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CONTENTS
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JOH N BEN JA M I NS PU BL I SH I NG C OM PA N Y
Linguistics 3
3 Theoretical Linguistics
13 Language & Cognition
15 Pragmatics, Discourse & Dialogue
22 Applied Linguistics
29 Corpus & Computational
31 Historical Linguistics
32 History of Linguistics
Philosophy 32
Translation & Terminology 33
Literary Studies 35
Journals 37
Index 43
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Theoretical Linguistics
Give Constructions across Languages Constructions in Contact 2
Edited by Myriam Bouveret Language change, multilingual practices, and
University of Rouen-Lattice ENS/CNRS/Paris3 additional language acquisition
This cognitive contrastive study of ten languages (Chinese, Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
Dalabon, English, French, Spanish, Romanian, Kurdish, University of Texas at Austin / Kiel University
Khmer, Polish, Tibetan) focuses on the concept of giving The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in con-
from six main points of view, namely argument structure, structional approaches to language contact. This volume builds
lexical semantics and event structure, role marking in the on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic
three argument construction and in other constructions, Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the volume Constructions in
lexicalization, grammaticalization and constructionaliza- Contact (2018) and extends its methodology and insights in three
tion of the verb from a cognitive construction grammar major ways. First, it presents new constructional research on
point of view, and central and extended meanings. It is pro- a wide range of language contact scenarios including Afri-
posed that a continuum approach to grammar and lexicon kaans, American Sign Language, English, French, Malayalam,
is needed in order to describe the typological and historical Norwegian, Spanish, Welsh, and as well as contact scenarios
facts. The volume argues for a concrete and abstract transfer that involve typologically different languages. Second, it also
‘cluster model’ involving coverage of lexical and grammati- addresses other types of scenarios that do not fall into the classic
cal extension or bleaching phenomena and that the semantic language contact category, such as multilingual practices and
extensions (metaphorical and otherwise) exploit various
portions of this schema. The volume is deeply anchored in
“ingThis volume is an inspir-
example of the capacity
language acquisition as emerging multilingualism. Third, it
aims to integrate constructionist views on language contact and
the Cognitive Construction Grammar theoretical move- of constructional approach-
multilingualism with other approaches that focus on structural,
ment, and proposes analyses of constructional phenomena es to deal with complex lin-
social, and cognitive aspects. The volume demonstrates that
to illustrate a grammar to lexicon continuum, in synchrony guistic data and theoretical
problems. The papers unit- Construction Grammar is a framework particularly well suited
and diachrony: language change, grammaticalization chains, for analyzing a wide variety of language contact phenomena
ed here apply constructional
constructionalization analysis, and an invariant hypothesis from a usage-based perspective.
models to tackle unsolved
of giving as a basic activity in human cognition.
questions in language Contributions by: H.C. Boas & S. Höder; S. Bourgeois; S. Höder, J.
Contributions by: S. Akin & M. Bouveret; L. Badan; M. Bouveret; E. contact and other multi-
☞ Prentice & S. Tingsell; D. Jach; R. Lepic; S. Namboodiripad; A. Onysko;
Corre; O. David; M. Eric & N. Tournadre; K. Krawczak; D. Legallois; A. B. van Rooy; K.J. Rottet; A. Urban; K. Van Goethem & I. Hendrikx; E.
lingual constellations like
Morgenstern & N. Chang; M. Ponsonnet. Wiesinger.
second language acquistion
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 29] and additional language [Constructional Approaches to Language, 30]
2021. viii, 246 pp. acquisition. Taking up what 2021. vii, 428 pp. + index
Hb 978 90 272 0842 2 EUR 95.00 / USD 143.00 has been achieved in the Hb 978 90 272 0862 0 EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00
E-book 978 90 272 6015 4 EUR 95.00 / USD 143.00 field of language change, E-book 978 90 272 5997 4 EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00
|| Semantics || Syntax || Theoretical linguistics the scope of constructional || Bilingualism || Contact Linguistics || Theoretical linguistics
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investigation of diasystemic Linguistic Categories, Language
Romance Interrogative Syntax constructions. A highly wel-
Description and Linguistic Typology
come and instructive read to
Formal and typological dimensions of variation
everybody interested in the Edited by Luca Alfieri, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia
Caterina Bonan
University of Cambridge
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field! and Paolo Ramat
University of Studies Guglielmo Marconi / Ca’ Foscari University /
Gabriele Diewald,
This monograph offers an innovative understanding of the Leibniz Universität Hannover University of Pavia
mechanisms involved in Romance ‘optional’ wh-in situ. New Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been
supporting evidence in favour of Cable’s (2010) Grammar “This terrific volume calls
attention to the importance an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic
of Q is presented, as well as novel implementations of his of language contact in categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the
original theory. In particular, it is claimed that wh-in situ idi- shaping the constructicon. issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with
oms are characterised not only by language-specific choices The expert contributions different foci, in the context of the current debate on the nature
between QP-projection and Q-adjunction, and between overt showcase research which and methodology of the research on comparative concepts – par-
and covert movement of Q , but also in terms of the locus displays a number of inter- ticularly, the relation between the categories needed to describe
where they check the features relevant to wh-questions: actions with other domains languages and those needed to compare languages. While the
while some languages check both [q] and [focus] in C, others of enquiry in Construction first six papers deal with general theoretical questions, the fol-
make use of the clause-internal vP-periphery to check [focus]. Grammar. The book ad- lowing five confront specific issues in the domain of language
Thanks to the vast amount of data presented and discussed, dresses numerous topics in analysis arising from the application of categories. The volume
along with the predictions and theoretical contributions multilingualism, drawing will appeal to a very broad readership: advanced students and
made, this monograph will be of interest to a wide range of on an impressively diverse scholars in any field of linguistics, but also specialists in the
specialists in human language, from typologists to Romance range of language families.
philosophy of language, and scholars interested in the cognitive
It will be of tremendous in-
specialists and formal syntacticians, but also to the many aspects of language from different subfields (neurolinguistics,
terest to anyone interested
experts in languages with overt Q-particles who wonder why cognitive sciences, psycholinguistics, anthropology).
in usage-based approaches
Romance specialists have long been so resistant to the imple-
mentation of silent Q-particles in their theoretical models.
to linguistic diversity.
” Contributions by: L. Alfieri; L. Alfieri, G.F. Arcodia & P. Ramat; F. Da
Milano; Z. Frajzyngier; M. Haspelmath; H. Lieb; S. Mattiola; N. Puddu; T.
Graeme Trousdale, Reiner; H. Seiler, Y. Ono & W. Premper; M. Wiltschko.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 266] University of Edinburgh
2021. xiv, 253 pp. + index [Typological Studies in Language, 132] 2021. vi, 410 pp. + index
Hb 978 90 272 0845 3 EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 Hb 978 90 272 0865 1 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00
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|| Generative linguistics || Romance linguistics || Syntax || Cognition and language || Semantics || Syntax
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Linguistics
Usage-based and Typological Pre-Historical Language Contact in “
Approaches to Linguistic Units Peruvian Amazonia u
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Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury A dynamic approach to Shawi (Kawapanan)
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and Ryoko Suzuki Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia t
University of Alberta / University of Helsinki / Keio University University of Queensland b
The chapters in this volume focus on how we might South America was populated relatively recently, probably le
understand the concept of ‘unit’ in human languages. around 15,000 years ago. Yet, instead of finding a relatively small a
It is an analytical notion that has been widely adopted a
number of language families, we find some 118 genealogical
by linguists of various theoretical and applied orienta- t
units. So far, the historical processes that underlie the current
tions but has recently been critically examined by both e
picture are not yet fully understood. This book represents a
typologically oriented and interactional linguistics. This t
preliminary attempt at understanding the socio-historical dy- a
volume contributes to and extends this discussion by namics behind language diversification in the region, focusing fe
examining the nature of units in actual usage in a range on the Kawapanan languages, particularly on Shawi. The book a
of genetically and typologically unrelated languages, provides an introduction to the ideas behind the flux approach r
English, Finnish, Indonesian, Japanese, and Mandarin, of Dynamic linguistics and later concentrates on prehistorical fo
engaging with fundamental theoretical issues. The language contact, specifically in the northern Peruvian Andean la
chapters show that categories originally created for the sphere. The number of studies presented shed light on a layered d
description of Indo-European languages have limited picture in which a number of Kawapanan lects were used in o
usefulness if our goal is to understand the nature of hu- non-polyglosic multilingual settings. The book explores the a
man language in general. The authors thus question the potential contact relationships between Kawapanan languages, n
status of traditionally accepted linguistic units, especially in
Quechuan, Aymaran, Chachapuya, Cholón-Hibito, Arawak,
their static understanding as a priori entities, and suggest le
Carib and Puelche. The analysis draws on data collected in the
instead that an emergent and interactional view of both s
field over a period of eight years (2012-2020) with both Shawi
structure and function offers a better fit with the data o
and Shiwilu speakers and includes the first comprehensive
from the languages examined. Originally published as g
grammar sketch of Shawi.
special issue 43:2 (2019) of Studies in Language. c
[Contact Language Library, 58] 2021. xvii, 258 pp. + index a
Contributions by: M. Donohue & B. Gautam; M.C. Ewing; M.
Hb 978 90 272 0836 1 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 in
Helasvuo; R. Krekoski; R. Laury, T. Ono & R. Suzuki; P. Mayes & H.
Tao; P. Nuhn; T. Ono, R. Laury & R. Suzuki; S.A. Thompson. E-book 978 90 272 6021 5 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 n
|| Anthropological Linguistics || Contact Linguistics s
[Benjamins Current Topics, 114]
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2021. v, 249 pp. + index
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|| Functional linguistics || Syntax || Theoretical linguistics Aspects of Latin American Spanish a
|| Typology
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Dialectology B
In honor of Terrell A. Morgan A
Morphologically Derived Adjectives Edited by Manuel Díaz-Campos and Sandro Sessarego
in Spanish Indiana University - Bloomington / University of Texas at Austin
J
Antonio Fábregas This book focuses on contemporary sociolinguistic approaches
UiT-The Arctic University of Norway T
to Spanish dialectology. Each of the authors draws on key
This is the first book that presents a complete empirical issues of contemporary sociolinguistics, combining theoreti- E
cal approaches with empirical data collection. Overall, these R
description and theoretical analysis of all major classes of
derived adjectives in Spanish, both deverbal and denomi- chapters address topics concerning language variation and T
nal. The reader will find here both a detailed empirical change, sound production and perception, contact linguistics, o
description of the syntactic, morphological and semantic language teaching, language policy, and ideologies. The authors in
properties of derived adjectives in contemporary Span- urge us, as linguists, to take a stand on important issues and to in
ish and a cohesive Neo-Constructionist analysis of the continue applying theory to praxis so as to advance the frontiers in
syntactic and semantic tools that contemporary Spanish of research in the field. This edited volume in honor of Profes- Ja
has available to build adjectives from other grammatical sor Terrell A. Morgan is a means of celebrating an amazing m
categories within a Nanosyntactic-oriented framework. friend, advisor, and human being, who has dedicated his career in
In doing so, this book sheds light on the nature of adjec- to teaching graduate and undergraduate students, performed to
tives as a grammatical category and argues that adjectives key research in the field, and helped to further pedagogy in the m
are syntactically built by recycling functional heads classroom through his textbooks, seminars and websites. d
belonging to other categories. The book will be useful Contributions by: A. Boomershine & S. Forgash; W. Chappell; A. Cipria;
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both to researchers in Spanish linguistics or theoreti- G. Delgado-Díaz, I. Galarza & M. Díaz-Campos; M. Díaz-Campos & S.
Sessarego; C. García; S.N. Gynan; D. Korfhagen, R. Rao & S. Sessarego;
a
cal morphology and to advanced students of Spanish
P.V. Lunn; K. López Alonzo; D. Salcedo Arnaiz; S.A. Schwenter & M.R. li
interested in the main ways of building new adjectives
Hoff; D.R. Uber. th
through suffixation in this language.
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2021. vi, 292 pp. C
2020. xi, 377 pp.
Hb 978 90 272 0811 8 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 2
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E-book 978 90 272 6031 4 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 H
E-book 978 90 272 6033 8 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00
|| Morphology || Romance linguistics || Syntax || Romance linguistics || Sociolinguistics and Dialectology E
|| Theoretical linguistics || Theoretical linguistics ||
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Theoretical Linguistics
Advancedness in Second Language Syntactic Geolectal Variation
“This volume will serve as a
unique landmark in the study Spanish Traditional approaches, current challenges
of advancedness in second Definitions, challenges, and possibilities and new tools
language Spanish. It contains
Edited by Mandy R. Menke and Paul A. Malovrh Edited by Alba Cerrudo, Ángel J. Gallego
theoretically-grounded chapters
University of Minnesota / University of South Carolina and Francesc Roca
by experts who explore the chal-
lenges in defining, facilitating This book analyzes the construct of advanced proficiency CLT - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / GLG/
and investigating the nature of in second language learning by bringing together empiri- GALI - Universitat de Girona
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advanced language abilities and cal research from numerous linguistic domains and meth- This volume brings together studies that combine both tradi-
the profiles of advanced learn- odological traditions. Focusing on the dynamic nature tional and contemporary tools in the study of syntactic geolectal
ers. The nuanced exploration of of language use, the volume explores diverse manifesta- variation, with a special focus on a subset of Iberian varieties.
the construct of advancedness tions of high-level second language Spanish, including There is an increasing body of research on syntactic micro-vari-
and the effect of individual dif- performance on standardized proficiency assessments, ation, but the interaction between dialectology (which makes
ferences and experiences on the
acquisition of late-acquired linguistic structures, sophisti- use of atlases, corpora, databases, questionnaires, interviews,
acquisition process provides the
cated language use in context, and individual differences. etc.) and formal syntactic studies has traditionally been weak (or
reader with critical questions
Chapters relate empirical findings to current definitions event nonexistent), which is precisely the gap the contributions
for future research. Particu-
of advancedness, challenging scholars and practitioners in this book aim at filling in. From a broader perspective, this
larly helpful as well are the
d discussions of the limitations ☞ to re-consider existing conceptualizations, and propose collection is meant as a contribution to the subfield of linguistic
of extant rubrics to measure possible directions for future research and teaching with variation and to the more general field of Romance linguistics,
advanced proficiency and the second language speakers of Spanish. By addressing larger with special interest in Spanish and in other Iberian languages.
need to create more fine-grained issues in the field of second language learning, the volume The volume is meant for both researchers and students inter-
instruments to capture diverse is a valuable reference for language teachers, scholars, ested in linguistic variation or dialectology and, specifically, in
learners’ abilities to demon- professionals and students with an interest in second lan- syntactic variation in Iberian languages.
strate their multifunctionality guage acquisition generally, and second language Spanish, Contributions by: M. Batllori, M.L. Hernanz & C. Rubio-Alcalá; C.
of forms and sophisticated lan- more specifically. Buenafuentes de la Mata & C. Sanchez Lancis; B. Camus Bergareche & E.
guage use, as well as their dis- Contributions by: A.V. Brown, G.L. Thompson & T.L. Cox; L. Gutiérrez; A. Cerrudo, Á.J. Gallego & F. Roca; A. Cerrudo & A. Pineda;
course, intercultural, pragmatic, Czerwionka; Á. Donate; T.L. Face; J.C. Félix-Brasdefer & M. M.P. Colomina; M. Duguine & A. Irurtzun; P. García Mouton; I. Gil & E.
and sociolinguistic competences DiBartolomeo; K.L. Geeslin; G. Granena; A. Gudmestad; M. Gutiérrez; M. Massanell i Messalles; A.L. Naya; M.P. Perea; A.R. Tinoco.
in various domestic and inter- Kanwit; A. Long; P.A. Malovrh & J.F. Lee; P.A. Malovrh & M.R. [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 34]
national contexts. The proposed Menke; M.R. Menke; M.R. Menke & P.A. Malovrh; E.J. Serafini; C. 2021. vi, 380 pp. + index
synergistic relationship be- Shea; D. Soneson; O. Velázquez-Mendoza; P. Winke, E. Heidrich Hb 978 90 272 0871 2 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00
tween theoretical and pedagogi- Uebel & S.M. Gass.
E-book 978 90 272 5987 5 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00
cal considerations makes this [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 31]
volume indispensable to both 2021. vii, 506 pp. + index
|| Romance linguistics || Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
second language researchers Hb 978 90 272 0810 1 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 || Syntax || Theoretical linguistics
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and language practitioners.
” E-book 978 90 272 6032 1 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00
East and West of The Pentacrest
Barbara Lafford, || Applied linguistics || Bilingualism || Language acquisition
Arizona State University || Language teaching || Romance linguistics
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Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky
Edited by Timothy Gupton and Elizabeth Gielau
University of Georgia / Miami University
Japanese Mood and Modality in Systemic Functional Linguistics
This book is a collection of contemporary essays and squibs
Theory and Application
exploring the mental representation of Spanish and other
Edited by Ken-Ichi Kadooka languages in the Romance family. Although largely formal in
Ryukoku University orientation, they incorporate experimental and corpus data to
This book is a cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary exploration inform questions of synchronic and diachronic importance.
of modality within systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Draw- As a whole, these contributions explore two areas of particu-
s ing upon the broad SFL notion of modality that refers to the lar interest to linguistic theorizing. The first is linguistic
intermediate degrees between the positive and negative poles, the interfaces with chapters on syntax-information structure,
s individual papers probe into the modality systems in English and syntax-prosody, syntax-semantics, and lexicon-phonology.
Japanese. The papers cover issues such as the conceptual nature of The second consists of explorations of noun phrases of all
modality in both languages, the characterization of modulation sizes – from clitics to nominalized clauses. The results and
in Japanese, the trans-grammatical aspects of modality in relation conclusions of these studies encourage researchers to continue
to mood and grammatical metaphor in both languages, and the to explore individual languages in particular in order to gain
modality uses and pragmatic impairment by individuals with a insight on human language in general. This edited volume in
developmental disorder from a neurocognitive perspective. honor of Dr. Paula Kempchinsky is reflective of the diversity of
approaches that inspired her teaching, research, and mentor-
The book demonstrates a functional account of Japanese within
ing for over thirty years at the University of Iowa and beyond.
an SFL model of language with a fresh perspective to Japanese
Contributions by: J. Garrett; E. Gielau; G. Goodall; T. Gupton; T.
linguistics. It also refers to cross-linguistic issues concerning how
Gupton & E. Gielau; T. Leal & J. Renaud; J.E. MacDonald & A. Vázquez-
the principles and theories of SFL serve to empirically elaborate descriptions of individual lan- Lozares; S. O’Neill & C. Shea; T. Satterfield; K. Walker-Cecil & E.
guages, which will lead to the enrichment of the theory and practice of linguistics and beyond. Destruel Johnson.
Contributions by: K. Fukuda; R. Iimura; K. Kadooka; S. Kato. [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 33]
2021. v, 181 pp. 2021. viii, 213 pp.+ index
Hb 978 90 272 0834 7 EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 Hb 978 90 272 0867 5 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00
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Linguistics
Austronesian Undressed Antipassive L
How and why languages become isolating Typology, diachrony, and related constructions C
Edited by David Gil and Antoinette Schapper Edited by Katarzyna Janic and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich e
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena / University of Leipzig / Hebrew University of Jerusalem E
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / Lacito-CNRS U
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the morpho-
Many Austronesian languages exhibit isolating word syntactic and semantic aspects of the antipassive construction from W
structure. This volume offers a series of investigations synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. The nineteen c
into these languages, which are found in an “isolating contributions assembled in this volume address a wide range of th
crescent” extending from Mainland Southeast Asia aspects pertinent to the antipassive construction, such as lexical se- a
through the Indonesian archipelago and into western mantics, the properties of the antipassive markers, as well as the is- in
New Guinea. Some of the languages examined in this sue of fuzzy boundaries between the antipassive construction and c
volume include Cham, Minangkabau, colloquial Malay/ a range of other formally and functionally similar constructions in s
Indonesian and Javanese, Lio, Alorese, and Tetun Dili. genealogically and areally diverse languages. Purely synchronically g
The main purpose of this volume is to address the general question of how and why lan- oriented case studies are supplemented by contributions that shed th
guages become isolating, by examination of a number of competing hypotheses. While some light on the diachronic development of the antipassive construc- m
view morphological loss as a natural process, others argue that the development of isolating tion and the antipassive markers. The book should be of central O
word structure is typically driven by language contact through various mechanisms such as interest to many scholars, in particular to those working in the field d
creolization, metatypy, and Sprachbund effects. This volume should be of interest not only to of language typology, semantics, syntax, and historical linguists, g
Austronesianists and historians of Insular Southeast Asia, but also to grammarians, typolo- as well as to specialists of the language families discussed in the a
gists, historical linguists, creolists, and specialists in language contact. individual contributions. C
Contributions by: M. Brunelle; T.J. Conners; S. Crouch; M. Donohue & T. Denham; A. Elias; D. Gil; D. Contributions by: P.M. Arkadiev & A. Letuchiy; S. Auderset; A. Bugaeva; B. R
Gil & A. Schapper; M.A.F. Klamer; J.H. McWhorter; A. Schapper; C. Williams-van Klinken & J. Hajek. Comrie, D. Forker, Z. Khalilova & H. van den Berg; D. Creissels; J. Denniss; [S
R. Heaton; C. Hemmings; G. Jacques; K. Janic; K. Janic & A. Witzlack-
[Typological Studies in Language, 129] 2020. ix, 510 pp. H
Makarevich; C. Juárez & A. Álvarez González; M. Mithun; C. Moyse-Faurie;
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T. Givón
University of Oregon The Linguistics of Olfaction
Adpositions are used, universally, to mark the roles of Typological and Diachronic Approaches
nominal participants in the verbal clause most common- to Synchronic Diversity
ly indirect object roles. Practically all languages seem
Edited by Łukasz J˛edrzejowski
to have such markers which begin their diachronic life
and Przemysław Staniewski
as lexical words -- in this case either serial verbs or posi-
University of Cologne / University of Wroclaw
tional nouns. In many languages, however, adpositions
also seem to have extended their diachronic life one This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfac-
step further, becoming verbal affixes. The main focus tory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related lan-
of this book is the tail-end of the diachronic life cycle of guages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It
adpositions. That is, the process by which, having arisen contains a general introduction to the topic and fourteen chapters
first as nominal-attached prepositions or post-positions, based on philological investigation and thorough fieldwork data
they wind up attaching themselves to verbs. Our core from Basque, Beja, Fon, Formosan languages, Hebrew, Indo-Euro-
puzzle is thus fairly transparent: How and why should pean languages, Japanese, Kartvelian languages, Purepecha, and
morphemes that pertain functionally to nominals, and languages of northern Vanuatu. Topics discussed in the individual
begin their diachronic life-cycle as nominal grammati- chapters involve, inter alia, lexical olfactory repertoires and nam-
cal operators, wind up as verbal morphology? While the core five chapters of this book focus ing strategies, non-literal meanings of olfactory expressions and
on the rise of verb-attached prepositions in Homeric Greek, its theoretical perspective is their semantic change, reduplication, colexification, mimetics, and
broader, perched at the intersection of three closely intertwined core components of the language contact. The findings provide the reader with a range
study of human language: (a) the communicative function of grammar; (b) the balance of fascinating facts about perception description, contribute to a
between universality and cross-language diversity of grammars; and (c) the diachrony of deeper understanding of how olfaction as an understudied sense
grammatical constructions, how they mutate over time.While paying well-deserved hom- is encoded linguistically, and offer new theoretical perspectives on
age to the traditional Classical scholarship, this study is firmly wedded to the assumption, how some parts of our cognitive system are verbalized cross-cultur-
indeed presupposition, that Homeric Greek is just another natural language, spoken before ally. This volume is highly relevant to lexical typologists, historical
written, designed as an instrument of communication, and subject to the same universal linguists, grammarians, and anthropologists.
constraints as all human languages. And further, that those constraints – so-called language Contributions by: B. Avineri; A.E. Backhouse; K. Bellamy; A. François; V.
universals – express themselves most conspicuously in diachronic change. In analyzing the Hill; I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano; &. Jędrzejowski & P. Staniewski; M. Kobaidze, R.
Tchantouria & K. Vamling; R. Lambert-Brétière; A.P. Lee; P. Staniewski & A.
synchronic variation and text distribution of prepositional constructions in Homeric Greek,
Gołębiowski; F. Strik Lievers; M. Vanhove & T.H. Mohamed-Ahmed; Å. Viberg;
this study relies primarily on the theory-laden method of Internal Reconstruction. M. Zawisławska & M. Falkowska.
2021. [Typological Studies in Language, 131] 2021. xiii, 474 pp. + index
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Theoretical Linguistics
Lost in Change The Perfect Volume
Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical Papers on the perfect
h elements and constructions Edited by Kristin Melum Eide and Marc Fryd
Edited by Svenja Kranich and Tine Breban Norwegian University of Science and Technology /
University of Bonn / University of Manchester University of Poitiers
m While research on language change has formulated robust empiri- Drawing on the data and history from a wide range of languag-
n cal generalisations about processes and motivations underlying es, from Ayatal to Zapotec, this volume brings together leading
the emergence and spread of linguistic elements, their decline scholars in the field of tense and aspect research resulting in
- and loss is less well understood. So far a systematic investigation 18 contributions on the perfect and some of its close relatives
- into the processes and motivations of decline and loss in language (e.g. iamitives). Different approaches complement each other to
change is lacking. This book is a first step towards remedying this shed light on the source, emergence, grammaticalization, and
state of affairs. It brings together a varied set of empirical investi- the typological extension of perfect constructions cross-lin-
gations into decline and loss, spanning morphology, syntax and guistically. One focal point is the so-called aoristic drift, where
the lexicon, in different languages. Their authors apply diverse the perfect comes to resemble the simple past or aorist (often
methodologies and represent different theoretical approaches. via the hodiernal ‘today’ reading). The semantics and pragmat-
On the basis of this broad span of studies, authors and editors propose generalisations related to ics of perfects are also investigated through their interaction
d decline and loss and assess similarities and differences with processes and motivations of emer- with other categories (e.g. negation, mood). Over time some
gence and spread. The book aims to inspire and provide hypotheses for further studies of decline perfects undergo auxiliary doubling or omission, or the auxil-
and loss. It will appeal to historical linguists and others interested in language change. iary becomes subject to selection. These facts also receive special
attention in this book, presenting new insights on perfects in
Contributions by: D. Borchers; M. Hundt; L. Kempf; S. Kranich; S. Kranich & T. Breban; Y.H. Kuo; A. Rehn; K.
Rudnicka; M. Schweinberger; H. Sims-Williams & M. Baerman; O. Tichý; J. Čermák. both well-studied as well as very understudied languages.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 218] 2021. vi, 359 pp. + index Contributions by: P.M. Arkadiev; G.A. Broadwell; H. Broekhuis; Ö.
Dahl; K.M. Eide; K.M. Eide & M. Fryd; T. Eitler & G. Vadász; G.N.
Hb 978 90 272 0863 7 EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00
Fløgstad & C. Rodríguez Louro; M. Fryd; I. Gorbunova; F. Heinat; C.
E-book 978 90 272 5996 7 EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 Howe; I. Larsson; T.A. Maisak; M. Ritz & S.L.R. Richard; P. Slomanson;
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[Studies in Language Companion Series, 217]
2021. vii, 478 pp. + index
n ew jour nal 2022 Language Variation – Hb 978 90 272 0860 6 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00
European Perspectives VIII E-book 978 90 272 5999 8 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00
Journal of Uralic Linguistics Selected papers from the Tenth || Semantics || Syntax || Theoretical linguistics
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Edited by Anders Holmberg International Conference on
and Balázs Surányi Language Variation in Europe Studies at the Grammar-Discourse
University of Newcastle / (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019 Interface
Research Institute for Linguistics HAS, Budapest Discourse markers and discourse-related
Edited by Hans Van de Velde, Nanna
The journal brings together formal, typologi- Haug Hilton and Remco Knooihuizen grammatical phenomena
cal, descriptive, as well as experimental treat- Fryske Akademy / University of Groningen
Edited by Alexander Haselow and Sylvie Hancil
ments of data, covering a broad linguistic This volume presents a peer-reviewed selec- University of Munster / University of Rouen
- scope. This scope includes all core gram- tion of papers from the 2019 International This book investigates phenomena at the grammar–discourse
matical disciplines of linguistics (phonology, Conference on Language Variation in Europe
t morphology, syntax, and semantics), as well interface with a strong focus on discourse markers, whose
(ICLaVE). ICLaVE has established itself as one development and concrete uses in a given language tend to be
as the interdisciplinary fields of research at of the prime venues for the academic study
the interfaces with other disciplines, includ- based on a close interplay of grammatical and discourse-re-
of variation and change in the languages lated forces. The topics range from the transition of linguistic
ing phonetics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics,
and language varieties spoken in Europe. signs “out of” sentence grammar and “into” the domain of
psycholinguistics, language acquisition,
The conference traditionally offers theoreti- discourse to differences between more grammatical vs. more
language documentation, and language tech-
cal and empirical research, quantitative and discourse-pragmatic expressions in terms of structural behav-
nology, among others. Analyses of data from a
qualitative methods, and welcomes connec- ior and cognitive processing, and the different, intricate ways
single Uralic language/variety and compari-
tions with other fields within the humanities in which the usage conditions and meanings of grammatical
sons across languages/varieties (either within
Uralic, or between Uralic and non-Uralic) are and social sciences. constituents or structural units are affected by the discourse
equally encouraged. JUL is peer-reviewed and Contributions by: R. Knooihuizen, N. H. Hilton context in which they are used. The twelve studies in this
published in English. & H. Van de Velde; A. P. Versloot; R. van den
book are based on fresh empirical data from languages such
Doel & A. Walpot; K.-A. Butcher; R. Puggaard;
J. M. Fuller; K. V. Beaman; R. Byrne; N. J.
as English, Basque, Korean, Japanese and French and involve
issn 2772-3720 | e-issn 2772-3739
- Young; C. Chagnaud, G. Brun-Trigaud & P. Garat; the study of linguistic expressions and structures such as
Volume 1 (2022) 2 issues, ca. 250 pp. D. Krajewska & E. Zuloaga; N. Vassalou, D. pragmatic markers and particles, comment clauses, exple-
Papazachariou & M. Janse; M. Tamminga; J. tives, adverbial connectors, and expressives.
Libraries and Institutions Grama, C. E. Travis & S. Gonzalez.
Contributions by: J. Angot & M. Mosegaard Hansen; H.L. Dao; D.T.
eur 196.00 (online-only) [Studies in Language Variation, 25] 2021. Do-Hurinville; S. Hancil; A. Haselow; A. Haselow & S. Hancil; B. Heine,
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eur 220.00 (print + online) Hb 978 90 272 0885 9 price to be G. Kaltenböck, T. Kuteva & H. Long; S. Monforte; S. Rhee & H.J. Koo;
; announced R. Shibasaki; A. Snarska; S. Zolyan; A. Álvarez González.
Private subscriptions
E-book 978 90 272 5982 0 open access [Studies in Language Companion Series, 219]
eur 65.00 (online-only) 2021. vi, 352 pp. + index
eur 70.00 (print + online)
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catalog.NT.2021.SPRING.indd 8 17/02/2021 15:03:45Theoretical Linguistics
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology Variation and Evolution
in Contact Aspects of language contact and contrast across the
Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain Spanish-speaking world
Edited by Rajiv Rao Edited by Sandro Sessarego,
University of Wisconsin-Madison Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the
and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli
University of Texas at Austin / Louisiana State University /
Americas, and Spain brings together scholars working on a wide SUNY at Buffalo
range of aspects of the Spanish sound system and how their coex-
istence with another language in speech communities across the This book is a collection of original studies analyzing how
Hispanophone world influences their manifestation. Drawing different internal and external factors affect Spanish language
upon seminal works in the fields of language contact in general, variation and evolution across a number of (socio)linguistic
Spanish in contact with indigenous and regional languages, and scenarios. Its primary goal is to expand our understanding of
laboratory approaches tied to the languages in question, the how native and non-native varieties of Spanish co-exist with
volume’s contents employ acoustic and quantitative approaches, other languages and dialects under the influence of several
as well as both controlled and spontaneous data elicitation linguistic and extra-linguistic forces. While some papers
procedures, to shed light on how linguistic, historical, and social analyze the linguistic dynamics affecting Spanish grammars
variables drive contact phenomena, and in turn, shape specific from a cross-dialectal perspective, others focus more closely
varieties of Spanish. It will pique the interest of researchers and on the relations established between Spanish and other lan-
students of fields such as contact linguistics, language variation guages with which it is in contact. In particular, some of these
and change, segmental and suprasegmental phonetics and pho- studies show how power and prestige may support (or not)
nology, and sociolinguistics. the use of Spanish in different social contexts and educational
realities, given that the attitudes toward this language vary
Contributions by: B.O. Baird; S. Barnes; B. Butera, R. Rao & S. Sessarego;
W. Chappell; J. Davidson; J.A. Elias-Ulloa; C. Gabriel, J. Grünke & E. greatly across the Spanish-speaking world. On the one hand,
Kireva; S.N. Gynan & E.L. López Almada; N. Henriksen, S. Fafulas & E. in some regions, Spanish represents the variety spoken by
O’Rourke; J.M. Lipski; J. Michnowicz & A. Hyler; R. Rao & S. Sessarego; the majority of the population, typically related to prestige
X.L. Regueira & E. Fernández Rei; B.M.A. Rogers; J. Stewart; M. and power (Spain and Latin America). On the other hand, in
Waltermire & M. Gradoville.
other contexts, the same language is conceived as a minority
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 28] variety, which may or may not be associated with stigmatized
2020. x, 452 pp. immigrant groups (i.e., in the US).
Hb 978 90 272 0714 2 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00
Contributions by: L. Andrade Ciudad; C. Barrera Tobón, S. Park-
E-book 978 90 272 6095 6 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 Johnson & J. Brito; K. Bove; K. Collentine & J. Collentine; R.
|| Contact Linguistics || Phonetics || Phonology || Romance linguistics Eloranta & A. Bartens; P. Jiménez Lizama; Y. Kenfield; J. Michnowicz
& L. Planchón; M. Pollock; S.A. Schwenter & M.R. Hoff; S. Sessarego,
|| Sociolinguistics and Dialectology || Theoretical linguistics J.J. Colomina-Almiñana & A. Rodríguez-Riccelli; K. Yarrington.
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 29]
Tone Orthography and Literacy 2020. viii, 277 pp.
The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages Hb 978 90 272 0738 8 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00
Edited by David Roberts and Stephen L. Walter E-book 978 90 272 6089 5 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00
Independent Scholar / Dallas International University || Contact Linguistics || Historical linguistics || Romance linguistics
This book presents the results of a series of literacy experiments || Sociolinguistics and Dialectology || Theoretical linguistics
in ten Niger-Congo languages, representing four language
families and spanning five countries. It tests the hypothesis, ”To Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXII
what extent does full tone marking contribute to oral reading Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on
fluency, comprehension and writing accuracy, and does that
Arabic Linguistics, Tempe, Arizona, 2018
contribution vary from language to language?”. One of the
main findings is that the ethno-literacy profile of the language Edited by Elly van Gelderen
community and the social profile of the individual are stronger Arizona State University
predictors of reading and writing performance than are the lin- This volume presents a collection of seven peer-reviewed
guistic and orthographic profiles of the language. Our data also articles on Arabic phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics,
suggests that full tone marking may be more beneficial for less and applied linguistics. The authors address stress assign-
educated readers and those with less experience of L1 literacy. ment, the phenomenon of ‘imāla, the place of articulation of
The book will bring practical help to linguists and literacy spe- the dorsal fricative, the structure of correlatives, the CP layer,
cialists in Africa and beyond who are helping to develop orthog- sluicing and sprouting, and clinical linguistics. They do so
raphies for tone languages. It will also be of interest to cognitive by using data from Standard Arabic, and from Egyptian,
psychologists exploring the reading process, and researchers Jordanian, Palestinian, and Saudi Arabian varieties of Arabic.
investigating writing systems. The book will be of interest to linguists working in descrip-
Contributions by: M. Harley & J. Reeder; D. Roberts, G. Boyd & J. tive and theoretical areas of Arabic linguistics.
Reeder; D. Roberts, J. Merz & J. Reeder; D. Roberts & J. Reeder; D. Contributions by: N. Abo Mokh & S. Davis; N. Abo Mokh, S.M. Lulich,
Roberts, J. Reeder & V. Vydrin; D. Roberts, J. Reeder & S.L. Walter; D. A. Alfaifi, S. Robinson, S. Charles & K. de Jong; J. Al Bukhari; M.
Roberts, J. Reeder & A. Weathers; D. Roberts & S.L. Walter. Alahmari; S. Albuhayri & H. Ouali; E. van Gelderen; R. Khamis-
[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] Dakwar; U. Soltan.
2021. xx, 431 pp. + index [Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 9] 2020. v, 174 pp.
Hb 978 90 272 0843 9 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 Hb 978 90 272 0759 3 EUR 125.00 / USD 188.00
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Advances in Contact Linguistics Syntactic and Semantic Variation in
In honour of Pieter Muysken Copular Sentences
Edited by Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra Insights from Classical Hebrew
and Enoch Oladé Aboh Daniel J. Wilson
University of Amsterdam / ZAS University of the Free State
Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communi- This book presents a novel account of syntactic and semantic
ties and society at large, language acquisition and use, lan- variation in copular and existential sentences in Classical He-
guage diversification, and creative language use associated brew. Like many languages, the system of Classical Hebrew
with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both copular sentences is quite complex, containing zero, pro-
scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of mul- nominal, and verbal forms as well as eventive and inchoative
tilingualism is language contact. This book contains twelve semantics. Approaching this subject from the framework of
articles that discuss specific aspects of Contact Linguistics. Distributed Morphology provides an elegant and compre-
These articles cover a wide range of topics in the field, hensive explanation for both the syntactic and semantic vari-
including creoles, areal linguistics, language mixing, and the ation in these sentences. This book also presents a theoretical
sociolinguistic aspects of interactions with audiences. The model for analyzing copular sentences in other languages
book is dedicated to Pieter Muysken whose work on pidgin included related phenomena– such as pseudo-copulas. It
and creole languages, mixed languages, code-switching, is also a demonstration of what can be gained by applying
bilingualism, and areal linguistics has been ground-break- modern linguistic analyses to dead languages. Citing and
ing and inspirational for the authors in this book, as well as building off previous studies on this topic, this book will be
numerous other scholars working on the various facets of of interest to those interested in the theoretical examination
this rapidly expanding field. of copular and existential sentences and to those interested
Contributions by: P. Bakker; L. Cornips & V.A. de Rooij; M. Crevels & in Classical Hebrew more specifically.
H. van der Voort; J. Essegbey & A. Bruyn; R. van Gijn; S. Kouwenberg
& J.V. Singler; M. Mous; L.M. Rojas-Berscia; C.G.T. van Rossem; N.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 261]
Smith & F.L. Hinskens; J. Treffers-Daller; T. Veenstra, N. Smith & E.O. 2020. xvi, 159 pp.
Aboh; K. Yakpo. Hb 978 90 272 0713 5 EUR 95.00 / USD 143.00
E-book 978 90 272 6096 3 EUR 95.00 / USD 143.00
[Contact Language Library, 57] 2020. ix, 400 pp.
Hb 978 90 272 0756 2 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 || Afro-Asiatic languages || Morphology || Semantics || Syntax
E-book 978 90 272 6073 4 EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 || Theoretical linguistics
|| Contact Linguistics || Creole studies
|| Sociolinguistics and Dialectology || Theoretical linguistics
Thetics and Categoricals
Typical and Impaired Processing
Edited by Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss and
in Morphosyntax Yasuhiro Fujinawa
Edited by Vincent Torrens Groningen University & University of Vienna / University of Munich /
National University of Distance Learning Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
The present volume presents research on language process- Thetics and Categoricals do not belong to the categories of Ger-
ing and language disorders. Topics range across typical lan- man grammar. Thetics were introduced in logic as imper-
guage processing, child developmental language disorders, sonal and broad focus constructions. They left profound and
adult neurodegenerative disorders and neurological bases extensive traces in the logic of the late 19th century. For the
of typical or impaired brains. The chapters cover a number class of thetic propositions, the criterion of textual exclusion
of linguistic phenomena, including relative clauses, empty plays the major role, i.e. the absence of any common grounds
categories, determiner phrases and inflectional morphology. and of any anaphorism and background. In the foreground
Work in this collection uses a variety of experimental meth- are sentences with subject inversion, subject suppression
ods, both online and offline, such as eye tracking, reaction and detopicalization. These and only these are suitable for
times, Event Related Potentials, picture selection, sentence text beginnings, jokes, stage advertisements and solipsistic
exclamatives, thus speech acts without communicative goals
elicitation and picture matching tasks. This book will be F
useful for linguists, speech therapists, and psycholinguists – free expressives in the true sense of the word. The contribu
working on the processing of morphosyntax. tions in this volume not only guide the reader through the
Contributions by: S. D’Ortenzio, S. Montino, A. Martini, P. Trevisi history of philosophical logic and distributions of imperson-
& F. Volpato; C. Felser & A. Jessen; L. Koring; N. Lantschner & A. als in contrast to Kantian categorical sentences, but also the
Cardinaletti; T. Larsen & C. Johansson; M.T. Martín-Aragoneses, D. correspondences in Japanese and Chinese which, in contrast
del Río Grande, R. López-Higes Sánchez, J.M. Prados Atienza, P. to German and English, sport specific morphological mark-
Montejo Carrasco & M.L. Delgado-Losada; J. Mewe; A. Paspali; V.
ers for thetics as opposed to categoricals.
Torrens; E. Tribushinina, J. Lomako, N. Gagarina, E. Abrosova & P.
Mak; J.A. Vea & C. Johansson; S. Villata & P. Lorusso; E. Wimmer & Contributions by: W. Abraham; T. Belligh; Y. Fujinawa; L. Hellan & D.
M. Penke. Beermann; P. Irwin; Y. Isaka; M. Lee; E. Leiss; Y. Muroi; J. Okamoto;
N.R. Sumbatova; S. Tanaka; D.J. Wilson.
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 64]
2020. vi, 305 pp. [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 262]
Hb 978 90 272 0763 0 EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 2020. vii, 390 pp.
E-book 978 90 272 6066 6 EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 Hb 978 90 272 0740 1 EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00
E-book 978 90 272 6087 1 EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00
|| Cognition and language || Language acquisition
|| Language disorders & speech pathology || Morphology || Semantics || Syntax || Theoretical linguistics
|| Psycholinguistics || Syntax || Theoretical linguistics
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