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Languages & Linguistics
catalog 2020
Over three centuries of scholarly publishing
Contents Welcome to Brill's Languages and
1 Online Resources Linguistics Catalog 2020
9 General / Reference Works Products shown on cover page for quick reference
10 Languages Of The World – Africa
10 Languages Of The World – Middle
East
13 Languages Of The World – Europe
14 Languages Of The World – Asia
16 Cognitive Linguistics
18 Historical Linguistics See page 2 See page 4 See page 7
19 Semantics & Pragmatics
20 Linguistic Theory
20 Journals
See page 12 See page 13 See page 14
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Online Resources
Encyclopedia of Slavic
Languages and Linguistics
Online
LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS
Editor-in-Chief:
Marc L. Greenberg, University of Kansas Encyclopedia of
General Editor:
Lenore A. Grenoble, University of Chicago
Slavic Languages and
Linguistics Online
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Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics offers the most About the editors:
comprehensive reference work on Slavic languages ever published,
with some 400 articles. It provides authoritative treatment of all Marc L. Greenberg, Ph.D. (1990), is Professor of Slavic Languages &
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important aspects of the Slavic language family from its Indo- Literatures at the University of Kansas and corresponding member
European origins to the present day, as well as consideration of the of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has published
interaction of Slavic with other languages. widely on Slavic linguistics, focusing on western South Slavic
languages.
Features and Benefits:
Lenore A. Grenoble, Ph.D. (1986), University of California, Berkeley,
• Contributions from leading scholars of Slavic languages is the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor at the
worldwide. University of Chicago and a member of the American Academy of
• Up-to-date references on legal and sociolinguistic developments Arts and Sciences. She specializes in Slavic and Arctic Indigenous
of languages after the fall of multiethnic states. languages, focusing on language contact and shift.
• Integrated articles on the interactions between linguistics,
archaeology, and genetics to illuminate ancient Slavic-speaking Associate Editors:
communities. Stephen Dickey, University of Kansas
• State-of-the art reports on pertinent issues in Slavic semantics, Masako Ueda Fidler, Brown University
pragmatics, discourse studies and more. René Genis, University of Amsterdam
• Coverage of theoretical approaches that emerged in Slavic Marek Łaziński, University of Warsaw
Anita Peti-Stantić, University of Zagreb
linguistics.
Björn Wiemer, University of Mainz
• Detailed, color maps.
Nadežda V. Zorixina-Nilsson, Stockholm University
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Encyclopedia of Chinese Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek
Language and Linguistics Language and Linguistics
Online Online
Editor-in-Chief: Rint SYBESMA, Leiden University General Editor: Georgios K. Giannakis, Aristotle
Associate Editors: Wolfgang BEHR, University of University of Thessaloniki Associate Editors: Vit
Zürich, Yueguo GU, Chinese Academy of Social Bubenik, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St
Sciences, Zev HANDEL, University of Washington, John's, Emilio Crespo, Autonomous University of
C.-T. James HUANG, Harvard University and James Madrid, Chris Golston, California State University,
MYERS, National Chung Cheng University Fresno, Alexandra Lianeri, Aristotle University of
2 Thessaloniki, Silvia Luraghi, University of Pavia,
Stephanos Matthaios Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki
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The Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics offers a The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics
systematic and comprehensive overview of the languages of China (EAGLL) is a unique work that brings together the latest research
and the different ways in which they are and have been studied. from across a range of disciplines which contribute to our
It provides authoritative treatment of all important aspects of knowledge of Ancient Greek. It is an indispensable research tool
the languages spoken in China, today and in the past, from many for scholars and students of Greek, of linguistics, and of other
different angles, as well as the different linguistic traditions in Indo-European languages, as well as of Biblical literature. The
which they have been investigated. EAGLL offers a systematic and comprehensive treatment of all
aspects of the history and study of Ancient Greek, comprising
“For linguists working on Sinitic languages, the ECLL will be a detailed descriptions of the language from Proto-Greek to koine.
useful supplement to the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese It addresses linguistic aspects from several perspectives including
Language (Chan 2016), though they no doubt cover some of the same history, structure, individual singularities, biographical references,
ground. While that work focused on Sinitic, the scope of the ECLL schools of thought, technical meta-language, sociolinguistic
is broader, covering the larger language ecology of China (broadly issues, dialects, didactics, translation practices, generic issues,
defined within the ECLL to include Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet). Greek in relation to other languages, etc., and on all levels of
This means that the ECLL is also extremely useful to Southeast analysis including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
Asian linguists and goes a long way toward bridging the gap that lexicon, semantics, stylistics, etc. It also includes all the necessary
often exists between linguistic research in the geographic regions of background information regarding the roots of Greek in Indo-
Southeast Asia and China.” European.
- Rikker Dockum (Yale University) in: Journal of the Southeast
Asian Linguistics Society, 2018.
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LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS
Encyclopedia of Hebrew Encyclopedia of Arabic
Language and Linguistics Language and Linguistics
Online Online
General Editor: Geoffrey Khan, University of Original Editors of Encyclopedia of Arabic Language
Cambridge and Linguistics: General Editor: Kees Versteegh.
Associate Editors: Shmuel Bolozky, Steven Fassberg, Associate Editors: Mushira Eid, Alaa Elgibali,
Gary A. Rendsburg, Aaron D. Rubin, Ora R. Manfred Woidich, Andrzej Zaborski
Schwarzwald, and Tamar Zewi Continuing Editors of Encyclopedia of Arabic
Language and Linguistics (Online): General Editors:
The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics offers a Lutz Edzard, Friedrich-Alexander University, 3
systematic and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the Erlangen, and Rudolf de Jong, Nederlands-Vlaams
history and study of the Hebrew language from its earliest attested
Instituut Cairo.
form to the present day. The encyclopedia contains overview
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articles that provide a readable synopsis of current knowledge of
Associate Editors: Ramzi Baalbaki, James Dickins,
the major periods and varieties of the Hebrew language as well as Mushira Eid, Pierre Larcher, and Janet Watson
thematically-organized entries which provide further information
on individual topics. With over 950 entries and approximately 400 The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics represents a
contributing scholars, the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and unique collaboration of a few hundred scholars from around the
Linguistics is the authoritative reference work for students and world and covers all relevant aspects of the study of Arabic and
researchers in the fields of Hebrew linguistics, general linguistics, deals with all levels of the language (pre-Classical Arabic, Classical
Biblical studies, Hebrew and Jewish literature, and related fields. Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic vernaculars, mixed
varieties of Arabic). No other reference work offers this scale of
Features and Benefits: contributions or depth and breadth of coverage. The Encyclopedia
• Search the full text by keyword and of Arabic Language and Linguistics (EALL Online) contains all
Hebrew character set, in addition to content of the print edition and new content is added on a regular
advanced search options. basis. New articles are elaborations or updates of themes already
• Access tertiary treatment of a wide-range discussed in the EALL, or are new entries that are relevant to the
of topics such as the Hebrew of various field. The EALL Online comprehensively covers all aspects of
sources, major grammatical features, Arabic languages and linguistics. It is interdisciplinary in scope and
lexicon, script and paleography, represents different schools and approaches to be as objective and
theoretical linguistic approaches, etc. versatile as possible. The online edition is cross-searchable, cross-
referenced and regularly updated.
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Online Resources
Indo-European Etymological
Dictionaries Online
LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS
Edited by Alexander Lubotsky, Leiden University
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The Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online (IEDO) IEDO includes:
reconstructs the lexicon for the most important languages and Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon,
language branches of Indo-European. It is a rich and voluminous Rick Derksen
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online reference source for historical and general linguists. Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic, Guus Kroonen
Dictionaries can be cross-searched, with an advance search for each Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Robert Beekes with the assistance
individual dictionary enabling the user to perform more complex of Lucien van Beek
research queries. Each entry is accompanied by grammatical info, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, Ranko Matasović
meaning(s), etymological commentary, reconstructions, cognates Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon,
and often extensive bibliographical information. Content will be Hrach K. Martirosyan
updated and added on a regular basis. The latest addition is The Etymological Dictionary of Latin, Michiel de Vaan
Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon by Rick Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic, Allan R. Bomhard
Derksen. Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon,
Alwin Kloekhorst
The 2019 update consists of the second volume of Ernst Fraenkel's Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon,
Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (Etymological dictionary Rick Derksen
of Lituhanian), the most comprehensive etymological dictionary Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb, Johnny Cheung
of the Lithuanian language. It offers a detailed discussion of the Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary, Dirk Boutkan and
etymologies of the standard Lithuanian lexicon and of many words Sjoerd Michiel Siebinga
from older Lithuanian literature and from Lithuanian dialects. This Cuneiform Luvian Lexicon, H. Craig Melchert
landmark publication has never been published digitally, let alone Etymological Dictionary of Tocharian B, Douglas Q. Adams
as part of a searchable database. Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch ( Lithuanian etymological
dictionary), Ernst Fraenkel
Features and Benefits
•Includes 13 dictionaries
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• Contains over 42.000 entries
• Covers over 150 languages
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• Export, print and save records
Annual Subscription: € 1.080 / US$ 1,266 • Cross-searchable database, supporting simple and complex
queries
• Unicode compliant, displaying and searching complex characters
and diacritics
Online Resources
Linguistic Bibliography Online
Compiled and edited by Anne Aarssen, René
LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS
Genis and Eline van der Veken
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Linguistic Bibliography Online contains over 465,000 detailed Key Features
bibliographical descriptions of linguistic publications on • Contains over 465,000 bibliographical references
general and language-specific theoretical linguistics. While the • Links to full-text and library services
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bibliography aims to cover all languages of the world, particular • DOI links and abstracts increasingly available
attention is given to the inclusion of publications on endangered • Monthly updates with ± 20,000 new references added per year
and lesser-studied languages. Publications in any language are • Compiled, analyzed, and annotated by an international team of
collected, analyzed and annotated (using a state-of-the-art specialists
system of subject and language keywords) by an international • Includes publications written in 140+ languages (translations
team of linguists and bibliographers from all over the world. provided wherever relevant)
With a tradition of over seventy years, and over 20,000 references • Simple, full-text search and advanced search
added annually, the Linguistic Bibliography remains the most • 800+ subject keywords and 2500+ language keywords
comprehensive bibliography for every scholar and student of • Save, print and email bibliographical references
linguistics. • Export citations in various formats to compile and refine your
own bibliography
Linguistic Bibliography Online includes all bibliographical
references of the printed yearbooks 1993-present, as well as Subjects included in Linguistic Bibliography:
additional materials which are exclusive to the online version • all languages and language families
(e.g. online resources). New bibliographical descriptions on the • theoretical linguistics
latest linguistic publications are added to the online database on • biographical data on linguists (e.g. biographies, obituaries)
a monthly basis. Annual volumes of the Linguistic Bibliography
continue to be published in print. Visit the Linguistic Bibliography Online website
www2.brill.com/Linguistic_Bibliography_Online
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a research instrument that belongs in any respectable
linguistics library."
– Pierre Swiggers, in: Historiographia Linguistica
Online Resources
LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS
Le Grand Ricci Online Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the
Neo-Latin World Online
Edited by Philip Ford (†), Jan Bloemendal and
Charles Fantazzi
Le Grand Dictionnaire Ricci de la langue chinoise, or rather, as it has CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014
become widely known since its publication in 2001, Le Grand Ricci
is the most comprehensive up-to-date dictionary of Chinese into With its striking range and penetrating depth, Brill’s Encyclopaedia
a modern Western language. Though it covers the whole history of of the Neo-Latin World traces the enduring history and wide-ranging
Chinese language development, most of the dictionary deals with cultural influence of Neo-Latin, the form of Latin that originated in
6 early and imperial period Chinese language usage. Explanations the Italian Renaissance and persists to the modern era. Featuring
and translations are in French. * original contributions by a host of distinguished international
scholars, this comprehensive reference work explores every aspect
Our user-friendly online interface allows the user to efficiently of the civilized world from literature and law to philosophy and the
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perform even complex queries through all 13,392 main entries sciences. An invaluable resource for both the advanced scholar and
(single characters) or 280,000 expressions (or chinese words the graduate student.
composed of a set of characters).
The online edition gives access to a number of newer entries that
Entries can be looked up: are not included in the print edition and also includes corrections.
• by chinese character
• by romanization (pinyin) (with or without tones)- by radical
(Kangxi or simplified) and the number of additional strokes “ Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World is a marvel. A
• by total number of strokes (of the simplified or traditional forms) collaborative reference work featuring contributions from
seventy-nine different scholars, it manages both to provide an
The words (expressions) can be looked up: overview of the complex (and to our minds, frequently alien)
• by their chinese characters world of Latin culture and scholarship from the Renaissance
• by the romanization (with or without tones) of their component down to the present day, and to create a repository of
characters historical, contextual, and literary research that will shape the
• in both cases one can use one, several or all of the components, direction of international Neo-Latin studies for the foreseeable
either as a precise sequence or anywhere (and in any order) in the future. […] What has been created by the editors is nothing
chinese word short of the defining work of a field in rude health, and a
marker that will direct the future of the discipline.”
* Le Grand Ricci was developed by the Ricci institutes of Paris and Steven J. Reid, University of Glasgow. In: Renaissance Quarterly,
Taipei through the Ricci Association (www.grandricci.org). Vol. 68, No. 2
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The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Bibliography of Slavic
Greek Online Linguistics Online
Franco Montanari, Genoa. Edited by René Genis and Sijmen Tol.
English Edition edited by Madeleine Goh and Chad Introduction by Marc L. Greenberg, University of
Schroeder, under the auspices of the Center for Kansas
Hellenic Studies, Harvard University.
Advisory Editors: Gregory Nagy, Harvard, and
Leonard Muellner, Brandeis
Winner of the 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Within international linguistics, the study of Slavic languages
enjoys considerable interest. The extensive coverage of Slavic 7
The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the English translation languages in the Linguistic Bibliography is evidence of this. The
of Franco Montanari’s Vocabolario della Lingua Greca. With an Bibliography of Slavic Linguistics Online brings together the
established reputation as the most important modern dictionary details of substantial number of unique publications, carefully
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for Ancient Greek, it brings together 140,000 headwords taken from selected, classified, cross-referenced and indexed by professional
the literature, papyri, inscriptions and other sources of the archaic bibliographers. All contributing bibliographers are specialized
period up to the 6th Century CE, and occasionally beyond.The Brill Slavists themselves. The selection includes over thirty publication
Dictionary of Ancient Greek is an invaluable companion for the languages including publications in Finnish, Estonian, Greek,
study of Classics and Ancient Greek, for beginning students and Albanian, Dutch, English, German, Japanese, Hebrew. The
advanced scholars alike. Translated and edited under the auspices Introduction by Marc L. Greenberg gives an overview of the state
of The Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, The Brill of scholarship in Slavic linguistics and the directions in which the
Dictionary of Ancient Greek is based on the completely revised 3rd field is headed.
Italian edition published in 2013 by Loescher Editore, Torino.
Key features:
Features • Over 86,000 records;
• The principal parts of some 15,000 verbs are listed directly • Covering all Slavic languages including minor and even extinct
following the entry and its etymology. For each of these forms, ones e.g. Bosnian, Pomeranian, Rusyn, High and Low Sorbian as
the occurrence in the ancient texts has been certified. When well as Church Slavonic;
found only once, the location is cited. • Titles are given in their original languages, with translations
• Nearly all entries include citations from the texts with careful provided whenever relevant;
mention of the source. • Titles in Cyrillic script are uniformly transcribed in Latin script
• The Dictionary is especially rich in personal names re-checked according to current scientific standards.
against the sources for the 3rd Italian edition, and in scientific
terms, which have been categorized according to discipline.
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Studies in Semitic Languages Studia Semitica Neerlandica
and Linguistics Online Online
This Online Collection contains all volumes ever published in This online collection contains all volumes every published in
Brill's flagship series Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Brill's series Studia Semitica Neerlandica, from the first volume
from the first volume published in 1967 until the newest volumes published in 1955 until the newest volumes which will be update
which will be updated each year via an annual installment which each year via an annual installment which is seperately available
is separately available at a highly discounted price. The series at a highly discounted price. The series presents monographs and
presents monographs and edited volumes that make original edited volumes that make original contributions to the field.
contributions to the field.
The distinct traits shared by the Semitic languages determine the
8 The distinct traits shared by the Semitic languages determine the essential unity of research in these languages. Studia Semitica
essential unity of research in these languages. Studies in Semitic Neerlandica has been a prominent forum for linguistic publications
Languages and Linguistics has been a prominent forum for concerning the Semitic languages ever since its foundation in 1955.
linguistic publications concerning the Semitic languages ever since
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its foundation in 1967. The series includes both books written in Studia Semitica Neerlandica comprises of studies on the linguistics
the philological tradition of research and ones applying modern and literature of one the Semitic languages or the Semitic
linguistic theories. Such sub-disciplines as descriptive linguistics, languages as a whole. Studies on texts written in one of the Semitic
comparative linguistics, socio-linguistics et cetera all fall within languages or texts that deal with the history and culture of groups
the scope of the series. While studies of individual aspects of speaking a Semitic language also fall within the scope of this series.
individual languages are accepted on a selective basis, the series
specifically includes monographs, collaborative volumes, and
reference works of a wider scope.
The goal of the series is to provide a widely read and respected
international forum for high quality theoretical, analytical, and
applied pragmatic studies of all types. By publishing leading edge
work on natural language practice, it seeks to extend our growing
knowledge of the forms, functions, and foundations of human
interaction.
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LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS
Language and Linguistics Language and Chronology
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Brill’s Language and Linguistics E-Books Online Collection is the Han, Queen’s University Belfast
electronic version of the book publication program of Brill in the
field of Language and Linguistics. In Language and Chronology, Toner and Han apply innovative
Machine Learning techniques to the problem of the dating of
Coverage: literary texts. Many ancient and medieval literatures lack reliable
Linguistics, Indigenous languages, Semantics, Reference, Literacy, chronologies which could aid scholars in locating texts in their
Grammar, Phonetics historical context. The new machine-learning method presented
This e-book collection is part of Brill’s Humanities and Social here uses chronological information gleaned from annalistic
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Linguistic Bibliography, 2018
Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2018 /
Bibliographie Linguistique de l’année 2018
and Supplement for Previous Years / et complement
des années précédentes
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This is the annual bibliography of theoretical linguistics published
by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists under
the auspices of the International Council of Philosophy and
Humanistic Studies of UNESCO.Languages of the World – Africa Languages of the World – Middle East
August 2019 June 2019
Hardback (xiv, 382 pp.) Hardback (xii, 304 pp.)
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Grammars and Sketches of the World’s Languages / Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and
Africa, 8 Middle East, 132
Tutrugbu (Nyangbo) Language and Kanišite Hittite
Culture The Earliest Attested Record of Indo-European
James Essegbey, University of Florida Alwin Kloekhorst, Leiden University
LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS
A comprehensive description of Tutrugbu (Nyangbo), a Ghana- In Kanišite Hittite Alwin Kloekhorst offers a full account of the
Togo Mountain (GTM) language. It examines phonological, Hittite language spoken in Kaniš (Central Anatolia) during the
morphosyntactic and pragmatic structures, comparing them to kārum-period (ca. 1970-1710 BCE) by analysing the personal names
the neighboring Tafi and Avatime, and the dominant regional of local individuals attested in Old Assyrian documents from there.
language, Ewe. It is for African language scholars, documentary
linguists, and typologists.
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Grammars and Sketches of the World’s Languages / Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and
Africa, 9 Middle East, 135
A Grammar of Pévé Atlas of the Arabic Dialects of Galilee
(Israel)
Erin Shay, University of Colorado, in collaboration with Lazare With Some Data for Adjacent Areas
Wambadang
Peter Behnstedt and Aharon Geva-Kleinberger
A Grammar of Pévé describes and examines a wide range of
linguistic forms and functions found in Pévé, a Chadic language Containing over 200 coloured dialect maps, this atlas describes the
spoken in parts of the Republic of Chad and the Republic of Arabic dialects of Galilee and some adjacent areas, a region highly
Cameroon. complex as to sociolinguistic variationLanguages of the World – Middle East
February 2020
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Middle East, 139 Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 100
The Phrygian Language The Semantics of Silence in Biblical
Hebrew
Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach, Barcelona University
Sonja Noll, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS
This book provides an updated view of our knowledge about In The Semantics of Silence in Biblical Hebrew, Sonja Noll explores
Phrygian, an Indo-European language attested to have been the many words in biblical Hebrew that refer to being silent,
spoken in Anatolia between the 8th century BC and the Roman investigating how they are used in biblical texts, Dead Sea Scrolls,
Imperial period. Although a linguistic and epigraphic approach and Ben Sira. She also examines the tradition of interpretation for
is the core of the book, it covers all major topics of research on these words in the early versions (Septuagint, Vulgate, Targum,
Phrygian: the historical and archaeological contexts in which Peshitta), modern translations, and standard dictionaries,
the Phrygian texts were found, a comprehensive grammar with revealing that meanings are not always straightforward and that
diachronic and comparative remarks, an overview of the linguistic additional work is needed in biblical semantics and lexicography.
contacts attested for Phrygian, and more.
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Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 98 Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 99
A Dictionary of the Safaitic Inscriptions The Development of the Biblical Hebrew
vowels
Ahmad Al-Jallad, University of Ohio State, and Karolina
Including a Concise Historical Morphology
Jaworska
Benjamin D. Suchard, Leiden University
This is the first comprehensive dictionary of the Safaitic The Development of the Biblical Hebrew Vowels investigates the
inscriptions, comprising more than 1400 lemmata and 1500 lexical sound changes affecting the Proto-Northwest-Semitic vocalic
items. The dictionary includes a lengthy introduction to the phonemes and their reflexes in Tiberian Biblical Hebrew. Contrary
inscriptions as well an outline of various aspects of the Safaitic to many previous approaches, Benjamin Suchard shows that these
writing tradition. developments can all be described as phonetically regular sound
laws. This confirms that despite its unique transmission history,
Hebrew behaves like other languages in this regard.Languages of the World – Middle East
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Ancient Texts and Modern A Discourse Analysis of
Readers Habakkuk
Studies in Ancient Hebrew Linguistics and Bible
Translation David J. Fuller, McMaster Divinity College
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Gideon R. Kotzé, North-West University, Christian
S. Locatell, Ariel University, and John A. Messarra,
Stellenbosch University
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The chapters of this volume address a variety of topics that pertain Habakkuk is unique amongst the prophetic corpus for its
to modern readers’ understanding of ancient texts, as well as interchange between YHWH and the prophet. Many open
tools or resources that can facilitate contemporary audiences’ research questions exist regarding the identities of the antagonists
interpretation of these ancient writings and their language. In this throughout and the relationships amongst the different sections of
regard, they cover subjects related to the fields of ancient Hebrew the book.
linguistics and Bible translation.
In A Discourse Analysis of Habakkuk, David J. Fuller develops
The chapters apply linguistic insights and theories to elucidate a model for discourse analysis of Biblical Hebrew within the
elements of ancient texts for modern readers, investigate how framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The analytical
ancient texts help modern readers to interpret features in other procedure is carried out on each pericope of the book separately,
ancient texts, and suggest ways in which translations can make the and then the respective results are compared in order to determine
language and conceptual worlds of ancient texts more accessible to how the successive speeches function as responses to each other,
modern readers. and to better understand changes in the perspectives of the various
speakers throughout.
In so doing, they present the results of original research, identify
new lines and topics of inquiry, and make novel contributions to Readership includes all who are interested in Habakkuk, the Book
modern readers’ understanding of ancient texts. of the Twelve, and the use of linguistics in the interpretation of the
Hebrew Bible.
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Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory, 13 Grammars and Sketches of the World’s Languages, 7
The Morphology of Asia Minor Greek Basque and Romance
Selected Topics Aligning Grammars
Edited by Angela Ralli, University of Patras Edited by Ane Berro Urrizelki, University of Deusto, Beatriz
Fernández, and Jon Ortiz de Urbina, Deusto University
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This volume provides an unprecedented collection of data from This book is a collection of articles describing and analyzing
Asia Minor Greek, namely from Cappadocian, Pharasiot, Silliot, several of the most important morphosyntactic features for which
Smyrniot, Aivaliot, Bithynian, Pontic, Propontis Tsakonian and the formal comparison between Basque and its surrounding
the dialect of Adrianoupolis. The varied perspectives on the Romance languages is relevant, such as word order, inflection,
morphology of these dialects, most of which show the effects of case, argument structure and causatives.
contact with other languages, but especially Turkish, constitute a The book will be of interest especially for academics working on
valuable contribution to the study of Greek and to the study of all Basque and Romance syntax and morphology, but also for anyone
languages in contact situations. interested in linguistic variation in general and morphosyntactic
variation in particular.
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Dutch Contributions to the Sixteenth Verbal Aspect in Old Church Slavonic
International Congress of Slavists. A Corpus-Based Approach
Linguistics
Belgrade, August 20-27, 2018. Jaap Kamphuis, Leiden University
Edited by Egbert Fortuin, University of Leiden, Peter
Houtzagers, University of Groningen, and Janneke Kalsbeek,
University of Amsterdam
Every five years, on the occasion of the International Congress of This book demonstrates that the aspect system of Old Church
Slavists, a volume appears that presents a comprehensive overview Slavonic can best be described if one divides the verbs into
of current Slavic linguistic research in the Netherlands. The three main categories: perfective, imperfective and anaspectual.
majority of the contributions in this peer-reviewed volume displays This differs from the traditional division into perfective and
the data-oriented tradition of Dutch Slavic linguistics, but studies imperfective verbs only. Kamphuis shows that aspect in Old
of a more theoretical nature are also represented. Church Slavonic functions more like verbal aspect in the Western
groups of Slavic languages (e.g. Czech) than like that in the Eastern
group (e.g. Russian).Languages of the World – Asia
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Library / Languages of the Library / Languages of the of the World’s Languages
Greater Himalayan Region, Greater Himalayan Region, / Mainland and Insular
5, 22 5, 23 South East Asia, 10
A Grammar of Darma Grammar of Duhumbi A Grammar of Makasar
(Chugpa) A Language of South Sulawesi,
Christina Willis Oko Indonesia
Timotheus Adrianus Bodt, School of
Oriental and African Studies, University Anthony Jukes
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of London, UK Edited by Paul James Sidwell, University
of Sydney
A Grammar of Darma provides the first With Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa), This book is a grammar of the Makasar
comprehensive description of this Tibeto- Timotheus Adrianus (Tim) Bodt provides language, spoken by about 2 million people
Burman language spoken in Uttarakhand, the first comprehensive description of in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Makasarese
India. The analysis is informed by a any of the Western Kho-Bwa languages, a is a head–marking language which marks
functional-typological framework and sub-group of eight linguistic varieties of the arguments on the predicate with a system
draws on a corpus of data gathered through Kho-Bwa cluster (Tibeto-Burman). of pronominal clitics, following an ergative/
elicitation, observation and recordings of absolutive pattern.
natural discourse. Duhumbi is spoken by 600 people in the
Chug valley in West Kameng district, Full noun phrases are relatively free in
Every effort has been made to describe Arunachal Pradesh, India. The Duhumbi order, while pre-predicate focus position
day-to-day language, so whenever people, known to the outside world as which is widely used. The phonology is
14 possible, illustrative examples are Chugpa or Chug Monpa, belong to the notable for the large number of geminate
taken from extemporaneous speech Monpa Scheduled Tribe. Despite that and pre–glottalised consonant sequences,
and contextualized. Sections of the affiliation, Duhumbi is not intelligible while the morphology is characterised
grammar should appeal widely to scholars to speakers of any of the other Monpa by highly productive affixation and
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interested in South Asia’s languages and languages except Khispi (Lishpa). pervasive encliticisation of pronominal and
cultures, including discussions of the aspectual elements.
socio-cultural setting, the sound system, The volume Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa)
morphosyntactic, clause and discourse describes all aspects of the language, The work draws heavily on literary sources
structure. The grammar’s interlinearized including phonology, morphology, lexicon, reaching back more than three centuries;
texts and glossary provide a trove of useful syntax and discourse. Moreover, it also this tradition includes two Indic based
information for comparative linguists contains links to additional resources freely scripts, a system based on Arabic, and
working on Tibeto-Burman languages and accessible on-line. various Romanised conventions.
anyone interested in the world’s less-
commonly spoken languages.Languages of the World – Asia
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Languages of Asia, 19 Languages of Asia, 20 Languages, 12
Language Contact in Tangut Language Atong Texts
Siberia and Manuscripts: An Glossed, Translated and Annotated
Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic Introduction Narratives in a Tibeto-Burman
Loanwords in Yeniseian Language of Meghalaya, Northeast
India
LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS
Shi Jinbo, Chinese Academy of Social
Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Szeged Sciences, and Li Hansong
University, Hungary Seino van Breugel, independent
researcher
This monograph dicsusses phonetic, In Tangut Language and Manuscripts, Shi Atong Texts by Seino van Breugel consists
morphological and semantic features Jinbo offers by far the fullest introduction of a collection of 37 glossed, annotated
of Altaic elements in Yeniseian, a to the Tangut script, grammar and and translated narratives in the Atong
rather heterogeneous language family manuscripts, which lay the foundation of language (Tibeto-Burman) of Meghalaya,
traditionally classified as one of the ‘Paleo- historical narratives of Western Xia. India, presented in phonemic standard
Siberian’ language groups, that are not orthography.
related to each other.
This testimony of cultural and linguistic
heritage of the Atongs, who are members of
the Garo Tribe, complements the author’s 15
Grammar of Atong, also published by Brill.
Each text is preceded by a systematic
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literary analysis. The photos in the
appendix provide a visual impression of the
environment in which the stories are told.
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Languages of Asia, 21 Languages of Asia, 22 languages, history and folklore of Northeast-
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The Language of the Old- Middle Western Karaim particular.
Okinawan Omoro Sōshi A Critical Edition and Linguistic
Reference Grammar, with Textual Analysis of the pre-19th-Century
Selections Karaim Interpretations of Hebrew
piyyutim
Leon A. Serafim and Rumiko Shinzato,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Michał Németh, Jagiellonian University
In this volume, Leon A. Serafim and This volume offers the first comprehensive
Rumiko Shinzato offer a grammatical study on the history of Middle Western
and phonological description of the Karaim dialects. The author provides a
Old Okinawan language for comparison systematic description of sound changes
with other Ryukyuan languages and Old dating from the 17th–19th-centuries and
Japanese, phonologically reconstructing, reconstructs their absolute- and relative
translating, and annotating selected chronologies.
omoros.Cognitive Linguistics
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Distinguished Lectures in Distinguished Lectures in Distinguished Lectures in
Cognitive Linguistics, 23 Cognitive Linguistics, 22 Cognitive Linguistics, 20
Ten Lectures on Corpus Ten Lectures on the Ten Lectures on Event
Linguistics with R Representation of Events Structure in a Network
Applications for Usage-Based and in Language, Perception, Theory of Language
Psycholinguistic Research Memory, and Action
LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS
Nikolas Gisborne, University of
Stefan Th. Gries, UC Santa Barbara, and Control Edinburgh
JLU Giessen
Jeffrey M. Zacks, Washington University
in Saint Louis
In this book, Stefan Th. Gries provides The representation of events is a central In Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a
an overview on how quantitative corpus topic for cognitive science. In this series Network Theory of Language, Nikolas
methods can provide insights to cognitive/ of lectures, Jeffrey M. Zacks situates event Gisborne explores verb meaning. He
usage-based linguistics and selected representations and their role in language discusses theories of events and how a
psycholinguistic questions. Topics include within a theory of perception and memory. network model of language-in-the-mind
the corpus linguistics in general, its most Event representations have a distinctive should be theorized; what the lexicon is;
important methodological tools, its structure and format that result from how to probe word meaning; evidence
statistical nature, and the relation of all computational and neural mechanisms for structure in word meaning; polysemy;
16 these topics to past and current usage- operating during perception and language the lexical semantics of causation; a
based theorizing. comprehension. A crucial aspect of the type hierarchy of events; and event types
mechanisms is that event representations cross-linguistically. He also looks at the
Central notions discussed in detail include are updated to optimize their predictive relationship between different classes of
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frequency, dispersion, context, and others utility. This updating has consequences events or event types and aktionsarten;
in a variety of applications and case for action control and for long-term transitivity alternations and argument
studies; four practice sessions offer short memory. Event cognition changes across linking. Gisborne argues that the social and
introductions of how to compute various the adult lifespan and can be impaired by cognitive embedding of language, requires
corpus statistics with the open source conditions including Alzheimer’s disease. a view of linguistic structure as a network
programming language and environment R. These mechanisms have broad impact where even the analysis of verb meaning
on everyday activity, and have shaped the can require an understanding of the role of
development of media such as cinema and speaker and hearer.
narrative fiction.
About the Series:
Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics
Editor: Thomas Fuyin LI
Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics publishes the keynote lectures series given
by prominent international scholars at the China International Forum on Cognitive
Linguistics since 2004. Each volume contains the transcripts of 10 lectures under one
theme given by an acknowledged expert on a subject, and readers have access to the
audio recordings of the lectures through links in the e-book and QR-codes in the printed
volume. This series provides a unique course on the broad subject of Cognitive Linguistics.
Speakers include George Lakoff, Ronald Langacker, Leonard Talmy, Laura Janda, Dirk
Geeraerts, Ewa Dąbrowska and many others.
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Ten Lectures on Figurative Ten lectures on field Ten Lectures on
Meaning-Making: The Role semantics and semantic Construction Grammar
of Body and Context typology and Typology
LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS
Zoltán Kövecses, Eötvös Loránd Jürgen Bohnemeyer, University at William Croft, Stanford University
University Buffalo
The present book contains a transcribed The first four lectures revolve around field In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar
version of the lectures given by Professor semantics – research methods for studying and Typology, William Croft presents
Zoltán Kövecses in November 2010 as one linguistic meaning under fieldwork a unified theory of linguistic form and
of the three forum speakers for the 8th conditions. The remaining six lectures deal meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic
China International Forum on Cognitive with semantic typology, the crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language
Linguistics. The topics presented in study of how humans communicate change. Croft begins from construction
this book deal with the language and about the world in terms of the meaning grammar, a theory of syntax in which all
conceptualization of emotions, cross- categories of the languages they speak. syntactic structures are a pairing of form
cultural variation in metaphor, metaphor Together, the lectures present one of and meaning. Constructions are posited
and metonymy in discourse, and the issue the first comprehensive introductions as basic; syntactic categories are defined
of the relationship between language, to either topic. A thread pervading the by constructions. The internal structure
mind, and culture from a cognitive lectures involves the following questions: of constructions directly link elements 17
linguistic perspective. how much do languages vary in how they of constructions to the meanings they
represent reality? To what extent does express, Constructions across languages
this variation reflect cultural differences? can be situated in a space of syntactic
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To what extent does it influence the variation. Grammar emerges from the
nonverbal thinking of the speakers? verbalization of experience. Constructions
occur in a probability distribution across
the conceptual space of meanings. These
probability distributions evolve, leading to
grammatical change in language, modeled
in an evolutionary framework.Historical Linguistics
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Brill’s Studies in Historical Linguistics, 10 Brill’s Studies in Historical Linguistics, 9
Grammaticalising the Perfect and New Directions for Historical Linguistics
Explanations of Language Change
Have- and Be-Perfects in the History and Structure of Edited by Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin, and Marc
Pierce, University of Texas at Austin
English and Bulgarian
LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS
Bozhil Hristov, University of Sofia
In this book, Bozhil Hristov investigates the verbal systems of This volume consists of papers based on presentations given at
two distantly related Indo-European languages, highlighting a roundtable on “New Directions for Historical Linguistics: Impact
similarities as well as crucial differences between them and and Synthesis, 50 Years Later,” held at the 23rd International
seeking a unified approach. The book reassesses some long-held Conference on Historical Linguistics in 2017, as well as an
notions and functionalist assumptions and shines the spotlight introduction by the editors.
on certain areas that have received less attention, such as the The roundtable discussed the evolution of historical linguistics
role of ambiguity in actual usage. The detailed analysis of rich, since the 1966 symposium on “Directions for Historical Linguistics,”
contextualised material from a selection of texts dovetails with held in Austin, Texas.
large-scale corpus studies, complementing their findings and
enhancing our understanding of the phenomena.
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Dispersals and Diversification The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European
Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on the The Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic Hypotheses
Early Stages of Indo-European
Edited by Alwin Kloekhorst, Leiden University, and Tijmen
Edited by Matilde Serangeli, FSU Jena, and Thomas Olander, Pronk, Leiden University
University of Copenhagen
Dispersals and diversification offers a reassessment of some of In The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European some of the world’s
the pivotal linguistic and archaeological questions concerning leading experts in historical linguistics shed new light on two
the early phases of the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European, hypotheses about the prehistory of the Indo-European language
including discussions of the methodological approaches involved. family, the so-called Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic hypotheses.
The Indo-Anatolian hypothesis states that the Anatolian branch of
the Indo-European family should be viewed as a sister language of
‘classical’ Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of all the other, non-
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