exploring the multiplicity of self, perspective, and voice

Senko K. Maynard

Using theoretical concepts of self, perspective, and voice as an interpretive guide, and based on the Place of Negotiation theory, this volume explores the phenomenon of linguistic creativity in Japanese discourse, i.e., the use of language in specific ways for foregrounding personalized expressive… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 159] 2007. xvi, 356 pp.

Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages: Essays in honour of K. A. Jayaseelan

Edited by Josef Bayer, Tanmoy Bhattacharya and M.T. Hany Babu

The South Asian languages, mainly Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, have become a focus of interest in the formal study of language as a natural consequence of the research program of the Principle and Parameters approach and an enforced interest in exploring the parametrical space of human language. The… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 102] 2007. x, 282 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2007

General Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 7] 2007. 268 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007

Edited by Bettelou Los and Marjo van Koppen

The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 3rd, 2007. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 99 papers were presented, of which 39 were… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 24] 2007. viii, 247 pp. | open access

Locality and Information Structure: A cartographic approach to Japanese

Yoshio Endo

This monograph presents a systematic exploration of Japanese syntax within the cartographic approach, paying special attention to the locality effects induced by discourse-based features such as topic and focus. Although the main focus is on Japanese syntax, implications of the analyses developed… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 116] 2007. x, 235 pp.

Mechanicism and Autonomy: What Can Robotics Teach Us About Human Cognition and Action?

Edited by Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez, Willem F.G. Haselager and Itiel E. Dror

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 15:3 (2007) 224 pp.

Memory, Psychology and Second Language Learning

Mick Randall

This book explores the contributions that cognitive linguistics and psychology, including neuropsychology, have made to the understanding of the way that second languages are processed and learnt. It examines areas of phonology, word recognition and semantics, examining ‘bottom-up’ decoding… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 19] 2007. x, 220 pp.

Mental States: Volume 1: Evolution, function, nature

Edited by Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos

Collecting the work of linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, archaeologists, artificial intelligence researchers and philosophers this volume presents a richly varied picture of the nature and function of mental states. Starting from questions about the cognitive capacities of the early… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 92] 2007. xii, 304 pp.

Mental States: Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure

Edited by Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos

The contributions to this volume focus on what language and language use reveals about cognitive structure and underlying cognitive categories. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays from linguists and psychologists within this volume investigate the insights conceptual categorization can give… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 93] 2007. x, 362 pp.

Metapragmatics in Use

Edited by Wolfram Bublitz and Axel Hübler

This collection of papers fills a gap in current research on both metapragmatics and pragmatics in that it combines data-based pragmatic analysis with metapragmatic theory and focuses on the ways in which metadiscourse is actually used. The 12 contributions investigate speech acts and verbal (as… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 165] 2007. viii, 301 pp.

Methods in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Irene Mittelberg †, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey

Methods in Cognitive Linguistics is an introduction to empirical methodology for language researchers. Intended as a handbook to exploring the empirical dimension of the theoretical questions raised by Cognitive Linguistics, the volume presents guidelines for employing methods from a variety of… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 18] 2007. xxviii, 452 pp.

Missionary Linguistics III / Lingüística misionera III: Morphology and Syntax. Selected papers from the Third and Fourth International Conferences on Missionary Linguistics, Hong Kong/Macau, 12–15 March 2005, Valladolid, 8–11 March 2006

Edited by Otto Zwartjes, Gregory James and Emilio Ridruejo

This third volume on Missionary Linguistics focuses on morphology and syntax. It contains a selection of papers derived from the international conferences on missionary linguistics held in Hong Kong/Macau and Valladolid. As with the previous two volumes (2004, on general issues, and 2005, on… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 111] 2007. vi, 357 pp.

Motion, Transfer and Transformation: The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal

Loretta O’Connor

Typologies are critical tools for linguists, but typologies, like grammars, are known to leak. This book addresses the question of typological overlap from the perspective of a single language. In Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, a language of southern Mexico, change events are expressed with three types… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 95] 2007. xiv, 251 pp.

Named Entities: Recognition, classification and use

Edited by Satoshi Sekine and Elisabete Ranchhod

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 30:1 (2007) vi; 163 pp.

Narrative – State of the Art

Edited by Michael Bamberg

Narrative – State of the Art which was originally published as a Special Issue of Narrative Inquiry 16:1 (2006) is edited by Michael Bamberg and contains 24 chapters (with a brief introduction by the editor) that look back and take stock of developments in narrative theorizing and empirical work… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 6] 2007. vi, 271 pp.

Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form: Scrambling in the Germanic languages

Gema Chocano

‘Scrambling’, the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic ‘Object Shift’. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 109] 2007. x, 333 pp.

Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence

Edited by Elisabeth Stark, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham

The following theoretical-empirical points on the DP are discussed: Article and its referential-anaphoric properties by Abraham (Determiners in Centering Theory); Bartra (On bare NPs in Old Spanish and Catalan); identification of all functional nominal categories by Stvan (Bare singular count… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 89] 2007. viii, 370 pp.

The Nonverbal Shift in Early Modern English Conversation

Axel Hübler

This is the first historical investigation on the nonverbal component of conversation. In the courtly society of 16th and 17th century England, it is argued that a drift appeared toward an increased use of prosodic means of expression at the expense of gestural means. Direct evidence is provided by… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 154] 2007. x, 281 pp.

Norse-derived Vocabulary in late Old English Texts: Wulfstan's works, a case story

Sara M. Pons-Sanz

This book focuses on the Norse-derived vocabulary in the works of Archbishop Wulfstan II of York (d. 1023). A considerable advantage derives from studying Wulfstan's compositions because, unlike most Old English texts, they are closely dateable and, to a certain extent, localizable. Thus, they… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 22] 2007. xviii, 318 pp.

Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach

Edited by Marlyse Baptista and Jacqueline Guéron

This volume offers a thorough examination of the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse properties of noun phrases in a wide variety of creole (and non-creole) languages including Cape Verdean Creole, Santome, Papiamentu, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Mindanao Chabacano, Réunionnais Creole, Lesser… read more

[Creole Language Library, 31] 2007. x, 494 pp.

On Information Structure, Meaning and Form: Generalizations across languages

Edited by Kerstin Schwabe and Susanne Winkler

This collection of articles offers a new and compelling perspective on the interface connecting syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatics. At the core of this volume is the hypothesis that information structure represents the common interface of these grammatical components. Information structure… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 100] 2007. vii, 570 pp.

Parentheticals

Edited by Nicole Dehé and Yordanka Kavalova

This volume offers a unique collection of articles investigating the often neglected phenomenon of parentheticals, which are commonly seen as expressions interrupting the linear structure of a host utterance, but lacking a structural relation to it. The book provides an up-to-date introduction to… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 106] 2007. xii, 314 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XIX: Urbana, Illinois, April 2005

Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun

This volume offers a selection from the papers presented at the 2005 Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The papers cover a variety of topics in Arabic Linguistics, ranging from the lexicon, phonology, syntax and computational linguistics.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 289] 2007. xiv, 304 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XX: Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 2006

Edited by Mustafa A. Mughazy

This volume includes twelve papers selected from the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held in 2006 at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. The papers in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues pertaining to Arabic, particularly in the areas of phonology,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 290] 2007. xii, 247 pp.

Perspectives on Grammar Writing

Edited by Thomas E. Payne and David J. Weber

With over half the languages of the world currently in danger of extinction within a century, the need for high quality grammatical descriptions is more urgent than ever. Potential grammar writers, however, often find themselves paralyzed by the daunting task of describing a language. The papers in… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 11] 2007. viii, 218 pp.

Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation. In honor of Joseph E. Emonds

Edited by Simin Karimi, Vida Samiian and Wendy K. Wilkins

The present collection includes papers that address a wide range of syntactic phenomena. In some, the authors discuss such major syntactic properties as clausal architecture, syntactic labels and derivation, and the nature of features and their role with respect to movement, agreement, and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 101] 2007. vi, 424 pp.

Play Frames and Social Identities: Contact encounters in a Greek primary school

Vally Lytra

This book is a sociolinguistic study of children’s talk and how they interact with one another and their teachers in multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic schools. It is based on tape recordings and ethnographic observations of majority Greek and minority Turkish-speaking children at an… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 163] 2007. xii, 300 pp.

Power and Narrative

Edited by Lisa Lau and Shari Daya

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 17:1 (2007) vii, 158 pp.

A Pragmatic Analysis of Legal Proofs of Criminal Intent

Sol Azuelos-Atias

A Pragmatic Analysis of Legal Proofs of Criminal Intent is a detailed investigation of proofs of criminal intent in Israeli courtrooms. The book analyses linguistic, pragmatic, interpretative and argumentative strategies used by Israeli lawyers and judges in order to examine the defendant’s… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 25] 2007. x, 180 pp.

Prototypical Transitivity

Åshild Næss

This book presents a functional analysis of a notion which has gained considerable importance in cognitive and functional linguistics over the last couple of decades, namely 'prototypical transitivity'. It discusses what prototypical transitivity is, why it should exist, and how it should be… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 72] 2007. x, 240 pp.

Psychological Benchmarks of Human–Robot Interaction

Edited by Peter H. Kahn, Jr. and Karl F. MacDorman

Special issue of Interaction Studies 8:3 (2007) 166 pp.

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing IV: Selected papers from RANLP 2005

Edited by Nicolas Nicolov, Kalina Bontcheva, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov

This volume brings together selected and revised papers from the international conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing”, held in Borovets, Bulgaria, in September 2005. The best papers have been selected for this volume with the aim to reflect the most promising and significant… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 292] 2007. xii, 307 pp.

Receptive Multilingualism: Linguistic analyses, language policies and didactic concepts

Edited by Jan D. ten Thije and Ludger Zeevaert

Receptive multilingualism refers to the language constellation in which interlocutors use their respective mother tongue while speaking to each other. Since the mid-nineties receptive multilingualism is promoted by the European commission on par with other possibilities of increasing the mobility… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 6] 2007. x, 328 pp.

Reciprocal Constructions

Edited by Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

This monograph constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of reciprocal constructions and related phenomena in the world’s languages. Reciprocal constructions (of the type The two boys hit each other, The poets admire each other’s poems) have often been the subject of language-particular… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 71] 2007. xxiii, 2219 pp. (5 vols.)

Reduced Parenthetical Clauses as Mitigators: A corpus study of spoken French, Italian and Spanish

Stefan Schneider

While parentheticals attract constant attention, they very rarely constitute the main subject of monographs. This book provides a comprehensive account of reduced parenthetical clauses (RPCs) in three Romance languages. Typical French RPCs are je crois, disons, je dirais, je pense, je sais pas, and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 27] 2007. xiv, 237 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Utrecht, 8–10 December 2005

Edited by Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen and Manuela Pinto

The conference series Going Romance is the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages, where ideas about language and linguistics and about Romance languages are put in an interactive perspective, giving space to both universality and Romance-internal… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 291] 2007. viii, 338 pp.

Romance Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the 36th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New Brunswick, March-April 2006

Edited by José Camacho, Nydia Flores-Ferrán, Liliana Sánchez, Viviane Déprez and María José Cabrera

This volume presents selected papers from the 36th LSRL conference held at Rutgers University in 2006. It contains twenty-two articles of current approaches to the study of Romance linguistics. Well-known researchers present their findings in areas such as of syntax and semantics, phonology,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 287] 2007. viii, 340 pp.

Saami Linguistics

Edited by Ida Toivonen and Diane Nelson

The papers in this volume describe and analyze an array of intriguing linguistic phenomena as they occur in the Saami languages, ranging from etymological nativization of loanwords to the formation of deadjectival and denominal verbs. Saami displays a number of characteristics that are unusual from… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 288] 2007. viii, 321 pp.

Scrambling and the Survive Principle

Michael T. Putnam

Languages with free word orders pose daunting challenges to linguistic theory because they raise questions about the nature of grammatical strings. Ross, who coined the term Scrambling to refer to the relatively ‘free’ word orders found in Germanic languages (among others) notes that “… the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 115] 2007. x, 216 pp.

Seeing through Multilingual Corpora: On the use of corpora in contrastive studies

Stig Johansson

Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has led to a renewal of contrastive studies. We gain new insight into similarities and differences between languages, at the same time as the… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 26] 2007. xxii, 355 pp.

Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology

Edited by Pilar Prieto, Joan Mascaró and Maria-Josep Solé

This volume is a collection of cutting-edge research papers written by well-known researchers in the field of Romance phonetics and phonology. An important goal of this book is to bridge the gap between traditional Romance linguistics — with its long and rich tradition in data collection,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 282] 2007. xvi, 262 pp.

Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning–Text Theory: In honour of Igor Mel'čuk

Edited by Leo Wanner

The Meaning Text Theory (MTT) is a lexicon-centred and dependency-based theory for the description of language using a holistic model that incorporates semantics, syntax, morphology and lexis. This volume, prepared on the occasion of Igor Mel'čuk’s 70th birthday, offers a cross-section of the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 84] 2007. xviii, 377 pp.

Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse

Edited by Michael Bamberg, Anna De Fina and Deborah Schiffrin

The different traditions that have inspired the contributors to this volume can be divided along three different orientations, one that is rooted predominantly in sociolinguistics, a second that is ethnomethodologically informed, and a third that came in the wake of narrative interview research.… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 9] 2007. x, 355 pp.

Selves in Two Languages: Bilinguals’ verbal enactments of identity in French and Portuguese

Michèle Koven

Bilinguals often report that they feel like a different person in their two languages. In the words of one bilingual in Koven’s book, “When I speak Portuguese, automatically, I'm in a different world…it's a different color.” Although testimonials like this abound in everyday conversation among… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 34] 2007. xi, 327 pp.

Simultaneity in Signed Languages: Form and function

Edited by Myriam Vermeerbergen, Lorraine Leeson and Onno A. Crasborn

Signed language users can draw on a range of articulators when expressing linguistic messages, including the hands, torso, eye gaze, and mouth. Sometimes these articulators work in tandem to produce one lexical item while in other instances they operate to convey different types of information… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 281] 2007. viii, 360 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

The Soft Power of War

Edited by Lilie Chouliaraki

This book, which was originally published as a Special Issue of Journal of Language & Politics 4:1 (2005), takes the war in Iraq as an exemplary case through which to demonstrate the changing nature of contemporary power. The book convincingly argues that the effective study of international… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 3] 2007. x, 148 pp.

Spanish in Contact: Policy, Social and Linguistic Inquiries

Edited by Kim Potowski and Richard Cameron

This volume, covering a range of topics such as Spanish as a heritage language in the United States, policy issues, pragmatics and language contact, sociolinguistic variation and contact, and Bozal (Creole) Spanish, will serve the interests of linguists, educators, and policy makers alike. It… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 22] 2007. xx, 397 pp.

Speaking of Colors and Odors

Edited by Martina Plümacher and Peter Holz

How to speak of colors and odors? In many cases, we have to think about an adequate description of a perceived odor or shade of color. Words are not fluently available.The contributions discuss color and odor perception and its linguistic representation from different disciplinary angles: from… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 8] 2007. vi, 244 pp.

Split Auxiliary Systems: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Raúl Aranovich

The alternation between the auxiliaries BE and HAVE, which this collection examines, is often discussed in connection with generative analyses of split intransitivity. But this book's purpose is to place the phenomenon in a broader context. Well-known facts in the Romance and Germanic language… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 69] 2007. vii, 277 pp.

Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction

Edited by Robert Englebretson

This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of research on stance by offering a variety of studies based in natural discourse. These collected papers explore the situated, pragmatic, and interactional character of stancetaking, and present new models and conceptions of stance to spark future… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 164] 2007. viii, 323 pp.

Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar: In honour of Lachlan Mackenzie

Edited by Mike Hannay and Gerard J. Steen

This collection presents a number of studies in the lexico-grammar of English which focus on the one hand on close reading of language in context and on the other hand on current functional theoretical concerns. The various contributions represent distinct functionalist models of language,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 83] 2007. vi, 393 pp.

Studies on Old High German Syntax: Left sentence periphery, verb placement and verb-second

Katrin Axel-Tober

This monograph is the first book-length study on Old High German syntax from a generative perspective in twenty years. It provides an in-depth exploration of the Old High German pre-verb-second grammar by answering the following questions: To what extent did generalized verb movement exist in Old… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 112] 2007. xii, 364 pp.

Substrate Influence in Creole Formation

Edited by Bettina Migge and Norval Smith

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:1 (2007) 200 pp.

Symbol Grounding

Edited by Tony Belpaeme, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman

Special issue of Interaction Studies 8:1 (2007) 180 pp.

Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages

Edited by Magnus Huber and Viveka Velupillai

This collection of selected conference papers from three SPCL meetings brings together a cross-fertilization of approaches to the study of contact languages. The articles are grouped into three coherent sections dealing with, respectively, phonetics and phonology, including Optimality Theory;… read more

[Creole Language Library, 32] 2007. xii, 370 pp.

Talking about Motion: A crosslinguistic investigation of lexicalization patterns

Luna Filipović

This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English, with contrasting examples from Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Albanian. Talmy’s typology (1985) provides the backdrop for the analysis and the focus is on intratypological differences that… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 91] 2007. x, 182 pp.

Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography

Edited by Wolfgang Teubert

The contributions in this volume (first published as a Special Issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6 (2001)) evolved from the EU-funded project Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure (TELRI) and deal with various aspects of multilingual corpus linguistics. The topics… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 8] 2007. x, 162 pp.

Turn continuation in cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Tsuyoshi Ono

Special issue of Pragmatics 17:4 (2007) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Washing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology

Andrew Goatly

Contemporary metaphor theory has recently begun to address the relation between metaphor, culture and ideology. In this wide-ranging book, Andrew Goatly, using lexical data from his database Metalude, investigates how conceptual metaphor themes construct our thinking and social behaviour in fields… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 23] 2007. xvii, 431 pp.

What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness

Edited by Martina Penke and Anette Rosenbach

What counts as evidence in linguistics? This question is addressed by the contributions to the present volume (originally published as a Special Issue of Studies in Language 28:3 (2004). Focusing on the innateness debate, what is illustrated is how formal and functional approaches to linguistics… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 7] 2007. x, 297 pp.

Words, grammar, text: revisiting the work of John Sinclair

Edited by Rosamund Moon

Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:2 (2007) 156 pp.

A closer look at cultural difference: 'Interculturality' in talk-in-interaction

Edited by Christina Higgins

Special issue of Pragmatics 17:1 (2007) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Academic Voices: Across languages and disciplines

Kjersti Fløttum, Trine Dahl and Torodd Kinn

This book explores how the voices of authors and other researchers are manifested in academic discourse, and how the author handles the polyphonic interaction between these various parties. It represents a unique study of academic discourse in that it takes a doubly contrastive approach, focusing… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 148] 2006. x, 309 pp.

The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages

Edited by Vincent Torrens and Linda Escobar

This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory. They favour, discuss and sometimes challenge traditional explanations of first… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 41] 2006. viii, 422 pp.

Address from a World Perspective

Edited by Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, Catrin Norrby and Jane Warren

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 29:2 (2006) 126 pp. | open access

Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins

Edited by Joseph Davis, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern

This collection carries the functionalist Columbia School of linguistics forward with contributions on linguistic theory, semiotics, phonology, grammar, lexicon, and anthropology. Columbia School linguistics views language as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its communicative… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 57] 2006. x, 344 pp.

Advice Online: Advice-giving in an American Internet health column

Miriam A. Locher

Advice Online presents a comprehensive study of advice-giving in one particular American Internet advice column, referred to as ‘Lucy Answers’. The discursive practice investigated is part of a professional and educational health program managed by an American university. The study provides… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 149] 2006. xvi, 277 pp.

Agency and Impersonality: Their Linguistic and Cultural Manifestations

Mutsumi Yamamoto

In this monograph the author probes the fundamental nature of the concept of agency and its importance to human language and cognition. Whereas previous studies focused on grammatical manifestations this original work addresses such issues as the strong relationship between agency and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 78] 2006. x, 152 pp.

Agreement Systems

Edited by Cedric Boeckx

Agreement plays a central role in modern generative grammar. The present collection brings together contributions from experts on various aspects of agreement systems in the world’s languages in an attempt to formulate formal and substantive universals in this domain. All the papers contained here… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 92] 2006. ix, 346 pp.

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 4

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

[Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 4] 2006. iv, 288 pp.

Asian Business Discourse(s) Part II

Edited by Francesca Bargiela

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:1 (2006) 164 pp.

Case, Valency and Transitivity

Edited by Leonid Kulikov, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart

The three concepts of case, valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 77] 2006. xx, 503 pp.

The Chinese Rime Tables: Linguistic philosophy and historical-comparative phonology

Edited by David Prager Branner

This book, the first in its field in a Western language, examines China’s native phonological tool with regard to reconstruction, theory, and linguistic philosophy.After an introductory essay on the nature of the tables and the history of their interpretation, the book concentrates on three areas:… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 271] 2006. viii, 358 pp.

Codeswitching on the Web: English and Jamaican Creole in e-mail communication

Lars Hinrichs

Based on a corpus of private email from Jamaican university students, this study explores the discourse functions of Jamaican Creole in computer-mediated communication. From this participant-centered perspective, it contributes to the longstanding theoretical debates in creole studies about the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 147] 2006. x, 302 pp.

Cognitive Linguistics Investigations: Across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries

Edited by June Luchjenbroers

The total body of papers presented in this volume captures research across a variety of languages and language groups, to show how particular elements of linguistic description draw on otherwise separate aspects (or fields) of linguistic investigation. As such, this volume captures a diversity of… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 15] 2006. xiii, 334 pp.

Collaborating towards Coherence: Lexical cohesion in English discourse

Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen

This book approaches cohesion and coherence from a perspective of interaction and collaboration. After a detailed account of various models of cohesion and coherence, the book suggests that it is fruitful to regard cohesion as contributing to coherence, as a strategy used by communicators to help… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 146] 2006. ix, 192 pp.

Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax: From Afrikaans to Zurich German

Edited by Jutta M. Hartmann and László Molnárfi

This selection of papers presented at the 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop brings together contributions that address issues in syntactic predication and studies in the nominal system, as well as papers on data from the history of English and German. Showing a strong comparative… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 97] 2006. vi, 332 pp.

Competing Models of Linguistic Change: Evolution and beyond

Edited by Ole Nedergaard Thomsen

The articles of this volume are centered around two competing views on language change originally presented at the 2003 International Conference on Historical Linguistics in the two important plenary papers by Henning Andersen and William Croft. The latter proposes an evolutionary model of language… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 279] 2006. vi, 344 pp.

Creative Compounding in English: The Semantics of Metaphorical and Metonymical Noun-Noun Combinations

Réka Benczes

Metaphorical and metonymical compounds – novel and lexicalised ones alike – are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an expression such as land fishing in order to speak about metal detecting, the referent will be immediately understood even if the hearer had not… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 19] 2006. xvi, 206 pp.

Critical Linguistic Perspectives on Coping with Traumatic Pasts: Case studies

Edited by Christine Anthonissen and Jan Blommaert †

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 5:1 (2006) 162 pp.

Datives and Other Cases: Between argument structure and event structure

Edited by Daniel Hole, André Meinunger and Werner Abraham

This volume provides a state-of-the-art account of research into datives and other morphological cases. The contributors, among them leading scholars in the field, present fresh insights into traditional issues such as the dichotomy between lexical and structural case, and open up fascinating new… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 75] 2006. viii, 385 pp.

Deixis and Alignment: Inverse systems in indigenous languages of the Americas

Fernando Zúñiga

This book proposes a notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered). This third stance put forward here takes both grammar and pragmatic functions into… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 70] 2006. xii, 309 pp.

Demoting the Agent: Passive, middle and other voice phenomena

Edited by Benjamin Lyngfelt and Torgrim Solstad

Passives, middles, and other voice phenomena are issues at the core of modern linguistic research. This volume brings together different perspectives on voice different theoretical viewpoints, different languages, and different kinds of voice phenomena. The eleven articles each make a valuable… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 96] 2006. x, 333 pp.

Deriving Coordinate Symmetries: A phase-based approach integrating Select, Merge, Copy and Match

John R. te Velde

This monograph proposes a minimalist, phase-based approach to the derivation of coordinate structures, utilizing the operations Copy and Match to account for both the symmetries and asymmetries of coordination. Data are drawn primarily from English, German and Dutch. The basic assumptions are that… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 89] 2006. x, 385 pp.

Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn

Edited by Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward

One of the most lively and contentious issues in contemporary linguistic theory concerns the elusive boundary between semantics and pragmatics, and Professor Laurence R. Horn of Yale University has been at the center of that debate ever since his groundbreaking 1972 UCLA dissertation. This volume… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 80] 2006. xii, 350 pp.

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 6 (2006)

Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, Marta Medved Krajnovic and Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 6] 2006. iv, 261 pp.

Emotive Communication in Japanese

Edited by Satoko Suzuki

It has become well recognized that affective dimensions of language constitute an integral part of the linguistic system. Japanese provides a prime example of the significance of emotivity as it has grammaticalized a wide variety of expressions to communicate affective information. The collected… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 151] 2006. x, 234 pp.

English with a Latin Beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish–English Interphonology

Edited by Barbara O. Baptista and Michael Alan Watkins

Although it has long been recognized that second language pronunciation is strongly influenced by the native language, second language phonology has only become a recognized area of study during the last thirty years. While English has been the most frequent target language involved, the learners'… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 31] 2006. vi, 214 pp.

Epigenetic robotics

Edited by Giorgio Metta and Luc Berthouze

Special issue of Interaction Studies 7:2 (2006) iv, 169 pp.

Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion

Edited by Tope Omoniyi and Joshua A. Fishman †

The Sociology of Language and Religion (SLR) is still in its infancy as a sub-discipline in the macrosociolinguistic tradition. It is therefore no coincidence that the editorial collaboration to produce its first definitive text Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion has involved… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 20] 2006. viii, 347 pp.

Features of Naturalness in Conversation

Martin Warren

The study describes a detailed and original piece of research work, investigating a very important genre of human communication, and that is conversation. It provides a definition of the genre of conversation by describing nine features of conversation, namely multiple sources, discourse coherence,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 152] 2006. x, 272 pp.

From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages

John Hewson and Vit Bubenik

In the historical development of many languages of the IE phylum the loss of inflectional morphology led to the development of a configurational syntax, where syntactic position marked syntactic role. The first of these configurations was the adposition (preposition or postposition), which… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 280] 2006. xxx, 419 pp.

Goals for Academic Writing: ESL students and their instructors

Edited by Alister Cumming

This book documents the results of a multi-year project that investigated the goals for writing improvement among 45 students and their instructors in intensive courses of English as a Second Language (ESL) then, a year later, in academic programs at two Canadian universities. The researchers… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 15] 2006. xii, 204 pp.

Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, space and person in Finnish

Edited by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Lyle Campbell

The papers of this volume investigate how grammar codes the subjective viewpoint of human language users, that is, how grammar reflects human conceptualization. Some of the articles deal with spatial relations and locations. They discuss how basic attributes of human conceptualization are encoded… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 277] 2006. x, 280 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 10] 2006. vi, 500 pp.

Heritage Language Development: Focus on East Asian Immigrants

Edited by Kimi Kondo-Brown

This collection of studies investigates the individual, micro-psychological, and macro-societal factors that promote or discourage the development of child and young adult heritage language learners’ spoken and written skills in East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). The research… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 32] 2006. x, 282 pp.

Hindi

Yamuna Kachru

This book presents the structure of Hindi keeping in view the sociolinguistic context of language use. It includes descriptions of sounds, devices of word formation, rules of phrase and sentence construction and conventions of language use in spoken and written texts incorporating the insights… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 12] 2006. xxi, 309 pp.

Historical Courtroom Discourse

Edited by Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 7:2 (2006) 160 pp.

Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and perspectives

Edited by Randall Gess and Deborah Arteaga

This volume contains 17 studies on historical Romance linguistics within a variety of current theoretical frameworks; it includes studies on phonology, morphology and syntax, focusing solely or comparatively on all five ‘major’ Romance languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish.… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 274] 2006. viii, 393 pp.

A History of the English Language

Elly van Gelderen

THIS INFORMATION REFERS TO AN OLD EDITION. This exceptionally clear text focuses on internal changes in the English language. It outlines the history of English from pre-Old English times to the present. Not only does it present the traditional morphological descriptions of the various stages of… read more

[Not in series, 135] 2006. xviii, 334 pp.

History, Society and Variation: In honor of Albert Valdman

Edited by J. Clancy Clements, Thomas A. Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen and Kevin J. Rottet

This volume presents a collection of new articles by sixteen specialists in the field of pidgin and creole studies, assembled in honor of the world-renowned creolist, Albert Valdman. The articles, written from a variety of theoretical perspectives, are organized thematically in three sections: on… read more

[Creole Language Library, 28] 2006. vi, 304 pp.

Idiomatic Creativity: A cognitive-linguistic model of idiom-representation and idiom-variation in English

Andreas Langlotz

This book revisits the theoretical and psycholinguistic controversies centred around the intriguing nature of idioms and proposes a more systematic cognitive-linguistic model of their grammatical status and use. Whenever speakers vary idioms in actual discourse, they open a linguistic window into… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 17] 2006. xi, 325 pp.

Individuals in Time: Tense, aspect and the individual/stage distinction

María J. Arche

This monograph investigates the temporal properties of those predicates referring to individuals – the so-called individual-level (IL) predicates – in contrast to those known as stage-level (SL) predicates. Many of the traditional tenets attributed to the IL/SL dichotomy are not solidly founded,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 94] 2006. xiv, 281 pp.

Inference and Generalizability in Applied Linguistics: Multiple perspectives

Edited by Micheline Chalhoub-Deville, Carol A. Chapelle and Patricia A. Duff

Concepts such as dependability/generalization and inferences are dealt with implicitly or explicitly in any research undertaken in applied linguistics. This volume provides a well-balanced and cross-disciplinary perspective on how researchers conceptualize inferences about learner acquisition and… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 12] 2006. vi, 248 pp.

Information and Document Design: Varieties on Recent Research

Edited by Saul Carliner, Jan Piet Verckens and Cathy de Waele

Recent research in information and document design explores research by presenting reports of actual research studies in information and document design. It specifically reports on ten studies in the areas of marketing communication (part one), functional communication (part two) and online… read more

[Document Design Companion Series, 7] 2006. xi, 252 pp.

Inquiries in Linguistic Development: In honor of Lydia White

Edited by Roumyana Slabakova, Silvina Montrul and Philippe Prévost

The focus of this collection is on important themes in L2 acquisition, the nature of grammatical systems developed by language learners in L1 acquisition, third language acquisition, and bilingualism and language attrition. The chapters present an interesting mix of theoretical contributions,… read more

[Not in series, 133] 2006. vi, 363 pp.

Interfaces in Multilingualism: Acquisition and representation

Edited by Conxita Lleó

Modeling of linguistic knowledge generally involves the compartmentalization of grammar into phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic components. These components are not isolated but interacting components. It is the resulting interfaces between grammatical… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 4] 2006. xiv, 284 pp.

Interfaces with English Aspect: Diachronic and empirical studies

Debra Ziegeler

The field of verbal aspect has been a focus for the derivation of a multiplicity of theoretical approaches ranging over decades of linguistic research. From the point of view of recent studies, though, there has been relatively little emphasis on the nature of the interaction of aspect with other… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 82] 2006. xvi, 325 pp.

Investigating Understudied Sign Languages - Croatian SL and Austrian SL, with comparison to American SL

Edited by Ronnie B. Wilbur

Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 9:1/2 (2006) v, 256 pp.

L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues

Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan

In this volume, second language (L2) acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles (Siegel). The first group of papers… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 42] 2006. viii, 433 pp.

Language Planning and Varieties of (Modern Standard) Chinese

Edited by Minglang Zhou

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:2 (2006) 208 pp.

Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at ‘Heartland’ English

Edited by Thomas E. Murray and Beth Lee Simon

This volume explores the linguistic complexities and critical issues of the Midland dialect area of the USA, and contains a unique data-based set of investigations of the Midlands dialect. The authors demonstrate that the large central part of the United States known colloquially as the Heartland,… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G36] 2006. xii, 320 pp.

Language Variation – European Perspectives: Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005

Edited by Frans Hinskens

This volume presents 16 original studies of variation in languages representing the three main European language families, as well as in varieties of Greek and Hungarian. The studies concern variation in or across dialects or dialect groups, in standard varieties or in emerging regional varieties… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 1] 2006. vi, 279 pp.

Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East: A historical study

John Myhill

This book discusses the historical record of the idea that language is associated with national identity, demonstrating that different applications of this idea have consistently produced certain types of results. Nationalist movements aimed at ‘unification’, based upon languages which vary greatly… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 21] 2006. ix, 300 pp.

Languages of the Internet

Edited by Claudio Menezes

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 5:2 (2006) 151 pp.

Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics

Edited by John Flowerdew and Michaela Mahlberg

Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11:3 (2006) 128 pp.

Linear Unit Grammar: Integrating speech and writing

John McH. Sinclair and Anna Mauranen

People have a natural propensity to understand language text as a succession of smallish chunks, whether they are reading, writing, speaking or listening. Linguists have found that this propensity can shed light on the nature and structure of language, and there are many studies which attempt to… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 25] 2006. xxii, 185 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2006

Edited by Pierre Pica

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 6] 2006. iv, 274 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006

Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer and Bettelou Los

The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 4th, 2006. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 89 papers were presented, of which 34… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 23] 2006. viii, 248 pp. | open access

Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English

Annelie Ädel

The pervasive phenomenon of metadiscourse – commentary on the ongoing discourse – is beginning to take its rightful place among the major topics of discourse studies. This book makes simultaneous contributions to the theory of metadiscourse, corpus-based methods of studying such phenomena, and our… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 24] 2006. x, 243 pp.

Minimalist Essays

Edited by Cedric Boeckx

The Minimalism Program is many things to many researchers, and there are by now many alternative versions of it. Central to all is the fundamental question: to what extent is the human language faculty an optimal solution to minimal design specifications. Taken as a whole, the volume outlines the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 91] 2006. xvi, 399 pp.

The Minimalist Syntax of Defective Domains: Gerunds and infinitives

Acrisio Pires

This book unifies the analysis of certain non-finite domains, focusing on subject licensing, agreement, and Case and control. It proposes a minimalist analysis of English gerunds which allows only a null subject PRO (TP-defective gerunds), a lexical subject (gerunds as complements of perception… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 98] 2006. xiv, 188 pp.

Narrative – State of the Art

Edited by Michael Bamberg

This special issue Narrative – State of the Art is edited by Michael Bamberg and contains 24 articles that look back and take stock of developments in narrative theorizing and empirical work with narratives. The attempt has been made to bring together researchers from different disciplines, with… read more

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 16:1 (2006) 236 pp

New Approaches to the Study of Later Modern English

Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 33:1/2 (2006) 272

New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005

Edited by Chiyo Nishida and Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil

This is the first of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote address delivered by Denis Bouchard on exaptation and linguistic explanation, as well as seventeen contributions by… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 275] 2006. xiv, 282 pp.

New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics; Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology. 2 Vols. set. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005

Edited by Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil and Chiyo Nishida

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 275-276] 2006. 525 pp.

New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005

Edited by Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil

This is the second of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote addresses delivered by Prof. Jacques Durand on the Phonology of Contemporary French Project and Prof. John Charles Smith… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 276] 2006. x, 213 pp.

Non-definiteness and Plurality

Edited by Svetlana Vogeleer and Liliane Tasmowski

This collection of studies by leading scholars in the field focuses on the semantics of non-definite (bare and indefinite) plural NPs. The contributions in the first part concentrate on bare plurals and their cross-linguistic counterparts. They discuss applicability of the notion of ‘semantic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 95] 2006. vi, 358 pp.

Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology

Edited by Fernando Martínez-Gil and Sonia Colina

This outstanding volume offers the first comprehensive collection of optimality-theoretic studies in Spanish phonology. Bringing together most of the best-known researchers in the field, it presents a state-of-the-art overview of research in Spanish phonology within the non-derivational framework… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 99] 2006. viii, 564 pp.

Ordre des mots et topologie de la phrase française

Sous la direction de Kim Gerdes et Claude Muller

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 29:1 (2006) 199 pp.

Passivization and Typology: Form and function

Edited by Werner Abraham and Larisa Leisiö

Is the passive a unified universal phenomenon? The claim derived from this volume is that the passive, if not universal, has become unified according to function. Language as a means of communication needs the passive, or passive-like constructions, and sooner or later develops them based on other… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 68] 2006. x, 553 pp.

Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz

Edited by Sharon Unsworth, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten

The main focus of generative language development research in recent decades has been the logical problem of language acquisition - how learners go beyond the input to acquire complex linguistic knowledge. This collection deals with the complementary issue of the developmental problem of language… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 39] 2006. viii, 222 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVI: , Cambridge, March 2002

Edited by Sami Boudelaa

The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held in Cambridge, UK, in 2002. They deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in varieties of Arabic. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 266] 2006. xii, 181 pp.

Perspectives on Grammar Writing

Edited by Thomas E. Payne and David J. Weber

Special issue of Studies in Language 30:2 (2006) iv, 227 pp.

Point of View in Plays: A cognitive stylistic approach to viewpoint in drama and other text-types

Dan McIntyre

This is the first book-length study of how point of view is manifested linguistically in dramatic texts. It examines such issues as how readers process the shifts in viewpoint that can occur within such texts. Using insights from cognitive linguistics, the book aims to explain how the analysis of… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 3] 2006. xii, 203 pp.

Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and culture & Volume II. Psychological aspects (set)

Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Christian Kay and Nicola Pitchford

These two volumes offer a fascinating glimpse into the current avenues of research into colour. The majority of the papers originated in a 2004 conference held in Glasgow, U.K.; some additional invited papers are included. The contributions to both books represent reviews of state-of-the-art colour… read more

[Not in series, PICS S] 2006. xii, 223 pp. & xiv, 237 pp.

Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and culture

Edited by Carole P. Biggam and Christian Kay

Along with its companion volume, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the current avenues of research into colour, a phenomenon which daily affects all our lives in often surprising ways. The majority of the papers originated in a 2004 conference entitled ‘Progress in Colour Studies’ which… read more

[Not in series, PICS 1] 2006. xii, 223 pp.

Prosody and Syntax: Cross-linguistic perspectives

Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Ivan Fónagy and Tsunekazu Moriguchi

This collection of papers is the third volume of the series “Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics” (UBLI), a product of the 21st Century COE Program of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). Prosody, as used in this text, appears in units larger than segments and generally refers to the… read more

[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 3] 2006. v, 383 pp.

Readings in Second Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition: In Japanese Context

Edited by Asako Yoshitomi, Tae Umino and Masashi Negishi

The selected contributions of this volume focus on various issues related to second language pedagogy and second language acquisition in the Japanese context. Part I covers such topics as discourse pragmatics and cross-cultural pragmatics in language teaching; the instruction of conversation… read more

[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 4] 2006. vi, 274 pp.

Request Sequences: The intersection of grammar, interaction and social context

Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm

This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of instances of requests in everyday German conversation. Using the framework of CA, the study systematically analyzes the grammatical and syntactical structure of the request-turn and its response and of the conversational exchanges before and… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 19] 2006. x, 125 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Leiden, 9–11 December 2004

Edited by Jenny Doetjes and Paz González

This volume brings together a selection of papers from the eighteenth ‘Going Romance’ symposium, held at Leiden University, 9–11 December 2004. These papers cover a broad range of topics in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, and acquisition, in a variety of Romance… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 278] 2006. viii, 320 pp.

Script Adjustment and Phonological Awareness

Edited by Martin Neef and Guido Nottbusch

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 9:1 (2006) 181 pp.

Second Language Interaction

Salla Kurhila

Members of divergent societies are increasingly involved in interactional situations, both publicly and privately, where participants do not share linguistic resources. Second language conversations have become common everyday events in the globalized world, and an interest has evolved to determine… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 145] 2006. vii, 257 pp.

Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages

Edited by Bert Peeters

This volume is part of a research program which started with the publication, in 1972, of Anna Wierzbicka’s groundbreaking work on Semantic Primitives. The first within the program to focus on a number of typologically similar languages, it proposes a French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian version… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 81] 2006. xvi, 374 pp.

Space in Languages: Linguistic Systems and Cognitive Categories

Edited by Maya Hickmann † and Stéphane Robert

Space is presently the focus of much research and debate across disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy. One strong feature of this collection is to bring together theoretical and empirical contributions from these varied scientific traditions, with the… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 66] 2006. x, 361 pp.

Spoken Language Corpus and Linguistic Informatics

Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Susumu Zaima and Toshihiro Takagaki

Linguistic Informatics is a research field named by the Center of Excellence (COE) Program: Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics (UBLI), which aims to systematically integrate studies in computer science, linguistics, and language education. The first part of this volume contains three lectures on… read more

[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 5] 2006. vi, 434 pp.

Structural Propensities: Translating nominal word groups from English into German

Monika Doherty

This book focuses on the translation of English academic texts into German, closely analysing the structural and discourse properties of original sentences and their possible translations. It consists of six chapters, with more than a hundred carefully discussed examples, and presents the author’s… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 65] 2006. xxii, 196 pp.

Structure and Variation in Language Contact

Edited by Ana Deumert and Stephanie Durrleman

This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions reflect – from various perspectives and using different types of data – on the interplay between structure and variation in contact… read more

[Creole Language Library, 29] 2006. viii, 376 pp.

Studies in African Linguistic Typology

Edited by F.K. Erhard Voeltz

The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic typology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 64] 2006. xiv, 426 pp.

Studies on Agreement

Edited by João Costa and Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva

The status of agreement is a core issue in current morphological and syntactic theory. The collection of papers in this volume focuses on important issues, such as the nature of the relation between syntax and morphology in determining agreement relations; whether and which syntactic configurations… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 86] 2006. vi, 285 pp.

Suppletion in Verb Paradigms: Bits and pieces of the puzzle

Ljuba N. Veselinova

This book examines stem change in verb paradigms, as in English go 'go.PRESENT' vs. went 'go.PAST', a phenomenon referred to as suppletion in current linguistic theory. The work is based on a broad sample of 193 languages, and examines this long neglected phenomenon from a typological perspective.… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 67] 2006. xviii, 236 pp.

The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary perspectives

Edited by Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles-Suárez and Ellen Barton

This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the volume… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 93] 2006. x, 372 pp

Synthesizing Research on Language Learning and Teaching

Edited by John M. Norris and Lourdes Ortega

This volume presents the first collection of work on research synthesis in applied linguistics. It introduces readers to a cutting-edge approach for reviewing and summarizing exactly what accumulated research has to say about theoretical and practical subjects. John Norris and Lourdes Ortega… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 13] 2006. xiv, 349 pp.

Teacher Education in CALL

Edited by Philip Hubbard and Mike Levy

This volume addresses the need for a more considered and systematic approach to teacher education and training in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), in all its forms: Technology Enhanced Language Learning, Network-Based Language Learning, Information and Communication Technologies for… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 14] 2006. xii, 354 pp.

Textual Patterns: Key words and corpus analysis in language education

Mike Scott and Christopher Tribble

Textual Patterns introduces corpus resources, tools and analytic frameworks of central relevance to language teachers and teacher educators. Specifically it shows how key word analysis, combined with the systematic study of vocabulary and genre, can form the basis for a corpus informed approach to… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 22] 2006. x, 203 pp.

Themes in SLA Research. AILA Review, Volume 19

Edited by Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig and Zoltán Dörnyei

This issue of AILA Review contains the proceedings of a special symposium of the AILA Scientific Commission of Second Language Acquisition at the 2005 AILA Congress in Madison, WI, USA. Seven international experts in the field of SLA – Bardovi-Harlig, Dörnyei, N. Ellis, R. Ellis, Gass, Kasper,… read more

[AILA Review, 19] 2006. 132 pp.

Three-Participant Constructions in English: A functional-cognitive approach to caused relations

An Laffut

This study aims to give a systematic and comprehensive description of the constructions involved in three important types of alternation: the locative alternation, which is by far the most researched of the three, the image impression alternation and the material/product alternation. The author… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 79] 2006. ix, 268 pp.

Topics in Subjectification and Modalization

Edited by Bert Cornillie and Nicole Delbecque

As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.This… read more

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 20] 2006. 208 pp.

Types of Variation: Diachronic, dialectal and typological interfaces

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen

This volume interfaces three fields of linguistics rarely discussed in the same context. Its underlying theme is linguistic variation, and the ways in which historical linguists and dialectologists may learn from insights offered by typology, and vice versa. The aim of the contributions is to raise… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 76] 2006. viii, 378 pp.

University Language: A corpus-based study of spoken and written registers

Douglas Biber

University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations and requirements. While many previous studies have investigated academic writing, we know comparatively little about academic speech; and no linguistic… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 23] 2006. viii, 261 pp.

Variation and Reconstruction

Edited by Thomas D. Cravens

The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected. The articles in the present volume consider this relationship from a number of different angles, with a number of different focuses. Several of the papers discuss evidence… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 268] 2006. viii, 223 pp.

Visual Thought: The depictive space of perception

Edited by Liliana Albertazzi

This volume starts from an interdisciplinary expertise of the contributors, and chooses to work on the very origins of conscious qualitative states in perception. The leading research paradigm can be synthesized in ‘phenomenology to neurons to stimuli, and backwards’, since as a starting point it… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 67] 2006. xii, 380 pp.

Vocative Constructions in the Language of Shakespeare

Beatrix Busse

This study investigates the functions, meanings, and varieties of forms of address in Shakespeare’s dramatic work. New categories of Shakespearean vocatives are developed and the grammar of vocatives is investigated in, above, and below the clause, following morpho-syntactic, semantic,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 150] 2006. xviii, 525 pp.

Voice and Grammatical Relations: In Honor of Masayoshi Shibatani

Edited by Tasaku Tsunoda and Taro Kageyama

This volume presents thirteen original papers dealing with various aspects of two related areas of research of major concern to linguists of all theoretical persuasions: voice and grammatical relations. The papers are written from typological, functional, and cognitive perspectives, and contain a… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 65] 2006. xviii, 342 pp.

Written Reliquaries: The resonance of orality in medieval English texts

Leslie K. Arnovick

Written Reliquaries: The resonance of orality in medieval English texts establishes the linguistic component of orality and oral tradition. The relics it examines are traces of spoken performance, artifacts of linguistic and cultural processes. Seven case studies animate verbal acts of making… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 153] 2006. xii, 292 pp.

‘Kubla Khan’ – Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality and Cognitive Style: A study in mental, vocal and critical performance

Reuven Tsur †

This book endorses Coleridge's statement: "nothing can permanently please which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so". It conceives 'Kubla Khan' as of a hypnotic poem, in which the "obtrusive rhythms" produce a hypnotic, emotionally heightened response, giving false security to the… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 16] 2006. xii, 252 pp.

The Acquisition of Swahili

Kamil Deen

This monograph is the first study of the acquisition of Swahili as a first language. It focuses on the acquisition of inflectional affixes, with a particular emphasis on subject agreement and tense. Other inflectional affixes are also investigated, including object agreement and mood. The study… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 40] 2005. xiv, 241 pp.

Advances in Greek Generative Syntax: In honor of Dimitra Theophanopoulou-Kontou

Edited by Melita Stavrou and Arhonto Terzi

This collection of original research focuses on various lesser studied aspects of Greek syntax. The articles combine a sound empirical coverage within current developments of generative theory and cover a wide spectrum of areas. The syntax of sentential structure is dealt with by two articles, one… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 76] 2005. viii, 366 pp.

Anaphora Processing: Linguistic, cognitive and computational modelling

Edited by António Branco, Tony McEnery and Ruslan Mitkov

Anaphora processing is a central topic in the study of natural language and has long been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines. The correct interpretation of anaphora has also become increasingly important for real-world natural language processing applications, including machine… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 263] 2005. x, 449 pp.

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 3

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

[Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 3] 2005. 360 pp.

Applied Linguistics in Latin America. AILA Review, Volume 18

Edited by Kanavillil Rajagopalan

The focus of AILA Review 18 is on Latin America, a huge land mass stretching over as many as 33 different nations and another 13 political units. Applied linguistics has come of age in Latin America and is currently in a state of great activity. This AILA Review volume is testimony of this… read more

[AILA Review, 18] 2005. 100 pp.

Asian Business Discourse(s) Part I

Edited by Francesca Bargiela

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 15:2 (2005) 121 pp.

Aspects of English Negation

Edited by Yoko Iyeiri

This book contains eleven carefully selected papers, all discussing negative constructions in English. The aim of this volume is to bring together empirical research into the development of English negation and analyses of syntactic variations in Present-day English negation. The first part… read more

[Not in series, 132] 2005. xii, 239 pp.

Athabaskan Prosody

Edited by Sharon Hargus and Keren Rice

This collection of articles on stress and tone in various Athabaskan languages will interest theoretical linguists and historically oriented linguists alike. The volume brings to light new data on the phonetics and/or phonology of prosody (stress, tone, intonation) in various Athabaskan languages,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 269] 2005. xii, 432 pp.

Bare Plurals, Indefinites, and Weak–Strong Distinction

Edited by Svetlana Vogeleer

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 19] 2005. iv, 265 pp.

Beyond Rhetorical Questions: Assertive questions in everyday interaction

Irene Koshik

This book uses Conversation Analysis methodology to analyze rhetorical and other questions that are designed to convey assertions, rather than seek new information. It shows how these question sequences unfold interactionally in naturally-occurring talk in a variety of settings, e.g., friends… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 16] 2005. x, 183 pp.

Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES III): Desde el año 1701 hasta el año 1800

Hans-Josef Niederehe

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the early… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 108] 2005. vi, 474 pp.

Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy

Edited by Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

The Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy (METBIB) is an online bibliography which brings together references to publications on metaphor, metonymy, and other figurative language, starting from 1990. It covers monographs, journal articles, book series, dissertations, theses, proceedings, working… read more

[Online Resources Collection, MetBib] 2005. ca. 10.000 records

Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness

Edited by Robin T. Lakoff and Sachiko Ide

This collection of 19 papers celebrates the coming of age of the field of politeness studies, now in its 30th year. It begins with an investigation of the meaning of politeness, especially linguistic politeness, and presents a short history of the field of linguistic politeness studies, showing how… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 139] 2005. xii, 342 pp.

C-ORAL-ROM: Integrated Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages

Edited by Emanuela Cresti and Massimo Moneglia

The C-ORAL-ROM book and DVD provide a unique set of comparable corpora of spontaneous speech for the main Romance languages, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The corpora are accompanied by comparative linguistic studies, models and standard linguistic measures of spoken language variability. read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 15] 2005. xviii, 304 pp. (incl. DVD)

Calling for Help: Language and social interaction in telephone helplines

Edited by Carolyn Baker, Michael Emmison and Alan Firth

Telephone helplines have become one of the most pervasive sites of expert-lay interaction in modern societies throughout the world. Yet surprisingly little is known of the in situ, language-based processes of help-seeking and help-giving behavior that occurs within them. This collection of original… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 143] 2005. xviii, 352 pp.

Case, Referentiality and Phrase Structure

Balkız Öztürk

This book proposes that the two “independent” conditions on argumenthood, namely, case and referentiality, are strongly correlated and have to be associated with each other in syntax as syntactic features. It shows that languages exhibit variation in the way this association is implemented in their… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 77] 2005. viii, 268 pp.

Clausal Architecture and Subject Positions: Impersonal constructions in the Germanic languages

Sabine Mohr

This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 88] 2005. viii, 207 pp.

Clitic and Affix Combinations: Theoretical perspectives

Edited by Lorie Heggie and Francisco Ordóñez

In this volume, the relationship between clitics and affixes and their combinatorial properties has led to a serious discussion of the interface between syntax, morphology, semantics, and phonology that draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., HPSG , Optimality Theory, Minimalism).… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 74] 2005. viii, 390 pp.

Clusivity: Typology and case studies of the inclusive–exclusive distinction

Edited by Elena Filimonova

This book presents a collection of papers on clusivity, a newly coined term for the inclusive–exclusive distinction. Clusivity is a widespread feature familiar from descriptive grammars and frequently figuring in typological schemes and diachronic scenarios. However, no comprehensive exploration of… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 63] 2005. xii, 436 pp.

Cognitive Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition

Edited by Itiel E. Dror

For more information on the Special Series devoted to Technology & Cognition, please see: Special Issues read more

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 13:3 (2005) 220 pp.

Collocations in a Learner Corpus

Nadja Nesselhauf

Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first time comprehensively investigated. On the basis of a learner corpus, idiosyncratic collocation use by learners is uncovered, the building… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 14] 2005. xii, 331 pp.

Compliments and Compliment Responses: Grammatical structure and sequential organization

Andrea Golato

This book analyzes compliments and compliment responses in naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in German. Using Conversation Analytic methodology, it views complimenting and responding to compliments as social actions which are co-produced and negotiated among interactants. This study is the… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 15] 2005. xi, 248 pp.

Construction Grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Mirjam Fried

The notion ‘construction’ has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general. This volume extends the traditional domain of Construction Grammar (CxG) in several directions, all with a cognitive basis. Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, discourse… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 3] 2005. viii, 325 pp.

Context as Other Minds: The Pragmatics of Sociality, Cognition and Communication

T. Givón

Givon's new book re-casts pragmatics, and most conspicuously the pragmatics of sociality and communication, in neuro-cognitive, bio-adaptive, evolutionary terms. The fact that context, the core notion of pragmatics, is a framing operation undertaken on the fly through judgements of relevance, has… read more

[Not in series, 130] 2005. xvi, 283 pp.

Contrast in Context

Edited by Karin Aijmer, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 5:1 (2005) 184 pp.

Copular Clauses: Specification, predication and equation

Line Mikkelsen

This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 85] 2005. viii, 210 pp.

Corpus-Based Approaches to Sentence Structures

Edited by Toshihiro Takagaki, Susumu Zaima, Yoichiro Tsuruga, Francisco Moreno-Fernández and Yuji Kawaguchi

This is the second volume of the series "Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics", a product of the 21st century COE program held at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). The project has an objective to realize an integration of theoretical and applied linguistics on the basis of computer sciences. read more

[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 2] 2005. vi, 317 pp.

Creole Language in Creole Literatures

Edited by Susanne Mühleisen

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 20:1 (2005) 232 pp.

Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Processability Theory

Edited by Manfred Pienemann

Seven years ago Manfred Pienemann proposed a novel psycholinguistic theory of language development, Processability Theory (PT). This volume examines the typological plausibility of PT. Focusing on the acquisition of Arabic, Chinese and Japanese the authors demonstrate the capacity of PT to make… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 30] 2005. xiv, 303 pp.

Developmental Theory and Language Disorders

Edited by Paul Fletcher and Jon F. Miller

The chapters in this volume arise from presentations at a unique conference on typical and atypical language development held in Madison, USA in 2002. This joint meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, and the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 4] 2005. x, 217 pp.

Dialects Across Borders: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002

Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Marjatta Palander and Esa Penttilä

Nonstandard varieties of languages have recently become an object of new interest in scholarly research. This is very much due to the advances in the methods used in data collection and analysis, as well as the emergence of new language-theoretical frameworks. The articles in this volume stem from… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 273] 2005. xii, 291 pp.

Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English Discourse

Simone Müller

While discourse markers have been examined in some detail, little is known about their usage by non-native speakers. This book provides valuable insights into the functions of four discourse markers (so, well, you know and like) in native and non-native English discourse, adding to both discourse… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 138] 2005. xviii, 290 pp.

Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World

Adrian Blackledge

In Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World the discourse of politicians and policy-makers in Britain links languages other than English, and therefore speakers of these languages, with civil disorder and threats to democracy, citizenship and nationhood. These powerful arguments travel along… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 15] 2005. x, 252 pp.

The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in English

Heidi Quinn

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Modern English pronoun case. The author examines case trends in a wide range of syntactic constructions and concludes that case variation is confined to strong pronoun contexts. Data from a survey of 90 speakers provide new insights into the distributional… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 82] 2005. xii, 409 pp.

Dramatized Discourse: The Mandarin Chinese ba-construction

Zhuo Jing-Schmidt

Language is a symbolic system of meanings evoked by linguistic forms. The choice of forms in communication is non-arbitrary. Rather, speakers pick those forms whose meanings best convey their discourse intention. The meaning of the Mandarin ba-construction, argues Jing-Schmidt, is discourse… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 56] 2005. xxii, 337 pp.

Dublin English: Evolution and change

Raymond Hickey

The present book describes the English language in all its facets as spoken in present-day Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland. It covers the entire range of its history since the first arrival of English there several hundred years ago. Apart from the evolution of English in the… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G35] 2005. x, 270 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

The Dynamics of Language Use: Functional and contrastive perspectives

Edited by Christopher S. Butler, María de los Ángeles Gómez González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez

This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 140] 2005. xvi, 413 pp.

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 5 (2005)

Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, María del Pilar García Mayo and Jasone Cenoz

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 5] 2005. iv, 281 pp.

English General Nouns: A corpus theoretical approach

Michaela Mahlberg

This book proposes an innovative approach to general nouns. General nouns are defined as high-frequency nouns that are characterised by their textual functions. Although the concept is motivated by Halliday & Hasan (1976), the corpus theoretical approach adopted in the present study is… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 20] 2005. x, 206 pp.

Epistemic Modality: Functional properties and the Italian system

Paola Pietrandrea

This volume offers an original theoretical and methodological approach to the hotly debated issue of epistemic modality. The analysis is conducted in a rigorous typological frame developed after a careful consideration of a wealth of cross-linguistic data, and focuses on Italian, a language often… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 74] 2005. xii, 232 pp.

The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Corinne Rossari

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:2 (2005) 179 pp.

Expertise and Explicitation in the Translation Process

Birgitta Englund Dimitrova

This book addresses the complexities of the translation process. Informed by theoretical and methodological advances in translation studies, research on writing and the expertise paradigm, it explores translation as a text reproduction task. With triangulation of data from Russian-Swedish… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 64] 2005. xx, 295 pp.

Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning

Laura Gavioli

This book investigates the effects of corpus work on the process of foreign language learning in ESP settings. It suggests that observing learners at work with corpus data can stimulate discussion and re-thinking of the pedagogical implications of both the theoretical and empirical aspects of… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 21] 2005. xi, 176 pp.

Fossilized Second Language Grammars: The acquisition of grammatical gender

Florencia Franceschina

This monograph is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the mechanisms and causes of successful and unsuccessful adult second language acquisition.Couched within a generative framework, the study explores how a learner’s first language and the age at which they acquire their second… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 38] 2005. xxiv, 288 pp.

From Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154–1776

Hans Frede Nielsen †

From Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154–1776 is the second volume of a set of three offering a comprehensive survey of what by the author is seen as the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and America. read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 21] 2005. xx, 300 pp.

From Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems

Edited by Martin Neef and Beatrice Primus †

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 7:2 (2005) 207 pp.

The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories

Edited by Marcel den Dikken and Christina Tortora

This volume brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the syntax of function words and functional categories in the Germanic languages. The works offered in this volume derive specifically from comparative studies of Germanic; at the same time they all bear directly on… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 78] 2005. vii, 292 pp.

Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates

Edited by Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika

Special issue of Gesture 5:1/2 (2005) 324 pp.

Grammar and Inference in Conversation: Identifying clause structure in spoken Javanese

Michael C. Ewing

This study analyzes how morphosyntactic structures and information flow characteristics are used by interlocutors in producing and understanding clauses in conversational Javanese, focusing on the Cirebon variety of the language. While some clauses display grammatical mechanisms used to code their… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 18] 2005. x, 276 pp.

Grammatical Constructions: Back to the roots

Edited by Mirjam Fried and Hans C. Boas

This volume brings into focus the conceptual roots of the notion ‘grammatical construction’ as the theoretical entity that constitutes the backbone of Construction Grammar, a unique grammatical model in which grammatical constructions have the status of elementary building blocks of human language.… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 4] 2005. viii, 246 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2003–2005 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 9] 2005. 311 pp. (incl. binder)

Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: Phonological papers in honour of John Anderson

Edited by Philip Carr, Jacques Durand and Colin J. Ewen

The papers in this volume focus on notions which are central to the work of John M. Anderson – the founder of Dependency Phonology – and to phonological theory: the idea of structural analogy between phonology and syntax; the head/dependent relation; the idea that phonological representations are… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 259] 2005. xxviii, 405 pp.

Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003

Edited by Michael Fortescue, Eva Skafte Jensen, Jens Erik Mogensen and Lene Schøsler

This volume consists of 19 papers presented at the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which was held in August 2003 in Copenhagen and drew the largest number of participants and the widest array of languages that this important biannual conference has ever had. As with… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 257] 2005. x, 319 pp.

Hungarian Language Contact Outside Hungary: Studies on Hungarian as a minority language

Edited by Anna Fenyvesi

In Communist times, it was impossible to do sociolinguistic work on Hungarian in contact with other languages. In the short period of time since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Hungarian sociolinguists have certainly done their very best to catch up. This volume brings together the fruits of their… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 20] 2005. xxii, 424 pp.

Infinitival Syntax: Infinitivus Pro Participio as a repair strategy

Tanja Schmid

This monograph offers a new analysis of West Germanic ‘Infinitivus Pro Participio’ (IPP) constructions, within the framework of Optimality Theory. IPP constructions have long been problematic for syntactic theory, because a bare infinitive is preferred over the expected past participle. The book… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 79] 2005. xiv, 251 pp.

Language Acquisition

Edited by Anne E. Baker and Bencie Woll

Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 8:1/2 (2005) 222 pp.

Language and Meaning: The structural creation of reality

Christopher Beedham

This book illustrates the structuralist idea that language creates the reality we perceive. The data presented in this volume focus on the problematic issues of the passive construction and irregular (strong) verbs, with examples taken primarily from English with separate subsections on German and… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 55] 2005. xiv, 225 pp.

Language and Social Life: Functional perspectives

Edited by Kristina Love

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 19] 2005. iv, 177 pp.

Language, Communication and the Economy

Edited by Guido Erreygers and Geert Jacobs

This volume brings together a number of wide-ranging, transdisciplinary research articles on the interface between discourse studies and economics. It explores in what way economics can contribute to the analysis of discursive practices in various institutional settings as well as investigating… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 16] 2005. viii, 239 pp.

Les Périphrases Verbales

Sous la direction de Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot et Nicole Le Querler

This comprehensive volume contains twenty-six out of thirty three papers that were presented at the International Conference on "Les Périphrases Verbales". The conference took place at the University of Caen-Basse-Normandie from June 25th to June 28th 2003, and was co-organized by the Crisco umr… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 25] 2005. viii, 521 pp.

Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories

Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Adam Hodges and David S. Rood

From the refinement of general methodology, to new insights of synchronic and diachronic universals, to studies of specific phenomena, this collection demonstrates the crucial role that language data play in the evolution of useful, accurate linguistic theories. Issues addressed include the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 72] 2005. xii, 432 pp.

Linguistic Dimensions of Crisis Talk: Formalising structures in a controlled language

Claudia Sassen

This book offers an HPSG-based discourse grammar for a controlled language (Air Traffic Control) that allows the identification of well-formed discourse patterns. A formalisation of discourse theoretical structures that occur especially in crisis situations that involve potential aviation disasters… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 136] 2005. ix, 230 pp.

Linguistic Informatics – State of the Art and the Future: The first international conference on Linguistic Informatics

Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Susumu Zaima, Toshihiro Takagaki, Kohji Shibano and Mayumi Usami

It is widely believed that linguistic theories and information technology have considerably influenced foreign language education. However, the collaboration of these three domains has not brought about new scientific results. It it thus, our attempt to realize an integration of theoretical and… read more

[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 1] 2005. viii, 363 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2005

Edited by Pierre Pica, Johan Rooryck and Jeroen van Craenenbroeck

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 5] 2005. iv, 308 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2005

Edited by Jenny Doetjes and Jeroen van de Weijer

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, which took place in Utrecht on January 29th, 2005. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 22] 2005. viii, 243 pp. | open access

Literacy Processes and Literacy Development

Edited by Pieter Reitsma and Ludo Verhoeven

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 8:2 (2005) 192 pp.

Machine Translation, Controlled Languages and Specialised Languages

Edited by Sylviane Cardey, Peter Greenfield and Séverine Vienney

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 28:1 (2005) 173 pp.

Making Minds I

Edited by Petra Hauf and Friedrich Försterling

Special issue of Interaction Studies 6:1 (2005) 149 pp.

Making Minds II

Edited by Petra Hauf

Special issue of Interaction Studies 6:3 (2005) 176 pp.

Manipulation and Ideologies in the Twentieth Century: Discourse, language, mind

Edited by Louis de Saussure and Peter J. Schulz

This book is a collection of 12 papers dealing with manipulation and ideology in the 20th century, mostly with reference to political speeches by the leaders of major totalitarian regimes, but also addressing propaganda within contemporary right-wing populism and western ideological rhetoric. This… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 17] 2005. xvi, 312 pp.

Meaning Predictability in Word Formation: Novel, context-free naming units

Pavol Štekauer

This book aims to contribute to a growing interest amongst psycholinguists and morphologists in the mechanisms of meaning predictability. It presents a brand-new model of the meaning-prediction of novel, context-free naming units, relating the wordformation and wordinterpretation processes. Unlike… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 54] 2005. xxii, 288 pp.

Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics

Alice Deignan

Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. This book is addressed at readers from diverse academic backgrounds who are interested in ways of researching metaphor from different… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 6] 2005. x, 236 pp.

Middle English Medical Texts

Compiled by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Martti Mäkinen

Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT) is an electronic corpus including 86 texts and 495,322 words from three traditions of medical writing (surgical treatises, specialized texts, and remedy books) from 1375 to 1500, and an appendix of recipes from c. 1330. MEMT provides a new research resource for… read more

[Not in series, 131] 2005. CD-ROM

Missionary Linguistics II / Lingüística misionera II: Orthography and Phonology. Selected papers from the Second International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, São Paulo, 10–13 March 2004

Edited by Otto Zwartjes and Cristina Altman

This is the second volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic work produced by the religious missionaries who, within the scope of the European colonial enterprises along the period 1550–1850, described dozens of autochthonous languages, many of which are only known today thanks to their… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 109] 2005. vi, 292 pp.

Morphology and its demarcations: Selected papers from the 11th Morphology meeting, Vienna, February 2004

Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Franz Rainer

The papers in this volume derive from the International Morphology Meeting (Vienna 2004) and were selected because they address the main topic of the conference: external and internal demarcations of morphology. The external demarcation between syntax and morphology is dealt with in the papers by… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 264] 2005. xiv, 317 pp.

Multiple Perspectives on L1 and L2 Academic Literacy in Asia Pacific and Diaspora Contexts

Edited by Xiaoming Li and Christine Pearson Casanave

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 15:1 (2005) iv, 207 pp.

Negotiation of Contingent Talk: The Japanese interactional particles ne and sa

Emi Morita

Observing naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in Japanese, this book examines how Japanese speakers segment their talk into relevant interactional units and use particles such as ne and sa to accomplish local pragmatic work. The study provides a conversation analytic, action-oriented account… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 137] 2005. xvi, 240 pp.

A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis: Theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity

Edited by Ruth Wodak and Paul Chilton

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has established itself over the past two decades as an area of academic activity in which scholars and students from many different disciplines are involved. It is a field that draws on social theory and aspects of linguistics in order to understand and challenge… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 13] 2005. xviii, 320 pp.

Nominal Phrases from a Scandinavian Perspective

Marit Julien

This monograph presents a new model of the internal syntax of nominal phrases. The model is mainly based on Scandinavian, since with the wide range of variation that Scandinavian displays in the nominal domain, despite the close genetic relationship between the different varieties, Scandinavian is… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 87] 2005. xv, 348 pp.

Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past

Edited by Janne Skaffari, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita Wårvik

This volume presents a variety of pragmatic and discourse analytical approaches to a wide range of linguistic data and historical texts, including data from English, French, Irish, Latin, and Spanish. This diversity of research questions and methods is a feature of the field of historical… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 134] 2005. x, 418 pp.

The Order of Prepositional Phrases in the Structure of the Clause

Walter Schweikert

For a long time prepositions seemed to enjoy a clandestine status in linguistic research. This has changed with a novel path of inquiry into the inner structure of complex prepositional expressions. In a unique approach to the examination of the outer syntax of prepositions the author uses… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 83] 2005. xii, 337 pp.

Origins of Language: Constraints on hypotheses

Sverker Johansson

Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the student or researcher who prefers solid data and well-supported conclusions, over speculative scenarios. Much that has been written on the… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 5] 2005. xii, 345 pp.

Outside-In — Inside-Out

Edited by Costantino Maeder, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky

This fourth volume of the Iconicity series is like its predecessors devoted to the study of iconicity in language and literature in all its forms. Many of the papers turn the notion of iconicity ‘inside-out’, some suggesting that ‘less-is-more’; others focus on the cognitive factors ‘inside’ the… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 4] 2005. x, 427 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVII–XVIII: Alexandria, 2003 and Norman, Oklahoma 2004

Edited by Mohammad T. Alhawary and Elabbas Benmamoun

The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics, held in 2003 (Alexandria) and 2004 (Oklahoma). They tackle a broad range of issues in current linguistic research, particularly in the areas of phonology, morphology/lexicon,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 267] 2005. xvi, 315 pp.

Persuasion Across Genres: A linguistic approach

Edited by Helena Halmari and Tuija Virtanen

Persuasion, in its various linguistic forms, enters our lives daily. Politicians and the news media attempt to change or confirm our beliefs, while advertisers try to bend our tastes toward buying their products. Persuasion goes on in courtrooms, universities, and the business world. Persuasion… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 130] 2005. viii, 257 pp.

Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language

Edited by Rod Ellis

The last decade has seen a growing body of research investigating various aspects of L2 learners’ performance of tasks. This book focuses on one task implementation variable: planning. It considers theories of how opportunities to plan a task affect performance and tests claims derived from these… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 11] 2005. viii, 313 pp.

Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles

Edited by Susanne Mühleisen and Bettina Migge

Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site where… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G34] 2005. viii, 293 pp.

Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy: A corpus-driven approach to English progressive forms, functions, contexts and didactics

Ute Römer-Barron

This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in 'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from the largest… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 18] 2005. xiv + 328 pp.

Quantifier Scope in German

Jürgen Pafel

This book presents a comprehensive account of quantifier scope in German. The author investigates scope behavior of ordinary quantifiers and negative, adverbial, interrogative, relative and particle quantifiers. The areas which are dealt with include: relative scope in simple sentences, absolute… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 84] 2005. xvi, 312 pp.

Questions and Answers in the English Courtroom (1640–1760): A sociopragmatic analysis

Dawn Archer

This book belongs to the rapidly growing field of historical pragmatics. More specifically, it aims to lend definition to the area of historical sociopragmatics. It seeks to enhance our understanding of the language of the historical courtroom by documenting changes to the discursive roles of the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 135] 2005. xiv, 374 pp.

The Rhetoric of Philosophy

Shai Frogel

The book claims that philosophy can be defined by its distinct rhetoric. This rhetoric is shaped by two values: humanism and critique. Humanism is defined as preferring the individual human deliberation to any external authority or method. Self-conviction is the touchstone of truth in philosophy.… read more

[Controversies, 3] 2005. x, 156 pp.

The Rise of Agreement: A formal approach to the syntax and grammaticalization of verbal inflection

Eric Fuß

This book investigates the historical paths leading from pronouns to markers of verbal agreement and proposes a unified formal account of this grammaticalization process. In opposition to beliefs widely held in the literature, it is argued that new agreement formatives can be coined in a multitude… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 81] 2005. xii, 336 pp.

The Role of Agreement in Non-Finite Predication

Gréte Dalmi

This comparative syntactic study claims that agreement is the most central functional category responsible for licensing predication in finite, non-finite and small clauses alike. Intriguing syntactic phenomena like Icelandic infinitival predicates taking non-nominative (quirky) subjects;… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 90] 2005. xvi, 222 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2003, Nijmegen, 20–22 November

Edited by Twan Geerts, Ivo van Ginneken and Haike Jacobs

The annual Going Romance conference is the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. Starting with the thirteenth conference held in 1999, volumes with… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 270] 2005. viii, 369 pp.

The Soft Power of War: Legitimacy and community in Iraq war discourses

Edited by Lilie Chouliaraki

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 4:1 (2005) 175 pp.

Speech and Thought Presentation in French: Concepts and strategies

Sophie Marnette

This book analyses and describes Speech and Thought Presentation (S&TP) in French from a broad theoretical perspective, building bridges between linguistic, stylistic and narratological frameworks that have until now been developed separately. It combines the French théorie de l’énonciation and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 133] 2005. xiv, 379 pp.

Strategies in Academic Discourse

Edited by Elena Tognini-Bonelli and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti

This book focuses on theoretical and descriptive issues and techniques in the study of text and discourse. Drawing on a large number of corpora containing academic language, from spoken language to published research papers, the authors approach their subject from multiple angles: The academic… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 19] 2005. xii, 212 pp.

Syntax and Lexis in Conversation: Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction

Edited by Auli Hakulinen and Margret Selting

This volume is a collection of current work at the interface of linguistics and conversation analysis. The focus is on linguistic items in their action contexts: syntactic structures and lexical items in data from natural conversations in six European languages: Danish, English, Finnish, German,… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 17] 2005. viii, 406 pp.

Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social

Edited by Leonie Cornips and Karen P. Corrigan

The papers in this collection share a common interest in the empirical, theoretical and meta-theoretical aspects of the ‘internal-external’ (‘formal-functional’) debate in linguistic theory. The primary aim of this volume is to initiate cooperation between internationally renowned generative and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 265] 2005. vi, 312 pp.

The Syntax–Discourse Interface: Representing and interpreting dependency

Petra B. Schumacher

This book combines theoretical and experimental aspects of the establishment of dependency. It provides an account of dependency relations by focusing on the representation and interpretation of referentially dependent elements, particularly regular reflexives, logophors, and pronouns. First, the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 80] 2005. xii, 259 pp.

Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages: Theoretical and applied perspectives

Edited by Dalila Ayoun and M. Rafael Salaberry

This volume presents a state-of-the-art descriptive and explanatory analysis of the second language development of Romance tense-aspect systems. It contains new experimental data from adult French, Catalan, Portuguese learners, and Italian children learners. Standing research questions are… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 29] 2005. x, 318 pp.

Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004

Edited by Randall Gess and Edward J. Rubin

The 20 papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 34th LSRL, held in Salt Lake City, in 2004. The papers deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in Romance Linguistics and include several from the conference parasession, which focused on experimental approaches to… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 272] 2005. viii, 367 pp.

UG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

This book explores the interaction of the grammar with the external systems, conceptual-intentional and sensori-motor. The papers in the Language section include configurational analyses of the interface properties of depictives, clitic clusters, imperatives, conditionals, clefts, as well as… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 75] 2005. xviii, 398 pp.

Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages

Edited by Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley and Sheila Dooley

This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 73] 2005. xiv, 431 pp.

Verbes supports: Nouvel état des lieux

Sous la direction de Gaston Gross et Sophie de Pontonx

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 27:2 (2005) 199 pp.

Vocalize to Localize

Edited by Christian Abry, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz

Special issue of Interaction Studies 5:3 (2005) 125 pp.

Vocalize to Localize II

Edited by Christian Abry, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz

Special issue of Interaction Studies 6:2 (2005) iv, 191 pp.

Written Communication across Cultures: A sociocognitive perspective on business genres

Yunxia Zhu

Winner of ABC's award for Distinguished Publication for 2006This book explores effective written communication across cultures both theoretically and practically. Specifically it conceptualizes cross-cultural genre study and compares English and Chinese business writing collected from Australia,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 141] 2005. xviii, 216 pp.

(Mis)Representing Islam: The racism and rhetoric of British broadsheet newspapers

John Richardson

(Mis)Representing Islam explores and illustrates how élite broadsheet newspapers are implicated in the production and reproduction of anti-Muslim racism. The book approaches journalistic discourse as the inseparable combination of ‘social practices’, ‘discursive practices’ and the ‘texts’… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 9] 2004. xxiii, 260 pp.

Academic Interaction

Edited by Helen Marriott

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 14:1 (2004) 199 pp.

The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on functional categories

Edited by Philippe Prévost and Johanne Paradis

This volume is a collection of studies by some of the foremost researchers of French acquisition in the generative framework. It provides a unique perspective on cross-learner comparative research in that each chapter examines the development of one component of the grammar (functional categories)… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 32] 2004. viii, 384 pp.

The Acquisition of Spanish: Morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual L1 acquisition and adult L2 acquisition

Silvina Montrul

This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is organized around key grammatical themes that form the empirical base of research in generative… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 37] 2004. xvi, 413 pp.

The Acquisition of Swedish Grammar

Edited by Gunlög Josefsson, Christer Platzack and Gisela Håkansson

This book provides a number of studies of different aspects of Swedish child language. Some of the thematic chapters present original, unpublished data: on the acquisition of tense, on the range and frequency of different word order patterns in early child Swedish, related to the input, meaning the… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 33] 2004. vi, 313 pp.

Adpositions of Movement

Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Walter De Mulder and Tanja Mortelmans

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 18] 2004. viii, 323 pp.

Adverbials: The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure

Edited by Jennifer R. Austin, Stefan Engelberg and Gisa Rauh

Adverbials have become an important testing ground for research on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The articles selected for this volume present recent research on this topic. Among the issues addressed are the occurrence of adverbials in various domains of the sentence… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 70] 2004. ix, 343 pp.

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 2

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

[Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2] 2004. iv, 355 pp.

Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study

Richard Xiao † and Tony McEnery

Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory. This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the linguistic devices that Mandarin Chinese employs to express aspectual meanings. The work presented here is the first corpus-based account of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 73] 2004. x, 305 pp.

Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method

Edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch

This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages ‘different’ in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can subgrouping be… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 249] 2004. xii, 377 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Balkan Syntax and Semantics

Edited by Olga Mišeska Tomić

The book deals with some syntactic and semantic aspects of the shared Balkan Sprachbund properties. In a comprehensive introductory chapter, Tomić offers an overview of the Balkan Sprachbund properties. Sobolev, displaying the areal distribution of 65 properties, argues for dialect cartography.… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 67] 2004. xvi, 496 pp.

Building Coherence and Cohesion: Task-oriented dialogue in English and Spanish

Maite Taboada

This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other’s contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 129] 2004. xvii, 264 pp.

Categorization in the History of English

Edited by Christian Kay and Jeremy J. Smith

The papers in this volume are linked by a common concern, which is at the centre of current linguistic enquiry: how do we classify and categorize linguistic data, and how does this process add to our understanding of linguistic change? The scene is set by Aitchison’s paper on the development of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 261] 2004. viii, 268 pp.

Cognition and Technology: Co-existence, convergence and co-evolution

Edited by Barbara Gorayska and Jacob L. Mey

This new collection of contributions to the field of Cognitive Technology (CT) provides the (to date) widest spectrum of the state of the art in the discipline — a disciple dedicated to humane factors in tool design. The reader will find here a summary of past research as well as an overview of new… read more

[Not in series, 127] 2004. vi, 369 pp.

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics: Second revised edition

Edited by René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics… read more

[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 1] 2004. xii, 277 pp.

The Composition of Meaning: From lexeme to discourse

Edited by Alice G.B. ter Meulen and Werner Abraham

In the modular design of generative theory the syntax–semantics interface has accounted all along for meanings at the level of Logical Form. The syntax–pragmatics interface, on the other hand, is the result of what one may call the ‘pragmatic turn’ in the linguistic theory, where content is… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 255] 2004. vi, 230 pp.

Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating, resisting, making sense

Edited by Michael Bamberg and Molly Andrews

Counter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering. The very name identifies it as a positional category, in tension with another category. But what is dominant and what is resistant are not, of course, static questions, but rather are forever shifting… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 4] 2004. x, 381 pp.

Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective

Edited by Mirjam Fried and Jan-Ola Östman

This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980’s by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 2] 2004. vi, 209 pp.

Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Bloomington, Indiana, April 2003

Edited by Julie Auger, J. Clancy Clements and Barbara Vance

This collection of twenty articles, selected from the 33rd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at Indiana University in 2003, presents current theoretical approaches to a variety of issues in Romance linguistics. Invited speakers Luigi Burzio and José Ignacio Hualde contribute… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 258] 2004. viii, 404 pp.

Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation

Edited by Gene H. Lerner

This collection assembles early, yet previously unpublished research into the practices that organize conversational interaction by many of the central figures in the development and advancement of Conversation Analysis as a discipline. Using the methods of sequential analysis as first developed by… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 125] 2004. x, 300 pp.

Coordinating Constructions

Edited by Martin Haspelmath

This is the first book on coordinating constructions that adopts a broad cross-linguistic perspective. Coordination has been studied intensively in English and other major European languages, but we are only beginning to understand the range of variation that is found world-wide. This volume… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 58] 2004. xcv, 576 pp.

Corpora and Language Learners

Edited by Guy Aston, Silvia Bernardini and Dominic Stewart

Corpus-aided language pedagogy is one of the central application areas of corpus methodologies, and a test bed for theories of language and learning. This volume provides an overview of current trends, offering methodological and theoretical position statements along with results from empirical… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 17] 2004. vi, 312 pp.

Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English

Edited by Hans Lindquist and Christian Mair

Grammaticalization is an important concept in general and typological linguistics and a prominent type of explanation in historical linguistics. For historical corpus linguists, grammaticalization theory provides a frame of orientation in their effort to analyze and systematize a fast-accumulating… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 13] 2004. xiv, 264 pp.

Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications

Edited by Geneviève Escure and Armin Schwegler

This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of… read more

[Creole Language Library, 27] 2004. x, 355 pp.

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Parliamentary Discourse

Edited by Paul Bayley

The activity of parliaments is largely linguistic activity: they produce talk and they produce texts. Broadly speaking, the objectives that this discourse aims to satisfy are similar all over the world: to legitimate or contest legislation, to represent diverse interests, to scrutinise the activity… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 10] 2004. vi, 384 pp.

Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish

Edited by Rosina Márquez Reiter and María Elena Placencia

Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish provides the reader with a representative spectrum of current research in the most dynamic areas of the pragmatics of Spanish. It brings together a collection of academic essays written by well-established as well as emerging voices in Hispanic pragmatics. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 123] 2004. xvi, 381 pp.

Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar

Edited by Eric Fuß and Carola Trips

This volume emphasizes a new line of thinking in generative grammar which acknowledges that certain synchronic properties of languages can only be fully understood if diachronic data is taken into consideration. The central topics addressed in this collection of papers are (1) a critical assessment… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 72] 2004. viii, 228 pp.

Discourse Across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Carol Lynn Moder and Aida Martinovic-Zic

This volume brings together for the first time research by linguists working in cross-linguistic discourse analysis and by second language researchers working in the contrastive rhetoric tradition. The collection of articles by prominent authors and younger scholars encompasses a variety of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 68] 2004. vi, 366 pp.

Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora

Edited by Karin Aijmer and Anna-Brita Stenström

This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area of text and discourse characterized by the alliance between text linguistics and areas such as corpus linguistics, genre analysis, literary… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 120] 2004. viii, 273 pp.

Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics

Edited by Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton

This book explores the structure and use of academic and professional discourse through the lens of corpus linguistics. The goal of this book is to show how insights from corpus linguistic analyses can help us better understand how we use academic and professional language and help us find ways to… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 16] 2004. vi, 333 pp.

The Dynamic Consultation: A discourse analytical study of doctor–patient communication

Marisa Cordella

This book introduces a unique model of medical discourse that identifies the forms of talk – voices – that doctors and patients use during the consultation, and studies the dynamic interaction as it unfolds particularly in follow-up visits. Natural recordings, semi-structured interviews,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 128] 2004. xvi, 254 pp.

Emotion in Dialogic Interaction: Advances in the complex

Edited by Edda Weigand

This volume contains a selection of papers given at the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on ‘Emotion in Dialogic Interaction’ at the University of Münster in October 2002. In the literature, the complex network of ‘emotion in dialogic interaction’ is mostly addressed by reducing the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 248] 2004. xii, 284 pp.

Essays in the History of Linguistics

E.F.K. Koerner †

The present volume follows the author's tradition of bringing together at certain intervals selections of articles which more often than not had previously been published in not easily accessible places, or which had not been published before. These papers do not typically represent mere reprints… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 104] 2004. x, 271 pp.

First Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary perspectives on methodological issues

Edited by Monika S. Schmid, Barbara Köpke, Merel Keijzer and Lina Weilemar

This volume provides a state-of-the-art treatment of research on language attrition, the non-pathological loss of a language through lack of exposure. It combines a review of past and present research with in-depth treatments of specific theoretical and methodological issues and reports on… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 28] 2004. x, 378 pp.

Focus Structure in Generative Grammar: An integrated syntactic, semantic and intonational approach

Carsten Breul

The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is realized. This claim is discussed in… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 68] 2004. x, 430 pp.

Formulaic Sequences: Acquisition, processing and use

Edited by Norbert Schmitt

Formulaic sequences (FS) are now recognized as an essential element of language use. However, research on FS has generally been limited to a focus on description, or on the place of FS in L1 acquisition. This volume opens new directions in FS research, concentrating on how FS are acquired and… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 9] 2004. ix, 303 pp.

Functional Constraints in Grammar: On the unergative–unaccusative distinction

Susumu Kuno and Ken-ichi Takami

This book examines in detail the acceptability status of sentences in the following five English constructions, and elucidates the syntactic, semantic, and functional requirements that the constructions must satisfy in order to be appropriately used: There-Construction, (One’s) Way Construction,… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 1] 2004. ix, 242 pp.

Functional Linguistics and Contrastive Description

Edited by Kristin Davidse and Liesbet Heyvaert

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 4:1 (2004) 199 pp.

Fundamental Aspects of Interpreter Education: Curriculum and Assessment

David B. Sawyer

The author offers an overview of the Interpreting Studies literature on curriculum and assessment. A discussion of curriculum definitions, foundations, and guidelines suggests a framework based upon scientific and humanistic approaches – curriculum as process and as interaction. Language testing… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 47] 2004. xviii, 312 pp.

Gender, Language and Culture: A study of Japanese television interview discourse

Lidia Tanaka

This book analyzes the relationship between gender, age and role in Japanese television interviews. It covers a wide range of topics on Japanese communication; cultural and gender variables are interwoven in the interpretation of the findings. The study shows how participants interact through… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 69] 2004. xvii, 229 pp.

Grammaticalization as Economy

Elly van Gelderen

This book provides much detail on the changes involving the grammaticalization of personal and relative pronouns, topicalized nominals, complementizers, adverbs, prepositions, modals, perception verbs, and aspectual markers. It accounts for these changes in terms of two structural economy… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 71] 2004. xv, 318 pp.

Grounding and headedness in the noun phrase

Edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete

Special issue of Functions of Language 11:1 (2004) 145 pp.

The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity

Östen Dahl

This book studies linguistic complexity and the processes by which it arises and is maintained, focusing not so much on what one can say in a language as how it is said. Complexity is not seen as synonymous with “difficulty” but as an objective property of a system – a measure of the amount of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 71] 2004. x, 333 pp.

How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching

Edited by John McH. Sinclair

After decades of being overlooked, corpus evidence is becoming an important component of the teaching and learning of languages. Above all, the profession needs guidance in the practicalities of using corpora, interpreting the results and applying them to the problems and opportunities of the… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 12] 2004. viii, 307 pp.

Introduction to Discourse Studies

Jan Renkema

Introduction to Discourse Studies follows on Jan Renkema’s successful Discourse Studies: An Introductory Textbook (1993), published in four languages. This new book deals with even more key concepts in discourse studies and approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European… read more

[Not in series, 124] 2004. x, 363 pp.

Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Claire Lefebvre

The content of this book is concerned with various issues at stake in Creole studies that are also of interest for general linguistics. These include the general issue of Creole genesis and of the accelerated linguistic change that characterizes the emergence of these languages as compared to… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 70] 2004. xvi, 358 pp.

Japanese Discourse Markers: Synchronic and diachronic discourse analysis

Noriko O. Onodera

This book is one of the pioneering historical pragmatic studies of Japanese. It closely illustrates the usage and contributions of some Japanese discourse markers, and reveals their developmental history. The section on Synchronic Analysis explores the previously uninvestigated functions of some… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 132] 2004. xiv, 253 pp.

Language Development across Childhood and Adolescence

Edited by Ruth A. Berman

This volume brings together work by scholars with backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, education, and language pathology. As such, the book adds psycholinguistic and crosslinguistic perspectives to the clinical and classroom approaches that have dominated the… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 3] 2004. xiv, 308 pp.

Language Standardization and Language Change: The dynamics of Cape Dutch

Ana Deumert

Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or ‘Cape Dutch’ as it was then called) are… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 19] 2004. xx, 361 pp.

Language Typology: A functional perspective

Edited by Alice Caffarel-Cayron, J.R. Martin and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

This book is intended as a systemic functional contribution to language typology both for those who would like to understand and describe particular languages against the background of generalizations about a wide range of languages and also for those who would like to develop typological accounts… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 253] 2004. xiv, 702 pp.

Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia

Edited by Edward J. Vajda

The twelve articles in this volume describe Yeniseic, Samoyedic and Siberian Turkic languages as a linguistic complex of great interest to typologists, grammarians, diachronic and synchronic linguists, as well as cultural anthropologists. The articles demonstrate how interdependent the disparate… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 262] 2004. x, 275 pp.

Letter Writing

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5:2 (2004) iv, 181 pp.

Lexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire / Syntax, Lexis & Lexicon-Grammar: Papers in honour of Maurice Gross

Edited by Christian Leclère, Éric Laporte, Mireille Piot and Max Silberztein

Maurice Gross, who died in December 2001, was a pioneer and leading thinker in the field of modern linguistics. Long before computers could facilitate large-scale, lexically-based language study, he and his team began building an exhaustive, empirically-based inventory of the "lexicon-grammar" of… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 24] 2004. xxii, 659 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2004

Edited by Pierre Pica

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 4] 2004. iv, 302 pp.

Linguistica Berolinensia

Edited by Thorsten Fögen and E.F.K. Koerner †

Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 31:2/3 (2004) 314 pp.

Linguistics Today – Facing a Greater Challenge

Edited by Piet van Sterkenburg

Every five years the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (CIPL) organises a world congress for linguists. And every five years the Committee faces the challenge of presenting a programme at the highest possible level. The CIPL Executive Committee decided for the Congress planned for 2003… read more

[Not in series, 126] 2004. viii, 367 pp. (incl. CD Rom)

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004

Edited by Leonie Cornips and Jenny Doetjes

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 21] 2004. viii, 229 pp. | open access

Memory-Based Parsing

Sandra Kübler

Memory-Based Learning (MBL), one of the most influential machine learning paradigms, has been applied with great success to a variety of NLP tasks. This monograph describes the application of MBL to robust parsing. Robust parsing using MBL can provide added functionality for key NLP applications,… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 7] 2004. viii, 294 pp.

Missionary Linguistics/Lingüística misionera: Selected papers from the First International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Oslo, 13–16 March 2003

Edited by Otto Zwartjes and Even Hovdhaugen

When the first European missionaries arrived on other continents, it was decided that the indigenous languages would be used as the means of christianization. There emerged the need to produce grammars and dictionaries of those languages. The study of this linguistic material has so far not… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 106] 2004. vi, 288 pp.

The Moving Text: Localization, translation, and distribution

Anthony Pym

For the discourse of localization, translation is often "just a language problem". For translation theorists, localization introduces fancy words but nothing essentially new. Both views are probably right, but only to an extent. This book sets up a dialogue across those differences. Is there… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 49] 2004. xviii, 223 pp.

Multilingual Communication

Edited by Juliane House and Jochen Rehbein

In a world of increasing migration and technological progress, multilingual communication has become the rule rather than the exception. This book reflects the growing interest in understanding communication between members of different linguistic groups and contains a collection of original papers… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 3] 2004. viii, 359 pp.

A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism

Michel Paradis

This volume is the outcome of 25 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. In addition to reviewing the world literature and providing a state-of-the-art account, including a critical assessment of the bilingual neuroimaging studies, it proposes a set of hypotheses about… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 18] 2004. viii, 299 pp.

New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume II: Lexis and Transmission

Edited by Christian Kay, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon

This is the second of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The first is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (1): Syntax and Morphology. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 252] 2004. xii, 271 pp.

New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology Volume II: Lexis and Transmission

Edited by Christian Kay

Together these two volumes provide an overview of many of the issues that are currently engaging practitioners in the field of English historical linguistics. In the first volume, the primary concern is with the historical grammar of English. Some papers take a broad overview of the subject,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 251-252] 2004. 559 pp.

New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology

Edited by Christian Kay, Simon Horobin and Jeremy J. Smith

This is the first of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The second is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (2): Lexis and Transmission. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 251] 2004. x, 262 pp.

Non-nominative Subjects: Volume 1 and 2 (set)

Edited by Peri Bhaskararao and Karumuri V. Subbarao

These two volumes on Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) present the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis. A significant feature of these volumes is that authors with different theoretical… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 60-61] 2004. 668 pp.

Non-nominative Subjects: Volume 1

Edited by Peri Bhaskararao and Karumuri V. Subbarao

Volume 1 of Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) presents the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis. A significant feature of these volumes is that authors with different theoretical… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 60] 2004. xii, 325 pp.

Non-nominative Subjects: Volume 2

Edited by Peri Bhaskararao and Karumuri V. Subbarao

Volume 2 of Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) presents the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis. A significant feature of these volumes is that authors with different theoretical… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 61] 2004. xii, 317 pp.

Phrasal Constructions and Resultativeness in English: A sign-oriented analysis

Marina Gorlach

Eat up the apple or Eat the apple up? Is there any difference in the messages each of these alternative forms sends? If there isn’t, why bother to keep both? On the other hand, is there any semantic similarity between eat the apple up and break the glass to pieces? This study takes a fresh look at… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 52] 2004. ix, 150 pp.

Pragmatic Markers in Oral Narrative: The case of English and Catalan

Montserrat González

This book presents the multifunctional nature of pragmatic discourse markers in English and Catalan oral narratives from the point of view of text linguistics and contrastive analysis. It is argued that English and Catalan markers are distributed and operate differently at four different levels in… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 122] 2004. xvi, 409 pp.

Principles of Generative Phonology: An introduction

John T. Jensen

Principles of Generative Phonology is a basic, thorough introduction to phonological theory and practice. It aims to provide a firm foundation in the theory of distinctive features, phonological rules and rule ordering, which is essential to be able to appreciate recent developments and discussions… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 250] 2004. xii, 324 pp.

Process and Acquisition of Written Language

Edited by Robert Schreuder and Ludo Verhoeven

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 7:1 (2004) iv, 132 pp.

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing III: Selected papers from RANLP 2003

Edited by Nicolas Nicolov, Kalina Bontcheva, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov

This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the 2003 International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing”. A wide range of topics is covered in the volume: semantics, dialogue, summarization, anaphora resolution, shallow parsing,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 260] 2004. xii, 402 pp.

Recontextualizing Context: Grammaticality meets appropriateness

Anita Fetzer

In the humanities and social sciences, context is one of those terms which is frequently used and frequently referred to, but hardly made explicit.This book proposes a model for describing the multifaceted connectedness between language and language use, and between cognitive context, linguistic… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 121] 2004. x, 272 pp.

Relationality: Discursive constructions of Asian Pacific American identities

Edited by Adrienne Lo and Angela Reyes

Special issue of Pragmatics 14:2/3 (2004) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002

Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman

The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. Selected papers are published in the Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory volumes. This is the fourth such volume, containing a selection of the papers that have… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 256] 2004. viii, 273 pp.

Seduction, Community, Speech: A Festschrift for Herman Parret

Edited by Frank Brisard, Michael Meeuwis and Bart Vandenabeele

This volume unites various contributions reflecting the intellectual interests exhibited by Professor Herman Parret (Institute of Philosophy, Leuven), who has continued to observe, and often critically assess, ongoing developments in pragmatics throughout his career. In fact, Parret’s contributions… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 127] 2004. vi, 202 pp.

Singapore English: A grammatical description

Edited by Lisa Lim

Singapore English: A grammatical description provides a vivid account of current, contemporary Singapore English, complementing older seminal accounts of this variety. Drawing primarily on the Grammar of Spoken Singapore English Corpus, which comprises naturally-occurring conversational speech, the… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G33] 2004. xiv, 172 pp.

Sound Patterns in Interaction: Cross-linguistic studies from conversation

Edited by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Cecilia E. Ford

This collection of original papers by eminent phoneticians, linguists and sociologists offers the most recent findings on phonetic design in interactional discourse available in an edited collection. The chapters examine the organization of phonetic detail in relation to social actions in… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 62] 2004. viii, 406 pp.

South Africa

Edited by Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu and Timothy Reagan

Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 28:2 (2004) 114 pp.

Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and quantitative perspectives

David Eddington

Unlike most monographs on Spanish phonology and morphology that approach these topics from a structuralist or generativist framework, this volume is written from a less traditional point of view. More specifically, it emphasizes quantitative evidence from sources such as usage-based studies,… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 53] 2004. xvi, 198 pp.

Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus

Laura Callahan

Spanish/English codeswitching in published work represents a claim to the right to participate in the marketplace on a bilingual and not just monolingual basis. This book offers a syntactic and sociolinguistic analysis of the codeswitching in a corpus of thirty texts: novels and short stories… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 27] 2004. viii, 181 pp.

Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese: Text and Cognition

Yi’an Wu

As a subject of universal appeal, spatial demonstratives have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplines. What marks the present study as distinct is that it is an English-Chinese comparative study set in a cognitive-linguistic framework and that the methodology features a parallel… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 126] 2004. xviii, 234 pp.

Stance in Talk: A conversation analysis of Mandarin final particles

Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu

Guided by the methodology of conversation analysis (CA), this book explores how participants in Mandarin conversation display stance in the unfolding development of action and interaction, and, in particular, how this is accomplished through the use of two Mandarin final particles. Through a close… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 117] 2004. xvi, 260 pp.

Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics: In honor of William R. Schmalstieg

Edited by Philip Baldi and Pietro U. Dini

This collection of twenty-nine research papers is dedicated to the eminent Balticist, Slavicist and Indo-Europeanist, William R. Schmalstieg in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains contributions by specialists of mainly Baltic and Indo-European linguistics which are reflective… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 254] 2004. xlvi, 302 pp.

Studies in Stemmatology II

Edited by Pieter van Reenen, August den Hollander and Margot van Mulken

Stemmatology is the discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts. The object of this volume is the evaluation of the most recent methods and techniques in the field of stemmatology, as well as the development… read more

[Not in series, 125] 2004. xii, 312 pp.

Theory Construction in Second Language Acquisition

Geoff Jordan

Recently, many SLA researchers have adopted a postmodernist approach which challenges the assumption that SLA research is a rationalist, scientific endeavour. The resulting epistemological arguments, plus problems of theory proliferation, contradicting theories, and theory domain, hinder progress… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 8] 2004. xviii, 294 pp.

Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization

Edited by Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon

The basic idea behind this volume is to probe the nature of grammaticalization. Its contributions focus on the following questions: (i) In how far can grammaticalization be considered a universal diachronic process or mechanism of change and in how far is it conditioned by synchronic factors? (ii)… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 59] 2004. viii, 406 pp.

Urban Bahamian Creole: System and variation

Stephanie Hackert

This volume, a detailed empirical study of the creole English spoken in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, contributes to our understanding of both urban creoles and tense-aspect marking in creoles. The first part traces the development of a creole in the Bahamas via socio-demographic data and outlines… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G32] 2004. xiv, 254 pp.

Using and Learning Italian in Australia

Edited by Antonia Rubino

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 18] 2004. iii, 133 pp.

Verb Clusters: A study of Hungarian, German and Dutch

Edited by Katalin É. Kiss and Henk van Riemsdijk

Many languages have constructions in which verbs cluster. But few languages have verb clusters as rich and complex as Continental West Germanic and Hungarian. Furthermore the precise ordering properties and the variation in the cluster patterns are remarkably similar in Hungarian and Germanic. This… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 69] 2004. vi, 514 pp.

Vocabulary in a Second Language: Selection, acquisition, and testing

Edited by Paul Bogaards and Batia Laufer

The eleven chapters of Vocabulary in a Second Language are written by the world’s leading researchers in the field of vocabulary studies in second language acquisition. Each chapter presents experimental research leading to new conclusions about and insights into the selection, the learning and… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 10] 2004. xiv, 234 pp.

Web Advertising: New forms of communication on the Internet

Anja Janoschka

This book examines new forms of communication that have emerged through the interactive capabilities of the Internet, in particular online advertising and web advertisements. It develops a new model of online communication, incorporating mass communication and interpersonal communication.… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 131] 2004. xiv, 230 pp.

What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness

Edited by Martina Penke and Anette Rosenbach

Special issue of Studies in Language 28:3 (2004) 280 pp.

Williams Syndrome across Languages

Edited by Susanne Bartke and Julia Siegmüller

Williams Syndrome (WS), aka Williams Beuren Syndrome, is a developmental disorder that we have known about for some forty years. The cause for WS was detected only recently: a micro deletion on chromosome 7, more specifically at the region of chromosome 7q11.23. The cognitive and behavioral profile… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 36] 2004. xvi, 385 pp.

World Applied Linguistics: A Celebration of AILA at 40. AILA Review, Volume 17

Edited by Susan M. Gass and Sinfree Makoni

Volume 17 of AILA Review will focus on Applied Linguistics as an international discipline. Authors from various regions of the world will focus on the following questions: What has been the development of Applied Linguistics in your region? What are current issues being dealt with in Applied… read more

[AILA Review, 17] 2004. 143 pp.

(In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism

Edited by Natascha Müller

The focus of this collection of essays is on the acquisition of so called vulnerable and invulnerable grammatical domains in multilingualism. Language acquisition is studied from a comparative perspective, mostly in the framework of generative grammar. Different types of multilingualism are… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 1] 2003. xiv, 374 pp.

Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals: A survey of style and grammatical metaphor

Inger Lassen

Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals is written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing. With the main emphasis on technical manuals the book is primarily targeted at those who have a special interest in the design and use of… read more

[Document Design Companion Series, 4] 2003. xviii, 183 pp.

Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics: Learning how to do things with words in a study abroad context

Anne Barron

Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics provides readers with a much-needed insight into the development of pragmatic competence, an area of research long neglected in interlanguage pragmatics. The longitudinal investigation which provides the basic material for this book consists of a corpus of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 108] 2003. xviii, 403 pp.

The Acquisition of the DP in Modern Greek

Theodoros Marinis

This book offers new data on the acquisition of functional categories in early child speech. Based on longitudinal corpora of five children acquiring Modern Greek as their first language, it describes the development of single DPs consisting of definite and indefinite articles, complex DPs that… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 31] 2003. xiv, 261 pp.

Africa and Applied Linguistics. AILA Review, Volume 16

Edited by Sinfree Makoni and Ulrike H. Meinhof

AILA Review is a publication of the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée, an international federation of national associations for applied linguistics. Volume 16 of AILA Review is the first to appear with John Benjamins and contains a unique collection of articles, guest-edited by… read more

[AILA Review, 16] 2003. ii, 173 pp.

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 1

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

[Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 1] 2003. iv, 289 pp.

Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 3 (2003)

Edited by Lynn Santelmann, Maaike Verrips, Frank Wijnen and Clara Levelt

[Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 3] 2003. vi, 180 pp.

The Art of Commemoration: Fifty years after the Warsaw Uprising

Edited by Titus Ensink and Christoph Sauer

The Art of Commemoration focuses on a particular historical event that illustrates how nations define their own identities and establish mutual relations in their discourse: the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 and its Commemoration in 1994. This Commemoration was an innovative and unique form of… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 7] 2003. xii, 245 pp.

Asian Languages and Computers

Edited by Debra Hoven and Jeong-Bae Son

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 17] 2003. iv, 150 pp.

Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History

Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Gisella Ferraresi

This volume gives an up-to-date account of various situations of language contact and multilingualism in Europe especially from a historical point of view. Its ten contributions present newly collected data from different parts of the continent seen through diverse theoretical perspectives. They… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 2] 2003. viii, 289 pp.

Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 2: Morphology, phonology, acquisition

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

Asymmetry in Grammar: Morphology, Phonology and Acquisition presents evidence that asymmetry, as a property of linguistic relations, is salient in grammar. The papers in morphology bring further evidence for the centrality of asymmetry in word-structure. It is shown that asymmetry is part of the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 58] 2003. vi, 309 pp.

Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 1: Syntax and semantics

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

Asymmetry in Grammar: Syntax and Semantics brings to fore the centrality of asymmetry in DP, VP and CP. A finer grained articulation of the DP is proposed, and further functional projections for restrictive relatives, as well as a refined analyses of case identification and presumptive pronouns.… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 57] 2003. vi, 405 pp.

Bibliography and Handbook of Pragmatics Online (set)

Edited by Jef Verschueren

Linguistic Pragmatics is characterized by its continuous worldwide development into an extremely productive, innovative and intriguing research area within language studies. At www.benjamins.com/online we invite you to explore the entire range of topics that cover this interdisciplinary yet… read more

[Online Resources Collection, BoPHoP S] 2003.

Bibliography of Modern Romani Linguistics: Including a guide to Romani linguistics

Compiled by Peter Bakker and Yaron Matras

The interest in Romani, the language of the Roma or "Gypsies", has grown considerably in recent years. Romani has drawn attention from a.o. grammarians, sociolinguists, Indologists, language contact researchers, language planners, educators, typologists and historical linguists.This Indic language… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 28] 2003. xxviii, 366 pp.

Bibliography of Pragmatics Online

Edited by Frank Brisard, Michael Meeuwis and Jef Verschueren

This annotated bibliography covers the broad field of linguistic pragmatics, conceived as the interdisciplinary cognitive, social, and cultural - science of natural language use.It incorporates all the bibliographical data from the renowned Comprehensive Bibliography of Pragmatics (1987), edited… read more

[Online Resources Collection, BoP] 2003. Over 50.000 records

Bilingual Sentence Processing: Relative clause attachment in English and Spanish

Eva M. Fernández

The cross-linguistic differences documented in studies of relative clause attachment offer an invaluable opportunity to examine a particular aspect of bilingual sentence processing: Do bilinguals process their two languages as if they were monolingual speakers of each? This volume provides a review… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 29] 2003. xx, 294 pp.

Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean

Edited by Michael Aceto and Jeffrey P. Williams

Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean is the first collection to focus, via primary linguistic fieldwork, on the underrepresented and neglected area of the Anglophone Eastern Caribbean. The following islands are included: The Virgin Islands (USA & British), Anguilla, Barbuda, Dominica, St.… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G30] 2003. xx, 322 pp.

Corpus Presenter: Software for language analysis. With a manual and A Corpus of Irish English as sample data

Raymond Hickey

The current book together with the accompanying CD-ROM forms the Corpus Presenter suite which can be used to compile text corpora and to carry out retrieval tasks on any corpus or selection of text files, no matter what their source or how they are organised. The suite is designed to have a… read more

[Not in series, 122] 2003. x, 292 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Creole Formation as Language Contact: The case of the Suriname Creoles

Bettina Migge

The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20 years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the processes and mechanisms that… read more

[Creole Language Library, 25] 2003. xii, 151 pp.

Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson

Edited by Dee Ann Holisky and Kevin Tuite

This volume is a collection of seventeen papers, on languages of all three indigenous Caucasian families as well as other languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Several papers are concerned with diachronic questions, either within individual families, or at deeper time depths. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 246] 2003. xxviii, 426 pp.

Deictic Conceptualisation of Space, Time and Person

Edited by Friedrich Lenz

This volume is a collection of articles which present the results of investigations into the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of deictic expressions in several languages. Special emphasis is placed on contrastive studies that take cognitive and cultural context into account. Both the empirical and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 112] 2003. xiv, 279 pp.

Democracy in Contemporary Egyptian Political Discourse

Michele Durocher Dunne

When politicians and pundits in the Middle East discuss democracy, do they mean it? Looking at public discourse about democracy in contemporary Egypt, Dunne proposes a fresh way of reading Arabic political discourse. She charts a method combining ethnographic research into communities of people… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 6] 2003. xii, 178 pp.

Dependent-Head Synthesis in Nivkh: A contribution to a typology of polysynthesis

Johanna Mattissen

Dependent-Head Synthesis in Nivkh has been awarded a prize of the Offermann-Hergarten Donation at the University of Cologne in 2004. The endowments are granted for outstanding innovative and comprehensibly documented research.This book offers an innovative approach to three interlaced topics: A… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 57] 2003. x, 350 pp.

The Development of Prosodic Structure in Early Words: Continuity, divergence and change

Mitsuhiko Ota

This monograph addresses three basic questions regarding the development of word-internal prosodic structure: How much of the phonological structure of early words is regulated by the same constituents and principles that govern the organization of prosodic structure of mature grammar? Why do early… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 34] 2003. xii, 224 pp.

Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker

Address term systems and their diachronic developments are discussed in a wide range of European languages in this volume. Most chapters focus on pronominal systems, and in particular on the criteria that govern the choices between a more intimate and a more distant or polite pronoun, as for… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 107] 2003. vii, 441 pp.

Dictionary of the Prague School of Linguistics. Translated from the French, German and Czech sources

Josef Vachek

This is the first English version of a text out of print for more than 40 years, summarising the positions and key concepts of an influential stream of linguistic thought. Using quotations as entries, J. Vachek (1909-1997), a leading advocate of the Prague School, employed more than 160 sources,… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 50] 2003. ix, 213 pp.

Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities

Edited by Jannis Androutsopoulos and Alexandra Georgakopoulou

This volume sets out to foreground the issues of youth identity in the context of current sociolinguistic and discourse research on identity construction. Based on detailed empirical analyses, the twelve chapters offer examinations of how youth identities from late childhood up to early twenties… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 110] 2003. viii, 338 pp.

Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to modern

Edited by Risto Hiltunen and Janne Skaffari

Covering nearly one thousand years, this volume explores medieval and modern English texts from fresh perspectives. Within the relatively new field of historical discourse linguistics, the synchronic analysis of large textual units and consideration of text-external features in relation to… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 119] 2003. viii, 243 pp.

Discourse and Silencing: Representation and the language of displacement

Edited by Lynn Thiesmeyer

Silencing is not only a physically coercive act. It is also an act of language involving forms of selection, representation and compliance. Discourse and Silencing weaves together theories and examples of discourse from different disciplines in order to put forward a theory of silencing in… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 5] 2003. x, 315 pp.

Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization

Rick A.M. Iedema

This book considers the discourses that come into play in organizational change. The book outlines the tensions that arise for people having to enact change, and analyzes the ways in which they position themselves in changing organizational environments. The book takes a social semiotic perspective… read more

[Document Design Companion Series, 5] 2003. xiv, 234 pp.

Discussing Conversation Analysis: The work of Emanuel A. Schegloff

Edited by Carlo L. Prevignano and Paul J. Thibault

Discussing Conversation Analysis: The work of Emanuel A. Schegloff presents an in-depth view on Schegloff’s complex and stimulating work in Conversation Analysis (CA) and offers clear insights into how it has and may be developed further as a research tool in social psychology, social science,… read more

[Not in series, 118] 2003. xiv, 192 pp.

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 3 (2003)

Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen and Simona Pekarek Doehler

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 3] 2003.

Ellipsis and Reference Tracking in Japanese

Shigeko Nariyama

In many East Asian languages, despite the prevalent occurrence of implicit reference, reference management is largely achieved without recourse to familiar agreement features. For this reason, recovering ellipted reference has been a perplexing problem in the analysis of these languages.This book… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 66] 2003. xvi, 400 pp.

English Language Learning and Technology: Lectures on applied linguistics in the age of information and communication technology

Carol A. Chapelle

This book explores implications for applied linguistics of recent developments in technologies used in second language teaching and assessment, language analysis, and language use. Focusing primarily on English language learning, the book identifies significant areas of interplay between technology… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 7] 2003. xvi, 213 pp. | open access

English Words Abroad

Manfred Görlach †

English Words Abroad summarizes the methods developed for the innovative multilingual Dictionary of European Anglicisms (Görlach 2001, OUP) which combines data on English loanwords in sixteen European languages (four each for Germanic, Slavic, Romance and others). This summary allows us to quantify… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 7] 2003. xii, 188 pp.

Epistemic Stance in English Conversation: A description of its interactional functions, with a focus on I think

Elise Kärkkäinen

This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 115] 2003. xii, 213 pp.

Ethnography, discourse, and hegemony

Edited by Jan Blommaert †, James Collins, Monica Heller, Ben Rampton, Stef Slembrouck and Jef Verschueren

Special issue of Pragmatics 13:1 (2003) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Explaining Language Structure through Systems Interaction

Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay

This book proposes a framework for describing languages through the description of relationships among lexicon, morphology, syntax, and phonology. The framework is based on the notion of formal coding means; the principle of functional transparency; the notion of functional domains; and the notion… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 55] 2003. xviii, 307 pp.

Filipino English and Taglish: Language switching from multiple perspectives

Roger M. Thompson

English competes with Tagalog and Taglish, a mixture of English and Tagalog, for the affections of Filipinos. To understand the competing ideologies that underlie this switching between languages, this book looks at the language situation from multiple perspectives. Part A reviews the social and… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G31] 2003. xiv, 288 pp.

Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar: In honor of Eloise Jelinek

Edited by Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley and MaryAnn Willie

The contributions making up this volume in honor of Eloise Jelinek are written from a formalist perspective that deals with stereotypically functionalist questions about language. Jelinek's pioneering work in formalist syntax has shown that autonomous syntax need not exist in a vacuum. Her work has… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 62] 2003. xii, 375 pp.

Framing and Perspectivising in Discourse

Edited by Titus Ensink and Christoph Sauer

In discourse, verbal messages are framed: speakers offer cues on the basis of which hearers are able to anchor the verbal message to the context. Furthermore, speakers cannot contribute to the discourse without at the same time showing their view on the subject matter of the discourse: the content… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 111] 2003. viii, 227 pp.

From NP to DP: Volume 1: The syntax and semantics of noun phrases

Edited by Martine Coene and Yves D’hulst

This is the first of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp. The papers address issues in the syntax and semantics of the noun phrase, in particular the so-called DP-hypothesis which… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 55] 2003. vi, 359 pp.

From NP to DP: Volume 2: The expression of possession in noun phrases

Edited by Martine Coene and Yves D’hulst

This is the second of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the special workshop of the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp. Reflecting the stage of current research with respect to the expression of possession in the noun… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 56] 2003. ix, 291 pp.

From Sign to Signing

Wolfgang G. Müller and Olga Fischer

This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999) and The Motivated Sign (2001), offers a selection of papers given at the Third International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (Jena 2001). The studies collected here present a number of new departures. Special consideration is… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 3] 2003. xiv, 441 pp.

Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 3

Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann

This is the third of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 11] 2003. xiv, 391 pp.

Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present

Edited by Ana Deumert and Wim Vandenbussche

This volume presents a comparative, socio-historical study of the Germanic standard languages (Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Low German, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish as well as the Caribbean and Pacific Creole languages). Each of the 16… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 18] 2003. vi, 480 pp.

Grammaires et Lexiques Comparés: Actes du Colloque

Edited by Mirella Conenna and Éric Laporte

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 26:1 (2003) vi, 174 pp.

Grammatical Metaphor: Views from systemic functional linguistics

Edited by Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Miriam Taverniers and Louise J. Ravelli

Since the 1980s, metaphor has received much attention in linguistics in general. Within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) the area of 'grammatical metaphor' has become increasingly more important. This volume aims to raise and debate problematic issues in the study of lexico-grammatical… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 236] 2003. vi, 453 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2002 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 8] 2003. viii, 402 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2001 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 7] 2003. vi, 299 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics Online

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use, using the authoritative Handbook of Pragmatics as a basis (edited by the IPrA Research Center since 1995).It provides easy access… read more

[Online Resources Collection, HoP] 2003.

Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13–17 August 2001

Edited by Barry J. Blake and Kate Burridge

This is a selection of papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held in Melbourne 13-17 August 2001, hosted by the Linguistics Program at La Trobe University. The papers range from the general theoretical to the study of particular languages and embrace most areas of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 237] 2003. ix, 442 pp.

History of Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, 14–19 September 1999, Fontenay-St.Cloud

Edited by Sylvian Auroux

This volume represents a selection of 25 out of altogether 86 papers given at the Eighth International Conference for the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VIII), which took place at the Ecole Normale Supérieure at Fontenay-aux-Roses, near Paris, in September 1999. This conference was marked… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 99] 2003. xii, 397 pp.

Hybrid Quotations

Edited by Philippe De Brabanter

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 17] 2003. 232 pp.

Identity in Narrative: A study of immigrant discourse

Anna De Fina

This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction. The data for the book are Mexican immigrants' personal experience narratives and… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 3] 2003. xiv, 252 pp.

Implicatures in Discourse: The case of Spanish NP anaphora

Sarah E. Blackwell

Implicatures in Discourse examines Spanish conversations and oral narratives in order to seek support for a pragmatic theory of anaphora. Blackwell argues that the use of anaphoric expressions may be considered conversational implicatures that give rise to inferences of coreference and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 105] 2003. xvi, 303 pp.

Information Structure and the Dynamics of Language Acquisition

Edited by Christine Dimroth and Marianne Starren

The papers in this volume focus on the impact of information structure on language acquisition, thereby taking different linguistic approaches into account. They start from an empirical point of view, and examine data from natural first and second language acquisition, which cover a wide range of… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 26] 2003. vi, 361 pp.

Intercultural Conversation

Winnie Cheng

This innovative study of naturally-occurring English conversations between Hong Kong Chinese and their native English friends and colleagues makes a worthwhile contribution to the research literature on intercultural conversation. Through analyzing dyadic intercultural conversations, the study… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 118] 2003. xii, 279 pp.

The Interfaces: Deriving and interpreting omitted structures

Edited by Kerstin Schwabe and Susanne Winkler

The Interfaces: Deriving and Interpreting Omitted Structures is a collection of never-before-published papers that explore the nature of the interfaces of syntax with semantics, phonology, and discourse. The papers investigate the various ways in which elliptical structures are related to these… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 61] 2003. vi, 403 pp.

Interpretation and Understanding

Marcelo Dascal †

Our species has been hunting for meaning ever since we departed from our cousins in the evolutionary tree. We developed sophisticated forms of communication. Yet, as much as they can convey meaning and foster understanding, they can also hide meaning and prevent comprehension. Indeed, we can never… read more

[Not in series, 120] 2003. xxii, 714 pp.

Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation: Syntactic, informational and functional structures

Kazuko Matsumoto

This book explores how speakers of Japanese organize their messages into coherent units as they jointly and interactively construct conversational discourse. Specifically, it investigates the syntactic, informational, and functional structures of intonation units (IUs) as basic units of discourse… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 65] 2003. xviii, 212 pp.

An Introduction to African Languages

G. Tucker Childs

This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate… read more

[Not in series, 121] 2003. xx, 265 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Islands and Chains: Resumption as stranding

Cedric Boeckx

The present work provides a detailed analysis of chain formation and locality conditions imposed on it within the Minimalist Program. It does so by analyzing resumptive strategies in great detail. This study claims that resumptive pronouns and their antecedents are first merged as constituents, and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 63] 2003. xii, 224 pp.

Joint Utterance Construction in Japanese Conversation

Makoto Hayashi

This book focuses on how participants in Japanese conversation negotiate and achieve joint courses of action within a single turn at talk. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis as a central framework, this book describes in detail the structures and procedures used by Japanese speakers to… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 12] 2003. xii, 249 pp.

Language Contacts in Prehistory: Studies in Stratigraphy. Papers from the Workshop on Linguistic Stratigraphy and Prehistory at the Fifteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 17 August 2001

Edited by Henning Andersen

Every language includes layers of lexical and grammatical elements that entered it at different times in the more or less distant past. Hence, for periods preceding our earliest historical documentation, linguistic stratigraphy — the systematic study of such layers — may yield information about the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 239] 2003. viii, 292 pp.

Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches

Edited by Mark Janse and Sijmen Tol

Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50% to as much as 90% by the end of the century. This collection of original papers tries to strike a balance between theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches to language death and language maintenance. It… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 240] 2003. xviii, 244 pp.

Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-Based, Morphology

Edited by Joseph Shimron

This book puts together contributions of linguists and psycholinguists whose main interest here is the representation of Semitic words in the mental lexicon of Semitic language speakers. The central topic of the book confronts two views about the morphology of Semitic words. The point of the… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 28] 2003. vi, 394 pp.

Language and Function: To the memory of Jan Firbas

Edited by Josef Hladký

The present volume, originally prepared to celebrate Jan Firbas' 80th birthday, unfortunately is presented only belatedly, to commemorate one of the most outstanding personalities of functional and structural linguistics. Its contributors have been inspired by the richness and penetrating invention… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 49] 2003. x, 336 pp.

Language and Interaction: Discussions with John J. Gumperz

Edited by Susan L. Eerdmans, Carlo L. Prevignano and Paul J. Thibault

This book features a fascinating and extended focal interview with Professor John J. Gumperz, who ranges over his long career trajectory and reflects on his scientific achievements and how they relate to the contemporary linguistic scene. In this way, the reader is presented with a snapshot… read more

[Not in series, 117] 2003. xii, 171 pp.

Language in the Twenty-First Century: Selected papers of the millennial conferences of the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, held at the University of Hartford and Yale University

Edited by Humphrey Tonkin and Timothy Reagan

What is the future of languages in an increasingly globalized world? Are we moving toward the use of a single language for global communication, or are there ways of managing language diversity at the international level? Can we, or should we, maintain a balance between the global need to… read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 1] 2003. vi, 209 pp.

Language, Social Structure, and Culture: A genre analysis of cooking classes in Japan and America

Patricia Mayes

Comparing Japanese and American interaction, Language, Social Structure, and Culture argues that language use is instrumental in the construction of social structure and culture. In order to ground the work in empirical evidence, verbal interaction in similar situations – Japanese and American… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 109] 2003. xiv, 228 pp.

Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violence

Shonna L. Trinch

In the American legal system valid witness-testimony is supposed to be invariable and unchanging, so defense attorneys highlight seeming inconsistencies in victims’ accounts to impeach their credibility. This book offers an examination of how and why victims of domestic violence might seem to be… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 17] 2003. x, 315 pp.

The Lexicon–Syntax Interface in Second Language Acquisition

Edited by Roeland van Hout, Aafke Hulk, Folkert Kuiken and Richard J. Towell

Second language acquisition has to integrate the totality of the SLA process, which includes both the learning of the core syntax of a language and the learning of the lexical items that have to be incorporated into that syntax. But these two domains involve different kinds of learning. Syntax is… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 30] 2003. viii, 234 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2003

Edited by Pierre Pica

Linguistic Variation Yearbook is devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. It aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It seeks in particular to investigate to what extent… read more

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 3] 2003. 249 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2003

Edited by Leonie Cornips and Paula Fikkert

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 20] 2003. viii, 225 pp. | open access

The Making of a Mixed Language: The case of Ma’a/Mbugu

Maarten Mous

The Mbugu (or Ma'á) language (Tanzania) is one of the few genuine mixed languages, reputedly combining Bantu grammar with Cushitic vocabulary. In fact the people speak two languages: one mixed and one closely related to the Bantu language Pare. This book is the first comprehensive description of… read more

[Creole Language Library, 26] 2003. xx, 322 pp.

Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 1

Edited by Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner

These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 99] 2003. xii, 388 pp.

Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 2

Edited by Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 100] 2003. viii, 496 pp.

Media and Language Change

Edited by Susan C. Herring

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4:1 (2003) iv, 159 pp.

Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing

Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg

In recent years, conceptual metonymy has been recognized as a cognitive phenomenon that is as fundamental as metaphor for reasoning and the construction of meaning. The thoroughly revised chapters in the present volume originated as presentations in a workshop organized by the editors for the 7th… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 113] 2003. xi, 280 pp.

Motion, Direction and Location in Languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier

Edited by Erin Shay and Uwe Seibert

This book contributes to an area of study that is of interest to linguists of all backgrounds. Typological in nature this volume presents data analysis from the major language families of Africa as well as Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Japanese, Indo-European, Siouan and Penutian. The 16 contributors… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 56] 2003. xvi, 305 pp.

Motivation in Language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden

Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Thomas Berg, René Dirven † and Klaus-Uwe Panther

This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, ‘Is the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?’ The greater part of the papers (Sections 1–3) analyze linguistic phenomena in which not… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 243] 2003. xxvi, 403 pp.

Multiple Analogies in Science and Philosophy

Cameron Shelley

A multiple analogy is a structured comparison in which several sources are likened to a target. In Multiple analogies in science and philosophy, Shelley provides a thorough account of the cognitive representations and processes that participate in multiple analogy formation. Through analysis of… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 11] 2003. xvi, 167 pp.

Multiple Wh-Fronting

Edited by Cedric Boeckx and Kleanthes K. Grohmann

Typological differences in the formation of multiple Wh-questions are well-known. One option is fronting all Wh-phrases to the sentence periphery. The contributions to this volume all explore this option from a number of perspectives. Topics covered include finer investigations of the “classic”… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 64] 2003. ix, 289 pp.

On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases: The expression of semantic roles in Ancient Greek

Silvia Luraghi

Prepositions and cases constitute a fruitful field of research for semantics. The historical development of their meaning can shed light on the relations among the semantic roles of participants and on the organization of conceptual space. Ancient Greek allows an in-depth study of such development.… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 67] 2003. xii, 366 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XV: Salt Lake City 2001

Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson and Samira Farwaneh

This volume includes nine papers selected from the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Four of the papers deal with the area of corpus linguistics (new for this series), including papers from both a computational and a variationist point of view. The other papers deal with… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 247] 2003. x, 214 pp.

Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium

Edited by Peter Kühnlein, Hannes Rieser and Henk Zeevat

The formal treatment of the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue became possible through a series of breakthroughs in foundational methodology. There is broad consensus on a couple of issues, like the fact that some variety of dynamic theory is necessary to capture certain characteristics of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 114] 2003. xii, 400 pp.

The Phonological Spectrum: Volume I: Segmental structure

Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst

The two volumes of the Phonological Spectrum aim at giving a comprehensive overview of current developments in phonological theory, by providing a number of papers in different areas of current theorizing which reflect on particular problems from different angles. Volume I is concerned with… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 233] 2003. x, 306 pp.

The Phonological Spectrum: Volume II: Suprasegmental structure

Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 234] 2003. x, 262 pp.

The Phonological Spectrum: 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 233-234] 2003. x, 308 pp. & x, 264 pp.

A Practical Guide to Lexicography

Edited by Piet van Sterkenburg

This is a state-of-the-art Guide to the fascinating world of the lexicon and its description in various types of dictionaries.A team of experts brings together a solid Introduction to Lexicography and leads you through decision-making processes step-by-step to compile and design dictionaries for… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 6] 2003. xii, 460 pp.

Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as architecture for function

Edited by John W. Du Bois, Lorraine E. Kumpf and William J. Ashby

Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure. In his original publication on Preferred Argument Structure, Du Bois (1987) demonstrated the power of this perspective by using it to explain the origins of ergativity and… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 14] 2003. ix, 458 pp.

Prolific Domains: On the Anti-Locality of movement dependencies

Kleanthes K. Grohmann

Standard conceptions of Locality aim to establish that a dependency between two positions may not span too long a distance. This book explores the opposite conception, Anti-Locality: Don’t move too close. The model of clause structure, syntactic computation, and locality concerns Kleanthes Grohmann… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 66] 2003. xv, 369 pp.

Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism: Interference and convergence in functional categories

Liliana Sánchez

This book addresses how cross-linguistic interference is represented in the bilingual mind. Examining novel oral production data from older bilingual children representing two Quechua varieties, this research concludes that interference in the feature specification of functional categories leads to… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 35] 2003. x, 189 pp.

Re/reading the past: Critical and functional perspectives on time and value

Edited by J.R. Martin and Ruth Wodak

Re/reading the Past is concerned with the discourses of history, from the complementary perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The papers in the book stress the discursive construction of the past, focussing on the different social narratives… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 8] 2003. vi, 277 pp.

Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000

Edited by Jacqueline Lecarme

This volume contains 22 of the papers presented at the 5th Conference on Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5) held at Université Paris VII in June 2000. The authors report their latest research on the syntax, morphology, and phonology of quite a number of languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Tigrinya,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 241] 2003. vii, 547 pp.

Rethinking Communicative Interaction: New interdisciplinary horizons

Edited by Colin B. Grant

This volume breaks open traditional disciplinary confines and approaches the full complexity of communicative interaction from an impressive range of exciting state-of-the-art perspectives in social psychology, conversation analysis, hermeneutics, constructivist psychology, communication theory,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 116] 2003. viii, 330 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001: Selected papers from 'Going Romance', Amsterdam, 6–8 December 2001

Edited by Josep Quer, Jan Schroten, Mauro Scorretti, Petra Sleeman and Els Verheugd-Daatzelaar

The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory published in the series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.Romance Languages and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 245] 2003. viii, 355 pp.

Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition. Selected papers from the 32nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Toronto, April 2002

Edited by Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Yves Roberge

This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 32nd Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, dealing with linguistic theory as applied to the Romance languages, and on empirical studies on the acquisition of Romance, with studies on Romanian, French,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 244] 2003. viii, 388 pp.

A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use: Selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001

Edited by Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López and Richard Cameron

Twenty-one articles from the 31st LSRL investigate cutting-edge issues and interfaces across phonology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, semantics, and syntax in multiple dialects of such Romance languages as Catalan, French, Creole French, and Spanish, both old and modern. Research in Romance… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 238] 2003. xv, 384 pp.

Searching for Structure: The problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation

Robert Englebretson

This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversational… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 13] 2003. x, 205 pp.

Skandinavisch-schottische Sprachbeziehungen im Mittelalter: Der altnordische lehneinfluss

Susanne Kries

Die Untersuchung stellt den ersten Versuch einer detaillierten Analyse der skandinavischen Lehnwörter im älteren Schottisch und im Mittelschottischen dar. Einzelne Kapitel widmen sich den unterschiedlichen semantischen Feldern, wobei sprachliche wie außersprachliche Bedingungen für die Entlehnung… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 20] 2003. xii, 500 pp.

Small Phrase Layers: A study of Finnish Manner Adverbials

Satu Manninen

This monograph examines the structure and properties of Finnish manner adverbials. The central idea is that, instead of AdvPs, DPs, APs, PPs, NumPs and InfinitivalPs, manner adverbials have the form of either kPs or pPs, and they are licensed as unique specifiers of a manner-related small vP.… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 65] 2003. xii, 275 pp.

Social Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill

Edited by David Britain and Jenny Cheshire

The time-honoured study of dialects took a new turn some forty years ago, giving centre stage to social factors and the quantitative analysis of language variation and change. It has become a discipline that no scholar of language can afford to ignore. This collection identifies the main… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 16] 2003. x, 344 pp.

Structure and Function – A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories: Part 1: Approaches to the simplex clause

Christopher S. Butler

This book and its companion volume present a detailed guide to three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar. This first volume provides the necessary background through a discussion of the characteristics of functional… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 63] 2003. xx, 573 pp.

Structure and Function – A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories: Part 2: From clause to discourse and beyond

Christopher S. Butler

Like its companion volume, this book offers a detailed description and comparison of three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar, illustrated throughout with corpus-derived examples from English and other languages.… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 64] 2003. xiv, 579 pp.

Studies in Evidentiality

Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon

In a number of languages, the speaker must specify the evidence for every statement whether seen, or heard, or inferred from indirect evidence, or learnt from someone else. This grammatical category, referring to information source, is called ‘evidentiality’. Evidentiality systems differ in how… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 54] 2003. xiv, 349 pp.

Tok Pisin Texts: From the beginning to the present

Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton and Suzanne Romaine

Tok Pisin is one of the most important languages of Melanesia and is used in a wide range of public and private functions in Papua New Guinea. The language has featured prominently in Pidgin and Creole linguistics and has featured in a number of debates in theoretical linguistics. With their… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, T9] 2003. x, 284 pp.

Verb Constructions in German and Dutch

Edited by Pieter A.M. Seuren and Gerard Kempen

German and Dutch verb constructions show a rich array of syntactic phenomena that have so far been underexposed in the literature, despite the fact that they have proved to be a source of substantial problems in theoretical grammar. The cross-linguistic study of verb constructions and … read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 242] 2003. vi, 314 pp.

Analogical Modeling: An exemplar-based approach to language

Edited by Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale and Dilworth B. Parkinson

Analogical Modeling (AM) is an exemplar-based general theory of description that uses both neighbors and non-neighbors (under certain well-defined conditions of homogeneity) to predict language behavior. This book provides a basic introduction to AM, compares the theory with nearest-neighbor… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 10] 2002. x, 416 pp.

Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 2 (2002)

Edited by Lynn Santelmann, Maaike Verrips and Frank Wijnen

[Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 2] 2002. iv, 202 pp.

Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and face-to-face interaction

Diana Boxer

Diana Boxers Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and Face-to-Face Interaction is an up-to-date overview of discourse studies in oral interaction. Its focus is on encounters in the various spheres of life: family, educational, social, religious, and work, with an additional chapter on cross-cultural… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 15] 2002. xii, 245 pp.

Appraising Research in Second Language Learning: A practical approach to critical analysis of quantitative research

Graeme Keith Porte

Designed for students of applied linguistics and TEFL on research training courses, practising language teachers, and those in training, this combination textbook/workbook is the first to provide specific advice and support to those wishing to learn how to approach the critical analysis of a… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 3] 2002. xx, 268 pp.

Bilingual Couples Talk: The discursive construction of hybridity

Ingrid Piller

This sociolinguistic study of the linguistic practices of bilingual couples describes the conditions, processes and results of private language contact. It is based on a unique corpus of more than 20 hours of private conversations between partners in bilingual marriages. Adding to its breadth of… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 25] 2002. xii, 315 pp.

Bio-Linguistics: The Santa Barbara lectures

T. Givón

Is human language an evolutionary adaptation? Is linguistics a natural science? These questions have bedeviled philosophers, philologists and linguists from Plato through Chomsky. Prof. Givón suggests that the answers fall naturally within an integrated study of living organisms.In this new work,… read more

[Not in series, 113] 2002. xviii, 383 pp.

The Body in Description of Emotion: Cross-linguistic studies

Edited by N.J. Enfield and Anna Wierzbicka

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 10:1/2 (2002) vi, 369 pp.

Children's Literature as Communication: The ChiLPA project

Edited by Roger D. Sell

In this book, members of the ChiLPA Project explore the children’s literature of several different cultures, ranging from ancient India, nineteenth century Russia, and the Soviet Union, to twentieth century Britain, America, Australia, Sweden, and Finland. The research covers not only the form and… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 2] 2002. xii, 352 pp.

Clinical Linguistics: Theory and applications in speech pathology and therapy

Edited by Elisabetta Fava

This book covers different aspects of speech and language pathology and it offers a fairly comprehensive overview of the complexity and the emerging importance of the field, by identifying and re-examining, from different perspectives, a number of standard assumptions in clinical linguistics and in… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 227] 2002. xxiv, 353 pp.

Clitics between Syntax and Lexicon

Birgit Gerlach

As a typical interface phenomenon, clitics have become increasingly important in linguistic theory during the last decade. The present book contributes to the recent discussion and first provides a comprehensive overview of clitic sequencing, clitic placement and clitic doubling in the major… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 51] 2002. xii, 282 pp.

Cognitive Stylistics: Language and cognition in text analysis

Edited by Elena Semino and Jonathan Culpeper

This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. The twelve chapters combine linguistic analysis with insights from cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics in order to… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 1] 2002. xvi, 333 pp.

Comparative Historical Dialectology: Italo-Romance clues to Ibero-Romance sound change

Thomas D. Cravens

This brief monograph explores the historical motivations for two sets of phonological changes in some varieties of Romance: restructured voicing of intervocalic /p t k/, and palatalization of initial /l/ and /n/. These developments have been treated repeatedly over the decades, yet neither has… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 231] 2002. xii, 163 pp.

Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson

Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Michael Noonan

The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson’s career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are… read more

[Not in series, 110] 2002. viii, 363 pp.

Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching

Edited by Sylviane Granger, Joseph Hung and Stephanie Petch-Tyson

This book takes stock of current research into computer learner corpora conducted both by ELT and SLA specialists. It should be of particular interest to researchers looking to assess its relevance to SLA theory and ELT practice. Throughout the volume, emphasis is also placed on practical,… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 6] 2002. x, 246 pp.

Creole Discourse: Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles

Susanne Mühleisen

Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image. How has this prestige been formed? And is it as static as the diglossic situation in many anglo-creolophone societies seems to suggest? This volume examines socio-historical and epistemological factors in the prestige… read more

[Creole Language Library, 24] 2002. xiv, 331 pp.

Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Development of Text-Production Abilities in Speech and Writing. Part 1

Edited by Ruth A. Berman and Ludo Verhoeven

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 5:1 (2002) iv, 135 pp.

Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Development of Text-Production Abilities in Speech and Writing. Part 2

Edited by Ruth A. Berman and Ludo Verhoeven

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 5:2 (2002) iv, 172 pp.

Current Issues in Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ann Arbor, 8–11 April 1999

Edited by Teresa Satterfield, Christina Tortora and Diana Cresti

This book presents an enlightening collection of papers contributing to theoretical discussions across many topics within the study of Romance Languages and Linguistics. The work originates from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held in 1999 at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 220] 2002. viii, 412 pp.

Defining Language: A local grammar of definition sentences

Geoff Barnbrook

Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself. Beyond this inherent significance as a crucial element of language study, definitions also provide a rich potential source of the information needed for Natural… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 11] 2002. xvi, 281 pp.

Degrees of Explicitness: Information structure and the packaging of Bulgarian subjects and objects

John Leafgren

This book explores factors relevant in the choices speakers and writers make in regard to explicitness of reference to the subjects and objects in their utterances. Bulgarian is a particularly felicitous target language for this type of study, since it possesses a rich inventory of available… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 102] 2002. xii, 252 pp.

Dimensions of Movement: From features to remnants

Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Sjef Barbiers and Hans-Martin Gärtner

This volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative research into the properties of phrasal and feature movement, which explore these key syntactic phenomena from different angles and across languages. The papers advance or build on models of movement which capitalize either on… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 48] 2002. vi, 345 pp.

Directions in Sign Language Acquisition

Edited by Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll

As the first book of its kind, this volume with contributions from many well known scholars brings together some of the most recent original work on sign language acquisition in children learning a variety of different signed languages (i.e., Brazilian Sign Language, American SL, SL of the… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 2] 2002. xx, 339 pp.

Discourse Intonation in L2: From theory and research to practice

Dorothy M. Chun

Intonation, rhythm, and general “melody” of language are among the first aspects of speech that infants attend to and produce themselves. Yet, these same features are among the last to be mastered by adult L2 learners. Why is this, and how can L2 learners be helped? This book first presents the… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 1] 2002. xviii, 285 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Doric: The dialect of North-East Scotland

J. Derrick McClure

The dialect of North-East Scotland, one of the most distinctive and best preserved in the country, survives as both a proudly maintained mark of local identity and the vehicle for a remarkable regional literature. The present study, after placing the dialect in its historical, geographical and… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, T8] 2002. vi, 219 pp.

The Dynamics of Terminology: A descriptive theory of term formation and terminological growth

Kyo Kageura

The discovery of rules for the systematicity and dynamics of terminology creations is essential for a sound basis of a theory of terminology. This quest provides the driving force for The Dynamics of Terminology in which Dr. Kageura demonstrates the interaction of these two factors on a specific… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 5] 2002. viii, 322 pp.

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 2 (2002)

Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, Tanja Ruthenberg and Marie Louise Poschen

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 2] 2002. iv, 289 pp.

English Discourse Particles: Evidence from a corpus

Karin Aijmer

There are few aspects of language which are more problematic than its discourse particles. The present study of discourse particles draws upon data from the London-Lund Corpus to show how the methods and tools of corpora can sharpen their description. The first part of the book provides a picture… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 10] 2002. xvi, 298 pp.

English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000. Volume 1

Edited by Teresa Fanego, Javier Pérez-Guerra and María José López-Couso

This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present twelve papers were carefully selected to… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 223] 2002. ix, 297 pp.

Essays in Speech Act Theory

Edited by Daniel Vanderveken and Susumu Kubo

Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context. This book addresses questions such as:- What do we mean?- How do we say it? and- How is it understood?in the broad context of universal, socio-cultural and psychological issues that bear on… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 77] 2002. vi, 345 pp.

The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar: The formation of the resultative construction and its effects

Yuzhi Shi

This book investigates historical motivations for the emergence of the resultative construction in Chinese from the following four aspects: (a) disyllabification, (b)adjacent context, (c) semantic integrity, and (d) frequency of co-occurence of a pair of verb and resultative. The author also… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 59] 2002. xiv, 262 pp.

The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language

Edited by T. Givón and Bertram F. Malle

The contributors to this volume are linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, primatologists, and anthropologists who share the assumption that language, just as mind and brain, are products of biological evolution. The rise of human language is not viewed as a serendipitous mutation that gave… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 53] 2002. x, 394 pp.

Exploring Natural Language: Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English

Gerald Nelson, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts

ICE-GB is a 1 million-word corpus of contemporary British English. It is fully parsed, and contains over 83,000 syntactic trees. Together with the dedicated retrieval software, ICECUP, ICE-GB is an unprecedented resource for the study of English syntax.Exploring Natural Language is a comprehensive… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G29] 2002. xviii, 344 pp.

Exploring Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural Language Database Interfaces

Ion Androutsopoulos

Advances in temporal databases make it increasingly easier to store time-dependent information, creating a need for facilities that will help end-users access this information. In the context of natural language interaction, significant effort has been devoted to interfaces that allow database… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 6] 2002. x, 306 pp.

The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English: A pragmatic approach

Susan Fitzmaurice

This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 95] 2002. viii, 263 pp.

First Language Attrition, Use and Maintenance: The case of German Jews in anglophone countries

Monika S. Schmid

This book is a study of the L1 attrition of German among German Jews who emigrated to anglophone countries under the Nazi regime. It places the study of language attrition within the historical and sociocultural framework of Weimar and Nazi Germany, applying issues of identity and identification to… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 24] 2002. xiv, 259 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

From OV to VO in Early Middle English

Carola Trips

This monograph answers the question of why English changed from an OV to a VO language on the assumption that this change is due to intensive language contact with Scandinavian. It shows for the first time that the English language was much more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than assumed… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 60] 2002. xiv, 359 pp.

From Whitney to Chomsky: Essays in the history of American linguistics

John E. Joseph

What is ‘American’ about American linguistics? Is Jakobson, who spent half his life in America, part of it? What became of Whitney’s genuinely American conception of language as a democracy? And how did developments in 20th-century American linguistics relate to broader cultural trends?This book… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 103] 2002. viii, 240 pp.

Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 2

Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann

This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 10] 2002. xiv, 349 pp.

Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis

Edited by Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland

Gender and discourse interface in many more epistemological sites than can be represented in one collection. Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis therefore focuses on a principled diversity of key sites within four broad areas: the media, sexuality, education and parenthood. The different… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 2] 2002. vii, 335 pp.

Gender in Interaction: Perspectives on femininity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse

Edited by Bettina Baron and Helga Kotthoff

In this volume, gender is seen as a communicative achievement and as a social category interacting with other social parametres such as age, status, prestige, institutional and ethnic frameworks, cultural and situative contexts. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds such as sociology of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 93] 2002. xxiv, 357 pp.

Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French

Kate Beeching

This study aims to investigate politeness in women’s and men’s speech, with a particular focus on the use of c’est-à-dire, enfin, hein and quoi in contemporary spoken French. Politeness is defined as going beyond the notion of the face-threatening act, englobing both everyday ideas of politeness… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 104] 2002. x, 251 pp.

The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation

Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani

This volume presents fifteen original papers dealing with various aspects of causative constructions ranging from morphology to semantics with emphasis on language data from Central and South America. Informed by a better understanding of how different constructions are positioned both… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 48] 2002. xviii, 551 pp.

Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: Volume 2

Edited by Daniel Long and Dennis R. Preston

The Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology, Volume 2, expands on the coverage of both regions and methodologies in the investigation of nonlinguists' perceptions of language variety. New areas studied include Canada (anglophone and francophone), Cuba, Hungary, Italy, Korea, and Mali, and most… read more

[Not in series, HPD 2] 2002. xxvi, 412 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2000 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 6] 2002. iv, 298 pp.

Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning

Edited by Peter Robinson

Second language learners differ in how successfully they adapt to, and profit from, instruction. This book aims to show that adaptation to L2 instruction, and subsequent L2 learning, is a result of the interaction between learner characteristics and learning contexts. Describing and explaining… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2] 2002. xii, 387 pp.

Information Design: An introduction

Rune Pettersson

The goal of communication-oriented design of messages should always be clarity of communication. In information design the task of the sender is actually not completed until the receivers have received and understood the intended messages.Information Design – An introduction includes chapters… read more

[Document Design Companion Series, 3] 2002. x, 296 pp.

An Introduction to the Grammar of English: Syntactic arguments and socio-historical background

Elly van Gelderen

This Introduction provides a lively and clearly written textbook. It introduces basic concepts of grammar in a format which inspires the reader to use linguistic arguments. The style of the book is engaging and examples from poetry, jokes, and puns illustrate grammatical concepts.The focus is on… read more

[Not in series, 111] 2002. xxiv, 200 pp.

Invisible Work: Bilingualism, language choice and childrearing in intermarried families

Toshie Okita

There is growing recognition that context is important for bilingual language development, but understanding of that context remains underdeveloped. This innovative study, spanning the fields of bilingualism, ethnicity and family studies, shows how language use in intermarried families is deeply… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 12] 2002. x, 275 pp.

Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology

Edited by Werner Abraham and Jan-Wouter Zwart

This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 45] 2002. xviii, 336 pp.

Japanese

Shoichi Iwasaki

Japanese ranks as the sixth language of the world with more than 125 million speakers in the island state of Japan. Its genetic relation has been a topic of heated discussion, but Altaic and Austronesian languages appear to have contributed to the early formation of this language. It has a long… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 5] 2002. xx, 360 pp.

Jewish Translation History: A bibliography of bibliographies and studies

Robert Singerman

A classified bibliographic resource for tracing the history of Jewish translation activity from the Middle Ages to the present day, providing the researcher with over a thousand entries devoted solely to the Jewish role in the east-to-west transmission of Greek and Arab learning and science into… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 44] 2002. xxxvi, 420 pp.

The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology

Edited by M. Rafael Salaberry and Yasuhiro Shirai

The present volume provides a cross-linguistic perspective on the development of tense-aspect in L2 acquisition. Data-based studies included in this volume deal with the analysis of a wide range of target languages: Chinese, English, Italian, French, Japanese, and Spanish. Theoretical frameworks… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 27] 2002. x, 489 pp.

Language in Language Teacher Education

Edited by Hugh Trappes-Lomax and Gibson Ferguson

This volume explores the defining element in the work of language teacher educators: language itself. The book is in two parts. The first part holds up to scrutiny concepts of language that underlie much practice in language teacher education yet too frequently remain under-examined. These include… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 4] 2002. vi, 258 pp.

Language in South Africa: The role of language in national transformation, reconstruction and development

Victor Webb

Language in South Africa (LiSA) debates the role of language and language planning in the reconstruction, development and transformation of post-apartheid democratic South Africa. The 1996 constitution of South Africa is founded on the political philosophy of pluralism and is directed at promoting… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 14] 2002. xxviii, 357 pp.

Language, Vision and Music: Selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, 1999

Edited by Paul Mc Kevitt, Seán Ó Nualláin and Conn Mulvihill

Language, vision and music: what common cognitive patterns underlie our competence in these disparate modes of thought? Language (natural & formal), vision and music seem to share at least the following attributes: a hierarchical organisation of constituents, recursivity, metaphor, the possibility… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 35] 2002. xii, 433 pp.

The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st century. Volume 1: Philosophy of science, syntax and semantics

Edited by Bruce E. Nevin

Zellig Harris opened many lines of research in language, information, and culture, from generative grammar to informatics, from mathematics to language pedagogy. An international array of scholars here describe further developments and relate this work to that of others. Volume 1 begins with a… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 228] 2002. xxxv, 323 pp.

The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st century. Volume 2: Mathematics and computability of language

Edited by Bruce E. Nevin and Stephen B. Johnson

Zellig Harris had a profound influence in formal systems and applied mathematics, in demonstrations of the computability of language, and in informatics. Volume 2 begins with a commentary by André Lentin on Harris's grounding in constructivist, intuitionist mathematics, drawing a parallel between… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 229] 2002. xix, 312 pp.

The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, computational and experimental issues

Edited by Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson

Lexical effects on language processing are currently a major focus of attention in studies of sentence comprehension. This thematic collection provides a uniquely multi-faceted and integrated viewpoint on key aspects of lexicalist theories, drawing from the fields of theoretical linguistics,… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 4] 2002. viii, 363 pp.

Lexical Template Morphology: Change of state and the verbal prefixes in German

B. Roger Maylor

While there have been many attempts in the literature to account for the semantics and syntax of individual German(ic)prefixes, this is the first time that the prefixes have been analysed in a unified way and a framework established that is capable of relating the prefixes to each other and to… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 58] 2002. x, 273 pp.

Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches

Edited by Bengt Altenberg and Sylviane Granger

This volume takes stock of current research in contrastive lexical studies. It reflects the growing interest in corpus-based approaches to the study of lexis, in particular the use of multilingual corpora, shared by researchers working in widely differing fields — contrastive linguistics,… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 7] 2002. x, 339 pp.

Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts

Fredric Field

A number of previous approaches to linguistic borrowing and contact phenomena in general have concluded that there are no formal boundaries whatsoever to the kinds of material that can pass from one language into another. At the same time, various hierarchies illustrate that some things are indeed… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 62] 2002. xviii, 252 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2002

Edited by Pierre Pica

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 2] 2002. iv, 308 pp.

Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus: Morpho-syntactic variability of second person pronouns

Ulrich Busse

This study investigates the morpho-syntactic variability of the second person pronouns in the Shakespeare Corpus, seeking to elucidate the factors that underlie their choice. The major part of the work is devoted to analyzing the variation between you and thou, but it also includes chapters that… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 106] 2002. xiv, 344 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2002

Edited by Hans Broekhuis and Paula Fikkert

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 19] 2002. viii, 222 pp. | open access

The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying

Edited by John Newman

This volume explores properties of ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ verbs, reflecting three of the most salient postures associated with humans. An introductory chapter by the Editor provides an overview of directions for research into posture verbs. These directions are then explored in detail in a… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 51] 2002. xii, 409 pp.

Literacies: Tertiary contexts

Compiled and edited by Zosia Golebiowski

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25:2 (2002) vii, 148 pp.

Maintaining and Setting Standards and Language Variation in the Asian Pacific Region

Edited by Amy B.M. Tsui

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 12:1 (2002) vi, 184 pp.

Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings. Volume 1

Edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka

This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal grammar is constituted by the inherent grammatical properties of some 60 empirically established semantic primes, which appear… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 60] 2002. xvi, 337 pp.

Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings. Volume 2

Edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 61] 2002. xvi, 334 pp.

Middle Voice: A comparative study in the syntax-semantics interface of German

Markus Steinbach

This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages. It integrates the interpretation of non-argument reflexives into a modified version of recent… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 50] 2002. xii, 337 pp.

Modality and its Interaction with the Verbal System

Edited by Sjef Barbiers, Frits Beukema and Wim van der Wurff

This book provides a broad overview of the issues relevant for the study of syntax of modals and their interaction with the verbal system. A large number of novel observations are offered from a variety of languages, including Dutch, (Modern and Middle) English, German, Lele, Macedonian, Middle… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 47] 2002. x, 290 pp.

Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000

Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Maria D. Voeikova

This volume focuses on two main topics: comparative morphology (i.e. cross-linguistic analysis, including typology, dialectology and diachrony) and psycholinguistics (i.e. on-line processing, off-line experiments, child language). Since the psycholinguistic papers of this volume consistently refer… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 218] 2002. vii, 317 pp.

Natural Language Processing for Online Applications: Text retrieval, extraction and categorization

Peter Jackson and Isabelle Moulinier

This text covers the emerging technologies of document retrieval, information extraction, and text categorization in a way which highlights commonalities in terms of both general principles and practical issues. It seeks to satisfy a need on the part of technology practitioners in the Internet… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 5 (1st)] 2002. x, 226 pp.

New Reflections on Grammaticalization

Edited by Ilse Wischer and Gabriele Diewald

The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues and raise a number of new questions that indicate the future direction of grammaticalization studies. The volume focuses on issues such as grammaticalization and lexicalization; the unidirectionality… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 49] 2002. xiv, 435 pp.

The Nominative & Accusative and their counterparts

Edited by Kristin Davidse and Béatrice Lamiroy

This volume is devoted to the central cases relating to the basic oppositions between subject-object and agent-patient, viz. nominative and accusative, as well as their counterparts such as ergative and absolutive. It aims at contributing to the typological investigation of these cases by providing… read more

[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 4] 2002. x, 363 pp.

Particle Verbs in English: Syntax, information structure and intonation

Nicole Dehé

This book offers a new account of the transitive particle verb construction in English. The main emphasis is on the alternation between the two word orders possible in English (continuous: hand in the manuscript vs. discontinuous: hand the manuscript in). The central aim is to show that the choice… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 59] 2002. xii, 302 pp.

Particles

Edited by Ton van der Wouden, Ad Foolen and Piet Van de Craen

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 16] 2002. iv, 208 pp.

Pedagogical Norms for Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Studies in honour of Albert Valdman

Edited by Susan M. Gass, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Sally Magnan Pierce and Joel Walz

The concept of Pedagogical Norm is grounded in both sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic principles. Pedagogical norms guide the selection and sequencing of target language features for language teaching and learning. This book both situates and expands on this concept highlighting the interaction… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 5] 2002. vi, 305 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XIII-XIV: Stanford, 1999 and Berkeley, California 2000

Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson and Elabbas Benmamoun

The papers in this collection derive from the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics held in Stanford (1999) and Berkeley (2000). The selection is noteworthy for its diversity of approach, and for a noticeable broadening of the kinds of questions that are being asked and the kind of data being… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 230] 2002. xiv, 250 pp.

Point of View and Grammar: Structural patterns of subjectivity in American English conversation

Joanne Scheibman

This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject, tense, and verb type are those… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 11] 2002. xiv, 187 pp.

Politics as Text and Talk: Analytic approaches to political discourse

Edited by Paul Chilton and Christina Schäffner

Human beings are political animals. They are also articulate mammals. How are these two aspects linked? This is a question that is only beginning to be explored. The present collection makes a contribution to the investigations into the use of language in those situations which, informally and… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 4] 2002. x, 246 pp.

Postvelar Harmony

Kimary N. Shahin

This book examines the formal bases of postvelar harmony and its crosslinguistic variation. It is of interest especially to phonologists concerned with segmental harmony and its explanation within Optimality Theory. Postvelar harmony in two unrelated languages, Palestinian Arabic and St'át'imcets… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 225] 2002. viii, 344 pp.

Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série. Volume 4

Edited by Eva Hajičová, Petr Sgall, Jirí Hana and Tomáš Hoskovec

The fourth volume of the revived series of “Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague” brings three contributions (by J. Vachek, O. Leška and V. Skalička) connected with the classical period of the Prague School, as well as papers delivered at the conference “Function, Form, and Meaning: Bridges and… read more

[Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague N.S., 4] 2002. viii, 376 pp.

Precursors of Functional Literacy

Edited by Ludo Verhoeven, Carsten Elbro and Pieter Reitsma

The purpose of this volume is to present recent research in the field of the acquisition of functional literacy and its precursors. The volume aims to capture the state of the art in this rapidly expanding field. An attempt is made to clarify the vague and often inconsistent definitions of… read more

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 11] 2002. viii, 360 pp.

Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context

Edited by Susanne Feigenbaum and Dennis Kurzon

The growing interest in prepositions is reflected by this impressive collection of papers from leading scholars of various fields. The selected contributions of Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context focus on the local and temporal semantics of prepositions in relation to… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 50] 2002. vi, 304 pp.

Pronouns – Grammar and Representation

Edited by Horst J. Simon and Heike Wiese

The contributions of this thematic collection center around the typology of pronominal paradigms, the generation of syntactic and semantic representations for constructions containing pronouns, and the neurological underpinnings for linguistic distinctions that are relevant for the production and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 52] 2002. xii, 294 pp.

Pronouns, Clitics and Empty Nouns: ‘Pronominality’ and licensing in syntax

Phoevos Panagiotidis

Two issues little discussed in the generative literature are the internal structure of pronouns and what it is in Syntax that triggers pronominal reference. This monograph treats these two topics in detail and investigates whether pronominal (strong, weak and clitic pronouns) and related elliptical… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 46] 2002. x, 214 pp.

Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains

Edited by Tom Güldemann and Manfred von Roncador

The present volume unites 15 papers on reported discourse from a wide genetic and geographical variety of languages. Besides the treatment of traditional problems of reported discourse like the classification of its intermediate categories, the book reflects in particular how its grammatical,… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 52] 2002. xii, 425 pp.

Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction

Edited by Anita Fetzer and Christiane Meierkord

This book addresses current approaches to sequentiality in pragmatics and discourse analysis. It reflects the current moves in ethnomethodological conversation analysis and speech act theory to cross methodological borders to arrive at a conception of a sequence, which extends the local notion of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 103] 2002. vi, 300 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2000: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2000, Utrecht, 30 November–2 December

Edited by Claire Beyssade, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Frank Drijkoningen and Paola Monachesi

This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 2000 'Going Romance' conference, held in Utrecht. The papers discuss current topics in formal syntax in Romance languages. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 232] 2002. viii, 354 pp.

Romance Phonology and Variation: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000

Edited by Caroline R. Wiltshire and Joaquim Camps

This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, focussing on the areas of phonology and language variation. The papers address issues in phonology such as the emergence of the unmarked, representational… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 217] 2002. xi, 238 pp.

Semitic and Indo-European: Volume II: Comparative morphology, syntax and phonetics

Saul Levin

This is a sequel to the author's Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies (1995). That volume provided the key examples of morphological correspondences between the Semitic and the Indo-European languages. In this sequel, the author analyzes correspondences of structure, either within a… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 226] 2002. xviii, 592 pp.

Separate and Unequal: Judicial rhetoric and women's rights

Huang Hoon Chng

This book argues for a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the language of judges with respect to the issue of gender discrimination. Drawing its inspiration from Dell Hymes' socially constituted linguistics, the author examines the language of the judicial opinions of four U.S. Supreme… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 3] 2002. viii, 156 pp.

Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics

Edited by Wallis Reid, Ricardo Otheguy and Nancy Stern

This is the second volume of papers on sign-based linguistics to emerge from Columbia School linguistics conferences. One set of articles offers semantic analyses of grammatical features of specific languages: English full-verb inversion; Serbo-Croatian deictic pronouns; English auxiliary do;… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 48] 2002. xxii, 413 pp.

Sounds, Words, Texts and Change: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000. Volume 2

Edited by Teresa Fanego, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane

This volume and its companion one (English Historical Syntax and Morphology, CILT 223) offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 224] 2002. ix, 301 pp.

A Source Book for Irish English

Raymond Hickey

The current book intends to provide a flexible and comprehensive bibliographical tool to those scholars working or interested in Irish English. A whole range of references (approx. 2,500) relating to Irish English in all its aspects are gathered together here and in the majority of cases… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 27] 2002. xii, 541 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Speaking Back: The free speech versus hate speech debate

Katharine Gelber

This book proposes an original policy framework for addressing hate speech. Gelber argues that a policy designed to provide support to affected groups and communities to enable them to speak back when hate speech occurs, is a more useful way of addressing the harms of hate speech than punitive… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 1] 2002. xiv, 177 pp.

Standardization: Studies from the Germanic languages

Edited by Andrew R. Linn and Nicola McLelland

This volume presents fourteen case studies of standardization processes in eleven different Germanic languages. Together, the contributions confront problematic issues in standardization which will be of interest to sociolinguists, as well as to historical linguists from all language disciplines.… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 235] 2002. xii, 258 pp.

Still More Englishes

Manfred Görlach †

This monograph comprises eight papers, most of which originated as presentations given at international conferences or guest lectures. These papers deal with the problematic nature of English as a global language, and discuss what makes texts authentic and reliable for linguistic analysis, Scots in… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G28] 2002. xiv, 240 pp.

Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax: Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000)

Edited by Jan-Wouter Zwart and Werner Abraham

This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages.Divided in four main sections, the book focuses on issues of subordination and complementation (with… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 53] 2002. xiv, 404 pp.

The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole: The Sotavento varieties

Marlyse Baptista

This book offers an in-depth treatment of a variety of morpho-syntactic issues in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) both from a descriptive and theoretical perspective. The investigated topics include the determiner system, Tense, Mood, Aspect markers and pronominal paradigms. The study of TMA markers… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 54] 2002. xxii, 294 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish Mood

Henk Haverkate

This study provides a consistent description and explanation of the syntax, the semantics and the pragmatics of Spanish mood. A major focus of attention is the central role of the truthfunctional categories of realis, potentialis and irrealis as parameters relevant to mood selection in both… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 96] 2002. vi, 235 pp.

Talking Gender and Sexuality

Edited by Paul McIlvenny

This edited volume brings together scholars from psychology, linguistics, sociology and communication science to investigate how performative notions of gender and sexuality can be fruitfully explored with the rich set of tools that have been developed by conversation analysis and discursive… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 94] 2002. x, 327 pp.

Telephone Calls: Unity and diversity in conversational structure across languages and cultures

Edited by K.K. Luke and Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou

Telephone conversation is one of the most common forms of communication in contemporary society. For the first time in human history, some people are spending as much time, if not more, talking on the telephone as they are on face-to-face conversations. The aims of this book are: to bring together… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 101] 2002. x, 290 pp.

Thematics: Interdisciplinary Studies

Edited by Max M. Louwerse and Willie van Peer

Themes play a central role in our everyday communication: we have to know what a text is about in order to understand it. Intended meaning cannot be understood without some knowledge of the underlying theme. This book helps to define the concept of ‘themes’ in texts and how they are structured in… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 3] 2002. x, 448 pp.

Theoretical Approaches to Universals

Edited by Artemis Alexiadou

The present volume has its origin in the GLOW conference on Universals hosted in Berlin in March 1999. The papers in this volume are concerned both with formal as well as with substantive universals. All the contributions attempt to identify universal properties of the language faculty, as well as… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 49] 2002. viii, 319 pp.

Tone of Voice and Mind: The connections between intonation, emotion, cognition and consciousness

Norman D. Cook

Tone of Voice and Mind is a synthesis of findings from neurophysiology (how neurons produce subjective feeling), neuropsychology (how the human cerebral hemispheres undertake complementary information-processing), intonation studies (how the emotions are encoded in the tone of voice), and music… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 47] 2002. x, 293 pp.

Trends in Teenage Talk: Corpus compilation, analysis and findings

Anna-Brita Stenström, Gisle Andersen and Ingrid Kristine Hasund

Teenage talk is fascinating, though so far teenage language has not been given the attention in linguistic research that it merits. The dearth of investigations into teenage language is due in part to under representation in language corpora. With the Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT)… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 8] 2002. xii, 229 pp.

Us and Others: Social identities across languages, discourses and cultures

Edited by Anna Duszak †

It is natural for people to make the distinction between in-group (Us) and out-group members (Others). What is it that brings people together, or keeps them apart? Ethnicity, nationality, professional expertise or life style? And, above all, what is the role of language in communicating solidarity… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 98] 2002. viii, 517 pp.

Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation

Edited by Randi Reppen, Susan Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber

Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation illustrates the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation. Two major kinds of research questions are considered: variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature, and variation across dialects or… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 9] 2002. xii, 275 pp.

200 Years of Syntax: A critical survey

Giorgio Graffi

This book argues convincingly against the widespread opinion that very few syntactic studies were carried out before the 1950s. Relying on the detailed analysis of a large amount of original sources, it shows that syntactic matters were in fact carefully investigated throughout both the 19th… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 98] 2001. xiv, 551 pp.

Actualization: Linguistic Change in Progress. Papers from a workshop held at the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, B.C., 14 August 1999

Edited by Henning Andersen

This collection of papers consolidates the observation that linguistic change typically is actualized step by step: any structural innovation being introduced, accepted, and generalized, over time, in one grammatical environment after another, in a progression that can be understood by reference to… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 219] 2001. vii, 250 pp.

Ambiguity

Sous la direction de Éric Laporte

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 24:1 (2001) iv, 146 pp.

Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 1 (2001)

Edited by Lynn Santelmann, Maaike Verrips and Frank Wijnen

[Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 1] 2001. 197 pp.

Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. Volume 1

Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Barbara Höhle

Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 23] 2001. xviii, 298 pp.

Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. Volume 2

Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Barbara Höhle

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 24] 2001. vi, 336 pp.

Aspects of “Interpersonal Grammar”: Grounding, modality, and evidentiality

Edited by Kristin Davidse and Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen

This thematic issue focuses on aspects of ‘interpersonal’ grammar. The underlying assumption, found in most functional frameworks, is that utterances are not only ‘representations’ of reality, but also encode the speaker’s attitude to, and his or her interactive intentions with, those… read more

Special issue of Functions of Language 8:2 (2001) iv, 154 pp.

Automatic Summarization

Inderjeet Mani

With the explosion in the quantity of on-line text and multimedia information in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in automatic summarization. This book provides a systematic introduction to the field, explaining basic definitions, the strategies used by human summarizers, and… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 3] 2001. xii, 286 pp.

Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 1: Past and Present

Edited by Östen Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European — Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 54] 2001. xx, 382 pp.

Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 2: Grammar and Typology

Edited by Östen Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European —Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 55] 2001. xx, 423 pp.

Communicative Organization in Natural Language: The semantic-communicative structure of sentences

Igor Mel’čuk

The book defines the concept of Semantic-Communicative Structure [= Sem-CommS]-a formal object that is imposed on the starting Semantic Structure [= SemS] of a sentence (under text synthesis) in order to turn the selected meaning into a linguistic message. The Sem-CommS is a system of eight… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 57] 2001. xii, 393 pp.

Conversational Dominance and Gender: A study of Japanese speakers in first and second language contexts

Hiroko Itakura

This book investigates the notion of conversational dominance in depth, and seeks to establish a systematic method of analysing it. It also offers a new insight into the role of gender and the pragmatic transfer of conversational norms in the first and second language conversations among native… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 89] 2001. xviii, 231 pp.

Corpus Linguistics at Work

Elena Tognini-Bonelli

The book offers a combined discussion of the main theoretical, methodological and application issues related to corpus work. Thus, starting from the definition of what is a corpus and why reading a corpus calls for a different methodology from reading a text, the underlying assumptions behind… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 6] 2001. xii, 224 pp.

Creolization and Contact

Edited by Norval Smith and Tonjes Veenstra

This volume contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at “The Amsterdam Workshop on Language Contact and Creolization.” These studies apply the concept of relexification to creoles as well as other contact languages; highlight the relevance of strategies of… read more

[Creole Language Library, 23] 2001. vi, 323 pp.

Culture in Communication: Analyses of intercultural situations

Edited by Aldo Di Luzio, Susanne Günthner and Franca Orletti

This volume is dedicated to questions arising in linguistic, sociological and anthropological analyses of intercultural encounters. It aims at presenting new theoretical and methodological aspects of Intercultural Communication, focusing on issues such as ideology and hegemonial attitudes,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 81] 2001. xvi, 341 pp.

Dimensions of Possession

Edited by Irène Baron, Michael Herslund and Finn Sørensen

Few linguistic concepts are more elusive than ‘possession’. The present collection of articles, selected from an international workshop held in Copenhagen in May 1998, confronts the subject from several angles (lexicon; the semantics of possession and the verb HAVE; the syntax of genitives and… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 47] 2001. vi, 335 pp.

Détermination et Formalisation

Sous la direction de Xavier Blanco, Pierre-André Buvet et Zoé Gavriilidou

The contributions brought together in this volume represent the state-of-the-art in the study of determiners, which finds itself in the intersection of such fields as theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, and logic. The articles provide original viewpoints on determination, and bring… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 23] 2001. xii, 344 pp.

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 1 (2001)

Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen and Anna Nizegorodcew

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 1] 2001. iv, 289 pp.

Empty Categories in Sentence Processing

Sam Featherston

This book reports a research program into one of the most controversial questions in the syntax — processing interface: The behavior of the parser at gap positions. While the work done is largely experimental, the results are analyzed both for their relevance to sentence processing and for their… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 43] 2001. xvi, 277 pp.

English World-Wide 1980–1999: Index to volumes 1–20

Compiled by Manfred Görlach †

This index to 20 volumes of English World-Wide provides an overview of the journal by presenting the complete tables of contents of those volumes, and – more importantly – easy access to the contents of the journal by carefully compiled indices of Names and Subjects. read more

[English World-Wide, 21:IND] 2001. viii, 94 pp.

English in Australia

Edited by David Blair and Peter Collins

This unique collection fills a ten-year gap in studies on the nature of Australian English, and it is the first to deal exclusively with varieties of English on the Australian continent. The book contains chapters on the phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon of the dialect, and chapters on… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G26] 2001. vi, 366 pp.

Ethnicity and Language Change: English in (London)Derry, Northern Ireland

Kevin McCafferty

Part sociolinguistic, part ethnographic, this book takes up the neglected question of how ethnic division interacts with variation and change in Northern Irish English. It identifies an idealised folk model of harmoniouscommunities, in spite of the social divide and open conflict that have long… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 7] 2001. xx, 244 pp.

Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: Narrative Retelling

Ilana Mushin

This book explores the discourse pragmatics of reportive evidentiality in Macedonian, Japanese and English through an empirical study of evidential strategies in narrative retelling. The patterns of evidential use (and non-use) found in these languages are attributed to contextual, cultural and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 87] 2001. xviii, 240 pp.

Evidentials and Relevance

Elly Ifantidou

This book uses Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory to show how evidential expressions can be analysed in a unified semantic/pragmatic framework. The first part surveys general linguistic work on evidentials, presents speech-act theory and examines Grice’s theory of meaning and communication with… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 86] 2001. xii, 225 pp.

The Evolution of Grounded Communication

Edited by Luc Steels

Special issue of Evolution of Communication 4:1 (2001) iv, 161 pp.

Features and Interfaces in Romance: Essays in honor of Heles Contreras

Edited by Julia Herschensohn, Enrique Mallén and Karen Zagona

This volume brings together new research on theoretical Romance Linguistics; its intended audience is scholars in the field of formal grammar, especially those specializing in Romance languages. It represents the latest work on the structure of Romance languages, with relevant comparisons to other… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 222] 2001. xiv, 302 pp.

Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure

Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Paul J. Hopper

A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 45] 2001. vii, 492 pp.

Functional Structure in Nominals: Nominalization and ergativity

Artemis Alexiadou

This monograph offers an in depth investigation of nominalization processes across languages e.g. Greek, Germanic, Romance, Hebrew, Slavic. Adopting and extending the view that category formation does not involve any lexical operation (recently put forth within the framework of Distributed… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 42] 2001. x, 231 pp.

Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 1

Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann

This is the first of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 9] 2001. xiv, 328 pp.

Grammatical Relations in Change

Edited by Jan Terje Faarlund

The eleven selected contributions making up this volume deal with grammatical relations, their coding and behavioral properties, and the change that these properties have undergone in different languages. The focus of this collection is on the changing properties of subjects and objects, although… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 56] 2001. viii, 326 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 1999 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 5] 2001. vi, 282 pp.

Handbook of Terminology Management: Volume 2: Application-Oriented Terminology Management

Compiled by Sue Ellen Wright and Gerhard Budin

The Handbook of Terminology Management is a unique work designed to meet the practical needs of terminologists, translators, lexicographers, subject specialists (e.g., engineers, medical professionals, etc.), standardizers and others who have to solve terminological problems in their daily work.In… read more

[Not in series, HTM 2] 2001. xvi, 550 pp.

Hausa

Philip J. Jaggar

Hausa is a major world language, spoken as a mother tongue by more than 30 million people in northern Nigeria and southern parts of Niger, in addition to diaspora communities of traders, Muslim scholars and immigrants in urban areas of West Africa, e.g. southern Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo, and the… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 7] 2001. xxxiv, 754 pp.

Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999

Edited by Laurel J. Brinton

This is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held August 9-13, 1999, at the University of British Columbia. From the rich program and the many papers given during this conference, the present twenty-three papers were carefully selected to display… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 215] 2001. xii, 389 pp.

History of Linguistics in Spain/Historia de la Lingüística en España: Volume II

Edited by E.F.K. Koerner † and Hans-Josef Niederehe

The contributions in this volume, a sequel to the volume published in 1986 (SiHoLS 34), treat many aspects of the history of the language sciences in Spain and in Hibero-America, from the Renaissance and ‘Siglo de Oro’ to the 20th century. Most papers were published in the journal Historiographia… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 100] 2001. xxii, 463 pp.

Ideophones

Edited by F.K. Erhard Voeltz and Christa Kilian-Hatz

The present volume represents a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Ideophones held in January 1999 in St. Augustin, Germany. They center around the following hypotheses: Ideophones are universal; and constitute a grammatical category in all languages of the world;… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 44] 2001. x, 436 pp.

Input and Evidence: The raw material of second language acquisition

Susanne Elizabeth Carroll

Input and Evidence: the raw material of second language acquisition is an empirical and theoretical treatment of one of the essential components of SLA: the input to language learning mechanisms. It reviews and adds to the empirical studies showing that negative evidence (correction, feedback,… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 25] 2001. xviii, 461 pp.

Language Management and Language Problems: Part II

Edited by Björn H. Jernudd

Dedicated to Professor J. V. Neustupný, this volume offers a discussion of the development function as a source of language problems. read more

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 11:1 (2001) vi, 100 pp.

Language and Ideology: Volume 2: descriptive cognitive approaches

Edited by René Dirven †, Roslyn M. Frank and Cornelia Ilie

Together with its sister volume on Theoretical Cognitive Approaches, this volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies. This volume shows that descriptive tools which cognitive linguistics developed for the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 205] 2001. vi, 267 pp.

Language and National Identity: Comparing France and Sweden

Leigh Oakes

This book re-examines the relationship between language and national identity. Unlike many previous studies, it employs a comparative approach: France and Sweden have been chosen as case studies both for theirsimilarities (e.g. both are member states of the European Union) as well as their… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 13] 2001. x, 305 pp.

Languages Within Language: An evolutive approach

Ivan Fónagy

There is little hope of reconstructing by means of comparative or typological studies a lingua adamica essentially different from present-day languages. The distant preverbal past is however still present in live speech. Phonetic, syntactic and semantic rule transgressions, far from being products… read more

[Foundations of Semiotics, 13] 2001. xiii, 828 pp.

Linguistic Approaches to Poetry

Edited by Christine Michaux and Marc Dominicy

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 15] 2001. viii, 228 pp.

Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish

Edited by Arın Bayraktaroğlu and Maria Sifianou

This volume includes 14 papers investigating politeness phenomena in Greece and Turkey, the cultural cross-roads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It reflects current research and provides observations of and findings in patterns of linguistic politeness in a geographical area other than the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 88] 2001. xiv, 435 pp.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2001

Edited by Pierre Pica

[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 1] 2001. xiv, 270 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2001

Edited by Ton van der Wouden and Hans Broekhuis

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 18] 2001. viii, 244 pp. | open access

The Minimalist Parameter: Selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21–23 March 1997

Edited by Galina M. Alexandrova and Olga Arnaudova

In view of its exploratory nature, Chomsky's 'minimalist' model has undergone multiple changes, triggering in response numerous proposals that are consistent with the tendencies that it follows or anticipates, and numerous proposals that offer alternatives to it. A good illustration of the variety… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 192] 2001. x, 360 pp.

The Motivated Sign

Edited by Olga Fischer and Max Nänny

This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999), offers a selection of papers given at the second international symposium on iconicity (Amsterdam 1999). In the light of semiotic, linguistic and literary theory the studies gathered here investigate how iconicity works on all levels of language,… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 2] 2001. xiv, 387 pp.

Multilingual Literacies: Reading and writing different worlds

Edited by Marilyn Martin-Jones and Kathryn E. Jones

The research in this unique collection lies at the interface between the fields of bilingualism and literacy. It deepens our understanding of the significance of reading and writing as social practices and opens up new lines of inquiry for research on multilingualism. The authors incorporate… read more

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 10] 2001. xxvi, 395 pp.

Narrative Development in a Multilingual Context

Edited by Ludo Verhoeven and Sven Strömqvist

In this volume, the results of a number of empirical studies of the development of narrative construction within a multilingual context are presented and discussed. It is explored what operating principles underlie the process of narrative production in L1 and L2. Developmental relations between… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 23] 2001. viii, 430 pp.

Narrative and Identity: Studies in Autobiography, Self and Culture

Edited by Jens Brockmeier and Donal Carbaugh

How does narrative give shape and meaning to human life? And what special role do narratives play in identifying one as a person in the world? This book explores these questions from the vantage points of various human and cultural sciences, with special attention to the importance of narrative as… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 1] 2001. vi, 307 pp.

Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction

Edited by Edda Weigand and Marcelo Dascal †

The topic of negotiation has turned out to be of crucial interdisciplinary interest for our understanding of what we are doing in language use. Are we exchanging meanings defined in advance and presupposing equal understanding on the basis of a rule-governed system, or are we negotiating meaning… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 214] 2001. viii, 294 pp.

New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy: In honour of Bernard Dov Spolsky

Edited by Robert L. Cooper, Elana Shohamy and Joel Walters

This formidable selection of papers reflects the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic underpinnings of the interface between language and education. Following an introduction that positions the field of educational linguistics historically and conceptually, the volume presents 15 contributions by… read more

[Not in series, 104] 2001. vi, 307 pp.

Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects

Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R.M.W. Dixon and Masayuki Onishi

In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object. But there are languages in which a small set of verbs mark their subjects or their objects in an unusual way. For example, most verbs may mark their subject with nominative case, but one small set of verbs may have… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 46] 2001. xii, 364 pp.

Papers on Grammar: Volume VI

Edited by Gualtiero Calboli

[Not in series, POG 6] 2001. viii, 264 pp.

Papers on Grammar: Volume VII

Edited by Alessandra Bertocchi, Mirka Maraldi and Anna Orlandini

[Not in series, POG 7] 2001. xii, 146 pp.

Particle Verbs and Local Domains

Jochen Zeller

This book offers a new account of particle verbs in German and Dutch by looking at the conditions under which a non-morphological structure may exhibit “word-like” properties. It shows that although particles are represented as phrasal complements of their verbs, they lack the functional structure… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 41] 2001. xii, 323 pp.

Patterns of Text: In honour of Michael Hoey

Edited by Mike Scott and Geoff Thompson †

It is increasingly clear that, in order to understand language as a phenomenon, we must understand the phenomenon of text. Our primary experience of language comes in the form of texts, which embody the complete communicative events through which our language-using lives are lived. These events are… read more

[Not in series, 107] 2001. viii, 323 pp.

Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items

Edited by Jack Hoeksema, Hotze Rullmann, Víctor Sánchez-Valencia and Ton van der Wouden

Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items contains a selection of papers on the semantics, acquisition and licensing behavior of negation. Negation, being one of the prevalent features of any human language, has many facets of interest to linguists, psychologists and philosophers alike. In recent… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 40] 2001. xii, 368 pp.

Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse: A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer

Edited by István Kenesei and Robert M. Harnish

Professor Ferenc Kiefer of the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was instrumental in bringing early transformational grammar to Europe. His extensive work contributes substantially to making a connection between the grammatical theory and other areas of linguistics. The 17… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 90] 2001. xxii, 348 pp.

Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997

Edited by Hubert Cuyckens and Britta E. Zawada

In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.e., related meanings of words form categories centering around a prototype and bearing family resemblance relations to one another. Under this polysemy = categorization view, the scope of investigation has been gradually… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 177] 2001. xxvii, 296 pp.

Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation: A relevance-theoretic approach to the language of adolescents

Gisle Andersen

This book combines theoretical work in linguistic pragmatics and sociolinguistics with empirical work based on a corpus of London adolescent conversation. It makes a general contribution to the study of pragmatic markers, as it proposes an analytical model that involves notions such as… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 84] 2001. ix, 352 pp.

The Pragmatics of Crisis

Edited by Geert Jacobs and Luuk Van Waes

Links up the field of discourse practices in and around the workplace with the notion of crisis in organizations, analyzing issues such as Y2K risk communication, product recall advertising and interaction with and within emergency rescue centers. read more

Special issue of Document Design 2:3 (2001) 94 pp.

Präteritumschwund und Diskursgrammatik: Präteritumschwund in gesamteuropäischen Bezügen: areale Ausbreitung, heterogene Entstehung, Parsing sowie diskursgrammatische Grundlagen und Zusammenhänge

Werner Abraham und C. Jac Conradie

This work demonstrates that what is commonly called preterite decay in Upper German (PS; cf. German Präteritumschwund) is in fact a phenomenon common to a great number of European languages, all of which are in areal con-tact. However, the conclusion that this is a phenomenon arising under areal… read more

[Not in series, 103] 2001. xiv, 148 pp.

Reanimated Voices: Speech reporting in a historical-pragmatic perspective

Daniel E. Collins

Reanimated Voices addresses three activities: reporters evoking speech events; interpreters (re)constituting those speech events; and historical pragmaticians eavesdropping in time on the reporters and interpreters. Can one reconstruct aspects of pragmatic competence on the basis of written texts… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 85] 2001. xx, 380 pp.

Recent Advances in Computational Terminology

Edited by Didier Bourigault, Christian Jacquemin and Marie-Claude L'Homme

This first collection of selected articles from researchers in automatic analysis, storage, and use of terminology, and specialists in applied linguistics, computational linguistics, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence offers new insights on computational terminology. The recent… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 2] 2001. xviii, 379 pp.

Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen

Edited by Marcel Bax and Jan-Wouter Zwart

In Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen, thirty-one leading language scholars and educational linguists in the Netherlands and abroad with whom over the years Professor van Essen, one of the grandees of applied linguistics, has collaborated provide original… read more

[Not in series, 109] 2001. xxxiv, 366 pp.

Responding in Conversation: A study of response particles in Finnish

Marja-Leena Sorjonen

This book concerns particles that are used as responses in conversations. It provides much needed methodological tools for analyzing the use of response particles in languages, while its particular focus is Finnish. The book focuses on two Finnish particles, nii(n) and joo, which in some of their… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 70] 2001. x, 330 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1999: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 1999, Leiden, 9–11 December 1999

Edited by Yves D’hulst, Johan Rooryck and Jan Schroten

This volume brings together a selection of articles presented at 'Going Romance' 1999. The articles focus on current syntactic and semantic issues in various Romance languages, including Catalan, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and a number of Northern Italian dialects. A large number of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 221] 2001. viii, 406 pp.

Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000

Edited by Joaquim Camps and Caroline R. Wiltshire

This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, representing the areas of syntax, semantics, their interfaces, and second language acquisition. The topics addressed include movement (both wh- and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 216] 2001. xii, 246 pp.

Self-Reference and Self-Awareness

Edited by Andrew Brook and Richard C. DeVidi

Rich in precursors (Kant and Frege) and stimulated by Castañeda’s study in the logic of self-consciousness and Shoemaker’s seminal paper ‘Self-reference and self-awareness’, the work of the past thirty-five years on self-reference and self-awareness has generated a wealth of deep, sophisticated… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 30] 2001. viii, 277 pp.

Sign Transcription and Database Storage of Sign Information

Edited by Brita Bergman, Penny Boyes Braem, Thomas Hanke and Elena Antinoro Pizzuto

Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 4:1/2 (2001) iv, 302

Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and practice

Edited by Mohsen Ghadessy, Alex Henry and Robert L. Roseberry

Recent developments in this field of small corpus studies, largely brought about by the personal computer, have yielded remarkable insights into the nature and use of real language. This book presents work by a number of leading researchers in the field and covers a series of topics directly… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 5] 2001. xxiv, 419 pp.

Social and Stylistic Variation in Spoken French: A comparative approach

Nigel Armstrong

Many of the assumptions of Labovian sociolinguistics are based on results drawn from US and UK English, Latin American Spanish and Canadian French. Sociolinguistic variation in the French of France has been rather little studied compared to these languages. This volume is the first examination and… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 8] 2001. x, 278 pp.

Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English

Edited by Sonja L. Lanehart

This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally. It explores the relationship between AAE and other varieties of English (namely Southern… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G27] 2001. xviii, 371 pp.

Speaking in Other Voices: An ethnography of Walloon puppet theaters

Joan Gross

Linking actual instances of language use with structures of social power in francophone Belgium, Gross outlines the history and contemporary configuration of rod puppetry in Liège. The analysis of this working class performance art moves between what occurs on and off stage. As puppeteers speak in… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 91] 2001. xxviii, 339 pp.

Studies in Interactional Linguistics

Edited by Margret Selting and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

Current interactional linguistic research appears to be crystallizing around systematic themes, which are all represented in this collection of papers. In the first section, where the relation between language and interaction is viewed from the perspective of language structure, several articles… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 10] 2001. viii, 438 pp.

Syntax: An Introduction. Volume I

T. Givón

This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and… read more

[Not in series, SYN 1] 2001. xviii, 500 pp.

Syntax: An Introduction. Volume II

T. Givón

[Not in series, SYN 2] 2001. x, 406 pp.

Syntax in the Making: The emergence of syntactic units in Finnish conversation

Marja-Liisa Helasvuo

Research on the interplay between language structure and language use has shown that grammar is shaped, maintained, and modified by language use. In this view, then, grammar is not seen as existing apart from language use, but rather as a set of recurrent, grammaticized patterns of discourse. This… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 9] 2001. xiv, 175 pp.

Telicity in the Second Language

Roumyana Slabakova

The author combines a syntax-theoretical treatment of telicity marking and an empirical study of the second language acquisition of English telicity marking by native speakers of Bulgarian, a Slavic language. It is argued that Vendlers lexical classes of verbs (states, activities, accomplishments… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 26] 2001. xii, 235 pp.

Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography

Wolfgang Teubert

Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6:SI (2001) iv, 170 pp.

Text Representation: Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects

Edited by Ted J.M. Sanders, Joost Schilperoord and Wilbert Spooren

This book brings together linguistics and psycholinguistics. Text representation is considered a cognitive entity: a mental construct that plays a crucial role in both text production and text understanding.The focus is on referential and relational coherence and the role of linguistic… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 8] 2001. viii, 363 pp.

The Theme–Topic Interface: Evidence from English

María de los Ángeles Gómez González

The Theme-Topic Interface (TTI) gives a useful catalogue of approaches to the concept Theme in the analysis of Natural Language. The book is written with both theoretical and descriptive goals and aims to synthesize andrevise current approaches to pragmatic functions. In addition, TTI explains that… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 71] 2001. xxiv, 434 pp.

Towards a History of Linguistics in Poland: From the early beginnings to the end of the 20th century

Edited by E.F.K. Koerner † and Aleksander Szwedek

Apart from the names of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929), Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851–1887), and, later, Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895–1978), Polish linguists and Polish linguistics generally have been little known in the West. The first two were mentioned with approval by Saussure in an unpublished… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 102] 2001. xxii, 335 pp.

Trends in Bilingual Acquisition

Edited by Jasone Cenoz and Fred Genesee

The chapters in this volume provide the first comprehensive overview of trends in research on early phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic development in children acquiring two (or more) languages simultaneously. Ongoing as well as emerging issues are examined and discussed by leading… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 1] 2001. viii, 288 pp.

The Verb in Turkish

Edited by Eser Erguvanlı Taylan

This book is a collection of articles on the properties of the verb in Turkish as the core element of clause structure, by linguists from different parts of the world. Articles present the most recent analyses on the Turkish language carried out in various theoretical orientations within the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 44] 2001. xvii, 267 pp.

Web Site Design is Communication Design

Thea M. van der Geest

Web Site Design is Communication Design is written for practitioners, trainers, and students of Communication, Business, Information Science and Media Design. This book is based on a series of case studies of web-site design processes in smaller and larger organizations, including Amazon and… read more

[Document Design Companion Series, 2] 2001. viii, 165 pp.

When Listeners Talk: Response tokens and listener stance

Rod Gardner

Listeners are usually considered recipients in conversational interaction, whose main activity is to take in messages from other speakers. In this view, the listening activity is separate from speaking. Another view is that listeners and speakers are equal co-participants in conversations who… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 92] 2001. xxi, 289 pp.

Whose German?: The ach/ich alternation and related phenomena in ‘standard’ and ‘colloquial’

Orrin W. Robinson

The author addresses a number of issues in German and general phonology, using a specific problem in German phonology (the ach/ich alternation) as a springboard. These issues include especially the naturalness, or lack thereof, of the prescriptive standard in German, and the importance of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 208] 2001. xi, 169 pp.

Writing Organization: (Re)presentation and control in narratives at work

Carl Rhodes

Carl Rhodes examines the implicit power of writing and authorship that is at play when people and organisations are (re)presented in research. To explore this, the book reports a research project in the area of organisational storytelling that investigates how people in one organisation used… read more

[Advances in Organization Studies, 7] 2001. xvi, 134 pp.

Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue: Studies in computational pragmatics

Edited by Harry Bunt and William Black

Language is always generated and interpreted in a certain context, and the semantic, syntactic, and lexical properties of linguistic expressions reflect this. Interactive language understanding systems, such as language-based dialogue systems, therefore have to apply contextual information to… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 1] 2000. vii, 471 pp.

The Acquisition of Direct Object Scrambling and Clitic Placement: Syntax and pragmatics

Jeannette Schaeffer

This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the “real time acquisition” of grammar in First Language Acquisition Theory. It combines detailed and quantitative observations of object placement in Dutch and Italian child language with an analysis that makes use of the Modularity… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 22] 2000. xii, 187 pp.

Analysing Professional Genres

Edited by Anna Trosborg

An understanding of genres in communication (written and spoken) is essential to professional success. This volume studies situationally appropriate responses in professional communication in face-to-face interaction and distance communication, from a socio-cognitive point of view. A traditional… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 74] 2000. xvi, 255 pp.

Arguments and Case: Explaining Burzio’s Generalization

Edited by Eric J. Reuland

The ideas presented by the contributions in this volume originated in a workshop on Burzio’s generalization. Burzio’s Generalization (BG) states that a verb which does not assign an external theta-role to its subject does not assign structural accusative Case to an object and conversely. It… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 34] 2000. xii, 255 pp.

Art and the expression of complex identities: Imagining and contesting ethnicity in performance

Edited by Valentina Pagliai and Marcia Farr

Special issue of Pragmatics 10:1 (2000) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Between Grammar and Lexicon

Edited by Ellen Contini-Morava and Yishai Tobin

This volume has its origins in a theme session entitled: “Lexical and Grammatical Classification: Same or Different?” from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. It includes theme session presentations, additional papers from that conference, and several invited contributions.… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 183] 2000. xxxii, 365 pp.

Bridging and Relevance

Tomoko Matsui

While it has long been taken for granted that context or background information plays a crucial role in reference assignment, there have been very few serious attempts to investigate exactly how they are used. This study provides an answer to the question through an extensive analysis of cases of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 76] 2000. xii, 247 pp.

Clitic Phenomena in European Languages

Edited by Frits Beukema and Marcel den Dikken

This book is concerned with a number of central issues in the theory of clitics, a topic that has become much debated in recent years. Mainly written within a recent generative framework, its contrastive approach discusses these issues against the background of a number of European languages, among… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 30] 2000. x, 320 pp.

Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax

Edited by Birgit Gerlach and Janet Grijzenhout

This book contains fourteen articles that reflect current ideas on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of clitics. It covers the forms and functions of clitics in various typologically diverse languages and presents data from, e.g. European Portuguese, Macedonian, and Yoruba. It extensively deals… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 36] 2000. xii, 441 pp.

Complementation: Cognitive and functional perspectives

Edited by Kaoru Horie

Complementation, i.e. predication encoded in argument slots, is well-renowned for its syntactic and semantic variability across languages. As such, it poses a tantalizing descriptive/explanatory challenge to linguists of any theoretical persuasion.Recent developments in Cognitive and… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 1] 2000. vi, 242 pp.

Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997

Edited by Ad Foolen and Frederike van der Leek

This volume contains selected papers from the 5th ICLC, Amsterdam 1997. The papers present cognitive analyses of a variety of constructions (phrasal verbs, prepositional phrases, transitivity, accusative versus dative objects, possessives, gerunds, passives, causatives, conditionals), in a variety… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 178] 2000. xvi, 338 pp.

Conversational Narrative: Storytelling in everyday talk

Neal R. Norrick

This book investigates the forms and functions of storytelling in everyday conversation. It develops a rhetoric of everyday storytelling through an integrated approach to both the internal structure and the contextual integration of narrative passages. It aims at a more complete picture of oral… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 203] 2000. xiv, 233 pp.

Corpus-based and Computational Approaches to Discourse Anaphora

Edited by Simon Philip Botley and Tony McEnery

Discourse anaphora is a challenging linguistic phenomenon that has given rise to research in fields as diverse as linguistics, computational linguistics and cognitive science. Because of the diversity of approaches these fields bring to the anaphora problem, the editors of this volume argue that… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 3] 2000. vi, 257 pp.

Cross-Linguistic Structures in Simultaneous Bilingualism

Edited by Susanne Döpke

This volume explores the implications of cross-linguistic structures in simultaneous bilingualism. It aims to find cognitive explanations for the presence or absence of cross-linguistic structures that go beyond the debate of ‘one system or two’. The contributors present syntactic, morphological… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 21] 2000. x, 258 pp.

Defining Standards and Monitoring Progress in Learning Languages other than English

Guest-edited by Catherine Elder

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 23:2 (2000) iii, 90 pp.

Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages

Edited by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh and Edgar W. Schneider

Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of “creole languages” itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical grounds? Can creolization be understood as a graded process, possibly resulting in different… read more

[Creole Language Library, 22] 2000. iv, 492 pp.

The Derivation of VO and OV

Edited by Peter Svenonius

The Derivation of VO and OV takes a new look at the relationship between head-final or OV structures and head-initial or VO ones, in light of recent work by Richard Kayne and others. The various papers in the volume take different positions with respect to whether one type of structure is derived… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 31] 2000. vi, 370 pp.

The Development of Past Tense Morphology in L2 Spanish

M. Rafael Salaberry

This book presents an extended analysis of the development of L2 Spanish past tense morphology among L1 English-speaking learners. The study addresses three major questions: (1) what is the developmental pattern of acquisition of past tense verbal morphology among tutored learners? (2) what are the… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 22] 2000. xii, 210 pp.

Diachronic Pragmatics: Seven case studies in English illocutionary development

Leslie K. Arnovick

The purpose of Diachronic Pragmatics is to exemplify historical pragmatics in its twofold sense of constituting both a subject matter and a methodology. This book demonstrates how diachronic pragmatics, with its complementary diachronic function-to-form mapping and diachronic form-to-function… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 68] 2000. xii, 191 pp.

Diachronica 1984–1998: Index to Volumes I–XV

Compiled by David J. Holsinger

Since its start in 1984 the journal Diachronica has provided a forum for the presentation and discussion of information about all aspects of language change in any and all languages of the globe. This index covers the first 15 volumes, including articles, discussion notes, review articles, reviews… read more

[Diachronica, 17:IND] 2000. vi, 66 pp.

Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching

Edited by Eva Alcón-Soler and Josep R. Guzman Pitarch

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 16] 2000. iv, 156 pp.

Early Years in Machine Translation: Memoirs and biographies of pioneers

Edited by John W. Hutchins

Machine translation (MT) was one of the first non-numerical applications of the computer in the 1950s and 1960s. With limited equipment and programming tools, researchers from a wide range of disciplines (electronics, linguistics, mathematics, engineering, etc.) tackled the unknown problems of… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 97] 2000. xii, 400 pp.

English Media Texts – Past and Present: Language and textual structure

Edited by Friedrich Ungerer

This book is among the first to combine a historical view of media texts with a critical look at their textual diversity today. The thirteen chapters cover corpora of early news-papers and pamphlets, present-day news stories and commentaries, TV talk shows and commercials as well as internet… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 80] 2000. xiv, 286 pp.

English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course

Marjolijn H. Verspoor and Kim Sauter

English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course is designed as a 10-week course for students of English Language and Literature, Linguistics, or other language related fields. In 10 weeks the student will be proficient in English analysis at sentence, clause and phrase level and have a solid… read more

[Not in series, 100] 2000. 237 pp.

Essays on Definition

Juan C. Sager

This collection of essays on definitions, from Plato and Aristotle to modern times, assembles interesting, sometimes less widely known and controversial texts. They examine the subject from the point of view of philosophy which is essential for a theory of terminology seeking to establish the… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 4] 2000. viii, 257 pp.

Events and Predication: A new approach to syntactic processing in English and Spanish

Montserrat Sanz

Studies on the syntactic consequences of event type in languages have shown that Aktionsart plays a role in Universal Grammar. This book contributes to the exploration of the syntax/semantics interface by presenting a thorough comparison of event and predicate types in English and Spanish. The… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 207] 2000. xiv, 219 pp.

Evidence for Linguistic Relativity

Edited by Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven †

This volume has arisen from the 26th International LAUD Symposium on “Humboldt and Whorf Revisited. Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis”. While contrasting two or more languages, the papers in this volume either provide empirical evidence confirming hypotheses… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 198] 2000. xxii, 240 pp.

Explorations in Linguistic Relativity

Edited by Martin Pütz and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

About a century after the year Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) was born, his theory complex is still the object of keen interest to linguists. Rencently, scholars have argued that it was not his theory complex itself, but an over-simplified, reduced section taken out of context that has become known… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 199] 2000. xvi, 369 pp.

Francisco Varo's Grammar of the Mandarin Language (1703): An English translation of ‘Arte de la lengua Mandarina’. With an Introduction by Sandra Breitenbach

W. South Coblin and Joseph A. Levi

Francisco Varo’s Arte de la Lengua Mandarina, completed ca. 1680, is the earliest published grammar of any spoken form of Chinese and the fullest known description of the standard language of the seventeenth century. It establishes beyond doubt that this “Language of the Mandarins” was not… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 93] 2000. liv, 282 pp.

Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition: Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb

Edited by David G. Lockwood, Peter H. Fries and James E. Copeland

This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors range from cognitive approaches including Stratificational grammar to more socially oriented ones including Systemic Functional linguistics.… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 163] 2000. xxxiv, 656 pp.

Getting Acquainted in Conversation: A study of initial interactions

Jan Svennevig

What makes a ‘getting acquainted’ a recognizable conversational activity, and how are interpersonal relationships established in a first conversation? This book presents a theoretical framework for the study of relationship management in conversation and an empirical study of a corpus of initial… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 64] 2000. x, 383 pp.

Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase. with a Foreword by Frans Plank (Universität Konstanz)

Edited by Viktor Elšík and Yaron Matras

This is the first typologically-oriented collection on Romani that is devoted to a particular thematic domain — that of noun phrase grammar. The approach taken is unique in that it places this typologically hybrid language in the centre of a general linguistic, universal discussion of the relevant… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 211] 2000. x, 245 pp.

Grammaticalization: Studies in Latin and Romance morphosyntax

Jurgen Klausenburger

In this monograph, various aspects of the morphosyntactic evolution of the Romance languages are shown to interact in a theory of grammaticalization. The study argues for the incorporation and subordination of inflectional morphology within a grammaticalization continuum, constituting but a portion… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 193] 2000. xiii, 183 pp.

Grammaticization, Synchronic Variation, and Language Contact: A study of Spanish progressive -ndo constructions

Rena Torres Cacoullos

This study of Old Spanish and present-day Mexico and New Mexico data develops a grammaticization account of variation in progressive constructions. Diachronic changes in cooccurrence patterns show that grammaticization involves reductive change driven by frequency increases. Formal reduction… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 52] 2000. xvi, 252 pp.

Greek and Indo-European Etymology in Action: Proto-Indo-European *aǵ-

Raimo Anttila

This study resurrects the genre of Wortstudien contributions or lexilogus treatments, the core of historical lexical semantics. Such studies used to be quite popular, and interest in lexical matters is again rising. The word family around the Indo-European root *aǵ- ‘drive’ is placed against its… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 200] 2000. xii, 314 pp.

Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse

Esam N. Khalil

Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse explores the discourse notion of grounding (viz. the foreground-background structure), and examines it in the various structures that occur in short news texts. A text-level approach to grounding and the differentiation between several core concepts… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 82] 2000. x, 274 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 1998 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 4] 2000. vi, 342 pp.

Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages.. Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995

Edited by John Charles Smith and Delia Bentley

This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance, Slavonic, Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European. A second volume, edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, contains papers on Germanic.
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[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 161] 2000. xii, 438 pp.

Historiographia Linguistica 1973–1998: Indexes to Volumes I–XXV

Compiled by E.F.K. Koerner †

This index provides an important and useful tool to access the contents of the 25 volumes of Historiographia Linguistica that have appeared in print from the journals foundation in 1973 until 1998. The index consists of four parts. Part I offers the complete tables of contents of all issues; Part… read more

[Historiographia Linguistica, 27:IND] 2000. x, 230 pp.

History and Perspectives of Language Study: Papers in honor of Ranko Bugarski. .

Edited by Olga Mišeska Tomić and Milorad Radovanović

Each of the contributions in this volume expresses in some way the hope that it is possible to achieve an integrity of linguistics, understood as a science of man, in its psychological, sociological, pragmatic and cultural context. The first section focuses on the history of language study, the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 186] 2000. xxi, 305 pp.

A History of English Reflexive Pronouns: Person, Self, and Interpretability

Elly van Gelderen

This book brings together a number of seemingly distinct phenomena in the history of English: the introduction of special reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself), the loss of verbal agreement and pro-drop, and the disappearance of morphological Case. It provides vast numbers of examples from Old and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 39] 2000. xiv, 277 pp.

Hypothetical Modality: Grammaticalisation in an L2 dialect

Debra Ziegeler

This book marks a new development in the field of grammaticalisation studies, in that it extends the field of grammaticalisation studies from relatively homogeneous languages to those possessing well-established and institutionalised second language varieties. In Hypothetical Modality, special… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 51] 2000. xx, 287 pp.

Ideology, Politics and Language Policies: Focus on English

Edited by Thomas Ricento

This volume critically examines the effects of the spread of English from colonialism to the ‘New World Order’. The research explores the complex and often contradictory roles English has played in national development. Historical analyses and case studies by leading researchers in language policy… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 6] 2000. x, 197 pp.

Introducing Sociolinguistics

Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap

FOR SALE IN U.S. AND CANADA ONLY. FOR SALES IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES, PLEASE CONTACT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS. Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern linguistics and deals with the place of language in human societies. This introductory textbook expertly synthesizes the main… read more

[Not in series, 102 (1st)] 2000. 528 pp.

Japanese Term Extraction

Kyo Kageura and Teruo Koyama

The product of a workshop on Automatic Term Recognition (ATR), which focused on the conceptual aspects of ATR. read more

Special issue of Terminology 6:2 (2000)

Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar

David Lebeaux

Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar attempts to re-think the ideal organization of the grammar, given its need to be learned. The book proposes a fundamental connection between the form of the adult grammar and the sequence of grammars which the child adopts in first language… read more

[Not in series, 97] 2000. xxx, 277 pp.

Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles

Edited by John H. McWhorter

This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly… read more

[Creole Language Library, 21] 2000. vii, 503 pp.

Language History: An introduction

Andrew L. Sihler

This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as prime subject or as background information, it should help students understand the assumptions and reasoning that underlie the contents of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 191] 2000. xvi, 298 pp.

Language Management and Language Problems: Part I

Edited by Björn H. Jernudd

Dedicated to Professor J. V. Neustupný, these papers discuss communicative, symbolic, social and entertainment functions of language as sources of language problems. read more

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 10:2 (2000) 142 pp.

Language Policy and Pedagogy: Essays in honor of A. Ronald Walton

Edited by Richard D. Lambert and Elana Shohamy

In this memorial volume for A. Ronald Walton, cutting-edge scholars interrelate two normally separate domains: the formation of language policy and the improvement of language teaching. Bernard Spolsky, Elana Shohamy, Joshua Fishman, and Kees de Bot address theoretical aspects of national language… read more

[Not in series, 96] 2000. xii, 279 pp.

Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script

Gabrielle Vail and Martha J. Macri

The geographic and temporal range of the Maya Hieroglyphic script, found in over 2,000 texts spanning 1,300 years, suggests that the texts may record more that one language or dialect. This collection results from a symposium at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,… read more

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 3:1 (2000) 198 pp.

Letter Writing as a Social Practice

Edited by David Barton and Nigel Hall

This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life. More broadly, the… read more

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 9] 2000. vi, 262 pp.

The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing: A Prince Edward Island French case study

Ruth King

This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 14 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 209] 2000. xvi, 241 pp.

Lexical Specification and Insertion

Edited by Peter Coopmans, Martin B.H. Everaert and Jane Grimshaw

The papers in this volume address the general question what type of lexical specifications we need in a generative grammar and by what principles this information is projected onto syntactic configurations, or to put it differently, how lexical insertion is executed. Many of the contributions focus… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 197] 2000. xviii, 467 pp.

Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998

Edited by Julie Coleman and Christian Kay

The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic change and lexical innovation, interpreted within a sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. Many of the papers draw on the remarkable… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 194] 2000. xiv, 249 pp.

The Light Verb Construction in Japanese: The role of the verbal noun

Tadao Miyamoto

This study deals with the so-called Light Verb Construction in Japanese, which consists of the verb “suru” do and an accusative (“o”) marked verbal noun (VN). There have been unresolved debates on the role of “suru”: whether “suru” in “VN-o suru” functions as a light or heavy verb. The previous… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 29] 2000. xiv, 232 pp.

Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and modern theories of language

John E. Joseph

The idea that some aspects of language are ‘natural’, while others are arbitrary, artificial or derived, runs all through modern linguistics, from Chomsky’s GB theory and Minimalist program and his concept of E- and I-language, to Greenberg’s search for linguistic universals, Pinker’s views on… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 96] 2000. x, 224 pp.

Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay: A contrastive study of requests and apologies

Rosina Márquez Reiter

The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 83] 2000. xviii, 225 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2000

Edited by Helen de Hoop and Ton van der Wouden

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 17] 2000. x, 246 pp. | open access

Literature as Communication: The foundations of mediating criticism

Roger D. Sell

This book offers foundations for a literary criticism which seeks to mediate between writers and readers belonging to different historical periods or social groupings. This makes it, among other things, a timely intervention in the postmodern “culture wars”, though the theory put forward will be of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 78] 2000. xiv, 348 pp.

Local Educational Order: Ethnomethodological studies of knowledge in action

Edited by Stephen K. Hester and David Francis

The studies in this book take an ethnomethodological approach to educational phenomena. Ethnomethodology’s concern is with the locally accomplished and situated character of social order. With reference toeducational phenomena, this means that ethnomethodology investigates how the ‘natural facts’… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 73] 2000. viii, 322 pp.

Metarepresentation: A relevance-theory approach

Eun-Ju Noh

Eun-Ju Noh’s book provides a close look at linguistic metarepresentation showing how beliefs, utterances, and propositions are represented and how they are inferred. The author explains how metarepresentation works in various types of uses: quotations, negation, echo questions, and conditionals in… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 69] 2000. xii, 242 pp.

Middle Voice in Modern Greek: Meaning and function of an inflectional category

Linda Joyce Manney

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the inflectional middle category in Modern Greek. Against the theoretical backdrop of cognitive linguistics, it is argued that a wide range of seemingly disparate middle structures in Modern Greek comprise a complex semantic network, and that this network… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 48] 2000. xiii, 276 pp.

Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages

Edited by Johan van der Auwera and Patrick Dendale

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 14] 2000. vi, 264 pp.

Morphological Analysis in Comparison

Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer, Markus A. Pöchtrager and John R. Rennison

This volume consists of selected and revised papers from the Seventh International Morphology Meeting, held in 1996 in Vienna. It presents advances in morphological theorizing, such as the foundations of sign-based morphology, the morphology-syntax interface, the boundaries between compounding and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 201] 2000. x, 261 pp.

Narrative Identity

Michael Bamberg and Allyssa McCabe

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 10:1 (2000) 265 pp.

New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance historical linguistics

Edited by Steven N. Dworkin and Dieter Wanner

This volume contains revised versions of thirteen of the papers presented at the parasession, “New Solutions to Old Problems: Issues in Romance Historical Linguistics”, held as part of the 29th Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages (1999). These studies examine specific problems in Romance… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 210] 2000. xiv, 235 pp.

New Zealand English

Edited by Allan Bell and Koenraad Kuiper

New Zealand English is currently one of the most researched varieties of English world-wide. This book presents an up-to-date account of all the major aspects of New Zealand English by leading scholars as well as younger specialists in each of the major fields of enquiry. The book is authoritative… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G25] 2000. 368 pp.

The Organizing Property of Communication

François Cooren

What is an organization? What are the building blocks that ultimately constitute this social form, so pervasive in our daily life? Like Augustine facing the problem of time, we all know what an organization is, but we seem unable to explain it. This book brings an original answer by mobilizing… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 65] 2000. xvi, 272 pp.

Papers on Grammar: Volume V

Edited by Gualtiero Calboli

[Not in series, POG 5] 2000. xii, 202 pp.

Papers on Rhetoric: Volume III

Edited by Lucia Calboli Montefusco

[Not in series, POR 3] 2000. viii, 282 pp.

Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English

Edited by Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein

There is a continual growth of interest among linguists of all-theoretical denominations in grammaticalization, a concept central to many linguistic (change) theories. However, the discussion of grammaticalization processes has often suffered from a shortage of concrete empirical studies from one… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 53] 2000. x, 391 pp.

Pattern Grammar: A corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English

Susan Hunston and Gill Francis

This book describes an approach to lexis and grammar based on the concept of phraseology and of language patterning arising from work on large corpora. The notion of 'pattern' as a systematic way of dealing with the interface between lexis and grammar was used in Collins Cobuild English Dictionary… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 4] 2000. xiv, 288 pp.

Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy

Edited by Lori Repetti

These articles provide new explorations into phonological patterns attested in the minor Romance languages (‘dialects’) spoken in Italy. The goal of this book is both theoretical and empirical. First, it aims to introduce non-Italianists to the phonological structures of the Italian dialects,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 212] 2000. x, 301 pp.

Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude

Edited by Gisle Andersen and Thorstein Fretheim

In interactive discourse we not only express propositions, but we also express different attitudes to them. That is, we communicate how our mind entertains those propositions that we express. A speaker is able to express an attitude of belief, desire, hope, doubt, fear, regret or pretence that a… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 79] 2000. viii, 269 pp.

Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition

Sophia Marmaridou

This book provides a good overview of philosophical and cognitive approaches to language use and meaning. A synthesis of such approaches leads to a dynamic concept of pragmatic meaning which is on the one hand grounded in cognition and motivated by linguistic and cultural convention and, on the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 72] 2000. xii, 322 pp.

Pragmatics in Speech and Language Pathology: Studies in clinical applications

Edited by Nicole Müller

The selected contributions in this volume bring together applications of pragmatics in speech and language pathology, as well as discussions of the applicability of different theoretical strands of the study of human linguistic interaction and its cognitive bases to the field of communication… read more

[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 7] 2000. viii, 173 pp.

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Volume II: Selected papers from RANLP ’97

Edited by Nicolas Nicolov and Ruslan Mitkov

This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the Second International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP’97) held in Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 1997. The aim of the conference was to give researchers the opportunity to… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 189] 2000. xi, 422 pp.

Reciprocals: Forms and functions. Volume 2

Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Traci Walker

The theoretical issues addressed in the present volume are semantic and cognitive properties of reciprocal events, syntactic properties of reciprocals, and the relationship of reciprocals to other grammatical categories. Several papers discuss the history of reciprocal constructions, offering… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 41] 2000. xii, 201 pp.

Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization

Edited by Spike Gildea

Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both. The methods and goals of each group seem largely distinct: comparative linguists have by and large avoided reconstructing grammar, while… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 43] 2000. xiv, 267 pp.

Reflexives: Forms and functions. Volume 1

Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Traci Walker

The importance of reflexive markers in the study of language structure cannot be underestimated: they participate in the coding of the argument structure of a clause; in the coding of semantic relations between arguments and verbs; in the coding of the relationship between arguments; in the coding… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 40] 2000. xiv, 286 pp.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 13 (2000)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 13] 2000. viii, 278 pp.

Research in Afroasiatic Grammar: Papers from the Third conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis, 1996

Edited by Jacqueline Lecarme, Jean Lowenstamm and Ur Shlonsky

This volume presents a selection of papers from the 3rd Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1996. The languages discussed include (varieties of) Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, Chaha, Wolof, and Old Egyptian. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 202] 2000. vi, 386 pp.

Right Node Raising and Gapping: Interface conditions on prosodic deletion

Katharina Hartmann

This book investigates two elliptical coordinations in German, Right Node Raising and Gapping. Ellipsis in both constructions is claimed to be the result of a phonological process which is conditioned by prosodic and focus semantic constraints. It is convincingly argued that Right Node Raising… read more

[Not in series, 106] 2000. xiv, 190 pp.

The Second Time Around – Minimalism and L2 Acquisition

Julia Herschensohn

Linking recent advances in theoretical syntax and empirical research in language development, the book claims that second language acquisition is not totally distinct from first language acquisition, but rather is a replay, a relearning of language. It argues that Universal Grammar is a template… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 21] 2000. xiv, 287 pp.

Sign Language in Indo-Pakistan: A description of a signed language

Ulrike Zeshan

To find a suitable framework for the description of a previously undocumented language is all the more challenging in the case of a signed language. In this book, for the first time, an indigenous Asian sign language used in deaf communities in India and Pakistan is described on all linguistically… read more

[Not in series, 101] 2000. xii, 178 pp.

Sound Mutations: The morphophonology of Chaha

Degif Petros Banksira

This monograph, which evolved from the first linguistic dissertation to be written on Chaha (an Ethiopian Semitic language), is also the first book to deal exclusively with the phonology and morphology of the language. It is an exhaustive description and analysis, by a native speaker, of the sound… read more

[Not in series, 93] 2000. xxxii, 332 pp.

Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time

Edited by Rosanna Sornicola, Erich Poppe and Ariel Shisha-Halevy

The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories. The interest in this theme has been revamped by contemporary research in typology with its emphasis on correlation or ‘harmonies’ of structures of word-order as… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 213] 2000. xxxii, 323 pp.

The Structure of Modern English: A linguistic introduction

Laurel J. Brinton

The Structure of Modern English is an extensive introduction to all aspects of Modern English structure, including:PhonologyMorphologyLexical and sentence semanticsSyntaxPragmaticsThis text is for advanced undergraduate (and graduate) students interested in contemporary English, especially those… read more

[Not in series, 94] 2000. xxii, 335 pp. (incl. workbook on CD-rom)

The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue II

Edited by M. Martin Taylor, Françoise Néel and Don Bouwhuis

Most dialogues are multimodal. When people talk, they use not only their voices, but also facial expressions and other gestures, and perhaps even touch. When computers communicate with people, they use pictures and perhaps sounds, together with textual language, and when people communicate with… read more

[Not in series, 99] 2000. xviii, 522 pp.

Students Writing in the University: Cultural and epistemological issues

Edited by Carys Jones, Joan Turner and Brian Street

This volume aims to raise awareness of the underlying complexities concerning student writing in the universities. The authors address a series of theoretical as well as practical questions regarding the literacies required of students in Higher Education, from the perspective of both students… read more

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 8] 2000. xxiv, 232 pp.

Syntactic Aspects of Topic and Comment

André Meinunger

The book focuses on the syntactic behavior of argument noun phrases depending on their discourse status. The main language of consideration is German, but it is shown that the observations can be carried over to other languages. The claim is that discourse-new arguments remain inside the VP where… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 38] 2000. xii, 245 pp.

The Syntax of Relative Clauses

Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Paul Law, André Meinunger and Chris Wilder

This book presents a cross-section of recent generative research into the syntax of relative clauses constructions. Most of the papers collected here react in some way to Kayne’s (1994) proposal to handle relative clauses in terms of determiner complementation and raising of the relativized nominal. read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 32] 2000. vi, 395 pp.

Terminology and Language Planning: An alternative framework of practice and discourse

Bassey E. Antia

Changing socio-political landscapes, the dynamics of glocalisation, among other factors, are spawning new policy attitudes towards multilingualism, and again putting language planning (LP) on the map in a manner reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. With respect to terminology, this book suggests… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 2] 2000. xxiv, 264 pp.

Textual Parameters in Older Languages

Edited by Susan C. Herring, Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler

Textual Parameters in Older Languages takes a contemporary approach to the inherent limitations of using older texts as data for linguistic analysis, drawing on methods of text analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to supplement traditional historical and philological methods. The focus of the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 195] 2000. x, 448 pp.

A Theory of Syntax for Systemic Functional Linguistics

Robin P. Fawcett

This book describes and evaluates alternative approaches within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to representing the structure of language at the level of form. It assumes no prior knowledge of SFL, and can therefore be read as an introduction to current issues within the theory. It will… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 206] 2000. xxviii, 360 pp.

Towards New Ways of Terminology Description: The sociocognitive approach

Rita Temmerman

Based on an empirical study of categorisation and lexicalisation processes in a corpus of scientific publications on the life sciences, Rita Temmerman questions the validity of traditional terminology theory. Her findings are that the traditional approach impedes a pragmatic and realistic… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 3] 2000. xv, 258 pp.

Wh-Movement and the Theory of Feature-Checking

Andrew Simpson

Wh-movement and the theory of feature-checking argues that cross-linguistic variation in wh-constructions reduces to the availability of different lexical instantiations of a +wh C0 both across languages and within a single language, and the way in which such lexical elements are syntactically… read more

[Not in series, 98] 2000. xii, 244 pp.

Wh-Scope Marking

Edited by Uli Lutz, Gereon Müller and Arnim von Stechow

This volume is the first comprehensive overview of the syntax and semantics of wh-scope marking. Wh-scope marking constructions have recently received a lot of attention; their very existence and their intricate properties have important consequences for syntax, semantics, and the syntax–semantics… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 37] 2000. vi, 483 pp.

Why We Curse: A neuro-psycho-social theory of speech

Timothy Jay

Psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, linguists and speech pathologists currently have no coherent theory to explain why we curse and why we choose the words we do when we curse. The Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Speech draws together information about cursing from different disciplines and… read more

[Not in series, 91] 2000. xv, 328 pp.

Word Order Change in Icelandic: From OV to VO

Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir

While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patterns. In this volume, the author both examines the various VP-word order patterns from a descriptive and statistical point of view and provides… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 35] 2000. xiv, 385 pp.

Word Order in Hungarian: The syntax of Ā-positions

Genoveva Puskás

Hungarian word-order is characterized by large scale preposing of constituents to sentence-initial positions. This study examines systematically the elements which occur in the left periphery. Focal, wh- and negative operators which have scope over the whole sentence must appear in the left… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 33] 2000. xvi, 396 pp.

Word Order, Agreement and Pronominalization in Standard and Palestinian Arabic

Mohammad A. Mohammad

The two related issues of word order, and subject-verb agreement have occupied center stage in the study of Arabic syntax since the time of Sibawayhi in the eighth century. This book is a contribution to both of these areas. It is grounded within the generative grammar framework in one of its most… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 181] 2000. xvi, 189 pp.

Writing in Nonstandard English

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta

This book investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use from standard to nonstandard. In our view, these notions can only be established through mutual definition, and they cannot exist without the opposite pole. What is considered standard English changes according to… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 67] 2000. viii, 403 pp.

The Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language

Edited by Kazue Kanno

This book marks the first-ever collection of papers in English on the acquisition of Japanese as a second language. Its overarching goal is to broaden and deepen the field of SLA research by focusing on Japanese rather than on more commonly studied European languages. Broad in scope and eclectic in… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 20] 1999. xii, 180 pp.

Analyse Lexicale et Syntaxique: Le système INTEX

Edited by Cédrick Fairon

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 22:1/2 (1999) v, 449 pp.

Animacy and Reference: A cognitive approach to corpus linguistics

Mutsumi Yamamoto

The concept of ‘animacy’ concerns the fundamental and cognitive question of the extent to which we recognize and express living things as saliently human-like or animal-like.In Animacy and Reference Mutsumi Yamamoto pursues two main objectives: First, to establish a conceptual framework of animacy,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 46] 1999. xviii, 278 pp.

Bibliografía Nebrisense: Las obras completas del humanista Antonio de Nebrija desde 1481 hasta nuestros días

Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres and Hans-Josef Niederehe

The Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522) is the author of an impressive body of scientific work which comprises a broad spectrum of humanistic knowledge. While the languages dealt with by Nebrija include not only Latin and Spanish, but the most prominent Romance languages, his… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 90] 1999. vi, 374 pp.

Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES II): Desde el año 1601 hasta el año 1700

Hans-Josef Niederehe

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza, (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the beginnings… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 91] 1999. vi, 472 pp.

Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax

Edited by Lunella Mereu

The volume collects a selection of papers presented at a European Colloquium held at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in October 1997. It focuses on phenomena at the boundary between morphology and syntax, and provides analyses for data from the fields of both inflectional and derivational… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 180] 1999. viii, 312 pp.

Chinese Dialect Classification: A comparative approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu

Richard VanNess Simmons

This volume is an investigation and classification of dialects along the Wu and Jiang-Hwai Mandarin border in China's eastern Yangtze Valley. It is the first monograph-length study to critically question the traditional single criterion of initial voicing for the classification of Wu dialects and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 188] 1999. xviii, 317 pp.

The Clause in English: In honour of Rodney Huddleston

Edited by Peter Collins and David Lee

The focus in this volume is on grammatical aspects of the clause in English, presenting a fine balance between theoretically- and descriptively-oriented approaches. Some authors investigate the status and properties of ‘minor’ or ‘fringe’ constructions, including ‘deictic-presentationals’;… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 45] 1999. xxii, 327 pp.

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics

René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 1 (1999)] 1999. xiv, 300 pp.

Cognitive Semantics: Meaning and cognition

Edited by Jens Allwood and Peter Gärdenfors

Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic traditions. Cognitive semantics, the latest of the major trends which have dominated the century, attempts to do this by focusing on meaning… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 55] 1999. x, 201 pp.

Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create it and how to describe it. Selected papers from the International Workshop on Coherence, Augsburg, 24-27 April 1997

Edited by Wolfram Bublitz, Uta Lenk and Eija Ventola

Until very recently, coherence (unlike cohesion) was widely held to be a ‘rather mystical notion’. However, taking account of new trends representing a considerable shift in orientation, this volume aims at helping relieve coherence of its mystifying aura. The general bibliography which concludes… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 63] 1999. xiv, 300 pp.

Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English

Edited by Laurel J. Brinton and Minoji Akimoto

The focus of this carefully selected volume concerns the existence, frequency, and form of composite/complex predicates (the “take a look” construction) in earlier periods of the English language, an area of scholarship which has been virtually neglected. The various contributions seek to… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 47] 1999. xiv, 283 pp.

Control in Grammar and Pragmatics: A cross-linguistic study

Rudolf Růžička

The claim that “…pronominals have phonological features only where they must, for some reason”, is strongly supported by the occurrence of the null pronoun PRO as coined and introduced by Noam Chomsky. How reference of PRO is determined is the main subject of control theory, the subsystem of core… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 27] 1999. x, 206 pp.

Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato

Edited by John R. Rickford and Suzanne Romaine

This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951–1996) brings together contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three primary areas: Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development; Attitudes and Education, and Creole Discourse and Literature. The varieties covered come… read more

[Creole Language Library, 20] 1999. viii, 418 pp.

Crossing Boundaries: Advances in the theory of Central and Eastern European languages

Edited by István Kenesei

The book contains eleven articles on theoretical problems in Albanian, Hungarian, Polish, (Old) Russian, Romanian, and the South Slavic languages of Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian. They cover topics such as clitics, head and phrasal movement, the structure of the DP, and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 182] 1999. viii, 302 pp.

Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995

Edited by Masako K. Hiraga, Chris Sinha and Sherman Wilcox

Cognitive linguistics is nothing if not an interdisciplinary and comparative enterprise. This collection addresses both the implications OF and the implications FOR cognitive linguistics of psycholinguistic, computational, neuroscientific, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research.
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[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 152] 1999. vii, 338 pp.

Demonstratives: Form, function and grammaticalization

Holger Diessel

All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 42] 1999. xii, 205 pp.

The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory

Edited by Ben Hermans and Marc van Oostendorp

Constraint-based frameworks such as Optimality Theory (OT) have significantly altered phonologists' views on the nature of derivations and their role in linguistic theory. Earlier frameworks of generative phonology were characterized by a fairly complicated theory of derivations, involving lexical… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 28] 1999. viii, 321 pp.

The Development of Second Language Grammars: A generative approach

Edited by Elaine C. Klein and Gita Martohardjono

This volume is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in generative studies of second language (L2) acquisition bringing together an unusually broad range of interests and inquiry. Selected papers report on controlled experimental studies within specific areas of research investigating the… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 18] 1999. vi, 428 pp.

Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, July 1997

Edited by Karen Van Hoek, Andrej A. Kibrik and Leo Noordman

This volume presents selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference within the area of discourse analysis.The topics addressed include pronominal anaphora in English and Russian narratives, the subtleties of the definite article in English and Spanish, the use of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 176] 1999. vi, 187 pp.

The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner. Volume 1: Historiographical perspectives

Edited by Sheila Embleton, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe

Although it is widely thought that structural linguistics began abruptly with the publication of Saussure's 'revolutionary' Course in General Linguistics, the work of E. F. K. Koerner has demonstrated that Saussure, for all his originality, remained true to the basic tenets of his 19th-century… read more

[Not in series, EMLS 1] 1999. lvi, 310 pp.

The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner. Volume 2: Methodological perspectives and applications

Edited by Sheila Embleton, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of… read more

[Not in series, EMLS 2] 1999. lvi, 335 pp.

Exploring the Role of Morphology in the Evolution of Spanish

Joel Rini

After a brief survey of the perception of morphological change in the standard works of the Hispanic tradition in the 20th century, the author first attempts to refine concepts such as analogy, leveling, blending, contamination, etc. as they have been applied to Spanish. He then revisits difficult… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 179] 1999. xvi, 187 pp.

External Possession

Edited by Doris L. Payne and Immanuel Barshi

External Possession Constructions (EPCs) are found in nearly all parts of the world and across widely divergent language families. The data-rich papers in this first-ever volume on EPCs document their typological variability, explore diachronic reasons for variations, and investigate their… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 39] 1999. ix, 573 pp.

Form Miming Meaning

Edited by Max Nänny and Olga Fischer

The recent past has seen an increasing interest in iconicity especially among linguists. This collection puts the interdisciplinary study of iconic dimensions (comprising what has been termed ‘imagic iconicity’, as well as ‘diagrammatic iconicity’, i.e. iconicity of a more abstract and less… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 1] 1999. xxxvi, 443 pp.

Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 28th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVIII), University Park, 16–19 April 1998

Edited by Jean-Marc Authier, Barbara E. Bullock and Lisa A. Reed

This volume presents current research in the formal treatment of linguistic phenomena in the Romance languages. It focuses on a variety of issues in phonology, second language acquisition, semantics, and syntax. Topics in phonological theory include the analysis of geminates, assimilation, rhotics,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 185] 1999. xii, 334 pp.

A French-English Grammar: A contrastive grammar on translational principles

Morris Salkoff

In this contrastive French-English grammar, the comparisons between French structures and their English equivalents are formulated as rules which associate a French schema (of a particular grammatical structure) with its translation into an equivalent English schema. The grammar contains all the… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 22] 1999. xvi, 342 pp.

Function and Structure: In honor of Susumu Kuno

Edited by Akio Kamio and Ken-ichi Takami

This collection of papers on functional syntax shows the development of a specific stream of functional linguistics initiated by Susumu Kuno of Harvard University. Inspired by Prague School linguists such as Jan Firbas and Vilém Mathesius, Kuno developed a more comprehensive and theory-oriented… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 59] 1999. x, 398 pp.

Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers

Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley

The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches – functionalists and formalists – in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 41] 1999. vi, 514 pp.

Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume II: Case studies

Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley

The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 42] 1999. vi, 407 pp.

Ghanaian Pidgin English in its West African Context: A sociohistorical and structural analysis

Magnus Huber

This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPEs structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G24] 1999. xviii, 322 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

The Grammar of Focus

Edited by Georges Rebuschi and Laurice Tuller

The grammar of focus has been studied in generative grammar from its inception. It has been the subject of intense, detailed cross-linguistic investigation for over 20 years, particularly within the Principles and Parameters framework. It is appropriate at this point, therefore, to take stock.… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 24] 1999. vi, 366 pp.

Grammatical Analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics: Papers in honor of Mario Saltarelli

Edited by Jon A. Franco, Alazne Landa and Juan Martín

This volume contains fifteen articles on current theoretical issues in Basque and Romance linguistics. Even though Basque and Romance languages are typologically different and have different genetic origins, one thousand years of coexistence have shown certain parallelisms in their respective… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 187] 1999. viii, 306 pp.

Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: Volume 1

Edited by Dennis R. Preston

Perceptual dialectology investigates what ordinary people (as opposed to professional linguists) believe about the distribution of language varieties in their own and surrounding speech communities and how they have arrived at and implement those beliefs. It studies the beliefs of the common folk… read more

[Not in series, HPD 1] 1999. xl, 413 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 1997 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 3] 1999. 297 pp.

Historical Dialogue Analysis

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Gerd Fritz and Franz Lebsanft

Historical dialogue analysis is a new branch of historical pragmatics. The papers of this interdisciplinary volume contribute to charting the developing field by presenting a survey of recent research from the different traditions of English, German and Romance language studies. Both the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 66] 1999. viii, 478 pp.

History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 1: Traditions in Linguistics Worldwide

Edited by David Cram, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak

The papers in this volume present a colourful picture of the range of research currently being undertaken in the field of the history of linguistics, with contribution both from established scholars and from younger researchers. The volume is organised on a geographical basis, with sections devoted… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 94] 1999. xx, 341 pp.

History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics

Edited by David Cram, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak

This volume contains papers on linguistic historiography ranging chronologically from ancient Greece to the present, and covering philosophical, social and political aspects of language as well as the study of grammar in the narrow sense. The work opens with the report on a round-table discussion… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 95] 1999. xx, 390 pp.

Ideologies of politeness

Edited by Manfred Kienpointner

Special issue of Pragmatics 9:1 (1999) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Images of Language: Six essays on German attitudes to European languages from 1500 to 1800

William Jervis Jones

This volume consists of six essays on interrelated themes, focusing on key aspects of language reflection during the period 1500-1800, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century. German speakers are seen attempting to discover and define the nature of adjacent languages, whilst also… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 89] 1999. x, 299 pp.

Intercultural Education and Literacy: An ethnographic study of indigenous knowledge and learning in the Peruvian Amazon

Sheila Aikman

Indigenous peoples around the world are calling for control over their education in order to reaffirm their identities and defend their rights. In Latin America the indigenous peoples, national governments and international organisations have identified intercultural education as a means of… read more

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 7] 1999. xx, 232 pp.

Issues in Mathematical Linguistics: Workshop on Mathematical Linguistics, State College, PA, April 1998

Edited by Carlos Martín-Vide

This brief collection of refereed papers approaches several technical as well as methodological aspects of the mathematical formalization of natural language, particularly in syntax and in semantics. Such kind of investigation is a prerequisite for the computational processing of language and is… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 47] 1999. xii, 214 pp.

Issues in Morphosyntax

Peter Ackema

Of particular interest to morphologists and syntacticians Issues in Morphosyntax aims to contribute to the discussion on the question whether there exists a separate morphological module in the grammar, distinct from the other modules, with special focus on the connection of morphology with syntax.… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 26] 1999. viii, 310 pp.

Issues in Phonological Structure: Papers from an International Workshop

Edited by S.J. Hannahs and Mike Davenport

This volume contains revised, expanded and updated versions of papers originally presented at the International Workshop on Phonological Structure held at the University of Durham in September 1994. As the title suggests, the contributions focus on aspects of phonological structure, both segment… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 196] 1999. xii, 268 pp.

The Japanese Mental Lexicon: Psycholinguistic Studies of Kana and Kanji processing

Joseph F. Kess and Tadao Miyamoto

This book surveys the psycholinguistic dimensions of lexical access to the mental lexicon in Japanese, and attempts to synthesize the diversity of Japanese psycholinguistic research into the nature of written word processing in Japanese. Ten chapters focus on the nature of such psycholinguistic… read more

[Not in series, 95] 1999. x, 268 pp.

Learning a Second Language through Interaction

Rod Ellis

This book examines different theoretical perspectives on the role that interaction plays in second language acquisition. The principal perspectives are those afforded by the Interaction Hypothesis, Socio-Cultural Theory and the Levels of Processing model. Interaction is, therefore, defined broadly;… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 17] 1999. x, 285 pp.

Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning: Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995

Edited by Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Kee Dong Lee and Eve Sweetser

The basic tenet of cognitive linguistics is that every linguistic expression is a construal relation. The first section of this volume focuses on issues of such construal and presentation of information, including figure-ground relations, image-schematic structures, and the role of syntactic… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 150] 1999. xii, 454 pp.

Linguistic Attractors: The cognitive dynamics of language acquisition and change

David L. Cooper

The interdisciplinary linguistic attractor model portrays language processing as linked sequences of fractal sets, and examines the changing dynamics of such sets for individuals as well as the speech community they comprise. Its motivation stems from human anatomic constraints and several… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 2] 1999. xv, 375 pp.

Linguistic Historiography: Projects & prospects

E.F.K. Koerner †

The present volume brings together the author's most recent thinking on the tasks and methods of linguistic historiography and his critical assessment of the legacy of a number of major 20th-century scholars. Some of the chapters are revisions of previously published articles, which together with… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 92] 1999. x, 236 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 1999

Edited by Renée van Bezooijen and René Kager

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the thirtieth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on February, 6, 1998. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. At… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 16] 1999. xii, 231 pp. | open access

Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997

Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Gerard J. Steen

This book contains a selection of refereed and revised papers originally presented at the 5th ICLC. After an introduction by the editors, the book opens with a long-needed chapter on historical precedents for the Cognitive Linguistic theory of metaphor. Two chapters demonstrate the method of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 175] 1999. viii, 226 pp.

Morphology-Driven Syntax: A theory of V to I raising and pro-drop

Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher

This book argues that syntactic parameters are set in a principled fashion on the basis of overt functional morphology. The main focus of the book is on the different positions of the finite verb in the Germanic SVO languages. In addition, other syntactic phenomena (null subjects, transitive… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 15] 1999. viii, 296 pp.

Negotiated Interaction in Target Language Classroom Discourse

Jamila Boulima

This book addresses some of the most fundamental questions that can be asked about target language (TL) acquisition in the classroom context, namely1. What is negotiated interaction?2. What are the main discourse functions of negotiated interaction?3. How frequent is negotiated interaction in TL… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 51] 1999. xiv, 338 pp.

Negotiating Agreement and Disagreement in Japanese: Connective expressions and turn construction

Junko Mori

On the basis of the meticulous transcription/observation process of Conversation Analysis, this book observes recurrent patterns in sequences where Japanese speakers negotiate agreement and disagreement. It contributes to the growing body of research on interaction and grammar by examining how… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 8] 1999. xii, 240 pp.

Papers on Rhetoric: Volume II

Edited by Lucia Calboli Montefusco

[Not in series, POR 2] 1999. viii, 163 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XII: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1998

Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun

The papers in this volume deal with various topics in Arabic Linguistics. Most of the papers focus on new issues and introduce new empirical generalizations that haven't been studied before within the context of Arabic linguistics. The syntax and morphosyntax papers explore issues ranging from the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 190] 1999. vii, 204 pp.

Phonetics of the Origins and Evolution of Speech

Edited by Didier Demolin and Jean-Marie Hombert

Papers from a satellite meeting of the XIVth Congress of the Phonetic Sciences regarding the phonetics of the origin and evolution of speech. Topics include: the internal structure of words, the question of the growth of the vocal tract, and principles of self-organization as they relate to the… read more

Special issue of Evolution of Communication 3:1 (1999) 103 pp.

Politics and Sociolinguistic Reflexes: Palestinian border villages

Muhammad Hasan Amara

This sociolinguistic study describes and analyzes an Israeli Palestinian border village in the Little Triangle and another village artificially divided between Israel and the West Bank, tracing the political transformations that they have undergone, and the accompanying social and cultural changes.… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 19] 1999. xx, 261 pp.

Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série. Volume 3

Edited by Eva Hajičová, Tomáš Hoskovec, Oldřich Leška †, Petr Sgall and Zdena Skoumalová

This volume is the third one of the revived series of Travaux, which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic Circle, published in the years 1929-39. The tradition of the Circle still attracts attention in broad circles of European and American linguistics. read more

[Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague N.S., 3] 1999. viii, 310 pp.

Preformulating the News: An analysis of the metapragmatics of press releases

Geert Jacobs

Preformulating the News is a study of press releases and of how they anticipate the requirements of journalistic writing. Drawing from a large corpus (Dutch and English), it is argued that the genre’s peculiar audience-directedness can be related to a number of metapragmatic textual features and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 60] 1999. xviii, 428 pp.

The Prominence of Tense, Aspect and Mood

D.N.S. Bhat

The book puts forth an exciting hypothesis for the typologist. Its major claim is that languages can generally be regarded as belonging to a tense-prominent, aspect-prominent or mood-prominent language type. This grouping can be based upon the relative prominence that languages attach to one or the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 49] 1999. xii, 198 pp.

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society. Volume 12 (1999)

Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers

[Reinardus, 12] 1999. vi, 248 pp.

The Roots of Old Chinese

Laurent Sagart

The phonology, morphology and lexicon of late Zhou Chinese are examined in this volume. It is argued that a proper understanding of Old Chinese morphology is essential in correctly reconstructing the phonology. Based on evidence from word-families, modern dialects and related words in neighboring… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 184] 1999. xi, 255 pp.

Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax

Edited by Esthela Treviño and José Lema

All of the articles in this volume focus on the interaction of form and meaning. Most of them are developed under the principal thesis of the Minimalist Program. These works show that the theoretical linguistic trend is to discover semantic aspects which are assumed to have visible syntactic… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 173] 1999. viii, 309 pp.

Simultaneous Interpretation: A cognitive-pragmatic analysis

Robin Setton

Simultaneous interpretation is among the most complex of human cognitive/linguistic activities. This study, which will interest practitioners and trainers as well as linguists, draws more on linguistics-based theories of cognition in communication (cognitive semantics and pragmatics) than on the… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 28] 1999. xv, 397 pp.

Slavic Gender Linguistics

Edited by Margaret H. Mills

This edited volume offers the first comprehensive collection devoted to the study of Slavic gender linguistics by a team of international Slavic linguists. It features eleven highly-original, data-driven contributions representing a variety of approaches to this understudied and underrepresented… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 61] 1999. xviii, 251 pp.

Slips of the Tongue: Speech errors in first and second language production

Nanda Poulisse

This book reports the results of an extensive study of slips of the tongue produced by foreign language (L2) learners at different levels of proficiency. Thus, it provides new data which can be used to test current monolingual models of speech production and to further the development of bilingual… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 20] 1999. xvi, 266 pp.

Sociocultural Perspectives on Language Change in Diaspora: Soviet immigrants in the United States

David R. Andrews

This book is a sociolinguistic examination of the Russian speech of the American “Third Wave”, the migration from the Soviet Union which began in the early 1970s under the policy of détente. Within the framework of bilingualism and language contact studies, it examines developments in emigré… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 5] 1999. xviii, 182 pp.

Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA

Edited by Thom Huebner and Kathryn A. Davis

This volume is the result of a colloquium on socio-political dimensions of language policy and language planning held at the 1997 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference. The focus is on language planning and policy in the USA, but the issues raised will be applicable to other… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 16] 1999. xvi, 365 pp.

Somali

John Saeed

Somali is spoken by more than nine million people in the Horn of Africa and by expatriate communities in the Middle East, Europe and North America. It is the official language of Somalia and an important regional language in Ethiopia and Kenya. As a Cushitic language Somali is part of the great… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 10] 1999. xv, 295 pp.

Source Book for Linguistics: Third revised edition

William Cowan and Jaromira Rakušan

This is a revised and expanded edition of Cowan and Rakušan’s Source Book for Linguistics. In addition to the chapters on Phonetics, Phonology, Phonological Alternations, Morphology, Syntax, Sound Change and Historical Reconstruction, there are two new chapters: one on Semantics and one on… read more

[Not in series, 89] 1999. xii, 252 pp.

Studies on the Phonological Word

Edited by Tracy Alan Hall and Ursula Kleinhenz

The present volume consists of nine articles dealing with the role of the constituent ‘phonological word’ (or ‘prosodic word’) in various typologically diverse languages. These languages and their respective families subsume Indo-European (Dutch, German, English, European Portuguese), Bantu… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 174] 1999. vi, 297 pp.

Talking at Cross-Purposes: The dynamics of miscommunication

Angeliki Tzanne

Misunderstandings have been examined extensively in studies on cross-cultural (mis)communication which associate them with participants’ differing cultural backgrounds and/or linguistic knowledge. Drawing on a large corpus of misunderstandings from cross- and intra-cultural encounters, this book… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 62] 1999. xiv, 263 pp.

Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity: Essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov

Edited by Werner Abraham and Leonid Kulikov

This collection presents typological work on tense, aspect, and epistemic modality in a variety of languages and against the background of different schools of thinking, among which the St. Petersburg Typological School developed and so masterfully implemented by the Petersburg linguist, Vladimir… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 50] 1999. xxxiv, 359 pp.

Terminology: Theory, methods and applications

Teresa Cabré

Terminology: Theory, methods and applications addresses language specialists, terminologists, and all those who take an interest in socio-political and technical aspects of Terminology. The book covers its subject comprehensively and deals among other things with concepts (the relation between… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 1] 1999. xii, 248 pp.

Text and Context in Functional Linguistics

Edited by Mohsen Ghadessy

The shift towards a sociolinguistic approach to the analysis of language in the last few decades has necessitated new definitions for a number of concepts that linguists have taken for granted for a long time. This volume attempts to demystify the important notions of ‘text’ and ‘context’ by… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 169] 1999. xviii, 340 pp.

Tibetan

Philip Denwood

The Tibetan language comprises a wide range of spoken and written varieties whose known history dates from the 7th century AD to the present day. Its speakers inhabit a vast area in Central Asia and the Himalayas extending into seven modern nation states, while its abundant literature includes much… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 3] 1999. xix, 372 pp.

Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics

Edited by Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova and Lars Hellan

This collection of articles presents a variety of approaches to central phenomena in South Slavic syntax and semantics, with an informal introduction by the editors on South Slavic clause structure. Phenomena addressed (treated partly on a language specific basis, partly comparative) include: the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 172] 1999. xxviii, 263 pp.

Translating the Elusive: Marked word order and subjectivity in English-German translation

Monika S. Schmid

This work presents an in-depth analysis of text- and speaker-based meaning of non-canonical word order in English and ways to preserve this in English-German translation. Among the sentence structures under discussion are subject-verb inversion, Left Dislocation, Topicalization as well as wh-cleft… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 36] 1999. xii, 174 pp.

Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation: A Study in Grammar and Interaction

Hiroko Tanaka

This book explores the interpretation of grammar and turn-taking in Japanese talk-in-interaction from the perspective of conversation analysis. It pays special attention to the projectability patterns of turns in Japanese in comparison to English. Through qualitative and quantitative methods, it is… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 56] 1999. xiv, 242 pp.

Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect

Peter L. Patrick

A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G17] 1999. xx, 329 pp.

Variation in (Sub)standard language

Edited by Rob Belemans and Reinhild Vandekerckhove

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 13] 1999. vi, 222 pp.

Verbal Complement Clauses: A minimalist study of direct perception constructions

Claudia Felser

This monograph examines the syntax of bare infinitival and participial complements of perception verbs in English and other European languages, and investigates the general conditions under which verbal complement clauses are licensed. The introductory chapter is followed by an overview of the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 25] 1999. xiv, 278 pp.

The Acquisition of Dutch

Edited by Steven Gillis and Annick De Houwer

In the present-day context of cross-linguistic perspectives on language acquisition, The Acquisition of Dutch offers a much needed overview of the wealth of Dutch child language research that was hitherto lacking. Its comprehensive coverage in terms of topics, its many new theoretical contributions… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 52] 1998. xvi, 444 pp.

Adverbs of Degree in Dutch and Related Languages

Henny Klein

Adverbs of degree form an intriguing part of the lexicon: numerous, multiform and everchanging. They also show a great variety in distribution. In this study, the characteristics of adverbs of degree are investigated from a semantic point of view. The main focus is on Dutch, but previous studies… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 21] 1998. x, 232 pp.

American Sociolinguistics: Theorists and theory groups

Stephen O. Murray

This is a revised version of Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America (1994), the post-World-War-II history of the emergence of sociolinguistics in North America that was described in Language in Society as “a heady combination of detailed scholarship, mordant wit, and sustained… read more

[Not in series, 86] 1998. x, 339 pp.

And Along Came Boas: Continuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology

Regna Darnell

The advent of Franz Boas on the North American scene irrevocably redirected the course of Americanist anthropology. This volume documents the revolutionary character of the theoretical and methodological standpoint introduced by Boas and his first generation of students, among whom linguist Edward… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 86] 1998. xviii, 333 pp.

An Annotated Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English

Manfred Görlach †

In the 19th century, education became accessible to much wider circles of society in a great number and variety of schools and the teaching of grammar came to be obligatory from 1870/72 with the advent of general education. Whereas these general trends of the 19th century are well-known to scholars… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 26] 1998. ix, 395 pp.

Approaching Dialogue: Talk, interaction and contexts in dialogical perspectives

Per Linell

Approaching Dialogue has its primary focus on the theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of talk-in-interaction. It deals with conversation in general as well as talk within institutions against a backdrop of Conversation Analysis, context-based discourse analysis, social pragmatics,… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 3] 1998. xviii, 330 pp.

Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake

Edited by Anna Siewierska and Jae Jung Song

The present volume is a collection of fifteen original articles that include descriptive, typological and/or theoretical studies of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena, such as case, transitivity, grammaticalization, valency alternations, etc., in a variety of languages or language groups, and… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 38] 1998. 395 pp.

Clinical interviews as verbal interactions

Edited by Michèle Grossen and Anne Salazar-Orvig

Special issue of Pragmatics 8:2 (1998) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Coding the Hypothetical: A comparative typology of Russian and Macedonian conditionals

Jane F. Hacking

Conditionals encode speculation. They convey how events could have been different in the past or present, or might be different in the future if particular conditions had been or will be met. While all languages afford the means to speculate or hypothesize about possible events, the ways in which… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 38] 1998. vi, 156 pp.

Comparative Studies in Word Order Variation: Adverbs, pronouns, and clause structure in Romance and Germanic

Christopher Laenzlinger

The present book is a typological study in crucial portions of the grammars of French/Romance and German/Germanic. It starts by asking: What do adverbs, pronouns and full noun phrases have in common? This question is tackled, on the one hand, from an empirical perspective by the description of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 20] 1998. x, 371 pp.

The Concept of Reference in the Cognitive Sciences

Edited by Amichai Kronfeld and Lawrence D. Roberts

An interdisciplinary look at the concept of reference, using perspectives from the philosophy of language and mind, logic and formal semantics, to developmental psychology and cognitive science. read more

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 6:1/2 (1998) vii, 364 pp.

The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: A perspective from Chinese

Ning Yu

This comparative study of Chinese and English metaphor contributes to the search for metaphoric universals by placing the contemporary theory of metaphor in a broad cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. The author explores to what degree abstract reasoning is metaphorical and which… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 1] 1998. x, 278 pp.

The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154

Hans Frede Nielsen †

In conjunction with two other volumes, which are scheduled to appear later, The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154 aims at giving a comprehensive survey of what by the author is seen as the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 19] 1998. xiv, 234 pp.

Contrastive Functional Analysis

Andrew Chesterman

Why is a raven like a writing-desk? The concept of similarity lies at the heart of this new book on contrastive analysis. Similarity judgements depend partly on properties of the objects being compared, and partly on what the person judging considers to be relevant to the assessment; similarity… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 47] 1998. viii, 230 pp.

Contrastive Lexical Semantics

Edited by Edda Weigand

Contrastive lexical semantics was the main topic of an International Workshop at the University of Münster in May, 1997. It was addressed from different perspectives, from the pragmatic perspective of a corpus-oriented approach as well as from the model-oriented perspective of sign theoretic… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 171] 1998. x, 270 pp.

The Cultural Context in Business Communication

Edited by Susanne Niemeier, Charles P. Campbell and René Dirven †

The Cultural Context in Business Communication focuses on differences and similarities in business negotiations and written communication in intercultural settings. To set the scene, Edward T. Hall looks back at “culture” as an evolutionary concept and Charles Campbell explains the value of… read more

[Not in series, 87] 1998. vi, 269 pp.

Current Issues in Relevance Theory

Edited by Villy Rouchota and Andreas H. Jucker

The eleven original papers collected in this volume address themselves to some of the central issues in the relevance theoretic research programme since the 1995 publication of the second edition of Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance. Communication and Cognition.Several papers investigate the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 58] 1998. xii, 368 pp.

The Dative: Volume 2: Theoretical and contrastive studies

Edited by Willy Van Langendonck and William Van Belle

This book is the second part of a two-volume reader on the ‘Dative’. In the first part, which appeared in 1996, eleven papers were presented providing a syntactic and semantic description of the category ‘Dative’ in eleven languages. The aim of this second part is to discuss several aspects of the… read more

[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 3] 1998. xvi, 296 pp.

Deixis and Information Packaging in Russian Discourse

Lenore A. Grenoble

The role deixis plays in structuring language and its relation to the context of utterance provides the focus for an examination of information packaging in Russian discourse. The analysis is based on a model which interprets discourse as constituted by four interrelated frameworks — the linguistic… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 50] 1998. xviii, 338 pp.

Die Grenzen der Sprache: Sprachimmanenz – Sprachtranszendenz

Herausgegeben von Christoph Asmuth, Friedrich Glauner und Burkhard Mojsisch

Der vorliegende Sammelband widmet sich einem Thema der Sprachphilosophie: den Grenzen der Sprache. Die Begrenztheit des Sprechens, das Versagen der Sprache und das Schweigen sind Bereiche, denen das Interesse dieses Buches gilt. Groß e Bedeutung gewinnt deshalb die Frage, in welchem Sinne und ob… read more

[Not in series - Grüner, 143] 1998. ix, 406 pp.

Discourse Markers: Descriptions and theory

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Yael Ziv

Studies of Discourse Markers so far have concentrated on either the descriptive or the theoretical parameter. This book brings together thirteen papers concerning aspects of lexical instantiations of Discourse Marking devices, ranging from functional descriptions along cognitive, attitudinal,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 57] 1998. x, 363 pp.

Discourse of Silence

Dennis Kurzon

The book deals initially with the interpretation of the silent answer to a question. From a semiotic approach to the contrast between silence and speech mainly within a Greimasian framework, the discussion turns to the application of pragmatic tools such as conversational analysis and adjacency… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 49] 1998. vi, 162 pp.

English Prepositions Explained

Seth Lindstromberg

English Prepositions Explained has been written both for non-native and native speakers of English and is intended for: teachers of English; translators; materials writers; advanced students of English; frequent users of English generally.English Prepositions Explained furnishes information about… read more

[Not in series, 88] 1998. xii, 309 pp.

Even More Englishes: Studies 1996–1997. With a foreword by John Spencer

Manfred Görlach †

Even More Englishes comprises Manfred Görlachs more recent papers devoted to general problems of the world language and to individual varieties. The collection starts with principal questions as to what can rightly be regarded as English, looks at specific features of emigrant Englishes and the… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G22] 1998. x, 260 pp.

First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American scholars in the language sciences

Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †

This sequel to the First Person Singular volumes published in 1980 and 1991, respectively (SiHoLS 21 and 61) presents autobiographical accounts by major North American linguists. This material provides an important primary source for the history and development of the discipline during the 20th… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 88] 1998. x, 267 pp.

The Function of Discourse Particles: A study with special reference to spoken standard French

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen

This monograph aims to contribute to linguistic knowledge about the distribution and function of discourse particles, particularly with respect to a small group of particles which are highly frequent in contemporary spoken standard French.The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 (Theory) defines… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 53] 1998. xii, 418 pp.

Functional Grammar and Verbal Interaction

Edited by Mike Hannay and A. Machtelt Bolkestein

Functional Grammar (FG) as set out by Simon Dik is the ambitious combination of a functionalist approach to the study of language with a consistent formalization of the underlying structures which it recognizes as relevant. The present volume represents the attempts made within the FG framework to… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 44] 1998. xii, 308 pp.

Hedging in Scientific Research Articles

Ken Hyland

This book provides a comprehensive study of hedging in academic research papers, relating a systematic analysis of forms to a pragmatic explanation for their use. Based on a detailed examination of journal articles and interviews with research scientists, the study shows that the extensive use of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 54] 1998. x, 308 pp.

Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 2: Germanic linguistics. Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995

Edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen

The Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which is the major forum for the presentation of work in progress in the field of diachronic linguistics, took place at the University of Manchester in August 1995. The quality and breadth of the abstracts submitted for the general… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 162] 1998. x, 365 pp.

Historical Linguistics 1997: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997

Edited by Monika S. Schmid, Jennifer R. Austin and Dieter Stein

This volume presents a selection from the papers given at the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. It offers a window on the current state of the art in historical linguistics: the papers cover a wide range of different languages, different language families, and different… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 164] 1998. x, 409 pp.

A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan (Apabhraṃśa)

Vit Bubenik

This monograph aims to close the gap in our knowledge of the nature and pace of grammatical change during the formative period of today’s Indo-Aryan languages. During the 6th-12th c. the gradual erosion of the synthetic morphology of Old Indo-Aryan resulted ultimately in the remodelling of its… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 165] 1998. xxiv, 265 pp.

Indian English: Texts and Interpretation

Raja Ram Mehrotra

Indian English, or rather, the forms of English used in India, have long been a topic of interest for laymen and scholars. For generations, the ‘exotic’ nature of the transplanted language was commented on, often ridiculed as a matter of unintentional comic. It was only from the 1960s onwards that… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, T7] 1998. x, 148 pp.

Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English

Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward

This work provides a comprehensive discourse-functional account of three classes of noncanonical constituent placement in English – preposing, postposing, and argument reversal – and shows how their interaction is accounted for in a principled and predictive way. In doing so, it details the variety… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 40] 1998. xiv, 314 pp.

Issues in the Teaching and Learning of Japanese

Edited by Nicolette Bramley and Naoko Hanamura

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 15] 1998. iv, 194 pp.

Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights: Selected Proceedings of the Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights Conference, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March, 1996

Edited by Douglas A. Kibbee

The contributions to this volume cover a broad range of issues in language policy that are hotly debated in every corner of the globe. The articles included investigate the implications of language policies on the notion of language rights as the issues are played out in very specific circumstances… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 2] 1998. xvi, 415 pp.

Language Processing and Second Language Development: Processability theory

Manfred Pienemann

This book marks a new development in the field of second language acquisition research. It explores the way in which language processing mechanisms shape the course of language development. Language Processing and Second Language Development thus adds one major psychological component to the search… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 15] 1998. xviii, 366 pp.

Language and its Functions: A historico-critical study of views concerning the functions of language from the pre-humanistic philology of Orleans to the rationalistic philology of Bopp. Translated by Paul Salmon in consultation with Anthony J. Klijnsmit

Pieter A. Verburg

When Pieter Verburg (1905-1989) published Taal en Functionaliteit in 1952, the work was received with admiration by linguistic scholars, though the number of those who could read the Dutch text for themselves remained limited. The title alludes to the theories of linguistic function set out in 1936… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 84] 1998. xxxiv, 577 pp.

Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity: Causative constructions in English

Maarten Lemmens

Fusing insights from cognitive grammar, systemic-functional grammar and Government & Binding, the present work elaborates and refines Davidse’s view that the English grammar of lexical causatives is governed by the transitive and ergative paradigms, two distinct models of causation (Davidse 1991,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 166] 1998. xii, 268 pp.

The Limits of Grammaticalization

Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paul J. Hopper

The earliest use of the term “grammaticalization” was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in “he keeps bees”) become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in “he keeps looking at me”). Changes of this kind, which involve semantic fading and a… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 37] 1998. vi, 307 pp.

Linguistic Choice across Genres: Variation in spoken and written English

Edited by Antonia Sánchez-Macarro and Ronald Carter

This book, based on revised papers originally delivered at the VII International Systemic Functional Workshop in Valencia in 1995, explores some of the choices open to speakers and writers for the expression of meaning in different socio-cultural contexts. Many of the papers draw their inspiration… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 158] 1998. viii, 347 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998

Edited by Renée van Bezooijen and René Kager

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January, 17, 1998. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. At… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 15] 1998. xii, 212 pp. | open access

The Linguistics of Giving

Edited by John Newman

In this collection of papers twelve linguists explore a range of interesting properties of ‘give’ verbs. The volume offers an in-depth look at many morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of ‘give’ verbs, including both literal and figurative senses, across languages. Topics include: an… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 36] 1998. xv, 384 pp.

Mathematical and Computational Analysis of Natural Language: Selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Linguistics (ICML ’96), Tarragona, 1996

Edited by Carlos Martín-Vide

In the last decade, computational linguistics has produced a revival of the interest in the mathematical study of the various levels of human language. This volume contains a selection of recent research papers approaching mathematical and computational topics in natural languages, with a special… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 45] 1998. xviii, 391 pp.

Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax: Word formation in Swedish

Gunlög Josefsson

In Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax the author combines a detailed description of the morphological structure of words in Swedish with a daring new approach to theoretical morphology, based on the Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995) (as developed for syntactic structure). The X-bar theoretic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 19] 1998. ix, 199 pp.

Morphology and its Interfaces in Second Language Knowledge

Edited by Maria-Luise Beck

This volume treats the connection between syntax and morphology with a focus on L2 acquisition. This interface has been a matter of considerable interest in theoretical circles ever since Chomsky (1994) and others argued that morphological parameters form the primary locus of cross-linguistic… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 19] 1998. x, 387 pp.

Neighborhood and Ancestry: Variation in the spoken Arabic of Maiduguri, Nigeria

Jonathan Owens

Over the past 35 years urban sociolinguistics has developed upon the base of detailed case studies carried out mainly in western countries. A fundamental dichotomy informing the interpretation of variation has been carried out within what is termed the “standard-vernacular model”. Higher vs. lower… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 4] 1998. xiii, 396 pp.

New Zealand English Grammar – Fact or Fiction?: A corpus-based study in morphosyntactic variation

Marianne Hundt

New Zealand English (NZE) is one of the younger post-colonial varieties of English. It is therefore not surprising that previous research focused on lexical and phonological aspects of NZE and practically neglected grammatical peculiarities. New Zealand English Grammar — Fact or Fiction? presents a… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G23] 1998. xvi, 212 pp.

Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence

Edited by Joseph C. Salmons and Brian D. Joseph

The “Nostratic” hypothesis — positing a common linguistic ancestor for a wide range of language families including Indo-European, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic — has produced one of the most enduring and often intense controversies in linguistics. Overwhelmingly, though, both supporters of the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 142] 1998. vi, 293 pp.

An Onomasiological Theory of English Word-Formation

Pavol Štekauer

Pavol Štekauer presents an original approach to the intricate problems of English word-formation. The emphasis is on the process of coining new naming units (words). This is described by an onomasiological model, which takes as its point of departure the naming needs of a speech community, and… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 46] 1998. x, 192 pp.

Patterns and Meanings: Using corpora for English language research and teaching

Alan Partington

Patterns and Meanings consists of case studies which make use of corpora and concordance technology. Each case study elaborates a problem area, makes reference to both the descriptive and applied literature thus far, and then suggests ways of exploiting corpus data to shed light on the problem.… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 2] 1998. x, 162 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XI: Atlanta, Georgia, 1997

Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun, Mushira Eid and Niloofar Haeri

The papers in this volume address core areas in contemporary Arabic linguistics: syntax, phonology, and variation studies. The papers in the syntax sections address different topics from the perspective of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995) and subsequent work. The topics in this section are… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 167] 1998. viii, 231 pp.

Phonetics and Phonology of Tense and Lax Obstruents in German

Michael Jessen

Knowing that the so-called voiced and voiceless stops in languages like English and German do not always literally differ in voicing, several linguists among them Roman Jakobson have proposed that dichotomies such as fortis/lenis or tense/lax might be more suitable to capture the invariant… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 44] 1998. xx, 394 pp.

Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical Dependency

Anastasia Giannakidou

Polarity phenomena have been known to linguists since Klimas seminal work on English negation. In this monograph Giannakidou presents a novel theory of polarity which avoids the empirical and conceptual problems of previous approaches by introducing a notion wider than negation and downward… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 23] 1998. xvi, 282 pp.

Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 1989–1991

Edited by Paul Chilton, Mikhail V. Ilyin and Jacob L. Mey

The year 1989 brought political upheavals in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, the effects of which have not yet ended. The political discourse of the Cold War period disintegrated and gave way to competing alternatives. The contributors to this book are linguists, discourse analysts and social… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 36] 1998. xi, 272 pp.

Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the Determiner Phrase

Edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Chris Wilder

This volume presents a cross-section of current research on the internal syntax of ‘Determiner Phrases` (DPs), with special emphasis on the analysis of DPs modified by genitival, adjectival and other non-finite attributes. Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the DP illustrates clearly the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 22] 1998. vi, 388 pp

Relevance Theory: Applications and implications

Edited by Robyn Carston and Seiji Uchida

This collection of papers arises from a meeting of relevance theorists held in Osaka, May 29-30, 1993. Speakers at the conference included both of the originators of the theory, Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, the editors of this volume and several other Japanese linguists and pragmatists, all of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 37] 1998. x, 300 pp.

Romance Linguistics: Theoretical Perspectives. Selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVII), Irvine, 20–22 February, 1997

Edited by Armin Schwegler, Bernard Tranel and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria

This volume contains selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-27), which was held at the University of California, Irvine, on February 20-22, 1997. The 22 papers deal with current issues in linguistic theory as they can be illuminated by the close analysis and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 160] 1998. vi, 349 pp. + index

Second Language Phonology

John Archibald

This volume explores a variety of aspects of second language speech, with special focus on contributions to the field made by (primarely) generative linguists looking at the sounds and sound systems of second language learners. Second Language Phonology starts off with an overview of second… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 17] 1998. xii, 313 pp.

The Structure of the Lexicon in Functional Grammar

Edited by Hella Olbertz, Kees Hengeveld and Jesús Sánchez García

The papers collected in this volume concern five different aspects of the role of the lexicon in the theory of Functional Grammar such as developed by Simon C. Dik and his co-workers. The volume starts off with an eminently practical section on the Functional-Lexematic Model, a lexicological and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 43] 1998. xii, 312 pp.

Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency

Edited by Richard Young and Agnes Weiyun He

This book brings together a collection of current research on the assessment of oral proficiency in a second language. Fourteen chapters focus on the use of the language proficiency interview or LPI to assess oral proficiency. The volume addresses the central issue of validity in proficiency… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 14] 1998. x, 395 pp.

Tense and Aspect: The contextual processing of semantic indeterminacy

Edited by Svetlana Vogeleer, Walter De Mulder and Ilse Depraetere

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 12] 1998. x, 226 pp.

Terms in Context

Jennifer Pearson

Terms in Context applies the methodology that has been developed over the last two decades in corpus linguistics to the relatively new and still little developed field of corpus-based terminography. While corpora are already being used by some terminologists for the identification of terms and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 1] 1998. xii, 246 pp.

Themes in Greek Linguistics: Volume II

Edited by Brian D. Joseph, Geoffrey C. Horrocks and Irene Philippaki-Warburton

This volume brings together 11 original papers on a variety of themes in Greek linguistics, covering phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, both synchronically and diachronically.Collectively, these papers report on recent advances in the study of Greek grammar within the framework of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 159] 1998. x, 335 pp.

Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVI), Mexico City, 28–30 March, 1996

Edited by José Lema and Esthela Treviño

From the papers presented at the 26th LSRL, this volume offers a selection of a contributions on phonological issues and on syntax. Most of the grammatical phenomena discussed are treated within the frameworks of the Minimalist Program, Distributed Morphology, or Optimality Theory. It was apparent… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 157] 1998. viii, 380 pp.

Writing and Identity: The discoursal construction of identity in academic writing

Roz Ivanič

Writing is not just about conveying ‘content’ but also about the representation of self. (One of the reasons people find writing difficult is that they do not feel comfortable with the ‘me’ they are portraying in their writing. Academic writing in particular often poses a conflict of identity for… read more

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 5] 1998. xiii, 373 pp.

The “Broken” Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic: Allomorphy and analogy in non-concatenative morphology

Robert R. Ratcliffe

The formal aspects of non-concatenative morphology have received considerable attention in recent years, but the diachronic dimensions of such systems have been little explored. The current work applies a modern methodological and theoretical framework to a classic problem in Arabic and Semitic… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 168] 1998. xii, 261 pp.

The Acquisition of Spatial Relations in a Second Language

Angelika Becker and Mary Carroll

This book is the third to appear in the SIBIL series based on results from the European Science Foundation's Additional Activity on the second language acquisition of adult immigrants. It analyses from a longitudinal and cross-linguistic perspective the acquisition of the linguistic means to… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 11] 1997. xii, 212 pp.

Adverb Placement: A case study in antisymmetric syntax

Artemis Alexiadou

This monograph investigates a number of central issues in the Syntax of Adverbs with special reference to Greek in the light of Kayne's (1994) Antisymmetry Hypothesis. It examines the conditions on the placement of the various adverb types, their licensing requirements, and their relation to… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 18] 1997. x, 256 pp.

The Categories of Grammar: French lui and le

Alan Huffman

This book offers an analysis of the French clitic object pronouns lui and le in the radically functional Columbia school framework, contrasting this framework with sentence-based treatments of case selection. It suggests that features of the sentence such as subject and object relations, normally… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 30] 1997. xiv, 379 pp.

Clitics, Pronouns and Movement

Edited by James R. Black and Virginia Motapanyane

The introduction to this volume by Anders Holmberg provides a reflection on movement in the light of recent developments in Minimalist theory. His discussion of the theories of category versus feature movement in terms of displacement and copying, provides the background for 12 papers dealing with… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 140] 1997. 375 pp.

The Cognitive System of the French Verb

John Hewson

This study is based on the writings and teaching of Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960), one of the earliest proponents of what is today called Cognitive Linguistics. It offers (1) a much needed presentation in English of Guillaume’s view of the French system, (2) the clarifications added by his… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 147] 1997. xii, 187 pp.

Communicating Gender in Context

Edited by Helga Kotthoff and Ruth Wodak

The contributions to the book “Communicating Gender in Context” deal not only with grammatical gender, but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context. Attention is directed to European cultures which till now have come up short in… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 42] 1997. xxvi, 424 pp.

Conflict and violence in pragmatic research

Edited by Charles L. Briggs

Special issue of Pragmatics 7:4 (1997) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Contact Languages: A wider perspective

Edited by Sarah G. Thomason

This book contributes to a more balanced view of the most dramatic results of language contact by presenting linguistic and historical sketches of lesser-known contact languages. The twelve case studies offer eloquent testimony against the still common view that all contact languages are pidgins… read more

[Creole Language Library, 17] 1997. xiii, 506 pp.

Conversation: Cognitive, communicative and social perspectives

Edited by T. Givón

The papers in this volume were originally presented at the Symposium on Conversation, held at the University of New Mexico in July 1995. The symposium brought together scholars who work on face-to-face communication from a variety of perspectives: social, cultural, cognitive and communicative. Our… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 34] 1997. viii, 302 pp.

Creole and Dialect Continua: Standard acquisition processes in Belize and China (PRC)

Geneviève Escure

Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition. Using a combination of function-based grammar and sociolinguistic methodology to analyze topic marking strategies,… read more

[Creole Language Library, 18] 1997. x, 307 pp.

Demonstratives in Interaction: The emergence of a definite article in Finnish

Ritva Laury

This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative se is currently emerging as a definite article in spoken Finnish. This book describes… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 7] 1997. viii, 294 pp.

Dialect Death: The case of Brule Spanish

Charles E. Holloway

The Brule Dwellers of Ascension Parish are descendants of Canary Island immigrants who came to Louisiana in the late 1700s. A few residents in and around the Ascension Parish area still speak an archaic dialect of Spanish which is at the brink of linguistic extinction. Because the Brule dialect is… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 13] 1997. x, 220 pp.

Directions in Functional Linguistics

Edited by Akio Kamio

Functional linguistics is concerned with the function of language and considers it an essense of human language. Views like this is not particularly new, but rather traditional in the history of linguistics. But today functional linguistics is constituted by a wide range of theoretical and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 36] 1997. xiii, 259 pp.

Discourse and Perspective in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Wolf-Andreas Liebert, Gisela Redeker and Linda R. Waugh

Cognitive models, perspectives, and the construction of situated meaning have always been core concepts in Cognitive Linguistics. The papers in this volume present applications of those concepts to the study of discourse phenomena like the use and interpretation of metaphors, modal expressions,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 151] 1997. xiv, 272 pp.

The Emergence of Semantics in Four Linguistic Traditions: Hebrew, Sanskrit, Greek, Arabic

Wout J. van Bekkum, Jan Houben, Ineke Sluiter and Kees Versteegh

The aim of this study is a comparative analysis of the role of semantics in the linguistic theory of four grammatical traditions, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic. If one compares the organization of linguistic theory in various grammatical traditions, it soon turns out that there are marked… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 82] 1997. ix, 322 pp.

Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach. Volume 1: General studies, British Isles, North America

Edited by Edgar W. Schneider

The two volumes of Englishes around the World present high-quality original research papers written in honour of Manfred Görlach, founder and editor of the journal English World-Wide and the book series Varieties of English Around the World. The papers thematically focus on the field that Manfred… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G18] 1997. vi, 329 pp.

Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach. Volume 2: Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Australasia

Edited by Edgar W. Schneider

[Varieties of English Around the World, G19] 1997. viii, 358 pp.

Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón

Edited by Joan L. Bybee, John Haiman † and Sandra A. Thompson

In their subject matter and in their theoretical orientation all the papers in this volume reflect the powerful influence of T. Givón. Most of them deal with questions of morphosyntactic typology, pragmatics, and grammaticalization theory. Many of them are directly based on extensive fieldwork on… read more

[Not in series, 82] 1997. vi, 480 pp.

Focus on Ireland

Edited by Jeffrey L. Kallen

Irish English is both the oldest overseas variety of English and, thanks to its co-existence with Irish Gaelic, one of the longest-documented examples of a contact-influenced language variety. The dual aspects of substratal influence and dialectal conservatism, together with the spread of this… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G21] 1997. xviii, 260 pp.

Focus on Phonological Acquisition

Edited by S.J. Hannahs and Martha Young-Scholten

The publication of this edited volume comes at a time when interest in the acquisition of phonology by both children learning a first language and adults learning a second is starting to swell. The ten contributions, from established scholars and relative newcomers alike, provide a comprehensive… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 16] 1997. v, 289 pp.

Friesische Studien III: Beiträge des Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie vom 11.–12. April 1996

Herausgegeben von Volkert F. Faltings, Alastair Walker und Ommo Wilts

Der vorliegende Band Friesische Studien III enthält die Referate von sechs Sprachwissenschaftlern aus den Niederlanden und Deutschland anläßlich des dritten Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie, das vom 11.–12. April 1996 in Alkersum auf Föhr stattfand. Die Beiträge befassen sich mit den… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 18] 1997. viii, 205 pp.

Genre, Frames and Writing in Research Settings

Brian Paltridge

This book presents a perspective on genre based on what it is that leads users of a language to recognise a communicative event as an instance of a particular genre. Key notions in this perspective are those of prototype, inheritance, and intertextuality; that is, the extent to which a text is… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 45] 1997. x, 192 pp.

Gestural Communication in Human and Non-Human Primates

Edited by Dario Maestripieri and Jill P. Morford

NB. For the 2005 special issue of Gesture on "Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates", edited by Liebal, Müller & Pika, click here. read more

Special issue of Evolution of Communication 1:2 (1997) 143 pp.

Government and Codeswitching: Explaining American Finnish

Helena Halmari

Bilingual codeswitching is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, which calls for explanations on several different linguistic levels. This volume focuses on one such level: the level of syntax. An explanation for the regularities and consistencies in the codeswitching patterns of American Finns in… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 12] 1997. xvi, 276 pp.

Grammatical Relations: A functionalist perspective

Edited by T. Givón

This volume presents a functional perspective on grammatical relations (GRs) without neglecting their structural correlates. Ever since the 1970s, the discussion of RGs by functionally-oriented linguists has focused primarily on their functional aspects, such as reference, cognitive accessibility… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 35] 1997. viii, 350 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 1996 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 2] 1997. vi, 268 pp.

Handbook of Terminology Management: Volume 1: Basic Aspects of Terminology Management

Compiled by Sue Ellen Wright and Gerhard Budin

[Not in series, HTM 1] 1997. xiv, 372 pp.

Inversion in Modern English: Form and function

Heidrun Dorgeloh

The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences. It treats inversion as a speaker-based decision for reordering within a fairly rigid word order system and identifies the meaning of the construction… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 6] 1997. x, 236 pp.

Language Choices: Conditions, constraints, and consequences

Edited by Martin Pütz

This volume is about various aspects of the theory and application of language contact and language conflict phenomena seen from an interdisciplinary perspective. The focus is on the linguistic, social, psychological, and educational issues (conditions, constraints, and consequences) involved in… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 1] 1997. xxi, 430 pp.

Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges

Edited by William Eggington and Helen Wren

‘Think globally, act locally’ is the message of Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges. The book examines the impact of English in countries in which it is taken for granted — Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. It explores how the dominance of English impacts on… read more

[Not in series, 83] 1997. xxviii, 170 pp.

Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and his critics

Edited by George Wolf and Nigel Love

Roy Harriss thoroughgoing attack on the presuppositions underpinning the dominant traditions of Western thought about language, and his advocacy of a radically reconceived linguistics focused on the idea that the linguistic sign is contextually created and interpreted as a function of the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 148] 1997. xxviii, 344 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 1997

Edited by Jane A. Coerts and Helen de Hoop

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January, 18, 1997. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. At… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 14] 1997. x, 230 pp. | open access

The Locative Alternation in German: Its structure and acquisition

Ursula Brinkmann

This monograph deals with the locative alternation in German, a change in the argument structure of verbs like spray and load. Like most argument structure changes, the alternation is both productive and constrained: new forms may be derived, but not from all candidate verbs. This raises a… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 15] 1997. x, 289 pp.

Managing Language: The discourse of corporate meetings

Francesca Bargiela and Sandra J. Harris

The book attempts to answer the question: what do managers in multinational companies really do during meetings? Following fieldwork in three corporations in Britain and Italy, the picture that emerges is one that challenges the widespread understanding of meetings as boring, routine events in the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 44] 1997. ix, 295 pp.

Materials on Left Dislocation

Edited by Elena Anagnostopoulou, Henk van Riemsdijk and Frans Zwarts

Materials on Left Dislocation consists of two parts. Part I contains a selection of the main texts on which our present understanding of the Left Dislocation construction is based. For various reasons most of these texts had never been published, or are published in obsolete places. These articles,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 14] 1997. viii, 349 pp.

Narrative Performances: A study of Modern Greek storytelling

Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Conversational narratives provide valuable resources for the discursive construction and invoking of personal and sociocultural identities. As such, their sociolinguistic and cultural analysis constitute a high priority in the agenda of discourse studies. This book contributes to the growing line… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 46] 1997. xvii, 282 pp.

Negation and Polarity: Syntax and semantics. Selected papers from the colloquium Negation: Syntax and Semantics. Ottawa, 11–13 May 1995

Edited by Danielle Forget, Paul Hirschbühler, France Martineau and María Luisa Rivero

In the last decade, there has been a revival of interest regarding negation and polarity, with much cross-fertilization between semantic and syntactic approaches. The papers in the present volume address key issues regarding the syntax and semantics of negation and polarity, including both… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 155] 1997. viii, 367 pp.

Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia

Edited by Mark Harvey and Nicholas Reid

This volume aims to extend both the range of analyses and the database on nominal classification systems. Previous analyses of nominal classification systems have focussed on two areas: the semantics of the classification system and the role of the system in discourse. In many nominal… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 37] 1997. x, 296 pp.

Noun-Modifying Constructions in Japanese: A frame semantic approach

Yoshiko Matsumoto

This study examines the clausal noun-modifying construction (NMC) in Japanese, a much-discussed construction that embraces what have usually been called relative clause and noun complement constructions. Drawing upon a broad range of naturally-occurring NMCs, including types that fall outside the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 35] 1997. x, 211 pp.

On Conditionals Again

Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and René Dirven †

The volume brings together a selection of papers from a symposium on Conditionality held in the University of Duisburg on 25-26 March 1994.Ten years after the Stanford symposium, the Proceedings of which were edited by Traugott et al. (1986), the area of conditionality is revisited in a synthesis… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 143] 1997. viii, 418 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume X: Salt Lake City, 1996

Edited by Mushira Eid and Robert R. Ratcliffe

The papers in this volume are a selection of papers presented at the 10th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (Salt Lake City, 1-3 March 1996). The contributions are:Remarks on Focus in Standard Arabic: Jamal Ouhalla;Definiteness Realization and Function in Palestinian Arabic: Dina Belyayeva;… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 153] 1997. vii, 296 pp.

Perspectives on Foreign Language Policy: Studies in honor of Theo van Els

Edited by Theo Bongaerts and Kees de Bot

This volume, containing fourteen invited papers on foreign-language policy, starts off with a brief history of foreign-language teaching policy in the Netherlands. This historical outline is followed by four contributions of authors who once developed the Dutch National Action Programme (NAP) on… read more

[Not in series, 81] 1997. viii, 224 pp.

The Phonology of Coronals

Tracy Alan Hall

This study investigates the phonological behavior of coronal consonants, i.e. sounds produced with the tip or blade of the tongue. The analysis draws on data from over 120 languages and dialects. A definition of coronality is proposed that rejects the current view holding that palatals are… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 149] 1997. x, 176 pp.

Political Linguistics

Edited by Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 11] 1997. vi, 312 pp.

Problems in Organizing the Configuration of a Language Family: Edita and Inedita, 1979–1988. Volume III. Taken from program

Yakov Malkiel

Taken from the program. read more

[Not in series, EAI 3] 1997. ca. 250 pp.

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Selected Papers from RANLP ’95

Edited by Ruslan Mitkov and Nicolas Nicolov

This volume is based on contributions from the First International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP’95) held in Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 14-16 September 1995. This conference was one of the most important and competitively reviewed conferences in Natural Language… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 136] 1997. xii, 472 pp.

Recent Trends in Meaning–Text Theory

Edited by Leo Wanner

The present volume contains articles of well-known representatives of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) and other related linguistic theories.Founded by I. Mel’cuk and A. Zholkovsky in the sixties in Moscow, MTT soon became known in the West as a “prominent outsider” theory. The picture changed since… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 39] 1997. xx, 202 pp.

Reconnecting Language: Morphology and Syntax in Functional Perspectives

Edited by Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Kristin Davidse and Dirk Noël

Although the contributors to this book do not belong to one particular ‘school’ of linguistic theory, they all share an interest in the external functions of language in society and in the relationship between these functions and internal linguistic phenomena. In this sense they all take a… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 154] 1997. xiii, 339 pp.

Rightward Movement

Edited by Dorothee Beermann, David LeBlanc and Henk van Riemsdijk

Symmetries and asymmetries have always played an important role in linguistic theorizing. From the early works on potentially universal properties of transformational processes, differences between rightward and leftward movement processes were noted and constituted a challenge to theories of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 17] 1997. vi, 410 pp.

Scope and Specificity

Feng-hsi Liu

Scope and Specificity is an investigation of quantifier scope interaction in natural language, with special reference to English and Chinese. In particular, it is concerned with semantic properties of NPs. Quantifier scope plays an important role in current theories of syntax and semantics.… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 16] 1997. viii, 187 pp.

The Semantics of Aspect and Modality: Evidence from English and Biblical Hebrew

Galia Hatav

“The semantics of aspect and modality” will be of interest both to linguists working on temporality, as a general phenomenon in language, and Hebraists investigating the semantics of the verbal forms in biblical Hebrew.Tense, aspect and modality are among the most challenging discussed areas of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 34] 1997. x, 224 pp.

Standards and Variation in Urban Speech: Examples from Lowland Scots

Ronald K.S. Macaulay

Standards and Variation in Urban Speech is an examination and exploration of the aims and methods of sociolinguistic investigation, based on studies of Scottish urban speech. It criticially examines the implications of the notions vernacular, standard language, Received Pronunciation, social… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G20] 1997. x, 201

The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics

Edited by Arthur K. Spears and Donald Winford

Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to… read more

[Creole Language Library, 19] 1997. viii, 461 pp.

Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation

Edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Tracy Alan Hall

The articles of the present volume consist of generative analyses dealing with several current topics of discussion and debate in syntactic theory, such as clitics, word order, scrambling, directionality, movement. The data in the volume are drawn from a number of typologically diverse languages (e. read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 13] 1997. viii, 252 pp.

Teaching Languages, Teaching Culture

Edited by Anthony J. Liddicoat and Chantal Crozet

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 14] 1997. iv, 146 pp.

Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony

John Hewson and Vit Bubenik

This monograph presents a general picture of the evolution of IE verbal systems within a coherent cognitive framework. The work encompasses all the language families of the IE phylum, from prehistory to present day languages.Inspired by the ideas of Roman Jakobson and Gustave Guillaume the authors… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 145] 1997. xii, 403 pp.

Territory of Information

Akio Kamio

Most higher animals are said to be territorial, as a huge amount of work in ethology has made it clear. Human beings are no exceptions. They tend to occupy a certain space around them where they claim their own presence and exclude others quite naturally. If territory is so prevalent among higher… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 48] 1997. xiv, 227 pp.

Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume 2: Social interaction and discourse structures

Edited by Gregory R. Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh

This is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and II of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 128] 1997. xviii, 358 pp.

The Typology and Dialectology of Romani

Edited by Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov

Contributions to this collection focus on the unity and diversity of the language of the Roma (Gypsies), the only Indic language spoken exclusively in Europe. Properties discussed include the distinct inflectional and derivational patterns applied to Asian and European lexical layers, the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 156] 1997. xxxii, 223 pp.

Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory

Edited by Frans Hinskens, Roeland van Hout and W. Leo Wetzels

There is a growing awareness that a fruitful cooperation between the (diachronic and synchronic) study of language variation and change and work in phonological theory is both possible and desirable. The study of language variation and change would benefit from this kind of cooperation on the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 146] 1997. x, 314 pp.

Vietnamese

Nguyễn Ðình-Hoà

An essential descriptive introduction to a South-East Asian language with over seventy million speakers, this book provides a conservative treatment of the phonology, lexicon and syntax of Vietnamese, with comments on semantics and history, with particular reference to writing systems, loan words… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 9] 1997. x, 289 pp.

Writing Development: An interdisciplinary view

Edited by Clotilde Pontecorvo

This volume presents a selection of papers presented at a series of three workshops organized by the Network “Written Language and Literacy” as launched by the European Science Foundation. The main topics making up Writing Development are: (1) Writing and literacy acquisition: Links between speech… read more

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 6] 1997. xxxii, 338 pp.

Academic Writing: Intercultural and textual issues

Edited by Eija Ventola and Anna Mauranen

Writing is crucial to the academic world. It is the main mode of communication among scientists and scholars and also a means for students for obtaining their degrees. The papers in this volume highlight the intercultural, generic and textual complexities of academic writing. Comparisons are made… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 41] 1996. xiv, 258 pp.

Advances in Clinical Phonetics

Edited by Martin J. Ball and Martin Duckworth

Advances in Clinical Phonetics focuses on important developments in phonetic description. Recent years have seen increasing developments in phonetic description, in both instrumental and impressionistic approaches. Not restricted to the phonetics of normal speech, clinical phoneticians and speech… read more

[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 6] 1996. xiv, 258 pp.

Anglicisms, Neologisms and Dynamic French

Michael D. Picone

This comprehensive study of Anglicisms in the context of accelerated neological activity in Contemporary Metropolitan French not only provides detailed documentation and description of a fascinating topic, but opens up new vistas on issues of general linguistic interest: the effects of technology… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 18] 1996. xii, 462 pp.

Aspects of Argument Structure Acquisition in Inuktitut

Shanley E.M. Allen

This book discusses the first language acquisition of three morphosyntactic mechanisms of transitivity alternation in arctic Quebec Inuktitut. Data derive from naturalistic longitudinal spontaneous speech samples collected over a nine-month period from four Inuit children. Both basic and advanced… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 13] 1996. xvi, 248 pp.

Case Suspension and Binary Complement Structure in French

Julia Herschensohn

Adopting the theoretical framework of the minimalist program, this study of syntactic limitations on complement configuration investigates the link between thematic external arguments and case. Using evidence from pronominal, psychological experiencer, and inalienable constructions, it argues that… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 132] 1996. xi, 200 pp.

Classification Syntaxique des Constructions Adjectivales en Coréen

Jeesun Nam

The purpose of this study is the systematic description of a set of data called Adjectives in Korean, which reduces to a minimum theoretical preoccupations and abstract formalisations with no practical applications. The framework of our research is the Lexicon-grammar, whose fundamental idea is… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 21] 1996. xxvi, 560 pp.

Coherence and Anaphora

Edited by Walter De Mulder and Liliane Tasmowski

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 10] 1996. viii, 217 pp.

Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives

Edited by Susan C. Herring

Text-based interaction among humans connected via computer networks, such as takes place via email and in synchronous modes such as “chat”, MUDs and MOOs, has attracted considerable popular and scholarly attention. This collection of 14 articles on text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC),… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 39] 1996. viii, 326 pp.

A Concise Grammar of the Old Frisian Dialect of the First Riustring Manuscript

Dirk Boutkan

The language of the First Riustring Manuscript, dating from ca. 1300 AD, represents the most archaic stage of Old Frisian. The mainly legal texts are famous for their historical value. However, a grammatical treatise of this important codex is still lacking. This book is meant to meet this need. It… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 16] 1996. iv, 203 pp.

Content, Expression and Structure: Studies in Danish functional grammar

Edited by Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft and Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen

This collection of papers offers an alternative to mainstream functional linguistics on two points. Especially in American linguistics, function and structure are often viewed almost as polar opposites; in addition, structure is often understood as being only a matter of linguistic form — or… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 29] 1996. xvi, 510 pp.

The Dative: Volume 1: Descriptive studies

Edited by William Van Belle and Willy Van Langendonck

Since antiquity, scholars have been fascinated by the phenomena of case. The explanation for this fascination is, as Hjelmslev already pointed out over fifty years ago, the fact that he who can unravel the meaning of case-relations, has the key to language structure as a whole.For over three years,… read more

[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 2] 1996. xviii, 455 pp.

De Lingua Latina X: A new critical text and English translation with prolegomena and commentary

Daniel J. Taylor

De Lingua Latina X has never been so courageously edited nor so daringly translated as in this long-awaited sequel to Taylors Declinatio (SiHoLS 2). The editors intimate familiarity with both the extant archetype and Varros unique linguistic theory and practice make this volume indispensable for… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 85] 1996. x, 205 pp.

Discourse and Meaning: Papers in honor of Eva Hajičová

Edited by Barbara H. Partee and Petr Sgall

A collection of papers in honor of Eva Hajičová, who represents the continuation of the Prague School tradition in the methodological context of formal and computational linguistics. Her broadly acknowledged contribution to syntax, topic-focus studies, discourse analysis and natural language… read more

[Not in series, 78] 1996. xiv, 430 pp.

The Early Stages of Creolization

Edited by Jacques Arends

This volume brings together a number of studies on the early stages of creolization which are entirely based on historical data. The recent (re)discovery of early documents written in creole languages such as Negerhollands, Bajan, and Sranan, allows for a detailed and empirically founded… read more

[Creole Language Library, 13] 1996. xvi, 297 pp.

Ecological Validity in Pragmatic Research

Aaron V. Cicourel and Albert N. Katz

Addresses the problem of ensuring a higher degree of ‘ecological validity’ in pragmatic research.

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Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 4:2 (1996) viii, 216 pp.

English Historical Linguistics 1994: Papers from the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (8 ICEHL, Edinburgh, 19–23 September 1994)

Edited by Derek Britton

This volume offers a selection of 19 papers from those read at the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics in Edinburgh. Many of the writers are established authorities in the field, but there are also significant contributions from a younger generation of scholars. The… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 135] 1996. viii, 403 pp.

Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics: In honor of Charles J. Fillmore

Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani and Sandra A. Thompson

This volume reflects the influence of Chuck Fillmore’s ground-breaking work in the fields of semantics and pragmatics. The papers in the volume pay tribute to his pioneering research into the deepest realms of the nature of ‘meaning’. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 32] 1996. x, 332 pp.

Focus on South Africa

Edited by Vivian de Klerk

This volume brings together a range of studies on various aspects of English and its use in Southern Africa. Experts in their field have written chapters on topics including the history and development of English in South Africa, the characteristics of particular pan-ethnic varieties of English… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G15] 1996. 328 pp.

Focus on the USA

Edited by Edgar W. Schneider

This volume presents fifteen original research papers by renowned specialists in their respective fields. A variety of research traditions are included, such as dialect geography and sociolinguistics, but also smaller sub-fields such as the study of slang and perceptual dialectology. Varieties… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G16] 1996. vi, 368 pp.

From Grammar to Science: New Foundations for General Linguistics

Victor H. Yngve

Although efforts have been under way for the past two centuries to treat language scientifically, linguists and others who work with language, speech, or communication have not found an adequate scientific foundation in current linguistic theory. Many of the difficulties are caused by longstanding… read more

[Not in series, 80] 1996. xii, 350 pp.

Functional Descriptions: Theory in practice

Edited by Ruqaiya Hasan †, Carmel Cloran and David Butt

This volume focuses on the relation between theory and description by examining aspects of transitivity in different languages. Transitivity — or case grammar, to use the popular term — has always occupied a centre-stage position in linguistics, not least because of its supposedly privileged… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 121] 1996. xxxvi, 381 pp.

Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons

Edited by Harald Clahsen

Against the background of the proliferation of the various subdisciplines of language acquisition research over the past decades, this volume aims to enhance the existing but somewhat fragile links between language acquisition and theoretical linguistics. With regard to previous research, the book… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 14] 1996. xxvii, 499 pp.

The Genesis of a Language: The formation and development of Korlai Portuguese

J. Clancy Clements

Korlai Portuguese (KP), a Portuguese-based creole only recently discovered by linguists, originated around 1520 on the west coast of India. Initially isolated from its Hindu and Muslim neighbors by social and religious barriers, the small Korlai community lost virtually all Portuguese contact as… read more

[Creole Language Library, 16] 1996. xviii, 281 pp.

Germanic Linguistics: Syntactic and diachronic

Edited by Rosina L. Lippi-Green and Joseph C. Salmons

This volume contains ten revised and expanded papers selected from the dozens presented at the last Michigan-Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, five contributions each from syntax (by Werner Abraham, Sarah Fagan, Isabella Barbier, John te Velde, and Ruth Lanouette) and historical linguistics… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 137] 1996. viii, 192 pp.

The Grammar of Possession: Inalienability, incorporation and possessor ascension in Guaraní

Maura Velázquez-Castillo

The Grammar of Possession: Inalienability, incorporation and possessor ascension in Guaraní, is an exhaustive study of linguistic structures in Paraguayan Guaraní which are directly or indirectly associated with the semantic domain of inalienability. Constructions analyzed in the book include… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 33] 1996. xvi, 274 pp.

Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 25th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXV) Seattle, 2–4 March 1995

Edited by Karen Zagona

This volume presents recent theoretical research on Romance languages, selected from papers presented at the 25th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. It includes studies of individual Romance languages as well as comparative studies both within the Romance family and with non-Romance… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 133] 1996. vi, 330 pp.

Grammaticalization of the Complex Sentence: A case study in Chadic

Zygmunt Frajzyngier

The general objective of the study is systematic examination of the processes involved in the formation and evolution of complex sentence constructions in a group of genetically related languages. The Chadic language group, at about 140 languages, constitutes the largest and most diversified branch… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 32] 1996. xviii, 501 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 1995 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 1] 1996. 336 pp. + Binder

Interaction-based studies of language

Edited by Cecilia E. Ford and Johannes Wagner

Special issue of Pragmatics 6:3 (1996) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Korean

Suk-Jin Chang

Spoken by nearly 70 million people not only within the Korean Peninsula but also in five continents, Korean is one of a dozen major languages of the world. Yet outside Korea it is not as much studied as it should be, nor has it acquired commensurate international recognition. With its difficult… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 4] 1996. xviii, 252 pp.

The Language Testing Cycle: From inception to washback

Edited by Gillian Wigglesworth and Catherine Elder

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 13] 1996. ii, 242 pp.

Language and Society in Early Modern England: Selected essays 1982–1994

Vivian Salmon

This volume brings together twelve previously published essays, divided into three sections: 1. Surveys of 16th- and 17th-Century Linguistic Scholarship, 2. The Study of Universal and Particular Traits of Language, and 3. Language Learning and Language Instruction. The volume is completed by an… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 77] 1996. viii, 276 pp.

Language, Action and Context: The early history of pragmatics in Europe and America 1780–1930

Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke

The roots of pragmatics reach back to Antiquity, especially to rhetoric as one of the three liberal arts. However, until the end of the 18th century proto-pragmatic insights tended to be consigned to the pragmatic, that is rhetoric, wastepaper basket and thus excluded from serious philosophical… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 80] 1996. xiv, 497 pp.

Learnability and the Lexicon: Theories and second language acquisition research

Alan Juffs

This book provides a critical review of recent theories of semantics-syntax correspondences and makes new proposals for constraints on semantic structure relevant to syntax. Data from several languages are presented which suggest that semantic structure in root morphemes is subject to parametric… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 12] 1996. xi, 277 pp.

Lexical Functions in Lexicography and Natural Language Processing

Edited by Leo Wanner

Lexical Functions in Lexicography and Natural Language Processing is entirely devoted to the topic of Lexical Functions, which have been introduced in the framework of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) as a means for describing restricted lexical co-occurrence and derivational relations. It provides… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 31] 1996. xx, 355 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 1996

Edited by Crit Cremers and Marcel den Dikken

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Linguistic society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January, 20, 1996. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 13] 1996. x, 268 pp. | open access

Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation

Edited by James R. Black and Virginia Motapanyane

Richard Kayne’s introduction to this volume stresses that comparative work on the syntax of very closely related languages and dialects is a research tool promising to provide both a broad understanding of parameters at their finest-grained and an approach to the question of the minimal units of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 139] 1996. xviii, 269 pp.

Minimal Ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework

Edited by Werner Abraham, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson and Jan-Wouter Zwart

The articles in this volume are inspired by the Minimalist Program first outlined in Chomsky’s MIT Fall term class lectures of 1991 and in his seminal paper “A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory”. The articles seek to develop further some key idea in the Minimalist Program, sometimes in ways… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 12] 1996. xii, 364 pp.

Nordfriesische Grabhügelnamen mit anthroponymem Erstglied: Zur form und flexion älterer nordfriesischer rufnamen

Volkert F. Faltings

Die vorliegende Monographie behandelt die nordfriesischen Grabhügelnamen und die darin enthaltenen Anthroponyme. Die sprachgeschichtliche Analyse des Namenmaterials stützt sich dabei auf ein vielschichtiges Quellenmaterial, wobei ein spezielles Augenmerk den morphologischen Merkmalen gilt.… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 14] 1996. vi, 186 pp.

Numeral Classifier Systems: The Case of Japanese

Pamela A. Downing

Numeral Classifier Systems considers the functional significance of the Japanese numeral system, its conclusions based on a corpus of 500 uses of classifier constructions drawn from oral and written Japanese texts.Interestingly, although the Japanese system appears to conform at least superficially… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 4] 1996. xx, 336 pp.

Old English Legal Language: The lexical field of theft

Jürg R. Schwyter

This corpus-based study examines the lexical field of theft in the Anglo-Saxon law-codes and documents containing reports of lawsuits (charters, writs, and some chapters of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle). The individual Old English lexemes are analysed not only in terms of their meaning, collocation… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 15] 1996. iv, 197 pp.

On Language and Consciousness

Ray Jackendoff and Wallace Chafe

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 4:1 (1996) viii, 217 pp.

The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages: Proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloqium, Odense University, November 1994

Edited by Hans Frede Nielsen † and Lene Schøsler

The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages is the proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloquium held at Odense University, November 1994 read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 17] 1996. xi, 318 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VIII: Amherst, Massachusetts 1994

Edited by Mushira Eid

This volume includes ten papers selected from the Eighth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Masschusetts, Amherst, 1994. Six of them deal with the syntax of Arabic two with phonology, and two with variation. The topics represented in the volume include binding in… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 134] 1996. vii, 261 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume IX: Washington D.C., 1995

Edited by Mushira Eid and Dilworth B. Parkinson

This volume includes twelve papers selected from the Ninth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 1995. Three of the papers deal with codeswitching with Arabic, two with the acquisition of Arabic, and four with different aspects of Arabic grammatical… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 141] 1996. xiii, 249 pp.

Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série. Volume 2

Edited by Eva Hajičová, Oldřich Leška †, Petr Sgall and Zdena Skoumalová

Volume 2 of the Prague Linguistic Circle Papers constitutes a single whole together with Vol. 1 of the series, reviving the classical series of Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague which was of great importance for the development of European structural linguistics in the 1930s. In the present… read more

[Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague N.S., 2] 1996. viii, 346 pp.

Reference and Referent Accessibility

Edited by Thorstein Fretheim and Jeanette K. Gundel

The papers in this volume are concerned with the question of how a speaker’s intended referent is interpreted by the addressee. Topics include the interpretation of coreferential vs. disjoint reference, the role of intonation, syntactic form and animacy in reference understanding, and the way in… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 38] 1996. 313 pp.

Reported Speech: Forms and functions of the verb

Edited by Theo Janssen and Wim van der Wurff

In sentences containing reported speech, thought, or perception, it is possible to distinguish different voices or views, associated with different discourse roles. They originate in two different clauses: one clause signals a reporting situation, and the other a reported situation.This volume… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 43] 1996. x, 312 pp.

Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation

Edited by Robert Bayley and Dennis R. Preston

This volume corrects the relative neglect in Second Language Acquisition studies of the quantitative study of language variation and provides insights into such issues as language transfer, acquisition through exposure, language universals, learner’s age and so forth.These studies bolster the idea… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 10] 1996. xix, 317 pp.

The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa

Edited by Mastin Prinsloo and Mignonne Breier

This book details the findings of a research project investigating the social uses of literacy in a range of contexts in South Africa. This approach treats literacy not simply as a set of technical skills learnt in formal education, but as social practices embedded in specific contexts, discourses… read more

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 4] 1996. viii, 279 pp.

Status and Power in Verbal Interaction: A study of discourse in a close-knit social network

Julie Diamond

Status and Power in Verbal Interaction is a sociolinguistic study of conversation in a social context. Using an ethnographic methodology and a network analysis of the social roles and relationships in a particular language community, the book explores how speakers negotiate status, relationship,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 40] 1996. viii, 184 pp.

Studies in Anaphora

Edited by Barbara A. Fox

The last 15 years has seen an explosion of research on the topic of anaphora. Studies of anaphora have been important to our understanding of cognitive processes, the relationships between social interaction and grammar, and of directionality in diachronic change. The contributions to this volume… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 33] 1996. xii, 518 pp.

Theoretical Linguistics and Grammatical Description: Papers in honour of Hans-Heinrich Lieb

Edited by Robin Sackmann and Monika Budde

This volume presents a collection of 23 papers by renowned linguists on current research in the field of theoretical linguistics. The book focuses on linguistic theory and metatheory, and on fundamental concepts and assumptions of modern linguistics. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 138] 1996. x, 375 pp.

Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis

Edited by Edna Andrews and Yishai Tobin

This volume contains papers presented at a symposium in honor of Cornelis H. van Schooneveld and invited papers on the topics of invariance, markedness, distinctive feature theory and deixis. It is not a Festschrift in the usual sense of the word, but more of a collection of articles which… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 43] 1996. xxviii, 432 pp.

Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics

Edited by Rajendra Singh

This collection of twelve essays, some of which have been written specifically for this volume by well-known European and North-American sociolinguists, reflects an increasing recognition within the field that sociological and theoretical innocence can no longer be underwritten by it, and offers a… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 125] 1996. xii, 342 pp.

Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume 1: Variation and change in language and society

Edited by Gregory R. Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 127] 1996. xviii, 436 pp.

Trubetzkoy's Orphan: Proceedings of the Montréal Roundtable on “Morphonology: contemporary responses” (Montréal, October 1994)

Edited by Rajendra Singh

In putting ‘morphonology’ up for adoption as a chapitre particulier in 1929, Trubetzkoy started a debate regarding the boundary between phonology and morphology that has not ended yet. Essentially a record of a roundtable devoted to that boundary (Montréal, October 1994), Trubetzkoy’s Orphan is a… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 144] 1996. xiv, 363 pp.

Units in Mandarin Conversation: Prosody, discourse, and grammar

Hongyin Tao

This book provides a new way of studying grammar. The basic thrust of the book is to investigate grammar based on a prosodic unit, the intonation unit (IU), in spontaneous speech. The author challenges the dominant practice in the study of syntax, which has been to focus on the unit of the… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 5] 1996. xvi, 226 pp.

The Whorf Theory Complex: A critical reconstruction

Penny Lee

At last — a comprehensive account of the ideas of Benjamin Lee Whorf which not only explains the nature and logic of the linguistic relativity principle but also situates it within a larger ‘theory complex’ delineated in fascinating detail. Whorf’s almost unknown unpublished writings (as well as… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 81] 1996. xix, 324 pp.

The Acquisition of Temporality in a Second Language

Rainer Dietrich, Wolfgang Klein and Colette Noyau

This is the second volume of the SiBil series to present results from the European Science Foundation's project 'Second language acquisition by adult immigrants'. It deals specifically with the acquisition of temporality in five European languages: Dutch, English, French, German and Swedish,… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 7] 1995. xii, 288 pp.

Advances in Roumanian Linguistics

Edited by Guglielmo Cinque and Giuliana Giusti

The aim of the book is to collect and make available to the public recent studies on Roumanian in the framework of Generative Grammar. All the studies can be considered as highly advanced from both the empirical and the theoretical point of view. In fact, they deal with many of the phenomena that… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 10] 1995. xi, 172 pp.

Alternative Linguistics: Descriptive and theoretical modes

Edited by Philip W. Davis

The papers in this volume were presented at the Fifth Biennial Symposium of the Department of Linguistics, Rice University, March 1993. The participants were asked to concentrate in depth and in a self-reflective way upon some range of data. The intent was multifold. The first purpose was… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 102] 1995. vii, 325 pp.

Bibliography of Quantitative Linguistics: Bibliographie zur quantitativen Linguistik. Библиографиа по квантитативной лингвистике

Reinhard Köhler

The Bibliography of Quantitative Linguistics (BQL) comprises more than 6500 titles from all areas of quantitative linguistic research. Publications have been included without restrictions regarding form, place, language, and date of publication. This bibliography thus provides, for the first time,… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 25] 1995. lii, 780 pp.

The Biology of Language

Stanislaw Puppel

This volume brings together 15 papers on the evolution and origin of language. The authors approach the subject from various angles, exploring biological, cultural, psychological and linguistic factors. A wide variety of topics is discussed, such as animal communication, language acquisition, the… read more

[Not in series, 75] 1995. x, 300 pp.

By Word of Mouth: Metaphor, metonymy and linguistic action in a cognitive perspective

Louis Goossens, Paul Pauwels, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Johan Vanparys

This volume contains seven synchronic and diachronic empirical investigations into the expression and conceptualization of linguistic action in English, focusing on figurative extensions. The following issues are explored: Source domains, and their relation to the complexities of linguistic action… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 33] 1995. xii, 254 pp.

Cognition and Representation in Linguistic Theory

Antoine Culioli

The objective of this book is to better acquaint English-speaking linguistics with a corpus of texts hitherto untranslated, containing the cognitive-based research in formal linguistics of one of the most important theoreticians in the field: Antoine Culioli (b. 1924). Culioli's viewpoint is… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 112] 1995. x, 161 pp.

Coherence in Spontaneous Text

Edited by Morton Ann Gernsbacher and T. Givón

The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech production-and-comprehension, allowing the speech receiver to form roughly the same episodic… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 31] 1995. x, 267 pp.

Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An introduction

Robert S.P. Beekes

The book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, the first to appear in English. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through… read more

[Not in series, 72] 1995. xxii, 376 pp.

Constructing languages and publics

Edited by Susan Gal and Kathryn A. Woolard

Special issue of Pragmatics 5:2 (1995) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Contemporary Research in Romance Linguistics: Papers from the XXII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, El Paso/Juárez, February 22–24, 1992

Edited by Jon Amastae, Grant Goodall, M. Montalbetti and M. Phinney

This volume contains 23 papers selected from those presented at the 22nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. The papers address issues in phonology, morphology, syntax/semantics from contemporary theoretical perspectives. In addition, in keeping with the symposium's US-Mexico location and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 123] 1995. viii, 381 pp.

The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford

Edited by Lynn Eubank, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith

This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA like Lydia White and Susan Gass, from well-known researchers in… read more

[Not in series, 73] 1995. vii, 293 pp.

Discourse, Grammar and Typology: Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar

Edited by Werner Abraham, T. Givón and Sandra A. Thompson

This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1) generalizations are to be made on the basis of spoken texts in… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 27] 1995. xx, 352 pp.

Drei Studien zum Germanischen in alter und neuer Zeit

Herausgegeben von John Ole Askedal, Harald Bjorvand und Ottar Grønvik

Der vorliegende Band ist ein Ergebnis der Arbeit im Bereich der vergleichen den germanischen Sprachwissenschaft am Germanistischen Institut der Universität Oslo. Im Beitrag von Harald Bjorvand wird gezeigt, daß die Zahl der maskulinen Verbalnomina mit i-Stamm bildung aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 13] 1995. vi, 146 pp.

Essays on Terminology

Alain Rey

A carefully selected collection of essays by the most renowned specialist in terminology in France, now published in English. The chapters deal with the origins of terminology, theoretical issues, social aspects, neologisms and evolution, lexicology and lexicography, applied issues, description and… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 9] 1995. xiv, 223 pp.

The Explanation of Linguistic Causes: Az-Zağğāğī's Theory of Grammar. Introduction, translation, commentary

Kees Versteegh

The ultimate aim of every linguistic tradition is to go beyond the purely descriptive level and seek an explanation for linguistic phenomena. Traditions differ, however, with regard to the class of linguistic phenomena they wish to explain and the framework in which they define their explanation.… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 75] 1995. xvi, 310 pp.

Friesische Studien II: Beiträge des Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie vom 7.–8. April 1994

Herausgegeben von Volkert F. Faltings, Alastair Walker und Ommo Wilts

Der vorliegende Band Friesische Studien II enthält die Referate von Wissenschaftlern unterschiedlicher Fachrichtungen aus Dänemark, Deutschland, Großbritannien und den Niederlanden anläßlich des zweiten Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie, das vom 7.–8. April 1994 in Alkersum auf der… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 12] 1995. vi, 221 pp.

Functionalism and Grammar

T. Givón

This book is Prof. Givón's long-awaited critical examination of the fundamental theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the functionalist approach to grammar. It challenges functionalists to take their own medicine and establish non-circular empirical definitions of both 'function' and… read more

[Not in series, 74] 1995. xvii, 486 pp.

Georgian: A structural reference grammar

George Hewitt

The Caucasus for its size can boast more languages than any other region on earth. Of the 40 or so native tongues Georgian is the most widely spoken (by up to 5 million, of whom 3 million are ethnic Georgians). With its own unique script, Georgian has been written since the 4th century and has a… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 2] 1995. xviii, 716 pp.

The Hard Work–Entertainment Continuum: Teaching Asian languages in Australia

Edited by Andy Kirkpatrick, Yong Zhong and Helen Kirkpatrick

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 12] 1995. vii, 283 pp.

Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993

Edited by Henning Andersen

This volume contains a selection of 34 of the 96 papers presented at ICHL 1993, including several of the contributions to the workshop on Parameters and Typology organized jointly by Henning Andersen and David W. Lightfoot. Major topics represented are grammaticalization and functional renewal… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 124] 1995. x, 460 pp.

Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker

Until very recently, pragmatics has been restricted to the analysis of contemporary spoken language while historical linguistics has studied historical texts and language change in a decontextualized way. This has now radically changed and scholars from around the world are trying to build a new… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 35] 1995. xv, 623 pp.

Historical Roots of Linguistic Theories

Edited by Lia Formigari and Daniele Gambarara

Most of the papers collected in this volume concentrate on the history of linguistic ideas in France and Italy in the modern period (from the Renaissance to the present day). Some of them are specifically focused on the links between the two traditions of reflection on language. The contributions… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 74] 1995. viii, 309 pp.

History of Linguistics 1993: Papers from the Sixth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VI), Washington DC, 9–14 August 1993

Edited by Kurt R. Jankowsky

The 32 papers of this volume were selected from 78 papers read at ICHoLS VI, were contributed by linguists from 16 countries of Europe, Asia, and the Americas. They are presented in six sections:1. General Concerns 2. Oriental Linguistics and Related Issues 3. From the Early Middle Ages to the End… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 78] 1995. xx, 380 pp.

Iconicity in Language

Edited by Raffaele Simone

Several current linguistic approaches converge in rejecting the wide-spread idea that language is an autonomous system, i.e. that it is structured independently from the outside world and the natural equipment of language users. Around the world, semiotically biased linguistics (functionalism,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 110] 1995. xii, 315 pp.

Interlanguage and Learnability: From Chinese to English

Virginia Yip

This book investigates a set of structures characteristic of Chinese speakers' English interlanguage (CIL) in the light of grammatical theory and principles of learnability. As a study of CIL grammar, it illuminates both the theory of interlanguage syntax in general and some specific problems in… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 11] 1995. xvi, 247 pp.

Irony in Context

Katharina Barbe

In her book, Barbe discusses verbal irony as an interpretative notion. Verbal irony is described in its various realizations and thus placed within linguistics and pragmatics. From the point of view of an analyzing observer, Barbe provides an eclectic approach to irony in context, a study of how… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 34] 1995. x, 208 pp.

Language International World Directory of Sociolinguistic and Language Planning Organizations

Compiled by Francesc Domínguez and Núria López

This directory gives guidance in the complicated world of sociolinguistic and language planning organizations, giving structural information on regional, national, provincial and community level, both public and private. Each entry gives full details, including full addresses, phone/fax numbers,… read more

[Language International World Directory, 1] 1995. xx, 530 pp.

Lexical Issues in Language Learning

Birgit Harley

The nine major empirical studies of Lexical Issues in Language Learning address key issues in the development and use of vocabulary by child bilinguals and older second language learners. The thematic focus in this collection of Language Learning articles is on the assessment of lexical development… read more

[Best of Language Learning, 2] 1995. iv, 318 pp.

Lexical Knowledge in the Organization of Language

Edited by Urs Egli, Peter E. Pause, Christoph Schwarze, Arnim von Stechow and Götz Wienold

This book contains a selection of the papers given at an international conference at the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 1991. All contributions relate to the assumption that lexical knowledge plays a central role in the organization of language, inasmuch as the components or modules of grammar… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 114] 1995. xiv, 367 pp.

Lexiques-Grammaires comparés en français: Actes du colloque international de Montréal (3–5 juin 1992)

Sous la direction de Jacques Labelle et Christian Leclère

In most French linguistic studies, the object is so-called standard French, a rather woolly and reductive designation. The particularities of national languages such as Belgian and Quebec French are often forgotten or treated as outlandish facts. The first Montreal conference Lexiques grammaires… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 17] 1995. 217 pp.

Linguistic Theory and the Romance Languages

Edited by John Charles Smith and Martin Maiden

This volume contains revised versions of papers given at a conference at the Manoir de Brion, in Normandy. They deal with phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, and cover a wide range of Romance languages, including many lesser-known varieties. The contributors to the volume are committed to… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 122] 1995. xiii, 240 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 1995

Edited by Marcel den Dikken and Kees Hengeveld

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Linguistic society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January, 21, 1995. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. The… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 12] 1995. x, 238 pp. | open access

Literacy and Religion: The textual politics and practice of Seventh-day Adventism

Cushla Kapitzke

This book explores the interrelation of literacy and religion as practiced by Western Christians in, first, historical contexts and, second, in one contemporary church setting. Using both a case study and a Foucauldian theoretical framework, the book provides a sustained analysis of the reciprocal… read more

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 2] 1995. xxi, 343 pp.

Manual of Specialised Lexicography: The preparation of specialised dictionaries

Edited by Henning Bergenholtz and Sven Tarp

From 1990–1994 the Danish Research Council for the Humanities granted a research project entitled “translation of LSP texts”, which was initially split up into five part-projects, one of which has been concerned with LSP lexicography.The Manual of Specialised Lexicography is one of the results of… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 12] 1995. 256 pp.

Modality in Grammar and Discourse

Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Suzanne Fleischman

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 32] 1995. viii, 575 pp.

More Englishes: New studies in varieties of English 1988–1994

Manfred Görlach †

This collection of eight papers is a continuation of Manfred Görlach’s previous collection “Englishes” with the author’s most influential writings in the field of varieties of English
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[Varieties of English Around the World, G13] 1995. 276 pp.

Non-fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World

Lise Menn, Michael P. O’Connor, Loraine K. Obler and Audrey Holland

“Non-fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World” is an up-to-date introduction to the language of patients with non-fluent aphasia. Recent research in languages other than English has challenged our old descriptions of aphasia syndromes: while their patterns can be recognized across languages, the… read more

[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 5] 1995. xvii, 212 pp.

On Extraction and Extraposition in German

Edited by Uli Lutz and Jürgen Pafel

Extraction has traditionally been one of the main topics in generative grammar, and it retains this status in current variants of the theory. German provides a good testing ground for traditional as well as current theories of extraction. The nine contributions to this volume document the recent… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 11] 1995. xii, 315 pp.

On Subject and Theme: A discourse functional perspective

Edited by Ruqaiya Hasan † and Peter H. Fries

The ten papers in this volume focus on Subject and Theme. Theme began its life as a semantic notion in the work of Vilém Mathesius, while Subject has traditionally been seen as just a syntactic entity. More recently two related perspectives on these concepts have attracted linguists' attention: the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 118] 1995. xlvi, 414 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VII: Austin, Texas 1993

Edited by Mushira Eid

This volume includes ten papers selected from the Seventh Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. For the first time in this series, three of the papers represent experimental studies dealing with Arabic syllable and morphological structure. Four are focused on aspects of agreement in Arabic. The… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 130] 1995. vii, 192 pp.

The Possibility of Language: A discussion of the nature of language, with implications for human and machine translation

Alan K. Melby and Terry Warner

This book is about the limits of machine translation. It is widely recognized that machine translation systems do much better on domain-specific controlled-language texts (domain texts for short) than on dynamic general-language texts (general texts for short). The authors explore this general —… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 14] 1995. xxvi, 276 pp.

Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série. Volume 1

Edited by Eva Hajičová, Miroslav Červenka, Oldřich Leška † and Petr Sgall

This volume is the first one of the revived series of Travaux, which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic Circle, published in the years 1929-39. The tradition of the Circle still attracts attention in broad circles of European and American linguistics.… read more

[Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague N.S., 1] 1995. x, 336 pp.

Professing Linguistic Historiography

E.F.K. Koerner †

The volume brings together recent papers by the author, selected to form a broad picture of his teachings, all of them revised and updated, either addressing particular topics in the Histor(iograph)y of Linguistics (Part I) or offering historical accounts of linguistic subfields (Part II), in… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 79] 1995. viii, 274 pp.

Romani in Contact: The history, structure and sociology of a language

Edited by Yaron Matras

A language of Indic origin heavily infuenced by European idioms for many centuries now, Romani provides an interesting experimental field for students of language contact, linguistic minorities, standardization, and typology. Approaching the language via its ever-surfacing character as a language… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 126] 1995. xvii, 208 pp.

Scots and its Literature

J. Derrick McClure

Among the topics treated in this collection are the status of Scots as a national language; the orthography of Scots; the actual and potential degree of standardisation of Scots; the debt of the vocabulary of Scots to Gaelic; the use of Scots in fictional dialogue; and the development of Scots as a… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G14] 1995. vi, 218 pp.

Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context

Edited by Barbara F. Freed

Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context brings together for the first time a series of studies which explore the relationship between language learning and the study abroad experience. Utilizing different research methodologies (quantitative, qualitative, descriptive), the focus in… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 9] 1995. xiv, 345 pp.

Semitic and Indo-European: Volume I: The Principal Etymologies. With observations on Afro-Asiatic

Saul Levin

This volume presents the key examples of morphological correspondences between Indo-European and Semitic languages, afforded by nouns, verbal roots, pronouns, prepositions, and numerals. Its focus is on shared morphology embodied in the cognate vocabulary.The facts that are brought out in this… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 129] 1995. xxii, 514 pp.

Tendances Récentes en Linguistique Française et Générale: Volume dédié à David Gaatone

Sous la direction de Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot et Lucien Kupferman

The contributors of this book aim to present a broad spectrum of different theoretical approaches in French linguistics. Despite the apparent heterogeneity in the field, a deeper unity in the varous topics emerges demonstrating that French linguistics today is more and more characterized as a… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 20] 1995. xvi, 409 pp.

Towards a History of the Basque Language

Edited by José Ignacio Hualde, Joseba A. Lakarra and R.L. Trask

Questions related to the origin and history of the Basque language spark considerable interest, since it is the only surviving pre-Indo-European language in western Europe. However, until now, there was no readily available source in English providing answers to these questions or giving an… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 131] 1995. v, 365 pp.

Word Order in Discourse

Edited by Pamela A. Downing and Michael Noonan

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar.… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 30] 1995. x, 595 pp.

Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese

Insup Taylor and M. Martin Taylor

Chinese, Japanese, South (and North) Koreans in East Asia have a long, intertwined and distinguished cultural history and have achieved, or are in the process of achieving, spectacular economic success. Together, these three peoples make up one quarter of the world population.They use a variety of… read more

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 3] 1995. xiii, 412 pp.

Writings in General Linguistics: On Sound Alternation (1881) and Outline of Linguistic Science (1883)

Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851–1887)

This volume brings together the most important general linguistic writings by Mikołay Kruszewski (1851-1887), whom Roman Jakobson described as “one of the greatest theoreticians of language among the world linguists of the late nineteenth century”. Apart from reissuing a revised version of the late… read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 11] 1995. xl, 188 pp.

Zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache: New edition

Wilhelm Scherer (1841–1886)

Wilhelm Scherer (1841-1886) has gained wide recognition for his extraordinary accomplishments in linguistics as well as in literary studies.His first and most important contribution to the development of linguistic science was his monumental work of 508 pages Zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache,… read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 16] 1995. lxii, 492 pp.

'Geschichtszahlen der Phonetik' (1941), together with 'Quellenatlas der Phonetik' (1940): New edition

Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia (1878–1966)

In this volume two monographs are reprinted in their entirety; these texts by the most distinguished phonetician of the first half of this century, Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia (1878-1966), are even today still the most comprehensive accounts of the 3000-year history of the study of sound by humans.… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 16] 1994. xxxviii, 174 pp.

The Acquisition of Mauritian Creole

Dany Adone

This work is based on an investigation of language acquisition process, particularly in regard to syntax, among Mauritian children learning to speak Mauritian Creole as their first language. As such, it is the first major study of the development of child grammar in a Creole context. Mauritian… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 9] 1994. xii, 167 pp.

Acting Out Participant Examples in the Classroom

Stanton E.F. Wortham

This volume explores a relational pattern that occurs during one type of speech event classroom “participant examples.” A participant example describes, as an example of something, an event that includes at least one person also participating in the conversation. Participants with a role in the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 30] 1994. xiv, 178 pp.

The Adjectival Category: Criteria for differentiation and identification

D.N.S. Bhat

This monograph sets out (i) to establish criteria for differentiating adjectives from other word-classes for languages in which they form a distinct category, and (ii) to establish criteria for determining their (non-)identity with words from other categories for languages in which they do not. As… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 24] 1994. xiii, 295 pp.

Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge

D. Gary Miller

This study investigates the properties of several ancient syllabic and linear segmental scripts to make explicit the aspects of linguistic knowledge they attempt to represent. Some recent experimental work suggests that nonliterate speakers do not have segmental knowledge and that only syllabic… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 116] 1994. xvi, 139 pp.

Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES): Desde los principios hasta el año 1600

Hans-Josef Niederehe

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología castellana by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza, (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It is the purpose of the present bibliography… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 76] 1994. vi, 457 pp.

Bilingual First Language Acquisition: French and German grammatical development

Edited by Jürgen M. Meisel

The contributions in this volume are based on an analysis of data from bilingual children acquiring French and German simultaneously. The longitudinal studies started at approximately age one year and six months and continued till age six. The papers focus on the development of specific… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 7] 1994. vi, 282 pp.

Bilingual Performance in Reading and Writing

Edited by Alister Cumming

In the past decade, literacy in second language has emerged as one of the most significant and intriguing topics of inquiry into language processes, human knowledge, cultural practices, and educational policy. Whereas earlier inquiry, theories and policies had often considered literacy and… read more

[Best of Language Learning, 1] 1994. vi, 378 pp.

Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations: A comprehensive bibliography

Petra Campe

This is the first of a series of 6 books dealing with case phenomena in different languages, both Indo- and non-Indo-European, resulting from work by a team of 20 specialists at the University of Leuven. It is the first time such a large-scale investigation into case has been undertaken, and a… read more

[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 1] 1994. vii, 644 pp.

Clitics: A comprehensive bibliography 1892–1991

Joel A. Nevis, Brian D. Joseph, Dieter Wanner and Arnold M. Zwicky

This bibliography provides an alphabetical listing of over 1500 articles, books, and dissertations that treat in some way the topic of clitics and related matters, e.g. affixes, words, word order, movement, sandhi, etc. The beginning point for the bibliographic entries is 1892, taking Jacob… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 22] 1994. xxxviii, 274 pp.

Combinatorial Morphology

John T. Stonham

This book presents a detailed examination of the most important arguments for a process-based theory of morphology and offers a highly-constrained alternative to the powerful mechanisms proposed in processual theories of morphology.Data is presented from dozens of different languages from numerous… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 120] 1994. xii, 206 pp.

Consonant Strength in Upper German Dialects

Kurt Gustav Goblirsch

The present study examines the problem of fortis and lenis in approximately 150 dialects of southern Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, Alsace, and the German-speaking minorities in Italy, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The Upper German dialects are of particular… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 10] 1994. vi, 127 pp.

Constructing a Productive Other: Discourse theory and the Convention refugee hearing

Robert F. Barsky

This book is a description of the process of constructing a productive Other for the purpose of being admitted to Canada as a Convention refugee. The whole claiming procedure is analyzed with respect to two actual cases, and contextualized by reference to pertinent national and international… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 29] 1994. x, 272 pp.

Continuity in Linguistic Semantics

Edited by Catherine Fuchs and Bernard Victorri

Until recently, most linguistic theories as well as theories of cognition have avoided use of the notion of continuity. At the moment, however, several linguistic trends, sharing a preoccupation with semantico-cognitive problems (e.g. cognitive grammars, 'psychomechanics', 'enunciative theories'),… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 19] 1994. iv, 255 pp.

Critical perspectives on intercultural communication

Edited by Michael Meeuwis

Special issue of Pragmatics 4:3 (1994) ca. 125 pp. | open access

English Historical Linguistics 1992: Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22–26 September 1992

Edited by Francisco Fernández, Miguel Fuster Márquez and Juan Jose Calvo

This volume brings together a selection of 28 out of the 76 papers read at ICHEL-7 in Valencia. The book opens with a general section, in which Richard Hogg examines the relationship between linguistics and philology, Enrique Bernárdez analyzes syntactic change from the point of view of catastrophe… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 113] 1994. viii, 388 pp.

Functional Literacy: Theoretical issues and educational implications

Edited by Ludo Verhoeven

The purpose of the volume is to open up new perspectives in the study of literacy by bringing together current research findings from linguistics, psychology, sociology and anthropology. The book divides into five parts. The first part deals with theoretical questions related to the definition and… read more

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 1] 1994. viii, 493 pp.

The Grammar of Space

Soteria Svorou

A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language. The discussion of the similarities and differences among languages in the encoding… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 25] 1994. xiv, 290 pp.

Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Analysis: A contrastive study of sign systems in English and Hebrew

Yishai Tobin

This volume provides a new kind of contrastive analysis of two unrelated languages English and Hebrew based on the semiotic concepts of invariance, markedness and distinctive feature theory. It concentrates on linguistic forms and constructions which are remarkably different in each language… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 111] 1994. xxii, 406 pp.

Japanese Psycholinguistics: A classified and annotated research bibliography

Joseph F. Kess and Tadao Miyamoto

This classified and annotated research bibliography is meant to serve as an introduction to the rich field of Japanese psycholinguistics, by providing an exhaustive inventory of what has been done in or about Japanese in a psycholinguistic sense. Thus, this volume captures the tradition of… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 24] 1994. xii, 355 pp.

Kriyol Syntax: The Portuguese-based Creole language of Guinea-Bissau

Alain Kihm

This book describes the Portuguese-based Creole which is widely spoken as a first language in Guinea-Bissau. The study focuses on one variety, 'central Kriyol', and its main aim is to present a complete description of the grammar of the language. The theoretical framework for the syntactic analysis… read more

[Creole Language Library, 14] 1994. xii, 310 pp.

Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar

Edited by Teun Hoekstra and Bonnie D. Schwartz

This is a collection of essays on the native and non-native acquisition of syntax within the Principles and Parameters framework. In line with current methodology in the study of adult grammars, language acquisition is studied here from a comparative perspective. The unifying theme is the issue of… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 8] 1994. xii, 401 pp.

Language Contact and Language Conflict

Edited by Martin Pütz

The selected articles compiled in the present volume are based on contributions prepared for the 17th International L.A.U.D. (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg) Symposium held at the University of Duisburg on 23-27 March 1992. The 13 papers in this book focus on problems and issues of… read more

[Not in series, 71] 1994. xviii, 256 pp.

Language Engineering and Translation: Consequences of automation

Juan C. Sager

At a time when information technology has become a regular tool of specialised translators in all aspects of their work, it is useful to place the activity of technical translation into its appropriate environment and to describe it from the point of view of its role in the broader context of… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 1] 1994. xx, 345 pp.

Language Ideology and Language Change in Early Modern German: A sociolinguistic study of the consonantal system of Nuremberg

Rosina L. Lippi-Green

This quantitative study, based on a computerized corpus of texts written by five men in early 16th-century Nuremberg, employs multivariate GLM statistical procedures to analyze the way linguistic, social and stylistic factors work individually and in interaction to influence variation observed in… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 119] 1994. xiv, 150 pp.

Language Planning in Multilingual Contexts: Policies, communities, and schools in Luxembourg

Kathryn A. Davis

This volume examines the sociocultural factors that influence language choices and uses in the multilingual country of Luxembourg. Patterns of language use within and across communities are viewed in terms of interrelationships among language policy intent, implementation, and experience. The study… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 8] 1994. xix, 220 pp.

Language, Discourse and Translation in the West and Middle East

Edited by Robert de Beaugrande, Abdullah Shunnaq and Mohamed Helmy Heliel

The papers collected in this volume are a selection of papers presented at a conference on Language and Translation (Irbid, Jordan, 1992). In their revised form, they offer comparisons between Western and Arabic language usage and transfer. The articles bring together linguistic and cultural… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 7] 1994. xii, 256 pp.

Linguistic Minorities in Multilingual Settings: Implications for language policies

Christina Bratt Paulston

The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition. Such… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 4] 1994. xi, 136 pp.

Linguistic Studies on Latin: Selected papers from the 6th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (Budapest, 23–27 March 1991)

Edited by József Herman

The volume contains 26 articles (17 in English, 9 in French), selected from the papers presented at the 6th International Colloquim on Latin Linguistics, organized in Budapest. The authors share a common interest in applying to the study of Latin the conceptual framework of contemporary… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 28] 1994. ix, 421 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 1994

Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema and Crit Cremers

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Linguistic society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht in January 1994. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. The… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 11] 1994. x, 266 pp. | open access

Najdi Arabic: Central Arabian

Bruce Ingham

The region of Najd in Central Arabia has always been regarded as inaccessible, ringed by a belt of sand deserts, the Nafūd, Dahana and the Rub’ al-Khāli and often with its population at odds with the rulers of the outer settled lands. It is however the centre of a purely Arabian culture based on a… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 1] 1994. xvi, 215 pp.

On the History of Grammar among the Arabs

Ignaz Goldziher

This essay was written in 1878 by I. Goldziher, who is considered one of the founders and greatest masters of Islamic studies in Europe. He examines the origin and early history of Arabic grammar and some features of its later development with special regard to the cultural historical apsects of… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 73] 1994. xx, 153 pp.

Papers on Grammar: Volume IV

Edited by Gualtiero Calboli

This is the fourth in a series of volumes bringing together a selection of papers presenting linguistic and philological studies on Latin. The papers combine a thorough theoretical approach of Latin grammar with a rigorous and detailed analysis of the data. read more

[Not in series, POG 4] 1994. xi, 246 pp.

A Paradigm Lost: The linguistic thought of Mikołaj Kruszewski

Joanna Radwańska-Williams

The general theory of language of Mikołaj Kruszweski (1851-1887) is, this book argues, a “lost paradigm” in the history of linguistics. The concept of 'paradigm' is understood in a broadly construed Kuhnian sense, and its applicability to linguistics as a science is examined. It is argued that… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 72] 1994. xii, 200 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VI: Columbus, Ohio 1992

Edited by Mushira Eid, Vicente Cantarino and Keith Walters

This volume divides into 3 sections: I. Arabic in Contact: the Hispano-Arabic Connection; II. Arabic in Contact: Other Connections; III. Phonological Perspectives.
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[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 115] 1994. viii, 238 pp.

Perspectives on Grammaticalization

Edited by William Pagliuca

This is the second of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UWM linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in 1990. It focuses on the evolution of grammatical form and meaning from lexical material, which has reinvigorated historical analysis and theory and led to… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 109] 1994. xx, 306 pp.

Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction

Edited by Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith

This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II: Theories of Genesis constitute the core for presentation and discussion… read more

[Creole Language Library, 15] 1994. xv, 409 pp.

The Prague School of Structural and Functional Linguistics

Edited by Philip A. Luelsdorff

The importance of the Prague School for the rise of structuralism and for integration of the theoretical linguistics of today can hardly be overestimated. The volume brings together 13 papers showing the main results of the research of the Prague School and of its continuation in the domains of… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 41] 1994. vii, 385 pp.

Praguiana 1945–1990

Edited by Philip A. Luelsdorff, Jarmila Panevová and Petr Sgall

The aim of this volume is to witness how the activities of the Prague School have continued to bring important new insights and discussions between the 1940s and the present time. Contributions are included which have escaped attention on an international scale because they were published in Czech;… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 40] 1994. x, 250 pp.

Process, Image, and Meaning: A realistic model of the meaning of sentences and narrative texts

Wolfgang Wildgen

The general topic of this book is the development of a “realistic” model of meaning; it has to account for the ecological basis of meaning in perception, action, and interaction, and is realistic in the sense of “scientific realism”, i.e. it is based on the most successful paradigm of modern… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 31] 1994. xii, 281 pp.

Reader in the History of Aphasia: From Franz Gall to Norman Geschwind

Edited by Paul Eling

The study of language and the brain is heavily dependent on the work of the early aphasiologists, and those wanting to get acquainted with the discipline will come across frequent references to these classic authors. This collection brings together seminal publications by 19th- and 20th-century… read more

[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 4] 1994. xvi, 392 pp.

The Reality of Linguistic Rules

Susan D. Lima, Roberta Corrigan and Gregory Iverson

This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 21st Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium. Researchers from linguistics, psychology, computer science, and philosophy, using many different methods and focusing on many different facts of language, addressed the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 26] 1994. xxiii, 480 pp.

Semantic and Lexical Universals: Theory and empirical findings

Edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka

This set of papers represents a unique collection; it is the first attempt ever to empirically test a hypothetical set of semantic and lexical universals across a number of genetically and typologically diverse languages. In fact the word 'collection' is not fully appropriate in this case, since… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 25] 1994. viii, 510 pp.

Sound Change

Edited by Marc Dominicy and Didier Demolin

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 9] 1994. 158 pp.

Spoken Interaction Studies in Australia

Edited by Rod Gardner

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 11] 1994. vi, 191 pp.

Studies in Language Origins: Volume 3

Edited by Jan Wind, Abraham Jonker, Robin Allott and Leonard Rolfe

This collection brings together the best papers presented at recent meetings of the Language Origins Society. The volume reflects the diversity of approaches from many disciplines that are used to unravel the mystery of the origin of language: linguistics, anatomy, physiology, paleoanthropology,… read more

[Not in series, LOS 3] 1994. xx, 344 pp.

The Syntax of Sentence and Text: A Festschrift for František Daneš

Edited by Svĕtla Čmejrková and František Štícha

This is a collection of papers inspired by the work of František Daneš and is published in honour of his 75th birthday. Daneš' international contribution to the development of Prague School functionalism, the theory of functional sentence perspective, discourse studies and semantics is reflected in… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 42] 1994. 398 pp.

Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993

Edited by Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Katerina Nicolaidis and Maria Sifianou

This volume brings together 65 papers which were presented at this Conference, the aim of which was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between scholars with expertise in various aspects of the Greek language. For this reason the volume contains the majority of the contributions. It should… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 117] 1994. xviii, 535 pp.

Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America: A social history

Stephen O. Murray

Based on extensive archival research, interviews, and participant observation over the course of two decades, Theory Groups in the Study of Language in North America provides a detailed social history of traditions and “revolutionary” challenges to traditions within North American linguistics,… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 69] 1994. xx, 598 pp.

Trial Language: Differential discourse processing and discursive formation

Gail Stygall

This study of Anglo-American legal discourse is the first comprehensive discourse analysis of American legal language in its prototypical setting, the trial by jury. With ethnographic data gathered in a civil jury trial, the book compares the discourse processing of the legal participants and the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 26] 1994. xii, 226 pp.

Typological Studies in Negation

Edited by Peter Kahrel and René van den Berg

This collection of articles offers descriptions of the negation system in 16 languages. As not much is known about negation systems in non-European languages, the first aim of the volume is to provide data on various aspects on negation; for all articles these data were collected on the basis of… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 29] 1994. x, 385 pp.

The Unaccented Vowels of Proto-Norse

Martin Syrett

The Unaccented Vowels of Proto-Norse attempts to analyse the unaccented vowel system attested in the proto-Norse period, as partially attested in the older runic inscriptions in the elder futhark. Each chapter in turn assesses the evidence for unaccented syllables of a particular category, whether… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 11] 1994. 323 pp.

Universal Grammar in Child Second Language Acquisition: Null subjects and morphological uniformity

Usha Lakshmanan

This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG). Specifically, the book focuses on null-subjects in the developing grammars of children acquiring English as a second language. The book provides evidence from the longitudinal… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 10] 1994. x, 162 pp.

Voice and Inversion

Edited by T. Givón

This collection aims first to establish a structure-independent, language-independent definition of pragmatic voice, and more specifically then a universal functional definition of “inverse”. The grammar and pragmatic function of the four major voice constructions direct-active, inverse, passive,… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 28] 1994. viii, 402 pp.

Voice: Form and Function

Edited by Barbara A. Fox and Paul J. Hopper

The volume's central concern is grammatical voice, traditionally known as diathesis, and its classical manifestations as Active, Middle, and Passive. While numerous problems in the meaning, syntax, and morphology of these categories in Indo-European remain unsolved, their counterparts in more… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 27] 1994. xiii, 377 pp.

American Dialect Research: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Dialect Society, 1889–1989

Edited by Dennis R. Preston

Containing all new material and published for the American Dialect Society's centennial celebration (1889-1989), this volume bings together in one place, as no previously published work has, current approaches to the general problems of language distribution and variation. The several chapters… read more

[Not in series, 68] 1993. xiv, 464 pp.

Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization

Edited by Francis Byrne and John Holm †

Selected papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics. read more

[Creole Language Library, 11] 1993. ix, 465 pp.

The Bilingual Lexicon

Edited by Robert Schreuder and Bert Weltens

In the study of bilingualism, the lexical level of language is of prime importance because, in practical terms, vocabulary acquisition is an essential prerequisite for the development of skill in language use; from a theoretical point of view, the mental lexicon, as a bridge between form and… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 6] 1993. viii, 307 pp.

Causatives and Transitivity

Edited by Bernard Comrie and Maria Polinsky

This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia. The inspirations for the volume is the pioneering work on causative constructions by the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 23] 1993. x, 399 pp.

Comparative-Historical Linguistics: Indo-European and Finno-Ugric. Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi III

Edited by Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp

This volume offers an important contribution to the comparative historical study of languages. Most of the articles deal with topics concerning the Indo-European proto-language as well as the individual languages descended from it. Essays in Finno-Ugric philology complete the volume. The book is… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 97] 1993. xii, 566 pp.

Complex Verb Formation

D. Gary Miller

This investigation of complex verb formation seeks to identify and clarify the way(s) in which a base verb becomes 'complex'. The author carefully considers both the syntactic and the morphological side of this question, and in doing so brings a wealth of data from very diverse languages to bear on… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 95] 1993. xx, 381 pp.

Confluence: Linguistics, L2 acquisition and speech pathology

Edited by Fred Eckman

That linguistics, L2 acquisition and speech pathology impinge on each other in areas of vital importance to each discipline seems to be almost undeniable. All three fields are concerned with the characterization of language in one form or another; and all deal with the acquisition of language by… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 4] 1993. xvi, 260 pp.

Diglossia: A comprehensive bibliography, 1960–1990, and supplements

Mauro Fernández

Today, the notion of 'diglossia' occupies a prominent place in sociolinguistic research. Since the 1960s, when the dominant sense of 'diglossia' was the complementary sociofunctional distribution of two varieties of the same language, the term has been applied often controversially to a growing… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 23] 1993. lii, 472 pp.

Discourse Modality: Subjectivity, Emotion and Voice in the Japanese Language

Senko K. Maynard

The emotional aspects of language have so far not received the attention they deserve. This study focuses on nonpropositional, i.e. expressive and interactional meanings of Japanese signs, with special emphasis on understanding their cognitive, psychological and social meanings. It shows how the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 24] 1993. x, 315 pp.

Discourse Studies: An introductory textbook

Jan Renkema

This book familiarizes the student with the key concepts and the major issues in the field of discourse studies. It provides a scientific 'toolkit' for courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of the professional literature.The book consists of four parts. read more

[Not in series, 69] 1993. x, 224 pp.

English Grammar: A function-based introduction. Volume I

T. Givón

The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and… read more

[Not in series, ENGRAM 1] 1993. xxii, 318 pp.

English Grammar: A function-based introduction. Volume II

T. Givón

[Not in series, ENGRAM 2] 1993. xv, 363 pp.

English Phonology

John T. Jensen

This is a general discussion of the phonology of English within the frameworks of lexical, metrical, and prosodic phonology. It not only presents a synthesis of current approaches but also reconciles their discrepancies and presents critical commentary. There is a discussion of current theories,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 99] 1993. x, 251 pp.

English Speech Rhythm: Form and function in everyday verbal interaction

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 25] 1993. x, 346 pp.

Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages: Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages

Edited by Francis Byrne and Donald Winford

The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level… read more

[Creole Language Library, 12] 1993. xvi, 329 pp.

Focus on Canada

Edited by Sandra Clarke

Although varieties of North American English have come in for a good deal of linguistic scrutiny in recent years, the vast majority of published works have dealt with American rather than Canadian English. This volume constitutes a welcome addition to our linguistic knowledge of English-speaking… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G11] 1993. xii, 302 pp.

From Indo-European to Latin: The evolution of a morphosyntactic type

Helena Kurzová

This study aims to describe the typological characteristics of the original Indo-European structure, called the derivative-flectional stage (or (sub)type), and to trace its developments to the paradigmatically organized structure of the individual Indo-European languages, called the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 104] 1993. xiv, 259 pp.

Generative Studies in Basque Linguistics

Edited by José Ignacio Hualde and Jon Ortiz de Urbina

In part due to its exotic place within the languages of Europe, but mainly because of its basic typological differences with better-described languages, Basque has often attracted the interest of linguists of very different theoretical persuasions. This book presents a collection of articles which… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 105] 1993. 334 pp.

Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions

Carol Lord

This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 26] 1993. x, 273 pp.

Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, New Brunswick, 14–18 August 1989

Edited by Henk Aertsen and Robert J. Jeffers

The present volume contains revised versions of selected papers from the general sessions of ICHL 9. The 34 papers cover topics from the full range of contemporary historical linguistic scholarship. The papers address issues of language change in a large variety of languages and language families,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 106] 1993. xviii, 538 pp.

Historical Linguistics 1991: Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991

Edited by Jaap van Marle

This volume contains 22 of the 95 papers presented during ICHL 10. The articles included here clearly reflect the on-going interest in the general mechanisms of language change, the close relationship between present-day historical linguistics and linguistic theory, and the renewed interest in… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 107] 1993. xviii, 395 pp.

History of Linguistic Thought in the Early Middle Ages

Edited by Vivien A. Law

Surveys of linguistics in the Middle Ages often begin with the twelfth century, dismissing the preceding six centuries as 'devoid of originality' or 'dependent upon Donatus and Priscian'. This collection of articles devoted to linguistics in the early Middle Ages attempts to redress the balance by… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 71] 1993. viii, 255 pp.

Knowledge of Reflexives in a Second Language

Margaret Thomas

This study addresses the debate about whether adult language learners have access to the principles and parameters of universal grammar in constructing the grammar of a second language. The data are based on two related experiments. The first examines the interpretation of English reflexive… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 6] 1993. x, 234 pp.

The Language Builder: An essay on the human signature in linguistic morphogenesis

Claude Hagège

Linguistics, as a social science, should have something to teach us about humans as social beings. However, modern grammatical theories regard languages as autonomous systems, so these theories are little concerned with speakers and hearers, their interactions, and their relationship to the world… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 94] 1993. xii, 283 pp.

Language and Gender in the Australian Context

Edited by Joanne Winter and Gillian Wigglesworth

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 10] 1993. iii, 181 pp.

Linguistic Perspectives on Romance Languages: Selected Papers from the XXI Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Santa Barbara, February 21–24, 1991

Edited by William J. Ashby, Marianne Mithun and Giorgio Perissinotto

This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 1991 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, held in Santa Barbara. In addition, the volume contains revised versions of three of the keynote papers. A welcome aspect of this collection, reflective of the conference itself, is the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 103] 1993. xxii, 404 pp.

Linguistic Variables: Towards a unified theory of linguistic variation

Hans-Heinrich Lieb

This book for the first time reconstructs in a single theoretical framework the more important approaches to linguistic variation found in areas as different as historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, stylistics, contrastive linguistics, language typology,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 108] 1993. xiv, 261 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 1993

Edited by Frank Drijkoningen and Kees Hengeveld

This volume contains a selection of 17 of the papers presented at the twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Linguistic society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January 16, 1993. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 10] 1993. x, 200 pp. | open access

The Middle Voice

Suzanne Kemmer

This book approaches the middle voice from the perspective of typology and language universals research. The principal aim is to provide a typologically valid characterization of the category of middle voice in terms of which it can be incorporated in a cognitively-based theory of human language.… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 23] 1993. xii, 300 pp.

A New Bibliography of Writings on Varieties of English, 1984–1992/93

Beat Glauser, Edgar W. Schneider and Manfred Görlach †

The continuing expansion of research in dialectology, sociolinguistics and English as a world language has made the field increasingly difficult to survey. This bibliography is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the relevant publications of the past few years. Like its predecessor, it… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G12] 1993. 208 pp.

Papers on Rhetoric: Volume I

Edited by Lucia Calboli Montefusco

[Not in series, POR 1] 1993. viii, 94 pp.

Paralanguage: A linguistic and interdisciplinary approach to interactive speech and sounds

Fernando Poyatos

This is the first interdisciplinary book-length treatment of paralanguage, briefly defined as: nonverbal vocal or narial communication. After sensitizing the reader to our sound-generating movements and to all human external and environmental sounds for their unquestionable communicative qualities,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 92] 1993. xii, 478 pp.

The Parametrization of Universal Grammar

Edited by Gisbert Fanselow

In this volume the subject of parametrization is addressed from various, though interrelated perspectives, ranging from learnability, the form and nature of parametrization, the role of the interface between morphology and syntax and the parameters of X-bar syntax, to the lexical parametrization… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 8] 1993. xvii, 232 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume V: Ann Arbor, Michigan 1991

Edited by Mushira Eid and Clive Holes

The papers in the first section of this volume, 'Variation in Arabic', deal with a wide range of topics: the function of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) vs. dialect variation in political speeches, patterns of variation in concord in Cairene dialect, the extent to which Cairenes 'know' MSA, and the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 101] 1993. viii, 347 pp.

Perspectives on Language and Conceptualization

Edited by Jan Nuyts and Eric Pederson

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 8] 1993. 207 pp.

Pragmatics and Classical Sanskrit: A pilot study in linguistic politeness

Lieve Van de Walle

This book explores the possibilities and limitations of pragmatic research in classical Sanskrit concentrating on linguistic politeness. The four case studies it comprises are in essence empirical, and try to accurately describe a fairly limited number of interactions between an also limited number… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 28] 1993. xii, 454 pp.

Predication in Caribbean English Creoles

Donald Winford

This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively. The book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of CEC… read more

[Creole Language Library, 10] 1993. viii, 419 pp.

Prepositions in Old and Middle English: A study of prepositional syntax and the semantics of At, In and On in some Old and Middle English texts

Tom Lundskær-Nielsen

The present book covers various aspects of prepositional syntax between c. 900-1400, including case relations and the range of prepositional complements; it also examines word order, both within the PP and at clause level, and it explores changes in clausal word order. Furthermore, it provides a… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 9] 1993. x, 206 pp.

Principles and Prediction: The analysis of natural language. Papers in honor of Gerald Sanders

Edited by Mushira Eid and Gregory Iverson

The volume is divided into four sections: typology, syntax, discourse and phonology. Two of the typology papers study the structure and organization of category systems (Joseph Greenberg, Linda Schwartz); the third discusses language typology and universals from the perspective of language… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 98] 1993. xix, 382 pp.

Progress in Language: With special reference to English. New edition

Otto Jespersen (1860–1943)

Progress in Language, first published in 1894, dates from fairly early in Otto Jespersen's (1860-1943) academic career; it already contains many of the essentials of his argument against the prevailing mode of 19th-century linguistic thought which he maintained until the end of his life. As James D. read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 17] 1993. xviii, 382 pp. (printed 2-up)

The Rise of Functional Categories

Elly van Gelderen

In recent years, word order has come to be seen, within a Government Binding/Minimalist framework, as determined by functional as well as lexical categories. Within this framework, functional categories are often seen as present in every language without evidence being available in that language.… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 9] 1993. x, 224 pp.

Russian-English Dictionary of Verbal Collocations

Morton Benson and Evelyn Benson

All languages are characterized by the regular cooccurrence of certain words; for example, we say in English, tall building but high mountain. These recurrent combinations or collocations are peculiar to each individual language and cannot be predicted by a learner of that language. There are… read more

[Not in series, 65] 1993. xviii, 269 pp.

Studies in Functional Stylistics

Edited by Jan Chloupek and Jiří Nekvapil

The 15 contributions in the present collection can be divided roughly into three groups: (1) Papers directly following up functional stylistics and the theory of language culture, elaborated in the classical period of the Prague Linguistic School. (2) Papers concerning the problems of style in a… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 36] 1993. 293 pp.

Subjectivity in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical considerations and a case study of Japanese spoken discourse

Shoichi Iwasaki

This book investigates the notion of subjectivity from a pragmatic point of view. There have been attempts to reduce the notion of the speaker or subjectivity as a syntactic category, or to seek an explanation for it in semantic terms. However, in order to understand the vast range of subjectivity… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 2] 1993. xii, 152 pp.

Symbolism and Reality: A study in the nature of mind

Charles W. Morris

Charles W. Morris' doctoral thesis Symbolism and Reality, written in 1925 at Chicago under George H. Mead, has never before been published. It sets out to prove that thought and mind are not entities, nor even processes involving a psychical substance distinguishable from the rest of reality, but… read more

[Foundations of Semiotics, 15] 1993. xxv, 128 pp.

Syntactic Change in Germanic: Aspects of language change in Germanic with particular reference to Middle Dutch

Kate Burridge

This study examines certain features of Dutch syntax between approximately 1300 and 1650. Of central importance are the overall developments in the word order patterning and the various changes they entail elsewhere in the grammar, such as in the negative construction. After an introductory chapter… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 89] 1993. xii, 287 pp.

Terminology: Applications in interdisciplinary communication

Edited by Helmi B. Sonneveld and Kurt L. Loening

In the era of information technology, the need to communicate data effetively and precisely has given a boost to research in terminology. This collection of 14 articles by experts from different backgrounds deals with linguistic problems and technical aspects of terminology; in addition, there are… read more

[Not in series, 70] 1993. viii, 244 pp.

Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair

Edited by Mona Baker, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli

Text and Technology focuses on three major areas of modern linguistics: discourse analysis, corpus-driven analysis of language, and computational linguistics. The volume starts off with a description of the various British traditions in text analysis by Michael Stubbs. The first section “Spoken and… read more

[Not in series, 64] 1993. xii, 361 pp.

Topics in African Linguistics: Papers from the XXI Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Georgia, April 1990

Edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene and Lioba Moshi

The 16 papers in this volume are revised versions of papers presented at the conference; they represent the state of the art in various subfields of African linguistics into which the book is organized: (1) morphosyntax, (2) semantics, (3) phonology, and (4) language contact. The last part covers… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 100] 1993. x, 307 pp.

Trinidad and Tobago

Lise Winer

This volume describes the English and English Creole of Trinidad and Tobago. Sources from the early 19th through late 20th centuries are gathered from a wide range of materials: novels, editorials, advertisements, cartoons, proverbs, newspaper articles, plays, lyrics of traditional songs and… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, T6] 1993. xii, 368 pp.

Varieties of Questions in English Conversation

Elizabeth G. Weber

This book examines relations which hold between morphosyntactic form and communicative function in discourse by examining form-function correlations of noninterrogative questions in ordinary English conversation. So-called nontypical declarative and nonclausal questions are identified functionally.… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 3] 1993. x, 252 pp.

The Wedding Report: A prototypical approach to the study of traditional text types

Hans-Jürg Suter

Traditional text types (or genres) are complex linguistic, sociocultural and cognitive phenomena that can only be analysed in flexible interdisciplinary frameworks fusing structural and process-oriented approaches and combining quantitative description with qualitative interpretation and evaluation. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 27] 1993. xii, 314 pp.

(On) Searle on Conversation: Compiled and introduced by Herman Parret and Jef Verschueren

John R. Searle, Herman Parret and Jef Verschueren

At an international conference held in 1981 at the Universidada Estudual of Campinas (Brazil), a controversial lecture was given by John Searle which presented two conceptual theses: that conversation does not have an intrinsic structure about which a relevant theory can be formulated, and that… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 21] 1992. vi, 154 pp.

Advances in Non-Verbal Communication: Sociocultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives

Edited by Fernando Poyatos

This volume on nonverbal communication studies, the most multi- and interdisciplinary contribution to this field in almost twenty years, offers numerous suggestions for further research in many hitherto unexplored areas. The twenty contributions include the most recent theoretical and empirical… read more

[Not in series, 60] 1992. xxiv, 412 pp.

Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

Edited by Robert D. Van Valin Jr.

This volume presents research on major issues in syntactic theory within Role and Reference Grammar. This theory was first presented in detail in Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar [FSUG], and these papers represent both expansions and applications of the theory to a wide range of phenomena.… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 82] 1992. xiii, 569 pp.

Aspects of a Cognitive-Pragmatic Theory of Language: On cognition, functionalism, and grammar

Jan Nuyts

This book is about a theory of language that combines two observations (1) that language is based on an extensive cognitive infrastructure (cognitivism) and (2) that it is functional for its user (functionalism). These observations are regarded as two dimensions of one phenomenon that both need to… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 20] 1992. xii, 399 pp.

A Bibliographical Guide to Old Frisian Studies

Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.

This bibliography aims serve the demands and wishes of students of Old Frisian for its own sake as well as for those who want to use Old Frisian for comparative purposes. Although it concentrates on language and literature, titles have also been included which deal with more or less peripheral… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 6] 1992. xvi, 197 pp.

The Construct of Language Proficiency: Applications of psychological models to language assessment

Edited by Ludo Verhoeven and John H.A.L. de Jong

This books aims to open up new perspectives in the study of language proficiency by bringing together current research from different fields in psychology and linguistics. All contributions start out from empirical studies, which are then related to applications in language assessment. The book… read more

[Not in series, 62] 1992. viii, 212 pp.

The Contextualization of Language

Edited by Peter Auer and Aldo Di Luzio

This volume suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction. On a theoretical level, it advocates a switch of focus from 'context' as a preestablished, monolithic category which constringes co-participants' verbal and nonverbal behaviour, to an active notion of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 22] 1992. xvi, 402 pp.

Current Advances in Semantic Theory

Edited by Maxim I. Stamenov

This volume contains selected contributions to the interdisciplinary symposium on 'Models of Meaning' held in Varna, September 25-28, 1988, under the auspices of the Institute of the Bulgarian Language of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The aim of the meeting was to broaden the horizons of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 73] 1992. xi, 565 pp.

Cursing in America: A psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets

Timothy Jay

This is the first serious and extensive examination of American cursing from a psycholinguistic-contextual point of view. Several field studies and numerous laboratory-based experiments focus on the relationship between cursing and language acquisitions, anger expresssion, gender stereotypes,… read more

[Not in series, 57] 1992. viii, 272 pp.

Deixis, Grammar, and Culture

Revere D. Perkins

Many linguists have believed that there is no connection between culture and language structures. This study reviews some of the literature supporting vocabulary connections, hypotheses for other connections, and critical views of this type of hypothesis. Precisely such a connection is developed… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 24] 1992. x, 245 pp.

Diachronic Studies in Lexicology, Affixation, Phonology: Edita and Inedita 1979–1988. Volume II

Yakov Malkiel

The ten articles collected in this volume are an impressive indication of the range and depth of Malkiel's knowledge of diachronic processes in the Romance languages. In the author's experience, etymological studies of lexis frequently lead one into the areas of phonology and morphology, and the… read more

[Not in series, EAI 2] 1992. vi, 312 pp.

Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain: Recherches lexico-sémantiques. Volume 3

Compiled by Igor Mel’čuk

[Not in series, DECFC 3] 1992. 325 pp.

Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text

Edited by William C. Mann and Sandra A. Thompson

Discourse Description presents in one convenient volume a variety of approaches to text description that have been proposed in the linguistic literature in the last decade or so. The book is organized to make it easy to understand and compare the various approaches. Since all of the researchers are… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 16] 1992. xiii, 409 pp.

Diversions of Galway: Papers on the history of linguistics from ICHoLS V

Edited by Anders Ahlqvist

This volume contains a selection of papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, dealing with subjects ranging from the classical period till the 20th century.
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[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 68] 1992. xxviii, 384 pp.

English Text: System and structure

J.R. Martin

This book is a comprehensive introduction to text forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use. It has been designed to complement functional grammars of English, building on the generation of discourse analysis… read more

[Not in series, 59] 1992. xiv, 620 pp.

Explanation in Historical Linguistics

Edited by Garry W. Davis and Gregory Iverson

This is the first of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UVM Linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in April 1990. The contributions in this volume investigate the general question of what constitutes an explanation of diachronic change, and illustrate their… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 84] 1992. xiv, 238 pp.

The Focusing Hypothesis: The theory of left hemisphere lateralised language re-examined

Alison Wray

This book explores the nature of the control of language processing by the hemispheres of the neocortex. The author expounds a novel hypothesis, “The Focusing Hypothesis”, which holds that language processing in the brain is achieved through analytic and holistic systems, the former through left… read more

[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 3] 1992. xiv, 207 pp.

Friesische Studien I: Beiträge des Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie vom 10.–11. Oktober 1991

Herausgegeben von Volkert F. Faltings, Alastair Walker und Ommo Wilts

Der vorliegende Band Friesische Studien I enthält die Referate von sechs Sprachwissenschaftlern und -wissenschaftlerinnen aus den Niederlanden und Deutschland anläßlich des Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie, das vom 10.-11. Oktober 1991 in Alkersum auf der nordfriesischen Insel Föhr… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 8] 1992. viii, 203 pp.

From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction: On Left-Dislocation in English

Ronald Geluykens

This study deals with interactional processes in conversational discourse, and the way they may get 'syntacticized' into grammatical constructions. It investigates the link between discourse function and syntactic form, and the ways in which grammatical form is a reflection on communicative… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 1] 1992. xii, 182 pp.

Grammars and Grammaticality

Michael B. Kac

At the outset, the goal of generative grammar was the explication of an intuitive concept grammaticality (Chomsky 1957:13). But psychological goals have become primary, referred to as “linguistic competence”, “language faculty”, or, more recently, “I-language”. Kac argues for the validity of the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 78] 1992. x, 259 pp.

Grammatical Number in English Nouns: An empirical and theoretical account

Mark A. Wickens

Apart from the coverage given to it in the grammars, number in English nouns has received relatively little attention, especially in the area of theoretical considerations. Guided by the principles of psychomechanics, Hirtle (1982a) put forth a fairly elaborate theory of number in English nouns.… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 76] 1992. xvi, 321 pp.

Historical Philology: Greek, Latin, and Romance. Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi II

Edited by Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp

The present volume mainly contains contributions on the classical language, Greek and Latin. In addition to the historical comparative linguistic aspects of these languages, philological and historical questions are dealt with as well. Consideration of Italic and Romance topics is also included.… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 87] 1992. xii, 386 pp.

A History of Indo-European Verb Morphology

Kenneth Shields

This book explores the origin and evolution of important grammatical categories of the Indo-European verb, including the markers of person, tense, number, aspect, and mood. Its central thesis is that many of these markers can be traced to original deictic particles which were incorporated into… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 88] 1992. viii, 160 pp.

The History of Linguistics in the Low Countries

Edited by Jan Noordegraaf, Kees Versteegh and E.F.K. Koerner †

The importance of the Low Countries as a centre for the study of foreign languages is well-known. The mutual relationship between the Dutch grammatical tradition and the Western European context has, however, been largely neglected. In this collection of papers on the history of linguistics in the… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 64] 1992. vi, 400 pp. + ills.

Intelligibility in Speech Disorders: Theory, measurement and management

Edited by Raymond D. Kent

The papers in this volume, written by authors experienced in intelligibility issues in speech pathology and related fields, describe the basic dimensions by which speech intelligibility can and must be understood. The dimensions are auditory perceptual, linguistic, acoustic and physiologic. These,… read more

[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 1] 1992. vi, 365 pp.

The Joy of Grammar: A festschrift in honor of James D. McCawley

Edited by Diane Brentari, Gary N. Larson and Lynn A. MacLeod

Two threads run through this collection of 22 papers by students and colleagues of James D. McCawley. The first is a commitment to deep reflection on the direction of linguistic study, sometimes resulting in challenges to the writings of major figures or new appreciations, sometimes questioning our… read more

[Not in series, 55] 1992. xii, 400 pp.

Language Teaching and Learning in Australia

Edited by Chris Mann and Richard B. Baldauf, Jr. †

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 9] 1992. iv, 162 pp.

Language Transfer in Language Learning: Revised edition

Edited by Susan M. Gass and Larry Selinker

The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. This book, which includes 12 chapters by distinguished researchers in the field of second language acquisition, traces the conceptual history of language transfer from… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 5] 1992. x, 236 pp.

Language and Earth: Elective affinities between the emerging sciences of linguistics and geology

Edited by Bernd Naumann, Frans Plank and Gottfried Hofbauer

In former times, the study of language was rarely pursued in isolation, and many of the other intellectual concerns that used to be intertwined with language study have long been on the record of historians of linguistics. The present volume is the first to probe into an association of linguistics… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 66] 1992. xvi, 445 pp.

Language ideologies

Edited by Bambi B. Schieffelin, Paul V. Kroskrity and Kathryn A. Woolard

Special issue of Pragmatics 2:3 (1992) ca. 125 pp. | open access

The Languages of Joyce: Selected Papers from the 11th International James Joyce Symposium Venice 1988

Edited by Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli, Carla Marengo and Christine van Boheemen

The papers collected in this volume capture some of the excitement of the 11th International James Joyce Symposium, held in Venice and Trieste, June 1988. ‘The contents of this book are by no means as restrictive as the title might suggest. The contributors explore not only Joyce’s ‘languages’ and… read more

[Not in series, 54] 1992. xx, 277 pp.

Layered Structure and Reference in a Functional Perspective: Papers from the Functional Grammar Conference, Copenhagen, 1990

Edited by Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder and Lars Kristoffersen

This volume contains revised and expanded versions of those papers from the 1990 Functional Grammar Conference in Copenhagen that contributed specifically to the current investigation of clause structure in terms of semantic layers. One of the key concepts in this discussion is 'reference'. Some… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 23] 1992. xiii, 444 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 1992

Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema and Roeland van Hout

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-third annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. The papers present an overview of… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 9] 1992. x, 284 pp. | open access

Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages

Edited by Willem Fase, Koen Jaspaert and Sjaak Kroon

The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of the book theoretical perspectives are presented, followed by linguistic, sociological and descriptive studies of languages and countries that… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 1] 1992. xii, 403 pp.

One Parent – One Language: An interactional approach

Susanne Döpke

This volume examines the relationship between young children's degrees of bilingualism and features of the verbal input which these children receive from their parents. In particular, it seeks to explore the following question: to what extent are families who follow the 'one parent-one language'… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 3] 1992. xviii, 231 pp.

Papers in Theoretical Linguistics

Niels Danielsen

This volume contains eight papers by the late Niels Danielsen, Danish linguist and philologist, and serves as a fine introduction to this theory of linguistic universality. The papers highlight the most important universals introduced by him, such as Linguistic Polarity, the Constitutional Axis of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 23] 1992. xxii, 224 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume IV: Detroit, Michigan 1990

Edited by Ellen Broselow, Mushira Eid and John McCarthy

This volume includes papers on the study of Arabic dialects and their implications for general linguistics (Section I), as well of papers of a more general nature (Sections II and III). Because the Arabic dialects are similar in many ways, a study of their differences can help isolate precisely the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 85] 1992. viii, 282 pp.

The Phonetics of Fingerspelling

Sherman Wilcox

We now know that natural signed languages such as American Sign Language, French Sign Language, British Sign Language and others are fully independent languages. But natural signed languages are only one way of conveying language in the visual/gestural modality. Signed languages also have… read more

[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 4] 1992. vi, 108 pp.

Phonological Investigations

Edited by Jacek Fisiak and Stanislaw Puppel

The papers in this volume deal with subjects ranging from sound change and general phonological issues to analyses of specific problems in Polish and English, while some papers are of a crosslinguistic/contrastive nature. No single phonological paradigm has been followed, and this diversity of… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 38] 1992. x, 507 pp.

Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility

Edited by Doris L. Payne

For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a “basic” order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the “basic” order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages.… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 22] 1992. viii, 320 pp.

Predication

Edited by Johan De Caluwé, André Hantson and Willy Vandeweghe

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 7] 1992. 195 pp.

Prehistory, History and Historiography of Language, Speech, and Linguistic Theory: Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi I

Edited by Bela Brogyanyi

This collection of papers deals primarily with topics in general linguistics, including history of linguistic science. The volume is divided in 5 parts: I. Origin and Prehistory of Language, II. Historiography of Linguistics, III. Phonology and Phonetic Change, IV. Morphology and Syntax, and V.… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 64] 1992. x, 407 pp.

Prospects for a New Structuralism

Edited by Hans-Heinrich Lieb

This volume, which has partly grown from a Round Table at the XIVth International Congress of Linguists, argues for a large amount of underlying unity in outlook among different frameworks in present-day linguistics: the contemporary Prague School; the Noematic approach; the UNITYP model;… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 96] 1992. vii, 275 pp.

Psycholinguistics: Psychology, linguistics, and the study of natural language

Joseph F. Kess

This textbook is designed to serve as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of psycholinguistics. It is directed at filling the reading needs of courses in departments of linguistics and of psychology, presenting an integrated overview of the ways in which both disciplines have… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 86] 1992. xiv, 383 pp.

Quantitative Linguistics

Marie Těšitelová

Since the 1960s quantitative linguistics has undergone a great development marked especially by attempts to work systematically with language phenomena on all language levels. Besides traditional areas where significant results were already achieved before the 60s (phonology, graphemics and… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 37] 1992. 253 pp.

Recent Developments in Germanic Linguistics

Edited by Rosina L. Lippi-Green

These are selected papers from the Second Annual Michigan/Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable held in April of 1991 at Ann Arbor. Topics include the evolution of the gender system, the delineation of the relative clause in historical texts, and language as a political tool in the new Europe.
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[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 93] 1992. xii, 163 pp.

Romance Languages and Modern Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from the XX Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Ottawa, April 10–14, 1990

Edited by Paul Hirschbühler and E.F.K. Koerner †

The contributions in this volume are selected and revised papers from the 20th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, held in Ottawa in 1990. They reflect the state of Romance linguistics carried out within a broadly defined generative framework. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 91] 1992. viii, 416 pp.

The Semantic Structure of Spanish: Meaning and grammatical form

Larry D. King

In recent years, linguistics has become increasingly more willing to allow some type of representation of 'meaning' in the study of language. However, most approaches deal with sentence or utterance meaning and thereby ignore the meaning of linguistic form. Yet no description of linguistic… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 90] 1992. xii, 303 pp.

Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830–1930: From etymology to contextuality

Brigitte Nerlich

It is widely believed by historians of linguistics that the 19th-century was largely devoted to historical and comparative studies, with the main emphasis on the discovery of soundlaws. Syntax is typically portrayed as a mere sideline of these studies, while semantics is seldom even mentioned. If… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 59] 1992. xi, 359 pp.

Studies out in Left Field: Defamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley on his 33rd or 34th birthday. Reprint of the original edition

Edited by Arnold M. Zwicky, Peter H. Salus, Robert I. Binnick and Anthony L. Vanek

Transformational Grammar’s Underground Classic!Back in Print in the Nick of Time!(Just as the photocopies were getting too fuzzy to read!)Here is the complete and unexpurgated version of the legendary lost classic of porno- and scatolinguistic theory. Included are the seminal writings of Quang Phuc… read more

[Not in series, 63] 1992. xxiv, 200 pp.

The Syntax of Norwegian Passive Constructions

Tor A. Åfarli

This book provides an analysis of the passive phenomenon in general and of Norwegian passive constructions in particular. Related topics such as English passive constructions and Norwegian ergative constructions are also examined. The analysis is carried out within a Government and Binding… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 7] 1992. xii, 177 pp.

Theoretical Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XIX, Ohio State University, April 21–23, 1989

Edited by Christiane Laeufer and Terrell A. Morgan

This nineteenth edition of LSRL proceedings contains a selection of papers on variety of Romance idioms and includes current topics in established areas of study. The phonology papers focus mostly on syllabic and higher-level prosodic structure. The morphology section deals primarily with… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 74] 1992. viii, 515 pp.

Theoretical Syntax 1980–1990: An annotated and classified bibliography

Rosemarie Whitney Ostler

This volume is intended to be used by practicing scholars as well as students. It represents all major and some of the minor trends that have evolved during the past decade. Book titles from all available sources have been included, as well as periodical articles from the major journals, whenever… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 21] 1992. viii, 192 pp.

Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution: Studies in honour of René Dirven on the occasion of his 60th birthday

Edited by Martin Pütz

For this volume, 30 well-known linguistics and researcher in related fields were invited to present an overview of their most important insights and theories as these have evolved over the past 30 years. Against the background of work done in other areas of study, the contributors reflect on the… read more

[Not in series, 61] 1992. xl, 632 pp.

Utterance Structure: Developing grammars again

Wolfgang Klein and Clive Perdue

This volume presents the results of part of the ESF project 'Second language acquisition by adult immigrants'. The present study deals specifically with structure of utterances in learner varieties. The authors have attempted to find general principles which determine the form of utterances from… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 5] 1992. xvi, 354 pp.

Variation in Language: Code switching in Czech as a challenge for sociolinguistics

Edited by Petr Sgall, Jirí Hronek, Alexandr Stich and Ján Horecký

Czech, a clear case of a language having a Standard and a strong central vernacular with intensive shifting between them, offers many points of general interest to sociolinguists. This volume is divided in 5 chapters and opens with a general discussion of language varieties. 'The Two Central… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 39] 1992. xii, 370 pp.

Zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Altniederländischen

Herausgegeben von Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. und Arend Quak

Unter den Übersichten über die ältesten germanischen Sprachen vermißt man oft das Altniederländische. Es wird ihm höchstens ein sehr bescheidener Platz unter der Bezeichnung 'Altnieder fränkisch' eingeräumt. Als Folge der namentlich deutschen historischen Sprachforschung des 19. Jahrhunderts… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 7] 1992. iv, 123 pp.

Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues

Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine

The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 19:1] 1991. xii, 360 pp.

Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers

Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine

[Typological Studies in Language, 19:2] 1991. xii, 558 pp.

A Case for Psycholinguistic Cases

Edited by Gabriela Appel and Hans W. Dechert

This volume comprises ten papers presented as plenary lectures on the occasion of the Second World Congress of the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL) at the University of Kassel, Germany, from July 27 — 31, 1987. The articles collected in this volume focus on the production,… read more

[Not in series, 46] 1991. viii, 195 pp.

Categories and Case: The sentence structure of Korean

William O’Grady

The principal objective of this book is to provide a unified treatment of morphological case in Korean. Focussing on the nominative, accusative and dative suffixes, the author seeks to show that each of these morphemes consistently encodes a corresponding combinatorial relation in the 'surface'… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 71] 1991. vii, 294 pp.

Child Language and Developmental Dysphasia: Linguistic studies of the acquisition of German

Harald Clahsen

The subject of this two part work is the acquisition of language structure in which the development of syntax and morphology is examined by investigations on children without language problems and on children with developmental dysphasia. The author uses a comparative acquisition study to provide… read more

[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 2] 1991. x, 350 pp.

Conflict and Cooperation in Job Interviews: A study of talks, tasks and ideas

Martha L. Komter

An empirical study based on an analysis of 35 taped job interviews. The verbal interaction of the participants in the interviews is seen as embedded within wide ideological and institutional environments. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 15] 1991. viii, 252 pp.

Conversation for Action: The computer terminal as medium of communication

Denise E. Murray

Today, computer-mediated communication spans a range of activities from interactive messages to word processing. Researchers interested in this new technology have concentrated on its effects in the workplace for knowledge production and dissemination or on its word processing function. The study… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 10] 1991. xii, 180 pp.

Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory

Edited by Thom Huebner and Charles A. Ferguson

The term “crosscurrent” is defined as “a current flowing counter to another.” This volume represents crosscurrents in second language acquisition and linguistic theory in several respects. First, although the main currents running between linguistics and second language acquisition have… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 2] 1991. viii, 435 pp.

Development and Structures of Creole Languages: Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton

Edited by Francis Byrne and Thom Huebner

This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally… read more

[Creole Language Library, 9] 1991. x, 222 pp.

Developmental Orthography

Philip A. Luelsdorff

Philip Luelsdorff's highly original approach to the grammar of orthography is to analyse in detail how German pupils learn about written English. In this collection of essays and experiments we are presented with the rich finds of a decade of programmatic research. The context is set with an… read more

[Not in series, 51] 1991. xii, 273 pp.

A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700–1800 (DENG)

Bertil Sundby, Anne Kari Bjørge and Kari E. Haugland

Eighteenth-century English grammarians plead eloquently for purity, precision and perspicuity, but their method of teaching largely amounts to citing examples of impurity, imprecision and lack of clarity from contemporary writings. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed systematic… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 63] 1991. x, 486 pp.

Discourse Particles: Descriptive and theoretical investigations on the logical, syntactic and pragmatic properties of discourse particles in German

Edited by Werner Abraham

This book is about particles in the narrower sense of the word as opposed to the broader meaning covering all uninflected words of a language. In the narrower meaning of the linguistic term particles can be distinguished between logical, or scalar particles and modal, or pragmatic particles. The… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 12] 1991. viii, 338 pp.

The Emergence of Black English: Text and commentary

Edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila

Debate over the evolution of Black English Vernacular (BEV) has permeated Afro-American studies, creole linguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics for a quarter of a century with little sign of a satisfactory resolution, primarily because evidence that bears directly on the earlier stages of… read more

[Creole Language Library, 8] 1991. x, 352 pp.

The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604–1755

De Witt T. Starnes and Gertrude E. Noyes

This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 57] 1991. cxii, xxii, 299 pp.

English Traditional Grammars: An international perspective

Edited by Gerhard Leitner

Until recently grammars of English have received surprisingly little scholarly attention, while a lot of research is done on dictionaries. It appears, however, that learners of English shy away from modern grammars and prefer to consult dictionaries or traditional reference grammars instead. This… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 62] 1991. x, 392 pp.

Englishes: Studies in varieties of English 1984–1988

Manfred Görlach †

Problems of how to describe and explain the forms and functions of English outside Britain and the United States (and of varieties within the two countries) have become central for English linguistics over the past twenty years. The present collection combines 8 of Gorlach's major articles in the… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G9] 1991. 211 pp.

Error Analysis: A comprehensive bibliography

Bernd Spillner

Errors are information. In contrastive linguistics, they are thought to be caused by unconscious transfer of mother tongue structures to the system of the target language and give information about both systems. In the interlanguage hypothesis of second language acquisition, errors are indicative… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 12] 1991. xxxix, 552 pp.

First Person Singular II: Autobiographies by North American scholars in the language sciences

Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †

This sequel to First Person Singular (1980) presents autobiographical sketches of 15 eminent scholars in the language sciences. These personal reminiscences on their careers in linguistics reflect developments in the field over the past decades and shed light on the role each of them played and the… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 61] 1991. x, 303 pp.

Focus on Bilingual Education: Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman. Volume 1

Edited by Ofelia García

This volume contains interdisciplinary essays on bilingual education in various countries of the world. Some contributions deal with policy and curricular issues with regard to minority and majority language, some consider the enrichment aspect of bilingual education. Others focus on language… read more

[Not in series, FISHFEST 1] 1991. x, 348 pp.

Focus on Language Planning: Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman. Volume 3

Edited by David F. Marshall

This volume begins with an overview of Joshua A. Fishman's extensive work and influence in the field of language planning. The other papers link language planning with weighty issues such as politics, ecology, and national development. More specific papers deal with the problems of political and… read more

[Not in series, FISHFEST 3] 1991. viii, 360 pp.

Focus on Language and Ethnicity: Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman. Volume 2

Edited by James R. Dow

An impressive collection of theoretical perspectives and empirical data which includes papers on Catalan, Galician, Tagalog, and the minority languages of Kenya. Most of the contributions deal with ethnic minorities in North America: language maintenance and shift and cultural aspects of various… read more

[Not in series, FISHFEST 2] 1991. viii, 255 pp.

For to Speke Frenche Trewely: The French language in England, 1000–1600. Its status, description and instruction

Douglas A. Kibbee

The first grammatical descriptions of the French language were produced in England, several centuries before the first grammar written in French (but also several centuries after the Norman Conquest). This book describes the status of French in England during the period from the marriage of Emma of… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 60] 1991. viii, 268 pp.

Foreign Language Research in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Edited by Kees de Bot, Ralph B. Ginsberg and Claire Kramsch

This volume focuses on priorities for research in language pedagogy. The aim is to give an up-to-date overview of current thinking about important research issues such as the viability of large scale comparisons, the quantitative/qualitative research controversy, new trends in language testing and… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 2] 1991. xi, 275 pp.

Functional Grammar: A Field Approach

Alexander V. Bondarko

Every grammar has to a greater or lesser extent a functional aspect. In this book, Bondarko provides a comprehensive discourse on the theoretical foundations of grammar, concentrating on functional-semantic fields, with emphasis on the diversity of their structural types. Criteria for… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 35] 1991. viii, 207 pp.

Further Insights into Contrastive Analysis

Edited by Jacek Fisiak

After a period of crisis in the 1960s, Contrastive Analysis has now regained its firm position, although in a different form and with broader goals. This collection of papers reflects the scope of research and the range of interest of linguists who are involved in contrastive linguistics research.… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 30] 1991. vii, 610 pp.

An Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain

Andreas Fischer and Daniel Ammann

The results of the dialect surveys of Great Britain have been published in the form of hundreds of single and collected maps, but so far there has been no actual handbook to the charted material. The Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain, containing a full introduction, an alphabetical word-list… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G10] 1991. iv, 150 pp.

Language Bases ... Discourse Bases: Some aspects of contemporary French-language psycholinguistics research

Edited by Gilberte Piéraut-Le Bonniec and Marlene Dolitsky

When child language began to be studied in the sixties, what interested researchers most was what could be considered language per se. Holophrases were excluded as seemingly having no syntax and research work was carried out as of the two-word stage. Language development was studied up to around… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 17] 1991. vi, 342 pp.

Language Planning and Language Policy in Australia

Edited by Anthony J. Liddicoat

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 8] 1991. iv, 230 pp.

Language Typology 1988: Typological Models in the Service of Reconstruction

Edited by Winfred P. Lehmann and Helen-Jo Jakusz Hewitt

This is the third volume of papers yielded from the annual Linguistic Typology symposia inaugurated by the International Research and Exchange Board. The volume deals with an area of linguistics in which scholars of the USSR have made notable contributions and makes available to the West at least… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 81] 1991. vi, 182 pp.

Le discours aspectualisé

Edited by Jacques Fontanille

L'objectif affiché du colloque 'Le Discours aspectualisé' était d'examiner à quelles conditions on peut passer d'une conception phrastique et linguistique de l'aspect à une théorie de l'aspectualisation discursive en sémiotique. La confrontation de plusieurs disciplines et de plusieurs méthodes —… read more

[Nouveaux Actes Sémiotiques, 1] 1991. 234 pp.

Levels of Linguistic Adaptation: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987. Volume 2

Edited by Jef Verschueren

This volume comprises the second part of selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference in Antwerp, August 1987. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 6:2] 1991. viii, 339 pp.

Linguistic Theory and Grammatical Description: Nine Current Approaches

Edited by Flip G. Droste and John E. Joseph

This volume presents nine of today's grammatical theories with a view to comparing their starting points and their methods. The particular features and properties of each theory are discussed in this book, as well as the major conceptual differences and methodological obstacles each has overcome… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 75] 1991. vii, 355 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 1991

Edited by Frank Drijkoningen and Ans M.C. van Kemenade

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the twenty-second annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. The seventeen papers in this volume… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 8] 1991. x, 171 pp. | open access

New Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XVIII, Urbana-Champaign, April 7–9, 1988

Edited by Dieter Wanner and Douglas A. Kibbee

The twenty papers from the eighteenth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages deal with diverse aspects of the Romance languages and Romance linguistics. They reflect the current state of Romance studies in North America and of the particular outlook among the international group of contributors… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 69] 1991. xviii, 406 pp.

New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation. Proceedings of the Second International Roman Jakobson Conference, New York University, Nov. 5–8, 1985

Edited by Linda R. Waugh and Stephen Rudy

The papers in this volume reflect the renewed interest in the semantics of grammatical categories and the issues of invariance and variation in grammar. In particular, this collection presents the current understanding of invariance of grammar with respect to the synchronic and diachronic analyses… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 49] 1991. x, 540 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume III: Salt Lake City, Utah 1989

Edited by Bernard Comrie and Mushira Eid

This is the third in a continuing series of papers presented at the annual meetings of the Arabic Linguistic Society whose primary purpose is to provide a forum for the study of Arabic within current approaches in linguistics. The volume includes a section on Arabic in relation to other languages,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 80] 1991. xii, 274 pp.

Perspectives on Aspect and Aktionsart

Edited by Carl Vetters and Willy Vandeweghe

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 6] 1991. 182 pp.

Pragmatics at Issue: Selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17–22, 1987. Volume 1

Edited by Jef Verschueren

This volume comprises the first part of selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference in Antwerp, August 1987. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 6:1] 1991. viii, 314 pp.

The Pragmatics of International and Intercultural Communication: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987. Volume 3

Edited by Jan Blommaert † and Jef Verschueren

This volume contains a selection of papers from a special session of the International Pragmatics Conference (Antwerp, August 1987) and from the Symposium on Intercultural Communication (Ghent, December 1987).Studying the communicative styles of cultures and social groups, both at the descriptive… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 6:3] 1991. viii, 249 pp.

Repetition in Arabic Discourse: Paradigms, syntagms and the ecology of language

Barbara Johnstone

In this examination of expository prose in contemporary Arabic, structural and semantic repetition is found to be responsible both for linguistic cohesion and for rhetorical force. Johnstone identifies and discusses repetitive features on every level of analysis. Writers in Arabic use lexical… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 18] 1991. viii, 130 pp.

STAEFCRAEFT: Studies in Germanic Linguistics. Selected papers from the 1st and 2nd Symposium on Germanic Linguistics, University of Chicago, 4 April 1985, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3–4 Oct. 1986

Edited by Elmer H. Antonsen and Hans Henrich Hock

The first Symposium on Germanic Linguistics was organized at the University of Chicago by Jan Terje Faarlund. The notable success of this undertaking led Elmer H. Antonsen, Hans Henrich Hock, and James W. Marchand to arrange the Second Symposium on Germanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 79] 1991. viii, 217 pp.

Serial Verbs: Grammatical, Comparative and Cognitive Approaches

Edited by Claire Lefebvre

The papers in this volume offer several analyses of verb serialization written within various theoretical frameworks: grammatical, comparative and cognitive/functional. They cover a wide range of language families. All authors address two basic questions about verb serialization: First, what is the… read more

[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 8] 1991. viii, 210 pp.

Studies in Brythonic Word Order

Edited by James Fife and Erich Poppe

While Celtic languages are nominally VSO in basic word order, the languages of the Brythonic branch have exhibited striking synchronic and historical variations from the prototype. This volume comprises the very latest research in word order in Welsh, reton and Cornish from nine of the leading… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 83] 1991. x, 360 pp.

Studies in Language Origins: Volume 2

Edited by Walburga von Raffler-Engel, Jan Wind and Abraham Jonker

The question of language origin has fascinated people for years. The contributions in the present book stem primarely from the papers presented at the Third International Meeting of the Language Origins Society (LOS) held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, June 1988. The contributors… read more

[Not in series, LOS 2] 1991. xxi, 348 pp.

Studies in the Historical Phonology of Asian Languages

Edited by William G. Boltz and Michael C. Shapiro

This volume owes its genesis to a series of lectures on various aspects of the historical phonology of Asian languages, sponsored by the Asian Linguistics Colloquium of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature of the University of Washington, in Seattle. The volume includes papers on both… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 77] 1991. viii, 249 pp.

Syntax: A functional-typological introduction. Volume II

T. Givón

The long-awaited second volume of the two-volume work on syntax from a functional-typological perspective. Grammar is viewed as a non-arbitrary language-processing device, to be understood in terms of the various substantive parameters relevant to language: Communicative function, cognitive… read more

[Not in series, 50] 1991. xxvi, 554 pp.

Towards a Critical Sociology of Reading Pedagogy: Papers of the XII World Congress on Reading

Edited by Carolyn Baker and Allan Luke

Through critical sociological appraisals of literary theory, research and pedagogy, this volume presents challenges to dominant psychological approaches in reading research and to mainstream discourses about reading and writing pedagogy. Bringing together the recent work of literacy researchers in… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 19] 1991. xxi, 287 pp.

Universal History of Linguistics: India, China, Arabia, Europe

Esa Itkonen

This wide-ranging book presents the linguistic achievements of four major cultures to readers presumably conversant with modern theoretical linguistics. The chapter on India discusses in detail Pāṇini's (c. 400 B.C.) grammar Ast-adhy-ay-i as well as the work of his commentators Kātyāyana,… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 65] 1991. x, 368 pp.

Untersuchungen über die Grundfragen des Sprachlebens: Reprint from the 1885 edition

Philipp Wegener (1848–1916)

Newly edited by Konrad Koerner (University of Ottawa), with an introduction by Clemens Knobloch (Universitat Siegen)The importance of Wegener's Untersuchungen uber die Grundfragen des Sprachlebens can only be compared to that of Karl Buhler's Sprachtheorie. Even now, however, Wegener's work remains… read more

[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 5] 1991. lii, viii, 214 pp.

Using the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A workbook with exercises

Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young

This volume has been replaced by a new (online) edition. Please click here for more information.USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people to the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed, demonstrates how… read more

[Not in series, BBI 2 (2nd)] 1991. x, 58 pp. incl. key

Using the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A workbook with exercises

Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young

USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people to the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed, demonstrates how collocations differ from free combinations and idioms, and shows how collocations of all types can… read more

[Not in series, BBI 2 (1st)] 1991. x, 58 pp.incl. key

Varia Eurasiatica: Festschrift für Professor András Róna-Tas

This collection of 24 articles reflects the wide range of interests of Professor Róna-Tas: the contributions deal with topics from Altaic, Mongolic and Uralic studies, Eurasian history, Turkology, Tibetology and Hungarian history. The articles are in English (12), German (10) and Russian (2). read more

[Not in series, 53] 1991. 270 pp.

Yiddish: Turning to Life

Joshua A. Fishman †

Worldwide interest in Yiddish has often concentrated on its secular forms of expression: its literature, its theater, its journalism and its political-party associations. This all-encompassing study, covers these phenomena as well as investigating the demographic and political mushrooming of… read more

[Not in series, 49] 1991. xii, 522 pp.

Young Children's Dyadic Pretend Play: A communication analysis of plot structure and plot generative strategies

Ursula V. Schwartz

Pretend play in early childhood arises in the context of social interaction and, as such, constitutes a form of discourse indigenous to the child's world. The present study is a first detailed investigation of thematic-ideational structure in young children's dyadic pretend play with special… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 14] 1991. vi, 151 pp.

Approaches to Grammaticalization: 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine

[Typological Studies in Language, 19:S] 1990. xii, 360 pp. + xii, 560 pp.

Bibliography of Bibliographies of the Languages of the World: Volume I: General and Indo-European languages of Europe

Compiled by Rudolph C. Troike

This is Volume I of a monumental two-volume work, a historical record and guide to bibliographic efforts on all the languages of the world, which is designed to serve the professional as well as non-professional reader as a first point of entry for information about any language. By consulting the… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 19] 1990. xxii, 473 pp.

Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. Festschrift for T. Arwyn Watkins

Edited by Martin J. Ball, James Fife, Erich Poppe and Jenny Rowland

This collection of papers on the Brythonic languages of the Celtic group is divided into four parts: Welsh linguistics, Breton and Cornish linguistics, literary linguistics, and historical linguistics. This has resulted in a book providing a thorough and comprehensive coverage of this branch of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 68] 1990. xxiv, 470 pp.

Charles S. Peirce, 1839–1914: An intellectual biography

Gérard Deledalle

This work is the intellectual biography of the greatest of American philosophers. Peirce was not only a pioneer in logic and the creator of a philosophical movement pragmatism he also proposed a phenomenological theory, quite different from that of Husserl, but equal in profundity; and long before… read more

[Not in series, 42] 1990. xxxii, 92 pp.

Communication and Translation in Aboriginal Contexts

Edited by Edith L. Bavin

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 5] 1990. iv, 99 pp.

Cross-Cultural Communication in the Professions in Australia

Edited by Anne Pauwels

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 7] 1990. vi, 132 pp.

De Ortu Grammaticae: Studies in medieval grammar and linguistic theory in memory of Jan Pinborg

Edited by Geoffrey L. Bursill-Hall, Sten Ebbesen and E.F.K. Koerner †

The Danish scholar Jan Pinborg (1937-1982) made outstanding contributions to our understanding of medieval language study. The papers in this volume clearly demonstrate the wealth of Pinborg's scholarly interests and the extent of his influence.Though centered on medieval theories of grammar and… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 43] 1990. x, 372 pp.

Diachronic Problems in Phonosymbolism: Edita and Inedita, 1979–1988. Volume I

Yakov Malkiel

Phonosymbolism, or sound symbolism (Lautsymbolik), is a vital ingredient of language growth. Many serious scholars, however, have regarded it with embarrassment or indifference. A cautious reintroduction of phonosymbolism as a factor responsible for changes undergone, in varying degrees, by most… read more

[Not in series, EAI 1] 1990. vii, 274 pp.

Diachronic Semantics

Edited by Dirk Geeraerts

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 5] 1990. 167 pp.

Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings: The Vietnamese system of person reference

Hy V. Luong

This is a theoretically oriented study of the pragmatics of Vietnamese person reference (kinship terms, personal pronouns, naming set and status terms). Drawing upon linguistic data from a radically different non-Western society and the seminal insights of Volosinov, Bakhtin, and Leach, it offers a… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 11] 1990. x, 213 pp.

Early Arabic Grammatical Theory: Heterogeneity and standardization

Jonathan Owens

The Arabic grammatical tradition is remarkable for having organized a large amount of descriptive material within a sophisticated formal framework. The present study seeks to elucidate the early development of this system from a theory-internal perspective; it is mainly concerned with the… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 53] 1990. xvi, 294 pp.

Essays on Significs: Papers presented on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Victoria Lady Welby (1837–1912)

Edited by H. Walter Schmitz

Significs is one of those (by no means exclusively) sign theoretically relevant movements which arose at the turn of the century. It established a philosophical tradition which, from its very inception, was interlaced with widely varying movements ranging, for example, from Breal's semantics to… read more

[Foundations of Semiotics, 23] 1990. xv, 313 pp.

A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi

William B. McGregor

This volume sets out to provide a comprehensive description of the grammar of Gooniyandi, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the southern-central Kimberley region of Western Australia. It covers phonetics and phonology, word phrase and clause structure, and the semantics of closed-class grammatical… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 22] 1990. xx, 618 pp.

The Grimm Brothers and the Germanic Past

Edited by Elmer H. Antonsen, James W. Marchand and Ladislav Zgusta

The pioneering work of Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm in the areas of Germanic comparative and historical linguistics, lexicography, philology, and medieval studies places them squarely among the most important figures in the history of the language sciences. The contributions to this volume present… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 54] 1990. x, 162 pp.

Historical Linguistics 1987: Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, August 30-September 4, 1987

Edited by Henning Andersen and E.F.K. Koerner †

The volume contains 37 papers originally presented at the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Lille, France. The papers bring historical data to bear on issues in theoretical linguistics, both descriptive and diachronic or deal with specific questions in the history of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 66] 1990. xii, 577 pp.

History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987. 2 Volumes. 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Hans-Josef Niederehe and E.F.K. Koerner †

This wide-ranging volume brings together a selection of papers dealing with the history of linguistics from Antiquity to the present and from various areas of the world. The volume is divided into nine sections and includes an index of names and an index of subjects. I. Generalia: Sylvain Auroux,… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 51:S] 1990. xxv, x, 873 pp.

History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987. Volume 1: Antiquitity–17th Century

Edited by Hans-Josef Niederehe and E.F.K. Koerner †

These two volume present papers from the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), held at the University of Trier, Germany, in August 1987. Volume 1 contains the following sections: I. Generalia; II. Antiquity; III. Arabic Linguistics; IV. Middle Ages; V.… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 51:1] 1990. xxv, 396 pp.

History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987. Volume 2: 18th–20th Century

Edited by Hans-Josef Niederehe and E.F.K. Koerner †

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 51:2] 1990. x, 397-873 pp.

History from Below: The “Vocabulary of Elisabethville” by André Yav: Text, Translations and Interpretive Essay

Edited by Johannes Fabian

Johannes Fabian with assistance from Kalundi Mango (Administrator, National Museum of Zaire) and with linguistic notes by Walter Schicho (University of Vienna). An extraordinary linguistic and sociopolitical document, this is a history of colonization written by the colonized, about the colonized,… read more

[Creole Language Library, 7] 1990. vii, 236 pp.

Language Typology 1987: Systematic Balance in Language. Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Berkeley, 1–3 Dec 1987

Edited by Winfred P. Lehmann

These papers from the 1987 Typology Symposium — a follow-up to the 1985 meeting in Moscow — deal with the relevance of typology for historical linguistics. Its application in understanding phonological and grammatical change is examined for a variety of languages. Its relevance for application of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 67] 1990. x, 212 pp.

Language as Behaviour, Language as Code: A study of academic English

Lynne Young

This work arose from the desire to teach foreign students in North America a particular variety of language used in their disciplines (speech situations), whereupon the inadequacy or non-existence of previous study became apparent. Given this raison d'être, the work first illustrates one approach… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 8] 1990. ix, 304 pp.

Layers and Levels of Representation in Language Theory: A functional view

Edited by Jan Nuyts, A. Machtelt Bolkestein and Co Vet

Rather than simply a record of proceedings (3rd International Conference on Functional Grammar, Amsterdam, June 1988), this volume contains revised and expanded papers from the conference and other papers inspired by the lively discussion there. The volume focuses on the nature of the structures… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 13] 1990. xii, 348 pp.

Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987. Volume 1

Edited by M.A.K. Halliday †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas

This volume contains selected papers from the Eight World Congress of Applied Linguistics held in Sydney in 1987. Volume I starts off with an overview of the field by G. Richard Tucker in which he identifies two areas: innovative language education and language education policy. The overal focus of… read more

[Not in series, LKUL 1] 1990. xx, 508 pp.

Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987. Volume 2

Edited by M.A.K. Halliday †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas

This volume contains selected papers from the Eight World Congress of Applied Linguistics held in Sydney in 1987. Whereas the focus of Volume I is on learning language and the standpoint of the individual learner, the contributions to Volume II are concerned not so much with individuals as with… read more

[Not in series, LKUL 2] 1990. xvi, 488 pp.

Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism: Proceedings of the international conference, Rome, 25–28 September 1986

Edited by Tullio De Mauro † and Lia Formigari

Both Leibniz and Humboldt are scholars in whose work we find a passionate interest in the history and development of languages combined with a strong theoretical commitment. Linking their names to linguistic comparativism draws attention to the contribution these scholars have made to the history… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 49] 1990. vii, 329 pp.

A Life for Language: A biographical memoir of Leonard Bloomfield

Robert A. Hall, Jr.

Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) was one of the greatest linguists of the twentieth century. He devoted his entire life to a thorough-going study of language, its structure and its use, summed up in masterly fashion in his book Language (1933). After his premature death at the age of 62, his work was… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 55] 1990. x, 129 pp.

Meaning and Lexicography

Edited by Jerzy Tomaszczyk and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

While lexicology, lexical semantics, and lexicography all share an interest in lexical items, they often tend to be regarded as three separate albeit interrelated fields. Indeed, the extent to which the interrelationship is recognized and taken into account in lexicographic practice is the moot… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 28] 1990. xxv, 340 pp.

Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia

Edited by John W.M. Verhaar, S.J.

The First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia was planned mainly for Tok Pisin, but no predetermined theme(s) had been proposed to the participants. Nevertheless, in this collection of papers several principal themes stand out.One is that of a revived interest in… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 20] 1990. xiv, 409 pp.

Metaphor II: A classified bibliography of publications from 1985 to 1990

Compiled by Jean-Pierre van Noppen and Edith Hols

Metaphor, though not now the scholarly “mania” it once was, remains a topic of great interest in many disciplines albeit with interesting shifts in emphasis. Warren Shibles' Metaphor: An Annotated Bibliography and History (Bloomington, Ind. 1971) recorded the initial interest. Then Metaphor: A… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 20] 1990. iv, 350 pp.

Morphology: Word structure in generative grammar

John T. Jensen

A self-contained and lively text prepared in response to a perceived need for an up-to-date introduction to the field of morphology within the framework of generative grammar. The material is presented in the framework of the lexicalist hypothesis of Chomsky (1970), but also taking in the more… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 70] 1990. x, 210 pp.

New Studies in Latin Linguistics: Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Cambridge, April 1987

Edited by Robert Coleman

The 29 papers in this volume cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from the Glottalic Theory and Lachmann's Law to the hermeneutic analysis of text-structure in Tacitus' Germania. The volume focuses on three themes specifically: the morphology and semantics of lexical formation; the internal and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 21] 1990. x, 480 pp.

Nonsentential Constituents: A theory of grammatical structure and pragmatic interpretation

Ellen Barton

Linguists traditionally have assumed that full sentence sources truncated by ellipsis rules account for the grammatical structure as well as the semantic interpretation of fragments like B below: A: What happened in 1974? B: A scandal in the White House. A sentential structure dominated by the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 2] 1990. xviii, 251 pp.

North American Contributions to the History of Linguistics

Edited by Francis P. Dinneen, S.J. and E.F.K. Koerner †

This volume unites papers given by members of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) at meetings held in Washington, D.C., in March and December 1989, respectively. They represent the scope and breadth of interest of North American scholars in this growing… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 58] 1990. xii, 238 pp.

Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics

Edited by Sylvia M. Adamson, Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright

This volume is a collection of articles based on papers presented at the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics at Cambridge in 1987. It draws together important state-of-the-art' studies in the syntax, phonology, morphology and semantics of Old, Middle and Modern English by… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 65] 1990. xxviii, 583 pp.

Papers on Grammar: Volume III

Edited by Gualtiero Calboli

[Not in series, POG 3] 1990. viii, 250 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume I: Salt Lake City, Utah 1987

Edited by Mushira Eid

This volume provides a general perspective on aspects of Arabic in relation to various areas of linguistics. To the general linguist, it is a source of information and data on Arabic analyzed within current models of analysis; to the Arabic linguist, it provides current analyses of both familiar… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 63] 1990. xiii, 293 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume II: Salt Lake City, Utah 1988

Edited by Mushira Eid and John McCarthy

The papers in this volume approach the study of Arabic, its structure and use, from different linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. The book is divided into three sections: Section I Morphological and Phonological Perspectives; Section II Semantic Perspectives; Section III Sociolinguistic… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 72] 1990. xiv, 332 pp.

Peter of Spain: Language in Dispute. An English translation of Peter of Spain's Tractatus called afterwards Summulae Logicales, based on the critical edition by L.M. de Rijk

Francis P. Dinneen, S.J.

This volume presents an English translation of Petrus Hispanus Portugalensis’ (d. 1277) Tractatus — called afterwards Summulae Logicales — on the basis of the critical edition established by L. M. de Rijk (1972). The Summulae’s first part (I-V) introduces Aristotelian ideas familiar enough at the… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 39] 1990. xl, 271 pp.

Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems

Edited by John Victor Singler

More than any other area of the grammar, tense-mood-aspect (TMA) has provided evidence to fuel the ongoing debates about creole genesis and about the relevance of pidgin and creole phenomena to language theory more generally. This volume advances the debate in two ways. First, it makes available in… read more

[Creole Language Library, 6] 1990. xvi, 240 pp.

A Practical Course in Terminology Processing

Juan C. Sager

Since the advent of the computer, terminology management can be carried out by almost anyone who has learnt to use a computer. Terminology management has proved to be an efficient tool in international communications in industry, education and international organisations. Software packages are… read more

[Not in series, 44] 1990. xi, 258 pp.

Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics: Volume 10

Edited by Eva Hajičová, Marie Těšitelová and Ján Horecký

The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Těšitelová; M. Ludvíková; H. Confortiová; Ludmila Uhlířová; I. Nebeská; Jan Králík; J. Krámský; J. Sabol; J. Štěpán. Part 2 Algebraic Linguistics contains contributions by M.… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 34] 1990. 199 pp.

Scrambling and Barriers

Edited by Günther Grewendorf and Wolfgang Sternefeld

The articles in this volume deal with various phenomena which have been covered traditionally by the term scrambling. The analyses presented here refer to the most recent developments in generative grammar (the so-called Barriers-framework developed in Chomsky 1986). Some of the topics discussed… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 5] 1990. vi, 442 pp.

The Semiotics of Fortune-telling

Edna Aphek and Yishai Tobin

This book presents a semiotic analysis of the linguistic and extralinguistic elements of fortune-telling as part of a larger pragmatic-oriented theory of human communication. The material was collected in Israel, in Hebrew, and parallels are made with other languages and cultures. The analysis is… read more

[Foundations of Semiotics, 22] 1990. vii, 216 pp.

Sing Without Shame: Oral traditions in Indo-Portuguese Creole verse

Kenneth David Jackson

This study of literary themes, linguistic practice and cultural traditions analyzes the oral traditions of Indo-Portugese creole verse, as a synthesis from European, African and Asian sources. This musical, dramatic and textual syncretism defines tradition within the group and maintains the… read more

[Creole Language Library, 5] 1990. xxiv, 257 pp.

Speech and Sociability at French Urban Marketplaces

Jacqueline Lindenfeld

This study is both particularistic and generalizing. At one level it can be seen as an investigation of French urban marketplaces as systems of communication, with a microscopic examination of verbal interaction and sociability patterns in a specific cultural setting. At another level it… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 7] 1990. viii, 173 pp.

Studies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday

Edited by William A. Croft, Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning

Joseph H. Greenberg is a towering figure in late twentieth century linguistics. His major contributions in the field have been in the area of typology and universals, virtually launched by his paper on word order universals, and in diachronic linguistics. The major thrust of Greenberg's work in the… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 20] 1990. xxxiv, 243 pp.

Studies in the History of Arabic Grammar II: Proceedings of the second symposium on the history of Arabic grammar, Nijmegen, 27 April–1 May, 1987

Edited by Kees Versteegh and Michael G. Carter

This volume presents papers given at the second Symposium on the History of Arabic Grammar (Nijmegen, 1987). The subject has many aspects and invites many different approaches, which might roughly be categorized into three main groupings, viz. treatments of individual grammarians, examinations of… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 56] 1990. x, 320 pp.

Theory of Language: The Representational Function of Language

Karl Bühler

Karl Bühler (1879-1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of this century. His masterwork Sprachtheorie (1934) has been praised widely and gained considerable recognition in the fields of linguistics, semiotics, the philosophy of language and the psychology of language. The work has,… read more

[Foundations of Semiotics, 25] 1990. lxii, 508 pp.

Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation

K.K. Luke

Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning), and few can be… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 9] 1990. xvi, 329 pp.

Verbal Aspect in Discourse

Edited by Nils B. Thelin

In the light of growing insights into the universal temporal-semantic nature of aspectual distinctions, today's aspectology has broadened its attention from restrictedly event-defining functions of aspect on the sentence level towards its primary perspectival functions on the discourse/situation… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 5] 1990. xvi, 490 pp.

Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook

Edited by Lise Menn and Loraine K. Obler

This major reference work fills a need long recognized in neurolinguistics: a source for analyzable speech transcripts from agrammatic aphasic patients that provides detailed grammatical descriptions and distributional analyses. This 3-volume set is unique in that it presents narrative speech from… read more

[Not in series, 39] 1989. xxvii, 1985 pp., 3 Vols.

Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook. Volume 3. Control Subjects

Edited by Lise Menn and Loraine K. Obler

[Not in series, AA 3] 1989. xx, 594 pp.

Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook. Volume 1

Edited by Lise Menn and Loraine K. Obler

[Not in series, AA 1] 1989. xxvii, 816 pp.

Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook. Volume 2

Edited by Lise Menn and Loraine K. Obler

[Not in series, AA 2] 1989. xx, 575 pp.

Antike Rhythmustheorien: Historische Form und aktuelle Substanz

Wilfried Neumaier

[Heuremata: Studien zu Literatur, Sprachen und Kultur der Antike, 11] 1989. viii, 139 pp.

Aspect and Meaning in Slavic and Indic

Ranjit Chatterjee

Three features set this book apart from other recent publications on aspect. First, it looks closely at the language family, Slavic, that has been the main source of assumptions and data about aspect. Second, it looks upon the object of linguistic study, natural language, from an angle shared by… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 51] 1989. xxiii, 137 pp.

Contrastive Pragmatics

Edited by Wieslaw Oleksy

This volume deals with a variety of pragmatic issues involved in cross-language and interlanguage studies as well as second-language acquisition and cross-cultural studies. Part I contains papers dealing with general issues stemming from contrastive work, for example, the question of tertium… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 3] 1989. xiv, 282 pp.

Current Progress in Chadic Linguistics: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chadic Linguistics, Boulder, Colorado, 1–2 May 1987

Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier

The volume consists of papers prepared for the International Symposium of Chadic Linguistics (Boulder, Colorado, May 1-2, 1987). Although the papers are representative of the current work being done in the field of Chadic linguistics, they also reflect the current and past interests and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 62] 1989. vi, 312 pp.

Doctor–Patient Interaction

Edited by Walburga von Raffler-Engel

This volume covers many of the ways of speaking that create problems between doctor and patient. The questions under consideration in the present book are the following: How is the doctor-patient interaction structured in a particular culture? What takes place during the process? What causes… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 4] 1989. xxxviii, 294 pp.

Etymology and Grammatical Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Mark E. Amsler

This study focuses on the uses of the grammatical concept of etymologia in primarily Latin writings from the early Middle Ages. Etymologia is a fundamental procedure and discursive strategy in the philosophy and analysis of language in early medieval Latin grammar, as well as in Biblical exegesis,… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 44] 1989. xi, 280 pp.

From Sign to Text: A semiotic view of communication

Edited by Yishai Tobin

This volume contains selected contributions from the colloquium From Sign to Text' (Ben Gurion University, 1985) and combines the diverse interdisciplinary interests and approaches of the contributors in a fundamentally shared definition of language seen as a flexible and open-ended system of… read more

[Foundations of Semiotics, 20] 1989. xiii, 545 pp.

Genre and Systemic Functional Studies

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 6] 1989. vi, 136 pp.

Hellenistic and Roman Greece as a Sociolinguistic Area

Vit Bubenik

This study concentrates on the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the history of Greek language. It focuses on the gradual contamination of classical dialects by the Hellenistic Koine, their disappearance, the range of intraregional variation, and the process of Koinization from the angle of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 57] 1989. xv, 331 pp.

Historical and Comparative Linguistics

Raimo Anttila

In any course of historical and comparative linguistics there will be students of different language backgrounds, different levels of linguistic training, and different theoretical orientation. This textbook attempts to mitigate the problems raised by this heterogeneity in a number of ways. Since… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 6] 1989. xv, 462 pp.

Language Change and Variation

Edited by Ralph W. Fasold and Deborah Schiffrin

The study of language variation in social context continues to hold the attention of a large number of linguists. This research is promoted by the annual colloquia on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English' (NWAVE). This volume is a selection of revised papers from the NWAVE XI, held at… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 52] 1989. viii, 450 pp.

Language and Schizophrenia

Janusz Wrobel

This book investigates the functioning of linguistic phenomena, especially in the area of semantics and pragmatics of the language of schizophrenics. By making semantics and pragmatics the primary objects of this work, the author departs from the traditional approach of those psycholinguistic and… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 33] 1989. viii, 132 pp.

Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in political discourse

Edited by Ruth Wodak

The topic of Language and Ideology has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences. The general aim of critical linguistics is the exploration of the mechanisms of power which establish inequality, through the systematic analysis of political discourse (written or oral). This reader… read more

[Critical Theory, 7] 1989. xx, 288 pp.

Linguistic Categorization: Proceedings of an International Symposium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 10–11, 1987

Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Fred Eckman and Michael Noonan

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the 16th International Symposium at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee. Two central question were addressed: What is the nature of the categories that underlie the structure of human language? What is the nature of extralinguistic… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 61] 1989. viii, 348 pp.

On the Medieval Theory of Signs

Edited by Umberto Eco and Costantino Marmo

In the course of the long debate on the nature and the classification of signs, from Boethius to Ockham, there are at least three lines of thought: the Stoic heritage, that influences Augustine, Abelard, Francis Bacon; the Aristotelian tradition, stemming from the commentaries on De… read more

[Foundations of Semiotics, 21] 1989. ix, 224 pp.

Otto Jespersen: Facets of his Life and Work

Edited by Arne Juul and Hans Frede Nielsen †

This is the first book to give a comprehensive view of the work of Otto Jespersen (1860-1943), the Danish linguist who is perhaps best known for his monumental work A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. The articles in this volume show the wide range of Jespersen's interests and… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 52] 1989. xviii, 154 pp.

Practicing Linguistic Historiography

E.F.K. Koerner †

This collection contains 24 articles on the history of linguistics written between 1978 and 1988, divided into three parts: 1. Methods and Models in Linguistic Historiography 2. Tradition and Transmission of Linguistic Notions 3. Schools and Scholars in the History of Linguistics Three articles are… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 50] 1989. xiv, 455 pp.

Semiotics and Pragmatics: Proceedings of the Perpignan Symposium, 1983

Edited by Gérard Deledalle

This collective volume contains carefully selected papers presented at the international semiotics conference ‘Semiotique et pragmatique’ that took place in Perpignan on 17 to 19 November, 1983. The volume starts of with four debate papers by Searle, Apel, Greimas and Landowski, and is followed… read more

[Foundations of Semiotics, 18] 1989. xii, 467 pp.

The Speech of the Negros Congos in Panama

John M. Lipski

The negros congos of Panama's Caribbean coast are a unique cultural manifestation of Afro-Hispanic contact. During Carnival season each year, this group reenacts dramatic events which affected black slaves in colonial Panama, performs dances and pantomimes, and enforces a set of ritual laws' and… read more

[Creole Language Library, 4] 1989. vii, 159 pp.

Studies in Language Origins: Volume 1

Edited by Jan Wind, Edward G. Pulleyblank, Éric de Grolier and Bernard H. Bichakjian

The question of language origin has fascinated people for years. Traditionally, humanists like linguists and philosophers attempted to solve it with limited success. In the last decades, however, the sciences have begun to study the same question seemingly with more success. This book is the result… read more

[Not in series, LOS 1] 1989. xxii, 332 pp.

Studies in Romance Linguistics: Selected Proceedings from the XVII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages

Edited by Carl Kirschner and Janet Ann DeCesaris

The papers collected in this volume reflect the numerous interests in the field of Romance languages and Romance linguistics today. A far-ranging amount of Romance data are presented: French, Italian, and Spanish dialect data are crucial to several authors' arguments, Rumanian is the focus of two… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 60] 1989. ix, 496 pp.

Subordination and Other Topics in Latin: Proceedings of the Third Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Bologna, 1–5 April 1985

Edited by Gualtiero Calboli

The papers in this volume are centered around the following topics: subordination; cases and prepositions; moods, tenses and voices of the verb; nominal forms of the verb; anaphors and pronouns; word order, theme and rheme, negation, style, morphology and word formation. read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 17] 1989. xxix, 691 pp.

Syntactic Phrase Structure Phenomena in Noun Phrases and Sentences

Edited by Christa Bhatt, Elisabeth Löbel and Claudia Maria Schmidt

The main topic of this volume is the phrase structural analysis of noun phrases and sentences. This analysis is based on recent ideas within the Government and Binding framework and makes crucial use of such modules as Theta assignment, Binding Theory, Case assignment, as well as different… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 6] 1989. ix, 187 pp.

Text and Discourse Connectedness: Proceedings of the Conference on Connexity and Coherence, Urbino, July 16–21, 1984

Edited by Maria-Elisabeth Conte, János Sánder Petöfi and Emel Sözer

The 35 papers in this volume provide a comprehensive picture of crucial aspects of connectedness. The papers are divided into three main groups: the papers in the first group deal with particular questions of the text-constituting role of anaphora, deixis, coreference, modality, conjunctions and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 16] 1989. xxiv, 584 pp.

Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition

Lydia White

This book explores the relationship between linguistic universals and second language acquisition. Although no knowledge of generative grammar is presupposed, the theoretical framework underlying the work is the principles and parameters approach to Universal Grammar (UG), as realized in Chomsky's… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 1] 1989. xii, 198 pp.

Universals of Language

Edited by Michel Kefer and Johan van der Auwera

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 4] 1989. 192 pp.

Written Language Revisited

Josef Vachek

Josef Vachek, one of the last living exponents of the Prague School, has dedicated 50 years of his life to the study of written language in all its aspects. This volume is a tribute to him on the occasion of his 80th birthday. It contains a selection of his papers written between 1945 and 1987. read more

[Not in series, 41] 1989. xiv, 220 pp.

Yugoslav General Linguistics

Edited by Milorad Radovanović

This volume is the first anthology of readings in Yugoslav general linguistics in English. It contains twenty contributions by outstanding Yugoslav scholars in such areas as comparative typology and contact linguistics, sociolinguistics (including such topics as bilingualism, multilingualism,… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 26] 1989. viii, 381 pp.

Austronesian Root Theory: An essay on the limits of morphology

Robert Blust

Since the pioneering analyses of Renward Brandstetter (1860–1942) a quasi-morphological element called the ‘root’ has been recognized in Austronesian linguistics. This monograph confronts many of the methodological and substantive issues raised but never fully resolved by Brandstetter. In an effort… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 19] 1988. xi, 190 pp.

Bibliography of Morphology, 1960–1985

Compiled by Robert Beard and Bogdan Szymanek

Rather than an attempt at an exhaustive bibliography of morphology, this is a collection of major and selected minor works of theoretical interest in the broadest sense. The area of morphology represented here exhaustively is contemporary (generative) theoretical morphology, interpreted broadly… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 18] 1988. xiv, 193 pp.

Categorial Grammar

Edited by Wojciech Buszkowski, Witold Marciszewski and Johan van Benthem

This book is devoted to the mathematical foundations of categorial grammar including type-theoretic foundations of mathematics, grammatical categories and other topics related to categorial grammar and to philosophical and linguistic applications of this framework. The volume consists of three… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 25] 1988. viii, 365 pp.

Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse

Edited by John Haiman † and Sandra A. Thompson

Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 18] 1988. xiii, 442 pp.

Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages

Edited by Peter Austin

Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena. The present volume presents descriptions of complex sentence phenomena in ten Australian languages and provides important new material… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 15] 1988. vii, 289 pp.

Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain: Recherches lexico-sémantiques. Volume 2

Compiled by Igor Mel’čuk

[Not in series, DECFC 2] 1988. 344 pp.

Distributions spatiales et temporelles, constellations des manuscrits/Spatial and Temporal Distributions, Manuscript Constellations: Etudes de variation linguistiques offertes à Anthonij Dees à l'occasion de son 60ème anniversaire / Studies in language variation offered to Anthonij Dees on the occasion of his 60th birthday

Sous la direction de Pieter van Reenen et Karin van Reenen-Stein

Throughout the years the extent of the contributions by A. Dees to the renewal of philology, has become progressively more evident. In his Etudes sur l'evolution des demonstratifs en ancien et en moyen français (1971) Dees has developed a framework within which language evolution in the past can be… read more

[Not in series, 37] 1988. xxii, 277 pp.

Event Structure

Jan van Voorst

This study establishes a relation between the semantics of the subject and the direct object-NP and aspect. The notion of event is central. Events have a beginning and an end. This means in temporal terms that events have a point in time at which they begin and a point in time at which they end. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 59] 1988. x, 181 pp.

The Foundations of Grammar: An introduction to medieval Arabic grammatical theory

Jonathan Owens

The Arabic grammatical tradition is one of the great traditions in the history of linguistics, yet it is also one that is comparatively unknown to modern western linguistics. The purpose of the present book is to provide an introduction to this grammatical tradition not merely by summarizing it,… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 45] 1988. xii, 371 pp.

Fucus: A Semitic/Afrasian Gathering in Remembrance of Albert Ehrman

Edited by Yoël L. Arbeitman

This is a memorial volume for Albert Ehrman. The contributions of this Gedenkschrift testify to his scholarly excellence in the field of Judaic-Semitic lexicography and etymology, and do full justice to the richness and thought inspiring qualities of his publications. Besides the papers in honour… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 58] 1988. xvi, 530 pp.

The Jury Summation as Speech Genre: An ethnographic study of what it means to those who use it

Bettyruth Walter

The American courtroom trial is a speech situation. Everything occurs through the spoken word. The 'summation', as speech event embedded within the trial, which is the chronological and psychological culmination of it, is one of the few opportunities for the lawyer to communicate directly with… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 1] 1988. xvii, 264 pp.

Karl Bühler's Theory of Language/Karl Bühlers Sprachtheorie: Proceedings of the Conference held at Kirchberg, August 26, 1984 and Essen, November 21–24, 1984

Edited by Achim Eschbach

This volume contains selected proceedings of the conferences held at Kirchberg, August 26, 1984 and Essen, November 21–24, 1984 devoted to Karl Bühler's Theory of Language. Both conferences took place exactly fifty years after the publication of Bühler's masterpiece. However, it was felt necessary… read more

[Viennese Heritage/Wiener Erbe, 2] 1988. xxxi, 433 pp.

La phonologie du schwa français

Sous la direction de S. Paul Verluyten

Ce livre présente quatre études sur la phonologie du schwa français. “Sur l’identité phonologique du schwa français dans l’accentuation et dans la syllabation”, par Hans Basbøll; “La syllabification et les regles de changement de syllabe en français”, par Roland Noske; “A propos de l’ajustement de… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 16] 1988. vi, 202 pp.

Language Testing Colloquium: Selected papers from a Colloquium at the Horwood Language Center, University of Melbourne, 24–25 August, 1987

Edited by Tim F. McNamara

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 11:2 (1988) vii, 98 pp.

Language and Experience in 17th-Century British Philosophy

Lia Formigari

The focus of this volume is the crisis of the traditional view of the relationship between words and things and the emergence of linguistic arbitrarism in 17th-century British philosophy. Different groups of sources are explored: philological and antiquarian writings, pedagogical treatises, debates… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 48] 1988. viii, 178 pp.

Linguistics and Formulas in Homer: Scalarity and description of the particle per

Egbert J. Bakker

The purpose of this study is to provide a description of the Greek particle per as it occurs in the text of Homer. As such it is a contribution to the study of Ancient Greek in general and of the Greek' particles in particular. But the work transgresses the boundaries of Greek linguistics' proper. read more

[Not in series, 31] 1988. x, 306 pp.

Linguistics in a Systemic Perspective

Edited by James D. Benson, Michael J. Cummings and William S. Greaves

The purpose of this book is to provide a general introduction to Systemic Linguistics in the form of essays written by leading figures in the field. These are, with one exception, not previously published, and taken together they constitute a comprehensive coverage of the diverse interests of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 39] 1988. x, 452 pp.

Machine Translation: Linguistic characteristics of MT systems and general methodology of evaluation

John Lehrberger and Laurent Bourbeau

The use of the computer in translating natural languages ranges from that of a translator's aid for word processing and dictionary lookup to that of a full-fledged translator on its own. However the obstacles to translating by means of the computer are primarily linguistic. To overcome them it is… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 15] 1988. viii, 240 pp.

The Nature of the Right: Feminist analysis of order patterns

Edited by Gill Seidel

This volume challenges and extends the definition of right and right-wing discourse as traditionally conceived in male scholarship. The eleven papers share a common perspective: a critique of the ideology of 'natural difference' as the basis for oppression of the dominated group. In a radical… read more

[Critical Theory, 6] 1988. ix, 183 pp.

Normale und gestörte Kindersprache

Harald Clahsen

Clahsen geht es in seinem neuen Buch um eine prazise empirische Theorie des kindlichen Spracherwerbs. Er argumentiert fur einige zentrale Bestandteile einer solchen Theorie, die groîenteils im Kontext linguistischer Theoriebildung stehen. Fur diesen Zweck werden vergleichende… read more

[Not in series, 33] 1988. ix, 340 pp.

Old and Middle English Language Studies: A classified bibliography 1923–1985

Compiled by Matsuji Tajima

Since the publication of Kennedy's monumental Bibliography of Writings on the English Language, no bibliography has systematically surveyed the Old and Middle English scholarship accumulated over the past 60 years. Tajima's work aims to meet the need for an updated bibliography of Old and Middle… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 13] 1988. xxxii, 391 pp.

Passive and Voice

Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani

This volume brings together 18 original papers dealing with voice-related phenomena.The languages dealt with represent both typological and geographic diversity, ranging from accusative-type languages to ergative-type and Philippine-type languages, and from Australia to Africa and Siberia. The… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 16] 1988. xi, 706 pp.

Phonological Reconstruction

Edited by Marc Dominicy and Juliette Dror

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 3] 1988. 183 pp.

The Prague School and Its Legacy

Edited by Yishai Tobin

Many of the fundamental ideas of the classical Prague School have guided or inspired much of the interdisciplinary post World War II research in linguistics, literary theory, semiotics, folklore and the arts. The Prague School promoted a humanistic and functional Leitmotiv of language as an open,… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 27] 1988. xxx, 317 pp.

Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy

Richard L. Morris

Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy examines the past 100 years of runic scholarship to show that previous investigations on the origin of the runes have been hampered by a series of ad hoc postulates, the greatest being that the runes cannot have come into existence before the birth of Christ. If… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 4] 1988. xii, 177 pp.

The Semantics of Grammar

Anna Wierzbicka

“The semantics of grammar” presents a radically semantic approach to syntax and morphology. It offers a methodology which makes it possible to demonstrate, on an empirical basis, that syntax is neither “autonomous” nor “arbitrary”, but that it follows from “semantics”. It is shown that every… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 18] 1988. x, 617 pp.

Studies in Syntactic Typology

Edited by Michael Hammond, Edith A. Moravcsik and Jessica Wirth

The papers in this volume are revised versions of presentations at the conference on Language Universals and Language Typology in March 1985 at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. They include new proposals of universals, results of investigations to validate or refine previously proposed… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 17] 1988. xiv, 394 pp.

The Study of Language in 17th-Century England: Second Edition

Vivian Salmon

This volume brings together a number of papers by Vivian Salmon, previously published in various journals and collections that are unfamiliar, and perhaps even inaccessible, to historians of the study of language. The central theme of the volume is the study of language in England in the 17th… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 17] 1988. x, 218 pp.

Supportive Fellow-Speakers and Cooperative Conversations: Discourse topics and topical actions, participant roles and 'recipientaction' in a particular type of everyday conversation

Wolfram Bublitz

This is a study of a specific type of everyday conversation whose essential hallmark is its participants' attempt to gain agreement and consent when establishing and maintaining a continuous and coherent flow of talk. Basing his analyses on the Survey'-corpus and resorting to an interpretative,… read more

[Not in series, 32] 1988. xii, 308 pp.

The Theory of Neutralization and the Archiphoneme in Functional Phonology

Tsutomu Akamatsu

The theory of neutralization and the archiphoneme is well known to have been expounded by the Prague School. It is now being fully accepted and practised by A. Martinet and his associates, to whom Akamatsu refers as the neo-Prague School. The objective is to propose a maximally functionalist theory… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 43] 1988. xxi, 533 pp.

Topics in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn

This volume presents new developments in cognitive grammar and explores its descriptive and explanatory potential with respect to a wide range of language phenomena. These include the formation and use of locationals, causative constructions, adjectival and nominal expressions of oriented space,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 50] 1988. x, 704 pp.

Typology of Resultative Constructions: Translated from the original Russian edition (1983)

Edited by Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

This volume, originally published in Russian, combines data from a wide range of languages, meticulously analyzed, with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus capable of isolating the most important syntactic and semantic parameters and of drawing those generalizations that are most significant from… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 12] 1988. xx, 573 pp.

Approaches to Discourse, Poetics and Psychiatry: Papers from the 1985 Utrecht Summer School of Critical Theory

Edited by Iris M. Zavala, Teun A. van Dijk and Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz

A collection of innovative essays representing the most recent developments in poetry as discourse, the discourse of power, and discourse of psychiatry and psychosis. The essays in this volume deal with questions of interpretation of poetry, psychoanalysis, and political theory. All are presented… read more

[Critical Theory, 4] 1987. vi, 240 pp.

Australian Applied Language Studies

Edited by Tim F. McNamara

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 10:2 (1987) vi, 236 pp.

Coherence and Grounding in Discourse: Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984

Russell S. Tomlin

This volume seeks to expand our understanding of the relation holding between discourse relations, cognitive units, and linguistic coding. The twenty contributions in this collection explore one or more of the following themes: How point of view, or the salience of information in discourse, affects… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 11] 1987. viii, 512 pp.

A Comprehensive Bibliography of Pragmatics

Compiled by Jan Nuyts and Jef Verschueren

[Not in series, 30] 1987. xi, 2197 pp. (4 vols)

Det Gamle Shetlandske Sprog: George Low's ordliste fra 1774

Laurits Rendboe

Da den unge skotske teolog George Low blev sendt til Shetland i 1774 for at indsamle stof til en beskrivelse af disse øer, lykkedes det ham bl.a. at optegne en lille liste med hverdagsudtryk fra den gamle nordiske dialekt, der nedstammede direkte fra de oprindelige beboeres norrøne sprog, der var… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 3] 1987. xiv, 129 pp.

Discourse and Word Order

Olga T. Yokoyama

Integrating various aspects of human communication traditionally treated in a number of separate disciplines, Olga T. Yokoyama develops a universal model of the smallest unit of informational discourse, and uncovers the regularities that govern the intentional verbal transfer of knowledge from one… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 6] 1987. xii, 361 pp.

Emotive Signs in Language and Semantic Functioning of Derived Nouns in Russian

Bronislava Volkova

This monograph is intended as a contribution to the integral description of language and verbal communication. Chapter I and Chapters VII and VIII are concerned with general problems of emotivity and expressivity in language as such and on all linguistic levels. These chapters describe emotivity… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 24] 1987. xi, 270 pp.

Explanation and Linguistic Change

Edited by Willem F. Koopman, Frederike van der Leek, Olga Fischer and Roger Eaton

This volume presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Amsterdam in 1985, on the nature, even possibility, of explanation in Historical Linguistics: why changes take place and others do not, and why they occur at a particular time and place. The workshop, and this volume, aim to explore questions… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 45] 1987. viii, 300 pp.

Functionalism in Linguistics

Edited by René Dirven † and Vilém Fried

This volume offers a variety of viewpoints on the functional approach to the study of language. After an exposition of the Prague School functionalism, and Dik's and Halliday's functional approaches, it presents a wider area of text-linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, theoretical,… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 20] 1987. xviii, 489 pp.

Grammatical Relations in a Radical Creole: Verb Complementation in Saramaccan

Francis Byrne

With English and Portuguese as parent languages; the significant lexical retention of African languages; and the relative isolation of its speakers, Saramaccan has always stood out among Creole languages. Yet despite its obvious interest Saramaccan received little in the way of scholarly study.… read more

[Creole Language Library, 3] 1987. xiv, 293 pp.

The History of Linguistics in the Classical Period

Edited by Daniel J. Taylor

The study of Greek and Roman language science has figured prominently in the remarkable renascence of interest in the history of linguistics of the last twenty years. We know more now than we did several decades ago about what the Greeks and Romans were thinking, writing, and doing in matters… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 46] 1987. xii, 298 pp.

An Introduction to the Comparative Phonetics of English and French in North America

Marc Picard

This textbook is designed to fill two basic needs. One is for a clear and straightforward presentation of the rudiments of articulatory phonetics which is geared specifically to the requirements of the (future) language teacher, and not exclusively to the student of linguistics, and in which the… read more

[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 7] 1987. xi, 90 pp.

Italian in Australia: Applied linguistics

Edited by Camilla Bettoni

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 4] 1987. iv, 204 pp.

Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday. 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Ross Steele and Terry Threadgold

[Not in series, LT S] 1987. 1160 pp.

Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday. Volume 1

Edited by Ross Steele and Terry Threadgold

This volume in honour of Michael Halliday begins with a section on the background to the development of MAK’s ideas. The second section groups papers on language development in early childhood, which has always been one of Halliday’s main interests. The focus of the third section is on aspects of… read more

[Not in series, LT 1] 1987. xxxii, 490 pp.

Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday. Volume 2

Edited by Ross Steele and Terry Threadgold

This second volume in honour of Michael Halliday contains three sections: The Design of Language, Text and Discourse and Exploring Language as Social Semiotic, and concludes with a recent interview conducted by Paul Thibault in which Halliday provides further insights in his theory of language. The… read more

[Not in series, LT 2] 1987. xvi, 669 pp.

Leitmotifs in Natural Morphology

Wolfgang U. Dressler, Willi Mayerthaler, Oswald Panagl and Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel

Natural Morphology is the term the four authors of this monograph agreed on to cover the leitmotifs of their common and individual approaches in questions of theoretical morphology. The introduction summarizes the basic concepts and strategies of Natural Morphology, to be followed by Mayerthaler… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 10] 1987. ix, 168 pp.

Leonard Bloomfield: Essays on his life & work

Edited by Robert A. Hall, Jr.

These essays were brought together to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), one of the most outstanding and influential linguists of the twentieth century. The contributions have been grouped in three sections according to their relevance to his work,… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 47] 1987. x, 237 pp.

Linguistics and Pseudo-Linguistics

Robert A. Hall, Jr.

The doctrines of transformational-generative grammar (as promulgated in 1957, with frequent later emendations) have on occasion been criticised, sometimes severely. Such criticism have, however, appeared mostly in article-form, and mostly in relatively inaccessible places. Discussions in bookform… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 55] 1987. vii, 147 pp.

Mathematics of Language: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1984

Edited by Alexis Manaster-Ramer

By mathematics of language is meant the mathematical properties that may, under certain assumptions about modeling, be attributed to human languages and related symbolic systems, as well as the increasingly active and autonomous scholarly discipline that studies such things. More specifically, the… read more

[Not in series, 35] 1987. ix, 401 pp.

Narrators and Focalizers: The Presentation of the Story in the Iliad

Irene J.F. de Jong

[Not in series - Grüner, 138] 1987. xvi, 317 pp.

Orthography and Phonology

Edited by Philip A. Luelsdorff

Collected here are eleven papers devoted to various aspects of the orthography/phonology interface. Topics include spelling-to-sound correspondence for English, French, and Russian, the design of a generative phonology for orthography data-base access, the linguistic sign and orthographic and… read more

[Not in series, 29] 1987. xi, 238 pp.

Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics

Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat, Onofrio Carruba and Giuliano Bernini

These papers, deriving from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) in Pavia in 1984, provide an overview of the current status of research in this field. They clearly show that new issues are emerging in the theory of linguistic change which tend to incorporate… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 48] 1987. xvi, 672 pp.

Papers in the History of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS III), Princeton, 19–23 August 1984

Edited by Hans Aarsleff, L.G. Kelly and Hans-Josef Niederehe

This volume presents a selection of – slightly revised versions – of papers from the third International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS III), Princeton, 1984. The papers are organized under the following headings: I Generalia; II Classical Period; III Medieval Period; IV… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 38] 1987. xxvi, 680 pp.

Perspectives on Child Language

Edited by Annick De Houwer and Steven Gillis

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2] 1987. 161 pp.

Perspectives on Topicalization: The case of Japanese wa

Edited by John Hinds, Shoichi Iwasaki and Senko K. Maynard

Within the field of Japanese linguistics, few areas have generated as much controversy as the morpheme wa; traditionally described as a marker of old or contrasted information, its function as a discourse marker has also been studied. This work aims to deepen the understanding of wa through careful… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 14] 1987. xi, 307 pp.

The Pragmatic Perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference

Edited by Jef Verschueren and Marcella Bertuccelli Papi

This volume contains a selection of reviewed and revised papers, originally presented at the International Pragmatics Conference held in Viareggio, Italy, 1–5 September 1985. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 5] 1987. xiii, 836 pp.

Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics: Volume 9

Edited by Eva Hajičová, Marie Těšitelová and Ján Horecký

The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Těšitelová; Ludmila Uhlířová; I. Nebeská; M. Ludvíková; H. Confortiová; Marie Těšitelová , J. Petr & Jan Králík; J. Štěpán; J. Krámský; J. Dušková; J. Sabol. Part 2 Algebraic… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 22] 1987. 200 pp.

Proceedings of the Fourth International Hamito-Semitic Congress

Edited by Herrmann Jungraithmayr and Walter W. Mueller

The papers in this volume derive from the 4th International Hamito-Semitic Congress, held in Marburg in 1983. The papers deal with the (morpho)phonology or syntax of individual languages or language (sub)families, and many have a diachronic angle. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 44] 1987. xiv, 609 pp.

Reader in Czech Sociolinguistics

Edited by Jan Chloupek and Jiří Nekvapil

Although in Czechoslovakia sociolinguistics is not institutionalized, some results and approaches of Czech linguistics appear to be sociolinguistic, and that from the viewpoint of other linguistic and scientific traditions in general. The socio-component' of Czech linguistics took shape as early as… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 23] 1987. 344 pp.

A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama

Vivian Salmon and Edwina Burness

In recent years the language of Shakespearean drama has been described in a number of publications intended mainly for the undergraduate student or general reader, but the studies in academic journals to which they refer are not always easily accessible even though they are of great interest to the… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 35] 1987. xx, 523 pp.

Refurbishing our Foundations: Elementary linguistics from an advanced point of view

Charles F. Hockett

This essay challenges several patterns of thinking common in twentieth-century linguistics. The most pervasive of these is our habit of looking at language from the point of view of the speaker. When we take, instead, that of the hearer, matters fall into place in a new way. In syntax, we are led… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 56] 1987. x, 181 pp.

The Semantics of Form in Arabic: In the mirror of European languages

David Justice

Justice's first aim in this volume is to demystify the Arabic language, which is widely perceived as difficult to learn, and has been characterised as ambiguous and confusingly polysemous. The central concern of this three-dimensional portrait of Classical Arabic is a version of the Sapir-Whorf… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 15] 1987. iv, 417 pp.

Sentential Complementation in Spanish: A lexico-grammatical study of three classes of verbs

Carlos Subirats

The aim of the present work is to study the main distributional and transformational properties of verbs with a non-prepositional sentential complement in the two-argument sentence in Spanish. read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 14] 1987. xii, 290 pp.

A Spectrum of Lexicography

Edited by Robert F. Ilson

This collection presents a balanced yet vivid picture of many of the domains of activity of lexicography. Ten contributors from eight countries discuss monolingual dictionaries (for learners and native speakers), bilingual dictionaries, an original approach to computer-aided lexicography, and the… read more

[Not in series, 28] 1987. ix, 158 pp.

Structures and their Functions in Usan

Ger P. Reesink

Usan is a Papuan language. In this monograph on the grammatical structures of Usan and their function the author shows the unique features of this language: how speakers can exploit certain principles for communicative purposes, how the language reflects their physical environment. Uniqueness can… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 13] 1987. xviii, 369 pp.

The Syntax of Serial Verbs: An investigation into serialisation in Sranan and other languages

Mark Sebba

This monograph is about the chains of verbs commonly found in Creole Languages, West African languages, in particular the Kwa sub-group of Niger-Congo, Chinese and certain other languages and have acquired the name of 'serial verbs' in the literature. As a case study, the serial constructions of… read more

[Creole Language Library, 2] 1987. xv, 226 pp.

Tibeto-Burman Tonology: A Comparative Analysis

Alfons Weidert

This monograph lays the foundation for a prosodological theory of Tibeto-Burman languages within a comparative and reconstructional framework. It is primarily based on data collections of mostly unknown languages on which the author worked for more than 10 years on several projects. This… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 54] 1987. xvii, 512 pp.

The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A guide to word combinations

Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson

This unique dictionary gives essential collocations of English in an easily accessible form. It shows which word combinations exist in English and which grammatical constructions are possible. Whenever possible, the collocations are listed under the noun, so that in order to find out, for instance,… read more

[Not in series, BBI 1 (1st)] 1986. xxxvi, 286 pp.

Complementation: Its Meaning and Forms

Evelyn N. Ransom

This book presents a stage in the evolution of a theory of modality meanings and forms. It covers exclusively complements. There are two questions that this book addresses. Can one find a small, finite set of meanings which systematically underlies the enormous variety of meanings found in… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 10] 1986. xii, 226 pp.

Constraints on Error Variables in Grammar: Bilingual misspelling orthographies

Philip A. Luelsdorff

An in-depth investigation of constraints on error variables in grammar with special reference to bilingual misspelling orthographies. A corpus of errors is examined in minute detail. In the course of this analysis, received categories and standard assumptions about linguistic errors are critically… read more

[Not in series, 25] 1986. xix, 504 pp.

Contemporary Sociolinguistics: Theory, Problems, Methods

Aleksandr D. Švejcer

The "common core" of different sociolinguistic schools includes a number of general problems such as the social differentiation of language, the sociolinguistic aspects of bilingualism and diglossia, the typology of linguistic situations, language engineering, national and standard languages and… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 15] 1986. vii, 193 pp.

Diversity and Diachrony

David Sankoff

This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the 12th Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), held in Montréal in 1983. It is divided into three sections: 1. Varieties of English and their history; 2. Change and variation in Romance; 3. Functions and discourse. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 53] 1986. xii, 430 pp.

Explorations in Japanese Sociolinguistics

Leo Loveday

Explorations in Japanese Sociolinguistics provides a treasure of information on the Japanese language and the social and cultural system it has developed and is embedded in. To the non-specialist, it opens an unknown world. To the specialist it offers theoretical and methodological perspectives… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:1] 1986. xi, 153 pp.

Focus in Generative Grammar

Michael Rochemont

The topic of this book is the notion of ‘focus’ and its linguistic characterization. The main thesis is that focus has a uniform grammatical identification only as a syntactic element with – in English at least – a certain systematic phonological interpretation and – presumably universally – a… read more

[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 4] 1986. ix, 221 pp.

Focus on the Caribbean

Edited by Manfred Görlach † and John Holm †

This collection represents an important contribution not only to creole linguistics but also to Caribbean studies and English dialectology. It contains eleven essays on the special development and present-day functions of English and Creole in the Caribbean, ranging from Central America to Guyana.… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G8] 1986. viii, 209 pp.

From Logic to Rhetoric: Translated from the French original edition, Paris, 1982

Michel Meyer

What is language, and how has it been conceived since Frege? How did the development of thought about language lead to a renewed interest in rhetoric in the twentieth century and ultimately to the ‘problematological synthesis’? These are the main questions treated in this book. A constant… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:3] 1986. ix, 147 pp.

Functional Explanations in Linguistics

Edited by Alain Bossuyt

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 1] 1986. 285 pp.

Germanic Dialects: Linguistic and Philological Investigations

Edited by Bela Brogyanyi and Thomas Krömmelbein

This volume seeks to present ‘Germanic philology’ with its main linguistic, literary and cultural subdivisions as a whole, and to call into question the customary pedagogical division of the discipline. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 38] 1986. ix, 693 pp.

The History of Lexicography

Edited by R.R.K. Hartmann

Most dictionaries have forerunners, and all have imitators; an understanding of the historical foundations of dictionary-making is therefore one of the preconditions of further progress in academic lexicography. The papers in this volume, which were presented at the 1986 Exeter Seminar, survey most… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 40] 1986. viii, 265 pp.

The History of Linguistics in Italy

Edited by Paolo Ramat, Hans-Josef Niederehe and E.F.K. Koerner †

This volume brings together the papers published in Historiographia Linguistica 9:3 (1982), which was devoted to the history of linguistics in Italy, with Marazzini’s paper first published in Historiographia Linguistica 10:1/2 (1983), and an original article by Franco Lo Piparo expressly written… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 33] 1986. x, 364 pp.

The History of Linguistics in Spain

Edited by Antonio Quilis Morales and Hans-Josef Niederehe

This selection of papers is concerned with the history of linguistics in Spain, dealing with the evolution of linguistic ideas from the Middle Ages and the European context of the linguistic debates in Spain to the 20th century, concluding with Malkiel's appraisal of Ramón Menéndez Pidal… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 34] 1986. viii, 360 pp.

Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Aleksandr D. Švejcer and L.B. Nikol'skij

Translation from the original Russian edition. The first Soviet text-book on sociolinguistics, the book introduces the reader to some of its basic problems, such as language and social structure, language as a social factor, language and nation, language and culture, language and the sociology of… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 14] 1986. xii, 181 pp.

It is Hereby Performed...: Explorations in legal speech acts

Dennis Kurzon

This book deals with speech acts, especially performatives, that are regarded as ‘operative’ in legal discourse. After a detailed exposition of speech act theory in relation to legislative texts, the author discusses the legal document as a communicative act; potential speech acts and delegated… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:6] 1986. vii, 81 pp.

Language Inequality and Distortion in Intercultural Communication: A Critical Theory Approach

Yukio Tsuda

This study sheds light on the problem of communicative inequality, neglected both by linguists and communication scholars, among speakers of different languages. It provides a four-step Critical Theory analysis of language-based inequality and distortion between speakers of a few dominant… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:7] 1986. xi, 97 pp.

Language Typology 1985: Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Moscow, 9–13 Dec. 1985

Edited by Winfred P. Lehmann

This volume presents revised versions of papers originally presented at the Colloquium in Linguistic Typology, held in Moscow in 1985. The organizers and participants of the colloquium considered it of great importance to come to terms on primary principles, in order to be able to build on previous… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 47] 1986. viii, 209 pp.

Language and Discourse: Test and Protest. A Festschrift for Petr Sgall

Edited by Jacob L. Mey

The present volume was brought together on the occasion of Petr Sgall’s 60th birthday. It bears testimony to the multifarious and variegated character of his background and activities. It is to be hoped that this kind of variety will contribute – as Petr Sgall strives to do – to a broader and… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 19] 1986. xiii, 611 pp.

The Language of Love and Guilt

Ruth Wodak and Muriel Schulz

Although mother and daughter are two central female roles, they have rarely been investigated. The relationship is specific, certainly different than the mother–son or father–daughter relationships. And this difference manifests itself in sex-specific language behavior. Despite ‘eternal’ features… read more

[Not in series, 27] 1986. x, 253 pp.

Lexicographic Description of English

Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson

Designed to help lexicographers compile better dictionaries of English, this book provides information about the language that is not available in any other single source. It is the first serious attempt to describe in detail the lexical and grammatical differences between American and British… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 14] 1986. xiii, 288 pp.

Literacy

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 9:2 (1986) v, 157 pp.

Metaphors of Anger, Pride and Love: A lexical approach to the structure of concepts

Zoltán Kövecses

This study is an attempt to uncover the structure of three emotion concepts: anger, pride and love. The results indicate that the conceptual structure associated with these emotions consists of four parts: (1) a system of metaphors, (2) a system of metonymies, (3) a system of related concepts, and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:8] 1986. vii, 147 pp.

New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality: Proceedings of the Edward Sapir Centenary Conference (Ottawa, 1–3 October 1984)

Edited by William Cowan, Michael Foster and E.F.K. Koerner †

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884-1939) a conference was held in the Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada, where Sapir had his office for most of his time as Chief of the Anthropological Division of the Geographical Survey of Canada (1910-1925). This… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 41] 1986. xiv, 627 pp.

News Interviews: A pragmalinguistic analysis

Andreas H. Jucker

Jucker endeavors to test pragmatic concepts (such as Grice’s principles of conversational inference) by applying them to concrete data. This application leads to suggestions for various modifications in the available pragmatic methodology. While pursuing this theoretical goal, he makes a… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:4] 1986. ix, 195 pp.

Noam Chomsky: A personal bibliography, 1951–1986

Compiled by E.F.K. Koerner † and Matsuji Tajima

The impetus for producing a bibliography of Noam Chomky’s output (so far) derives from a strong interest in and commitment to a historical accounting of the contribution to the field of linguistic theory and possibly other subjects, such as philosophy and political science, by a man who has… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 11] 1986. xi, 217 pp.

Noun Classes and Categorization: Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983

Edited by Colette G. Craig

This volume is about the nature of categories in cognition and the relevance of these in language description, especially classifier systems. The classical view of categories was that they were discrete and based upon clusters of properties which were inherent to the entities. In recent years this… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 7] 1986. vii, 481 pp.

Papers on Grammar: Volume II

Edited by Gualtiero Calboli

[Not in series, POG 2] 1986. vi, 197 pp.

Sentence Adverbials in a Functional Description

Eva Koktová

The author presents empirical arguments in favor of a joint syntactico-semantic treatment, within the framework of a functional generative description, of a range of adverbial expressions which should be viewed as belonging to a single, lexically heterogeneous but functionally homogeneous, class… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:2] 1986. viii, 96 pp.

The Southwest of England

Martyn F. Wakelin

The volume consists of a substantial introduction, providing a geographical and historical outline of the area, an account of the origin of the area, an account of the origin of present-day southwestern speech varieties and a synopsis of their main features. This is followed by texts of three main… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, T5] 1986. xii, 231 pp.

Sprachphilosophie in Antike und Mittelalter: Bochumer Kolloquium, 2.–4. Juni 1982

Herausgegeben von Burkhard Mojsisch

[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 3] 1986. vii, 488 pp.

Strategies and Structures: The processing of relative clauses

Gary D. Prideaux and Will Baker

In this monograph, the nature of processing strategies is explored in some detail, with an attempt to cut through the maze of often contradictory and confused proposals concerning the nature and form of various strategies. Once a preliminary conception of the nature of cognitive strategies and a… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 46] 1986. ix, 197 pp.

Studies in Turkish Linguistics

Edited by Dan I. Slobin and Karl Zimmer

Turkish is a member of the Turkic family of languages, which extends over a vast area in southern and eastern Siberia and adjacent portions of Iran, Afganistan, and China. Turkic, in turn, belongs to the Altaic family of languages. This book deals with the morphological and syntactic, semantic and… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 8] 1986. vi, 300 pp.

Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985

Edited by Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith

Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the structures of the Creole languages of the Atlantic and the Pacific differ are the universalist and he substrate hypotheses. The universalist hypothesis claims, essentially, that the particular grammatical properties of Creole languages directly… read more

[Creole Language Library, 1] 1986. vii, 311 pp.

Surface Syntax of English: A formal model within the meaning-text framework

Igor Mel’čuk and Nikolaj V. Pertsov

This book is the first attempt to describe the syntax of Contemporary English exclusively in terms of dependencies (most American works on the subject being in terms of phrase structure, or constituency). The three main features of it are: (1) a fully formal presentation, (2) a reasonably complete… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 13] 1986. xv, 526 pp.

Television Advertising and Televangelism: Discourse Analysis of Persuasive Language

Rosemarie Schmidt and Joseph F. Kess

The research reported in this volume attempts to refine our understanding of persuasive messages of television advertising by studying the role of language in persuasion in two ways. First, it comprises an attempt to refine our understanding of how language might function in persuasion by examining… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:5] 1986. vi, 88 pp.

Topic, Focus and Configurationality: Papers from the 6th Groningen Grammar Talks, Groningen, 1984

Edited by Werner Abraham and Sjaak de Meij

Some fundamental questions regarding sentence structure in linguistics concern whether all languages, at some level of abstraction, have the same structure, and what are the basic categories with which to describe sentence structure. The contributors of this volume are specialized in two quite… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 4] 1986. v, 349 pp.

Volume 3

Edited by Tim F. McNamara

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 3] 1986. v, 135 pp.

William Bathe, S.J., 1564–1614: A pioneer in linguistics. English translation from the Irish edition, Dublin, 1981

Seán P. Ó Mathúna

William Bathe, S.J. (1564-1614) was a pioneer in linguistics. The present book deals with Bathe's family background, his life and service as a courtier, diplomat and, finally, Jesuit educator, and, in particular, his contribution to the study of language and his most important publication, Ianua… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 37] 1986. iv, 211 pp. + 16 ill.

'Dialect' and 'Accent' in Industrial West Yorkshire

K.M. Petyt

This volume is concerned with one of the few thorough-going Labovian studies carried out in Britain. Based on a survey of over hundred randomly selected informants from the towns of Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield, it deals first with the methodology employed, and then sketches some aspects of… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G6] 1985. viii, 401 pp.

African Linguistics: Essays in Memory of M.W.K. Semikenke

Edited by Didier L. Goyvaerts

This volume presents papers on issues in African linguistics, covering a variety of African languages and ranging from phonology to lexicology. read more

[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 6] 1985. v, 508 pp.

Alfred den Store, Danmarks geografi: En undersøgelse af fire afsnit i Den gamle engelske Orosius

Ove Jørgensen

I denne bog foretager forfatteren en undersøgelse af de fire afsnit i kong Alfreds The Old English Orosius, hvori gammelt dansk område beskrives.Efter en forskningsoversigt imødegås de forestillinger, som flere tidligere forskere har dannet sig om, at kong Alfred – navnlig i Skandinavien – har… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 1] 1985. x, 166 pp.

Aspects of Dynamic Phonology

Toby D. Griffen

Dynamic phonology is the natural consequence of the combination of the latest developments in physiological and acoustic phonetics and the traditional structural/functional theories of linguistics. In phonetics, the segmental approach has long since given way to dynamic phonetics, leaving linguists… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 37] 1985. ix, 302 pp.

Chicano English: An ethnic contact dialect

Joyce Penfield and Jacob L. Ornstein-Galicia

Chicano English can rightly be said to be, in its different varieties, the most widespread ethnic dialect of U.S. English, spoken by large sections of the population in the American Southwest. It represents a type of speech referred to by E. Haugen as a ‘bilingual’ dialect, having developed out of… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G7] 1985. vii, 112 pp.

A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon

Compiled by Roy Albert and David L. Shaul

A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon is a lexical research tool for persons interested in the Hopi language. An effort has been made to include the most frequent forms of basic roots. The work is designed to serve as wide-ranging an audience as possible: Hopi speakers as well as those not fluent in… read more

[Not in series, 19] 1985. vii, 204 pp.

Contributions to Functional Syntax, Semantics and Language Comprehension

Edited by Petr Sgall

This volume presents a rather complete survey of the research activities of the Prague group of algebraic linguistics. Some of the papers included bear witness to the fact that algebraic linguistics, or the formal description of language, is not the only domain in which the Prague group is active.… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 16] 1985. 379 pp.

Current Issues in First and Second Language Development: Proceedings of the ALAA Working Group on Language Development, Alice Springs, August 1984

Edited by Howard Nicholas

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 8:2 (1985) iii, 151 pp.

Dialogue: An interdisciplinary approach

Edited by Marcelo Dascal †

Dialogue: An interdisciplinary approach is a pioneering collection of papers that take Dialogue Studies out of its ‘classic’ narrow definition into the study of the complexities and processes in dialogue. It is a first move toward interdisciplinary research in Dialogue Studies. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 1] 1985. xiv, 473 pp.

Dépendance et niveaux de représentation en syntaxe

Jean-Roger Vergnaud

Dans cette étude, nous développons une approche formelle de quelques problèmes de linguistique. Les questions que nous considérons se rattachent plus spécialement à la théorie des dépendances et à celle des niveaux de représentation, ainsi qu'à la relation entre ces théories: une théorie formelle… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 13] 1985. xvi, 372 pp.

Focus on Scotland

Edited by Manfred Görlach †

This collection comprises 15 essays ranging from the social history of and attitudes towards Scots to the representation of Scottishness in literary language and to modern sociolinguistic work. The uniqueness of the historical and present-day linguistic situation in Scotland makes the volume of… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G5] 1985. iv, 241 pp.

Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983

Edited by John Haiman †

The papers in this volume all explore one kind of functional explanation for various aspects of linguistic form – iconicity: linguistic forms are frequently the way they are because they resemble the conceptual structures they are used to convey, or, linguistic structures resemble each other… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 6] 1985. vi, 402 pp.

International News Reporting: Metapragmatic metaphors and the U-2

Jef Verschueren

With reference to a brief description of inherent properties of the international news reporting process in a free press tradition, Verschueren criticizes their being neglected in linguistic approaches to the language of the media. In an attempt to illustrate the potential contribution of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:5] 1985. viii, 109 pp.

Jordanian Arabic between Diglossia and Bilingualism: Linguistic analysis

Salah M. Suleiman

Suleiman provides a linguistic analysis of Jordanian Arabic spoken by educated groups and in particular by students at Yarmouk University. He investigates the extent to which spoken Jordanian Arabic is affected by the classical-colloquial dichotomy (i.e. the extent to which diglossia is involved).… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:8] 1985. xvi, 131 pp.

Language and Action: A reassessment of Speech Act Theory

Danilo Marcondes de Souza Filho

This work consists of an examination and revision of some of the main theses of Speech Act Theory in relation to the problem of ideology and action-guiding language. Starting from the idea that linguistic philosophy must take into account how the social structure of the linguistic community may… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:6] 1985. x, 165 pp.

The Laws of Indo-European

N.E. Collinge

This book collects all the named laws of Indo-European, presents each in its original form and rationale and then provides an evaluation of all major attacks, revisions and exploitations, along with a full bibliography and index. Complete – thorough – exhaustive. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 35] 1985. xvii, 308 pp.

Linguistics and Philosophy: Festschrift for Rulon S. Wells

Edited by Adam Makkai and Alan K. Melby

This volume contains papers by a large number of influencial linguists, written as a tribute to the work of Rulon S. Wells. The volume is subdivided into sections on the Philosophy of Language, Phonology, Syntax, Historical and Typological Linguistics, and Diachronic and Synchronic Derivation. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 42] 1985. xviii, 472 pp.

Metaphor: A Bibliography of post-1970 publications

Compiled by Jean-Pierre van Noppen

The aim of the present bibliography is to provide the student of metaphor with an up-to-date and comprehensive (albeit not exhaustive) overview of recent publications dealing with various aspects of metaphor in a variety of disciplines. Where the emphasis is primarily on specific works “about”… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 17] 1985. x, 497 pp.

Morphology: A Study of the Relation between Meaning and Form

Joan L. Bybee

This is a textbook right in the thick of current interest in morphology. It proposes principles to predict properties previously considered arbitrary and brings together the psychological and the diachronic to explain the recurrent properties of morphological systems in terms of the processes that… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 9] 1985. xii, 235 pp.

Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985

Edited by Roger Eaton, Olga Fischer, Willem F. Koopman and Frederike van der Leek

These papers are a selection from papers presented at the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Amsterdam, 1985). Most studies deal with some aspect of an earlier stage of English, though present day varieties of English are also under investigation. Many of the papers… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 41] 1985. xvii, 341 pp.

Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 22–26 August 1983

Edited by Jacek Fisiak

This volume presents a selection of papers from the 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in 1983, in Poznań, Poland. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 34] 1985. xxiii, 622 pp.

Pragmatics and Fiction

Jon-K. Adams

Pragmatics and Fiction explores the basic pragmatic differences between fictional and nonfictional discourse. These differences derive mainly from the creation of a fictional figure who narrates the text and who, in turn, addresses his narrative to a fictional audience. Since these figures become… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:2] 1985. vi, 79 pp.

The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French

Betsy K. Barnes

Left detachment constructions (LDs) (e.g. un buffet de campagne, c’est un meuble) are examined in a corpus of informal spontaneous conversation between educated native speakers of French. The overwhelming majority of these constructions are shown to have a clearly pragmatic motivation. The author’s… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:3] 1985. viii, 123 pp.

Questions on Social Explanation: Piagetian themes reconsidered

Edited by Luigia Camaioni and Claudia de Lemos

The various contributions to this volume converge on two themes. First, the explanatory role of social interaction, which, for a long time, has been a source of criticism of Piaget’s view of intelligence, is dealt with not only in relation to cognitive development, but also to language acquisition… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:4] 1985. viii, 141 pp.

Scientific and Humanistic Dimensions of Language: Festschrift for Robert Lado. On the Occasion of his 70th Birthday

Edited by Kurt R. Jankowsky

The volume has been written by a great variety of scholars and educators. Not only are the authors literally from all four corners of the world; they also represent, in spite of the large body of shared professional viewpoints and objectives, many different, even diverging, approaches,… read more

[Not in series, 22] 1985. lii, 614 pp.

Selected papers from the XIIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance: Languages, Chapel Hill, N.C., 24–26 March 1983

Edited by Larry D. King and Catherine A. Maley

The papers in this volume are a selection from the paper presented at the 13th Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (1983). The languages discussed include Romance in general, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Gascon. The diversity of the topics encompassed by these papers conforms to… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 36] 1985. x, 440 pp.

Social Setting, Stigma, and Communicative Competence: Explorations of the conversational interactions of retarded adults

Sharon Sabsay and Martha Platt

Mentally retarded individuals have been studied almost exclusively as clinical entities, not as persons immersed in the stream of social life. This has led not only to a lack of appreciation for the complexity of their lives and concerns, but also to an underestimation and incomplete understanding… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:6] 1985. vi, 137 pp.

Source Book for Linguistics

William Cowan and Jaromira Rakušan

Developed at Carleton University, Ottawa, this is a comprehensive workbook now in its second, revised edition designed primarily for use with introductory courses in linguistics. With 334 graded excercises and problems from more than 60 languages and dialects. read more

[Not in series, 20] 1985. xxvi, 338 pp.

Speech Act Taxonomy as a Tool for Ethnographic Description: An analysis based on videotapes of continuous behavior in two New York households

Nira Reiss

This study is intended to design measures for ethnographic description including speech acts in an etic instrumental approach, oriented toward an analysis of the functions of communicative events in relation to the ongoing stream of behavior. A revised taxonomy of speech acts is applied to an… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:7] 1985. x, 153 pp.

Syntaxe des verbes de mouvement en coréen contemporain

Chai-Song Hong

Ce travail est une description syntaxique des constructions des verbes de mouvement (Vmt) en coréen contemporain. L’objectif immédiat est the caractériser syntaxiquement les phrases acceptant un Vmt et de décrire leurs propriétés formelles. Dans cette optique, on doit: construire sur la base de… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 12] 1985. xv, 309 pp.

Theoretical Aspects of Passivization in the Framework of Applicative Grammar

Jean-Pierre Desclés, Zlatka Guentchéva and Sebastian Shaumyan

Passivization is explained by using the formalism of combinatory logic. The agented passive is derived from the agentless as follows: a term denoting an agent is transposed into a predicate modifier and applied to the passive predicate of the agentless construction. The passive predicate consists… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:1] 1985. viii, 115 pp.

Toward an Understanding of Language: Charles Carpenter Fries in Perspective

Edited by Peter H. Fries and Nancy M. Fries

Charles C. Fries (1887-1967) was a major figure in American linguistics and language education during the first half of the 20th century. Theoretical innovation and practical implementation were important threads that ran throughout his work. Fries believed that the attempt to deal with practical… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 40] 1985. xvi, 384 pp.

The Ubiquity of Metaphor: Metaphor in language and thought

Edited by Wolf Paprotté and René Dirven †

This volume brings together a number of articles representative of the present outlook on the importance of metaphors, and of the work done on metaphors in several domains of (psycho)linguistics. The first part of the volume deals with metaphor and the system of language. The second part offers… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 29] 1985. iii, 628 pp.

Volume 2

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 2] 1985. iii, 179 pp.

Whose Language?: A study in Linguistic Pragmatics

Jacob L. Mey

"For the colonized person, objectivity is always directed against him" (Frantz Fanon). Colonized persons do not live on what we call (or used to call) the "colonies" alone. In general, objective reality, or the "facts of life", are very different depending on the kind of life you can afford. This… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 3] 1985. ix, 412 pp.

Women, Feminist Identity and Society in the 1980s: Selected papers

Edited by Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz and Iris M. Zavala

The general objective of this volume is to present and discuss different modes of existence in women’s texts and feminist identity in political and poetic discourse on the one hand, and to analyze the factors which determine differing relationships between women and society, and which result in… read more

[Critical Theory, 1] 1985. x, 138 pp.

A Bibliography of Writings on Varieties of English, 1965–1983

Compiled by Wolfgang Viereck, Edgar W. Schneider and Manfred Görlach †

After the growth of English and American dialectology since the 1930’s and the expansion of sociolinguistics since the 1960’s, the study of ‘world English’ has emerged in recent years to join these other disciplines. This bibliography is intended to reflect what has been achieved in this area and… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G3] 1984. iv, 319 pp.

Bilingual Conversation

Peter Auer

Code-switching and related phenomena have met with linguists’ increasing interest over the last decade. However, much of the research has been restricted to the structural (grammatical) properties of the use of two languages in conversation; scholars who have tried to capture the interactive… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:8] 1984. vii, 116 pp.

Current Progress in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics: Papers of the Third International Hamito-Semitic Congress, London, 1978

Edited by James Bynon

The papers in this volume derive from the Third Hamito-Semitic Congress, which took place in London in 1978. The papers, loosely grouped according to language families and theoretical issues, are in a number of cases considerably expanded and updated version of those presented at the conference.… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 28] 1984. xi, 505 pp.

Das Germanische und die Rekonstruktion der Indogermanischen Grundsprache: Akten des Freiburger Kolloquiums der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Freiburg, 26–27 Februar 1981.. Proceedings of the Colloquium of the Indogermanische Gesellschhaft, Freiburg, 26–27 February 1981

Herausgegeben von Jürgen Untermann und Bela Brogyanyi

Es war kein Zufall, daß das achte Fachkolloquium der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft (1981) in Freiburg im Breisgau stattfand, – es war, wie dieser Band, dem Kollegen, Freund und Lehrer Oswald Szemerényi gewidmet, der das letzte Jahr seiner Amtszeit als Hochschullehrer angetreten hatte. Eher… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 22] 1984. xvii, 237 pp.

De la Syntaxe à la Pragmatique: Actes du Colloque de Rennes, Université de Haute-Bretagne

Sous la direction de Pierre Attal et Claude Muller

Les textes ici rassemblées donnent un tableau fidèle de l’état actuel et l’orientation des recherches linguistiques. Non que toutes les écoles, chapelles, églises et sectes y soient représentées: un seul volume n’y suffirait pas. Mais les principaux courants y sont, et pas seulement dans les… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 8] 1984. iv, 389 pp.

Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain: Recherches lexico-sémantiques. Volume 1

Compiled by Igor Mel’čuk

Sole distribution world-wide excl. CanadaThe Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain (DECFC) is the first dictionary that provides the user with systematic and complete descriptions of each entry word. The DECFC endeavours to realize the age-old dream of all lexicographers… read more

[Not in series, DECFC 1] 1984. 172 pp.

Edward Sapir – Appraisals of his life and work

Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884–1939), this volume brings together a number of papers by distinguished North American scholars appraising the life and work of the world-renowned anthropologist and linguist. It includes an introduction by the editor, a full… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 36] 1984. xxviii, 224 pp.

Focus on: England and Wales

Edited by Wolfgang Viereck

This volume is a wide-ranging study in dialectology. General surveys appear along with in-depth studies of particular problems. Some papers describe the present situation in terms of dynamic synchrony, others deal with the past and making use of present-day dialectal data to help solve certain… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G4] 1984. iv, 304 pp. (includes 40 maps).

Foundations for a Science of Language

Gustave Guillaume (1883–1960)

This volume presents, for the first time in English, a representative view of Gustave Guillaume's thought. The texts, drawn mainly from his manuscript notes for lectures at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, were selected as far as possible for their accessibility, as requiring no prior… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 31] 1984. xxiv, 175 pp.

A Guide to Germanic Reference Grammars

John C. McKay

This guide provides brief descriptions and evaluations of the best reference grammars and comprehensive works on the syntax of contemporary Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, and Yiddish. read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 15] 1984. xviii, 239 pp.

Interrogativity: A colloquium on the grammar, typology and pragmatics of questions in seven diverse languages, Cleveland, Ohio, October 5th 1981-May 3rd 1982

Edited by William Chisholm, Louis T. Milic and John A.C. Greppin

This is a comparative study on the subject of interrogativity, presenting broad and narrow attributes on this subject in diverse languages: Russian, Mandarin, Georgian, Bengali, Bantu, Japanese, West Greenlandic and Ute. Each contribution presents, first the basic facts about the language in… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 4] 1984. v, 302 pp.

Language Handicap

Guest-edited by Ann Zubrick

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 7:2 (1984) iv, 75 pp.

Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition

Edited by William E. Rutherford

This volume consists of papers presented at the Conference on Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition, University of Southern California, February 1982. Published with the papers are the remarks of the originally assigned discussants. The collection represents an important… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 5] 1984. ix, 264 pp.

Latijnse Syntaxis en Semantiek

Harm Pinkster

[Not in series - Grüner, 87] 1984. xii, 368 pp.

Learning and Hatred for Meaning

Hugo Kuyper Letiche

This study poses the problems of theoretical and philosophical pedagogy in the practice of teaching. The research goal was to improve my teaching. A concrete experience of undergraduate lecturing is the subject. This unconventional New Paradigm research strives for an immediacy of contact between… read more

[Not in series, 18] 1984. 263 pp.

Lexique-Grammaire des langues romanes: Actes du 1er colloque européen sur la grammaire et le lexique comparés des langues romanes, Palerme, 1981

Sous la direction de Alain Guillet et Nunzio La Fauci

Une méthodologie commune est la caractéristique principale des travaux qui sont réunis dans ces actes du Premier Colloque Européen sur la Grammaire et le Lexique comparés des langues Romanes (Palerme 1981). La comparaison n’est pas une nouveauté en linguistique Romane; l’originalité des travaux… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 9] 1984. xiii, 319 + 58 pp. Tables.

Mercury: or the Secret and Swift Messenger: Shewing how a Man may with Privacy and Speed communicate his Thoughts to a Friend at any distance. Reprinted from the third edition (1708)

John Wilkins

Works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins' (1708). Together with an abstract of Dr. Wilkin's 'Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Languages,' a sketch of the life of the author and an account of his writings. With an introductory essay on the Universal Language Movement in England,… read more

[Foundations of Semiotics, 6] 1984. cix, 124 pp.

New Directions in Linguistics and Semiotics

Edited by James E. Copeland

This volume derives from a symposium held in March 1982, to celebrate the inauguration of the Department of Linguistics at Rice University. The focus of the symposium was the state of linguistics and semiotics in its recent past, the current status, and directions to be explored in the immediate… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 32] 1984. xi, 269 pp.

Papers from the XIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University Park, April 1–3, 1982

Edited by Philip Baldi

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the XII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held in April 1982 at Penn State University. These papers reflect the general state of the art in Romance Linguistics. Some of the studies are theoretical papers that seek to establish… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 26] 1984. xii, 611 pp.

Pidginization and Creolization: The Case of Arabic

Kees Versteegh

This book is concerned with the notions of “pidginization” and “creolization” and the role of these processes of language learning in the history of the Arabic language. It is argued that when a new type of Arabic emerged after the Islamic conquests in the 7th century AD, the language went through… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 33] 1984. xiii, 194 pp.

Prejudice in Discourse: An analysis of ethnic prejudice in cognition and conversation

Teun A. van Dijk

In this book, a study is made of ethnic prejudice in cognition and conversation, based on intensive interviewing of white majority group members. After an introductory survey of traditional and more recent approaches in social psychology to the study of prejudice, a new 'sociocognitive' theory is… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:3] 1984. x, 170 pp.

Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing

Roger Van de Velde

This book shows that in reading verbal texts human reasoning is responsible for the recognition and construction of different forms of organization. On the one hand, it spells out in what ways human thinking succeeds in recognizing the surface form of grammatical organization which is… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:2] 1984. vii, 100 pp.

Proto-Romance Morphology: Comparative Romance Grammar, vol. III

Robert A. Hall, Jr.

This volume deals with the reconstructed morphology of Proto-Romance. It is the third in a series by this author. The first volume (1974, Elsevier) deals with the external history of the Romance languages: the conditions under which they developed, were used, and (in some instances) went out of use. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 30] 1984. xii, 304 pp.

The Semantics of Coordination

Ewald Lang

This study is an attempt to explain coordinate conjoining as a rule-governed process of establishing specific semantic relations within and between sentences. Coordination is thus conceived of both as a basic device of linguistic complex formation and as a rather fundamental principle underlying… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 9] 1984. 300 pp.

Sociolinguistics in the Low Countries

Edited by Kas Deprez

This volume contains the papers read at the Second Sociolinguistics Conference of the Association Belge de Linguistique Appliquee (Belgian Association of Applied Linguistics) that was held at the University of Antwerp on the in May, 1980. The papers are grouped around two topics: 'Language and… read more

[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 5] 1984. viii, 359 pp.

Speech Acts, Speakers and Hearers: Reference and referential strategies in Spanish

Henk Haverkate

This study is an inquiry into the pragmatics of speaker and hearer reference. It falls into a theory-based and a description-based part. The former covers three topics: (a) the categories of speaker and hearer as opposed to the category of nonparticipants in the speech act; (b) the interactional… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:4] 1984. xi, 142 pp.

Syntax: A functional-typological introduction. Volume I

T. Givón

[Not in series, 17] 1984. xx, 464 pp.

Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic

Allan R. Bomhard

This book represents the culmination of the author’s work to date – it incorporates and updates previous articles and adds much new material. This book is not – nor was it ever intended to be – a comparative grammar of either the Indo-European or the Afroasiatic language families. It is, rather, a… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 27] 1984. xi, 356 pp.

Transfer and Interference in Language: A Selected Bibliography

Compiled by Hans W. Dechert, Monika Brüggemeier and Dietmar Fütterer

The topic of this bibliography in its broadest sense is the subject of a wide range of academic disciplines. Given these circumstances, the particular associations and connotations of the terms ‘transfer’ and ‘interference’ in each of these areas are legion, with resultant differences in meaning in… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 14] 1984. xiv, 488 pp.

Under the Tumtum Tree: From nonsense to sense, a study in non-automatic comprehension

Marlene Dolitsky

Any informal discussion of a piece of nonsense literature produces highly varying interpretations which retain, however, a common core. It seemed, then, that nonsense would be a fertile base in the study of nonautomatic comprehension, i.e. comprehension where the word-meaning relations do not seem… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:1] 1984. vii, 118 pp.

‘Well’ in Dialogue Games: A discourse analysis of the interjection ‘well’ in idealized conversation

Lauri Carlson

This dialogue game approach to the discourse analysis of the English interjection well aims at the formulation of rules which would be informative (marking some contexts of use as more natural than others), systematic (applicable in a mechanical or at least in a non-ad hoc way), and adequate… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:5] 1984. ix, 104 pp.

Central American English

Edited by John Holm †

This volume is about the Anglophone creoles to be found on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and its offshore islands (Providencia, San Andrés and the Caymans) . The study of these Anglophone varieties is comparatively recent and based on… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, T2] 1983. vi, 184 pp.

Die Sprachen Europas in systematischer Übersicht: Linguistische Untersuchungen (Bonn, 1850). New edition

August Schleicher (1821–1868)

In Die Sprachen Europas in systematischer Uebersicht (Bonn 1850) Schleicher works out a naturalistic conception of language and a research program inspired by the methods of the natural sciences, in particular botany and geology. It does not only provide a general exposition of Schleicher’s views,… read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 4] 1983. lxii, viii, 270, 4 pp (altog. 344 pp).

Essays in the History of Linguistic Anthropology

Dell H. Hymes

Anthropology and linguistics, as historically developing disciplines, have had partly separate roots and traditions. In particular settings and in general, the two disciplines have partly shared, partly differed in the nature of their materials, their favorite types of problem the personalities of… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 25] 1983. xxiii, 406 pp.

Foreign Language Teaching

Edited by T.J. Quinn

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 6:2 (1983) iv, 103 pp.

From Particular to General Linguistics: Selected Essays 1965–1978. With an introduction by the author, an index rerum and an index nominum

Yakov Malkiel

The period of 1965 to 1978 was an extremely productive time for U.S. (Russian born) Romance etymologist and philologist Yakov Malkiel whose specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish. Malkiel will be known as the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 3] 1983. xxii, 659 pp.

A Glance at the History of Linguistics: with particular regard to the historical study of phonology

Holger Pedersen (1867–1953)

This volume presents a translation into English of Holger Pedersen’s Et Blik på Sprogvidenskabens Historie (Copenhagen 1916). In addition, it provides an introductory article by E.F.K. Koerner on Pedersen’s life and work, and a bibliography of his writings. read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 7] 1983. xxxii, 100 pp.

Glasgow

Caroline Macafee

The Glasgow ‘toonheid vernacular’ is certainly the most vital and widespread – if least prestigious – form of present-day Scots. No comprehensive description has existed so far, Macauley’s sociolinguistic research having barely scratched the surface. Caroline Macafee’s long introduction to the… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, T3] 1983. iv, 167 pp.

Grammatical Proof of the Affinity of the Hungarian Language with Languages of Fennic Origin (Göttingen: Dieterich, 1799)

Sámuel Gyarmathi (1751–1830)

Sámuel Gyarmathi’s Affinitas linguae hungaricae cum linguis fennicae originis grammatice demonstrata (Göttingen 1799) was received as a distinguished work of scholarship in its own days, and its historical importance has been fully recognized ever since. This volume provides an English translation… read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 15] 1983. xl, 327 pp.

Handbook of Australian Languages: Volume 3

Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake

This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. The contributions to this volume are salvage studies, giving all the… read more

[Not in series, HAL 3] 1983. xxiv, 531 pp. + 5 maps

History of Semiotics

Edited by Achim Eschbach and Jürgen Trabant

This volume brings together a collection of papers on the general theoretical and methodological problems in the historiography of semiotics. It is not a history in the conventional sense, even though the main periods and figures in the development of semiotics are given due prominence.… read more

[Foundations of Semiotics, 7] 1983. xvi, 386 pp.

Integrational Linguistics: Vol. I: General Outline

Hans-Heinrich Lieb

This is the first volume of a work envisioned to consist of six volumes, providing a complete overview of the unified approach to basic problems of linguistics, as developed by Hans-Heinrich Lieb. This first volume contains a detailed overview of Integrational Linguistics, and outlines a major… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 17] 1983. xxiii, 527 pp.

Introduction to English Derivational Morphology

Theodore M. Lightner

This book aims to give an indication of the extent of derivational morphology in English; of how much immanent, internal structure must be presumed for words -- even apparently simplex ones. This is done by showing that three (morpho-)phonological processes which tend to hide surface sound-meaning… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 6] 1983. xxxviii, 533 pp.

An Introduction to the Study of Language: New edition

Leonard Bloomfield

This is a fac simile edition of Bloomfield's An Introduction to the Study of Language (New York 1914), with an introductory article by Joseph S. Kess.Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) was responsible for two classic textbooks in the field of linguistics. The earlier, reproduced here, shows some… read more

[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 3] 1983. xxxviii, x, 335 pp.

Latin Linguistics and Linguistic Theory: Proceedings of the 1st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 1981

Edited by Harm Pinkster

The articles of this collection on Latin linguistics are representative of the kind of research that is currently carried out in the field of linguistics. Most deal with syntax or sentence structure, but they vary with respect to their emphasis on theory or description. They also vary with respect… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 12] 1983. xviii, 307 pp.

Les verbes de mouvement en français et en espagnol: Etude comparée de leurs infinitives

Béatrice Lamiroy

Ce livre présente une étude comparée des infinitives des verbes de mouvement en français et en espagnol, avec l’intention d’illustrer la valeur heuristique de la pratique comparative en confrontant deux langues sur un point particulier de la syntaxe. read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 11] 1983. xiv, 323 pp.

The Letter Liveth: The life, work and library of August Friedrich Pott (1802–87)

Joan Leopold

Recently, there has been increased appreciation of the fact that August Friedrich Pott (1802–1887) possessed valuable insights and articulated uncommon positions in Indo-European comparative linguistics, general linguistics, and linguistic ethnology. This introduction and accompanying bibliography… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 9] 1983. clii, 438 pp.

Non-declarative Sentences

Richard Zuber

Non-declarative sentences such as interrogatives, imperatives and exclamations are analyzed together as a single class. The author gives a general characterization of all three types and shows that there are no other types of non-declarative sentences. Definitions are offered for the notions of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:2] 1983. ix, 123 pp.

On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermania: Papers from the 3rd Groningen Grammar Talks (3e Groninger Grammatikgespräche), Groningen, January 1981

Edited by Werner Abraham

It has often been noted that Dutch (and Frisian) reflects a particular stage of development between German and English. Phonologically, syntactically and morphologically, Dutch and German are closely related languages. Yet, there remain sufficient morphosyntactic differences in terms of language… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 3] 1983. vi, 242 pp.

PRAGUIANA: Some Basic and Less Known Aspects of the Prague Linguistic School. With an introduction by Philip A. Luelsdorff

Edited by Josef Vachek and Libuše Dušková

Contains key papers by the founders of the Prague School; including Vilém Mathesius famous article “Functional Linguistics” (1929), the theses presented at the First Congress of Slavists in Prague (1929), an earlier paper by Mathesius “On the potentiality of the phenomena of language” (1911), Jan… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 12] 1983. xxxi, 321 pp.

The Perception of Nonverbal Behavior in the Career Interview

Walburga von Raffler-Engel

Walburga von Raffler-Engel takes a novel approach to compiling information about doctor-patient communication. She has surveyed popular literature around the world to gain a grass-roots' perception of this relationship in various cultures. Most of the contributions are by practicing physicians,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:4] 1983. viii, 148 pp.

Pragmalinguistics: East European Approaches

Jan Prucha

This volume describes and evaluates the latest theories, empirical findings, and applications in the field of pragmalinguistics developed in some socialist states of Europe – mainly in Czechoslovakia, Poland, the German Democratic Republic, and the USSR. The results of the author’s own research in… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:5] 1983. v, 103 pp.

Pragmatics and the Philosophy of Mind: Vol. I: Thought in Language

Marcelo Dascal †

This volume deals with the relation between pragmatics and the philosophy of mind. Unlike most of the books written on the subject, it does not defend the view that a specific form of dependence holds between language and thought, to the exclusion of all other possible relations. Taking pragmatics… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:1] 1983. xii, 207 pp.

Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics: Volume 8

Edited by Eva Hajičová, Marie Těšitelová and Ján Horecký

The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Těšitelová; M. Ludvíková; H. Confortiová; Ludmila Uhlířová; I. Nebeská; Jan Králík; J. Krámský; L. Klimeš; J. Štěpán; Z. Lišková. Part 2 Algebraic Linguistics contains… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 17] 1983. 224 pp.

Productivité morphologique et emprunt

Wiecher Zwanenburg

Le choix de décrire la dérivation déverbale savante du français moderne découle de la considération de quelques problèmes posés par le système dérivationnel du français aussi bien que par la théorie de la morphologie. Dans le chapitre introducteur, l’auteur s'étendre sur les problèmes particuliers… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 10] 1983. x, 199 pp.

Singapore and Malaysia

John Platt, Heidi Weber and Mian Lian Ho

Over the years, the Englishes of Singapore and Malaysia have developed into varieties in their own right, ranging from the sub-varieties spoken by people with high levels of English-medium education and of higher socio-economic status. This text volume illustrates this from a range of examples of… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, T4] 1983. iv, 138 pp.

Social Order in Child Communication: A study in microethnography

Jürgen Streeck

‘Context’ is a concept for linguistic analysis which has rarely been subjected to close empirical scrutiny. This volume presents an attempt to investigate in microscopic detail various processes of contextualization by which children organize their interaction ‘frame by frame’, achieve, sustain,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:8] 1983. vii, 130 pp.

Switch Reference and Universal Grammar: Proceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981

Edited by John Haiman † and Pamela Munro

Canonical switch-reference is an inflectional category of the verb, which indicates whether or not its subject is identical with the subject of some other verb. Switch-reference may be analyzed from a structural or a functional point of view. Functionally, switch-reference is a device for… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 2] 1983. xv, 337 pp.

Topic Continuity in Discourse: A quantitative cross-language study

T. Givón

The functional notion of “topic” or “topicality” has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. And second, quite often its definition boiled down to structure-dependent circularity. This volume represents a major… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 3] 1983. v, 492 pp.

Understatements and Hedges in English

Axel Hübler

The goal of this monograph is a comprehensive analysis of understatements and other forms of non-direct speech (hedges) in modern English. It is based on a multi-level approach, including philosophical, cultural, and socio-psychological arguments. The main part consists of an investigation of the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:6] 1983. ix, 192 pp.

Uniformitarianism in Linguistics

T. Craig Christy

This study examines specific implications of the considerable overlap in methodology and theory of 19th-century geology and philology. Recognition of this overlap is indispensable to a complete understanding of philology’s development into the more empirical science of linguistics, especially as… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 31] 1983. xiv, 139 pp.

Vieldeutigkeit und Rätselhaftigkeit: Die semantische Qualität und Kommunikativitätsfunktion des Kunstwerks in der Poetik und Ästhetik der Goethezeit

Bernd Brunemeier

[Bochumer Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, 13] 1983. 271 pp.

Word Order Typology and Comparative Constructions

Paul Kent Andersen

This monograph, discussing various aspects involved with a typology of word order, strives to take a next step towards a better understanding of the profound unity underlying languages. The volume is divided into five sections: 1) Word order typology; 2) A critical analysis of word order typology;… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 25] 1983. xvii, 245 pp.

Approaches to Syntax

Jean-Pierre Paillet and André Dugas

This volume is an enhanced version of the English translation from the French original edition 'Principes d'analyse syntaxique' (Québec, 1973). It provides a survey of theoretical approaches to syntax, including traditional grammars, structuralism, functionalism, and formal approaches. read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 5] 1982. viii, 282 pp.

Argumentation: Approaches to theory formation. Containing the contributions to the Groningen Conference on the Theory of Argumentation, October 1978

Edited by E.M. Barth and J.L. Martens

The contributions in the first part ‘Re-modelling logic’ of this volume take account of formal logic in the theory of ‘rational’ argumentation. Part two contains papers that distinguish the various dialogue games for logics in terms of ‘rights’ and ‘obligations’ of the players. The authors… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 8] 1982. xviii, 333 pp.

Augenkommunikation: Methodenreflexion und Beispielanalyse

Konrad Ehlich und Jochen Rehbein

The book sketches a systematics of non-verbal communication. It contains the following separate chapters: movement potential and expression repertoire; clinical literature on the eye’s movement potential; eye movement viewed from the perspective of communicative action; eye communication as part of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 2] 1982. viii, 150 pp. With many photographic ills.

Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication: Towards a biocybernetics of language

Thomas T. Ballmer

This is the second of two volumes – the first volume being Waltraud Brennenstuhl’s Control and Ability (P&B III:4) – treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts out from an investigation of the (neuro-)biological relevancy of natural language from the point of view of grammar… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:7] 1982. x, 161 pp.

Cameroon

Loreto Todd

This volume on the Cameroonian English contains two main sections. The first section is devoted to the history of language contact in Cameroon (contact with Islam and contact with Europeans); the development of English in Cameroon; the teaching of English in Cameroon in various stages of its… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, T1] 1982. 180 pp., 1 map.

Catastrophe Theoretic Semantics: An elaboration and application of René Thom's theory

Wolfgang Wildgen

René Thom, the famous French mathematician and founder of catastrophe theory, considered linguistics an exemplary field for the application of his general morphology. It is surprising that physicists, chemists, biologists, psychologists and sociologists are all engaged in the field of catastrophe… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:5] 1982. iv, 124 pp.

The Communicative Perspective in the Sentence: A study of Latin word order

Dirk G.J. Panhuis

This monograph fills a gap in our understanding of a so-called free word order language. Thus far many observations have been made on Latin word order, particularly within the noun phrase. Yet a more systematic investigation with respect to the order of the sentence consituents was still lacking,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 11] 1982. viii, 178 pp.

Control and Ability: Towards a Biocybernetics of Language

Waltraud Brennenstuhl

This is the first of the two volumes – the second volume being Thomas Ballmer’s Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication (P&B III:7) – treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts from a cybernetic explication of some action theoretic notions, like control and ability.… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:4] 1982. vi, 122 pp.

Festschrift für Karl Schneider

Herausgegeben von Ernst S. Dick und Kurt R. Jankowsky

This volume is in honour of Karl Schneider and covers the wide spectrum of Schneider’s own interests: Part I covers runology (Elmer H. Antonsen, Hans Schwartz, Winfred P. Lehmann); The second part deals with indogermanics, etymology and lexicography (Edgard C. Polomé, Fritz W. Schulze, Kurt R.… read more

[Not in series, 14] 1982. xx, 595 pp.

Here and There: Cross-linguistic Studies on Deixis and Demonstration

Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Wolfgang Klein

Deixis – the rooting of utterances in the speech situation – is one of the most salient universals of natural language. The ways in which different languages link utterances to pragmatic factors such as speech time, speech place, and speech participants show a rich variation. This makes deixis a… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:2-3] 1982. vi, 298 pp.

The History of Linguistics in the Near East

Edited by Kees Versteegh, E.F.K. Koerner † and Hans-Josef Niederehe

This collection of papers deals with aspects of the history of Arabic and Hebrew linguistics. These papers appeared simultaneously in Historiographia Linguistica 8:2/3 (1981). read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 28] 1982. xii, 265 pp.

A History of Semantics

W. Terrence Gordon

In this monograph the author outlines, for the first time in the history of linguistics, the development of the study of 'meaning', from the pioneering work of Christian Karl Reisig (1792-1829), Friedrich Haase (1808-1867), Ferdinand Heerdegen (1845-1930), Arsène Darmesteter (1846-88) and Michel… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 30] 1982. viii, 284 pp.

Hungarian General Linguistics

Edited by Ferenc Kiefer †

This volume contains papers on Hungarian general linguistics. ‘Hungarian’ here means that the work of these authors either centers around the Hungarian language or has close ties to present-day Hungarian linguistics, or both. Topics include: philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, historical… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 4] 1982. vii, 599 pp.

Language Form and Linguistic Variation: Papers dedicated to Angus McIntosh

Edited by John A.E. Anderson

The papers in this volume celebrate the work of Angus McIntosh, who specialized in dialects of Later Middle English, and wrote on other topics in English linguistics as well. Of the papers in this volume most deal with English and a few with other subjects in (historical) dialectology. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 15] 1982. viii, 496 pp.

Language Planning

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 5:2 (1982) viii, 159 pp.

Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981

Edited by Anders Ahlqvist

This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in Galway, April 6–10 1981. These papers provide an overview of work in the field of historical linguistics, covering a wide variety of topics and languages. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 21] 1982. xxix, 527 pp.

Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Hamburg, August 22–26 1977

Edited by J. Peter Maher, Allan R. Bomhard and E.F.K. Koerner †

The papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 3rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), held in 1977 at the University of Hamburg. These selected papers deal with a wide variety of issues, some from a more general-theoretical perspective, some deriving… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 13] 1982. xvi, 434 pp.

Perspectives on Historical Linguistics: Papers from a conference held at the meeting of the Language Theory Division, Modern Language Assn., San Francisco, 27–30 December 1979

Edited by Winfred P. Lehmann and Yakov Malkiel

This volume presents seven extensive essays by specialists in their respective fields of historical linguistics. The first essay after the Introduction states the principles presented in Directions for Historical Linguistics (1968) and assesses the progress made since then towards constructing a… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 24] 1982. xii, 379 pp.

Sanctius' Theory of Language: A contribution to the history of Renaissance linguistics

Manuel Breva-Claramonte

This volume presents the main tenets of Sanctius’ linguistic theory and explores the questions raised by Robin Lakoff in her 1969 review of the Grammaire générale et raisonnée (Port Royal). Part I surveys earlier developments in the study of language, in particular the Graeco-Roman and Medieval… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 27] 1982. viii, 294 pp.

The Scene of Linguistic Action and its Perspectivization by SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL

René Dirven †, Louis Goossens, Yvan Putseys and Emma Vorlat

The four papers presented in this volume are corpus-based investigations into the meaning of the verbs speak, talk, say and tell. More specifically they want to explore how the scene of linguistic action has been put into perspective by these four high-frequency verbs. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:6] 1982. vi, 186 pp.

Situation et signification

Ivan Fónagy

Ceux qui parlent une langue seconde, savent par leur propre expérience que, malgré une bonne connaissance du vocabulaire et des règles de la grammaire, ils n’arrivent pas à réagir verbalement à des situations concrètes de la même manière que ceux qui la parlent en langue maternelle. Cet ouvrage, à… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:1] 1982. v, 160 pp.

The Structure of Complementation

Antonio Carlos Quicoli

The study of complementation has received considerable attention in generative studies. Following Rosenbaum's (1967) pioneering study of the English complement system, there are extensive studies by Lakoff (1965), Ross (1967), Perlmutter (1971) and a large number of publications. More recent… read more

[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 3] 1982. xii, 172 pp.

Tense-Aspect: Between semantics & pragmatics

Edited by Paul J. Hopper

The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker’s reported experience. They are universal categories both in terms of the semantic-functional domain they cover as well as in terms… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 1] 1982. ix, 350 pp.

Topical Relevance in Argumentation

Douglas N. Walton

It is a longstanding if not altogether coherent tradition of logic and rhetorical studies that an argument can be incorrect or fallacious in virtue of some proposition in it being “irrelevant”. This monograph clarifies that tradition. Non-classical propositional calculi, including relevance logics… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:8] 1982. viii, 81 pp.

Ambiguity in Psycholinguistics

Joseph F. Kess and Ronald A. Hoppe

The authors present a comprehensive overview of past research in ambiguity in the field of psycholinguistics. Experimental results have often been equivocal in allowing a choice between the single-reading hypothesis and the multiple-reading hypothesis of processing of ambiguous sentences. This text… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:4] 1981. vi, 124 pp.

Apollonius Dyscolus: The Syntax of Apollonius Dyscolus

Translated and with commentary by Fred W. Householder

Apollonius Dyscolus was the first formal syntactician in Graeco-Roman linguistics. He considered the nature of language to be logical and rule-governed, and assumed an underlying structure for all levels of language. It might be said that from the work of his predecessors, he extracted syntax. This… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 23] 1981. vi, 281 pp.

Arab Linguistics: An introductory classical text with translation and notes

Edited by Michael G. Carter

This volume provides an analysis of a famous medieval Arabic grammatical text, al-Ājurrūmiya (c. 1300), as commented on by aš-Šhirbīnī (d. 1570). This edition includes the original text and a translation into English, as well as extensive comments and annotations, with the aim of making accessible… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 24] 1981. ix, 485 pp.

Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics, in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. (2 volumes)

Edited by Yoël L. Arbeitman and Allan R. Bomhard

The volume starts with a -- posthumous -- paper by Alexander Kerns, written by Benjamins Schwartz, on the Indo-European tense system. This is followed by a rich array of papers on the reconstruction of older languages, ranging from Indo-European and Afroasiatic to Cretan. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 16] 1981. xvi, 557, viii, 581 pp.

Essai sur les modalités tensives

Claude Zilberberg

The four studies grouped under the title Essai sur les modalités tensives touch upon several questions of semiotics presently debated in the theoretical framework proposed by A.J. Greimas. They are mainly concerned with the passages between meaning and form, and with the convertibilités between the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:8] 1981. xii, 154 pp. + 4 fold. tables.

From Linguistics to Literature: Romance Studies offered to Francis M. Rogers

Edited by Bernard H. Bichakjian

Francis M. Rogers, to whom the current volume is in honor of, may be a modest man in principle, but not in his academic pursuits. To call his interests broad in scope is no exaggeration as they cover the fields of linguistics, literature, philology, bibliography, travel narratives and celestial… read more

[Not in series, 13] 1981. x, 292 pp. + 6 ills.

Generative Phonology: A Case Study from French

Nigel Love

This study is a discussion of, rather than a contribution to, generative phonology. The central question posed, is: Does linguistic theory provide a basis for choosing between competing grammars — that is, an evaluation procedure for grammars? If so, then what is its form? If not, then how are we… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 4] 1981. viii, 241 pp.

Handbook of Australian Languages: Volume 2

Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake

[Not in series, HAL 2] 1981. xxiv, 427pp. + 6 maps

The Inheritance of Presupposition

John Dinsmore

This work presents a procedural account of the so-called ‘projection problem’ for presupposition. It is assumed that presuppositions embedded in complex sentences are subject to no projection rules or ad-hoc conditions whatever, but are in fact satisfied in appropriate contexts in a completely… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:1] 1981. vi, 98 pp.

Lexical Innovation: A study of slang, colloquialisms and casual speech

Karl Sornig

In addition to borrowing from various foreign sources, the main origins of slang terms are the activation and revitalization of existing morphological and lexical material. Metaphorical manipulation of lexical items, as the main device used for the production of slangisms, shows remarkable… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:5] 1981. viii, 117 pp.

Phonology in the 1980’s

Edited by Didier L. Goyvaerts

This volume brings together a number of ground-breaking papers in the theory of phonology. read more

[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 4] 1981. viii, 647 pp.

Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics: Proceedings of the Conference on Pragmatics, Urbino, July 8–14, 1979

Edited by Herman Parret, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren

This impressive volume attempts to make an assessment of past achievements, but also to open up new perspectives in the field of pragmatics, exactly ten years after the publication of Searle’s seminal Speech Acts. This rich collection presents an unrivaled diversity of topics and approaches united… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 7] 1981. x, 854 pp.

Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics: Volume 7

Edited by Eva Hajičová, Marie Těšitelová and Ján Horecký

The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Těšitelová; Jiří Kraus; Ján Horecký & E. Nemcová; J. Sabol; Z. Lišková; V. Smetáček & M. Königová; J. Štěpán; L. Klimeš; P. Vašák. Part 2 Algebraic Linguistics contains… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 9] 1981. 255 pp.

Prepositions: An analytical bibliography

Claude Guimier

The aim of the present bibliography is to provide a single and reasonably comprehensive list of books and articles which deal with problems related to prepositions in natural languages. If most of publications listed consider syntax or semantics, they also take into account morphological,… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 8] 1981. viii, 244 pp.

Semiotic Principles in Semantic Theory

Neal R. Norrick

This study represents a contribution to the theory of meaning in natural language. It proposes a semantic theory containing a set of regular relational principles. These principles enable semantic theory to describe connections from the lexical reading of a word to its figurative contextual… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 20] 1981. xiii, 252 pp.

Semiotics and Dialectics: Ideology and the Text

Edited by Peter V. Zima

By focusing on the “East European” dialogues and polemics, both contemporary and past, the present volume pursues two aims: 1) It would like to locate the discussion between semiotics and dialectics in an historical context. 2) It would like to make the reader familiar with the solutions proposed… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 5] 1981. vi, 573 pp.

Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphic Systems to a Uniform Orthography in European Letters (2nd rev.ed. London, 1863)

Richard Lepsius (1810–1884)

This new edition of Carl Richard Lepsius’s Standard Alphabet reproduces the text of the second, enlarged, edition of 1863. The extensive Introduction by J. Alan Kemp places it in its historical setting and provides comments on the phonetic basis for the Alphabet and the notation. read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 5] 1981. x, 99, xvii, 336 pp.

Theoretical Issues in Contrastive Linguistics

Edited by Jacek Fisiak

Contrastive Linguistics, roughly defined as a subdiscipline of linguistics which is concerned with the comparison of two or more (subsystems of) languages, has long been associated primarily with language teaching. Apart from this applied aspect, however, it also has a strong theoretical purpose,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 12] 1981. x, 430 pp.

Topic, Antitopic and Verb Agreement in Non-Standard French

Knud Lambrecht

The author describes and explains the syntactic and pragmatic properties of the nominal and pronominal elements in sentences of the types Ces Romains ils sont fous and Ils sont fous, ces Romains, which, in spite of their frequent occurrence, have so far received little attention among linguists and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:6] 1981. vii, 113 pp.

The True and the False: The Domain of the Pragmatic

Charles Travis

Pragmatics often begins by supposing that specifying and describing truth bearers is a proper task for semantics. The main thrust of the present work is to show why truth and truth bearers lie essentially beyond the descriptive reach of semantics, and to outline a theory of truth bearers as a… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:2] 1981. vi, 165 pp.

What Do We Talk About When We Talk?: Speculative grammar and the semantics and pragmatics of focus

Johan van der Auwera

This monograph deals with the aboutness of language. First, the sense in which language is about or reflects both reality and a mental picture of reality is turned into a cornerstone of a reflectionist or Speculative Grammarian semantics and pragmatics. Second, the Speculative Grammar… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:3] 1981. vi, 122 pp.

You Know: A discourse-functional approach

Jan-Ola Östman

The basic function the expression you know serves in conversational discourse is said to be that of a pragmatic particle used when the speaker wants the addressee to accept as mutual knowledge (or at least be cooperative with respect to) the propositional content of his utterance. The fact that you… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:7] 1981. ix, 91 pp.

'The boat's gonna leave': A study of children learning a second language from conversations with other children

Anca M. Nemoianu

This essay attempts to show how a second language is acquired by very young children in the process of socialization with other children. The study seeks to integrate the process of second language learning in the general framework of child development, concentrating in particular on the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:1] 1980. vi, 116 pp.

Analyse syntaxique du Français: Grammaire en chaîne

Morris Salkoff

Cet essai prolongue l’esquisse d’analyse distributionelle que l’on trouvera dans Un grammaire en chaîne du français (Salkoff, 1973). Dans ce livre ici, l’auteur presente quelques aspects additionels de la grammaire et du programme associé, necessaire pour analyser un texte scientifique. Le chapitre… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 2] 1980. xvi, 334 pp.

Contexts of Understanding

Herman Parret

This essay deals with the difficulty of understanding understanding, taking the understanding of natural language fragments as a paradigm. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:6] 1980. viii, 109 pp.

A Discourse Production Model for 'Twenty Questions'

Michael Fortescue

This essay is an attempt to build up a plausible model of the cognitive processes behind the behavior exhibited by speaker-hearers in a specific discourse situation. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:2] 1980. ix, 137 pp.

Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications

Edited by Gary D. Prideaux, Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker

Linguistics has suffered from the lack of interaction between theoretical and experimental activities. In order to carry out experimental studies in language it is, of course, necessary to have a descriptive system for the stimuli, and formal linguistics has provided a plethora of alternative… read more

[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 3] 1980. vi, 321 pp.

Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics

Geoffrey N. Leech

The aim of this book is to show the way forward to a coherent view of language in which the achievement of the formalist paradigm is strengthened to the extent that its claims are weakened. A formal theory such as generative grammar is a special theory which is to be subsumed in a general theory of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:5] 1980. viii, 133 pp.

First Person Singular: Papers from the Conference on an Oral Archive for the History of American Linguistics. (Charlotte, N.C., March 1979)

Edited by Boyd Davis and Raymond K. O’Cain

This volume consists of autobiographical by the following scholars, together with pictures and autographs: Raven I. McDavid, Jr., Henry M. Hoenigswald, John B. Carroll, William G. Moulton, Archibald A. Hill, Yakov Malkiel, Charles F. Hockett, Harold B. Allen, William Bright, Einar Haugen, George S.… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 21] 1980. xiv, 239 pp.

The History of Grammar in the Middle Ages: Collected Papers. With a select bibliography, and indices

Richard William Hunt (1908–1979)

This volume brings together a number of papers written by R. W. Hunt (1908-1979) on the history of grammar in the Middle Ages. The importance of these papers lies almost as much in the spark of scholarly investigation that they have inspired, as in their contribution to original research. The first… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 5] 1980. xxxvi, 214 pp.

Hua: A Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea

John Haiman †

There is no country in the world where as many different languages are spoken as in New Guinea, approximately a fifth of the languages in the world. Most of these so-called Papuan languages seem to be unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere. The present work is the first truly comprehensive study… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 5] 1980. lvii, 550 pp.

Issues in English Creoles: Papers from the 1975 Hawaii Conference

Edited by Richard R. Day

The purpose of this volume is to make more accessible, for the use of researchers and students in the field of pidgins and creoles, presentations of the third International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Honolulu, 1975, dealing with English-based creoles. Aside from their documentary value,… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G2] 1980. xi, 185 pp.

Issues in Vowel Harmony: Proceedings of the CUNY Linguistics Conference on Vowel Harmony, May 14, 1977

Edited by Robert M. Vago

Vowel harmony is a well known phonological phenomenon found in a large number of languages spoken mainly in Eurasia and the African continent. In simple terms, vowel harmony is a law which governs the co-occurrence of vowels within a span of utterance, nearly always the word. The contributions of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 6] 1980. xx, 340 pp.

Italic and Romance: Linguistic studies in honor of Ernst Pulgram

Edited by Herbert J. Izzo

The papers in this volume deal with the languages of ancient Italy and the Romance dialects that grew from them. The arrangement of papers in the volume is topical, starting with ancient Italy and moving upward in time and outward in space through general Romance to Italian, French and Provençal,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 18] 1980. xxi, 338 pp.

Le Langage en Contexte: Etudes philosophiques et linguistiques de pragmatique

Essay(s) by Herman Parret, Leo Apostel, Paul Gochet, Maurice Van Overbeke, Oswald Ducrot, Liliane Tasmowski-De Ryck, Norbert Dittmar et Wolfgang Wildgen

Les lois générales gouvernant la formation des théories sont valable dans la pragmatique comme partout ailleurs où se manifeste l’ambition théorique. La méthodologie adequate, ici come ailleurs, est plutôt celle de la reconstruction et de la découverte que celle de la description et de… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 3] 1980. iv, 790 pp.

Linguistic Reconstruction and Indo-European Syntax: Proceedings of the Colloquium of the 'Indogermanische Gesellschaft'. University of Pavia, 6–7 September 1979

Edited by Paolo Ramat

The aim of the colloquium, from which this volume derives, was to bring together approaches from general linguistics and language reconstruction, to show how these can benefit from eachother. Although the focus was on Indo-European languages, other language families were present in the discussion,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 19] 1980. viii, 263 pp.

Meaning Detachment

Benoît de Cornulier

This essay concerns meaning detachment and (self-)interpreting utterances. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:7] 1980. v, 124 pp.

On Speech Act Verbs

Jef Verschueren

This essay concerns the analysis of speech act verbs. It offers a range of ideas which form theoretical preliminaries to the analysis of this phenomenon. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:4] 1980. viii, 83 pp.

Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Stanford, March 26–30 1979

Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Rebecca Labrum and Susan C. Shepherd

The studies in this volume are revised versions of a selection from the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at Stanford University on 26–30 March 1979. Papers at this conference, and in this volume, treat aspects of all current topics in… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 14] 1980. x, 437 pp.

Papers on Grammar: Volume I

Edited by Gualtiero Calboli

[Not in series, POG 1] 1980. x, 208 pp.

A Pragmatic Logic for Commands

Melvin Joseph Adler

The purpose of this essay is to both discuss commands as a species of speech act and to discuss commands within the broader framework of how they are used and reacted to. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:3] 1980. viii, 131 pp.

Progress in Linguistic Historiography: Papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Ottawa, 28–31 August 1978

Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †

This volume presents a selection of revised papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (Ottawa 1978). These have been organized under the following headings: I. Classical Traditions in the Middle Ages and Medieval Thought in the Renaissance and After; II.… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 20] 1980. xiv, 421 pp.

Puns and Poetry in Lucretius' 'De rerum natura'

Jane McIntosh Snyder

[Not in series - Grüner, 102] 1980. 151 pp.

Resümierende Auswahlbibliographie zur Neueren Sowjetischen Sprachlehrforschung: (gesteuerter Fremdsprachenerwerb)

Rupprecht S. Baur

Die vorliegende Bibliographie ist das erste Ergebnis eines von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft von 1974 bis 1978 geförderten Forschungsprojekts. Sie gibt einen Uberblick über Stand und Entwicklung der Sprachlehr- und Sprachlernforschung in der UdSSR für den Bereich des gesteuerten… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 3] 1980. lxviii, 318 pp.

Studien zur Modernen Deutschen Lexikographie: Auswahl aus den Lexikographischen Arbeiten. Erweitert um drei Beiträge von Helene Malige-Klappenbach

Ruth Klappenbach (1911–1977)

The book sketches the history and technical apparatus of dictionary writing, in detail Ruth Klappenbach’s Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. Berlin: Akademieverlag 1956, a loner at its time and setting the pattern for the many other German dictionaries to come. The book’s main chapters… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 1] 1980. xxiii, 313 pp.

Studies in Medieval Linguistic Thought: Dedicated to Geofrey L. Bursill-Hall on the occassion of his 60th birthday on 15 May 1980

Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †, Hans-Josef Niederehe and Robert H. Robins

This volume presents a set of papers on linguistic thought in the Middle Ages. It is complemented by a comprehensive bibliography and indices. The papers in this volume appeared earlier in Historiographia Linguistica 7:1/2 (1980). read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 26] 1980. vi, 321 pp.

Talk and Taxonomy: A methodological comparison of ethnosemantics and ethnomethodology with reference to terms for Canadian doctors

Peter Eglin

The thesis of this essay is that social or cultural competence consists more of an interpretive or methodological ability to use language in the service of interaction than of a substantive knowledge of collections of cultural categories and of the semantic relations between the terms naming those… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:8] 1980. x, 125 pp.

The (w)hole of the doughnut: Syntax and its boundaries

S.-Y. Kuroda

From the author’s preface: "I once facetiously stated: 'Syntax is to semantics as the hole of the doughnut is to the whole of the doughnut.' Semantics without syntax, thus, is like a doughnut without a hole. This was in the heyday of generative semantics, and having heard that my major interest was… read more

[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 1] 1979. ix, 256 pp.

Anaphora in Generative Grammar

Thomas Wasow

Intuitively, it is clear why languages have anaphoric relations: anaphora reduces redundancy, thereby shortening (and hence simplifying) sentences. In order for this simplification to be possible, however, it is necessary that the speaker of a language be able to identify correctly the elements… read more

[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 2] 1979. x, 181 pp.

Anatomy of the Verb: The Gothic Verb as a Model for a Unified Theory of Aspect, Actional Types, and Verbal Velocity. (Part I: Theory; Part II: Application)

Albert L. Lloyd

The continuing debate over the existence or non-existence of formal verbal aspect in Gothic triggered the author to write this monograph whose aim is to provide a completely new foundation for a theory of aspect and related features. Gothic, with its limited corpus, representing a translation of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 4] 1979. x, 351 pp.

Be and Equational Sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic

Mohamed Sami Anwar

The volume attempts to deal with equational sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and their remote structure. In this unique monograph Mohamed Sami Anwar oes to show that equational sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic are derived from underlying sentences that have transitive or intransitive… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 2] 1979. vi, 128 pp.

Current Issues in the Phonetic Sciences: Proceedings of the IPS-77 Congress, Miami Beach, Florida, 17–19 December 1977

Edited by Harry Hollien and Patricia Hollien

These papers, from the IPS-77 Congress held in Miami Beach, Florida in 1977, present the state-of-the-art in phonetic science. The volume is subdivided into twelve sections: History of Phonetics, Issues of Method and Theory in Phonetics, Laryngeal Function, Temporal Factors and Intonation,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 9] 1979. xxi, 587pp., xiii, 608 pp.

Dutch Contributions to the Eighth International Congress of Slavists, Zagreb, Ljubljana, September 3–9, 1978

Edited by Jan M. Meijer

This volume contains 18 papers derived from presentations by Dutch linguists at the Eighth International Congress of Slavists. read more

[Not in series, 10] 1979. iv, 425 pp.

A Guide to Romance Reference Grammars: The modern standard languages

John C. McKay

This guide provides brief descriptions and evaluations of the best reference grammars and comprehensive works on the syntax of contemporary French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, and Rumanian. read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 6] 1979. xviii, 126 pp.

Handbook of Australian Languages: 3 Volumes (set)

Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake

[Not in series, HAL S] 1979. V.1: 1979, xiv, 392pp. + 4 maps; V.2: 1981, xxiv, 427pp. + 6 maps; V.3: 1983, xxiv, 531 pp. + 5 maps

Handbook of Australian Languages: Volume 1

Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake

This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. In the introduction the editors discuss some of the recurrent features of… read more

[Not in series, HAL 1] 1979. xviii, 390 pp. 4 maps

Integrale Linguistik: Festschrift für Helmut Gipper

Herausgegeben von Edeltraud Bülow und Peter Schmitter

Integrale Linguistik honour the life and work of Helmut Gipper. Part I covers the History of Linguistics (Hennig Brinkmann, Eugenio Coseriu, Hartwig Franke & Kristina Franke, Johannes Lohmann, Gerold Ungeheur); Part II Theory of Linguistics (Karl-Otto Apel, Edeltraud Bülow, Shirô Hattori, Ladislaus… read more

[Not in series, 12] 1979. xiii, 817 pp.

Linear Order and Generative Theory

Edited by Jürgen M. Meisel and Martin D. Pam

The term ‘word order studies’ designates an area of syntax which has become an increasingly central theme in linguistic research. Since, in at least a narrow sense, syntax is the study of how meaningful elements are put together to form sentences, a preoccupation with word order would seem inherent… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 7] 1979. ix, 512 pp.

Perspectives in Experimental Linguistics: Papers from the University of Alberta Conference on Experimental Linguistics, Edmonton, 1–14 Oct. 1978

Edited by Gary D. Prideaux

Over the past few years interest and research in experimental linguistics has shifted more toward centre stage, perhaps because of the growing recognition that purely theoretical formulations and speculations about language must necessarily be tested against the empirical facts of language… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 10] 1979. xi, 176 pp.

Prolegomena to a Grammar of Basque

Terence H. Wilbur

The purpose of this study is to apply experimentally the principles of recent grammatical theories to the facts of the Basque language. This study aims to test out those principles, and endeavours to discover the best form for a grammar of Basque. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 8] 1979. x, 188 pp.

Readings in Creole Studies

Edited by Ian F. Hancock

Creole studies embrace a wide range is disciplines: history, ethnography, geography, sociology, etc. The phenomenon of creolization has come to be recognized as widespread; creolization presupposes contact, and that is a human universal. The present anthology discusses social, historical and… read more

[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 2] 1979. xiv, 352 pp.

Sir William Jones: A bibliography of primary and secondary sources

Garland Cannon

Sir William Jones (1746 –1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. His third annual discourse before the Asiatic Society on the history and culture of the Hindus (1786)… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 7] 1979. xiv, 73 pp.

The Standard in South African English and its Social History

Len W. Lanham and C.A. MacDonald

This study of the South African variety of English is an exercise in the sociology of language conducted mainly within the conceptual framework and methodology created by William Labov. It accepts that social process and social structure are reflected in patterns of covariation involving linguistic… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G1] 1979. 96 pp.

Studies in Diachronic, Synchronic, and Typological Linguistics: Festschrift for Oswald Szemérenyi on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday

Edited by Bela Brogyanyi

This two-volume collection of papers was brought together in honor of Oswald Szemerényi on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The volumes contain 70 papers, most of which deal with Indo-European (historical) linguistics. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 11] 1979. xiv, 487, x, 506 pp. (2 vols.)

Theoretical Morphology of the French Verb

James Foley

The analysis of French verbs presented in this monograph is neither a synchronic nor a diachronic description, but rather a theoretical achronic analysis whose goal is the explanation of the historical phonetic development of the French verb in terms of changes in the underlying abstract… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 1] 1979. iv, 292 pp.

Voice Quality: A classified research bibliography

John Laver

The characteristic voice quality of a speaker conveys to listeners a wealth of information about his physical, psychological and social attributes. For this reason, voice quality is of interest to a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, phonetics and speech science, speech pathology,… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 5] 1979. viii, 225 pp.

Zur 'Heliand' metrik: Das Verhältnis von Rhythmus und Satzgewicht im Altsächsischen

Ingeborg Hinderschiedt

Die Heliandmetrik ist eine Metrik im Altsachsischen. In dieser Studie wird versucht eine Analyse, Beschreibung und Auswertung nach der formalen Kriterien zu beschreiben. Wichtig ist vor allem das Verhältnis von Rhythmus und Satzgewicht. read more

[German Language and Literature Monographs, 8] 1979. vi, 143 pp.

Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die psychologischen Grundlagen der sprachlichen Analogiebildung (1901): New edition

Albert Thumb (1865–1915) and Karl Marbe (1869–1953)

Fac simile edition with a Foreword by E. F. K. Koerner and an Introduction by David J. Murray. The appendix contains Erwin A. Esper’s A Contribution to the Experimental Study of Analogy (1918). read more

[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 1] 1978. lxiii, 108 pp.

Grammatical Theory and Metascience: A critical investigation into the methodological and philosophical foundations of 'autonomous' linguistics

Esa Itkonen

In this book, the author analyses the nature of the science of grammar. After presenting some methodological and historical background, he sets forth a theory of language and of grammar, showing that the science of grammar is not an empirical, but a normative science, comparable to logic and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 5] 1978. x, 355 pp.

Linguistics in the Netherlands 1974–1976

Wim Zonneveld

This volume contains papers from the 1974, 1975, and 1976 meetings of the annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands (Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap), held in Amsterdam. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members with an opportunity to report on their work in… read more

[Not in series - Grüner, 135] 1978. vi, 227 pp.

The Order of Words in the Ancient Languages compared with that of the Modern Languages

Henri Weil (1818–1909)

New edition of a pioneering work on word order, which originally appeared in French in 1844 (3rd ed., 1879), with an index. read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 14] 1978. xxxix, 114 pp.

Pragmatics: An annotated bibliography

Jef Verschueren

The selection of entries in this bibliography reflects the following definition of pragmatics: The study (i) of the use and extra-linguistic function(s) of language, and (ii) of the relation between such uses or functions and the structure of language, i.e., the contextual appropriateness… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 4] 1978. xvi, 270 pp.

Studia linguistica: Alexandro Vasilii Filio Issatschenko. A Collegis Amicisque Oblata

Edited by Henrik Birnbaum, Ľubomir Ďurovič, Gunnar Jacob, Nils Åke Nilsson et Anders Sjöberg

[Not in series - Grüner, 13] 1978. xxvi, 517 pp.

The Theory of English Lexicography 1530–1791

Tetsuro Hayashi

This book serves as a welcome addition to the better known English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755, by Starnes & Noyes (new edition published by Benjamins 1991). Whereas Starnes & Noyes describe the history of English lexicography as an evolutionary progress-by-accumulation process,… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 18] 1978. xii, 168 pp.

Toward a Historiography of Linguistics: Selected Essays

E.F.K. Koerner †

The papers brought together in the present volume represent the essence of the author’s reflections on issues concerning linguistic historiography and of particular investigations in 19th and 20th century linguistic thought. The papers are clustered in three sections: I. Towards a Historiography of… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 19] 1978. xx, 222 pp.

Valence, Semantic Case, and Grammatical Relations: Workshop studies prepared for the 12th International Congress of Linguists, Vienna, August 29th to September 3rd, 1977

Edited by Werner Abraham

The papers in this volume have been grouped in three thematic parts: Valence which plays a key concept in the syntactic classification of verbs and adjectives, provides a necessary link for decoding and encoding grammatical relations, and is an important requisite for the evaluation of formal… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 1] 1978. xiv, 729 pp.

Versprechen und Verlesen: Eine psychologisch-linguistische Studie. New edition

Rudolf Meringer (1859–1931) und Carl Mayer (1862–1936)

Versprechen und Verlesen (1895) is distinguished more by observational accuracy than by theoretical sophistication; but it is exactly this characteristic which has proved its lasting value. It is a scrupulously collected, usefully organized, and very large corpus of errors, providing material on… read more

[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 2] 1978. xl, xiv, 207 pp.

Western Histories of Linguistic Thought: An annotated chronological bibliography, 1822–1976

E.F.K. Koerner †

The present bibliography suggests that there has been a constant flow of publications which survey the discipline of linguistics in its various stages of development. It attempts to offer a comprehensive coverage of general accounts of the history of linguistic thought in the western world over the… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 11] 1978. x, 113 pp.

XIV Congresso Internationale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza: Napoli, 15–20 Aprile 1974. ATTI

Edited by Alberto Varvaro

These acts of the 1974 Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza (Naples) were co-published by John Benjamins Publishing Company and Gaetano Macchiaroli. The five volumes are subdivided into sections by linguistic sub-fields. Vol. 1 contains the plenary papers and papers from the… read more

[Not in series, 9] 1978. vi, 3281 pp. (5 Vols.)

'Quaestiones Alberti de Modis significandi': A critical edition

Pseudo-Albertus Magnus

This book provides a critical edition, translation and commentary of the British Museum Incunabulum C.21.C.52 and the Cambridge Incunabulum 5.J.3.7. of the Quaestiones Alberti. Although the British Museum catalogue ascribes the incunabulum to Albertus Magnus, the authorship is debated.The format of… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 15] 1977. xxxvii, 191 pp.

'Über den Umlaut: Zwei Abhandlungen' (Carlsruhe, 1843) and 'Über den Ablaut' (Carlsruhe, 1844)

Adolf Holtzmann (1810–1870)

Über den Umlaut (1843) and Über den Ablaut (1844) grew out of a review of Grimm’s Deutsche Grammatik by Holtzmann, in which he also made an excursus into Bopp’s theory of vowel gradation in Sanskrit. Holtzmann was the first to observe the correlation of guṇa and accent. At the same time he noted… read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 12] 1977. xxix, 48, and 81 pp.

Adverbs and Comparatives: An analytical bibliography

Conrad Sabourin

There are indications that interest in the study of adverbs has been growing steadily in recent years, largely due to the so-called Chomskyan revolution in linguistics which put much emphasis on the study of syntax, but probably also because of the position these adverbs and other particles take… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 2] 1977. vii, 208 pp.

Analogy: A basic bibliography

Raimo Anttila and Warren A. Brewer

This basic bibliography of analogy aims to be a useful tool for linguistic research. The compilers have emphasized the years from 1868 onwards, starting with Scherer’s statement, but a few important premonitory works have been included as well. read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 1] 1977. xiv, 50 pp.

Charles Morris and the Criticism of Discourse

Richard A. Fiordo

[Studies in Semiotics, 4] 1977. viii, 197 pp.

Der ästhetische Inhalt: Zur semantischen Funktion poetischer Verfahren

Wolf Schmid

[Not in series - Grüner, 94] 1977. 113 pp.

Dissertation on the Sanskrit Language

Paulinus A.S. Bartholomaeo

Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo’s Dissertatio historico-critica in linguam Samscrdamicam (1790) serves as an introduction to his Sidharubam, the first Sanskrit grammar published in Europe. The Dissertatio is also important for another reason: it is concerned with speculations about the nature and origin… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 12] 1977. xx, 222 pp.

Germanic and its Dialects: A grammar of Proto-Germanic. Volume III: Bibliography and Indices

Compiled by Thomas Markey, R.L. Kyes and Paul T. Roberge

Germanists have long lamented the lack of comprehensive bibliographies of past and present literature, particularly in the areas of Frisian, Old English, Old High German, and, most notably, Old Saxon. The compilers of this bibliography deem it crucial to fill this lacuna before embarking on two… read more

[Not in series, 7] 1977. 525 pp.

The Lautgesetz-Controversy: A documentation (1885–86). New edition

Essay(s) by Georg Curtius (1820–85), Berthold Delbrück (1842–1922), Karl Brugmann (1849–1919), Hugo Schuchardt (1842–1927), Hermann Collitz (1855–1945), Hermann Osthoff (1847–1909) and Otto Jespersen (1860–1943)

The essays reproduced in this volume represent the major and characteristic documents in that flood of literature that was produced during the neogrammarian controversy. At that time, the entire community of linguists came face to face with the most profound problems of its theory and practice; it… read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 9] 1977. 587 pp.

Papers on Language Theory and History: Volume I: Creation and Tradition in Language

J. Peter Maher

Interest in word-meaning is on the increase among mainstream linguists again after a half-century of neglect. During this interval progress in phonology and syntax was great, but further progress in these sub-disciplines will remain blocked until it is recognized that the prime functional unit of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 3] 1977. xx, 171 pp.

The Role of Prescriptivism in American Linguistics 1820–1970

Glendon F. Drake

The phenomenon of absolutist, prescriptive correctness is persistent and pervasive in the linguistic through of educated and intelligent citizens of the United States. This volume is not only and attempt to gain some understanding of the source, nature, and operation of the prescriptive attitude,… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 13] 1977. x, 130 pp.

A Structural Description of the Macedonian Dialect of Dihovo: Phonology, morphology, texts, lexicon

B.M. Groen

[Not in series - Grüner, 134] 1977. viii, 307 pp.

Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics: Festschrift for Winfred P. Lehmann

Edited by Paul J. Hopper

This volume of articles was prepared in honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The papers are presented in two sections: I. Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, and II. Studies in Historical Linguistics. The volume contains contributions by R.M.W. Dixon, Ralph M. Goodman,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 4] 1977. x, 502 pp.

Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier: Ein Beitrag zur Begründung der Altertumskunde (Heidelberg, 1808). New edition

Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829)

This volume presents a fac simile edition of Friedrich Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier. Ein Beitrag zur Begründung der Altertumskunde (Heidelberg, 1808). It is preceded by an introductory article by Sebastiano Timpanaro ‘Friedrich Schlegel and the beginnings of Indo-European… read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 1] 1977. lvii, 172 + 22pp. (i.e., 2pp.of orig.txt reprod.)

Chronologisches Verzeichnis französischer Grammatiken vom Ende des 14. bis zum Ausgange des 18. Jahrhunderts, nebst Angabe der bisher ermittelten Fundorte derselben

Dargestellt von Edmund Stengel (1845–1935)

This volume (1976) contains a fac simile reprint of the original 1890 edition of Stengel’s Chronologisches Verzeichnis Französischer Grammatiken. In addition, it contains an appendix by Hans-Josef Niederehe which gives a short biography of E.M. Stengel and brings together the additions and… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 8] 1976. x, 240 pp.

Cultivated Plants and Domesticated Animals in their Migration from Asia to Europe: Historico-linguistic studies (London, 1885)

Victor Hehn (1813–1890)

New edition, prepared with a bio-bibliographical account of Hehn and a survay of the research into Indo-European prehistory by James P. Mallory. It was Hehn who for the first time combined the tools of comparative linguistics and the direct historical approach in order to discover the origins of… read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 7] 1976. lxxv, 523 pp.

The Development of Morphophonemic Theory

James Kilbury

The aim of this book is to provide a concise historical survey of linguistic investigation relating to the notion of morphophonemics. The study is essentially historical and thus does not offer its own theory of morphophonemics. Since attention is focused on the development of morphophonemic… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 10] 1976. viii, 155 pp.

Entpersönlichende Personenerwähnung im modernen französischen Roman: Untersuchungen zur Grammatik und Poetik narrativer Texte

Johanna Kahr

[Beihefte zu Poetica, 12] 1976. 210 pp.

A Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue

Rasmus Rask (1787–1832)

This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask’s Anvising till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket (1818). This re-edition, with an added bio-bibliography of Rask, should enable the linguist of today to obtain a fairly rounded picture of this… read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 2] 1976. lx, viii, 273 pp.

In Memoriam Friedrich Diez: Akten des Kolloquiums zum Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Romanistik/Actes du Colloque sur l'Histoire des Etudes Romanes/ Proc

Edited by Hans-Josef Niederehe and Harald Haarmann

The first 'Kolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Romanistik' (Trier 1975) was held to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the death of Friedrich Diez, the founder of Romance philology. The colloquium offered Romanists and historians of linguistics the opportunity for intense discussion,… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 9] 1976. viii, 508 pp.

Linguistic and Literary Studies in Honor of Archibald A. Hill: Vol. I: General and theoretical linguistics

Edited by Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Edgar C. Polomé and Werner Winter

[Not in series - Grüner, 129] 1976. 412 pp.

On Poetic Language

Jan Mukařovský

[Not in series - Grüner, 131] 1976. 88 pp.

Proto-Romance and Sicilian

Michael L. Mazzola

[Not in series - Grüner, 130] 1976. 142 pp.

The Radozda-Vevcani Dialect of Macedonian: Structure, Text, Lexicon

Petra Hendriks

[Not in series - Grüner, 128] 1976. viii, 309 pp.

Studies in the Grammatical Tradition in Tibet

Roy Andrew Miller

This volume reprints — with additions and corrections — seven papers originally published 1962–1973, on the indigenous grammars of Tibet and their linguistic tradition. Two ancient treatises commonly attributed to “Thon-mi Sambhoṭa” are studied extensively, as well as extracts from many other… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 6] 1976. xix, 142 pp.

Arte de la Lengua General del Reyno de Chile: 1607. Reprinted. 1975 (Ed. Cabildo, Vaduz/Georgetown)

Andrés Febrés

The Jesuit Andrés Febrés compiled this manual for learning the Araucanian language during his first years as a missionary among the Indians of northern Chile. In addition to the grammatical instruction, the work includes a dialogue between two caciques, the Christian doctrine, a brief dictionary,… read more

[Not in series, 129] 1975. 682 pp

Cathecismo en Lengua española y moxa. Lima, 1701: Small 8vo. Reprint edition 1975 (Ed. Cabildo, Valduz/Georgetown) of the second part of Marban's Arte de la Lengua Moxa con su Vocabulario y Cathecismo

P. Pedro Marban

[Not in series, 4] 1975. (xx), 145 pp.

Componential Analysis of Lushai Phonology

Alfons Weidert

The aim of this essay is to present a phonological analysis of Lushai, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Mizoram province of India, in terms of componential features applying – as mutation rules – to the morphophonological level. An analysis of this nature becomes possible if the concepts of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 2] 1975. xiv, 139 pp.

Essays on the Sound Pattern of English

Edited by Didier L. Goyvaerts and Geoffrey K. Pullum

This book is a collection of readings in phonological theory with special reference to English. The essays it contains are all concerned to a significant extent with discussion and criticism of the theory of phonology developed by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle in their monograph The Sound Pattern… read more

[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 1] 1975. x, 580

Gramatica y Arte nueva de la Lengua general de todo el Perö, llamada Lengua Qquichua, o Lengua del Inca: Ciudad de los Reyes del Perö, 1607. Reprinted. 1975 (Ed. Cabildo, Vaduz/Georgetown), + intro. Bernard Pottier

P. Diego-Conçalez Holguin

[Not in series, 6] 1975. Small 4to. iv, 144 pp.

Linguistics and Anthropology: In Honor of C.F. Voegelin

Edited by Dale M. Kinkade, Kenneth L. Hale and Otmar Werner

[Not in series - Grüner, 124] 1975. 720 pp.

Noticia de la Lengua Huasteca, que en Beneficio de sus Nacionales..., con Cathecismo y Doctrina Christiana para su instrucción: Reprint edition 1975 (Ed. Cabildo, Vaduz/Georgetown)

Carlos de Tapia Zenteno

[Not in series, 1] 1975. (x), 128 pp.

The Transformational-Generative Paradigm and Modern Linguistic Theory

Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †

This volume reflects the fact that the possibilities in theory construction allow for a much wider spectrum than students of linguistics have perhaps been led to believe. It consists of articles by scholars of differing generations and widely varying academic persuasions: some have received their… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 1] 1975. viii, 462 pp.

Ut videam: Contributions to an understanding of linguistics. For Pieter Verburg on the occasion of his 70th birthday

Edited by Werner Abraham

[Not in series - Grüner, 123] 1975. 300 pp. + 1 photo.

What is a Linguistic Fact?

William Labov

[Not in series - Grüner, 32] 1975. 61 pp.

Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic Languages, shewing the original identity of their grammatical structure: New edition

Franz Bopp (1791–1867)

The publication in 1816 of Bopp’s Über das Conjugationssystem can be considered the beginning of a systematic comparison of Indo-European languages, and thus as having led too the development of the study of language as a science, distinct from philology. The Analytical Comparison (1820) represents… read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 3] 1974. xxxviii, 68 pp. 2nd corrected edition, 1989

Declinatio: A study of the linguistic theory of Marcus Terentius Varro

Daniel J. Taylor

Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 B.C.) was one of the most prolific writers in antiquity. However, of his De Lingua Latina only six of 25 books have survived, and these are neither complete nor free of textual corruption. This study is an attempt to provide an adequate, consistent, and comprehensive… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 2] 1974. xv, 131 pp.

Die Anfänge der hebräischen Grammatik (1895), together with Die hebräische Sprachwissenschaft vom 10. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert (1892)

Wilhelm Bacher (1850–1913)

The present volume reproduces two still unsurpassed accounts of the flourish and eventual decline of Hebrew linguistic scholarship covering the period from the 10th to the 16th century, at a time when Christian scholars and theologians – as a result of the Reformation with its emphasis on the… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 4] 1974. xix, 57, 235 pp.

Einleitung in die Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (1884–1890) together with Zur Literatur der Sprachenkunde Europas (Leipzig, 1887)

August Friedrich Pott (1802–87)

This volume contains August Friedrich Pott's Einleitung in de Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, which appeared between 1884 and 1890 in F. Techmer's Internationale Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Leipzig). In addition, the volume contains Pott's Zur Literatur der Sprachenkunde Europas… read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 10] 1974. xlvi, 502 pp. Small-4to.

Introduction to the Study of Language: A critical survey of the history and methods of comparative philology of Indo-European languages (Leipzig, 1882). New edition

Berthold Delbrück (1842–1922)

This volume contains a fac simile edition of the 1882 English translation of Delbrück’s Einleitung in das Sprachstudium. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Methodik der vergleichenden Sprachforschung (Leipzig 1880), together with a Foreword and a Selected Bibliography.

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 8] 1974. xix, 148 pp. 2nd corrected edition, 1989.

The Study of Indo-European Vocalism in the 19th century: From the beginnings to Whitney and Scherer. A critical-historical account

Wilbur A. Benware

In the 19th century research on the Indo-European languages was to a large degree coterminus with the development of linguistics itself. The most notable accomplishments, as related in every history of linguistics, took place in the area of phonology. The present study examines one aspect of… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 3] 1974. xii, 126 pp. 2nd. printing 1995.

The Importance of Techmer's 'Internationale Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft' in the Development of General Linguistics

E.F.K. Koerner †

Techmer’s Internationale Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (1884–1890) served, at a time of neogrammarian domination in the linguistic scene of the late 19th century, as an international forum for the discussion of general linguistics topics, the Humboldtian philosophy of language, and… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 1] 1973. vii, 76 pp., small-4to.

Science and Values

Joseph Grünfeld

[Not in series - Grüner, 122] 1973. xii, 210 pp.

Linguistic Structures and Linguistic Laws

Ferenc Kovacs

This monograph has as its objective to give a critical survey of the development of the theories concerning the essence, the function, and the most characteristic (determining) features of language, and to explore and evaluate the motive forces responsible for this development. The author explains… read more

[Not in series - Grüner, 121] 1971. 398 pp.

Die türkische Sprache in Ungarn im siebzehnten Jahrhundert

Jenö U. Németh

[Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica, 13] 1970. 281 pp., 90 ills.

Theoretical Problems of Typology and the Northern Eurasian Languages

Edited by László Dezső and Péter Hajdú

[Not in series - Grüner, 120] 1970. 184 pp.

A Complete Lexicon of the Latinity of Caesar's Gallic War: 1891

E.G. Sihler

[Not in series - Grüner, 99] 1968. iv, 188 pp.

Études sur Quintilien: I. Contribution à la recherche des sources de l'institution oratoire. II. Vocabulaire grec de la terminologie rhétorique dans l'institution oratoire. 1935-36. Reprint avec additions de l'auteur

Jean Cousin

[Not in series - Grüner, 29] 1967. 2 vols. in 1, vi, 872, vi, 152 pp.

Slavische Bibliothek: Beiträge zur slavischen Philologie und Geschichte. 1851-58. 2 vols in 1

Herausgegeben von F. Miklosich und J. Fiedler

[Not in series - Grüner, 101] 1965. 320 pp.

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Edited by Cecilia Andorno and Sandra Benazzo

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Gabriele Tola

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