SubjectsLinguistics / Typology
Book series
ISSN 0167-7373
Yearbook
Linguistic Variation Yearbook
General Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
ISSN 1568-1483 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9900
Journals
Asian Languages and Linguistics
Edited by Danqing Liu, Ailan Fu and Gong Cheng
ISSN 2665-9336 | E‑ISSN 2665‑9344
Studies in Language
General Editor: Katharina Haude and Nicole Kruspe
ISSN 0378-4177 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9978
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions
Edited by Sune Gregersen and Kees Hengeveld
Habitual constructions, such as those based on English used to and Spanish soler, are linguistic expressions denoting situations that typically occur. This volume proposes a novel approach to such expressions, arguing that habituality is not a unified semantic category, but rather a family of… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 136] 2026. vii, 389 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
This is the Thing: A cognitive/typological investigation into the concept of ‘thinghood’
Michael Fortescue
This monograph investigates for the first time words like ‘thing’ of maximal semantic generality across languages. Not all languages have exact equivalents of English ‘thing’ – in some, for instance, the nearest equivalent is an interrogative stem (‘what?’). Few languages extend their ‘thing’ words… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 79] 2026. ix, 220 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga
Language isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates, including a… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 135] 2025. vii, 339 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Linguistics of isolated languages | Theoretical linguistics
Proper Names
Edited by Chia-Jung Pan and Yang Huang
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 6:1 (2025) v, 252 pp.
Evidentiality, Modality and Grammaticalization
Edited by Eric Mélac
Special issue of Studies in Language 48:3 (2024) v, 240 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Methods for Studying Variation in Partitives
Edited by Petra Sleeman and Anne Tamm
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 24:2 (2024) v, 207 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective
Edited by Alessandra Barotto and Simone Mattiola
This book aims at investigating discourse phenomena (i.e., linguistic elements and constructions that help to manage the organization, flow, and outcome of communication) from a typological and cross-linguistic perspective. Although it is a well-established idea in functional-typological approaches… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 227] 2023. vi, 439 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Partitives cross-linguistically: Dimensions of variation
Edited by Silvia Luraghi and Petra Sleeman
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 23:1 (2023) v, 243 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Verb and Context: The impact of shared knowledge on TAME categories
Edited by Susana Rodríguez Rosique and Jordi M. Antolí Martínez
This volume approaches the interaction of evidentiality with some other related categories, such as modality and mirativity, from an innovative angle: its connection to informational configuration. The aim of this book is to analyze the impact of shared knowledge on TAME categories as well as to… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 34] 2023. xviii, 398 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig
This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events across areally, genetically, and typologically diverse languages of the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 134] 2022. viii, 437 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Classifiers
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 3:2 (2022) v, 227 pp.
The Typology of Physical Qualities
Edited by Ekaterina Rakhilina, Tatiana Reznikova and Daria Ryzhova
What is it like? – This is often the first question we ask about any object, and it is typically answered with adjectives: old, smooth, pointed, narrow, etc. Characteristics of things around us is a fundamental aspect of how we conceptualize the physical world, regardless of when or where we live –… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 133] 2022. vi, 339 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions
Edited by Katarzyna Janic and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the morpho-syntactic and semantic aspects of the antipassive construction from synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. The nineteen contributions assembled in this volume address a wide range of aspects pertinent to the antipassive… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 130] 2021. vii, 645 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology
Edited by Luca Alfieri, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat
Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 132] 2021. vi, 424 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units
Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki
The chapters in this volume focus on how we might understand the concept of ‘unit’ in human languages. It is an analytical notion that has been widely adopted by linguists of various theoretical and applied orientations but has recently been critically examined by both typologically oriented and… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 114] 2021. v, 204 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating
Edited by David Gil and Antoinette Schapper
Many Austronesian languages exhibit isolating word structure. This volume offers a series of investigations into these languages, which are found in an "isolating crescent" extending from Mainland Southeast Asia through the Indonesian archipelago and into western New Guinea. Some of the languages… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 129] 2020. ix, 510 pp.
Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions
Edited by Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi
Human languages exhibit fascinating commonalities and variations in the ways they describe motion events. In this volume, the contributors present their research results concerning motion event descriptions in the languages that they investigate. The volume features new proposals based on a broad… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 69] 2020. vii, 324 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The NP-strategy for Expressing Reciprocity: Typology, history, syntax and semantics
Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the syntax and semantics of a single linguistic phenomenon – the NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity – in synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. It challenges the assumption common in the typological, syntactic, and semantic… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 127] 2020. xv, 291 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Variation in phonology
Edited by Péter Szigetvári
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 20:1 (2020) v, 171 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
The ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages: An emergent unit in interaction
Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson
The ‘NP’ is one of the least controversial grammatical units that linguists work with. The NP is often assumed to be universal, and appears to be robust cross-linguistically (compared to ‘VP’ or even ‘clause’) in that it can be manipulated in argument positions in constructed examples. Furthermore,… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 128] 2020. vi, 366 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Argument Selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations
Edited by Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Balthasar Bickel
Capitalizing on the by now widely accepted idea of the construction-specific and language-specific nature of grammatical relations, the editors of the volume developed a modern framework for systematically capturing all sorts of variations in grammatical relations. The central concepts of this… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 123] 2019. vi, 536 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Determinants of Diachronic Stability
Edited by Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn
While much of the literature has focused on explaining diachronic variation and change, the fact that sometimes change does not seem to happen has received much less attention. The current volume unites ten contributions that look for the determinants of diachronic stability, mainly in the areas of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 254] 2019. vi, 294 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity
Edited by Albert Álvarez González, Zarina Estrada-Fernández and Claudine Chamoreau
This volume surveys the phenomenon of syntactic complexity in a diversity of languages and from a diversity of theoretical perspectives. The topics include clause combining strategies such as relative, complement, and adverbial clauses, serialization, clausal nominalizations, but also the switch… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 126] 2019. vi, 257 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Languages of South America | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Typology of Pluractional Constructions in the Languages of the World
Simone Mattiola
The aim of this book is to give the first large-scale typological investigation of pluractionality in the languages of the world. Pluractionality is defined as the morphological modification of the verb to express a plurality of situations that can additionally involve a plurality of participants… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 125] 2019. xxiv, 237 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
The Diachrony of Classification Systems
Edited by William B. McGregor and Søren Wichmann
Classification is a popular topic in typological, descriptive and theoretical linguistics. This volume is the first to deal specifically with the diachrony of linguistic systems of classification. It comprises original papers that examine the ways in which linguistic classification systems arise,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 342] 2018. xi, 362 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Egophoricity
Edited by Simeon Floyd, Elisabeth Norcliffe and Lila San Roque
Egophoricity refers to the grammaticalised encoding of personal knowledge or involvement of a conscious self in a represented event or situation. Most typically, a marker that is egophoric is found with first person subjects in declarative sentences and with second person subjects in interrogative… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 118] 2018. vii, 505 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Grammatical Realization of Polarity Contrast: Theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches
Edited by Christine Dimroth and Stefan Sudhoff
The polarity of a sentence is crucial for its meaning. It is thus hardly surprising that languages have developed devices to highlight this meaning component and to contrast statements with negative and positive polarity in discourse. Research on this issue has started from languages like German… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 249] 2018. v, 291 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages
Edited by Simon E. Overall, Rosa Vallejos and Spike Gildea
This volume explores typological variation within nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages. Using abundant data, generally from original and extensive fieldwork on under-described languages, it presents a far more detailed picture of nonverbal predication constructions than previously published… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 122] 2018. vi, 407 pp.
Other subjects Languages of South America | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Romance Parsed Corpora
Edited by Christina Tortora, Beatrice Santorini and Frances Blanchette
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 18:1 (2018) v, 204 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony
Edited by Sonia Cristofaro and Fernando Zúñiga
Typological hierarchies are widely perceived as one of the most important results of research on language universals and linguistic diversity. Explanations for typological hierarchies, however, are usually based on the synchronic properties of the patterns described by individual hierarchies, not… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 121] 2018. vi, 434 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Imperatives and Directive Strategies
Edited by Daniël Van Olmen and Simone Heinold
Imperatives and directive strategies have intrigued both formalists and functionalists. They continue to search for the answers to questions like “what are the semantics of the imperative?”, “how is it used (in the world’s languages)?” and “which factors determine the choice between imperatives and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 184] 2017. vi, 324 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages
Edited by Eva van Lier
Special issue of Studies in Language 41:2 (2017) v, 302 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Motion and Space across Languages: Theory and applications
Edited by Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective. The chapters present cutting-edge research covering central topics such as the status of semantic components in motion event… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 59] 2017. xiv, 460 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries
Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells
This volume presents a cross-linguistic investigation of clausal noun-modifying constructions in genetically varied languages of Eurasia. Contrary to a common premise that, in any language, adnominal clauses that share some features of relative clauses constitute a structurally distinct… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 116] 2017. vi, 381 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Register Variation and Syntactic Theory
Edited by Diane Massam and Tim Stowell
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 17:2 (2017) v, 198 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Similative and Equative Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Yvonne Treis and Martine Vanhove
While comparative constructions have been extensively studied in the past decades, the expression of equality and similarity has so far attracted little attention in the typological literature. The fifteen contributions assembled in this volume study similative and equative constructions in… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 117] 2017. vi, 437 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State
Edited by Casper de Groot
This volume is the first book length study into the essive, a relatively unknown case marker like English ‘as (a child)’. It focuses on the distribution of the essive in contemporary Uralic languages with special attention to the opposition between permanent and impermanent state. The volume… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 119] 2017. xix, 555 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
Verb Valency Changes: Theoretical and typological perspectives
Edited by Albert Álvarez González and Ia Navarro
This volume surveys a variety of verb valency change phenomena among diverse languages and from diverse theoretical viewpoints. It offers typological studies comparing languages in topics like applicative polysemy, complex predicate formation and locative alternation, but also works describing the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 120] 2017. xv, 310 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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.
Other subjects Morphology | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Insubordination
Edited by Nicholas Evans and Honoré Watanabe
The phenomenon of insubordination can be defined diachronically as the recruitment of main clause structures from subordinate structures, or synchronically as the independent use of constructions exhibiting characteristics of subordinate clauses. Long marginalised as uncomfortable exceptions,… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 115] 2016. xii, 435 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Interrogative Strategies: An areal typology of the languages of China
Tianhua Luo
This book deals with how to ask questions in the languages of China. The syntactic, morphological, and lexical forms for distinguishing interrogatives take centre stage; intonation is also dealt with, but more peripherally than question particles, disjunctive and negative constructions, and word… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 5] 2016. xiii, 252 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Evolution of language | Gesture Studies | Signed languages | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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.
Other subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
On multiple source constructions in language change
Edited by Hendrik De Smet, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde
Special issue of Studies in Language 37:3 (2013) vi, 219 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Three Factors and Beyond: Language development and impairment
Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 13:2 (2013) xii, 124 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Languages of South America | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Theory and data in cognitive linguistics
Edited by Nikolas Gisborne and Willem B. Hollmann
Special issue of Studies in Language 36:3 (2012) v, 258 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics
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.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Other African languages
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Studies in Transitivity: Insights from Language Documentation
Edited by František Kratochvíl, Alexander R. Coupe and Randy J. LaPolla
Special issue of Studies in Language 35:3 (2011) v, 266 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Languages of South America | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Languages of South America | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Other African languages | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Lexicography | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations
Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden
Special issue of Studies in Language 33:2 (2009) 250 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2009
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, 9] 2009. 257 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Languages of North America | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Morphology | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2008
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, 8] 2008. 284 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Parts of Speech: Descriptive tools, theoretical constructs
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau
Special issue of Studies in Language 32:3 (2008) 246 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Rethinking Grammaticalization. New perspectives & Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization
Edited by María José López-Couso and Elena Seoane
These two volumes 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 papers), the twelve contributions included in this volume were carefully… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 76-77] 2008. 742 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Creole studies
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.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Syntax
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2007
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, 7] 2007. 268 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.)
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)
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | Signed languages | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Languages of North America | Languages of South America | Morphology | Semantics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2006
Edited by Pierre Pica
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, 6] 2006. iv, 274 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Other African languages
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.
Other subjects Morphology | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics
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.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2005
Edited by Pierre Pica, Johan Rooryck and 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, 5] 2005. iv, 308 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Generative linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2004
Edited by Pierre Pica
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, 4] 2004. iv, 302 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Linguistics of isolated languages | Morphology | Syntax
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.
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)
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
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.
Other subjects Semantics
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.
Other subjects Evolution of language | Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Generative linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2002
Edited by Pierre Pica
[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 2] 2002. iv, 308 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings. 2 Volumes (set)
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, 60-61] 2002. xvi, 337 pp. & xvi, 337 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings. Volume 2
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, 61] 2002. xvi, 334 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Psycholinguistics | Semantics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
Circum-Baltic Languages: 2 Volumes (set)
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, 54-55] 2001. xx, 382 pp. & xx, 423 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Psycholinguistics
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2001
Edited by Pierre Pica
[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 1] 2001. xiv, 270 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Forms and functions: Volume 1: Reflexives; Volume 2: Reciprocals. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Traci Walker
Volume 1: 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… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 40-41] 2000. xiv, 286 pp. & xii, 201 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
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.
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.read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 152] 1999. vii, 338 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Syntax
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.
Other subjects Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Australian languages
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.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Morphology | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Other Indo-European languages
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Morphology | Semantics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Phonology | Pragmatics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Morphology | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers
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, 19:2] 1991. xii, 558 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax
Approaches to Grammaticalization: 2 Volumes (set)
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:S] 1990. xii, 360 pp. + xii, 560 pp.
Other subjects Morphology | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Creole studies
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Syntax
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.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.
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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
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.
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.
Other subjects Altaic languages | Language acquisition | Semantics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
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).
Other subjects History of linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Syntax
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.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
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.)
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Theoretical Problems of Typology and the Northern Eurasian Languages
Edited by László Dezső and Péter Hajdú
[Not in series - Grüner, 120] 1970. 184 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics